Beth, sweetie, how are you feeling today, any better?
You've gotten some good suggestions. I'm D not C, but I do know what Heather and the others recommend most strongly for C.
1. LOTS of water, LOTS AND LOTS AND LOTS of water.
2. EXERCISE!!!!! Walk around the house, walk around the office, walk around the mall. Your guts won't move unless YOU do! (We had a D thread going once about how the minute we set foot in a store we'd have to make a beeline for the bathroom. We couldn't figure out why until somebody said it must be from the walking!)
3. Work up to the full maximum dose of whatever SFS works for you. It doesn't look to me like you're taking enough yet. I'll get you the link to Heather's writeup in a sec. Here it is: SFS
4. Fruit smoothies. Don't eat the fruit, puree it and drink it, then it will help things flow rather than spasm things up!
I would also suggest re-reading Heather's write-up on C. Here's that link. Constipation Among other things, she says "Abdominal bloating from constipation can be relieved and prevented by fennel tea, the proper diet for IBS, and yoga poses specific to bloating." (Just click on the Yoga link above.)
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