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...keep on upping it - you're only at 7.5g a day. I take 15g a day and could take more...Acacia is so well tolerated by most people that you can take higher doses with less side effects (and sometimes need to IMHO).
On the 15g a day dose I do great and my BMs are nice and fat!  But ya do have to get up to a significant dose.
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I'll keep at it! I wish I could jump to 15 grams (or whatever my maintainance dose turns out to be) right now! Patience is not one of my virtues! Something necessary when dealing with IBS!
Do you divide your doses into multiple times? Or do you just take a lot a few times a day? Does it even matter?
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Cyndy, Did the thin stool BM's start right after you switched
to acacia? They're usually due to colon spasms.Maybe the
acacia is causing your colon to spasm. I have the same exact
type of BM's too, however not all day long just three in the
morning. But I've had them before starting acacia. Do you have
to strain with these BM's, and did you have to strain at all
with the psyllium BM's? I hope it gets better. -Bob
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...when I started the Acacia. When I took psyllium, the BMs were fuller. I strain with Acacia, not with psyllium.
Acacia is suppose to help with spasms, especially since it is all SF and not part IF like psyllium.
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...my BMs will be more like Linz's and Little Minnie's. I am trying to give the acacia a fair try. At least to get through the bag I have. Or another month, whichever comes first.
Wish me luck. So far, my luck with SFSs is not good. Maybe I'd be better just not taking any. 
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Aha, that's very interesting...I beginning to wonder now.Have
you tried taking both acacia and psyllium? How much of a
psyllium dose were you taking? Maybe I should try that and
see what happens. If I were to have the same BM's as you and
Beth had, that would say there's something fishy about acacia.
-Bob
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I was taking about 4.5 grams worth of psyllium at night. Maybe I will try to experiment and add the psyllium in at night to see if it bulks up the acacia BMs.
Let me know if you try this!
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Interesting... I have been told that eating well, and reducing stress is the best thing for C.
Terry 
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I take mine in 2 doses, but then as I said I don't think I'm all that sensitive.
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That seems to work quite well for C's...and if you time the psyllium dose right you can avoid alot of the bloating issues (I think Kandee takes her psyllium before bed).
I do know that ever since I switched to Acacia I have to be alot more careful to eat enough IF in order to not get C as I'm now only taking SF in my SFS and no IF. It's soemthing to bear in mind for you C people on Acacia.
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