Acacia side effects--at low dose!
#105090 - 09/10/04 10:28 PM
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salsagal
Reged: 09/10/04
Posts: 38
Loc: Boston, MA
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Hi,
Total newbie here. I just registered and checked out some of the past posts. My apologies in advance if you've already answered this question. Here goes:
I have IBS-C, nausea, cramps, gas, bloating--everything but D. Just started taking acacia with high hopes. I started at 1/2 level teaspoon per day, and over the course of a week ramped up to 2 level teaspoons per day. That seems gradual to me--but my cramps, gas, bloating, and queasiness are WORSE. I thought acacia decreased gas and bloating; seems it's having the opposite effect.
Any thoughts about 1) why and 2) what I should do?
Also: Ever since I've had severe C (past three years), I find that any supplement or drug that gets my intestines moving will always cause nausea and/or cramps. I'm caught between a rock and a hard place. Is this phenomenon familiar to anyone? Any suggestions re: why and what to do?
Thanks. My life is becoming more miserable and compromised by the day(I'm sure many of you can relate).
Salsagal
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Too much too fast, that's your problem! Try cutting back to 1/2 teaspoon and staying on that for a week, before increasing it to 1 teaspoon, etc....
The alternative is to stick it out for the two or three weeks that it takes your body to adjust.
Acacia, like all soluble fibre supplements, does NOT work by speeding up your gut motility. It shouldn't cause nausea or cramps. See Soluble fibre
Try again! Good luck! Btw, welcome!
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hey there
wanted to welcome you first!
you have exactly the same type of ibs as me! I have suffered for ten years with it and have not yet tried the fibre supplements (I have a weird stubborness of trying to manage it through diet, but it may soon reach a point where I try them!).
I feel that ibs c can be managed well through diet and the good thing about it is that we can tolerate more wholegrains, fruits and vegies in careful proportions which are very nutritious.
Have you ever kept a food diary? Do you know what foods make you clogged up? what do you eat on an average day?
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from conversations here adn on my own experience, any supplement can do that a bit the first week or 2 then it levels out... but once it leveled out I felt so much better.. but I'm IBS-A
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Dietetics Student (anticipating RD exam in Aug 2010)
IBS - A
Dairy Allergic
Fructose and MSG intollerant
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Thanks for your response. You suggest hanging out at 1/2 tsp. acacia for a week, then very gradually increasing. Given my experience, that makes sense. But at that rate, it'll take me many, many months to ramp up to a therapeutic dose. (I guess that beats running headlong into side effects and giving up on acacia, though!)
--Susan
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