What’s causing your diarrhea? A GI doctor’s basic approach to diarrhea 

I have a fun diarrhea anecdote. I had diarrhea literally the entire time I was in highschool, all 4 years. I was used to it, and didn't really think about it. After leaving college, it stopped, and my stool firmed up. It took a bit of experimentation to figure out: I'm skinny, and eat all the time. I ran cross country and track, and COULD NOT run hungry. So I always ate before I ran. It never bothered me, gave me stomach aches, or made me nauseous. However, I figured out that eating before I go for a run will give me diarrhea later that evening, every single time. Since I ran 6 or 7 days a week for my entire time as a distance runner, I literally always had diarrhea. Now it only happens when I eat before I run, but it still happens like clockwork. Bodies are weird 🤘

You are a excellent doctor. Helping us all. You are a great educator. Yes you really are inspirational and informative. Thank you so very much.Kindest regards from England.

I love the balance between humor and education 😂🧡

I was hoping you’d touch on microscopic colitis at some point. I had been told I had IBS for years until I went to a GI doctor who asked if I ever woke up in the middle of the night because of bowel urgency with the diarrhea. As soon as I said yes she said it was most likely an IBD and we would check during my upcoming colonoscopy. She was correct!

Studying for my quiz on GI tomorrow and this just gave me a good rundown of what I need to remember about diarrhea. Bless thy soul 🙏 and hopefully I pass

ALL that said, if you have diarrhea for more than 48hrs and/or no effect with OTCs (pepto/loperamide) see your Dr.

Hey doc, I have an interesting one for you: As far as I remember this started at around age 8. When I get a cool flow of air somewhere around my kidney area I get a cramp like pain in my stomach. If I don't cover up quickly this can progress to a feeling of diarrhea or even very liquid diarrhea. Happens even under 5 layers of clothing when only one of them leaves an inch of my back exposed and the other 4 cover that part. Doesn't happen when there is no clothing involved. Example, during the summertime when I only wear my undies to bed everything is fine, when I wear short PJs this can happen. Really heavy distraction works sometimes, otherwise the only thing that helps after a certain point is the sitting position on the toilet and only that on the toilet, a chair or couch won't do anything for me. This can happen at any time of day and in any situation. Work, back in school, at home, outside, in bed... Sometimes heat is helpfull in addition to covering up in time, like my partners warm hands or cuddeling with him as the big spoon. I feel like it has gotten better, meaning less frequent, over the years, but I don't count it, could also just be that I got better at preventing and managing in time. Can happen multiple times a week, can also be months between this happening. I don't know the answer, never got it checked out. I've had it for over 20 years now and I'm not really concerned about it. Recent bloodwork shows that my kidneys are fine, all parts of my bloodcells are fine, not too happy about glucose at 94... TSH is higher than it should be but thyroid hormones are perfectly normal and antibodies are negativ, tests will be redone towards the end of the year. Also the blood was drawn the morning after a hard gym workout and a very stressfull day with fighting and anger plus an almost sleepless night because I'm terrified of needles. Any answer you might give to this "riddle" would not be understood as medical advice. If anything I could bring it up during my next doctors visit as a starting point for discussion.

My gastro told me to buy supplements from Metagenics and gave me his link. Is Metagenics like an MLM for doctors? They were so expensive on Metagenics that I just looked on Walgreens and found probiotics that sound like the same thing for half the price. Is the stuff from Metagenics like actually better? Thanks for being a doctor who genuinely cares and for all that you do to spread health education online.

You are great at being both funny and informative!

That’s really good information. It’s too bad more people don’t listen to it

Most underrated video on this channel

Don't forget stress!!

Hi there! Was wondering if you could please do a video about whether to start PPIs before an EGD and the evidence behind. Thanks!

where are the constipated fam we want constipation next 😂😂 no but frr

I had food poisoning…I threw up on Sunday…then I had diarrhea for like 3 days. My dr gave me antibiotic on the 3rd day cuz I wasn’t sure what path to take? I have no diarrhea not sure if antibiotic or just the time passing is to thank. I look forward to my next healthy bowel movement. :D

can you talk about fibers, food or supplement. i feel like since gut health starting to get popular, everyone just talking about it

I had nothing but liquid stools for 10 years. I stopped calling it diarrhea because there was no urgency or cramping, just when I went it was liquid. I could poop just about as fast as I could pee. I didn't have a doctor for most of that time, and when I finally got a doctor the only thing they did was a food allergy test, and I think they did that for the bloating. It came back negative, but I went gluten free after that, and several months later I tried low carb (for other reasons), and none of my diet changes helped at all. OTC medication also did absolutely nothing. Then I went carnivore (again, for other reasons), and about three months into that things started to improve and I have formed bowel movements more often than loose, and never is it just entirely liquid other than when I had COVID. I've been carnivore for a year and a half now, and it also cured my severe bloating, water retention, acid reflux, just to name a few things, and for the first time since I was diagnosed in 2015 they are having to decrease my hypothyroid medication each time I do labs. Before they only ever increased it. Anyway, I still don't know what caused the liquid stools, but thankfully I found something to help with them.

If you can even get in to your specialist. Last time I was trying to see my gastroenterologist I could only see the nurse practitioner and would have to wait a few months unless a cancellation came in.

I took medication which had the horrible side effect of the worse Diahrea I ever had. Acute lasted about 3 weeks. Had to get back off my medication. Fun times

Very educative,l had fun and learnt a lot from watching .

You should check out the progress Jaguar Health is achieving on developing prescription medicines for people and animals with debilitating diarrhea!

😘😘😘 thank you for the great information.

Thx for the info👍👍

Hi! Fellow nursing student here (I begin in the fall!) what does an EGD stand for?

What causes pee diarrhea? Every morning my pee comes out like red clumpy diarrhea but after a few hours it goes away.

Can you make a video about sugar alcohols?

I had accute diarrhea last week may be due to mushroom I ate... Please explain how antibiotics work in such diarrhea and is it really necessary to take antibiotics in accute diarrhea ?

there’s no such thing as a cute diarrhea

Can you do a video on post infectious IBS. I had c diff but now im having lasting effects on my colon. It still feels inflamed from when i had the c diff.

Perfect timing… for obvious reasons

Microscopic colitis is really the most stupid thing to have, even tho is microscopic it can cause a lot of suffering.

Can caffeine cause diarrhea? If I have one a day for a week I get diarrhea

Pletal for my circulation causes extreme diarhea. Very disheartening.

Just so you know, there's a ridiculous ad that played on this video. It's touting some ~super amazing secret that the medical field doesn't want you to know to heal constipation~ and literally says if you follow this amazing trick you will never need to see a gastroenterologist lol. I figured it's really not up your alley. I have youtube premium so I usually don't see ads, but I watched this vid while signed out. Interesting video otherwise!

hyosciamine is my savior 🥰

I am developing quite an interest in gastrointestinal medicine .... what do I do now?!?? ... I am not planning to return to medical school ... I am wondering if there is a place on the internet I could read studies without investing any financial resources?

Necessary to speak w Any provider

What, thyroid disease causes diarrhea?

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do u really have to talk so dam fast.i cant understand a word ur saying cause i have issues that ur talkin about.thanks.just john

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