Question: I am a 27 year old male, I had constipation problem from my childhood and I regularly pass tool every morning but I do have to struggle for it. I did ignore the problem for some time now, recently I had a severe attack of diarrhea which went for a few weeks and due to a wedding of a close member in the family I ignored the problem. A Couple of weeks back when my stool started to become hard I had severe pain in my anus and visited a couple of doctors, one being a ayurvedic doctor diagnosed I had fissure and gave medicine to cure it and, if not healed, he recommended a surgery. To get a second opinion I visited a MBBS doctor who examined and said that it is not severe and prescribed a stool softener to be used for 10 days. The current situation is that I don’t have pain but when I eat little spicy food or consume anything which generates heat worsens the condition. I feel after every meal that my stomach is bloated than usual and I get this urge to pass stool. The situation becomes normal when I drink buttermilk and take little care but some days when I eat normally the problem comes back again . Also both the doctors recommended that I should have plenty of water and I had been drinking close to 4 liters per day and added a lot of fruits in my diet. Since the problem I go to loo 3-4 times in a day and I will have burning sensation in my anus for a few hours. There has never been any blood in my stool except that on occasions I do feel like passing glass. I don’t know whether I have IBS or Piles or Fissure and I used Himalaya Pilex for a week which showed some improvement. However whenever I consume alcohol or eat anything that creates heat makes the pain unbearable. I recently under went a surgery for a 6mm kidney stone in my right Kidney. Even though I don’t face any problem with the kidney stone and all but I still do have a DJ stent in my body. Is this the reason for the heat in my body? Do I have IBS given to the fact that there was no blood what so ever in my stool? The kidney stone and the constipation are the outcomes of not drinking a lot of water which I have realized now and I am taking proper measures. The pain when I pass stool and the burning sensation in the area are really bothering me and could anything to get rid of them to have a normal life. P.S: undergoing surgery for the stent removal next week.

Hi Doctor,

The diarrhea was because of the infection that I believe a few of my friends have had the same problem after consuming the wedding feast, I mentioned about. If it is because of an infection is it possible for it to continue to pose problem for more than 3 months? I will get my stool sample checked if I have any infection. Could you please let me know what else should I get checked along with any precautions that I should take till that time? Also since the Diarrhea attack I felt that the stool was completely normal except for the hardening of stool which happeed for a brief period of time.

Hi Doc,

Before I close it one last question, when I had the surgery for kidney stone removal, I was on antibiotics for a week will those be different from the ones that effects the gastroenteritis bacteria?

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