Constipation management, with a dietitian's contribution

Summarising the constipation management thread so far, since it is long and the answer is buried: the first reply has the method, the fourth has the correction to it, and the rest is people agreeing at length.

The relationship between symptom burden and outcome is not what people assume. Feeling worse is not evidence of a larger effect and feeling nothing is not evidence of an inactive preparation.

I would put the burden of proof on the interesting explanation, not the dull one.

The arithmetic in post #41 is right; the assumption feeding it is the part to check.

An observation about constipation management that I cannot explain and am posting anyway, on the principle that unexplained observations are more useful public than private.

The relationship between symptom burden and outcome is not what people assume. Feeling worse is not evidence of a larger effect and feeling nothing is not evidence of an inactive preparation.

Worth separating two things that post #62 runs together.

Reading back through the constipation management threads from last year, the same three questions come up every time and only one of them has ever been answered properly. That seems like a documentation gap rather than a knowledge gap.

Trying to state the constipation management position in a way that someone who disagrees would recognise as fair, because I do not think the version in this thread passes that test.

I had written a reply contradicting post #75 and deleted it. Here is what survived.

Constipation is reported at least as often as nausea and is discussed a fraction as much. Fluid, fibre and movement are the boring answers and they are the ones that work.

Adding a note of thanks rather than an opinion. I did not know most of that.