constipation: what the trials say vs what this community says
Something I keep coming back to: constipation: what the trials say vs what this community says.
Nobody warned me about early fullness and I would have liked the warning. It was not dangerous, it was just deeply unpleasant and completely unexpected.
Mine settled at week 78 and has not come back since, across two more steps.
Reflux was the one that got me. Stopped eating in the three hours before bed and it went from nightly to almost never.
Screenshot none of this. Read the whole thread, including the parts where I am told I am wrong.
best — the order this archive was captured in
Nothing in this thread is medical advice, including this comment. I am describing a mechanism, not telling anybody what to do about their own week.
fibre and water before you buy anything to fix it
Constipation is mostly reduced intake plus reduced fluid, not a direct effect. That is why the boring fibre and water answer keeps working.
Agreed. Slowing down at meals did more for my early fullness than everything I bought to fix it, which was embarrassing to discover.
nobody warns you about how much of this is timing rather than dose
Disagree. Severe abdominal pain is not on the list of things to wait out, and this board should not be treating it as one.
Kept a one-line-a-day log for two months. The pattern was obvious on paper and invisible in my head.
Severe or persistent abdominal pain sits outside the pattern this board can usefully discuss. The honest answer there is that it needs someone who can examine you.
Are you eating in the couple of hours before you sleep?
Has anything else changed in the same window?
holding a dose an extra month is a legitimate answer to bad tolerance
Right, and the hair thing is worth repeating: it tracks the rate of loss rather than the compound, and it stops.
The fatigue turned out to be that I was eating about a third of what I thought I was. Tracked it for a week and the mystery evaporated.
Cosigning the fibre and water answer. Unglamorous, free, and it fixed it for me inside a week.
hair shedding follows the weight loss, not the drug, and it stops
What is intake actually looking like — fibre and water especially?
Agreed on writing it down. I could not see the pattern until I had six weeks of it on one page.