I have started to have very soft but very sticky stools which are hard to pass
I have 2 laxido per day and eat a lot of soluble fibre in the form of fruit and vegetables
It is terribly hard to pass these stools and they seem to block up my rectum
Anyone experienced this and anyone know how to manage it?
Do I need to cut back on soluble fibre?
My diet is low in fats so I don’t think that is the issue, grateful for any help 👍
So fibre is needed, but we as humans evolved as we started eating meat, our colons shrunk, a large colon is needed to handle large amounts of fibre and let thinks ferment.
Alot of people have various issues and stool types, so its hard to pin point, but the unconventional approach is your digestive track and bowels are essentially still made up of muscle.
I wouldn't worry about fibre, you only need a handful from fruits ideally. I would focus on getting the RDA of essentially minerals magnesium, potassium, also vitamins like D, A. Alot of us are happy feeding our bodies what takes energy to break down, but we get nowhere near actually giving it the nutrients it needs, magnesium is involved in 300 enzymatic process, including vitamin D, is very hard for our system to digest and produce perfect stools if the tools to do so we haven't fed in our previous 1,2,50 meals...
Ultimately is sounds like you have way too much fibre.
After a prolapse repair op I was advisef to take laxido daily which resulted in exactly the soft paste like stools you describe. My inclination would be to cut back on the laxido for a while. It took about a week to get back to normal stools after I stopped Laxido
Too much fibre! Gradually reduce & definitely stop regular Laxido.
I find using Laxido my stools are quite sticky. When I'm able to cut down on Laxido things go back to normal(ish)!
While I'd not wish this on my worst enemy (well maybe there might be one or two i might wish it onto who shall remain nameless), I am comforted by the fast that it is not just me that has this issue. Not all the time thankfully, but at least a couple or three times a week.
For the life of me I can't work out why it's like this, all the google searches just tell you how to relieve constipation. This does feel like constipation though, but with stools that are too soft and sticky to pass, rather than too hard.
Having read the responses, I am now wondering myself if the issue is too much fibre. I have a relatively low fat diet most of the time, but do eat quite a lot of soluble fibre, fruit especially, muesli, soluble fibre veg etc. So it might be possible that on the days prior to my having relatively normal bowel movements, my fibre intake may be lower.
I do also have a slight rectal prolapse, and again wonder if this not helping with the passage of this type of stool.
These responses to the OP post are very helpful, so I am going to now reduce the amount of fibre I eat, maybe increase the amount of meat on my plate and see how that goes. Possibly a food diary may help here - has anyone done a food diary to try and pinpoint where the issues might be.
thanks for these replies , no also have left side hip pain and I feel like my colon is full
It is quite scary because it is so painful and difficult to go but I don’t seem to have any choice
It seems that maybe I have too much fibre, I will also reduce laxido to see what happens
I do feel that maybe I am trying to to the loo too soon, is this a thing
As a result I have to strain to pass as it is too high up, I don’t know but I get a feeling which sends me to the loo as it is painful in the rectum and I want to relieve the pain I then strain to get out this very soft sticky stool . It seems so complex and difficult to work how to manage it better
Thank goodness for this group here I feel I can be open about my problems and advice is based on real life rather than a text book that Drs rely on
My feeling is GPs have very little knowledge in bowel issues and so just use their own solutions rather than really understanding a patients specific problem I went to A&E and that was worse unless it is very obvious and there to life they don’t want to do anything do you are left trying to find help in the overstretched NHS
slSorry to ramble on but thanks for any advice
Strain even when BMs soft
Left sided pain and blockage feeling
incomplete passing of stool 
