Sorry to be graphic but...

[Hazel260uk]

Has any of you who are usually constipated experienced thin and even flat(ish) stools before? Someone told me once it may be caused by your bowel spasms apparently...

[janjanjan]

I am so sorry. i can't help you

[binks]

Hi

One of the recognised symptoms of IBS are pencil thin and funny shaped stools. I'm sure it is spasms - worrying about it makes everything worse!!

[Hazel260uk]

Thank you my life has been hellish for a while I dunno what to do anymore but I guess you know exactly what I m talking about...

[ttrojen]

yes i know how you feel hazel. My doctor says i have IBS and until recently it was under as much control as it could be however im now like you feeling hellish my problems are now daily and i have had the problems with stools like yourself only with me i never know from one day to the next what mine are going to be like or even how many times in a day i might need to go. have to say right now i feel like IBS is ruling my life and i hate it.

[bloated1]

Yes I get these sort of stools. I guess its when the bowel is in spasm and the lumen of the bowel is thin.