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Posted 3/11/2011 3:22 AM (GMT 0)
So, curious if anyone else has similar symptoms...

I know morning bowel problems are somewhat of a staple with IBS. I was doing well with my IBS for a long time, and then came down with severe anxiety
due to a medication reaction. (Singulair and a streroid nose spray together.)

Since then, it seems that I've been having primarily morning movements... always fairly soft, and usually multiple. Depending on my level of anxiety, I can be woken
up to have them. (Early.) Most days... it's like... I go several times in the early morning, and then not again the rest of the day. This has been on and off (mostly on)
since last June. I've attributed it to anxiety and IBS.

I've recently come down with gastritis, as well. I don't think it's related, though the gastritis could be stress-related... or acid-related.

So, there are a few issues going on here.... but mostly I'm wondering if anyone else has this sort of weird bowel pattern that's so consistent, particularly if it's
emptying in the morning. I've tried fiber... not much help. (I used to take Metimucil every day until the gastritis.)

Any ideas? Thoughts? Suggestions?
Posted 3/11/2011 8:29 AM (GMT 0)
I have strange issues in the morning, like for instance just now, on my first toilet attempt the stools looked tanned and ribbon in feature, then about 10 minutes later I felt the need to go again, and this time it was a soft diarrhoea, and looked like what I had eaten the night before.

So it seems like there can be some stools in the rectum to be followed by diarrhoea right behind minutes later, what I can't understand is why the diarrhoea doesn't come out the same time as the first lot of stools, it is like the diarrhoea is forced to stay back until the ribbon type of stools are released.

What causes this I do not know, but as you know I am having bowel issues anyway and I do hope my tests soon will bring the cause or causes.
Posted 3/11/2011 5:16 PM (GMT 0)
Count me in for those same symptoms... in the morning, it's often the first stool is OK.. then the next is ribbon, then just loose. (For example.) Always several movements in the AM. (At least this past 6 months.) Rarely will I have another movement the rest of the day, though sometimes I have VERY small ones. (That feel like they should have been bigger.) Though, on the odd occasion... I'll have a semi-normal sized, but soft movement at some point later in the day.

Sorry for "too much info," but it's nice to be able to nail down some of these patterns and speak to other people about it. Interested to see if anyone else has patterns of this nature.
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