IBS?
Hi! I am currently 20 years old and I have been having weird symptoms lately. I am completely driving myself insane by reading scary experiences of certain illnesses online as I share so many symptoms. I have always had a tendency to be constipated since I was young (I only go once a week.. sometimes twice.) Last month I was constipated for 10 days, I kept using Miralax but it wouldn’t pass, I wasn’t even bloated I felt completely fine I could eat no nausea, I didn’t even have the ‘urge’ to go, I only remembered I didn’t go for so long which led me to count the days. I got a suppository laxative from my doctor (Dulcolax) and I will spare you guys the details on that.
But ever since then, I’ve been having such weird stool, there’s no shape in it or just thin and long (like thin snakes). I go once a day now (which is a sort of good thing, as it’s not constipation) but it’s very little for what I eat. I don’t see any blood in it, it’s just not really what normal stool should look like. I did take powder stool softeners and quit with it but it’s not changing. This is not normal for me.
I want to go to the doctor, but I fear they will not take me serious (I have health anxiety and he knows that), and that they’ll say it’s from the Dulcolax. Does anyone else recognise anything in this story? should I ask for a referal to an GI doctor? or maybe I am stressing for no reason and wait it out? I don’t experience any pain, just bloating, but I am scared I have some tumor blocking the way and causing all of this. Also, I do not have an IBS diagnosis but my dad does which is why I thought the IBS forum would be a good place.
Very TMI I am sorry! thank you for reading :)