Loose Stools for more than six years

Digestive health
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Hi everyone,

I hope tis forum will help me to solve my problem. For a past six years I have been suffering from continuous loose stools. I couldn't take even a cup of water. When I have a piece of bread or cup of water or any foods I have to go bathroom the next second or even while I am having. Sometimes without my knowledge it comes. I had taken medications in allopathy homeopathy and siddha too. Now I am helpless. I have taken lot of scans, scopies but every results comes as normal. Please suggest me any remedies.

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Has your doctor suggested IBS?  It can cause loose stools, constipation, nausea and stomach pain.  I have had all these symptoms and I was diagnosed with IBS.  Try the Fodmap diet to identify any food intolerances which is also an IBS symptom.  Go back to your doctor and explain your symptoms again and see if he/she recognises them and can give you a formal diagnosis.

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I had the same symptoms and was given a formal diagnosis.

At this stage I could not add anything more than Philippa.

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Hi  I had continual loose stools bad tummy aches etc and was told it was IBS  it carried on to the point I insisted on seeing a Gastroencoligist who did a colpnoscopy and took biopsies, my bowel looked perfectly normal, no polyps, lumps etc but I was diagnosed with a inflamatory bowel disease called Collagenous Colitis, also known as microscopic colitis because it can ONLY be diagnosed with a bowel biopsy and looked at under a microscope, I have read a lot of people with my condition have lived with what they thought was IBS some for years before getting a proper diagnosis, not saying you have got this but you could mention it to your doctor and if you have not already had a colpnoscopy it might be worth getting one?  Hope this helps.

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Also not all GP's refer for bowel biopsy, I have never had one, so some could be diagnosed with IBS but when that may not be the underlying reason. 

Very good information I am sure it will help someone

I watched Man on Wire last night and if anything is going to cure constipation I would say following in Philippe Petit's shoes certainly will

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One of my doctor told that it was IBS but the medication was good only for two months. Again the problem started

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Sometimes IBS medication stops working and you have to try something different.  Tell your doctor that the medication no longer works and ask for something else. You could try probiotics, peppermint oil, Buscopan, aloe Vera juice and ask your doctor about Colefac. Some people benefit from Mebeverine although it disagreed with me.

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You are right I think a hell of a lot of tummy issues is just put down to IBS and I honestly think a lot of times if the trouble was taken to investigate more and perhaps have more invasive tests ie. a colonoscopy/bowel biopsie then a lot of things would be diagnosed and not just put down to IBS, I was really really lucky from my GP to my Gastroencoligist both who were on the ball and I got a proper diagnosis rather than go for years thinking it was IBS!!

Man on Wire lol  I watch it behing a cushion lol

Hope you get it sorted its awful living with tummy issues.

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Indeed. I am still in the IBS camp. I agree I had sweaty palms sat on my sofa.

I have found not working helps although this can not be a permanent solution as still 25 years to retirement but in short term it is definitely helping.