I am suffering from diarrhea since I gave birth a year back is it due to post traumatic stress
hello I welcome you to icliniq I can understand you must be upset about your symptoms well the part of problem is explained by certain drugs you are taking like heferol which is iron and usually causes gastrointestinal upset some feel constipation and some feel diarrhea but drug side effects usually settle once culprit medication is stopped I do not whether you taking heferol since last year or started recently and whether you gave a drug free trial to see if it improve your symptoms of diarrhea there is long list of conditions which can cause intermittent diarrhea the few such example is giardiasis food allergies and allergic gastroenteritis I want you to upload all previous testing that you have done and provide me more details about your diarrhea before I can be able to suggest you something below I write down some investigations that you should get before we meet again or if already these tests are available kindly share with me the reports I will help you to settle your problem good day giardiasis food allergies celiac small intestinal bacterial overgrowth functional diarrhea irritable bowel syndrome complete blood count ash ft3 ft4 serum ferrtin level stool detail report stool for ova and parasites stool for fecal calprotectin stool for difficile antigen stool for giardiasis antigen stool for fat globules and reducing substance stool for spot na and spot serum or serum na and serum see me after investigations will decide treatment plan afterwards see me after investigations will decide treatment plan
i gave birth a year ago I have had problems with diarrhea ever since periodically I did tests for candida helicobacter pyloric bleeding parasites all negative I have a slightly weaker blood count I did a stomach ultrasound and everything is fine I suffer from post traumatic stress and the doctors told me I had diarrhea because of it I have been taking post traumatic stress therapy and I have been feeling slightly better but the diarrhea has not stopped in the last month I go to the toilet 5 times a day in the morning as soon as I wake up I have to go to the toilet and a few more times during the day I am currently taking the following therapy orvagyl 400 daily probiotic forte daily heferol daily vitamin daily seroxat 20mg daily eglonil 100 my daily prazepam 10mg daily