Category — Constipation-Tests

When I was younger I use to hold in my bowel movements. I’m in my 30s now and I can’t seem to get things going again. I have tried almost everything, Health Force cleanses, herbal laxative, eating healthy, probiotics, magnesium, enemas, you name it. Recently I have been mixing homemade yogurt with a T. Psyllium for the last three weeks. I have been getting some movement but I have so much gas I think I’m going to explode! It has gotten to the point where nothing really responds and it seems I have no control over pushing anything out like the colon is numb inside. Also, because of all of this I am experiencing the gas not coming from rectum it comes directly out of pours. 15-20 minutes after I feel gas in my lower left abdomen I can smell a STRONG odor of eggs coming from me for days at a time. When I was somewhat gassy or constipated when I was younger I never had gas come out of my pours like this. Any explanation for this? I had blood tests done recently and everything looked ok except for high carnitine levels and raised cholesterol. I have had a colonoscopy and endoscopy done as well. I am not sure if it is related but I also have severe gout symptoms in my feet and ankles on a weekly basis. The Dr. said to take IB Profen and no high purine foods which I don’t consume. I also get acne/boils that sometimes smell like rotten eggs all over my back and chest. Does anybody have any ideas? I haven’t got much help by going to the doctor. Thanks!
I quit drinking a couple years ago and I definitely know alcohol doesn’t help the problem. lol
I gotta say though, I think I had better bowel movements even when I was drinking.
Yogurt and high fiber seems to be giving me some relief. I don’t recall mentioning my "cure" with using yogurt and fiber. More of a process of conditioning my digestive track. I’m thinking dysbiosis and possible yeast overgrowth causing the problem. That might explain the acne/boils on chest. (yeast?) I think the gas is from introducing fiber to my diet and possibly the bacteria going to work. I have been to a GI dr. and since tests came back negative for major problems he said just keep yourself regular with Myralax, which didn’t work at all. Not much help. I guess what I’m asking is if anyone has had similar symptoms and have had success with treating it. Like I said it seems that my system is not responding to most laxatives. A couple weeks ago I tried Epsom salt and it didn’t respond at all. When I use to use it a year ago it created diarrhea. It almost seems impossible to create diarrhea if I had to. My goal for now is just to get my system going.

Ok, I am 29 now, but I have been constipated off and on for awhile. When I was 22, I went to the gastro intestinal doctor and he did a scope and said I have hemmroids.. (I had bright red blood then). I am getting bright red blood again, but not IN the stool. The hemmroids are painful.

When I was 22, I was also dignosed with having acid reflex and gastritis.

So, a day after Christmas I had some sort of food posioning and threw up. I ate very bland for about 2 weeks after that.. I thought I would get rid of it by doing enemas, which I did. But, since doing the enema (2 weeks ago) I am getting a lot of gas, mostly coming up… It’s really strange.
I don’t have sharp pains , but I get gas pains. If I feel a pain somewhere and touch it, the air will come up.

I can take a very small amount of fiber or something and feel like I need to go, so I don’t feel there is blockage.. Had blood/urine tests done, all normal
Could this be IBS, and with that affecting the hemroids?

can somone tell me if it hurts? how does it feel?

if there are no results found in this one what will they do?

im doing the test for constipation, is these really necessary to find the cause?

I am a white male, 28 years old. Based on these symptons over the last two years what could I have: lower back pain, joint pain, ankle inflammation, terrible fatiguie and malaise, weight loss, enlarged lymph nodes (chest x-ray), fast heart rate, intermittent pain in various parts of the body of varying degree (Especially the lower back and chest), bulging veins on hands and forehead, facial pressure & numbness, lots of mild headaches, arms and legs tingle and numb easy, diffuculty concentrating, floaters in eyes, flickering light in the bottom right hand corner of one eye, yellow tint to skin and yellow eyes, chronic constipation, hypertension. The only objective signs were: enlarged lymphnodes around lungs, swollen red ankles, yellow skin and eyes, obvious unexplained weight loss, hypertension, elevated sed rate, elevated C-reactive protein, high billirubin count. I have also noticed within this time frame an unusual amount of hair falling out of my head without some common pattern baldness. For the last 2 years I have been to 10 different doctors and have had so many tests done. For the most part the Doctors were looking at Sarcoidosis but I was never told for sure. Please give me some ideas.

I first had a problem with this in 7th grade and it gradually got worse, the doctor diagnosed me with IBS, but he did not take blood tests. So now i found out that i am lactose intolerant and ive been off dairy for 2 weeks now and it is not as bad no cramps or anything but every time i eat something i go to the bathroom rigth after i eat the food. And I still have constipation/diarrhea sometimes (not as much as when i was eating dairy) Could I have both?

Help would be appreciated

thanks

I SWEAR that I have a thyroid problem. My Ob/Gyn did a blood test and referred me to my doctor. She said that the # was abnormal. Everytime that my doctor checks it he says that it is normal. Last time it was 3.5. Is that normal? I have the following symptoms:
Cold hands and feet
A tendency to feel the cold
Depression
Tiredness especially in the morning
Headache
Constipation
Swollen eyelids especially in the morning
Loss of hair
Dry skin

The dry skin is particularly bothersome and I hate the hair loss. I am ALWAYS tired and seem to gain weight no matter what I do. How do I make my doctor listen to me? Should I see an endocrinologist even though my doc thinks that there is no problem? He has no explanation for my symptoms and tells me simply that my thyroid was normal at 3.5.

I’ve been dealing with bloating, fatigue for a year now. Nothing I eat settles with my stomach, water even makes me bloat, and feel full and like I’m gonna explode, any ideas what I could do?

I currently have no insurance, and i’ve had tons of test ran already, but nothing has shown up.

Recently I have been having problems. I am a very relatively healthy person I have and I have an ok diet. I exercise and hardly eat processed food. For like a month I ate a lot of junk food and I noticed it was taking a toll on me. So I began regulating my diet when I did so I felt really sick for like a week almost like food poisoned. This was 2 weeks ago. Now I don’t know if this has anything to do with what I’m feeling now but now I am suffering constipation and the only way I have bowel movements is if I taken ground flax. My stool is very loose, basically I’m my body isn’t forming stools. I’m late on my period but have not had intercourse. I get pelvic pain and right before I have a bowel movement I feel a severe pain (like a gas) go through my stomach and then I have the bowel movement. I have added fiber increased my vegetable intake eat whole grains and nothing seems to improve. I saw the doctor and just recommended metamucil he didn’t run any test of some sort. I think there is a greater problem than just being constipated. Please HELP!

-also a while back I remember having bowel movement and I would notice vaginal spotting after being done
I appreciate all the help!

today ijust got cramps in my stomach and i have a few days b4 my period.its supposed to come on sometime next week. its been bothhering me most of the day its not horrible but i can tell its there. last time i had sex it was the 26 of december and i took a pregnancy test 2 weeks after that and it came up as negative.
could it be pregnancy or constipation? because i tried to use the bathroom {#2 lol} but it wouldnt all come out

it like the middle of my stomach
i take birth control too. i have 2 more blue pills left the the its time 4 the placebos

Im a 21 male,

Well, ive been having this bloating/constipation/softstool and recently mucus in my stool. Now for the last week or so ive been getting this wierd lower abdominal discomfort that comes and goes and has been getting worst each day.

I wasnt able to sleep barely the last 2 nights because of how much it was bothering me so i went to the emergancy room. They did blood tests, unrine test and a CT scan. All have come back negative! CT scan showed that im not constipated , have something abnormal or even have it inflamed at all.

Im not sure whats going on here, can anyone by chance relate to this or know what can possibly be going on?