Okay, aside from the fact that your breath "smells like shit", this really isn't a poop question. Maybe you're an example of the term "shitfaced"? I dunno. (*sighs*)

But we're here to help. I guess. So... some possible causes of halitosis (shitty breath):

1. Sinus infections & abnormal sinus anatomies
2. Tonsilar infections or tonsiloliths
3. Lung diseases
4. Kidney diseases
5. Liver diseases
6. Blood disorders
7. Diabetes
8. Gallbladder dysfunction
9. Menstruation (your period, if female)
10. Carcinomas (cancer)
11. Certain foods

See a doctor.

Hi everyone,

I've had the same problem as already discussed. I have IBS and had a sudden onset of stomach pain for a month and mucus discharge. I changed my diet and now eat oatmeal with ground up flax seed every morning and eat a lot of rice and beans. I've always heard that beans give you gas but I've been eating lentil casserole for the past few days and nothing's happened. Anyways, to make a long story short it appears that if you eat less fat (no deep fried stuff), and you increase fibre such as oatmeal and beans then it slows the action of the gut and absorbs excess water. I'm not sure about fibre from fruits and veggies but I do know that the oatmeal is helping. This diet might not work for everyone since IBS is individualistic but it's a natural approach and worth a try!

Hey, occasional leaker here...

Although I've had minor variations of this in my younger ages, recently I've been getting leakage after peeing or being in warm rooms. It really sucks too because now the smell is ranging out, so public rooms with other people aren't fun...

Anyway, I'm hoping the fiber thing works out...

If you have Clingons on your starboard bow , you need to have a word with Captain James T Kirk.

I've finally discovered the cause of my leakage. I saw the gastroenterologist this week and he said that I have "impacted fecal matter" in other words - extreme constipation. Apparently it creates a blockage and the mucous goes around it. Since I've taken a few laxatives the mucous has cleared up. All of this trouble - it took 2 months to see the specialist and it wasn't anything serious. It was also extremely painful! Odd story but you could be constipated and have diarhea at the same time!

hey pipo, its just good to know i'm not the only one...i was beginning to think it was a tiny demon monster lodged in my guts, or maybe my ass hole was getting looser....it would be nice if the owner of this forum would sum up all the causes suggested by everyone, since the beginning of this topic and list them down....it would be easier to make a diagnosis from there....

And to the guy who suggested it was anti-perspirant deodorant, what if i spray my ass too, where do u think i'll sweat from next?

On a serious note though, whoever started this site is a genius, stinky ass genius!!!!

i have a sweaty butt. i dont know how i got here. sometimes when i sit for long periods my butt sticks to things, is it weird that i like it? i kinda like it when i feel the moistness coming from my butt, any thoughts on this?gimme a call fo sho 360-589-1595, or just call for some sweaty ass time

okay, its been a few month since i tried to balance my diet now. ive been eating bananas and oranges at least once a day, i have a bowl of porridge in the morning and weetabix for supper. whatever i have for dinner might be some sandwiches. i totally cut out the sauce on my food for about two weeks and still the problems persist. arg!

ive been doing some pondering. that maybe this annoying problem is an anxiety thing. i used to get really stressed and worked up over things and sometimes used to feel like everything i did was pointles. im now free of that, and i focused on eating more fibre. but no matter how happy i am or how much i chance my diet people still complain of a smell of crap. but nothings there! what the hell is going on??

i do sweat, but its odd because the sweat doesnt smell most of the time. ive checked when ive been to the loo. just suddenly when im sat down the smell starts to come and then it comes on strong then goes away :S not sure what its about but its still annoying. i thought maybe its wind cos sometimes i feel weird jurking feelings running through my arse as if ive farted silently, but oddly no smell occurs at that point.

im very suspisious that my friends know because they keep snirtching around me, and nobody says anything even though i can smell it too. they might not know that its me, but theyve complained whenever im around. surley they have their suspicions now?

i always look forward to the end of the day when i retreat to my room and do everything as normal. but i dont totally avoid the problem, cos sometimes my mum and dad have complained of bad smells when im around and when im sat at the computer sometimes it just comes. it gets horrid and i hate it. but i feel theres nothing i can do anymore.

it may be soon when this whole dilemma is brought to a head, when someone turns around to me and says 'do you know that you smell of shit?'. ill be left alone with nobody to talk to because theyll all veer away and avoid me cos of the smell. depressing or what? :P

It's unbelievable this has to be an underground sort of thing. These are the things doctors should be studying so we don't have to run around with tissue paper up our ass. I am intrigued by the concept of mucus producing DAIRY. I eat an immense amount of dairy product. I will stop diary for a week and repost next week.

Um, am surmising that anal sex can cause this problem. Guess I will have to end it all. Bad pun. Sorry.

I'm no expert.. but I am a bit of a health nut. Taking into consideration all of the information that I have absorbed. This problem could be due to Trans Fats. Yes my friends, Trans Fats. Now, you may be thinking "But the food I eat says 0 Trans Fats." Well, that's all fine and dandy.. but in actuality, sometimes they don't have to put it on the label. See, if a product you buy says it contains hydrogenated oils and/or shortening - then there's Trans Fats present. So... my advice to you, start reading labels. It's important to know what you're eating, because it can have a huge effect on the way your body functions. I have personally cut Trans Fats out of my diet completely. Yes, completely. It does a body good. Best of Luck to all of you! I hope you find a solution to this problem.

OK. I think I have the solution to the problem, SERIOUSLY. I see it is already posted here a few times, but fiber seems to have solved the problem for me!!!!!!!!!! Thank God!!!!!!!!!!

