Can a person have diarrhea EVERY day?

[Dangerosa]

@Bonnienclyde

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.

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.

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.

[Lust4Life]

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.

[perfectparanoia]

@yabob

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).