Why am I pooping out half the liquids I drink?

This is prolly the closest forum section I could find for gastritis so posting here....

So recently Ive been diagnosed with acid reflux/gastritis. Been laying low on the heavy foods and kept it to pretty much vitamin pills, white rice gruel, and saltless crackers. Its been going on for 3 months or so but now its not as bad as before because the nausea and vomiting are non existent thanks to the meds (pantoprazole)

Problem is my stomach I guess is still 'delicate' inside so most of my meals consist of say... today for example i mixed hot water with bonito flakes, and konbu, just a bit of them so its like a oil-less non meat broth, taste great too.
My problem is that Im crapting the water out more than Im actually pissing it out.... Granted I haven't eaten alot of anything these past few months and I know my innards may be a bit more empty, but I don't have any cold or flu, and the initial diarrhea I had in the beginning a few months before stopped after I went to this super bland diet. So I'm left wondering...why am I shooting water out of my ass and why isn't it absorbing properly if the gastritis/reflux is something 'up there' in the stomach bag, not down here in the intestines where the liquids absorb? Just this night I went to the bathroom about 10min apart each time the liquid went out the wrong end of the 'tunnel'

Not sure if it helps but i have noticed it happens more when i drink warmer/hot liquids and non for cold liquids.

Hello Merch, I hope you don't have what I think it may be because it sounds pretty close to what you are describing. If I am right, have you ever heard of C-Diff? Clostridium Difficile is the technical term. If you haven't been tested for it, please go to a Gastroenterologist and do it ASAP because the longer it goes untreated the harder it is to cure. It is a very suborn disease. The most identifying symptom of this disease is diarrhea that won't go away or keeps reoccurring. I had it for close to 3 months and some people had it for up to a year or longer. The main symptoms that I had was watery diarrhea, cramps and gas. Other symptoms include but not in my case are fever, nausea, vomiting and maybe more. Here is a link that will describe it and the treatment. Check this link out below. If this link is not active, you can copy or highlight it and paste it. When you said you went to a bland diet and it seemed to improve, this is part of the treatment for it. For right now, try to stay on the bland diet at least until you can get to a doctor. This should be good help for your condition anyway. Good things to eat for it are fresh fruits that have less acid such as apples, pears, grapes, peaches, plenty of cultured yogurt and rye bread....A probiotic promoting diet. Stay away from coffee, alcohol, milk, cola or sodas and chocolate. You probably should add acidopholus supplements and there are others you can use. If you have it, I have a post in this forum under the IBS topic describing everything I did when I had it and the method I did to cure it in a little over 3 weeks. My screen name is etechmaster. Good luck.

http://www.webmd.com/digestive-disorders/clostridium-difficile-colitis

Stool samples should have been one of the first things they did! But if you failed to tell them about this feature then please do so at your earliest opportunity. I can't believe neither doctor asked you about your bowel habits? This is not a time when you should be holding back information because of embarrassment.

Hi thanks, yes I took a look at the link (C. diff) and it seems it fits about half my symptoms although some are a little sketchy
- Watery diarrhea (check)
- Severe abdominal pain (not unless its solid food diarrhea)
- Loss of appetite (mostly due to wanting to avoid nausea and diarrhea)
- Fever (no fever)
- Blood or pus in the stool (thankfully non)
- Weight loss (I'm nearing -50lb atm since the 3 months it started, most likely due to my diet)
- (had no major surgery/disease before and in my 30s)

Ive made an appointment for next week at the gastro doc so I will try focus more on the lower gut problems. I think he will be willing to give me a colonoscopy if I request it, although I'm not really sure if that place does stool samples.

Hey merch, Glad you got to read it. Yeah, I didn't have mucus or puss and not much blood if any. Not hardly any nausea unless like you if I ate off my diet. Most of the time I was very hungry and I didn't loose much wt. but if any maybe a few lbs. in the beginning when I didn't know about probiotics and didn't know what the hell I had. No fever here either. I think the reason they ask if you had surgery is because of contracting it from a blood transfusion or a hospital stay where there is lack of sanitary issues. Very little abdominal pain just from isolated areas mostly left side. Sounds like if you have it, might be a mild case so far. I think I may have had a mild case compared to some in here that have complications with IBS and other related diseases. Yeah, kaz has good info. Just tell your doc and he will give you or call in a script for your stool check. I did mine a Quest Diagnostics because they have results within 24 to 48 hrs. plus I can either go in w/o appt. I didn't want to fool around because I knew I had something bad after my first skit of antibiotics. BUT, I didn't wait for my regular GI doc. because it was a Thursday when I finished them and all he had open was for the following Wednesday. So I got my directory out and looked for a doc for the next day (friday) and got lucky when I found one on my first try. He asked why I wanted to switch to him and I told him why. Never know when just one day could make a possible big difference in recovery. At least you know about the diet. Question is, did you tell your first two doctors about your frequent trips? If so, like kaz said, a stool sample should have been the first thing done and maybe think about another doctor too. If not, don't worry about what people think in here. I'm not in here to judge you, We're here to help if we can. Well...Good luck and I'm pretty interested in what your results are. I hope it isn't C-Diff or anything you can't get rid of. At least CD is curable but not easily though. I'll check in now & then. Take care.