OK, now I have a mini-rant. groan
Sorry, was that question for me? If so, Chimera’s reply confused me because I’m not a him. 
It did seem to help with some particular symptoms, but I had to add more fiber again when I started taking a medication with constipation as a common side effect. It’s always a fiddly balancing act between one extreme and the other, usually alternating between them both. At least it doesn’t feel like my guts are trying to escape through my abdominal wall anymore, which I suppose is progress.
I snorted too. I had to switch back to wholemeal bread after a while, though, because pure white bread was sending me too far in the non-movement direction. There was a whole host of other foods to either avoid entirely or severely moderate, so I’ve been trying to find the best combination of things to enjoy in moderation and things to avoid. Onions and garlic are on the ‘avoid’ list, which is unfortunate. I’ll avoid onions, but damned if I’ll stop eating garlic for any reason.
I am avoiding salads right now as the raw lettuce in large amounts seem to make it worse. I really like the weight loss, not being hungry all the time and my glucose at a reasonable level. 
when things are really bad (like after eating a taco salad) gasx helps a lot too.
Plantar fasciitis is the pits. The pain makes you reluctant to walk or run, so what with the lack of exercise, you start to gain weight, which exacerbates the plantar fasciitis.
I’m reluctant to go the boot route, because I understand it’s very hard to sleep with one on.
Does this stuff ever go away on its own? Or are you stuck with it forever?
To the dim bulb with whom I share a laundry room: I don’t care that you have only one basket and can’t get it all at once, if you leave your laundry in the dryer, done, and I need a dryer, I’m going to move your load to the folding table. I’m not going to wait ten minutes from when I get there, and who knows how long since it finished, to see if you’ll come back. This is one of the things that just is about a communal laundry area: people might touch your stuff. Either get over it, or go get a washer and dryer of your own.
Mine finally went away. Actually regular walking helped; even though it was a bit painful, most of my pain came while sitting not while walking. I used ice regularly and, most important and most difficult, stopped going barefoot on the hardwood floors. I’d estimate it took six or seven months to go away. I never used a boot. I did stretches before getting up and during the day, and used ice. Did I mention ice? Freeze a water bottle and roll it around with your foot. Good luck!
Hubby’s platelets are too low for chemo this week, so we wait a week to see if the count comes up. The good news is the leucocytes are down into the normal range, and he will probably have only one or two more treatments for this go-around. 
I guess that’s an anti-rant!
Mine also went away after about 6 months of vigilantly never going barefoot except in bed and the shower. All of what kayT says, plus what worked best for me was nothing but high arched shoes, and inserts (Dr. Scholl’s makes them for “heel pain” that worked well for me and could get them at Target) in shoes that didn’t have them built in. For me, the trail runners made by Vasque and the sandals and every day casual shoes by Chaco were the big lifesavers. I made a pair of “slippers” out of a pair of running shoes that I took the laces out of so I could schlep around the house in them and slip them on and off easily. I wear socks a lot because I don’t like the feeling of bare feet in the running shoes, but man did they help when I spent more than 20 minutes cooking or cleaning!
I understand the faciitis will come back if good arch support isn’t maintained. So yeah, I have a lot of “comfortable shoes” in my wardrobe these days (Chaco and Vasque), and two pair of dressy shoes by Earthies that will probably be it for a long time. I get most of my shoes at closeout prices from Sierra Trading Post, or I wouldn’t be able to afford them!
These days, I’m back to my regular slippers most of the time, and will switch to shoes or the old “running slippers” if I’m doing housework or long-prep cooking. I do very occasionally get a sore spot on one arch or the other that seems to indicate a day I may have overdone being barefoot and doing too much around the house without proper support. Once I wear shoes for another day, it goes away, but seems to me to indicate things really will recur if I’m not careful.
Orthotics and good shoes here–the fun comes from trying to find Mens 6EEE shoes.
Now if SAS would just make the Velcro straps 2cm longer…
Mine went away after I lost thirty lbs., but I did it by getting chronic pancreatitis, not a recommended way to do it. Maybe you could try swimming or bicycling. Even strength training could help I suppose. I’ve managed to keep the weight down because I started working in a more strenuous job and I started taking metformin to keep my blood sugar down.
So, I have an update. I didn’t hear from my doctor at all that Friday or through the weekend. I ended up going into work the following Monday where I started to feel sick again. I was thoroughly frustrated with myself but called my doctor at my sister’a behest. Turns out my results came in Monday morning. My doctor literally dug the results out of the mail when I called. And the results were abnormal. I got pre-eclampsia. I was induced Monday night and gave birth Tuesday a week ago.
I guess I should rant about something. So, I pit the upstairs neighbors. They must have about ten children up there at all times and walk around like elephants to make the amount of noise we hear in our apartment. At least they go to bed at reasonable hours.
…Congratulations on your baby…? :eek: 
You don’t sound very happy about it. “Oh, and then I had a baby, by the way.”
Hope you’re feeling… better?
Hoping maybe she’s just really tired.
Congrats Congrats Congrats on your new baby!
Congratulations on the little one!
For the love of all that’s holy, it’s SNEAK PEEK fer chrissakes!
I really want to reach through my monitor and strangle the dumb assholes who keep writing sneak peak as a stupid dumbass teaser. STOP IT!
Congrats on the new little one!
Oh my! I am very happy to have my little one. She’s beautiful and precious and tiny and wonderful. I’m frustrated with how it happened. Nothing went as expected and it feels like it was my fault for getting pre-eclampsia. She and I are both healthy though so I shouldn’t complain too much.
Congrats on baby!
I really need a less ludicrous job- or at least a boss with some concept of reasonable behaviour. I have a shift tonight at a hotel an hour’s drive away, and I don’t have the address yet. Texted the boss to ask for it, so I can look up a map, and get the reply saying to come in and get it… Wha?
I already had a 1 hour unpaid meeting about the work this weekend, And the office is 20 minutes drive away. There is no reason why he can’t just text me the freaking address, and I’m totally sick of the amount of unpaid extras he keeps asking me - and everyone else- to do.
I don’t get paid any travel allowance- hell, for one place he freaking charges for transport- which as I’ll have over 6 hours of driving (with my least favourite co-worker as a passenger) to do this weekend, really kind of sucks.
Bosses only get away with the bullshit when they have employees who let them. Put your foot down. Contact your state labor board for written material as to what part of transportation is your responsibility vs your employer’s. Start documenting and billing for vehicle use for business where appropriate, it sounds like not all if it is, but some might be. Getting clarification for the rules about it in your state will help with that. If you’re waged hourly, you have to be paid for that meeting. Period.