I'm a 25 yr old white male, not overweight, and have not lost any weight, but scared.
I've been struggling with constipation for about two and a half months now and it's finally starting to scare me. At first I was told that I may have Celiac disease, but I now fear that it's not what I have. I was going to order an at home "poop test" to test for celiac when I was paid. I started feeling better after (the abdominal pain i was experiencing went away) I had made that decision. I didn't cut out the gluten from my diet and the pain went away telling me that it wasn't celiac causing my constipation.
I've been having to take suppositories to have a normal bm. If I don't take a suppos. I feel like I don't have any push to get out a bm. When I do take a suppository, it feels like I have great pressure in my rectum and my poop looks normal and is normal size. (normal except for mucous all over it)
If I try and squeeze it out w/o a laxative, it is a little smaller in diameter and I won't go much. When I first started feeling symptoms that was first thought of as Celiac, I saw a small and clear pouch-like thing full of what seemed to be blood. I'm not even sure it was blood, it seemed a little too thin and not as red as blood should be. I've been studying my poo ever since and I haven't been able to distinguish finding blood in my poo at all, nor has any been in the bowl or on the tp. Yesterday I had a slightly reddish looking poop, but I don't know for sure if it was blood because the night before I drank a whole big can of V8 vegetable juice. Could that cause the poo to be red? Or was that blood? I didn't have any blood on the tp, bowl, or anywhere else.
I'm starting to feel back pain as if it related to my problem. The pain radiates from my lower back in the middle toward the sides, mainly the left.
My pain is relieved temporarily when I have a bm. I noticed when I lie down the pain/pressure is relieved also.
Lately, I haven't had any pain in my abdomen, except for the constant feeling like I'm either swollen or bloated in my intestines. It doesn't hurt, but when I hunch over it feels like I'm pinching my intestines inside me with my ribcage or something.
I've been trying not to take laxatives to go, but lately it's been necessary because I've been trying to clean myself out because I got really plugged up about a week ago when I tried to increase my food intake in hopes that it would push everything out and make my bowels work better. Totally not the case. I had to take a suppository to get myself to go, and I never actually get everything out with one suppository. And it's not just a feeling, I do go enough to constitute and a good bm, but it's not enough for what I've ingested and what I've pooped out.
I feel pretty cleaned out now and I still have a bloated feeling. Rather than being celiac, to me it sounds or feels like it could be ulcerative colitis or crohn's except that i haven't had diarhea, I've been nothing but constipated. I'm also starting to really worry that I have rectal or colon cancer.
Oh, I've had a bout of lactose intolerance since I was a little kid. I was always very gassy and I never thought it was a problem. A few years ago I realized my gassiness was caused by the milk. If I drank too much I would get violent diahrea and just gassy if I didn't drink too much. Could this have a correlation to other problems? I heard it could correlate with celiac, could it correlate with anything else? Could I have damaged myself drinking milk and eating dairy all these years?
I'm going through a difficult process to get my insurance straightened out and already owe my local hospital money already. Should I just go in? Any advice for me?