I've been eating prunes every day but they are having the opposite effect to wha!


Question:

I've been eating prunes every day but they are having the opposite effect to what they are famed for?

Why is this? Getting a bit fed up! Damn IBS is playing up and prunes are not helping.
I don't want to take any medicines, I'd much rather alter my diet to control the condition. I thought prunes were supposed to be effective.

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2 months ago
Lol, can't drink Guiness, too many calories!

2 months ago
I didn't say they were dried did I... read Q please.

2 months ago
Read the goddamn question David Saunders. You'd think with all your many qualifications you could deduct from my post I have been doing this for more than one day.


Answers:

damn IBS, mine is acting up too right now!
prunes don't work for me either in any form.
i think it's that they are bulky, and have quite a bit of fibre; which actually does not help my condition at all. it in fact aggravates it.

so do other usually recommend remedies for constipation, so pay those little heed. those bulky fibres just make you feel more bloated and clogged up when you have IBS usually.

i wish they'd stop recommending fibre. it's agonising to people with IBS, who have constipation.

telling people who are in agony and can hardly move to exercise also is not very helpful advice, and walking, and exercise doesn't even work usually. a lot of time, you end up in more pain, and with muscle cramps in your abdomen, which again aggravates the IBS even further.

i've tried altering my diet, for a few years, still try to; but as yet the only thing that works is lactulose, which is a liquid sugar that you can get at the chemist. your doctor can prescribe it as well. it's just a syrup. though it may cause you to get trapped wind, so you may want the doctor to give you something for that as well. or ask the chemist what to use for that.
fibres are worse for the bloating and wind though than lactulose.

i've always found dried apricots to be far better than prunes, so you could try those.
drink fruit juices, eat vitamin C chewables. drink warm water, not cold water.
be careful not to overdo the remedies or you can get more pain. you want to go easy.




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