... For about a year now, I have been passing very narrow stools. ... (11 replies)
... very tortous left colon and very redundant. The rest parts of the colon was normal. ... (1 replies)
... stools it will be very difficult to evacuate. ... (16 replies)
... ist could offer that helped was a prescription for Zelnorm. Doesn't help me much if taken regularly as a stool softener, but as a one shot pill I found it works very well to quickly switch a case of constipation into a liquid bowel movement. ... (11 replies)
... was that my stools are what others in these boards are referring to as "ribbon stools". ... (2 replies)
... Sometimes my bowel movements are very narrow and long. ... (1 replies)
... The twists could make your stools very narrow like a pencil or the diarrhea is going around a large mass of stool trapped behind a twist in the colon. ... (1 replies)
... My stools changed to a type 5 stool.. Sometimes type 6 but very sticky and broken up. They have been like this for five months except for the one odd day I had bad diarrhea. ... (7 replies)
... soft and sometimes very narrow. Do you feel like a a golf ball is stuck after you have been, I feel this all the time. ... (7 replies)
... Thank you for your reply. The internet can be such a bane too. I keep reading stuff and getting anxious. Well, the things I have are very close to skin tags from Crohn's disease. Now I am so worried I might have it because I am also getting narrow stools from the past 1 month. ... (8 replies)
... Then one night in the middle of the night about 3 months ago I woke up to a very sharp pain in the right middle side of my stomach. ... (3 replies)
... Are you drinking enough water? And I mean water, not fruit juice, cokes (or Diet Cokes) or any other beverage. Water is extremely important to avoid constipation. What kind of diet are you on? Are you on a soft, bland diet or are you eating more regular foods? Do you eat fast foods? High sodium can contribute to dehydration which in turn contributes to constipation. Any... (3 replies)
... I have GERD, so i will tell you that i have a very acidic stomach and have taken Maalox with simethicone a lot. ... (0 replies)
... times in 24 hrs. The stools are smaller and softer than usual but not what I would consider very narrow. They are brown in color. I have no weakness, fever or concerning weight loss. ... (2 replies)
... o my GI doctor and he said that I needed to get a Colonoscopy. I had expected him to say this so I wasen't suprised. I am only 22 years old so Colon Cancer while very much so possible, is unlikely. Well Monday night I started the prep. This included the taking of 4 ducolax tablets before I went to bed. ... (6 replies)
... i have the same problem,i will have surgery to relax my sphincter muscle
or get it widened,i haven been getting narrow stools for a long time if i
try to eat anything with substance ,i have bleeding and burning,even on oatmeal, soft foods ,my rectum is all mess up,i go every day no straining
and still bleed,i did fast or even ate very little but if your rectum is to tight... (2 replies)
... I'm very confused about this entire episode and want to see what others have to say because I'm really nervous. ... (1 replies)
... Dr. and they tell me nothing is wrong. I tell them about the buldging, and they say that I must be imagining it. I'm not. It is huge and red, and it makes it very hard and scarey to have a BM. ... (6 replies)
... constipation with either thin narrow stools or loose clumps with undigested food, bloating, nausea, and abd pain which is sometimes a dull ache to sharp pains. ... (14 replies)
... I've just read the posts and may be able to help. The clue is in the narrow stools, sometimes called 'ribbon stools'. This sounds like IBS or what used to be called 'spastic colon'. ... (14 replies)