I am 26 years old. Male. I had this issue for months and it was absolutely driving my insane. I would go to the bathroom, wipe very well, until the paper came back purely white. I'd go back to work or whatever I was doing and in about 20 minutes I would have to go back and re-wipe because I was obviously not clean as I felt dirty and was very itchy. I ignored it for a while, thinking "whatever, it's just my ass". And honestly I was way to embarrassed to see a doctor. After a few months of ignoring it, the itching got worse, and worse. I started to itch ALL THE TIME. I was worried it was something serious like cancer.
Eventually I bit the bullet, manned up and went to the doctor. I just broke it down to her bluntly, "I dont know what the issue is, if it is hemmroids or what, but I itch like hell. Also, I always seem to have to rewipe myself after I have a bowl movement. I cant seem to stay clean." This was a General Practitioner. She took a look and noticed a yeast infection (yes, yeast infections can effect assholes as well, not just vaginas. Any place dark, warm and moist. This leaking issue apparently provided the moisture needed. I know, nasty but if you want to find a solution, read on). Well, the Dr. put me on hydrocortozone cream for 2 weeks. Seemed to help for those weeks, but AS SOON as I completely the course, the issue returned. I went back to the dr. She put me on 2 weeks of a vaginal (yes vaginal) yeast pill. That helped with the itching but didnt seem to solve the leaking issue. My GP suggested I go to a Gastrointerologist (GI Doctor). So, fuck it. I went. I told him the issue, he stuck his finger up there (a pain in the ass literally). He looked around, but found nothing abnormal. Told me maybe it was an obsessive compulsive thing. I told him, well I might believe that if when I re-wiped the paper came back clean. But after I poop, I wipe until Im clean. Then 20 minutes later I am dirty again. He said things like this could be caused my stress/depression. I didnt buy this reasoning totally, but he found nothing physically wrong with me.
At this point I was absolutely frustrated and angry. After $100 worth of insurance co-pays and 3 or 4 prescriptions filled, I had NO solution to the problem. Next step, try to figure it out on my own since I could pretty much write off my concerns of having colon cancer or rectal cancer or something crazy like that. I found this site. After reading the posts, I decided, what the fuck? Might as well try the fiber approach. I stopped by the pharmacy and picked up some powder fiber (I use Benefiber because it is not a laxative, but I guess any brand will work). After a few days on the fiber (one glass in the morning, one at night) the problem stopped. Completely. Pardon the pun, but no, I am not shitting you. I am dead serious. Matter of fact, I have had basically no problems for about a month now either with leakage or itching. I never thought such a simple remedy would solve such an annoying problem, but it seems to have. I really have not changed anything else about my eating (which has always been good) or excercizing, except for this addition of fiber. The fiber costs about $10 for about 2 weeks supply. Fiber powder = $10. Glass of water = free. Non-leaky asspipe = priceless!!!!!!!!

sometimes I have to go to the bathroom just to wipe becaues it feels sweaty down there. when I wipe its like a brown sweat looking thing.

God bless this Web site. I am a male in my mid 30s and have suffered from anal leakage for several years and did not have the courage to ask my doc about it or even mention it to my wife - although I would have forced myself to do both if I did not have a recent breakthrough. I'd take a dump, wipe like crazy, then have to come back and wipe at 30 minutes and again about 1 hour - disgusting situation. Discovering I was not the only human being on the planet with this problem made me feel much better. I read all the posts above, decided to cut dairy products out almost completely for a week and take supplemental fiber powder. The leakage disappeared completely within about 1.5 days. Now one wipe only - what a great feeling. Since I changed two things at the same time, not sure if the root cause is some dairy product intolerance or lack of adequate fiber. I will experiment by eliminating the extra fiber supplement to see if the problem returns. Thanks to the creators of this Web site for helping me solve my most embarrassing problem.

I was suffering from chronic diarrhea and "million wipers". I had been having diarrhea and sticky bunghole everyday regardless of diet. I would wipe and wipe and wipe until bright red blood would show up on the TP. I'm a 26 yr old female btw. Anyways, about three hours after I shat, my ass would feel a little "unfresh" so I'd go and wipe some more. Lo and behold, I had a fresh new stash of poop. It seemed worse after I ate leafy (fibrous) greens. Anyways. I got a bag of dried apricots as a gift. AFter eating those suckers for a couple days or so I swear my poop has never been more perfect. A little hard, But always coming off clean, and no residue either. I'm telling you, try some dried apricots. THANK YOU DRIED APRICOTS. :)

Did you know that you can have diarrhoea and be constipated?..... Constipation, if left untreated, can lead to faecal impaction. Faecal impaction means all the faeces behind the impaction can not escape, so a watery mixture will start to leak from the anus.
'Google' faecal impaction for more information. Also if you decide to try fibre in your diet you must drink lots of fluid, more than 4 pints....and also note that a sharp increase in fibre may lead to bloating and trapped wind, soit is advisable to increase your fibre intake gradually.

Can someone please list some foods with FIBER?

Pretty much every fresh fruit, fresh vegetable, and whole grain on the planet.

I have been reading this, and I have some of these symptoms. I'm 19.

Sometimes there are tiny specks of blood on the TP after i wipe, but thats only happened a few times.

The whole, wipe, come back ten mins later and wipe again thing effects me too. It's not really discharge though, just small pellets and stains. This mainly feels uncomfortable because I sweat quite a lot, especially in my rectum.

The wost part of all (sad enough) is the smell. I don't know if anybody else has this problem, but mine really smells. It upsets me aswell cause I'll be out with mates and somebody will ALWAYS say 'urrrgh who's farted?' or 'can you smell shit?' ...which is amusing as i type it here, but it totally pisses me off.

Can somebody give me some advice.
Lately I've cut down on eating junk, and drinking fizzy stuff. Now I drink more water, don't eat loads of food every day, and (as of today) started eating apples and oranges, plus doing excersie now and again.

