# Can a person have diarrhea EVERY day?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [June 29, 2013, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-a-person-have-diarrhea-every-day/662216 "2013-06-29T19:19:33Z")\
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**Author:** ![Dangerosa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/22d042/32.png) [@Dangerosa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dangerosa)\
**Post date:** [July 3, 2013, 3:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-a-person-have-diarrhea-every-day/662216/21 "2013-07-03T03:52:57Z")

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> [@Bonnienclyde](#):
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> Thanks for all the replies. She had the colonoscopy last month. No cancer, Chrons, etc. Gluten intolerance was brought up, but when she found out that was a no beer situation, she has dismissed it.
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> I just would like to help her and go back to the days of having my friend back. I worry she’s going to kill her self. Bu  
> t not much I can do, and its frustrating.
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> I’ve always heard my dad say “Schlitz gives you the shits” ! LOL Alcohol isn’t helping, I guess, either way.

Gluten does this to me. And there are GF beers, but they aren’t cheap and I really suspect the gluten isn’t her issue, alcohol is.

My alcoholic (now four years sober, iirc) sister went through a bout of “gluten intolerance” as part of her denial.

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**Author:** ![Lust4Life](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ecc23a/32.png) [@Lust4Life](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lust4Life)\
**Post date:** [July 3, 2013, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-a-person-have-diarrhea-every-day/662216/22 "2013-07-03T19:36:20Z")

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I had continuous diahorrea the entire time (Several months) in East Africa, which was I believe due to some sort of local dysentery.

I think that your friend though is an alcoholic in denial.

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**Author:** ![perfectparanoia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a5b964/32.png) [@perfectparanoia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/perfectparanoia)\
**Post date:** [July 3, 2013, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-a-person-have-diarrhea-every-day/662216/23 "2013-07-03T21:12:06Z")

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> [@yabob](#):
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> Cholestyramine is a bile sequestrant, originally intended as a cholesterol medication. Odd stuff to take as it’s a powder that you mix up in water or a beverage, and it doesn’t dissolve, but remains suspended. It’s often prescribed to people who;ve had their gall bladders removed. The nastiest side effect seems to be that it also absorbs a long laundry list of other drugs you might take, as well as fat soluble vitamins. If I get prescribed anything else, I usually wind up having to space it away from the cholestyramine (an hour before or 4 hours after). But after having the shits for months at one time, I’m happy to take the stuff.

I had diarrhea every day multiple times a day for three years. Cholestryamine also fixed me right up.

I took it for a few months and now everything seems to work correctly (most of the time).

I was eating healthily and was is pretty good shape (better than I am now).

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