Hi 3rdtimelucky,

Congrats on your PG, and it's nice to see someone else with FM!!! Well firstly, there's good news! I found that in second & third trimester my bloating definitely got better which was nice, so hopefully it will improve for you too. I think that later in the PG, the FM was definitely a bit better than usual, given the digestive tract slows down such a lot - it seemed to help it. I also found I had to have metamucil which I never normally have to go near, so that was a change for me. I've always been prone to diahrroea with my FM, so tending towards constipation was novel!

You have my sympathy on the bloating, it's a PITA! I don't know how much I bloated later on, but I showed very early and was big early... but then plateaued through the middle, and for once in my life didn't have to worry about bloating!!!! In retrospect I wish I'd tried a few more probiotics, but otherwise, it was all ok, oh and I love maternity clothes - i'm always prone to bloating and live in elastic waistbands, so the trousers were bliss! As for hiding it... GL! I had a taxi driver think I was 6 mths PG when I was only 8 weeks, so clearly I wasn't doing a very good job.

What do you find normally helps your FM if you're having trouble? Or do you just "ride out the storm", so to speak?

Cheers,
Belfie