All help would be very, very appreciated.
Thanks.

I had most of the same symptoms posted on this blog for at least 5 years and I thought I had to live with it forever, but the minute I started using Metamucil, they disappeared. Absolutely amazing!! I guess I should eat more fiber instead of depending on the artificial fiber, but right now I'm enjoying my success.

I think generally from what I've read here the common condition is piles.

I have recently had an heamorrhoidectomy (sp?) - an overnight hospital stay with general anaesthetic.
I had about five years of itching esp. at night, and 1 year of leaking mucous and yellow stuff w/ small amounts of blood on the paper. The last few months, I was re-wiping every hour or so at work.
I had a small flap of skin on the outside and so felt around a bit inside and found nothing of concern.
The docs did a colonoscopy and Yep, piles. So they carved me a new asshole (my little joke).

Problem solved (so far). I hope this helps.

You guys are a Godsend! I am a 28 yr old woman. Today, i almost lost it. i have the sweaty smelly condition. Driving home, I prayed so hard to the Great Spirit because i just did not want to go on living like this. I dropped out of college because of this problem, i got a job where i can work outside sometimes. ON my desk sits an electric liquid potpourri warmer out of courtesy to my co-workers for being extremely polite and tolerant; It covers up the odor quite nicely. My doctor told me that what i have "is not a disease."
i live with my boyfriend who has poop accidents every now and again, and almost daily skidmarks. i love him, and I do his laundry with no qualms, poopie tightie whities are just clothes, with stains...they do not "make the man" He is a professinoal working on his masters and has a bunch of friends...he is out now shooting pool and running to thr bathroom evry hour. He is happy, confident and kind, a man's man and a a friend to women as well.Maybe laughing at eachothers farts and fart contests isn't going to help us, but it beats crying over this like i used to many many moons ago. So all you guys out there..find yourself a woman who isn't shallow, a good respectable woman, a beautiful person who shines inside and out.dont go for the self absorbed, vainglorious selfish ones. Better yourself in every way possible, strengthen that character, get past the anxiety, beat it. and if u need to go wipe every hour...then do it. its good to be considerate of others. and if their jerks about your condition...LET THEM SMELL IT!
i am so glad to have found a place where i dont need to run to bathrooom to wipe so that you all dont get offended by my AL.

I still go out, dine out, enjoy camping and hiking because there are people in hospital beds with worse conditions who wish they could do these things.

I try and get over my anxiety, what helps me is slowing my breathing, allowing myself to feel the anxiety, because feeling and having compassion toward myself allows me to become more accepting of this condition, it is different than FEARING the anxiety and feeling more anxious over it when it comes therefore creating a vicious cycle. if i relax enough...the leaking slows a bit. "Live your prayers." that was told to me by a Lakota Medicine Person, sacred sweat lodge ceremony has helped me so much (thank you Creator). Practice whatever you practice, pray to whomever you pray, I am so glad that we are not alone.

I want to heal,this experience has taught me about being sensitive to other people's short-comings, diseases, eccentricities. If we had a choice....we wouldn't be this way and neither would they.We do however have a choice in how we behave:

I WOULD RATHER SUFFER, THAN BE ONE WHO MAKES FUN OF SUFFRAGE. ANYDAY

I will try the fiber as soon as i finish posting, and will try the cayenne, Herbal FIberblend, Cranberry juice, Zeasorb etc, I'm so excited :D Its a pleasure to meet you guys, Thank you.

This is the greatest site ever!!
I'm intersted in some updates for those of you that have tried the fiber. If someone could give me a list of high fiber foods that would be much appreciated. Thank you.

Ah yes,the dreaded anal leakage.I have suffered since school really,about 15 years in total,the days of plastic chairs and nylon/polyester trousers and the sweaty bum mark left on chairs.If the crack is not kept well washed you get the smelly arse syndrome too.In the last few years I have gained chronic pancreatits with IBD to boot,the same old story of having a dump and a good clean up,only having to go back an hour later to mop up again.I take the fibre supplements and all that too.I recently had to have an examination of my ring under general anaesthetic and I think they stretched my already loose anal muscles too much,it's been two weeks now and my ass leakage has got worse than it was before,luckily I cannot work,so it's not too much of a problem when your at home all day.I usually just clean up with bog roll gently then use wet wipes to get the ring spotless.I also use baby powder to keep the crack as dry as possible and it does help,it can also cover up the sweaty poo bum odour aswell.

So you see it is far more common than most people think,just people don't talk about it,one of my mates also suffers from slime-butt big time too!!

Alright, I'm 29 good health, 5'9,210 lbs, run 5 miles in 40 minutes. I have the the poo on the butt about 30 min.-1 hour after bowel movements as well. I also have the sweaty butt problem. The sweaty butt seems to come from two sources for me. Sometimes I feel the sweat running down my back and eventually winds up in my crack and other times it feels like it comes from inside my crack (butt cheeks or anus). I know another man, father in law who told me he had a similar problem with the poo coming out some time after wiping. The doctor told him that it was because he has a thick sphincter. Now that makes sense. If poop or anal liquid gets trapped in there it will eventually leak out when exercising, sweating from the anus(if there are sweat poores there),farting etc. I have put my finger in there and noticed that I too have a thick sphincter. What I do is keep baby wipes in the bathroom and most times when I poop I will take the baby wipe and cover my finger with and slowly wiggle it into my anus and then pull it out and cover it with a wad of regular toilet paper and throw it in the trash. I've never smelled it sitting in the trash can. This cleans out the sphincter area and stops crap from coming out until the next bowel movement. I suspect that using a tampon in the same manner would be a good(ever better remedy)push it in pull it out and you should have a clean sphincter muscle. I just haven't got up enough nerve to buy the tampons yet.

