i have constant diarhea

Howdy,

three years ago I also had contanst diarrhea - for about a year. It was happening 2-3 times or more a day, and I was also scareed to go anywhere because of loss of control. I went to several doctors, and they did tons of tests, and said I was healthy. Then my doctor recommended a psychiatrist - and I went - and he said it seems like I was having exorbent amounts of stress - related to my boss - and well.. that month I quit work (for other reasons), that very week - my diarrhea stopped!

So stress can lead to physcial problems - don't forget to check htat out!

I was misdiagnosed with IBS many times by useless doctors but in the end discovered by myself that I was lactose intolerant. This gives intestinal cramps and diarrhea and by the way it gets worse with age. If you have bloating and other IBS symptoms cut out dairy and see if that helps it did for me.

Wow ! I thought I was alone but now I feel better. It all started when Bush got elected. The mention of weapons of mass destruction unleashed a load right in my pants.
The other day I watched the presidential candidates and realized they had a bigger problem as they are more full of fecal matter than me and that worries me.

After being to several doctors with no luck in a diagnosis, I finally started to get some relief through a change in my diet and more exercise. I've also found that I am particularly sensitive to greasy, "fast-food" type foods. Life for me has become days of trial-and-error to see what sort of foods irritate my condition.

There are some fairly good guides to a healthy foods that I've found help alleviate my IBS symptoms.

Anyone successfully changed their diet and gone on to have "normal" bowel movements? Any other good books you can suggest I check out?

i am a 21 yr old male and for the past 6 months i have had constant diarrhea. at first i thought it was just something i was eating but now it doesnt matter what i eat i end up in the bathroom for sometimes a long period of time. i have not been to my doctor yet but i plan to make an appointment soon. somedays are better than others and sometimes i dont have it at all but when i do it is really annoying because i usually have to go to the bathroom at least once an hour even if i just drink a glass of water. i also wake up the same time everyday almost because of stomach cramps and once i go to the bathroom they go away for about an hour. Is there anything i can do for this until i see my doctor??

Keep drinking the water, otherwise you might get dehydrated. I just started having diarrhea. It comes back to me like every 10 mins, But right now it has stopped for a while.

Hi i ve been experiencing diarrhea for 1 week or so, its not normal normal diarrhea but plain watery and yellowish. i had never had period pains or anything, and can always control my diarrhea (meaning i can hold it in or go when i want to). I ve had no pain with this diarrhea, but sometimes it is green, which freaks me out . I havent had a normal stool all week, ... so...


i understand that my body is intolerant to fat, i ve got nothing against milk, lactose or anything, its not close to that time of the month either, and i havent been eating much or enough fibre lately so... it should be constipation not diarrhea im getting.. i just dont know whats wrong.

I have done this for 3 years, i can't take it any more

I agree with guest on probiotics. doctors will just say its irritable bowl syndrome. what's that? its just a generalization for constant runny stools. they'll give you a prescription or something. bottom line is the way the system works is they make money by not curing you.

goto your local health foods store/co-op/vitamin shop whatever, ask a clerk there (most of them hire very knowledgable people) or buy the book "prescription for nutritional healing" or something like it. get what enzymes or probiotics that are listed to rid any bacteria in your guts. then do a cleanse (that same place will have what is needed for that).

after all that to prevent it from coming back, eat healthy. this means organic foods that have never been covered in pesticides or meat that's full of steroids.

eating healthy is something not a lot of americans know about, don't be ashamed to say "I don't really know what healthy is"

google gersons diet. if you follow that you'll rarely get sick, if at all, ever.

stay healthy.

