About six weeks ago, I noticed my appetite was going - never happened before. I stopped eating fruit.

Next I knew, I wouldn’t call it constipated, but I changed from passing large stools once a day, to several small ones several times a day.

About two weeks after that, I soiled myself with diarrhoea. Then passed no stools for five days so went to dr. He said I have fecal implantation. He gave me laxido, up to eight sachets a day. That gave me terrible diarrhoea so I reduced to four a day. I passed a ball of hard stool with undigested veg in it. I thought it was over, came off laxido and still had diarrhoea. I noticed some of this was “ribbon” stool. And now I’ve been so constipated for a day, my stomach hurts in the middle, above my belly button, and very low down. So I’m back on laxido.

i don’t feel well. I’m eating normally. I do have a benign cyst on my pancreas, but ribbon stools, constipation, and pain - or diarrhoea- are worrying me.