u/Tip-Evening

I've had chronic bowel problems ever since a bout of food poisoning.

I've been diagnosed with pelvic floor dysfunction, anal hypertonia, and dyssynergic defecation.

Some days, I have “good” bowel movements, and the stool comes out fairly easily.

Other days, my stool has a “peanut butter” consistency, and it's hell. I have a constant feeling of incomplete evacuation, extreme rectal pain, and the sensation that I'm pushing against a “wall.” It's very difficult to finally feel fully emptied.

For example, two days ago, I didn't have a bowel movement because I didn't feel the urge. The next day, I started experiencing bloating, fatigue, and so on. Today, I had to have five bowel movements and use water enemas to empty my bowels, and it was very painful.

I don't understand why it's sometimes easy to pass stool and other times completely unmanageable. The only difference I can identify is the stool consistency, I eat the same things every day.

I haven’t found ANY way to make my stools firmer. I’ve tried fiber, supplements, and specific foods, but nothing works. Occasionally, I have weeks with several firm, well-formed stools, but that’s extremely rare. When it does happen, they’re easy to pass.

For the other 300 days of the year, my stools are sticky and impossible to pass.

Hello

Can those create terrible pain in the anal conduit?

I'm struggling with debiliating pain since now 6years.

I have no fissure, and hemoroids are really small.

I'm still dealing with biofeedback.

The pain can be 8-9/10, especially if the stool is loose.

I went to the hospital multiple times because of it.

Worse is when the stool is mushy & sticky (peanut butter) and get stucks in my rectum while burning, and then I need 6-8 bowel movements to finally feel empty, however during the whole process my anus is burning inside, it's a real torture.

Could it simply come from the hypertonia? Everything started after a food poisoning that gave me a diarhea so huge i was afraid to poop, and since I'm broken

Hello,

For the past six years, I have been experiencing incomplete bowel movements.

It is very rare for me to feel relieved after having a bowel movement. I almost constantly feel a sense of heaviness in my bowels.

When my stools are soft or sticky, I struggle to pass them. Despite eating a healthy diet, they stick like peanut butter.

I recently added psyllium husk again, this is my fifth attempt over several years. I started very gradually, with 1 gram, then 2 grams, and now 2.5 grams.

It helped at first, but it already seems to have stopped working, and my stools are soft again.

I am currently undergoing biofeedback therapy, but I have not noticed much improvement yet. I feel as though I have to strain hard for only a small amount of stool to come out.

When my stools are well-formed and firm, however, the urge is much clearer, and I can pass them without too much difficulty.

I already use a Squatty Potty. Has anyone experienced a significant improvement with psyllium, and if so, what dose worked for you?

I have been diagnosed with anorectal dyssynergia, a hypertonic pelvic floor, and anal hypertonia.

Thank you.

Can I increase the dose now?

5/08/2026 --> 14/08/2026 : 1.5gr

15/08--->25/08 : 2gr

I wanted to increase to 3gr, with like 2gr at lunch, 1gr at diner? (Instead of taking 3gr at lunch)

Let me know your experience (I did read tons of post already about it)

IBS-M

Thank you

Because I finally find people who encounter the exact same issue than me, until I notice that it's my own post of 4 years ago

I can't believe nothing really improved in close to 6 years

6 years without being able to go out with my friends, to travel, or to live basically

My life has been stolen

Hello

I did try psyllium as powder multiple times.

1gr --> 2gr --> 3gr (And never been able to take more because I was feeling worse).

I wanted to try the capsule because most people take it under that form and say that it helped tremendously.

However, I’m not getting the effect I was hoping for... I'm taking them since now 12 days. (I started with 3 capsules, I take now 4 after 10 days)

I take psyllium to make my stools a little firmer and better formed, and to help with the incomplete evacuation. My overall diet is kinda poor in fibers (Because I barely tolerate them)

However, the psyllium doesn’t seem to mix properly with the stool. I can just see gelatinous clumps inside the stool, but the stool itself isn’t really “coated” or bound together, so it remains pasty and soft.

I drink 250 mL of water with 4 capsules (4 × 500 mg) with my lunch, and I drink approximately 2–2.5 L of water per day.

Any reason the psyllium is not "mixing" correctly with the stools?

Thank you

Hello

Since 5 years I have extrem pain when pooping (but only when the stool is lose).

It gives me a harsh burning feeling in the anal conduit.

The doctors found nothing except a moderate anitis.

Even only the finger of the physiotherapist provocates a sharp pain

I have no fissure. I have defecation dysinergia & anal hypertonia diagnosed.

Thank you

I have been taking 3 pills (500mgr) so 1.5gr in total since 10 days

I have seen some bloating and sometime improvements, Is it time to increase the dosage?

