Advice Please - BM

If you have trouble "going" to the bathroom, what do you find helps? I
don't really want to take an over the counter remedy.

Any advice gratefully received.

Thanks
JD

Wheat germ, wheat bran. Either or both. A couple tablespoons spread on
food or just eaten. Low carb and works like a champ and is natural

Northeastern Missouri

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"jcd" wrote:

If you have trouble "going" to the bathroom, what do you find helps? I
don't really want to take an over the counter remedy.

Any advice gratefully received.

Thanks
JD



Almonds, spinach, and brocolli tend to help me.

--
Michelle Levin
http://www.mindspring.com/~lunachick

I have only 3 flaws. My first flaw is thinking that I only have 3 flaws.

Macadamia nuts do it for me! :-)
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"jcd" wrote in message
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If you have trouble "going" to the bathroom, what do you find helps? I
don't really want to take an over the counter remedy.

Any advice gratefully received.

Thanks
JD

In article , "jcd"
writes:

If you have trouble "going" to the bathroom, what do you find helps? I
don't really want to take an over the counter remedy.

Any advice gratefully received.

Thanks
JD


I grind flax and have it as a cereal ( with splenda and carb countdown milk)
each night.. Helps A lot, especially when I have had a real low fiber day..
As always YMMV and this is JMO
Jeanne Type 2 Diagnosed 05/28/02
194/164/120

Almonds, spinach, and brocolli tend to help me.


I never have this problem but I do eat alot of almonds or sunflower seeds in
the day, a total of 3 apples a week, vegetables most nights, cereal or
ezekiel bread several times a week ...

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freeborn wrote:




Almonds, spinach, and brocolli tend to help me.


I never have this problem but I do eat alot of almonds or sunflower seeds
in the day, a total of 3 apples a week, vegetables most nights, cereal or
ezekiel bread several times a week ...

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I never have had a BM problem. The only time I did was when I ate
red meat (I managed to get some grass-fed, hormone-free, free-range
ground beef) and lots of hard cheeses. I eat poultry and fin/scale
fish as my protein and get LOTS of green veggies, and some almonds,
without any problem whatsoever with bm.
CM

ojunk (Jmmbear) wrote:

In article , "jcd"
writes:

If you have trouble "going" to the bathroom, what do you find helps? I
don't really want to take an over the counter remedy.

Any advice gratefully received.

Thanks
JD


I grind flax and have it as a cereal ( with splenda and carb countdown milk)
each night.. Helps A lot, especially when I have had a real low fiber day..
As always YMMV and this is JMO
Jeanne Type 2 Diagnosed 05/28/02
194/164/120


I grind flax and have it on a salad or make flax pancakes. Sometimes I
make flax crackers.

jcd wrote:
If you have trouble "going" to the bathroom, what do you find helps? I
don't really want to take an over the counter remedy.

Salads, fibrous lowcarb cooked veggies, nuts, flax meal, psyllium.
Avoid too much cheese, it tends to be binding.

It is, however, normal to go somewhat less often on lowcarb, as there
is less volume of waste to be processed. The medical definition of
constipation is painful or difficult elimination, not a lack of going
daily. Normal elimination varies from 3 times a day to 3 times a
week, and "daily regularity" was a phrase made up to sell laxative.

--
jamie )

"There's a seeker born every minute."

I use psyllium, an orange-flavored sugar-free generic metamucil type from
Walmart.
It doesn't matter how much fiber I get from veggies or other sources, I have
to take the psyllium or I regret it the next day.

squeamish warning
My problem isn't with constipation, it is with the consistency
(peanut-buttery vs non-peanut-buttery) and the effect that consistency has
on hemorrhoids. I find that without the daily psyllium the hemmies are
screaming!
/squeamish warning


"jcd" wrote in message
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If you have trouble "going" to the bathroom, what do you find helps? I
don't really want to take an over the counter remedy.

Any advice gratefully received.

Thanks
JD