severe stomach cramps

"mrQ" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:[email hidden]...

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Started again a week ago, and this thing has been tearing my stomach up.
I'm hoping this will eventually get better. Anyone have any helpful

hints?

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My stomach has been killing me...and spending too much time on the throne

if

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you know what i mean. :-(
Thanks

What are you eating that you don't usually eat?

--
No Husband Has Ever Been Shot While Doing The Dishes

This does not happen with low carb. I suppose, if you ate a bunch of foods
with sugar alcohols, it might.

"mrQ" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:[email hidden]...

Quoted message said:

Started again a week ago, and this thing has been tearing my stomach up.
I'm hoping this will eventually get better. Anyone have any helpful

hints?

Quoted message said:

My stomach has been killing me...and spending too much time on the throne

if

Quoted message said:

you know what i mean. :-(
Thanks
Mark

mrQ said:

Started again a week ago, and this thing has been tearing my stomach up.
I'm hoping this will eventually get better. Anyone have any helpful hints?
My stomach has been killing me...and spending too much time on the throne if
you know what i mean. :-(
Thanks
Mark

A low-carb diet by iteself tends to go the opposite way because of the
relatively low amount of fiber. However, if you have been lured by
the advertisements for various "sugar free" sweets, you may easily
have overdosed on the substitutes. These are mostly sugar alcohols,
with names like sorbitol, mannitol, maltitol and so on. They don't
get digested the way normal sugars do, but when they pass into the
intestines they ferment and produce gas, diarrhea and such. So look
carefully at the list of ingredients on any commercial products you
have been eating.

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Cubit said:

This does not happen with low carb. I suppose, if you ate a bunch of foods
with sugar alcohols, it might.

Absolutely false. It takes about two seconds on google to find many
complaints of diarrhea by new low carbers, not all eating SAs.

What I recall folks recommending to improve it was psyllium husks, as a
bulking agent.

Susan

Susan wrote:
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|| Cubit wrote:
||| This does not happen with low carb. I suppose, if you ate a bunch
||| of foods with sugar alcohols, it might.
||
|| Absolutely false. It takes about two seconds on google to find many
|| complaints of diarrhea by new low carbers, not all eating SAs.
||
|| What I recall folks recommending to improve it was psyllium husks,
|| as a bulking agent.
||
|| Susan

Why would low-carb cause diarrhea? I can't think of a reason, although
there are many reasons for the opposite.

Most people when they begin low carb are not adding new foods to their diet,
they are merely cutting out certain foods. Is there something about the
sugar and starches that they gave up that was preventing diarrhea?

I have a feeling that the stomach cramps and diarrhea happen when people new
to low-carb start eating commercial low-carb substitutes without even
realizing the chemicals and [censored] that are in them.

--
Peter
Website: http://users.thelink.net/marengo

"Marengo" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Susan wrote:
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|| Cubit wrote:
||| This does not happen with low carb. I suppose, if you ate a bunch
||| of foods with sugar alcohols, it might.
||
|| Absolutely false. It takes about two seconds on google to find many
|| complaints of diarrhea by new low carbers, not all eating SAs.
||
|| What I recall folks recommending to improve it was psyllium husks,
|| as a bulking agent.
||
|| Susan

Why would low-carb cause diarrhea? I can't think of a reason, although
there are many reasons for the opposite.

Most people when they begin low carb are not adding new foods to their

diet,

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they are merely cutting out certain foods. Is there something about the
sugar and starches that they gave up that was preventing diarrhea?

I have a feeling that the stomach cramps and diarrhea happen when people

new

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to low-carb start eating commercial low-carb substitutes without even
realizing the chemicals and [censored] that are in them.

--
Peter
Website: http://users.thelink.net/marengo

When glycogen stores are depleted, the water that was holding it is flushed
from the system. Some is passed through the renal system, some is passed
through the gastric system. When the excess fluid has passed, the diarrhea
will resolve without tx. If it is causing a major problem, it can be slowed
and firmed with a bulking agent such as psyllium husks or any low carb fiber
product (for example, Metamucil sugar free or pills)

HTH,
Gina

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Marengo said:

Susan wrote:
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||
|| Cubit wrote:
||| This does not happen with low carb. I suppose, if you ate a bunch
||| of foods with sugar alcohols, it might.
||
|| Absolutely false. It takes about two seconds on google to find many
|| complaints of diarrhea by new low carbers, not all eating SAs.
||
|| What I recall folks recommending to improve it was psyllium husks,
|| as a bulking agent.
||
|| Susan

Why would low-carb cause diarrhea? I can't think of a reason, although
there are many reasons for the opposite.

Most people when they begin low carb are not adding new foods to their diet,
they are merely cutting out certain foods. Is there something about the
sugar and starches that they gave up that was preventing diarrhea?

I have a feeling that the stomach cramps and diarrhea happen when people new
to low-carb start eating commercial low-carb substitutes without even
realizing the chemicals and [censored] that are in them.

Well, in my case, I replaced my starches with more green vegetables, and
when that green vegetable happens to be spinach . . . let's just say I
never need ex-lax.

--
http://www.mindspring.com/~lunachick

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Marengo said:

Why would low-carb cause diarrhea? I can't think of a reason, although
there are many reasons for the opposite.

Most people when they begin low carb are not adding new foods to their diet,
they are merely cutting out certain foods. Is there something about the
sugar and starches that they gave up that was preventing diarrhea?

I have a feeling that the stomach cramps and diarrhea happen when people new
to low-carb start eating commercial low-carb substitutes without even
realizing the chemicals and [censored] that are in them.

