just wondering . is this blood suppose to be darker or brighter ?
This I mean when going to the toilet to empty your bowels .

what are the pros and cons? is it worth it? will it really help my digestive system? will it really reduce belly mass? how high is the risk for certain diseases? what is the best way to do it? is it the same thing they do before a colonoscopy? are there any bad side effects?

what are the pros and cons? is it worth it? will it really help my digestive system? will it really reduce belly mass? how high is the risk for certain diseases? what is the best way to do it? is it the same thing they do before a colonoscopy? are there any bad side effects?

so the mouth is full of bacteria right? there must be a balance for good health like the colon. what sort of foods and habits would contribute to bad mouth bacteria and what can i do to increase good mouth bacteria?

i assume that like animals that there must be a certain diet that promotes good mouth bacteria?
most animals in the wild don’t brush but have there teeth there whole life. why not humans?

I have HHT(Hereditary Hemorrhagic Telangiectasia), and Celiac Disease.
What diseases(if any) were you born with?

I also have asthma and slight OCD. And Juvenile polyposis(had to have colon removed because of it).

I’m 18 and have just been diagnosed with IBS. I saw on multiple television specials and in magazines about colon clensing helping the bowls and your digestion system, and I was wondering if it was really worth it?

Let me know your experience with it preferably, also anymore health benifits that come with it? Thanks a ton :]

I’m not sure if that’s the exact place but it seem like it. It’s right under my rib cage, almost still even under it. It’s like somethings attached to something(to which it shouldn’t be) or dislodged. When it’s happening(which isn’t very often) I can’t stretch my body or take a deep breath. I get this pain sometimes, usually after working at a desk for a couple of hours. it hasn’t happened to me whilst moving(e.i. exercising). Does this just mean that I should take more breaks and move around and stretch or is this a sign of some sort of illness?

2 days ago I had a bowel movement and was shocked to see it was covered in blood.It wasn’t mixed in it was just on the top. When I wiped there was a small amount on the tissue also. Today it happened again but not as much. I do have external hemorrhoids that don’t hurt but they’ve been there for awhile. I wonder if I could have internal hemorrhoids. I have a burning feeling in that area but nothing major. When I had the first bowel movement I had gas and had to go 3 times resulting in the last stool being bloody. I wasn’t constipated so that wasn’t the problem. I have no health insurance and am worried that I need a colonoscopy
Everyones answers have been so comforting to me. Thank you all so much. If you ever post a question I hope that you get comfort from the yahoo answer community also.

Colonic therapy sounds dangerous! Water in a hose will flow back and forth in a hose no matter how you handle the hose.This could very well spread disease.

I’m not sure if that’s the exact place but it seem like it. It’s right under my rib cage, almost still even under it. It’s like somethings attached to something(to which it shouldn’t be) or dislodged. When it’s happening(which isn’t very often) I can’t stretch my body or take a deep breath. I get this pain sometimes, usually after working at a desk for a couple of hours. it hasn’t happened to me whilst moving(e.i. exercising). Does this just mean that I should take more breaks and move around and stretch or is this a sign of some sort of illness?

I’m thinking of doing a colon cleanse and was wondering if anyone has ever done this before. What products did you use? How did you go about doing it? What were you benefits? I’m not doing it to lose weight just because I heard it is good for your health. Is this true? Any suggestions/advice will be appreciated. Thanks

My dad has Crohn’s disease and I want to know if it can cause death, I’m really scard….He has crohn’s disease and also has colon infection, please help…………..I’M REALLY SCARD….HELP

I’ve had chronic constipation for as long as I can remember. I started taking Phillips Colon Health Probiotics today… does this work? Does it have any side effects? I have this insane fear of diarrhea.. so does this cause it? Thank you!

