looks like you are an early bird as well...I love early morning before everything is stirring (including my bowels of course...they start stirring aroud 5:00-5:30). Yes, I do take a cal/mag called Jarrow Bone-UP. I'm a research fanatic so after a lot of research, believe that this is one of the best. 6 per day and I break it down by taking 2 three times daily. There's 1000 cal, 500 mag...1000 vit D and a bunch of other stuff. Funny thing....usually no cramping after I lay down and sleep. It is now 9:00AM and gotten all my popping (I hope) out of the way and I have no cramping as I write this. I have no idea what will happen as the day goes on. I think I am going to try a different approach for a while. I'm going to replace the "double fiber whole wheat bread" I have as a mid morning snack and replace with Ezekiel and remove skins from fruits, which I had not done before because I wanted the IF. Maybe those 60 grams I was eating too much IF in order to get these hefty BMs. I guess it's all trial and error. To me it only makes sense that if I'm having good BMs, but am still cramping, it has to be not necesarily a trigger food but somehow my diet is involved here. But, as we all know, IBS makes no sense. As you said in a previous post....one day at a time....and when I have a good day,,,,,boy do I appreciate it. Thanks so much fancymom. I can only imagine how busy you are running a household with husband and children and still taking the time to answer all these posts.