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Mixed consistency stool

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sa50481
sa50481

Hello everyone!

I have suffered from ibs-c since I was very young but after changing my diet (increasing fiber, minimizing dairy, drinking more water) I started passing stool regularly with normal consistency.

However, since a few months ago, whenever I pass stool, the beginning is always small hard pebbles but is then followed by normal soft stool.

I dont have any other symptoms and can usually pass stool daily.

Does anyone know what such stool with mixed consistency is called? Should I be worried or is it likely just IBS?

Thank you in advance!

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  • user007
    user007 sa50481

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    Does anyone else have an explanation for this? I could have written this exact same post except now instead of the hard pellets to start, they have been mixed into the middle of the stool during the past week.

    I've been experimenting with oatmeal fiber and Metamucil. Metamucil did some weird things but the oatmeal has helped to soften everything some, but the pellets are still there.

    The doctor I went to was absolutely no help. He said he needed to do a colonoscopy to rule out a tumor and that the odds were in my favor it might just be IBS. I don't know what else to try to make this clear up.

  • beatrix81303
    beatrix81303 sa50481

    Posted

    i have the same issue... i don't know what to do to solve it.

    i suffered from hemorrhoids for 3 years, and frequent trombosis due to constipation. I eat healthy, lots of fiber, I exercise regularly bur still have hard poop at first then normal one. The hard part was the one creating all my disconfort and pain. I decided to do hemorrhoidectomy. Now I'm 3 months post op, the pain was excruciating ... but for the first 2 months I had the perfect stool!!! In the last 4 weeks my problem is back: hard stool at first, then normal... I'm worried that this problem is going to make my hemorrhoids come back and that I've been through all this suffering procedure for no purpose. When the doctore made the surgery he discovered that I also had an anal fissure....

    Did you manage to solve this problem?

    I want to go to a nutritionist and maybe to do a colonoscopy just to be sure that is nothing more serious...

  • Steph1988
    Steph1988 sa50481

    Posted

    Hi Sam

    i know this is an old post

    I also suffer with exactly what you described.

    Can i ask have you still got the symptoms?

    what do you take to help?

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