-J

I have had ibs all my life. I have never had a bowel movement that was not painful in some way. I am 39 years old. I got my gall bladder taken out last year....in the hopes that that would stop the problems but it has not. I have diahhrea and constant stomach cramps and problems. I am at my wits end to be honest. My family does not understand...no one does but it is controlling my life. I can not leave my home much less go on a trip. HELP!!!!!!

quote="Guest"]ann-kissane wrote:

hi i have had contant dirreah for a year now and practacly constant pains in my belly i have seen my doctor and he cant find out what is a matter with me and i have been to the hospital and i have had camera's down my throat and ainually but still they dont know what is a matter with me... what do you think? thanks Ann

I did this for 10 years and they told me I had IBS, without a colonoscopy. Then I got one, and I DID NOT have IBS. After all that time, I started having gall bladder attacks and went to a GB Doctor and had it out, well I stopped the diarhea, he told me that no one associates diarhea with gall bladder because there hasnt been enough reseach and proof, but I cured me. Hope that helps Dar

I had this condition as a child and suffered for a long time. You should explore the possibilty of being a Celiac (gluten intollerant). Both of my children are Celiacs as well. A simple blood test will tell your doctor if a intestinal biopsy is required.

Hi All

Three people have mentioned in this thread using probiotics and enzymes. I hope you are listening.

I had constant diarrhea for 3 months, Immodium, Tiorfan and Spasmoctyl stopped the symptoms which came back when I stopped the tablets. You do not want to be taking any of these drugs for any length of time. By miraculous chance I was led to a doctor who got me on L-Glutamine (to restore the bowel) digestive enzymes, multi probiotic and prebiotics, it has cured it!

It seems that antibiotics and food poisoning attacks can so damage the bowel that eventually it just gives up and needs to be healed. These products work, I can't recommend them highly enough.

Here is the newspaper article that led me to this doctor. Hope it helps you.

Willis, Clinica Tarraula, Edif. La Plaza No 8, 03738, Javea, Alicante. Email _[removed]_. www. ctonlineclinic.com.

“I have been diagnosed with IBS from which I have suffered for at least two years. I get severe attacks of diarrheoa and cramps to the extent that some mornings I am afraid to leave the house. I have had the camera into the bowel, which was normal and spend my life taking Immodium and paracetamol to try and give me some relief. My friend tells me that your advice helped her on one occasion, so I am writing to ask if there is anything you can suggest to help.

I can sympathise with you since I had the problem myself when I was a student. Imagine having a condition with symptoms so severe that you cannot leave the house, yet your doctor calls it a functional, or psychosomatic, disease – meaning that it’s all in your head. Very frustrating. But it is a very real problem for the 60 million people in Europe who have irritable bowel syndrome (IBS). They are plagued by uncomfortable and often disabling symptoms like bloating, cramps, diarrhoea, constipation and pain. I have lots of patients with IBS, some of whom have suffered for decades without relief. Their previous doctors could not find the cause of the illness, so they were told to just take more fibre or take Metamucil, or were prescribed sedatives or antispasm drugs or antidepressants. That is NOT the answer. There is a better way. You have to identify and treat the underlying causes of her digestive problems.

First you have to understand a little bit about how the gut works to know how to fix it if it is broken. Imagine a tennis court. That is the surface area of your small intestine, where food is absorbed. Your small intestine is also the site of about 60 per cent of your immune system but one of the problems is that the small intestine is also just one cell layer away from a toxic sewer – all of the bacteria in your gut. If that lining breaks down – from stress, too many antibiotics or anti-inflammatory drugs, intestinal infections, a low-fibre, high-sugar diet, alcohol and more, there will be problems. Your immune system will suffer and you can develop all sorts of digestive problems but that is just what can happen in IBS. You have got about three pounds of bacteria – 500 species – in your gut. In fact, there is more bacterial DNA in your body than there is human DNA!

Of all that gut bacteria, there are good guys, bad guys and very bad guys. If the bad guys take over, or if they move into areas that they should not, like the small intestine (which is normally sterile), then they can start fermenting the food you digest, particularly sugar or starchy foods. This is called small bowel bacterial overgrowth and it is a major cause of IBS. The major symptom it causes is bloating or a feeling of fullness after meals.

The bloating is due to the overproduction of gas by the bacteria as they have lunch on your lunch! This can be diagnosed by a breath test, which measures gas production by the bacteria, or by a urine test that measures the by-products of the bacteria after they are absorbed into your system.

