OP here - since I know you are all so invested in my bowels.
Fruit for breakfast + Starbucks nitro cold brew did the trick this AM. Phew. I feel sooooo much better! I bet I lost those 3lbs that I haven't been able to shake. LOL. |
| I like to take a regular magnesium supplement, and it does the trick. |
lol congrats. I have found that oatmeal seems to really help me fyi. |
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I am about to give TMI and apologize. DH and i are both on Zepbound, so a little different. He eats high protein and little vegetables and has terrible constipation. He has salad a few times per week and coffee daily.
The same med has made me not want to eat meat and I eat very little of it. I am also now repulsed by dairy as a side effect. I have a veggie and fruit with almond milk smoothie every day. Sometimes I don't put in fruit and make it with kale, protein powder and tofu but have some type of kale or spinach smoothie as a snack daily. I am not at all constipated and go several times every morning. |
| Glad to hear it PP. Make sure not to look in the toilet in these situations. I am still not over what came out during the worst of my constipation days. |
my dr suggested this too when i mentioned this problem, and I take extra fiber too. |
| How old are you? If you’re female and over 70, sometimes constipation is a symptom of heart problems. |
Female - but a few decades from 70. It is a side effect of the GLP1...
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| Girl, you need prunes. |
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What are you eating ?
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| Please be careful. I know in real life a person who had to have emergency surgery. The GLP caused everything to stop (gastro paralysis) and necrosis set in. She will wear a colostomy bag the rest of her life. It’s a known complication. |
| OP here - things have been fine since then. I am figuring out which foods cause me to go and making sure to eat them! I also increased fiber intake (and taking a daily supplement) + increasing water intake. |
| Try medjool dates once or twice a day |
This result is so incredibly rare - far, far more likely that you’ve misunderstood the cause of the bag, the person who it happened to misunderstood, or you’ve exaggerated/made it up. |
| I have to eat 22 g fiber daily or it creeps up on me. |