One other thing I didn’t think to mention in the post above is that I used to think of fiber as one category, so if I was eating something “high fiber” like vegetables or oats, I wouldn’t take psyllium since “I’m already getting fiber”, and then I’d feel worse. Since reading this, I’m taking psyllium with my oats and it improved the experience a lot (since the psyllium helps counteract the irritating effects of the insoluble fiber in oats).
Oh I see, that makes sense. In retrospect that is a little obvious that you don’t have to choose one or the other :)
One other thing I didn’t think to mention in the post above is that I used to think of fiber as one category, so if I was eating something “high fiber” like vegetables or oats, I wouldn’t take psyllium since “I’m already getting fiber”, and then I’d feel worse. Since reading this, I’m taking psyllium with my oats and it improved the experience a lot (since the psyllium helps counteract the irritating effects of the insoluble fiber in oats).