How to know when to increase?

Thank you

I did add the same settings advised on youtube...

However the quality is awful, my friends cannot understand me clearly

Thank you

(sometime restarting the microphone/discord) seems to solve partially the issue temporary

Hello

Do you have this issue too?

I don't have a fissure, proctologist found nothing.

Ofc the pain ended leading to pelvic floor issue because of the hypertonia from the pain.

But I'm still trying to understand how a simple gas can cause such pain

I was positive to hydrogen.

I took some supplements to treat it.

I'm now negative to sibo hydrogen.

Not a single symptome improved (Poops, pain, bloating, burning etc)

-1gr a day
-2gr a day

-5gr + a day?

I got decent results with 2gr a day until it stopped working, I tried to increase slowly from there but it just went worse.

Let me know what helped for you

She said to continue the Biofeedback (for my Pelvic issues) but that at the level of the gastro, nothing could be done (all tests came back clean).

I keep having incomplete evacuation of loose stools.

The discomfort feeling is 90% of the time under the belly button until a flare up.

Anything that could be done beside the biofeedback?

Thank you

Hello

I was feeling ""ok"" since 10-14 days

I ate maybe 10gr of lettuce 48h ago.

Then this lunch I ate it again, maybe 20-30gr.

4hours later I keep burping, I have cramps, I went to toilets 2 times, I feel a bit nauseous, Tired, got huge anxiety without any reason.

Could it be such a little dose of lettuce?

Thank you

When I take fibers (like psyllium & others), it gives me loose stools or it has no effects (I tried to increase the dosage slowly during years without it working).

I tried some laxatives but it makes everything worse.

My transit slows downs, then ferments, and then I have a flare up

Right now I can feel the stools & the pressure in my sigmoid colon (I went not enough to toilets last 3 days). When I go it's mainly incomplete evacuation.

I can't deny that I'm too sedentary because of my job.

I tried sunfiber too and some others

Thanks

I slept 8 hours but woke up with headache, tiredness, brainfog and swollen eyes.

Of course, when I went to toilets, it was those sticky yellowish stools that are soft but extremly hard to pass, this leads to incomplete evacuation & burning feeling.

It's quite amusing, because my entire health is directly linked to my gut, these symptoms that precede a bowel movement are directly correlated to the state of my stool.

I've observed this hundreds of times over the past five years. Once the bowel movement is complete (in several stages), the headache disappears, my mind clears, and my fatigue diminishes.

It is like my whole body & system was fully empoisoned.

Hello,

I moved here 9 months ago.

For the past 9 months, my neighbor’s dog has been barking every single day. It prevents me from working, I am woken up every morning by the barking, and I can no longer take naps during the day.

I have already spoken to the owner about it, but he claimed that his dog does not bark much.

The previous tenant of the place where I live had already complained about the dog as well, and my other neighbor confirmed this too.

Despite this, the mediator told me that she could not do anything, and that the officers who came by 2 or 3 times did not witness any excessive barking.

I eventually recorded the barking with a camera, and sometimes it goes on for more than 3 hours without stopping. I have counted thousands of barks.

Despite all this, the police have been of no help.

The situation has already escalated several times with the neighbor. It is ruining my life. I already have serious health problems, and not being able to sleep makes everything even worse.

Thank you.

It has been 7 months.

I got enough time to understand why she left after 5 years.

I know that most part is my fault, I try to be gentle to myself because I have my own burdens that obviously impact the way I was with her and other people.

But it's hard because it shows how bad this relationship has been wasted. She left crying, unable to tell me farewell, but her silence says a lot about us.

Even thought I mattered for her, even thought she loved me, she is gone & silent since 6 months.

Maybe to protect me, maybe to protect her, whatever the reason, the result is the same. The guilt & the pain remains despite the time is passing

Wondering when it will gets better 🫥

Hello,

I'll try to keep this brief.

For more than 10 years, my 40-year-old brother has been suffering from chronic back pain. It started seemingly at random and has only gotten worse over time.

In addition to that, part of his back has become numb.

His pain is described as burning and electric-shock-like, and it often makes him scream in agony. The affected areas of his back seem to be expanding over the years. Even something as simple as wearing a T-shirt can trigger severe pain episodes, as can walking on hard surfaces.

He can no longer move around normally, sit comfortably, or carry things.

Neurologists and pain clinics have been unable to find any explanation or effective treatment.

He also eventually developed epilepsy. When he has seizures, we almost always have to call an ambulance because they do not stop on their own.

He is already being treated for epilepsy with multiple medications, which cause numerous side effects.

He simply no longer has a life. We live in Belgium, and he has seen virtually every specialist and expert in the region.

He thinks that he has the small fibers neuropathy but the doctors refused to do the biopsy..

Thank you.