For the sweating problem, I've always had a problem with being too hot and sweating all over my body. I think this has something to do with how many calories I take in. Your body burns calories as fuel that creates heat which creates sweat. Dead people are not taking in calories and not producing sweat. I've been noticing that my reduction in calories and increased exercise has created a caloric deficit causing me to sweat less. I'm not a doctor and I find it amazing that all of the doctors that I have spoken to about this didn't have a simple remedy or plausible excuse for these problems. Maybe they should resort back to tasting our feces again. They sure do seem to have high prestige and status but not many real solutions for problems like this. I hope someone finds this info helpful.

Right. A report back on progress which doesn't seem to be happening. same intake of fibre and balance of foods.

I seem to have noticed that some days my poop is perfectly alright and just slips right through, and sometimes its awfully bad and sticks and doesn't come off my bum. like i say, some days it slips right through and a little wipe a nice easy quick rinse does the job. but that doesn't stop the smell.

its a very strange cycle it leads. not sure what to think of it, since im clean as a whistle yet a smell is produced and when i check nothing is there. it may be the sweat but ive checked and i dont think its that. im confused :S

now this brings me to a point that i would like to make about junk food. when i was younger i would only eat processed meats like burgers and the such, and im wondering maybe im suffering as a result of this. i must have been eating this stuff for at least 5 years. i wonder whether because of that its irreversable without having a digestive system transplant, and im going to be like this forever? i wish i could go back in time and eat healthy :P

i hope one day this will be gone, and ill be able to lead a normal life without the pressure. it may be wishful thinking though since i may have done the damage and have to deal with it... :(

in england jamie oliver, a celebrity chef, tried to introduce healthier meals to school children and the campaign didnt seem to work very well. well a word of warning kids; if you dont want to live every day stinking of poop, leaking and crying until death then simply dont eat another one of those turkey twizzlers ;) believe me, you do NOT want to live with anal leakage. the stress it causes is too much for a hormone-crazy teenager.

Thank god for this website. First off my symptoms, I get a little leakage, but not much. For the most part i have discomfort while i am sitting down. Recently It has been very hard to take a shit. I would have a good amount of bleeding and it felt like something was tearing up my asshole. It fucking sucked. This all started when i was about 14, i told my mom about it right away and she told me that i should put some petroleum jelly up my ass and that should fix the problem, it did for a while. I put that stuff on every day for a couple years but after that couple years it just simply stopped working. So once the problem came up again i went right to the doctor and he gave me a powder and some cream, well that didnt work at all, so i have just been living with it. I am now 18 and still seeking for a solution. I am completely paranoid about it. I have heard a couple jokes but i get over it. I hear people saying it smells like ass, but i just look the other way, its extremely demoralizing. Please someone give me some suggestions

Hi I'm 15 and Similar to the tall 15 year old kid, I feel like my butt is sweaty / wet, too. I have never drank alcohol, coffee, or smoked anything ever in my life.

It usually gets bad during gym, or when I have to present in front of my class. It isn't really poop or liquid poop, more like sweat.

Wait wait, but here's the thing. I used to drink soda very often. Now it's much less, but instead I drink TONS of apple juice, at least 2 cups a day.

The problem started after high school started. I get a feeling that it is because of the junk food I eat everyday.

Also, I always have problems. I try to crap every morning before taking a shower and before eating breakfast. Sometimes it's nice, sometimes nothing comes out. Then at school I feel like I have to go. I'm gonna try stopping junk food now.

Please somebody respond

Wow I can't belive I found this site, its amazing! I have had this problem , sweating weird clear /yellowish fluid leakage and itching for a years now and it's a nightmare .
My health isnt great , my diet is beyond awful, AND I smoke weed occasionally. But I dont drink or smoke tabaco. I am sure this is about diet. I dont think I have this as bad as some people here , but it can become painful and ruin your life , and it BURNS like hell!! Sometimes so bad that the whole rectal area is so painful and enflamed I can't walk properly. I basicly keep everything really clean , and when things are bad I just keep washing the affected area after shitting .Something which seems to help is avoiding colored toilet paper ,and spitting/ wetting the paper befor I wipe ( I read in a book that this can help and it does ). It might sound totally weird but apart from always being especially clean, I also put some hair conditioner around on the ass hair in the shower, after useing soap, and this helps the hair and skin not to get dry (I use the brand called Panteme pro v ,for dry hair ,it works...).I am definitely going to change my diet, as I know when I have done this in the past it makes a huge difference. As for the weed issue , I think it makes it worse in my case as I get the munchies and eat lots of sugar and junk which is IMO the worst thing anyone can eat for any problem. Anxiety also gives me a nervous stomach, which makes my ass sweat which does'nt help. The fluid I sometimes leak has a particular mild odur , and as I say burns .I hope some of this helps , this site is great , you always feel alone until you find out other people are in the same boat ...or worse. Good luck and thanks for such a cool site !

I had this problem for a few months, but fiber seems to have completely cured it! One bowl of all bran cereal every morning has done the trick. Thank God for this site!

Stop Dairy products!!! I stopped drinking milk last week and I have not had a leaky butt since then. Amazingly simple!!!! Too bad I didnt try it sooner!!!!
for SMARTIES JUNKIE : sounds to me like your butt smell has gotten into the cushion and when you sit dow it comes out like bad seat-breath. When no one is around spray some real strong underarm deoderant into it. Brut should do the trick.

Hello everyone, I'd like to thank all the people that have posted on this site. Because of you I'm now shitting clean without the nasty nast that used to be left behind.

