Conditions
Bowel Incontinence
It is said that bowel incontinence (sometimes called faecal or anal incontinence) is a sign or a symptom, not a diagnosis. It is the uncontrolled loss of solid or liquid stools, or wind (gas) with leakage, which occurs when the sphincter muscles and nerves in and around the rectum and anal canal are damaged (e.g. after childbirth or surgery), or become weaker (with age). Bowel incontinence affects 1% to 10% of adults and can seriously affect quality of life for most sufferers. Due to the nature of the condition it has largely been a hidden problem, with sufferers too embarrassed or ashamed to tell anyone about their symptoms. Bowel incontinence can affect anyone, but it is much more common in older people, particularly those with long-term health and mobility problems. There are a number of treatments for bowel incontinence (non-surgical and surgical) depending on the cause of the problem.
If you’re suffering from continence problems then you can watch a special webchat with Mr Andrew Clarke on Thursday 10th December at 2pm (GMT). Go to www.webchats.tv to submit your questions ahead of the live chat.
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I have noticed that when I go to the toilet my poo is really thin, lots of little poo's like pencil thin, but lots of them and they are really easy to pass but I still don't feel that I have emptied my bowel? Please help, is this normal??
need help picking the right diaper or pull up underwear i just been diagnosed with ibsibd chrones an im loosing control more an more scared to leave home with out a diaper or somthing advise please every diaper i tryd so far is no good for my prob
I keep finding pooh in my back passage and on my underwear when going to the loo, I'm not realising this is happening at the time, I'm really worried that I smell, also once I have had a bowel movement and I've cleaned myself I find more pooh there to clean! I'm wondering if I'm compacted or my muscles have gone loose? Please help
i am a 22 years old male born with imperforate anus and the doctors says my case is good but still i leak gases and sometimes i leak boo so what the solutions plz help !!!!
Hi everybody, my son is 10 years old, and he has problem with his poop and to be honest I do not know what else to do. I get angry because I dont want him to be teased at school. I have tried everything, star chart, praising, shouting, crying, talking, ignoring and our GP just gave him movicol, it seems to give him a bad tummy. he does go to the toilet. is so hard to explain, i even bought kids toilet wipes, to teach him to clean himself right, but it is still happening. please if you have any tips, i would really be so grateful . ThAanks :)
Im so frightnened my son is 12 he been complaining of pumping a lot and noticed very loose poo but now its a bit blood on toilet paper ..... help xxxx
my 14yr old grand daughter as a bowl problem were she soils her self and she keeps having to run to the toilet and also soils at night in bed
i'm a 24 year old female, just over a year ago now i had an emergency end iliostomy and told that my bowel was about to perferate as i had severe ulcerative colitis. i had been living with the condition for years and was although i has been to the doctors about it i was embarassed and scared to get anything donw about it. I am still waiting for a reversal which for whatever reason keeps bein put back. i still hav the colitis and i,m constantly on the pan. some foods are worse than others but I cant drink anything hot or eat certain things without rushing to the toilet. its just fluid mucus and clots of blood that comes away all the time, I get sore heads from dehydration, i think i'm anemic again but havnt been checked (i cant take iron tablets because they make me feel ill and put me on the toilet) and my bag blows up and bursts constantly in my sleep. this is taking over my life i hate leaving the house on my own and thers days wer i refuse to leave. i also have a 2 year old son thats missing out on doing thigs with his mum. Is ther anything i can do to have my operation pushed forward and anything i can ask the doctor for to treat the remaining colitis?
i cant believe i have just read this, it sounds like the same as me, everyting u have said i had my op last year, coz i was in constant pain, but now i want rid of the bag, i be 24 soon too and have a 5 year old boy and going back to the same reason as what u put u jus feel like you dont want to leave the house.
Let your Stoma nurses know how bad it is for you and make a point of telling them how much it is effecting your life as a family. I had a procolectomy, J-pouch formation 2 years ago after 2 years of constant steriods for Colitis, which I could not cope with and look after 3 young children. imodium helps with output, you could try asking for VSL#3 probiotics which helps for some, otherwise it's trial and error to find the right meds for you. All you can do is keep on at them and alwas be totally honest with them, trust me when I say nothing shocks them. A great support site with more advice on is www.crohnszone.org Good luck. x
Hi I'm a 27 year old male, I have been putting a lot of weight on the last couple of months, going to the toilet around 2-3 times a day ( very loose) were I use to go 2-3 times a week :-/ also iv noticed 2 hard lumps under the skin on the right side on my belly around the size of 10p peace. Could all these be linked if so what to???? Thanks
am a 17 year old male, and on tuseday i felt a little purple lump on my bum hole and now it has gotten a bit bigger. anyone had this problem?
I'm a 24 year old relatively healthy female. I've been sexually active since I was 17 but recently I've started to experience the slight and unconscious release of faeces during sex. It's only a little bit, maybe the size of a pea or slightly more. I'm in a relatively new relationship and it's only happened twice but now I'm frightened to have sex. It's never happened to me before with any previous partners and I dont notice it's happening until afterwards. Please help, I'm utterly mortified and as my mother has recently been diagnosed with bowel cancer, worried this could be a precursor to something more sinister.
I also have this problem and it started a few months after I started taking metformin could this be linked?
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