• hydroptic@sopuli.xyz
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    4 months ago

    Could be IBS or IBD too – with IBS adding fiber either does fuck-all (although probably won’t hurt), and with IBD actually often makes things worse

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        4 months ago

        Oh yeah this is all of course assuming that someone’s getting enough fiber already – lots of people don’t. Especially US diets are often pretty fiber poor compared to eg. most parts of Europe

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        4 months ago

        Really?

        Fiber just gives me gas which makes the C much more painful. Although I’ve been on the Wegovy diet for a while now, and constipation is far less frequent when you can only physically consume 200 calories of food

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            Oh it’s very often not constipation that causes those long shits when you have IBS or IBD, and a laxative is the last thing you’d want. Both do potentially cause constipation, but there’s better laxatives than magnesium – although apparently specifically with IBD magnesium might help with symptoms but we’re not talking laxative doses

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              Idk I kinda liked those laxatives they gave me before my colonoscopy. Not eating and forcing down 3ltrs of foul liquid sucked, but afterwards I felt great!