My stools are suddenly loose
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I'm a 24-year old guy. About two months ago, I noticed my stools started to be really loose. It's definitely not diarrhea, and when it's coming out, it feels like a solid, normal bowel movement, but it's always loose and unformed when I look in the bowl. This is consistent and not a thing that only happens sometimes
I have no other symptoms besides this. No pain, no bloating, no visible bleeding or anything. I go about once a day, maybe once every other day, which is my usual. I'm not constipated and I don't have diarrhea.
I haven't changed my diet either. Adding fiber to my diet causes the problem to go away, but I'm confused why I suddenly need the extra fiber when I'm certain I haven't changed my diet at all.
About two months ago, around the time this started happening, I had a case of mild food poisoning after eating some bad chili. I didn't throw up, but just had really sudden, really bad diarrhea. My question is: could that have caused my gut flora to go out of whack? I tried a daily probiotic for a couple of days but it didn't do anything for me. And I figured I'd have more symptoms if this was the case, but as I said before, I have no other symptoms except that my bowel movements (which haven't changed in frequency) are suddenly just loose/unformed...
Is this maybe IBS, even when this is the only symptom? I'm trying probiotic acidophilus and will give it a go for a couple of weeks, but the loose stool is really freaking me out!
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thi20955 omhk
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mikeisamonkey omhk
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I had a similar issue in that when I went to the toilet it wasn't 'classic' diarrhea bu when I went to the toilet my stools were formed and felt solid but was actually soft serve consistency.
I had samples taken and it turned out that I had two bugs in my gut that required antibiotics. So perhaps they are still in there from when you had mild food poisoning?! It may just pass on it's own over time so you could just wait it out... but I had more severe symptoms (shivers, churning/noisy stomach, nausea etc) so it required strong antibiotics to kill them off.
Hope this helps.
philippa61759 omhk
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threena58977 omhk
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