Hey all! Super awkward for me to talk about but I feel like I’m losing my mind as to what is normal and if I have IBS?
I have maybe 1-2 normal stools every few weeks. I typically have diarrhea everyday and have occasional bloating/gas pains every now and then, usually at night.
I’m waiting on my stool samples to be tested at the doctor but I’m losing weight and unable to gain any either and I feel like it’s due to everything going right through me at least once a day.
Does anyone with IBS have these symptoms? TYIA.

I'm pretty good with medications and supplements in general but when it gets to gut health its all a blur because I dont even know what iI'm fighting.

I new a girl who took probiotics but it ended up worsening her gut biome because she had something growing in there that she was unknowingly feeding.

Any tips on where to start or pros and cons of different types of supplements.

Spill your knowledge I love to learn so I'll read any essay you post!

I'm 15F, and my symptoms started around a month ago. Very small hard to pass poo in mostly thin pieces that took effort and lots of time to pass. Some mucus when I wiped sometimes. Then came the normal stool for two days max and then the same thing repeats itself again and again and again. I'm slowly adding fibre to my diet because a week before this happened I started to diet and cut out things like bread, which was my main source of daily fiber as I ate a lot in one day. (Like 4 pieces of 50/50 bread every day)I sometimes feel a sense of incomplete evacuation but there's nothing there most of the time and it takes effort for gas to come out too sometimes. I'm around 162 cm in height, 48 - 54 kg in weight, and it's been a fricking month and I just want to go to a doctor or smth and find out if it's anything serious like cancer or IBS, but my parents say it's nothing serious and are telling me to eat more food, especially fibre and that this started because of my diet and I'm drinking less water than usual. The water part isn't true though. They won't take me to a doctor because they think the doctor won't do anything. What do I do? Please, I actually can't live like this anymore.

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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.

I (F20) French. Has been dealing with a sickness that doctors can’t even tell what is wrong. And it's frustrating. Because I take my meds like they ask. And that thing sleeps for like a week and then came back !?

My symptomes: Beating in my stomach & intestins (like heartbeats), a thin line between uncomfort and pain in my eusophage. I loose appetite often. I wake up shivering to go puke nothing minutes later. Diareah with it. (Else it wouldn’t be fun). 2 days of constipation. Headacks. Sensibility to strong smells (like bad disgusting ones). Sensitive to touch on my stomach and intestins.

And as a Girl i have periods. Well those periods reanimate this sickness as well !

For the long story :

My pain started at 17years old. Where morning and bedtimes were horrible because I had my stomach that had some sort of contraction pain. Went to the doc. He gave me 1 month of omeprazole. It worked. I was fine for about half a year.

I move to my grandparents house. Same thing. But new symptomes. Headacks (fever possibly but they got no thermostat to check.) Doc again. Same medication. One month. Gone. Then I had the phobia of school cause my school sucked. So it reanimated it with new symptomes. Diareah every morning of the week except weekends. To a point where I did an anxiety attack in the bus.

Changed school now. Everything went back to normal as well as some new meds. Gaviscon who are really efficient.

And now !? Its back WITH NEW SYMPTOMES !? Puking which is the most annoying of all.

Tests I did :

\- Poo cell : came back negative.

\- 3 bloodtest : all came back negative.

\- A Camera passed throught my nose to my stomach : negative.

\- Echographie (the Xray to check for a baby) : negative.

On paper I am fine. But really. It's a hell. Class started a month ago ! And I already have 4 or 5 abcence already !? And I'm doing something I like and look foward to go to school for.

Theory:

\- long intestins : family thing.

\- Sensible stomach : not too sure but possible.

\- stress : I can stress a lot but I am aware of my own body and It is not related to "school or being afraid of people" like my grandpa says. Or else they are the reason of the stress !?

Also: i don’g drink, i don’t smoke. I don't drink energy or coffee drinks. Neither for tea.

I just don't understand what is wrong with me !? I am even on a sensible stomach diet. Which did lowered The pain since I'm 18. but it is still not enough. If anyone has similar stuff please. Tell me the tests you've done so I can perhaps ask a doctor for them.

My son recovered from a stomach bug a few weeks ago but his digestion still seems unsettled. He complains about occasional bloating, his bathroom habits are less predictable and some foods suddenly seem to bother him. Nothing appears urgent but his stomach hasn’t returned to its usual routine. Has anyone experienced this after an illness and what helped things feel normal again?

Feeling bloated and gross but I’m not buying another pill what can I do tonight to fix this?