Clear water like diarrhea?

I didn't read the whole thread, but mucous is common in IBS and harmless.

There are ways to tell between IBS and Fructose Malabsorption.

Fructose can exasperate IBSers because it can cause osmotic D.


Fructose Malabsorption might be part of a differential diagnosis, before someone is diagnosed with IBS.

IBS symptoms may be triggered and exacerbated by high FODMAP foods in your diet. *FODMAPs is an acronym for Fermentable Oligosaccharides, Disaccharides, Monosaccharides and Polyols. These are molecules found in food that can be poorly absorbed in the digestive tract by some people - they travel into the large intestine where they become food for bacteria in the bowel and there they ferment, often triggering or exacerbating IBS symptoms such as bloating, cramps, diarrhorea, etc.
*A FODMAP friendly (or Low FODMAP) diet will not cure IBS - it aims to reduce the symptoms of IBS, making it more manageable and life much pleasanter. *High FODMAP foods have a cumulative effect within your digestive system - it is often a 'build-up' of poorly digested FODMAP foods over a period of time that will trigger or exacerbate IBS symptoms. It also means that it is the quantity, combination, and 'spacing' of high FODMAP foods in your diet, rather than a specific food, that will cause problems. Furthermore, the physical effects (IBS symptoms) of eating problem food/s may not show up immediately after a particular meal - it may take days or weeks. In this case people often think it was, for example, the garlic or onion they had that night that caused bloating and cramps, when in fact it may have been the asparagus, mushroom and snow pea pasta, followed by apple pie that they ate 2 nights previously that actually triggered the symptoms. *A low FM diet is more about understanding and controlling the quantity, combination, and 'spacing' of high FM foods in your diet, rather than the total elimination of specific foods. *Reducing meal sizes, alcohol, fatty foods and caffeine in your diet are all likely to help reduce IBS symptoms. *Cutting food into smaller pieces, chewing well and eating slowly may also help. *Stress, anxiety and poor sleep are likely contributors to IBS symptoms.
I highly recommend you make an appointment with a reputable FODMAP aware dietitian for a personal assessment eg. Shepherd Works if you live in Melbourne or Adelaide (Australia). If you live in another state or overseas, I would suggest you contact Shepherd Works or Box Hill hospital - hopefully they can recommend a reputable dietitian or dietary practice near you. We are lucky enough to live close to Shepherd Works, Monash University & Box Hill Hospital (in Australia), the world leaders in this research.
My daughter (22) is having great success on the low FODMAP diet - she had IBS symptoms for a number of years and they were steadily getting worse to the point of being debilitating. She is now about 8 weeks into the FODMAP program and her IBS symptoms have significantly reduced. For more info go to www.facebook/glutenfreeguerrillas then click on Discussions - the topic FODMAP diet posted by Valda Davis should appear. This should be a good starting point for you to find out more about FODMAPs and IBS.

 

Post Edited By Moderator (**tori**) : 5/24/2011 12:09:58 PM (GMT-6)

I had this problem only once, and it was when I had a very bad flu and lasted about a day.

ibs8 said...
I have recently been diagnosed (for now) with IBS. I frequently suffer from bouts (squirts) of diarrhea which looks like clear water? I mean really clear water, like it is being poured out of a water bottle. Has anyone else heard of this? I cannot seem to get an answer as to the reason from my Doctor. When I do have BM, it is soft and squishy and shoot out of my butt like rocket taking off soon after I wake up.



I am a 42 year old male, in otherwise good health.



Can anyone give me some advice?

ARE YOU SURE IT IS WATER AND NOT MUCUS?