It started in college, one day I was perfectly fine, literally no problems at all, the next I kept finding nasty yellow shit leaking out of my ass. On top of that, every shit I took after that day was leaky and yellow. I still can't believe how all of the sudden this problem came on. I'd be sitting in class and the people around me would be asking who farted. I just had to go along with it. The worst part was I couldn't actually smell it myself until I went to the bathroom and wiped and saw what kinda shit was all up my crack. THEN I could definitely see that it was me who "farted," and by farted I mean leaked shit out my ass.

Fortunately, I was quick to find that taking a multivitamin every day would help to keep the symptoms under control...for the most part. They were by no means gone. I'd still have the shits every time and unless I took a shower immediately after a duke, I'd stink like ass until I did. So as most of you have found out, a shit and a shower in the morning also helped keep the symptoms under control. By around 5 or 6 o'clock, the slow leak of the day would finally take over and I'd have to repeat the process for the night. On a strict showering schedule I almost always managed to stay clean, the spray deodorants also helped mask the smell a little bit.

Then I finally found this site. I had always thought the problem was with my ass, not with what I was eating. Since many of the people here had suggested taking a fiber suppliment, I started taking Metamucil. And for a while, it did work. But after about 2 or 3 weeks I would just be shitting out of control and the ass leak started again. It was very relieving for the 2 weeks it did work, but when it stopped it was hell all over again. I wouldn't recommend the suppliment so much as actually eating healthy.

The solution actually turned out to be my shitty diet...pun intended. I never ate too horribly; I can't really stand fast food except for the occasional Wendy's or Taco Bell. My problem was I never consumed any fresh fruits or vegetables and I ate basic white bread. After I had stopped the Metamucil for about a week I changed my diet. Instead of crackers for a morning snack, I'd eat a banana. In the afternoon I replaced junk food with an apple. Buying fruit was a big deal in the beginning because I had never done it, but now that I've been shitting clean for over a month without incident, it's the easiest thing in the world. I spend maybe $10 a week on fruit and vegies and that's more than enough to keep the yellow nasty leaky shits away. Another important step also seemed to be switching from white to whole wheat, make sure the bag says 100% whole wheat. My shit is now completely brown, no yellow crap.

So the solution all wrapped up:

Fresh fruit every day, 2 or 3 pieces.
1 serving of vegetables (brocolli, asparagus, green beans...)
whole wheat bread
multivitamin every day (I suggest GNC brand Mega Man)
Something I did not mention but now do, a glass of 100% cranberry juice and OJ every morning.

I realize the solution for me is still a matter of fiber intake, the fake stuff just didn't cut it the way eating natural fiber does. Also don't pass up the opportunity for bran food of any sort, be it cereal or muffins. It helps!

With all of your help I've been clean shitting for 2 months strong now. I hope my story helps some of you achieve a stink free ass throughout your days as well. Good luck and happy shitting!

I've been through this issue off and on for many years. The fluid is watery and dries very fast. That implies that it is not a good lubricant and, as such, will cause friction induced bleeding if you walk a lot during an "event". A well located dab of vaseline will solve the friction bleeding issue and most itching. It's stained my underwear a few times but since those garments are older than most of the posters here, I just toss them.

Here's what I know... if I stop drinking regular coffee (that's caffeine in any form like Coke, Mountain Dew, tea, etc.), stop drinking any alcohol. and avoid spicy foods, it's gone in 2-3 weeks. Alcohol is more of a problem than caffeine. Just three nights in a row of one beer and it's back! The issue is that caffeine, alcohol, and spicy foods irritate the lining of the bowels and the bowel secretes a watery mucous to protect itself. That mucous collects and leaks by the anus as a normal result of physical activity - it was not designed to be watertight! I'm not a physician but I've experienced this over and over and know how to stop it. Unfortunately, after two weeks without coffee, that first cup is a rush and you are hooked again.
Irish coffee will have you carrying TP in your pocket with frequent mop-ups.
I doubt that this will explain everyones' problems and I suspect that there are multiple irritants and triggers. I wouldn't consider it IBS unless it continued after I've quit the offending substances but that's never happened. From reading the posts, I'll bet that fiber tends to absorb the liquid in the colon before it pools and leaks.
It's not serious, just damned annoying. They probably won't post this message on the wall at Starbucks.

Just wanted to add two more comments. Aspirin also irritates the stomach so you have a choice of heart attack or leakage. Heart attack is less urgent for me.
Antacids help to relieve the irritation. I found OTC Prilosec will relieve (I almost said "eliminate") the problem for a few weeks. Continue with Pepcid AC or generic famotidine to maintain low stomach acid. As always, consult with your physician - each of us may have a different stimulus such as stress, allergies, irritants, etc. Thanks to all for the posts.

They make coated aspirin that dissolves in the small intestine, and not the stomach, so the lining erosion issue is solved.

I know what it is like to have a dump and get wiped clean and an hour or so later, have the burning sensation. I then go to the bathroom to wipe myself again and it is terrible. I have found that the best way to control it is (not very scientific) to tilt my ass over and splash clear cold water from the toilet onto my bunghole. This seems to make my anus close from the shock of the cold water. Does the job.

I suffer passing gas and occasionally mucus without realising it. I believe my problem is due to not having anus sphincters which seal properly or spasm, and thus I have anus/fecal incontinence.

In the same manner that bladder incontinence varies from a few dribbles to uncontrolled gushing. So anus/fecal/bowel incontinence varies from passing wind/mucus to passing stools.

My problem is how to eliminate the odour, What control devices/clothes do everyone else wear?

Ive seen mentioned tampons. what about vinyl underpants or pads. Does anyone have experience with those?

