Txs for replies re: "magic" fiber
04/19/05 06:29 PM
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lithelady
Reged: 08/15/03
Posts: 339
Loc: Novato, CA
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Very helpful answers Jessica. Plz keep posting as to how well this fiber continues to work for you. I'm really hopeful that it continues to do the job permanently b/c then it'll be worth the expense. Since each bag of acacia lasts one month for me at a dose of 12gms/day, your fiber is FOUR times the price of acacia for a month's supply.
Also, I've gotten my bloating under a moderate degree of good control, so I'm most interested in knowing if this new fiber causes your bloating to increase as you continue to use it over the next few weeks.
Few other questions:
1]how much magnesium were you taking per day, at what time[s] of day and for how many weeks/months?
2]Did you find that these Mg doses would make your stool softer [ie: it would increase your BM's water content] and also increase your colon's peristalsis strength or frequency, so you would have more frequent BMs?
I'm asking this b/c there are 2 aspects of diarrhea: increased stool water content and increased stool frequency. These both occur together when diarrhea is due to an infectious cause, but with large amounts of magnesium, I've not been able to find anything in writing that describes:
a)whether Mg causes both of these aspects of diarrhea to occur and
b)how long after taking Mg before its laxative effect kicks into action.
Lastly, I'm curious if you were able to difinitively tell in what ways Mg affected your BM? I've have never been able to figure out if taking Mg upon arising in the AM helps me to have a BM that AM or not, since my BMs are so irregular.
Thanks again! Joanne
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Many years of C-IBS and pain too for past 2 years-
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