Oh my gosh, I was browsing the forums to see what new info had come out and this thread just jumped out at me because I experienced this just yesterday. I got really sick in May with D and joint pain. Had all the tests done and after a month on xanax and amitriptline, oh and Hyoscamine my symptoms have pretty much dissaperaed. I go normally (1-2 formed stools a day) with very little gas. I eat healthy and exercise everyday. I was recently diagnosed with somatization disorder which includes IBS symptoms. I have been pretty much normal. On Sunday I went to San Francisco with my boyfriends family and friends. I was nervous because since I got sick I have only traveled with my family or just with my BF. He told me we were sharing a room and I said NO! I have nightmares, I pee a lot, and I just didnt want to be uncomfortable. My stomach started cramping horribly and when I went to use the bathroom a lot of wind came out. Gas like I have never had in my life. I took a xanax and I knocked out. I woke up with the feeling of trapped gas and went to sit on the toilet and I felt a rush of water exit my booty. I was halfway asleep and wasn't sure if I actually felt that or if I peed and thought it came out through the back end. I just ignored it because in the morning I went back to being able to eat BBQ chicken, beans, and sweet potato and I didnt even have gas or D and now everything is back to normal. Now that I read this I know I am not crazy and that it did occur. I also passed mucus when this all happpened but no stool. I am almost certain this is just another IBS symptom having to do with stress as it came and went so quickly along with the pain. My IBS doesent seem to be affected by food and is usually pain predominant. I will get cramping pain when I am stressed (good or bad stress) which xanax relieves me of which only makes somatization disorder very likely. The parasite theory also sounds very likely because my symptoms have subsided since May and now I have episodes where i pass mucus. I dont have much pain or gas just sometimes I will go pee and some mucus will come from the back end. Very strange. This weekend was horrible though with the cramping and gas. I am going to the doctor tommorow for a follow up and will mention the parasite theory.

Would you be able to tell me what antibiotics they put you on or how they tested you for this parasite, Thanks : )
I will keep you all updated with what the doctor says tommorow.

i have been suffering with simular problem its been going on since last year (2010) started off as diarrhea then was just clear water it only happens occasionaly thank god....doctor assured me that if i am constipated then fluids just build up behing the hard stool/stools that cant be released until my body cant hold no more fluid that i will let of alot of gas and all this gas is trying to release all the built up fluids .......OK yes i give of alot of gas through the night and day for about 24 hours before i then have an accident but i dont believe i am constipated as i go regular every morning after my first cuppa............my theory is that i suffer with heart burn alot and my body is just releasing the build up of acid as my butt do burn when it happens........few months later it happens again but this time i get a real bad pain in my chest,lungs and stomach area when i burp it smells like bad eggs then i am pooping water again i am now seeing consultants as they suspect stomach ulcer/ulcers.....ibs...and a digestion problem wich one is it i do not know i got ultra scan 3/11/11 and a camara down my throat 11/11/11 hopefully they will find the cause

I have this pooing water problem as well. It started after my gallbladder was removed. I know that I can make it happen by drinking salted water (did this once by accident). But it happens all too often, and for reasons I cannot guess. So now to be safe I load my soup with bread or crackers to avoid the potential problem, but this will likely cause weight gain. Anyone know what's going on here?

I have read these posts and I have this very odd "illness". The doctor's have no idea what I have or how to treat me. I had a colonoscopy and the doctor that did it does not want to treat me anymore because he does not know how to.  It doesn't matter what I eat or drink...EVERYTHING comes out in a waterlike explosion within 30 minutes of putting in my body. It changes color depending on what I eat or drink. No over the counter meds help.  I am exhausted because I am not getting the nutrition I need for my body, plus my stomach is bloated and swollen.  I get cramps here and there but not constant.  Does anyone know what type of doctor I need to go to because the Gastro doctor's have been useless.  This is very embarrassing and I don't know where to turn anymore.

Goodness this threads been going on awhile. I google'd my symptoms and ended up finding this forums filled with tons of people having the same problem. This is probably the 2nd time its ever happened to me, the first time being around 8 years ago in 4th grade. Reading all this has made me worried about 2 things.
1. Everyone seems to have been dealing with this for years, so I'm worried that this might be the start of something.
2. I'm worried to go to the doctors about this, since everyone's doctors seem to either be blowing it off, or just having no knowledge of it.

I'm a 17 year old male, and this is the first time this has really affected me (except for as stated before, 8 years ago, but it wasn't nearly as bad) I've read a lot of reasons of why this might be happening, and a lot of possible solutions. I'm going to test them out to see if there's any changes. With any luck, this will be a 1 day thing and I'll be better tomorrow. In the likely chance that its not just a one day thing, let me know if anyone discovers anything else.

