Believe me, I have been there. Which is why I wrote the post.
The Miralax did not work without the fiber for me. It took me over a month to get to the 24g I take now. Go slow. I started with Citrucel tablets which only have 1g of fiber. I increased by one pill every couple of days until I finished a bottle. Then I switched to Citrucel powder and increased by 2g every couple of days until that ran out. Then finally I switched to Heather's fiber and kept increasing.
I don't know if this makes a difference, but here's how I actually take my fiber. I have a 32oz water bottle that I fill with 4 tblsp of fiber in the morning and water when I get to work. I start drinking after my morning tea around 9:30 and sip on it all day until it's done, usually around 4. So I'm basically continually taking fiber for several hours rather than taking a couple of big doses at once. Might be why I'm tolerating it better.
Honestly, forget everything about the diets. Eliminating all kinds of food didn't help you. So you still have no idea what you should and shouldn't be eating and you're spending all this time stressing about eating rules, right? Made my life hell, and more importantly, didn't work. I rammed my head against that wall until I gave myself anemia. I was literally suffering from malnutrition before I gave up. Save yourself the trouble.
I'm still in the process of figuring out my trigger foods. For sure, cruciferous vegetables. I can only eat a very small serving once a week. Beans are also out. No one can digest beans, and I don't know that pureeing them (into hummus, eg) helps any. I eat all meat. I have to, since everything vegetarian is made of beans. Meat has never given me any trouble. I should probably also stay away from beer and stick to wine.
I will say that when I quit Heather's diet and just started eating whatever I wanted, I went through a couple weeks of intense stomach discomfort. Pain so bad it woke me up at night. It passed after a couple of weeks as my stomach got used to actually having to do some real work again.
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