Advice please:
ive been having problems for the past month with tummy pain, pain around ribs/in shoulder, burping, stomach grumbling etc. It all started when I tried to stop Citalopram and had really bad side effects, I went back on it but the stomach problems continued.
For the past 3 of 4 days I've been taking Colpermin and it really helped, I had 2 days completely pain free, then yesterday the pain started again, not as bad but it was there niggling. The Colpermin has started helping stop my diarrhoea, my poo now has hard bits in and the rest is softish. My question is, the hard bits in my poo are really hard but they're also very very dark, if not black. I'm ashamed to admit that I had a prod around this morning (because the colour freaked me out) and now I'm a bit scared. I've not changed anything in my diet, no medication has changed so I don't know why my poo has gone so dark.
Im worried that maybe it's been black for a while but because it's been very loose I've just not noticed.

can anyone relate?