Have Frequent Bowel Movements And Started Losing Weight After Eating. Looking For Treatment

Posted on Mon, 15 Oct 2012

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Question : I have been losing weight, frequent bowel movements after eating , gas, and tired

Answered by Dr. Charles S Narasi (46 minutes later)

Hello, XXXXXXX,
Your symptoms really require additional work up.
Weight loss and diarrhea means that you are not
absorbing the nutrients from your diet.
Thare are a number of reasons for this.First of all
you have to make sure that you are not losing blood
in the stool.You have to check your stool for that
and also get blood tests to make sure you are not
anemic.
You need to have blood tests for Celiawc disease
since it can kcause malabsorption and make you lose weight.
If the diarrhea is a change froom your normal bowel
habits, you have to worry about something in the
colon.This includes certsin polyps or growths and also
cancer.Since you are 50+ you need a colonoscopy
to make sure you do not have any kind of colitis like
ulcerative colitiis or Crohn's disease.
I think, the weight loss worries me more than anything.
Hope you get all the blood tests and colonoscopy done
very soon.
I wisj you well.

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