I have had AL in a mild sense for about 5 years, then, it became more of an issue about 6 months ago. This site helped me out by realizing what the issue really was. Here is the history. I had mild irritation for about 5 or more years. I would only be irritated a couple days of the month. Pretty mild, and only an inconvenience. I did not realize what the problem was, and figured that it was hemorrhoids. During the summer of last year, I traveled to China for work, and got food poisoning. It turned out to be Salmonella, which can be a serious deal, but fortunately it did not complicate. The doctors put me on antibiotics, and cleared up it up. After that event (either the Salmonella, or antibiotics) my AL increased. It was a slow increase, and at the time, I still did not know what the issue was. Went to the family doctor. He told me I had a fissure, or fissures. So I treated that for about a month. No worky. Went to a specialist, and he determined that I was just not cleaning well enough. I am 40, and a little hairy, so that made sense. Tried that for a month, and the issue improved a little, but that was because I was cleaning more. As the months went by, I had to clean for a longer period of time during the day. I found this site. Recognized what the issue is, and went back to the specialist. He said that we should determine what is causing the leakage. So, we did a sigmoidoscopy (sp?) and right away he found a polyp. So the next day I was in for a colonoscopy. He found and removed two polyps. This was very fortunate for me, as if I followed the typical time frame for a colonoscopy at the age of 50, I would have had cancer well before then. Maybe in as less than a years time. He told me straight up, that the Salmonella saved my life. The doctor suspected that the polyps were secreting a mucus, causing the issue. For half a week after the surgery, I had no leakage, but it came back on the 4th or 5th day. During the follow up visit one week later with the doctor, he moved me from pill fiber to powder Metamucil once a day. That fixed the issue.

So, in summary, the fiber really works. I am 100%. I also am more stable with my BM’s by taking the fiber. There are less “got to go” times. The Salmonella really changes your system, and it takes quite a while for the body to return to normal. I am 41 and pretty healthy. Play sports and all. If all I have to do from now on is to take fiber, than I am good with that. So, if it isn’t totally obvious, I recommend seeing the doctor, and of course, try the fiber. Good luck to all.

I'm a 16 year old male, 145 pounds, and I sweat from my ass whenever I'm in public. At home I don't think I ever have this problem or at least I don't notice it. When I'm at school though it really sucks sitting in those f'ing metal seats that in order to not leave a wet mark I have to slide off the chair. And then I'm not sure if my pants have a wet mark!

I still suffer from this, but it's gotten better in some ways. Here are my tips that may or may not help you. They kind of helped me.

1) I've tried eliminating as much dairy as possible from my diet. Giving up ice cream was really hard, but after a while you stop missing it.
2) After you have a bowel movement, don't be too rough when you wipe. Be gentle while still making sure you get it all.
3) Don't eat too much junk food.
4) Try and relax. This at first was hard, but I came to this conclusion which helped SO MUCH!!!

This really really helped me manage with the fear of people noticing so here it is: PEOPLE ARE MORE WORRIED ABOUT THEIR OWN APPEARANCE THAN WORRYING ABOUT FLAWS IN OTHERS!!!

Tomorrow when you're at work or school or in public - take a look around you when you're in a group. Not everyone is looking at you, they are too busy worrying about themselves. This was a huge stress relief for me.

Also, to stop gas and bloating I highly recommend completely stop drinking fizzy soda. I used to drink up to 2 or 3 a day and as soon as I stopped I noticed I did not have any gas related bloating. For a replacement, I chose Green Tea. Sobe and Arizona are two good brands to try. It's probably as unhealthy as soda because of all the sugar, but since it doesn't have fizz it is an excellent replacement.

Good luck to everyone. Also I started taking an over the counter pill called "Acidophilus" about the same time I stopped drinking soda. I think it has a form of dairy in it, but the kind that won't make your problem worse. Two a night after eating helps keep acid levels in your stomach at a healthy level. It's worth a shot.

Glad to know Im not the only one. I wasnt expecting this many posts on this particular subject, as , lets face it people, its really rather embar"ASS"ing.
I just started having issues a couple of weeks ago, and chalked it up to haivng to take collagen and glucosamine for a back problem.
Im definately going to try the fiber and cutting off the coffee and hope it goes away, so Ill check back in a couple of weeks and let everyone know how I made out

Thank god I found this site just like millions of others who said the same, I guess fiber is the solution? I'm a little overweight and I'm young and I workout in the morning but this stuff really aggravates me and I wish it would stop.

I've had this problem from time to time and I have found a solution that seems to have worked for me. I read that the sphincter(Probably spelt wrong, if it is I mean my arse hole muscle) may have relaxed or that my body has forgotten how to control my Sphincter. This did not personally sit right with me, but I also read that diet including fatty foods, aspirin and antibiotics could be the culprit as the good and bad bacteria in the digestive system has been made out of balance by these products. I am an occasional aspirin user and I have had antibiotics from time to time but I noticed that my leaking arse syndrome had last happened within about 30-60 minutes of eating a lovely tasting, who knows the real nutritional value? Macdonalds meal. Don't get me wrong I'm not going to make Macdonald's food look bad but it dawned on me that this type of food, being eaten when my system was already inflamed, aggravated or unbalanced could be the cause. I am almost certain as I have not had any of this type of food for some weeks and I have not had any problem but only a short while after eating it I develop my smelly, leaky, messy, annoying, problem. Anyway after reading that there could be a possible good and bad bacteria imbalance and noticing that yogurt and some other products could return these imbalances of the Lactobacillis and Bifidobacterium families of bacteria, I got some yoghurt from the fridge, ate and within about 60 mins my leaky backside had stopped. I am sharing this because I believe the whole universe should benefit from this vital information. Thanks for listening, sorry about grammatical, spelling and any other errors you may find in my comment, all the best and peace be with you.

