Help me play health detective with my husband's digestion - he thinks he's digesting things too fast and poos five or six times a day

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Yup... bit shocked to discover this! And needing to poo wakes him up in the night. Not great

He is ridiculously healthy - slim, keen cyclist, very fit, early 60s but everyone takes him for early 50s - but has had an intolerance to wheat which he discovered in his 20s. If he eats even a tiny amount of wheat he gets a migraine. Oh, and the same with red wine

Our diet is very healthy - lots of veggies, some meat protein but mainly vegetarian, lots of oats, not much sugar, not much alcohol.

So ... what do you think? Doesn't have diarrhoea or constipation - just poos a lot!

He says he feels as if everything moves through him too fast. Eating yogurt has helped a little but not much.

And he does avoid other grains like rye and barley, focussing on oats, rice, quinoa, etc...

Anyone ever heard of anything like this?

Interestingly he has a regular colonoscopy every five years.... his family has a history of rectal cancer.... but has been told his colon looks pretty healthy and normal. A few diverticulii but nothing else.

Given that six weeks of eating gluten every day - which is what the website says for checking if coeliac - does anyone know

1. If his colon "looks healthy" during a colonoscopy, does that mean he can't have coeliac? He hasn't eaten wheat for over 30 years, and has only eaten minimal barley and rye, though lots of oats.

1. What else could be wrong?

1. Or whether you would just relax now - as he is doing! - given that he is with our "new regime" outlined above (3 meals and a snack in a 10-12 hour window, gluten free oats only once a day, no other gluten) he is now only pooing once or twice a day, and feeling so much better! Says his digestion hasn't felt this good for years.... and he has only been doing this for six days!

It does make me laugh that we are conforming to stereotype of man not being too bothered while woman wants to investigate thoroughly ... although I confess I do find it interesting, and love solving puzzles!!

I don't think a colonoscopy can diagnose coeliac disease.

I think it’s the endoscopy that diagnoses coeliac disease.

I do think it warrants further tests.
My mum is Coeliac but can’t tolerate oats, maybe cut them out?