Clear water like diarrhea?

ibs8,
Welcome to Healing Well. I am Kitt. I don't have an answer for the clear water question but I am sure someone wiser than I will come along and have some advice.
I must say you have a way with words and your quite descriptive. If I could have gotten my patients in the ER to be able to decribe their sx as well as you I would have been very happy. Sometimes it was like pulling teeth to find out what was bothering them.
Again, Welcome.

Clear, clear D does sound odd. Now all-water D isn't at all, but the fact that it is completely clear should, in theory, only happen after you've been taking a lot of laxatives and fasting, such as prior to a colonoscopy.

Have you been fasting and/or on an all liquid diet for any reason? That could easily be the culprit behind the lack of color in your stools. Even a severe restriction in your diet might cause you to have more water than stool, and thus changing the D over to clear.

Eeeekkkk! Don't take the calcium then. The calcium will make the C worse. Maybe you should start a very specific food diary and take fiber and probiotics.

Welcome aboard, and sorry 2 hear?just have to say. video tape it hand to the doc?
metam, wassaid the badstuf fto take , and citracel is the better? but you know what it is your body and you need to find your spot?

pure water it may look like but I bet it is not ? are you chugging water , gatoraid etc more than usual, or hardely at all?
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Like Canyon mentioned, try avoiding raw fruits and veggies. They are harder on the gut to digest. Start by cooking them thoroughly and then slowly re-introducing them raw. Keep track of what you ate, how much you ate, when you ate it, and how you felt after eating it. It helps also to include how you were feeling (stressed, you ate in a hurry; relaxed, you were able to have a leisurely lunch) when you ate those foods.
A big trigger for me is eating late at night. Try not going to bed on a full tummy. I for sure wake up in the middle of the night with D when I eat before bed.

So do you just have these water poops for two or three months, then have a loose stool? Do you not have even a semi-solid stool more often than that?

Has anyone checked your vitamin levels? With something that weird going on, I'd worry that you're not absorbing food properly.

My cousin has been diagnosed with Ilitis, Crohn, IBS, diverticulosis and every other thing that involves intestines for over 50 years and they have never found a solution. I only mention this because there is not a test that he has not had ten-fold. He is now 75 and weighs 107lbs and still manages to live a fairly normal life. He has even had surgery for Ilitis. He just keeps eating and pooping and much is just water he says. I does say that Metamucil helps more then anything else which the Doctors have said he should not take for some reason. I only bring this up because sometimes there just is no answer and it is trial and error for each person. He says ice cream before bed keeps him from having to go in the night for some reason. How different is that.

The clear water poops do not occur every day rather every few days probably, and when they do happen they will happen 4-5 times over the course of the day. The days when I don't have the "water", I may have loose stools that resemble watery soft ice cream. Basically, what comes out and when is a crap shoot.... (that was my crappy attempt at poop humor)

I'm going through a similar situation. It just started this morning, at first it was brown but as the day went along it got lighter until clear like water. I would feel it coming out and it would be as if nothing happened. I'm hoping it goes away, but nothing like this has ever happened to me before.

I just googled "clear diarrhea" and found this post. I can't believe that someone else has it.

My symptoms are EXACTLY as described. I have constipation, and tremendous amounts of just air that are released when I try to go to the bathroom.

I will have absolutely clear, colorless, and odorless "diarrhea" for a period of several days, all the while I am constipated.

I have no symptoms of illness and can eat normally. This is not due to eating too many fruits and vegetables at the time, as I don't really vary that.

One thing I have noticed is that I almost ALWAYS get this while I am traveling. It is VERY, very odd.

I mentioned it a few years ago to an internist and it was obvious that he did not believe me.

My own husband, who is a surgeon, also does not believe that I am describing the symptoms accurately.

Even if I don't find out what it is, I am glad to find out that it is not unique to me.

Any other thoughts?

i have the same issue. Cut out stuff in my diet and it went away for a couple of months. Now it is back agian, even though I never changed anything in my diet from when i was fine to the way i am now. Its pure clear water like tap water with white stuff floating on top. I considered it may be because there is not enough acid in my stomach or its mucas going from nose to my stomach when i sleep. It pins the gas in , and wont let the gas pass because the clear water is filling the bowel. I have the same issue, goes from c to d then back to c. Before a bowel movement , you pass gass first then pass the bowel, with our case, we pass water first and the bowel never comes. Atleast I know it is not rare, what the man described is Identical to what i got.

Since I posted in february I have had this condition for about 10 days while traveling over my son's
spring break. I was miserable because I was not able to have a normal bm the entire time. We were visiting colleges for our youngest son and there was a lot of walking, which is difficult when you feel you have to go all the time. Same thing---clear water with some mucous-like substance, but no fecal matter. Afte. we returned home I finally got back to normal a few days later. The ONLY difference is that I am traveling, and I am thinking that either the cabin pressure in the airplane or the slightly decreased oxygen saturation levels in the bloodstream are responsible for my situation.

I am writing this from a hotel in Switzerland. We left on 7/7 and almost immediately after the initial flight to NYC I had these symptoms. Needless to say, they have gotten worse with the transatlantic flight and I am in misery now. In a few days we have another flight, in a few weeks another, and in a month I'll be flying home, another 8 hour flight. Hopefully I will be back to normal by September.

Has anyone ever heard of cabin pressure or oxygen saturation level as a cause for this condition? I rarely, if ever, chew gum, and my diet dooes not vary at all.... this ALWAYS happens when I fly!