uncontrolled discharge from anus after bowel movement

hello, I am 25 and have an issue just like this one just not as bad as most of you. The farthest I can remember having this issue is 4 years ago after I took anti-biotics for getting shingles. I can't remember what the pills were called but they have caused a huge issue( if it was the pills). I have been majorly depressed over this because no one wants to work around someone with this issue. Having to go to the bathroom multiple times after a bm and still have to deal with it until I get home and shower(smell). It is so nice to know people have the same problem and trying to figure out a solution. I have read every single entry on this. I thank everyone for you honesty and opening to your experience.

My problem happens after I have a bowel movement and I have to wipe many many times and my stool is very soft. Once I get back to work my butt is even more sweaty(always sweaty) and I feel like I have to wipe and so I go to the bathroom and bam its like I never wiped. After a few bathroom runs it is just the fishy liquid. The only way to make it go away is getting home and taking a shower. I do not have the pain that most of you speak of and don't have a rash. Over the last three years I have had two episodes of a LOT  of blood in my stool lasting about a week so I got a colonoscopy and I have hemorriods (small) just on the inside of my rectum. Sorry for the explicitness. After that, I thought it was just the hemorriods so i just dealt with it for a while trying every thing to not smell and have the uncomfortableness at work or let my wife know about this.

As of a few weeks ago I got sick of people at work and I thought I have to find a solution to this because It can't be normal so I googled "why does my butt leak" and this came up and I read all of it two weeks ago and have been drinking cranberry juice (instead of soda). I quit soda. I have been drinking yakult bottles daily(one in the morning and one in evening) and it has gotten a little better but not close to satisfaction(gone). I do not drink alcohol or do drugs , although I did as a teen. My wife wife found out about this issue about when I found this thread and she is very understanding/ concerned.

I do not think this is something brought on by food. I do think food has a factor in how bad it is the next day. Has anyone tried "Metronidazole" and if so please tell me your experience. 

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Found this when i researched "do antibiotics affect your digestive system".

Hope this helps. Well I'm cutting out sugar and taking garlic more. Wish me luck..

I almost have tears in my eyes, just by seeing so many people with that same problem, i have this going on now for about 2 1/2 years. i asked some doctors and no answer...

So every time after BM i put some towels in my pants and sit down and dont move for 1-2 hours, and then it stops.

But its terrible, wish someon would have a solution for that

Thank to you all anyhow.

I am in my 40's, and have this same exact problem for about 4 years now, in the beginning i told my doctor, that something just start happening and i get all wet after BM, he asked 'is it clear?' i said 'Yes'. Then don't make an issue out of it, was his answer, just disregard it.   And so i went on for a year or so, then i went to a big big Doctor, he took a colonscopy, didn't show nothing, i told him the whole story, and he looked at me like 'i never heard such a thing' which made me even more nervous, but what could i do?

So in the beginning i used to walk around, make believe nothing is going on, but later is started getting worse, and if i walk around it gets irritated and bloody.

So each time after BM, i put a bunch of towels in my pants or a peace of cloth, and sit down, and wait like an hour or two, until i feel its better... (sorry cant explain), and then its ok, but i am bound to the chair that whole time like an invalid l"a.

I still keep on talking to doctors about it, i hope i will come up with a solution shortly. if anyone is interested please let me know.

Yours 

It sounds like most people on here have an yeast infection caused by antibiotics king off bacteria in your body. Women get vaginal yeast infections quite often after an antibiotic treatment.i would take a lot of vitamin B and actually try one of the over the counter yeast infection medications, like monistat 7. I would go with the 7 day treatment as 3 and 1 day are too concentrated and will burn a lot. Expect there to be some burning at first, but in few days everything will go back to normal. Also, keep in mind that the medication will be discharged out of your body, so don't be concerned when you at first leak more white stuff. Good luck.

Ok I have beaten this, there is some good and bad news. This happened to me after taking antibiotics for a secondary infection after having the flu followed by a holiday where I drank a little to much alcohol.

The good news is you should be able to get back to feeling 100% before you took the antibiotics.

The bad news is it takes time and discipline to do this.

What has happened is a portion of gut flora and good bacteria has been killed, and some of it can never ever be replaced but most can. When the good bacteria is killed, some of the yeast changes into a more nasty form and takes up residence in the new real estate where the good bacteria used to be. Normally good bacteria keeps the yeast in check and prevents this, the yeast is candida.

To beat this you need to replace the bad over growth with good bacteria again. But throwing probiotics at it will not solve the issue its like throwing lawn seed into a weed patch and expecting nice lawn.

1) First up kill the overgrowth by drinking about a table spoon of ORGANIC apple cider vinegar day and night just before brushing your teeth so you can rid your mouth of the acid and not damage your teeth. Cook your food with ORGANIC coconut oil and drink it during the day as well. Use garlic in your foods, ideally raw but it doesnt have to be, you can also use olive leaf extract but i didnt bother using any more than 3 anti fungals.

2) Cut sugars and as much carbs from your diet as you can, sugar is the real bad one I had to cut it completely and reduce your alcohol intake if you stop drinking alcohol it will be faster.

3) Take fibre such as psylium husks this will help with die off and deal with the squishy butt.

4) after the first week begin a mild probiotic and prebiotic, abour 2 billion should do it

5) after a month ramp it up to 50 billion pills of a morning and some yakult of a night.

Stop taking fibre every few months to check progress.

It took me 9 months of the above 5 steps to get rid of it, I did drink on weekends during this and I cut nearly all sugars out and alot of carbs.

