I’m sick and tired of having diarrhea all the time.

You need to see a GI doctor.

Nothing you describe is normal and healthy.

OP, you may have IBS or some other condition. Second what R1 said: please consult a gastroenterologist.

IBS is a curse. It will take you years to learn how to control it, and by control I mean, learn how to avoid the worsts and deal with the merely bad. It is a curse, and I have but one piece of advice: never, ever use it as justification to do or not do something unless it is actually the reason for doing or not doing that activity. Blame it once out of convenience, get caught, and no one will ever believe you again when you say "I can't go to (fill in the event/place/function) because I feel so bad."

It’s scurvy.

R4 = the bitch from the Stelara commercial.

How does one get diarrhea?

It can be a symptom of HIV. Not by itself, though.

Stealth scat thread

They make pills for that, OP.

Diahhrea phhhhht phhhhht 💩 - Diarrhea- phhht phhht 💩- some people think it’s funny but it’s really wet and runny

If you haven’t already, try going gluten free for a few weeks and see if that helps. True celiac disease can be confirmed with a blood test but even if you don’t have it, gluten free may help. Add more fiber to your diet.

Stop eating at Taco Bell.

Diarrhea IS funny especially when it’s propelled by loud bursts of staccato gas! When this happens to some sap in a stall when I am in an airport bathroom urinal, I bust out laughing.

Having diarrhea all the time will make you sick and tired.

Diarrhea is one of, if not the leading, cause of death of children on the planet. It will kill you, too, if you dehydrate from it.

I’m so sorry, OP.

That must be awful. 😒

I'm no doctor (which you should see), but I wonder if some food intolerances are driving this to some extent. Experiment with different foods. If you drink coffee with creamer, see what happens if you leave the creamer out.

R12 has solid advice. Excuse the pun.

Is OP a bottom? I'm guessing not.

Eat more salads and no fast food.

Do you drink booze a lot? Also, take some electrolyte supplements.

Drinking much, boozebag??

Anxiety and stress. I was like that in my early teens.

What are you normally eating or drinking in a day and how much alcohol are you consuming?

Immodium and psyllium fibre help, OP.

OP, see if your regular doctor or GI Dr can prescribe Welchol (generic Colesevalam) for you. It helped save my 94-year old Dad's life.

Two years ago we were terrified we'd lose Dad; he was taken over by cachexia; NOTHING stayed in his system long enough to extract nutrients or calories from literally anything we gave him in solid or liquid form. My God, that was such a dark time. Everything we gave him he shat out within 15-20 minutes, sometime less. We were cleaning liquid feces at least 3-5 times a day. He was listless and uninterested in anything.

I begged his wonderful PCP to help us find a remedy. Doctor W. told me about Welchol, an anti-cholesterol drug with a pronounced side effect: delayed gastric emptying. He also prescribed Periactin (ciproheptadine generic), an antihistamine with the side effect of ravenous appetite.

At day 3 or 4, his bowel movements were semi-solid; at Day 7 they were firmer, and he could hold his food down and his BMs in. By Day 14 Dad came back from the shadows.

Welchol is the fucking TRUTH.

OP = Another British Person Loaded with Worms

Probably IBD/ulcerative colitis. Go to a GI doc. I was just diagnosed

Is it sad that I clicked on this thread as an alternative to the thirty RF threads.

Please get help, OP. You shouldn't live like this. Also I'm slightly skeptical that you are a good bottom because you are so "cleaned out", but what the hell do I know

OP, I have had the same condition for 30 years and I second what R26 suggests. My doctor diagnosed it as IBS and it It took us years to figure out the right combination of psyllium fiber (I take a large dose of Metamucil before bed) and a low dose of lomotil (diphenoxylate/atropine) in the morning. With the right dose and timing, I can enjoy a normal diet, including coffee in the morning and alcohol in the evening. And I no longer need to worry about being more than 3 minutes away from the nearest bathroom.

While OCT meds can be effective, your condition will not remedy itself so speak with your physician.

"I’m sick and tired of having diarrhea all the time."

