Hi there! I will do my best to answer some of your questions.  Any kind of rice is great to eat. Brown rice has a little insoluble fiber, so if you are having a rough bowel day, white is probably a little more soothing. Heather has a good post about brown rice here . It probably wouldn't hurt to stick to only soluble fiber for a week and see if those lower abdominal pains go away, and then slowly re-introduce those other foods. Just a thought, if you have only just started taking Metamucil (or other supplement), it might be causing a little gas, which could cause pain.
The skin of beans are insoluble fiber, so pureeing them should make them much more tolerable. The same is true for any vegetable, the skin seems to be the biggest problem. (Potato insides are great, the skin causes trouble, etc.)
I don't do much eating out, so I can't tell you how willing restaurants are to alter their dishes.
And lastly, soluble fiber supplements are fine to take every day. I think Metamucil is psyllium fiber, which I can buy from my health food store without any warnings about how long to eat it. My bottle of Metamucil capsules has two different sections - the side for fiber supplement has no warning about taking it for only 7 days. The side labeled drug facts does say stop use after 7 days. It might just be an FDA regulation to have that on there, because I think most of my over the counter medicines have something about stopping use and seeing a doctor after a certain amount of days.
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