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Just to let you know.. Although some people can't eat flaxseed...
I have had flaxseed since being diagnosed with slow colonic transit (this gives absolute chronic blocked bowel from impacted faeces). It is excruciating pain when it is so chronically constipated.
Well last week I ran out. I forgot to order it off the website. So Friday and Saturday I went without. On the previous Thursday my hubby gave me his mixed flaxseed. Not pure ground flaxseed. I got some more flaxseed from Waitrose on the Sunday.
Anyway. Yesterday (weds) I was so blocked that I had to have morphine from paramedics and admitted to hospital. That experience wasn't nice but I eventually came home 6lb lighter!!!! Taking a break from pure flaxseed caused this and despite having more the flaxseed when I used it again was just not enough to break through the 3 days of food that had backed up in me.
It just goes to prove the benefit of flaxseed.
I spoke to GP today and explained that I had run out of flaxseed and he was quite happy to let me carry on without having to have "chemical" based laxatives. That I had learnt to never run out of flaxseed again!!
To me my flaxseed was my way to naturally keep my stomach but I really didn't realise until yesterday how good it was.
I had carried on taking my chia seed so it is definitely flax seed that is the food that keeps my stomach chugging along....
I have had flaxseed since being diagnosed with slow colonic transit (this gives absolute chronic blocked bowel from impacted faeces). It is excruciating pain when it is so chronically constipated.
Well last week I ran out. I forgot to order it off the website. So Friday and Saturday I went without. On the previous Thursday my hubby gave me his mixed flaxseed. Not pure ground flaxseed. I got some more flaxseed from Waitrose on the Sunday.
Anyway. Yesterday (weds) I was so blocked that I had to have morphine from paramedics and admitted to hospital. That experience wasn't nice but I eventually came home 6lb lighter!!!! Taking a break from pure flaxseed caused this and despite having more the flaxseed when I used it again was just not enough to break through the 3 days of food that had backed up in me.
It just goes to prove the benefit of flaxseed.
I spoke to GP today and explained that I had run out of flaxseed and he was quite happy to let me carry on without having to have "chemical" based laxatives. That I had learnt to never run out of flaxseed again!!
To me my flaxseed was my way to naturally keep my stomach but I really didn't realise until yesterday how good it was.
I had carried on taking my chia seed so it is definitely flax seed that is the food that keeps my stomach chugging along....