Its been almost a year now, of the constipated secretions. Mucus-like, watery, usually clear though can be orangish or yellowish, with particulate matter in it. Soft, pale, and malabsorbed clay feces. All following an acute intestinal infections. Cramping bloating, pains, explosive diarrhea, or constipation. You know name, I got it. about every symptom in the thread except this never went away, unless I completely stopped eating all together. This indicates to me that this is bacterially/fungally, or parasitically related. If you fast for 48 hours and your symptoms subside, you have starved whatever is living inside of you, and most likely all this "junk" is manifesting in the small intestine.

Ive seen multiple docs, quit smoking marijuana, quit drinking, on no medications, and have no known allergies. Ive tried eliminations, foodmaps, and a couple thousand dollars worth of supplements(every probiotic, and a bunch of fiber supplements and digestive enzymes).

This is biofilm, and it may not simply be because of the fructose, but rather the tiny organisms and yeasts/parasites that feed off these easy to digest sugars(for them). I have researched this condition and it is not necessarily IBS but rather, SIBO. What happens is in your small intestines(which are normally clear of bacteria), they become infected with bacteria that normally only lives in the large intestine. They pass up through the duodenum and colonize, feeding off all the nutrients you eat(they love iron, and sugars) leading to malnutrition.

Ive had the weight loss, degrading skin and fingernails, loss of muscle, fatigue(anemia) and clouded thoughts and rolling headaches. When the bacteria colonizes it creates its own thick biofilm, and whether what we are passing is that biofilm, or rather mucous pushed through the small intestine to clear it off the bacteria, is unsure, but the water surely is. When the body is trying to rid the intestines of these toxic organisms and yeasts, it will flush them out by drawing water into the small intestine, to speed up transit and also Forcibly eject them.

Heres where it gets complex. The rapid flushing of the biofilms also causes us not to digest food as well, thats where we get the pale soft serve ice cream poops, violent gas, cramping, and then for whatever reason methane CAUSES constipation. Which is why we get the initial gas and diarrhea and due to toxic remains of this undigested garbage, our muscles become paralyzed and we become constipated, and also may feel tenesmus(feeling of incomplete defecation), or like me, actual incomplete defecation.

I will be going to the mayoclinic soon and I plan to visit every doctor in the country until I get it resolved, but I can only suggest you cut out ALL sugars. No dairy, no carbs, no gluten, no wheat. Vegan, sugar, and dairy free.

Cook all meals at home, no red meats(They are converted to sugars), only chicken, eggs, soy yogurt w/ probiotics, and I only purchase ONE brand of bread. Udi's Gluten free "Ancient grains" bread. It has no wheat, and a bunch of other ancient grains which seem to help scrape away some of the disgusting swamp juices manifesting inside my body. Drink tons of water... no sugars, not even maple syrup. NO fruit, some vegetables, no grease, no oils, like I said... all meals at home. HF corn syrup is in everything. I cook with a DAB of olive oil and vegan vegetable spread instead of butter. LIving in the midwest sucks for health food, if u have to, buy from a co-op or pay out the extra for whole foods. Live a stress free life, avoid pastas, soy sauce, anything with wheat in it appears to irritate the intestines like crazy. Raw caveman/mediteranean diet is your best bet.

I also use a product by Garden of Life called "Raw fiber". It works alot better than metamucil and it has probiotics in it. I also take align but who knows if its making a difference, probiotics treat the large intestine, and these issues appear to be from the small intestine. I will be asking for a round of antibiotics, because im so desperate at this point, maybe clearing out the whole "house" and replanting flora w/ probiotics may be my last hope. Chronic SIBO... which is irritating people who may already have IBS. That is what this is. SIBO could be caused by pre diabetes, diabetes, underactive thyroid, HypoGlobunemia or similar conditions that may allow the bacteria to be up in the small intestine in the first place, but who knows, I am not a doctor, just a regular person suffering like all of you, and as we know the doctors dont give a "crap" especially for the outliers. Godspeed.

Hi everyone, I posted on here around September of last year and it is now May- wow time flys. I went to my doctor and he had no idea what to tell me about this episode. I have been sick since a trip to Chicago in Februaury that was super stressful. I have had indigestion, bloating, and this same episode happen again. The first time it happened I remember taking a pill of Align and was fine and it didnt happen again until recently. I am going to go for a stronger probiotic this time to see if this can all go away. I will let you know if it worked and how long it took for my symptoms to dissapear.