You might say gee 50 billion bacteria tablets for 9 months thats a lot? well I was told we have 100 trillion good bacteria in our body which if you put $1 bills from here to the sun and back you would still have some left over.

I am now completly free of this horrid affliction and I honestly would wish it on my worst enemy. I dont take fibre suplements any more I havent for over a month now and I have not had 1 single episode of squichy butt.

There is also some really bad news this will not cure everyone if you have had many courses of antibiotics you have likely done permanant damage to your gut flora and will probably be on proiotic supplements for the rest of you life and may have to manage it with diet as well.

 

Best of luck and persist with it, remeber you have to clear the weeds before planting the good seeds.

I am dealing with the same thing! Confused!

I have had this problem for about 5 years, too.  It comes and goes and when it seems I have figured it out, it suddenly comes roaring back.... so please, if you get it taken care of... come back later to give us an update.

So far the best things that have worked are:

1- Metamucil or Psyllum Husk (Hardens the stool)

2- Place a cotton round (cut in half) between your cheeks after a bowel movement.  This will prevent any leakage and can be easily changed and carried.

Mine had left completely for three months, up until christmas, then came back maybe due to a very bad diet during that time.  I was eating a lot of sugar which may have caused the bad bacteria to flare up.  Just a thought.  Now, I can't get it under control.

Someone above mentioned the problem was tomatoes.  What have you found since your post?

Hi: I understand what you are going through, as I have been going through the same problems. I am a 73 year old male and have been treated by a gastroenterologist who referred me to a lactose intolerance breath test which found that I am lactose intolerant, so I drink lactaid instead of whole milk, avoid all dairy products unless I take a lactaid tablet, take a powder fiber supplement twice per day. I was advised to take and sit in a bath for 1/2 hour three times per week, but find that I cannot get out of the bathtub after sitting in it, and to wipe myself with wet wipes and quilted toilet paper. However, I have been exhibiting the same symptoms and my doctor says that he cannot do anything more for me and suggests that I see a specialist surgeon, which I would like to avoid.

Good Luck.

 

 

 

Hi to everyone,

Hope you are all well. I asked my doctor, a Gastroenterology specialist, what does this leakage come from?? and he answered as follow: There are a whole bunch of reason's why it happens, it could come just from hemorrhoids, it could come from an infection that sits down there (it could sit there for a long time, even for years), it could come from colitis, or from crohn's disease, and a whole other bunch of things that could cause it.

Now we will understand, why some solutions are helpful for some people and don't do anything for others, because its not the same problem for everyone, by some people its only the hemorrhoids that causes it, and by others its an infection and so on... so you need a different type of cure for everyone.

To begin with, for anyone that suffers from it, they all say (The Doctor mentioned above, and another Gastroenterology from Mount Sinai Hospital, and other Doctors i asked), that you should just start to take every day a teaspoon of Metamucil (psyllium fiber) in a glass of liquid, if you could take twice a day its even better, but its very important to DRINK A LOT OF WATER during the day, if not then the fiber gets hard, and it makes hard the bowel movement. if you keep on taking Metamucil for a while it could help and heal the problem. and there are no down sides with taking it.

But if after a long time it doesn't help, and you wanna get rid of it, you need to be checked out what 'Your' problem is, whats the reason that makes it happen by you, and get that taken care of.

Hope this was a bit helpful.

Yours

Yeah im having the same problem, im not exactly 40 tho, im 11

Well not exactly the same. Its more just blood around the anus ive found a damp peice of cotton wool good for claeaning it

Bummer, If the condition was caused by antibiotics stay away from tomatoes, salsa, jalapenos, Hot sauce, tapatio hot sauce and anything made from tomatoes. Eating these things brings the problem on two fold for a day or two.

I ate Pizza on Saturday and suffered bad on Sunday and on Monday back to the normal BS.

I am a 22 year old male with the same problem.  I have had it since I was 18 years old.  I have had a proctoscopy and a colonoscopy.  All that has been found is that I had a small anal fissure which had healed before either had been performed.  I find that on days when I don't have to wipe at all, I don't have leakage.  I've found that squatting over the toilet rather than sitting on it helps.  Also, I like to use the toilet then shower about an hour later.  The trouble is making sure people around me do not notice for the hour after the bowel movement.

 

Oddly enough, when I skip a day, or if I am constipated for a few days, when I go to the  bathroom, I usually find I have no leakage.  I am not sure why this is.  Perhaps I am going to the bathroom to often and my anus is still forcing out feces even after the solid stools have passed?I was already paranoid about using the bathroom in public as a child.  Now I am continually paranoid that I smell like feces, and I am a restaurant server.

Living in a dorm and using a dorm bathroom was hell for four years.  I have also found that when the problem doesn't occur.  I just use the bathroom and don't think about anything too much.  So I wonder how much of this problem is just my mind telling my anus to keep pushing on a subconscious level.

 

Sounds very much like my experience, ChadVak.  Constipation is actually welcome once in a while.  I never had an anal fissure, but I did have a thrombosed hemorrhoid, and it's never been the same since then (over 2 years).  I do have internal hemorrhoids.

I think the brain definitely does play a role in this, part of which is the fear that you smell bad.  I can really only speak for myself, but I suspect that for most people it seems worse than it is.  When I finally got up the courage to mention it to my partner (yes, I'm gay, but I don't get penetrated) about the smell, he didn't know what I was talking about; when I explained further, he said he had never noticed any smell (I was floored; I felt like a walking stink bomb).  Since then, I've been much less self-conscious about it.