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Did you find this to be true for you? What Heather's results with the citrucel caplets was? That they didn't do anything? I have switched from citrucel clear mix to the tablets today, but then saw this post. Now I'm not sure...
Any feedback would be appreciated. Thanks to all.
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I take a lot of them - enough to equal 12 - 14 grams of fiber per day. I just can't do the liquid (never tried Citrucel - I tried Acacia, Reliv...). It doesn't settle well in my tummy. This travels so well too. I am stable -- and doing very well. So it works for me. Fiber works so differently for different people though. (I know you hate that statement)
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I use a combo of both, but every time I take pills I feel like in my head that powder is better. Do the pills take longer to absorb or something? Seems like pills don't make me feel so bloated or something. I'm sure they obviously work though, right?
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Check the amount of Sf in your pills (and make sure they don't contain sweeteners!) - often the pills have very little in them compared to a normal dose of powder. This could explain why the powder makes you bloated...everytime you switch to powder you could be upping your dose (and doing this too fast can cause bloating).
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The thing about Heather's post that concerned me is that she named citrucel pills specifically. Not Fibercon pills, not metamucil, not equalactin. Just the Citrucel tablets.  She said all the other "pills" were okay.
And not only for her, but for other people too. So, in this case, I thought maybe it wasn't that everyone is different, but that it was something about the citrucel tablets themselves that don't work.
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I hate it that there isn't one way or one product that works univerally. Would make life so much easier!
Thanks for your reply. Glad they work for you. But I posted my concern about citrucel tablets in specific below Heather's. She specifically names Citrucel tablets as not working for her and many others and even suggested that it may be this product that doesn't work, not the specific person. So, that is why I was concerned.
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#160326 - 03/14/05 07:34 AM
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Heather said that the Citucel tablets don't work for some people so they're not a good one to start on. As you've been on Citrucel powder, you already know what effect SFSs have on you, so you'll be able to tell if the tablets don't work for you. Someone just starting on SFSs wouldn't be able to tell if they were working or not.
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Do you guys use these citrucel caplets? Any feedback? 
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I take them three times a day. I just didn't like taking the Citrucel powder because I don't like drinking my fiber. I am taking the Citrucel tablets though. They don't have a lot of fiber in each pill - so you have to take a lot to get a lot of fiber -- but it also means it is pretty easy to gradually work up your dose.
I take 8 tablets 3 times per day. I now have two to three well formed bowel movements every day and no problems with gas or cramping unless I eat something bad. It works for me. However -- fiber is an individual thing - and I also take enzymes and a probiotic.
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Without fiber I was IBS-D and had no well formed BMs at all -- all of them were D. I also had severe D attacks nearly every day if not every day. The gas has mostly been helped by the probiotics -- and that took nearly a month - but it is now totally gone (FINALLY!!). However - I know the fiber is working and making a big difference. Diet, fiber, probiotics & enzymes. I would place them in that order.
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