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BOWELPROBLEMS: incomplete evacuationFrom: JaneofFools (anonymous@obgyn.net)Sun, 14 Oct 2007 12:57:52 -0500 (CDT)
This is embarassing but I don't know who to ask. It's kind of gross and I'm going to list every symptom I can think of in the hope that something will ring a bell for someone. Everytime I go to defecate, I don't seem to finish the job. I wipe and sometimes then I can go some more. Other times, I'll stand up, flush, and then have to sit right back down. Other times, I leave the bathroom and then have to go back in two or three minutes. This can happen up to 10 times an hour. I might go to the bathroom up to twenty times a day--all formed stools, not diarhhea, just getting progressively smaller as the day goes on generally. Even if the stools are liquid-y, I have to strain just to get them out. Oftentimes I have to strain to pass gas, too. Also, I have the most unbearable rectal pressure/pain. This pain/pressure sometimes happens AFTER I've gone, maybe because there's more to come, but it is only relieved by laying down. If I stand, I cannot bear it. Sitting relieves it somewhat, but laying down flat on my back for about fifteen minutes is about the only way to stand it, though sometimes even that doesn't work very well. Yesterday I was in the grocery store when it happened and I started to CRY standing in line. I had used their restroom three times already during my shopping trip. I bit my hand to distract myself (people must have thought I was crazy) and I still have the marks. I've been to a proctologist and he says he doesn't see anything. I had a colonoscopy about a year ago for some rectal bleeding that turned out to be hemorrhoids and the colonoscopy was fine. I'm beginning to wonder if this might be gynecological. When I do defecate, it feels as if the stool is moving backwards--like going down before going back up and out my anus. Does this sound like anything to anyone? I feel as if I'm going crazy. I am fortunate in that my job requires a lot of walking but also I can sit when I want to do so---for me to stand still for more than three or four minutes when this is going on makes it unbearable. But if I changed jobs, I don't know if I could work with this in any job that required any amount of standing. It inhibits my cooking for my family--I take sitting breaks sometimes--and the whole thing is starting to interfere in living my life. The maddening thing besides the pain--which is bad enough--is that I don't know what's wrong.
-- JaneofFools
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