Hi,
I will try to help you but first need more information:
Do you have abdominal pain with the diarrhea? ( if so, where is the location of the pain in relation to your naval.)
How many stools per day?
Have you ever had blood in the stool?
Have you expereinced weight loss and if so, how much over the past 6 months?
Does your stool have an extremely foul odor to it? Does the stool float and cling to the side of the toilet bowl?
Do you notice that there are "oil droplets" in the toilet bowl following a BM?
Do you have mucous in your stool?
Have you consulted medical care at anytime since you began having chronic diarrhea? If so, what treatment or testing has been done and what were/are the results?
Have you traveled out of the US withing the past 7 months? If so when and where?
Do you take antibiotics on a frequnet basis?
Is there anything wich seems to make the diarrhea better? Worse? (I read that nothing helps it as far as meds-but was wondering if you have made any linkage to having a problem with diffferent foods-like wheat, whole grains, milk/dairy products, etc.)
Are you experiencing severe amounts of stress and if so, how long have you been enduring severe stress?
What medications, other than the antidiarrheal medications, are you taking, if any? Please provide the name, dosage, frequency of administration. Also, include any herbs that you take.
Do you have any other illnesses or symptoms of being unwell-now or over the past 6 months? If so, what and for when did the problem begin and do you still have this/these problems--- aside from teh chronic diarrhea?
I'll try to help you as soon as I receive your response to these questions. Thank you. Susan
Edited by gotquest on February 26 2006 at 2:21pm
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