Bacterial overgrowth is a real syndrome and was recently described in a review paper published in the Journal of the American Medical Association. And it can be treated. Just last week, a major paper was published in the Annals of Interal Medicine that showed that using a non-absorbed antibiotic called rifaximin for 10 days resulted in a drmatic improvement in bloating and overall symptoms of IBS by clearing out the overgrowth of bacteria. This is great news for many IBS patients. Unfortunately, not all patients with the same diagnosis are created equal. There is more than one factor that leads to IBS.

Another major cause of IBS is food sensitivities. Another landmark paper, which was recently published in the prestigious British medical journal ‘GUT’, found that eliminating food identified through delayed food allergy testing (IgG antibodies) resulted in dramatic improvements in IBS symptoms. Another article, an editorial in the American Journal of Gastroentereology, stated clearly that we must respect and recognise the role of food allergies and inflammation in IBS. These are the two main causes of irritable bowel – food allergies and overgrowth of bacteria in the small intestine – but there may be others, including the lack of digestive enzymes, parasites, zinc or magnesium deficiency and more. This is precisely why it is so critically important to personalise the treatment based on the unique circumstances that exist for each person who suffers from IBS – solution is most certainly not a one-size-fits-all one.

We have the understanding and tools to deal with this chronic problem and the suffering it causes one in five people. There is no need to wait for any more studies. I have been treating IBS in my practice for over 30 years with dramatic success. In fact, just today, one of my patients told me that, for the first time in his life, he did not have any more stomach pains or digestive problems. He had been so bad that he had to have a phone installed in his bathroom!

So what do you need to do to take advantage of these discoveries today? If you have IBS, follow these steps.

1. Take the test. Get tested for IgG food allergies and eliminate the foods that test positive for 12 weeks.
2. Or do it on your own. If you cannot afford the test, then just eliminate the most common food allergies for 12 weeks – that’s dairy, gluten, yeast, eggs, corn, soy and peanuts. Then reintroduce them to see if they cause symptoms.
3. Get rid of the unwanted visitors in your small bowel. Ask your doctor to prescribe rifaximin (Xifaxin) and take two 200mg tablets three times a day for seven to 10 days.
4. Repopulate your digestive tract with good bacteria. Take probiotic capsules from a quality source, make sure that there are as many bacteria as possible in the capsule. Lamberts make a good one.
5. Take pre-biotics complex sugars called fructo-oli-gosaccharides (FOS) which act as food for the good guys.
6. Digestive enzymes taken before each meal help enormously.
7. The amino acid Glutamine is available in powder form and taken daily it helps to heal the lining of the bowel and is also a powerful anti-oxidant.
8. Peppermint oil, artichoke extract and ginger can help and vitamin C combined with magnesium is natures best laxative for those IBS sufferers who suffer from constipation. Conversely, zinc supplementation helps to slow down diarrhoea.
9. Control your stress with yoga, relaxation exercises or hypnotherapy.
10. If you get stuck read more about other options. My favourite book on the subject is Digestive Wellness by Elizabeth Lipski.

I had this same problem and found out that I have celiac disease that was causing it. They thought it was IBS but the meds for IBS didn't work. Celiac disease is an allergy to Gluten i.e. Wheat, Rye, Barley and any of their dirivitives. What happens when you eat anything with gluten is that the antibodies in your body think the gluten is bad and attach it which causes it to damage the villi in your intestines. This also makes it so that your body isn't able to absorb nutrients. From the research I did on it, if you don't go gluten free it will most likely cause cancer. It is a blood test that they do to find out if you have it and they made need to do a colonoscopy to verify. This is what I have gone through so thought I would share with you.

i have been diareahing my guts out today been doing 8 times today i need help!!after everytime i go diareah my stomach rumbles and i have the urge to go again now its mostly water :-(

I have had the same thing for years. I had walking pneumonia one time and was kept in the hospital because my potassium level was so low that I was at severe risk of a Heart attack. I found out taking potassium also hardened my stool and made my body function right. You may want to look into your potassium level.