Tell me you're from India without telling me you're from India

OP, i have a song for you: Nausea, heartburn, indigestion, upset stomach, diarrheaaaaaa!

Fecalphobes.

No fibre + waaay too much water / alcohol

Does booze give you the shots? I have a martini or two or Tao glasses of wine many nights and I don’t get the Hershey squirts

Eat more cheese.

It's better than being constipated. Take it more as a blessing.

Thank you, Madison, for your important post. It's right your next cousin know in advance.

OP . . .

Cut out booze, coffee, and spicy foods. Report back.

You need a doctor and some tests. I have IBS triggered by stress and simply knowing the cause helped me get it under control. Suck it up and get checked.

I have IBS-D and it’s hell. What you describe is not normal, OP. Get yourself a fiber supplement or some probiotics. Of course, also see your dr.

Shitty problem to have

I have a friend whose system is like that. She is super skinny because of it. She went to lots of doctors who told her she digested food too quickly and gave her some medicine that essentially would slow her down- the problem was her body couldn't absorb all of the nutrients she needed. It worked and she put on 5 pounds (I was guess she was 95 pounds and 5'4) and threw the medicine out immediately. But there was medicine and it did work so go to a doctor.

Too much Stouffer's lasagna.

I’m guessing OP isn’t a bottom.

[quote]Diarrhea is one of, if not the leading, cause of death of children on the planet. It will kill you, too, if you dehydrate from it.

In the US, the leading cause of death for children is drowning. Diarrhea only happens in poor countries.

OP, a few easy things you can try that have really helped me:

For breakfast I eat Metamucil wafers (2 in a small packet) instead of breakfast. Bought at CVs and Shop Rite.

I also take 3 gummy bear Probiotics which can also be bought at CVS and supermarkets.

I trey not to have any dairy and am mostly successful.

And lately, I've been trying to not eat any gluten - not totally there yet on that, but getting there.

My stools have improved markedly. Much harder and also smoother coming out.

Then divorce her Harry.

Are your stools tarry and black, OP? Losing weight?

R27 You have diarrhea of the keyboard.

Kim?

OP, do you have true diarrhea (wet, watery stools) or do you have chronic loose stools? Diarrhea is potentially deadly since your body dehydrates significantly. If it's more of the occasional solid poop with frequent doodles, it's your gut. You might have IBS or some other gastrointestinal disorder, but it could also be due to profound imbalance in your stomach/intestines/colon.

I was a poop while the water boiled, poor after half cup of coffee, poop after finishing coffee morning routine person. Only the first was comparatively solid. The others were looser. It lasted so long that I even suspected my then-husband of dosing my coffee with stool softener or some other substance.

Eventually, after consulting my PCP, I added probiotic capsules to my morning along with some yogurt or kefir along with my coffee. It took a couple weeks to take effect, but I have eliminated loose stools completely (except an occasional food poisoning crap). Of course you should talk to your doctor and, possibly, a GI specialist. Presuming you do not have bloody stools not caused by hemorrhoids, there should be no blood in your poop. A urine test can rule out protein in your urine as well. This is a symptom of serious organ and digestive problems.

Good luck!

do you wear depends OP?

57 replies and nobody has called this a stealth scat thread?

It's there, r57. The response was stealthy, too.

OP never came back to acknowledge any of the dozens upon dozens of questions and suggestions you all had because he gets off on reading people talk about bowel issues, of which there seems to be a staggering amount of here.

R60 "of which there seems to be a staggering amount of"

Please learn English

[quote] Please learn English

You forgot a period.

Also, please learn how to quote.

R62 We don't start sentences with "Also."

I would like to follow up on r4's advice and ask him just HOW anyone would know that you were lying about having massive diarrhea?

OP, you have no business bottoming, get thyself to a doctor.

I need new kitchen barstools, so I went into a furniture store near me asking to see their stool samples, I got the strangest slack jawed reaction.

OP is the not so secret scat troll, aka Miss Warwicke. It just wants to hear about EXPLOSIVE shit. He always enters the subject differently - then jerks off into his diaper and goes to sleep. Ancient old bitch gets off on it and other forms of bodily decay. His gross depictions of Black women have been banned from this site.