Cranberry juice. What a marked difference Cranberry juice has made in my leaky problem of five years. I don't particularly enjoy cranberry juice--has kind of a nasty afterbite--but I'll make it my best friend if it continues to plug the leak. I'm going out to get the cran-capsules today and also some garlic capsules as this has been mentioned to be helpful too. Amazing that after five years and one arrogant backside doctor, I find the answer on a website dedicated to poop. Who'da thunk it!

The problem of my leaky ass came to an embarrassing juncture last week when I visited my new Doctor. (Being 54 I thought it was time to finally see a doc even though I felt fine)First visit was just a talk for a little history. On my second visit I got a full physical. Not realizing this was about to happen I had no chance for a prewipe before he stuck his finger up my ass. I am pretty sure he was totally disgusted with me. He wiped my ass and used about 3 wipes. Then mentioned I'm at that age for a colonoscopy.
I'm glad I found this sight cause your the first people I've told of my leaky butt problem. And I'm starting the cranberry cure tonight.

Hi everybody!
I've also been dealing with this for over 5 years. Most of the comments above are focused on a quick fix but don't address the problem. The truth is ITS STRESS RELATED!
your stomach is overworking itself. Certain types of food AKA:
alcohol, dairy, excess fat, coffee are hard for anyone's body to digest. On a stressed stomach it becomes too much. Why would your stomach become stressed? Maybe because it never gets a chance to relax. Basically you live you life with feeling of sadness or feeling that things aren't right in you life. this causes your stomach acid to be constantly elevated. After years of this it starts to become weak and affects it's ability to processing certain types of foods. Pot use can cause panic attacks which in turn cause your stomach to overproduce acid. Basically, some people use the pot as a means to destress themself. The panic attacks are a sign of you've weekend your natual order. it's the same with alchole. If you don't resolve emotional trama you will see physical side effects. This isn't the answer for everybody, but it was the answer for me. If you want to fix this problem you have to fix yourself. Couseling is a great first step. Breathing exercises will also help. Once you fix your bodies balace, your stomach will become stronger and you'll be able to naturally digested these foods the way you used to.

Howdy all, Well I've read through most of this site excited that I was not the only one with this problem. After reading this I solved all... not knowing exactly which was the antidote. First... sweaty butt crack. It was always the same. I would be fine than my butt would itch big time. If I wiped, It would be as if I hadn't wiped when I took a dump. Also There would be a mixture of red from bleeding. First I thought it was hemeroids, however after reading I realized that it was from wiping too much. I went and got some baby wipes and after taking a dump, would wipe once with toilet paper and finish up with the babies.

2nd... solving the leaky butt. The psyllium seed husks seemed to halve solved that problem. I also gave up diet coke (42oz/day)... however I don't think that was a cause... maybe longterm effect, I don't know.

3rd... my smell, and this I have not read yet. I had a smell, not a shit smell but a bitter odor, always had it before the leaky butt, however I noticed that when the butt was leaking my smell would worsen. I always used cologne to cover it. I thought it was my breath. Well, I ended up getting some mint assures. Its basically parsley oil (if you can find that in health food stores for less). I'll be darned if that didn't fix the problem of the smell. Not sure if it would work with the shit smell, but it might.

I also have anal leakage. It is a problem for me. I wear incontinance pants to help stop it.

Im a concerned mom! My 7 year old son has this problem. He is a big kid, but he is not significantly overweight. He does sweat alot. Is fiber safe to give in pill form to a child? And how much? He has never had this problem before this year. Anyone else have kids with a similar problem. I am afraid to take him to the Dr for fear the exam would be too traumatic...although being made fun of by 1st graders for smelling like poo is traumatic too!

Change his diet, and I bet you any amount of money that it helps. The nice thing about Metamucil is that you can put it in anything, you can even bake with it.

If you want to give him pills, I'm sure your doctor will have an answer for you without even having to take the little guy in. Good luck.

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i am a sweat leaker and i belive it is from my way i wipe. i mroe and more tend to stick the toilet paper in my anus to wipe because wipeing on the outside dosnt seem good enough. I have heard i should stop pokeing into my put with toilet paper but if i dont i think ill haev shit in my boxers.wipeing on the outside gets the shit off in liek a wipe or two. I have gained what looks like a cut or crack(dosnt hurt) but its not in the anus is just above and just below.It is from pokeing to hard were it wasnt the hole and i created a hole i think, that dosnt seem to wanan heal. i always have a damp skid mark in my boxers if i haev the feeling to crap it seem to be before i taek a crap. After i wipe sometimes the wetness comes back but usualy i haev to shit again and thast why. I thought it was liek kinda my bodys lube for the shit thats leaking out becasue i may have a loosening anus from the way i wipe. Fiber dosnt seem to help me.

currently i do anal exercises they may be called kegal exercises im not shur. i just squeeze my anus together in the hopes of tightening it. u think its because i poke into my ass when i wipe?

i wipe and poke into my ass, it has caused damage and i think its the casue of my sweaty but althouth its not the sphincter i think pokeing into my ass to wipe loosens my anus to make this sweat or mucos leak out. so i try and do kegal exercises and tighter it but could there be another way to fix this other then fiber it dosnt seem to help.

This web page is a god-send to many.
Here is my story.
I am 77 years old and had a mild stroke five years ago.
About ten years ago I started having ‘crotch itch’. Sometimes the scratching became so fierce my testicles pouches would bleed . I can control by taking a ‘Vyrtec’ now and then.
Two years ago I had a colonoscopy. No major problems but they did find a couple of benign polyps. On occasion since then I have found blood in my shorts both up front and behind. About three months I noticed a feeling of dampness in my shorts, probably about five or six times. Usually I figured it was just sweat and ignored it. Last week when it happened I immediately looked to see what happened and there was a large wedgie surrounded by about an inch of ‘wetness’ The wedgie was discolored but the dampness was clear. Two days ago there was a spot about the size of a walnut that was clear.
My stools are normal and when I wipe there is very little residue.
I will attempt to digest all the information in the posts that seem to apply to me and want to thank the various posters for their openness.

