What is Flaxseed?
Flax seeds contain high levels of lignans and Omega-3 fatty acids. Lignans may benefit the heart, possess anti-cancer properties and studies performed on mice found reduced growth in specific types of tumors.
Reasons taken & Efficacy
| Reasons taken | # of patients | Major | Moderate | Slight | None | Can’t tell | # of patients evaluated by |
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| Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS) | 8 |
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3 | |||
| General health | 7 |
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2 | |||
| Constipation | 4 |
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2 | |||
| Support another treatment | 3 | 0 | |||||
| Other | 3 |
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2 | ||||
| Eyes dry | 1 | 0 |
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Dosages
Top 10 dosages based on patients currently taking Flaxseed. See all 15 dosages ►
Stop Reasons
| Reason | # Patients | Percentage of patients | |
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Did not seem to work
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1 | 50% |
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Expense
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1 | 50% |
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Other
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1 | 50% |
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Adherence, Burden & Cost See details from patient evaluations ▼
Patient Evaluations
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- itsnotmummy
- Sex: F
- Pain: Some
- Fatigue: Most
- Sleep: Little
- Stiffness: All
- function: Little
- external_stress: Some
- Stickman: most
- Description:F50y
- FM:6y Dx
- See profile
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- itsnotmummy
- 2 tbs. daily
- since Dec 07, 2008
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Efficacy
Moderate
for Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS)
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Side Effects
None
- Advice/Tips helped with regularity and colestoral See full evaluation
See all 8 patient evaluations
Report created on November 22, 2009.