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Toilet issues

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ForeverHopeful21 · 06/06/2017 12:24

I had a miscarriage in March. Prior to this I would go to the loo for a poo the same time every morning, very straight forward and nothing unusual.
My miscarriage involved large volume blood loss and then infection, so I was put on two lots of strong antibiotics and high dose iron tablets.
This resulted in the worst explosive diarrhoea I have ever experienced to the point of sitting on the loo all night long, extremely sore bottom and then getting piles. The chemist were able to give me strong diarrhoea tablets, which didn't stop it but did calm things down. It took almost 3 weeks for the diarrhoea to completely stop.

Long story short, things have never really gone back to normal. Some days I will go 2 or 3 times in a day and it will be very soft, and other times I won't go at all for days and it then gets very uncomfortable and almost feels like I'm a bit constipated. I've been using suppositories but my bottom doesn't feel back to normal either as sometimes I still get a sharp pain.

My diet hasn't changed and I'd say it's quite balanced. The only thing that changed was the MC, but as time is going on I'm now wondering if it's completing unrelated to the MC??

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Funnyface1 · 06/06/2017 13:10

It's the iron tablets. They cause loads of trouble with bowels.

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