How much fiber is too much? Since I've had the fissure, I've been focused on getting enough fiber and water. I was already eating lots of veggies, so the fiber doesn't make me gassy. Now I'm wondering if the fiber is bulking up my stool too much, causing the BM to be too large and hard to pass, which irritate my hems worse than my fissure which only hurts during BM. Hems hurt all day for 6-8 hours after BM.
I put my food into fitday.com and it turns out I got around 43 grams of fiber from foods alone yesterday, not including the tablespoon of citrucel I take after lunch.
Should I cut the fiber back to around 25 grams? Or eliminate the citrucel? I'm so scared of getting constipated, which is what caused this bloody thing to retear in the first place.