No, Peter, I think it's more basic; often when folks undertake radical
dietary changes, their systems don't handle it well at first. In fact,
I recall a discussion in this group years ago where folks agreed that
diarrhea was a more common occurrence at first than the constipation
that low carb opponents predict.

Read the archives.

Susan

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Susan said:

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Marengo said:

Why would low-carb cause diarrhea? I can't think of a reason, although
there are many reasons for the opposite.

Most people when they begin low carb are not adding new foods to their
diet,
they are merely cutting out certain foods. Is there something about the
sugar and starches that they gave up that was preventing diarrhea?

I have a feeling that the stomach cramps and diarrhea happen when people
new
to low-carb start eating commercial low-carb substitutes without even
realizing the chemicals and [censored] that are in them.

No, Peter, I think it's more basic; often when folks undertake radical
dietary changes, their systems don't handle it well at first. In fact,
I recall a discussion in this group years ago where folks agreed that
diarrhea was a more common occurrence at first than the constipation
that low carb opponents predict.

Read the archives.

Susan

And IMHO is preferable and easier to deal with... ;=)
--
Om.

"My mother never saw the irony in calling me a son-of-a-[censored]." -Jack Nicholson

Cubit said:

This does not happen with low carb. I suppose, if you ate a bunch of foods
with sugar alcohols, it might.

Actually, this happened to me and I had NO sugar alcohols. I was
strict induction. No cheats. It lasted a good month. 🙁

Nicole

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"mrQ" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:[email hidden]...

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Started again a week ago, and this thing has been tearing my stomach up.
I'm hoping this will eventually get better. Anyone have any helpful

hints?

Quoted message said:

My stomach has been killing me...and spending too much time on the throne

if

Quoted message said:

you know what i mean. :-(
Thanks
Mark

Luna wrote:
|| In article <PE22f.8204$sE3.5038@lakeread07>,
|| "Marengo" <[email hidden]> wrote:
||
||| Susan wrote:
||||| x-no-archive: yes
|||||
||||| Cubit wrote:
|||||| This does not happen with low carb. I suppose, if you ate a
|||||| bunch of foods with sugar alcohols, it might.
|||||
||||| Absolutely false. It takes about two seconds on google to find
||||| many complaints of diarrhea by new low carbers, not all eating
||||| SAs.
|||||
||||| What I recall folks recommending to improve it was psyllium husks,
||||| as a bulking agent.
|||||
||||| Susan
|||
||| Why would low-carb cause diarrhea? I can't think of a reason,
||| although there are many reasons for the opposite.
|||
||| Most people when they begin low carb are not adding new foods to
||| their diet, they are merely cutting out certain foods. Is there
||| something about the sugar and starches that they gave up that was
||| preventing diarrhea?
|||
||| I have a feeling that the stomach cramps and diarrhea happen when
||| people new to low-carb start eating commercial low-carb substitutes
||| without even realizing the chemicals and [censored] that are in them.
||
|| Well, in my case, I replaced my starches with more green vegetables,
|| and when that green vegetable happens to be spinach . . . let's just
|| say I never need ex-lax.
||
|| --
|| http://www.mindspring.com/~lunachick

Aha, now that makes sense!

--
Peter
Website: http://users.thelink.net/marengo

Susan wrote:
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|| Marengo wrote:
||
||| Why would low-carb cause diarrhea? I can't think of a reason,
||| although there are many reasons for the opposite.
|||
||| Most people when they begin low carb are not adding new foods to
||| their diet, they are merely cutting out certain foods. Is there
||| something about the sugar and starches that they gave up that was
||| preventing diarrhea?
|||
||| I have a feeling that the stomach cramps and diarrhea happen when
||| people new to low-carb start eating commercial low-carb substitutes
||| without even realizing the chemicals and [censored] that are in them.
|||
|||
||
|| No, Peter, I think it's more basic; often when folks undertake
|| radical dietary changes, their systems don't handle it well at
|| first. In fact, I recall a discussion in this group years ago where
|| folks agreed that diarrhea was a more common occurrence at first
|| than the constipation that low carb opponents predict.
||
|| Read the archives.
||
|| Susan

Well, I've learned something new. Michelle (Luna) had a good point too,
that some people eat more green vegetables when switching to low carb and
that can have that effect.
--
Peter
Website: http://users.thelink.net/marengo

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Marengo said:

Susan wrote:
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|| Marengo wrote:
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||| Why would low-carb cause diarrhea? I can't think of a reason,
||| although there are many reasons for the opposite.
|||
||| Most people when they begin low carb are not adding new foods to
||| their diet, they are merely cutting out certain foods. Is there
||| something about the sugar and starches that they gave up that was
||| preventing diarrhea?
|||
||| I have a feeling that the stomach cramps and diarrhea happen when
||| people new to low-carb start eating commercial low-carb substitutes
||| without even realizing the chemicals and [censored] that are in them.
|||
|||
||
|| No, Peter, I think it's more basic; often when folks undertake
|| radical dietary changes, their systems don't handle it well at
|| first. In fact, I recall a discussion in this group years ago where
|| folks agreed that diarrhea was a more common occurrence at first
|| than the constipation that low carb opponents predict.
||
|| Read the archives.
||
|| Susan

Well, I've learned something new. Michelle (Luna) had a good point too,
that some people eat more green vegetables when switching to low carb and
that can have that effect.

That makes perfectly good sense, especially if those are newly
introduced, I suspect.

Susan