Physillium Husk Pole

I take psyllium. I've taken husk (Metamucil) for 23 years, 2 heaping teaspoons a day, each in a glass of water. I take it all at once, right before lunch, unless my schedule doesn't permit - in which case I take it in the morning after breakfast.

For the past month I've been decreasing to 1 1/2 spoons of Metamucil and adding in a medium spoonful of Seed powder. I'm trying to increase the butyrate levels. Don't know if it's working, but all in all I'm feeling good.

I find the Metamucil helps bulk up my stool and make the stool easier to pass.... when my GI suggested I started taking it he said it would help so I'd "never have to strain again" and that has been pretty much true. (I have to stop taking it for the 5 days leading up to colonoscopy, and I am much less comfortable without it.)
When I start to flare I increase the dose to give bulk to the D.

Right. During those days I don't take Metamucil, when I'm in the bathroom, I'll sometimes have the feeling of a bit of stool left in there that doesn't want to move on out, and I'll sit and "try", and then maybe a little blob of stool might eventually make its way out....(I hate being that graphic, but.....?!) With the Metamucil my experience is that the stool all sticks together and exits without that "something left inside" feeling.
LOL Does that help explain?

Physillium seed is way better than Physillium Husk