r/digestiveissues

My daughter had not had any mobility for a week after she took one dose of mirlax , nothing stool softeners, and nothing then when several rounds of doing an enema , produced nothing but brown water she drank a bottle of magnesium citrate, which resulted in a terrible night going with lots of watery stool nothing solid, lots of gas, it’s been a day and she says that her digestive has restarted, what does she try next and has anyone worked with getting colonics for this?

Can anybody help me ? I’ve had constant stomach rumbling, gurgling, churning for the last 3 months everyday.. it wakes me up In the night… if it doesn’t I usually wake and as soon as I open my eyes it will start and then I go to the bathroom and have 1 loose bowel movement and that’s it for the day previously I used to go maybe 3/4 day with normal log shaped stools.. now I can only go once a day I feel a build up of gas in my stomach as the day goes on the more that I eat the worse I feel my stomach gurgles and churns throughout the whole day it’s got to the point where I eat and then off into a room on my own I don’t want to sit with my family I feel embarrassed I feel like I’m failing my children as I can’t be the mum I want to be. The first doctor I seen put me on antidepressants sertraline which I hated the side effects and quit after a week the second doctor done stool tests and bloods and all that I’ve heard so far is that my liver function is high and needs test repeated in 2 weeks .. also awaiting my celiac screen results Any help greatly appreciated spending my days googling and searching for advise in between episodes of crying and praying 🙏

So i had breakfast in the morning. It was normal breakfast (oat bread, omelette egg and milk tea). One hour after breakfast I was fine, but after that i felt I'm going (literally i had a severe panic attack), fingers tickling, pale hands and heaviness in eyes, head and upper face

I had few burps in between, and slight bowel movement but i couldn't do that since i was in meeting.

I also felt numbness in fingers

Don't know what's happening but it's far worse and I'm quite convinced it's something related to gastric things

If it doesn't settle, I'm gonna visit ER

passed a stool earlier which was pathetic just 2 little nugget like shaped, normal colour but looked like they had dark bits in them? almost raisin colour and shape and size. is this normal i’m scared of a GI bleed or the C

Hey all,

I honestly know I’m probably not going to get any answers from Reddit, but I think I just need to get this off my chest because it’s been stressing me out for the last 6 weeks.
I’ve had blood in my stool for around 6 weeks now. I’ve had blood tests which showed inflammation, but my stool tests came back negative for infection, parasites and viruses.
I ended up in the ER and had a CT scan, which was clear apart from them saying it basically looked like I had diarrhoea. I also had a flexi-sig and proctoscopy, and they said my colon looked inflamed.

The weird thing is that the blood is mostly at the end of the stool rather than mixed throughout it. When I wipe, it’s more of a pinkish colour (it was bright red for the first 3 weeks) with what looks like mucus.
Then, about 3.5 weeks after the bleeding started, I noticed a lump around my perineum/anal area. I went to the doctor and he said it was an external haemorrhoid. I was given antibiotics and Proctosedyl. The lump has pretty much disappeared now, and I actually noticed it got noticeably smaller after I had some bleeding from it. So I’m assuming that’s probably a separate issue, although who knows at this point.

The good news is that things have definitely improved. I was initially going to the toilet around 4–6 times a day and that’s now down to about 2–3. The bleeding also completely stopped for about a week.
And then, of course, it started again.

I’m currently on holiday, drinking more alcohol than usual and definitely drinking less water than I normally would, so maybe that’s contributing, but it’s just frustrating to finally think things were settling down and then see blood again.

For the most part stool is runny/liquidy.

I’m not really looking for anyone to diagnose me. I just needed somewhere to vent because 6 weeks of seeing blood every time you go to the toilet is pretty damn stressful, especially when you’ve had multiple tests and still don’t really know what’s going on.
Hopefully the upcoming follow-up/colonoscopy in a few months gives me some actual answers because I’m getting pretty tired of wondering what the hell is going on.

Last Saturday (8/8) I visited an urgent care after experiencing two weeks of functional constipation. They did an xray and found a “moderate to large” stool burden. The doctor recommended miralax that day and the next, and a fleet enema. The first enema produced a small volume of liquid stool, and the second produced a larger volume of liquid stool. Nothing solid, and not all that significant in volume. I stopped the miralax after, as recommended by a nurses’ line.

That Monday-now, I’ve followed a low residue diet (rice pasta, white rice, rice chex, plain tofu, “JUST egg,” plain cheerios, sugar popsicles). This was also suggested by the nurses’ line. On Monday, I had no bowel movements. I called the urgent care doctor, who recommended a fiber supplement and high fiber intake immediately. At this point I was still feeling very full and bloated. I did not follow his recommendation. He seemed rushed and to have not cared.

On Tuesday and Wednesday, I had bowel movements after my morning black coffee. They were small, fragmented pieces of stool. On the softer side. Small in size. On Thursday, I passed a small dense piece. Very dense. Immediately following, I passed a pile of thick dense liquid “muddy” stool. Not a ton, but a significant amount.

On Friday & Saturday, I passed very dense solid pieces of stool twice a day. They were SMALL. And hard to pass—lots of straining. On Sunday, nothing. So I contacted an urgent care telehealth doc. He recxomended fruits & veggies—specifically spinach and prunes. And to start up the Miralax, which I did.

What should I do? I’m nervous to add fruits & veggies because it appears I have a blockage of hard stool, presumably from the burden. I was on low residue to not add to the burden. I’m conflicted!!! Please help!!!!

I am not asking for medical advice. I’m 23F and I’ve been dealing with ongoing bowel issues for months, and I’m honestly getting frustrated because I’m still having diarrhea basically every day.
It started with alternating constipation for a day or two followed by diarrhea, but over time it became much more frequent diarrhea. At this point, I’m typically having 4**–6 bowel movements a day**, sometimes more.
The diarrhea is usually watery/chunky, and one of the strangest things is that I often have to go about 7 minutes after eating. Then I’ll have to go multiple times afterward.
I also get lower abdominal pain on both sides, but mainly on the right side. Occasionally the pain seems to radiate down into my right thigh.
I’ve had some lab work done, including testing for celiac disease and pancreatic function:
tTG IgA: <1.0 U/mL — negative
tTG IgG: <1.0 U/mL — negative
DGP IgA: 1.1 — negative
DGP IgG: <1.0 U/mL — negative
Amylase: 63 U/L normal range 30–110
I also had two CT scans done — the first one showed I was constipated, and the second one came back completely normal.
So far, the celiac testing was negative and my amylase was normal.
I’m still having diarrhea every day, though, and I’m trying to figure out what could be causing it. Has anyone experienced something similar or gone through a similar workup?
What tests or conditions did your doctor/GI look into after celiac disease was ruled out? I’d especially appreciate hearing from anyone who had chronic diarrhea that happened shortly after eating.
I know Reddit can’t diagnose me, and I’m continuing to work with my doctor, but I’d really appreciate hearing about other people’s experiences and what ended up being the cause for them.