poop

[lukeneal26]

so had a cbt session the other day and she said to stop looking at my poop but im finding it really hard! anyway had loose stools for 3 weeks and yesterday morning passed a soft formed normal stool:yahoo: then on the night I got just lower ache like trapped wind so went to the loo and it started normal then at the end was all loose sorry tmi! there was peas floating in it a bit of mucas! had Chinese the night before? anyway woke up today and went for my normal poop and it was loose again but no mucas or bits of food! and at last my stool is normal brown! what I really want to know are stools always meant to be formed or do other people have all different kinds?:shrug:

[Katki]

Everyones stools are different. If you are anxious they are going to appear different a) because you are paying them more attention and b) your stomach reacts your stress.

Everyone's have food in, you probably never noticed it before because you werent bothered about it. So that's the key, stop being bothered about it!!

Mucus in the stool is normal especially with ibs or if you are straining because you have constipation/trapped wind.

[snowflake293]

so had a cbt session the other day and she said to stop looking at my poop but im finding it really hard! anyway had loose stools for 3 weeks and yesterday morning passed a soft formed normal stool:yahoo: then on the night I got just lower ache like trapped wind so went to the loo and it started normal then at the end was all loose sorry tmi! there was peas floating in it a bit of mucas! had Chinese the night before? anyway woke up today and went for my normal poop and it was loose again but no mucas or bits of food! and at last my stool is normal brown! what I really want to know are stools always meant to be formed or do other people have all different kinds?:shrug:

Try and take the therapist's advice and stop looing at your poo :D you know yourself the more you look at it, the more you are feeding your anxiety. I do know how you feel though, I am the same with checking my skin for 'skin cancer' and feeling everywhere for lumps and bumps. It is a compulsion and all it does is feed the anxiety.

With regard to your poo, if it puts your mind at rest I have had horrible poos after rich food like takeaways - especially if I had something fatty. Peas floating in loose poo in normal too, like with sweetcorn :wacko: lol! Not nice, but everyone poos!

Really try next time you poo not to look. I know it is hard and it will make you feel uncomfortable at first but please try just to flush it and walk away :)

My Dad always says to "If you always do what you have always done, you will always feel how you have always felt" I always think about that when I am trying to change things.

Good luck! :yesyes:

[lukeneal26]

I have been told I had ibs I mean I have no pain and my appetite is coming back day by day and ive put weight on so that must be a good sign? the main thing worrying me is the aches in my joints and they feel like they are fatigued but then last night I was watching tv and never once had an ache or pain?:shrug:

[Katki]

Since this patch of anxiety hit me a month ago, I have felt like I'm 80 years old. My body is so drained even after sleep. It's normal for someone who has tensed thier body up so much to feel like that. So don't worry.

You were probably relaxed whilst watching TV, so that's good.

[lukeneal26]

yea I find its first thing in the morning is the worse feel tense and ache all over I find my hands crack a lot but I think they always have but there very stiff! had a full blood test so I do know there cant be anything wrong with my bones

[Katki]

never forget that anxiety can make almost every part of your body feel like rubbish. insides and outsides and mind, obviously. you also become super sensitized to everything that is happening so where you wouldn't have even noticed before (I have suffered with loose stools most of my adult life and never really cared) you will start analysing everything that is happening to your body. Its important to stop that in it's tracks.

[lukeneal26]

yea it comes and gose over the day I did pull my upper back running and don't think that is helping

[wnsos]

your therapist is right on the money. at one point i was examining all of my stools and had to make an active decision, despite how terrified i was i had something, to stop looking. eventually not looking every other day became not looking at all. i'll progress to checking now and then but probably not for a while cause those habits are hard to break. the chinese food was probably rich and could mess around with the ol' poo.

[lukeneal26]

last night I had the same thing stomach ache followed by a loose floating stool and today ive weighed my self and im 15.58 stone and yester morning I was 15.63

[Mrschurchill]

I've had loose stools for the past week also, it's totally cranked my anxiety up! Convinced I have ovarian Cancer! Mines are only in the morning, just like a sudden rush. And I have had a lot of flatulence also! Eurgghhh!

[Juggsy]

another who regularly checks....mine have been loose for months...sometimes have a period of normal...however ive noticed a translucent sheen on top of water after mine...not massively noticeable however when you take a close look it loks like a thin fiilm of grease...im now worried sick about pancreatic cancer as it can suggest not digesting the fats.......anybody else get this with ibs

[lukeneal26]

:shrug:i get mucas floating on the top which I think is from ibs the funny thing is I think ive always had loose stools for as long as I can think but its playing on my mind been I lost my aapppetie and weight loss but I think PC your stool would be white to gray from what a doctor told me once he said if your poop is white,gray or full of blood then worry

[Juggsy]

yes i get mucus but this is morea very faint sheen that swirls on the water....im also getting pain in left side radiating to my left shoulder blade......may even go to a&e this evening as im starting to really panic about this

[lukeneal26]

if it makes you feel any better I gave a constent ache where you are saying but on the right side sometimes its on the left I think its because were stressed and we tense our bodys up well I know I do and when you do relax your muscles start to ache which then starts the panic off again. how old are you by the way PC is only common in over 50s think I read there was like 5 people under 30 with it in the uk last year and there 60 odd million people in the uk :)

[Juggsy]

I'm 40 this year and whilst I know it's rare...my ha plays on it constantly