I know you’re awake.
It’s 3:12 AM. The house is dead silent. You’re lying on your back, staring at the ceiling, hands pressed gingerly against your stomach.
It feels hard. Distended. Like there’s a bowling ball sitting in your gut.
You’re doing the mental math. Was it Tuesday? No, maybe Sunday... when was the last time I actually went?
The Nightmare Scenario:
You reach for your phone. You type it into Google again. You see the words "Gastroparesis." You see "Ileus." You see horror stories about obstructions and emergency surgeries.
You feel that cold spike of adrenaline. But you don’t call the doctor. You can’t call the doctor.
Because you know exactly what they’ll say: “We need to take you off the medication.”
And that is the one thing you cannot handle. You’ve finally found the miracle. The "Food Noise" is gone. The weight is melting off. You fit in those jeans you haven't worn since 2018. You are not going back to the hunger. You are not going back to the shame.
So you suffer in silence. You bargain with God. You drink more water. And you take the fiber supplement your doctor recommended.
Here is the ugly truth that no one told you: That "healthy fiber" you’re taking? It’s cementing your bowels shut.
The "Fiber Industrial Complex" Is Lying To You
Listen to me closely. The rules of digestion have changed. Your body on GLP-1 is not the same body you had six months ago.
These drugs work by delayed gastric emptying. They paralyze your stomach muscles to keep food there longer, so you feel full. In a normal gut, traditional fiber like Psyllium Husk (Metamucil) acts like a sponge. It absorbs water, swells up into a gel, and pushes things through.
But in a GLP-1 gut, there is no push.
The Physics Problem
Paralyzed Gut
Tunnel Blocked
Bulk Fiber
More Cars
Disaster
Total Blockage
When you dump that high-viscosity "Orange Sludge" into a paralyzed stomach, it doesn't move. It sits there. It absorbs every drop of moisture in your stomach until it turns into a dry, impacted plug.
You aren't treating the blockage. You are building the dam.
The "Gummy Trap" & Sulfur Burps
Maybe you switched to the gummies. The "gentle" option. Bad move. Most of those are made with Inulin (Chicory Root). That’s a fermentable fiber.
Because your digestion is slowed to a crawl, that gummy sits in your intestine for days, fermenting like a compost heap in the hot sun.
That’s where the Sulfur Burps come from. It’s not the drug causing that smell. It’s the rotting, fermenting gas from the wrong fiber sitting in your gut.
You need 35 gummies to equal the motility power of 1 Stick. Stop buying candy.
The "Chemical Nuke" (Miralax)
So your doctor told you to just take Miralax. Do you know what that is? It is a synthetic chemical chain (PEG 3350). It forces water into the bowel, yes. But it ignores the root cause.
Remember: Your stomach is paralyzed. Miralax adds volume, but it provides zero motility. The result? The "Water Balloon Effect." You feel liquid sloshing around in your gut, but nothing moves.
This is not "side effects." This is torture. And it's unnecessary.
