I have had terrible heartburn, headaches, abdomen pain and bloating, tar looking stools and dry mouth, and tongue feels funny. I am not a hypocondriac, I never go to doctors, and for that reason I am concerned as to what this is? How about an ulcer of some sort?

Can you have them both at the same time? Or is one causing the other to happen? Is the worms causing all the constipation for a month, or is the IBS causing the worms in the stools. Thanks, 10 points to the best answer.

fruits and veges daily. I wud like to know if it is a mdical problem or a physcological problem. I don’t have the urge to pass motion in the morning. So I usually eat 2 slices of bread and a cup of Milo or coffee in the morning and after that I go and pass motion. Usually I wait about 5-7 mins beforeI can pass motion and most of the time I strain myself. It get worse when there’s noises outside the toilet or when I feel someone else is waiting. My stomach gets bloated when I strained too much but I am only satisfied when I know I have empty my bowels completely. It’s very frustrating not to be able to relax and just pass motion. If I feel there’s lots of gas in my stomach after I pass motion, I’ll make myself throw up. It’s frustrating and embaressing to spend at least 30 min in the toilet(usually twice in a day). I have irregular eating hours, I usually eat my dinner after 8pm and that’s usually a full meal. Please give me any suggestion to find the root cause. I NEED HELP.

For the past few months I’ve been experiencing frequent loose stools (diarrhea), change in stool and clear jelly-like mucus in my stools as well. Lately, I’ve been having period like cramps in pelvic region, just finsihed my period cramps were very painful as usual. I am going to my doctor’s tomorrow, can anyone help me with my symptoms? My thoughts would be Colitis, ovarian cysts (because of pain & my periods). Help! Thanks so much.
also, i’ve been looking around on the internet a lot and came across a lot of similar symptoms as endometriosis, which really scared me.

I am vegan and need to take one-a-day.

I am a 30 year old female who runs regularly. I have a history of multinodular goiter and have had some headaches and poor circulation (hands and feet go numb easily if I sit or lay on them- doctor did a CBC and CAT Scan and all was fine) the past few months. I have IBS but not severe. A week and a half ago, I ate some chili that gave me terrible gas. A day later I ran my 3 miles, and my tummy cramped a lot- sort of the feeling like someone punched me in the gut. Felt ok after that until I ran a 5K last Sunday. I felt nauseous after, and noticed some abdominal pain near my belly button. Sometimes it now radiates to the left or right side of my ribs, sometimes it feels like it’s in my stomach, and sometimes it’s in the form of lower intestinal gas. Last night I had yellowish soft stool a few times after dinner. Is it just coincidence that I ate that chili and this is happening, or could it be related?

for quite some time i have been having lower right abdominal and back pains. with this comes heartburn and when i eat spicy food blood comes out with my stool. some days i am constipated, some diahrrea, sometimes i can’t keep anything in my stomache. i have gone to see several doctors but they say the same thing it’s just normal pain and give me pain killers. can somebody help me?

I kind of know what each of them mean, but I don’t know if they are the same thing just different words, or if they really are different things. If they’re different things, please let me know how they differ. Thanks, 10 points to the best answer.

I started working a physically demanding job in a fast paced, hot and humid cafeteria kitchen. I’ve been sweating excessively and constantly throughout my entire 8 hr shift. Every day since then, I’ve been experiencing some constipation and hard stools.

I do know that the colon pulls water from the waste. Maybe it’s trying to overcompensate with the additional sweating.