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If I take a lot of miralax, I think it causes a bit of bloating. Right now I'm alternating 17g one day and 34g the next. It seems to be working pretty well.

I stopped taking the MOM/Magnesium pills because, through my insurance, I could get the miralax a bit cheaper. And it is easy to mix into my daily protein shakes, except for every once in a while when I don't have one. That's why I was wondering about mixing it into my oat bran in the mornings. I still have a few boxes of the Phillip's Magnesium pills left, though, and I plan to use them if I run out of miralax or if I'm on a trip.

I'm off of Xifaxin - it was a 10day treatment. I think it helped, after I got rid of all the C that built up from it.

I just got off of a really bad couple week stretch where it seemed like I was badly bloated constantly. I wracked (sp?) my brain to figure out what it was and came up with the fact that I'd been eating a whole lot of fruits and veggies, even though they were safely cooked/pureed. I think I'm just one of those people who can't handle a lot of IF. So, I've started eating my veggies at night and eating less fruit throughout the day (I'm now eating more fruit than veggies, but for some reason, it doesn't seem to bother me).

For example, yesterday I had some blueberry puree in my oatbran and some strawberry-plum puree in my applesauce in the afternoon. As far as veggies, I had half a sweet potato at night with an egg white omelette with a puree of mixed baby greens, asparagus & celery swirled in. I wish I could eat more veggies during the day, but I seem to be unable to handle it. I keep telling myself that it's ok, though, because I'm eating them before bed.

As far as meds go, I'm still taking a mix of Citrucel and Acacia, peppermint caps, and I just started VSL#3 yesterday. I hope that it will work. I'm not taking Zelnorm anymore because I saw no improvement with it and was wondering if it was somehow making things worse. I'm also keeping a spreadsheet and assigning my pain and bloat numbers from 1-5 for each morning and night, as well as how many calories I ate, how much fat, how much miralax, etc. I'm hoping to see a pattern.

But really, just drinking a whole bunch of fennel tea (I make a pot in my coffeemaker and try to drink at least 4 cups a day) and keeping the IF at night has made a huge difference. I've also cut out tomato products, which is sad, but seems to have helped.

HTH!

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