fiber stops helping?

iVillage Member
Registered: 12-03-2004
fiber stops helping?
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Fri, 12-03-2004 - 10:18pm

Hi all.
I;m 17
I'm really upset now because I thought I was cured, but..

I started having problems with going to bathroom 4 yeard ago. Every since I either drank coffee of used laxatives. I know it was bad but fiber didn't seem to help.

One month ago I founf this Go Lean high fiber cereal and have been eating one or two cups a day, that's 12 or 24 g of fiber per day.
My problems dissapeared instantly. I felt great.
Now about a week ago everything slowed down
for the past three days I've had a problem going to the bathroom
Yesterday-just really hard
Today-not at all

I also have this pain that I had when I was constipated, you know when there is too much in there?

I haven't changed my fiber regimen or anything...I drink 8 glasses of water a day and stuff

but before, even if I drank like 4 glasses, I'd still go to bathroom without problems.

So does any of you know why this is happening? Can fiber stop working?

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iVillage Member
Registered: 10-14-2003
Sat, 12-04-2004 - 10:48am

Hi and Welcome

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iVillage Member
Registered: 12-03-2004
Sat, 12-04-2004 - 12:08pm
THanks for reply! I did go to a doctor in the spring. She x-rayed me but found nothing but full intestines. She sent me to a neutritionist and she told me to eat fiber. Well I did .. I ate those cereal but apples give me gas...and other fruits too. I can't stand lettice (sp?) just can't. Tastes like plain grass..brrr...
anyway, I cleaned myself with Senna because I thought I ate too much fiber and not enough water. I'll see how it goes...
It's just so weird that fiber stops helping, you know..I mean it absorbs water so how in the world can it stop working? How can I get used to it? My dad has been eating 5g fiber cereal for as long as I can remember and he never gets used to it.
Also, does eating choloclate, cheese, pears cause constipation even if you eat all the fiber that you need? Cause I love chocolate and pears. I've been eating a lot of those in the past week...hm...but not anymore.
iVillage Member
Registered: 10-14-2003
Sat, 12-04-2004 - 8:25pm

Pears

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iVillage Member
Registered: 12-03-2004
Sun, 12-05-2004 - 5:06pm
I just thought of something!
Around the same time when I started eating a lot of fiber, my mom bought me these vitamins that had these bacterias in it for intestines..you know...
She thought if I take it it'll help me with goimg to the bathroom and my skin.
I finished the bottle of those votamins around the same time when I started having problems again..
so maybe it wasnt't fiber that was reacting? Maybe the vitamins were helping? what do you think?
Community Leader
Registered: 10-01-2002
Sun, 12-05-2004 - 6:22pm

You hit something

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iVillage Member
Registered: 12-03-2004
Sun, 12-05-2004 - 6:49pm

no no no, I said that while I was on vitamins, I was going to the bathroom without problems.
Or at least I think that was the cause of it.

As for iron, I really need id cause of all the stress in school and not enought sleep=tiredness (sp?) But I'm not taking it because I'd rather be tired than constipated.

iVillage Member
Registered: 10-14-2003
Mon, 12-06-2004 - 10:14am

Sometimes

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iVillage Member
Registered: 12-03-2004
Mon, 12-06-2004 - 6:21pm
12, why?
iVillage Member
Registered: 10-14-2003
Mon, 12-06-2004 - 6:50pm

Just wondering

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iVillage Member
Registered: 12-03-2004
Sun, 12-12-2004 - 12:17pm

well, I thought it akk was fixed but it was because of my period..I sometimes go to bathroom because of this. Usually I'm constipated even more because of my period.

anyways...can anyone tell me why my mom won't believe me that I'm constipated? She says that if you don't go to bathroom then there's nothing there...uh..excuse me, after 2-3 days nothing there? Right...
she says it's all in my head, I'm afraid of talking to her about it. How can it be in my head if my stomach blows up to a huge size when it's flat when I'm empty? I've suffered so much that I can tell if I have something there or not. I'm so tired of this...

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