I am sorry to read what you are going through. My sister is going through the same exact issues and emotions. I wish you both could encourage each other somehow. Her name is ***this post is edited by moderator ***. Her number is ***this post is edited by moderator ***. I am taking her for another appt. tomorrow to a PT that treats what they call levator syndrome. She has been through a year of hell and about 6 dr's and therapists-it is crazy.Hoping you can connect. God Bless.
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I have the same problem as a lot of you. I am a 46-year-old man from England. This has been with me for over three years on and off, I did not know how to describe it and just said I was 'bunged up'. It happens after a BM or a couple of hours after and I really feel like I need to go and I've been holding it, but then when I tried to go I cannot and when I am sat on the toilet of stood up the feeling almost completely goes until I sit down again. I have tried sitting on 'special' cushions and they sometimes help, and sitting on one buttock can help as well, but really, I can only do that at home and not at work. I did not have this problem for 11 days a few months ago, I figured this was because I was working in a different department at work (to cover holiday) and was stood almost all the time, but then after going back to my usual job the pressure came back. I can go to bed with this feeling and when I get up in the morning I feel okay until I have a BM. I assume If it was anything very serious like cancer I would be dead by now given the number of years I have had these symptoms. Farting helps temporarily. My diet is not bad, but there is not really any variety and I am not enjoying work or life in general, so being unhappy probably makes it worse. Sometimes I can have a lot of white mucus with my stools, but that is not always a bad thing. The doc diagnosed IBS many, many years ago, but really I think that term is used much too often and really it is difficult say with certainty that I do have it, I probably do though, sometimes by stools are very loose (mostly when I worry or am stressed), someone they float, mostly then sink, sometimes they pass very easy and other times I strain (I know I should not), sometimes they are long and soft and other times they are lumpy and just like big pebbles. I year or so I guess I started to empty my bowels in the squat position. You can buy special foot stools that a shaped around the toilet to raise the height of your legs and that makes emptying my bowels much easier but I now think I cannot empty them the 'normal' way (such as at work). I don't use one though, I use an upside washing up bowl because with other think you really need to take off your lower clothes due to the space between each foot. If anything has issues passing stools this might help.