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Re: BOWELPROBLEMS: incomplete evacuation
From: Robin (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Sun, 14 Oct 2007 17:36:18 -0500 (CDT)
Although you've been to a Proctologist, I would suggest seeing a GI.
S/he may be able to offer more advice than the Proctologist.
Good luck and feel better!
At Sun, 14 Oct 2007, JaneofFools wrote:
>
>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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