r/AskADoctor

I am not asking for medical advice.

31M

122lbs

5' 10"

Long story short, it feels like I'm playing Russian Roulete with my GI tract every day.

It already takes all day (not an exageration; the average bathroom trip for defecation exceeds 24 hour.) I make things as easy as possible for my gut. I don't eat fiber, greatly reducing the mass of stool that should be present (eating fiber mearly makes the trips take longer.) I regularly have to spend the majority of the trip flushing my large intestine with a 1L tap water enema- it refuses to clear out otherwise. I keep doing the enemas until the fluid comming out is clear (or slightly colored green or yellow from bile.)

After a few enemas come out clear, I'll stop and sit on the toilet for another hour to let any and all water drain. Upon getting out, I pop three Imodium tablets (3x 2mg loparmide hcl) before eating dry puffed rice cereal to absorb any remaining moisture.

However, despite all this, my large intestine has been creating stool and forcing it to fly through it before leaking- often times less than eight hours after I got off the toilet.

I eat a gluten free (I have celiac disease,) low FODMAP, lactose free diet.

For example, I got off tge toilet two trips ago having spent 31 hours in. Five houts later, I was back in. My diet in between was 1/5 box of (gluten free) dry puffed rice cereal, ywo slices of butter bread, a few slices of American cheese (I took Lactaid before,) a single serve pack of York peppermint patties, and a 1/5 box of puffed rice cereal with lactose free milk.

What is going on here? I want my life back.

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