For the past 3 weeks I have had enormous amounts of gas, plus a combination of diarrhea or frequent soft stools. The gas is constant, but I usually pass a tiny bit of diarrhea with each extended outburst, so I have to go into the bathroom 20 times a day! The diarrhea is either like the pulp from an orange, or sometimes as solid as toothpaste. It started suddenly, I have no nausea, and the diarrhea is not acidic and burning like when you have a stomach bug. I eat a very healthy diet. For the past week I have been taking probiotics and simethicone (Gas-X), but there is no improvement. I have not lost any weight, but am really tired, perhaps because I am not absorbing my food properly? In the past I have had routine colonoscopies due to colon cancer in my family, so I know my colon is normal. Last week I had blood work checking for celiac and other inflammation markers and everything was normal. I frequently get food-poisoning (when nobody else in the group gets it from eating the same food!) but that is different - a night of throwing up and very acidic diarrhea.
Any suggestions?