Sarah Burgin Health

I have been using the Bearable app for around 3 months now to track subjective symptoms across the month, and factors from my day such as sleep, time outside and bowel movements. Initially this was prep and testing for my dietary comparison dissertation, which I have sadly had to pull due to circumstances outside of my control, but I intend to continue to track.

One thing that I have become acutely aware of so far, is my bowels! Dietitians love a good poo chat, so work with me 😂. What I have noticed is that mine are definitely not optimal and I have an incling that it may be related to fibre and the fact that I eat a LOT!

Unfortunately, I haven’t been as fastidious about my diet tracking in that time so I can’t totally account for that yet, but on a very small scale experiment it does seem to fit. Yesterday I ate almost 50g of fibre and this mornings elimination could have done better on the Bristol chart! Whilst it’s not wildly extreme, maybe it’s just too much for me these days.

As a female, our bowels can sway with our menstrual cycle, so I need to pay closer attention for a month or so and see what occurs. This could simply be my body and the hormones still adjust from stopping using topical progesterone around 3-4 months ago. My cycle is definitely still not back to what it was, that’s for sure.