My father is 56 yrs old, and he has just been diagnosed with colon cancer. The size of the tumor is the size of a golf ball. It was caught early, i was told anyways. He went in to see if the cancer had spread and had a full body ct scan done and they found a cyst that is the size of the top part of your thumb. The dr.s believe it is cancer. My father did have hepatitus b once before because of the vietnam war. Also has high blood pressure, and thats his only health issues. He is 5-10, 170wt. My dad tells me little, i looked on internet and it sounds like Metastatic liver disease except that he has not had any of the symptoms yet. My ? is what is fixen to happen, what is his chances of surviving all of this, and how long. Please no b.s. I would really like to know from some doctors on here or someone with experience.They did a biopsy on the colon tumor and it came back inconclusive, but the doctors said that they believe it may be cancer. What do u think?

I used one last night cause I’ve been having problems doing the "do" and then again when I got off work.

Is this bad for my colon? Or health?

My Mom has colon cancer in 2004, surgery, told everything good. Cancer reappeared 2006, more surgery and did some kind of pill form of chemo that she took at home. That seem to go well. Then about a year ago she was told that she had a bone marrow disorder (mylordesplysia (spelling) where her bone marrow had pretty much stop producing. She has shots to help increase her red and while blood cell counts and has had a few blood transfusion. In March she had two tumors that actually burst through her skin. Malignant. PET scan done, shows cancer in colon, upper part of right lung and under chest wall on left side Is told that chemo not a treatment option due to her already low immune system, but they do radiation on the tumors. 17 Treatments. Now a lump has shown up on her neck neck, and a new MRI shows that the cancer has gone to her pelvic area and at least into the bones and soft tissues of her left leg. The will do ten treatments of radiation to try to help with pain in legs, as she is barely able to move. They say palliative care is all they can provide, what they are not telling us is how long they thing she can live with all this disease. I know it’s an unknown, but would like thoughts and or opinions on what others think. Thanks for your replies. I am currently provided care for her. Thinking about looking into hospice so that I can get some help, but is it too early for that?

In all seriousness…I want good colon health!

There is lots of education out there regarding what foods people should be eating to stay healthy, yet McDonalds. PizzA, beer, sodas, hot dogs remain an every day occurrence for many people. Hmmm, vegetables, what are those?? And yet these are the same people that wonder why they get sick with diabetes, colon cancer, heart disease, etc..

everything I eat gives me lots of gas. I have to leave the office every 5 mins to go out. I didn’t have beans. it happens everyday. I’ve taking colon health for a few months. only the first 2 weeks it worked. gas-x does not work either.
thanks
I don’t eat fast.

My dad was in the hospital with a bad colon disease for like 4 months. After almost 800,000 dollars in medical expenses, many surgeries, a ton of medicine, and MANY prayers, he recovered! How could he have recovered if it wasn’t for those prayers?
@Madison

Our insurance paid for it.

After I was in the outpatient emergency room of the RWJ Hospital, I was diagnosed with inflammatory colitis (a wall increasing in size in the right ascending colon and the transverse colon) from a CAT scan.

For about a week and a half, I started taking two antibiotics, one of them being Levaquin (750 milligrams) and the second one being Metronidazole or "Flagyl" (500 milligrams). The Metronidazole seemed to work a lot better then the Levaquin did, making it highly possible that it was a protozoa or bacterial infection. The symptoms of the inflammatory colitis I had was infectious diarrhea, trapped wind, severe stomach aches, headaches, constipation, and soreness of the anal region.

A few weeks after, I started drinking protein shakes and taking sports vitamins to gain weight. The protein shake was called RTS 51, acting as a food supplement, having 51 grams of protein in one can that I drank down all of at one time. The sports vitamins being GNC’s Mega Sports for Men, having BCAA’s (Branched Chained Amino Acids) in it, protein components, and other nutrients. I started having the stomach aches, constipation, incomplete defecation, and diarrhea a few days after.

Could this be a relapse of the previous infection, or something more serious? If not, what could it be? Should I continue taking the Metronidazole since I have some left? Please answer and best answer is ten points.

In the early days of the industrial revolution,many workers who made steam boilers developed hearing loss from exposure to noise____thus, the condition was called "boilermakers’ disease