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Fibre supplements and timing them around the injection

Started 20 February 2025 · 16 replies · 177 hearts · read 3.2k times

HarlanDenver, CO · 20 February 2025
1.4 years ago

Fibre supplements and timing them around the injection — putting it in its own thread so it does not get lost in the check-in.

Something is going on with my body and I would like to know whether it is ordinary.

This started at the same time as two other things, which is why I cannot attribute it to anything with any confidence.

It is not severe. It is relentless, which turns out to be a different problem, and one I have found much harder to describe to anybody.

I have avoided asking about this for six weeks out of pure embarrassment, which is ridiculous given that this circle exists precisely for it.

Thank you for reading something this unglamorous. Any experience welcome, and timescales especially.

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GwythFishguard, UK
#1

Mine was worst in the first fortnight after each step up and then settled. Knowing the shape of it made it much easier to sit through.

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OdessaLviv, UA
#2

Gently disagreeing with Gwyth, or rather adding the other half of it.

What worked for me was adding fibre very gradually rather than all at once. I did all at once first and had an extremely uncomfortable week.

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TomásFacilitatorLisbon, Portugal
#3

Adding a note that the practical guides cover the ordinary version of this well, and what this thread is doing that they cannot is telling somebody they are not alone in it.

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PoppyLeeds, UK
#4

Fluid was the single biggest lever for me, by a distance. Far more than any of the other things I tried and much less interesting to talk about.

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LeniLeipzig, DE
#5

Holding this with you rather than answering it.

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IvorLlanelli, UK
#6

I kept a very boring log for a fortnight and it made the conversation with my GP take four minutes instead of being a vague description of discomfort.

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TamzinPoole, UK
#7

Movement helped mine more than anything I ate. A twenty-minute walk after dinner, nothing strenuous, and it made a noticeable difference within a week.

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TeganNewport, UK
#8

Building on what Tamzin wrote rather than answering the original question.

The thing I would flag is that severe pain with it is a different question, and worth ringing about rather than reading about.

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PerryCardigan, UK
#9

Building on what Ivor wrote rather than answering the original question.

Somebody here described this as the least discussed and most common part of the whole business, and my experience matches that exactly.

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XanBerlin, DE
#10

Mine improved when I stopped ignoring it. That sounds glib and it is literal — I had been putting it off for hours at a time and that was making it worse.

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HarlanDenver, CO
#11

I found magnesium helpful and I would say plainly that I checked with a pharmacist first because of another medication I take. Please do check.

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GwythFishguard, UK
#12

The timing of things mattered more than the things themselves for me. Same fibre, spread across the day instead of in one go, completely different result.

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OdessaLviv, UA
#13

Mine has never entirely gone and it is now a background thing I manage rather than a problem I have. That is an honest place to have arrived.

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VeraRiga, LV
#14

Nothing useful, just that I have been exactly here.

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TomásFacilitatorLisbon, Portugal
#15

Slowing this down for a moment. The question asked was whether this is ordinary. That is not the same as asking what to do about it and we have answered the second one.

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LeniLeipzig, DE
#16

I had already had a complicated gut before any of this and I would say the general advice mostly did not fit me. Bringing it to somebody who knew my history was what worked.

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