Thursday, July 24, 2008

Prunes (warning, TMI)

I don't know why, exactly, but prunes have never delivered their promised results for me until recently. I purposely ate 5-7 of them, hoping to achieve regularity after traveling. They worked! By that evening I had a successful bathroom trip. The only problem is that they give me really bad gas. I used to have gas frequently before I had my surgery. Since surgery I don't have gas very often at all. I think part of it must have been that the huge amounts of sugar I was consuming was wreaking havoc on my system, including making me gassy.

If I'm going to continue using prunes as a laxative, I think I need to reduce the number I eat to about 3 and see how that works.

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