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that you'll need more than 3 teaspoons to see substantial benefits. My experience was that the more acacia I took the better I got. I split mine into roughly 3 doses - breakfast, lunch, dinner.
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Beth, it sounds to me like you're getting too much fiber. I know that sounds funny, but the skinny stools are a result of too much fiber. Are you taking anything else? I know that if I take too much fiber and/or too much miralax, I get the same thing. For me, a BM just isn't satisfying unless it is a big one, you know? So I try to avoid the skinny poops.
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all those years it wasn't IBS - it was celiac!
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skinny stools are caused by spasms? This is the first I've heard of that.
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I don't take any other fiber. I do take flaxmeal (1 Tablespoon), triphala and magnesium.
I'm so confused! Am I taking too much or too little?
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Constipation, pain prodominent,cramps, spasms and bloat!
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...as it's one of the explanations for them!
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Before, I was taking one dose of citrucel and some psyllium at night (worked up slowly to 1 tsp (4.5 grams).
I will stick with Acacia until I get up to 2 T and if it doesn't get better, I will give up.
I may take a dose of psyllium tonight though, as I am running out of patience and just need a good clean sweep in one BM...none of this piddly stuff all day long that leaves me feeling incomplete and like I need to go all day long.
Pray that Acacia works for me! I really need this to work. It's been so long since anything has helped.
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~ Beth
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Cyndy, I think Linz did mention it at one point, but it was
Anthem who first told me about it. He found it in some book
he has on IBS. -Bob
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Elizabeth, don't you take 14 grams of SFS? I really am scared now that maybe 6 grams of Acacia is too much for me. But I thought it was because I wasn't taking enough. 
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...to decrease the skinny poops?  Since SF is suppose to reduce the cramping.
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Ok Cyndy, I haven't started yet, I still have to go out and
get some psyllium today, I think they'll have it at the food
coop I go to, and they're open today. Say, did you see that
post by Elizabeth McM who says she gets thin stools because
of too much fiber. This is really getting complicated. -Bob
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