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Q: Colon pain

asked by: dalia3548 on April 27th, 2009

New User

I have suffered from constipation for years but things have changed in the last few months. For the last four months I have experienced, what I call, colon pain. The pain moves from the right side to the upper mid section to the right side. I describe the pain as if a knife is pushing through. It was suggested that I take stool softners which I have been doing for over a month but the pain has worsen and is worse on the left side and even worse when it gets closer to the anus...the pain runs down the leg to my toes. When I have a bowel movement the stool is often thin or watery with mucus...thick, clear mucus with no blood.
Is this serious?
What can it be?
What should I do?

Replies(1)

MandMs

replied on April 29th, 2009

Extremely eHealthy

It is very possible that you are having a fecal impaction, a large mass of dry, hard stool that have developed in the rectum due to chronic constipation.
This causes abdominal cramping pain (as the muscles of bowels walls try to push the stool down the tract), and rectum discomfort, since the stool has caused a intestinal blockage.
The blockage only allows watery waste to pass through the body, and the bowel movements are in form of diarrhea and thin stools, despite constipation.
Straining to have a stool, accompanied with mucus is another symptom.
See your physician.
If this is your problem, you should be treated with colon irrigation.

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