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c/sideeffects·submitted 2 years ago by u/milan_villalobos

[PSA] constipation is not what most of this community thinks it is

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The one-line version is the title: constipation is not what most of this community thinks it is. The rest is why. Reflux was the one that got me. Stopped eating in the three hours before bed and it went from nightly to almost never. The pattern almost everyone here describes, written out once so it can be linked. A…

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u/graph_it_gary37 points·2 years ago

Mine settled at week 50 and has not come back since, across two more steps.

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u/constipation_clubMOD19 points·2 years ago

Left up. It is a description of one person’s week and it is flagged as such.

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u/ferran_dahlberg7 points·2 years ago

This. A bad fortnight after a step is expected. A bad quarter is a reason to talk to somebody who knows your history.

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u/piotr_bruun2 points·2 years ago

Right, and the hair thing is worth repeating: it tracks the rate of loss rather than the compound, and it stops.

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u/sanne_laurent2 points·2 years ago

reflux at night, try not eating in the three hours before bed

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u/milan_villalobosOP4 points·2 years ago·edited

What is intake actually looking like — fibre and water especially?

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u/liv_vukovic3 points·2 years ago

Small fix — the shedding follows the rate of weight loss, not the compound, and it is temporary.

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u/chidi_demir9 points·2 years ago

write down when it starts and stops, the pattern is the useful part

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u/coring_the_stopper11 points·2 years ago

the food noise going quiet is the effect people came for, and sulphur burps are the toll for the first fortnight

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u/halima_mbeki8 points·2 years ago

Has anything else changed in the same window?

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u/rekha_mbeki4 points·2 years ago

Agreed on writing it down. I could not see the pattern until I had six weeks of it on one page.

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