Hey you big giant marshmallow!! hehehehe....oh, man you're killing me. I have not had a good laugh for a long time until I read that....it's so true!!! I know exactly how you feel. I tried Metamucil the first time I was diagnosed with IBS in 1994-5 and it blew me up like a balloon, too. So, I switched to Fibercon and used that forever until I just didn't even need it anymore. I just tried Citrucel "clear" in 2003, when I got sick again and it worked sooooo good......but, now it's not working very good at all. I don't know what's going on with my system.....???