Re: My personal fibre experiment

----- Original Message -----
From: "Ozgirl" <are_we_there_yet@maccas.com>
Newsgroups: alt.support.diabetes
Sent: Tuesday, September 04, 2007 6:19 PM
Subject: My personal fibre experiment


> I fully expected to go from 3-4 soft, non odorous bm's a day down to one
> offensive style one (sorry folks). I was gobsmacked, I haven't been to
> the loo for bm's for 3 full days. I am well and truly bogged up. Now, what
> I have eaten is the allegedly healthy foods (packed with fibre, blah
> blah).
>
I found that drinking an extra glass of water a day helps with that but
keeps waking me up at night.

Robert Miles <robertmiles@bellsouthnospam.net> wrote:

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Ozgirl" <are_we_there_yet@maccas.com>
> Newsgroups: alt.support.diabetes
> Sent: Tuesday, September 04, 2007 6:19 PM
> Subject: My personal fibre experiment

>> I fully expected to go from 3-4 soft, non odorous bm's a day down to one
>> offensive style one (sorry folks). I was gobsmacked, I haven't been to
>> the loo for bm's for 3 full days. I am well and truly bogged up. Now, what
>> I have eaten is the allegedly healthy foods (packed with fibre, blah
>> blah).

> I found that drinking an extra glass of water a day helps with that but
> keeps waking me up at night.

I find that walking for a few hours always helps to get things
moving. I note too that you made a sudden large change to your
diet. Creeping up on the change gradually by small increments might
well have quite a different effect.

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