psyllium husk doses? Is it working for you?

I've been taking two heaping spoons of it every day for about 23 years, except for those annual few days before my colonoscopy. It gives my poops form and helps them go through with less discomfort, takes away the urge to strain. The only way I know this is that those days each year when I'm off it, my poops are scrawnier, less well formed, and I feel involuntary straining to get them out.

No, I've just used the Metamucil. For the past month or so I've been adding a teaspoon of psyllium seed powder - haven't been able to tell much difference, to be honest. (Maybe I'm not useing enough seed powder, but.. seems like enough fiber to me!)

I use a teaspoon from the flateware drawer (not a measuring teaspoon) and I heap it with Metamucil, mix with a glas of water, chug. Repeat with another heaping teaspoon of Met., another glass of water.... then I add about anoter half cup of water into the glass, swirl around and chug that.

I worked up to this amount - I wouldn't start with this much Metamucil.
One reason I like the Metamucil is for the claims it makes that it helps lower cholesterol also.

To my taste, the seed powder is much yuckier than the metamucil. I use original, coarse-milled, original flavor.
And because I could always use to lose weight, I take it right before lunch so it helps fill me up. My doc says its' basically a food, so...this is what works for me.

I think it does help with D - and if I start to flare I add a third daily dose sometimes. But in my experience it doesn't stop flares. It does help with bleeding if some of that blood is from straining.

The kind of straining I'm talking about is.... comes with D, and feeling like vomiting from the rear end - spasming.

Hi, right now I'm doing miralax and tapering (sounds like pred, eh?) I'm not taking it today, just psyllium husk. (I'm going to up the dose) I believe Miralax is giving me diarrhea, plus a lot of blood (hemmies) from just sitting there, and I guess that's straining because stuff wants to come out. It's just gross.

I've been chained to the toilet this weekend, and with the constant hope that it's not a flare. (well, I'm pretty sure it isn't)

Yeah, maybe it's lingering D from the Miralax. I was very constipated and still am in a way. It flips. A glop of D, a decent b.m., then feeling that I need to evacuate but can't, then some D. What fun!

Warning, a single change in diet can precipitate all this. Mine was an anti-depressant, which caused the constipation.

What should I do, Fruitgirl. Am I in a flare?