Fools fall for that RACIST old man every time - with your home remedies and GI advice. Yikes. It's Miss Warwicke. Don't talk about your bowls. Or your bowels.

"Please learn English" Yep. It's also the educated scenario troll. Loves to talk of rich fabrics and ancient history. Claims to be black AND the cousin of Olivia De Havilland!! If Matt Damon was the emperor of France and shit in his pants = OP.

We don't get enough fiber in our diets. Most of us should have 30-40 grams of fiber per day. A pear has 3 grams of fiber. Fruits are a good source, but so are legumes and vegetables.

I take 5 CVS fiber pills (cheaper than Metamucil) with each meal. Each pill is 2 grams. If I eat a lot of fruits or vegetables I might cut that down to 10 pills a day. But this will solve your issue OP and will pretty much solve it over night. Try it.

r68 Plus you must drink LOTS of water

FFS. put a cork in it

Shitty little Ann!

r69, that's actually been debunked but I will say you have to take each pill one at a time. I already drink a ton of water but I asked my doctor and she said there is no evidence that drinking more water with the fiber pills does much else but make you pee. In general, we should be drinking about 64 ounces of water per day. That's about five tall glasses.

Harvard Medical School recommends drinking four to six CUPS of water per day, R72.

That's 32 to 48 ounces, max.

You do you, r73.

Even if copious amounts of water don't aid in digestion, they're very good for the quality of your skin.

My problem, which goes back to my 30s (I'm 70 now) is my lack of bowel control. When I have to go, I have to go! This is especially true in the last 5-10 years when in the morning I will usually go at least 4 times before I can go out for the day. Fortunately, I'm retired now.

And no, I've had very little anal sex over the years.

What's the cure of this, wise DLers?

Colostomy

Don’t go in the pool, OP

R76 asks “what’s the cure”? A visit to a gastroenterologist for starters.

Not a discussion on DL.

R42's video was funny as hell.

In many cases IBS is misdiagnosed and is actually pancreatitis, an inflammation of the pancreas caused by trigger foods. The trigger can be different for everyone but for me it was sugar.

Ignore the gluten trolls they blame gluten for the war in Ukraine.

Every time I scroll past this post I remember all of the diarrhea songs they sang

Some people think it’s funny but it’s really wet and runny….some people think it’s gross but it’s really good on toast ….diarrhea PHT PHT!!!! 💩 ⛈ 🌪

Had issues for 35 years. Regular GI visits, colonoscopies, CT scans - none really defined the issue. I’ve tried to manage it myself. The best thing I ever did for it? Retire. Getting proper sleep and not having to abide by a schedule that doesn’t work for my body - and the disappearance of stress - solved 90% of the problem. Not a doctor or any medical advice - retirement.

Sounds like IBS-D, the oh so fun diarrhea type of IBS. I have had it for almost 30 years though it is better than it was at the start. Agree with others that you should see a GI specialist and get tested to rule out other causes, like infectious agents, ulcerative colitis, or cancers. Will involve stool samples and probably a colonoscopy. Starting on SSRI antidepressants reduces the worst of the symptoms years ago. What helps me the most is taking lots of fiber caplets — like up to 14-18 per day. I am not consistent enough with that routine but found it helped absorb the water in my colon and reduce the frequency and amount of diarrhea.

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Whatever it is, get some Immodium (OTC) or Lomotil (Rx) and take some.

It's an anti-diarrheal.

Imodium at least once a day.

I hope you only buy dark colored underwear, shit maker

Have you tried playing competitive tournament chess?

I have Crohn’s disease. I find slippery elm powder helps a lot. I prefer capsules to loose powder. I still occasionally get caught out. Being up early for a flight and associated stress is a prime cause for that so I make sure I avoid early flights as much as possible. I go four-five times a day mostly before 9am. That’s just the way my body is and I have to work around it.

When you’re sliding into third and you feel a juicy tied it’s diarrhea- phhhhhht phhhhhhhhht!