Hello again,
I am chloe, and i suffer from anal leakage really bad. I sometimes try and fart, but instead i shart! :( it brings me great pain. I think i may be the latest JONO. This brings me excitement, but i am also embarassed by my condition, as i recently sharted myself whilst on a trip to Rotto. I also have problems with my urine, as i was dared to pee in a bottle for a fun sized flake. This is all well and good for me, but it leads my friends to piss themselves with laughter, which isnt good apparently.
I also suffer from genital misformations, as i have a rather wide set vagina. Please help me, as i feel that my wide set vagina, my constant sharting and wearing incontinace pants are de-grading?

Much much much love,
Chloe B
xox

im a 17yo male and I get the "swety butt" effect quite randomly, theres never amy odor just the unconfortable icth (afterwads I whipe my butt) im not hary altho I do have hair down there its quit annoing -.-. Im going to try the TP treatment ill post how that works for me

It s not me but I also have a friend a who had it (once he told me but I m sure it happens more often) . Anyway I tend to believe that it is because of the coke cause he also does it. We named him Juicy Lucy since he told us about it.

right the problem i have the most with is the smell. everything else doesnt concern me as much since i can deal with those, its just the smell. no matter how much i clean or wipe theres always the smell.

now the smell thing is weird. people complain of a shitty smell. sometimes i can smell it too but only for a few seconds most. i think what happens is theres always something left when i wipe and that causes the smell.

people snurtch when i walk past them in the street (mainly women ive noticed which i think is due to their heightened sense of smell) and what annoys me the most is when they do it constantly like every three seconds. they KNOW the smell is there. and sometimes people complain of 'ass' smell. hmm...

i dont understand it. maybe i should go see an ass doctor...

Does anyone else think this 'leaky anus' disease is related to an airborne pathogen (bacteria/virus/fungus/parasite/prion)?

I've been dealing with this 'fast-drying, sharply pungent smelling liquid leaking from the anus' for 6-7 years now myself... My anus is in almost constant pain and I have blood all over my crap sometimes, but I admit - my problem isn't as bad as some described here with the constant, excessive leaking... I've had infections at a few sites on my body (internal and external), that are probably due to the spread of something internally... The leaky problems seem to be related (in my case at least) to certain INDOOR environments. Not so much what I eat (my diet is not the greatest, but it's really not the worst either), how long I sit (which can be 13-15 hours per night at my night job), my fiber intake (I've tried a fiber-poor and fiber-rich diet, fiber supplements, etc), or anything else that I ingest for that matter (I've even tried fasting on simply water for a few days)...

I've tried various (considerably risky) experiments over the years such as fasting for almost a week to see if the issue resolves itself... The only repeatable method that seems to make it worse for me is breathing in the air in either of 2 environments where I'm basically forced to be (at my workplace and at my parents' house)... When I am away from those locations, the symptoms slowly begin to subside. I've even experimented by staying away from the locations for a long period of time [vacationed from work for a month] (the symptoms subsided substantially), returning to work for 5 minutes (not touching anything, eating anything, or doing anything except talking with a coworker and breathing in the air), then leaving. The symptoms returned! (Quickly!)

If anyone else has a similar problem, try this... Take note of where your symptoms are the worst... If it's possible to stay away from that area for a few weeks, try staying away. During that time, breathe a lot of fresh outdoor air. Do you feel as if you're returning to health? When you go back, do you start to feel noticeably worse?

I'm thinking the sticky fluid is at the root of the problem. I believe it is puss coming from a systemic infection/abscess caused by some airborne pathogen, which is not being resolved by our immune systems. Constipation and 'sticky shit' being stuck in the ano-rectal area compounds the inflammation/infection in the colo-rectal area even more.

These are just my speculations (largely based on conclusions I've drawn from google searches/medical sites), but is anyone else coming to similar conclusions?

What does your DOCTOR think?
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First to Worried Mom:
Please help your 7 yr old. Try having him shower before school, talk with him about using a type of diaper wipes after having a BM, and let him know that he is not alone with this problem.

My symptons. I have had this condition since prep school. It has owned my life to the point where I now have this incredible morning routine that sorta helps, but I still suffer from AL and smell. I have gone as far as having to jettison my underwear on occasion. A folded paper towel lodged in my crack catches the drip, but then comes the smell. (yuck) I have to visit the men's room several times to re-wipe and change the paper towel.

I am SO to have found this site and to know that I am not to only one. This condition has turned me into some type of Obsessive Compulsive nut, and is ruining my life.

I've switched from coffee to Green Tea, and have tried running at various time, but that seems to make it worse.

For now, it's dark underwear and pants, paper towels and lots of visits to the men's room.

Please help with a cure!!

i believe my cause was eating unhealthily when i was younger. are there any other 17 year olds with this problem?

I share the problem with you all. My guts have been screwed up for years. How about IBS, gluten intolerance, celiac disease? Anybody? Dairy,Starchy, simple carbs, wheat, barley, etc. seem to cause problems with me. Yet alas, the spirit is willing to change the diet, but those scones at Starbucks taste sooo good with coffee. Oh yeah, coffee. Mmmm, coffee with cream. America's drug of choice thanks to the "third place". While espresso has less caffeine than that drip coffee your office provides, too much of it can bother your gut. IBS is all about the head-gut nexus...get your head on straight and your gut will function better (allegedly). thanks to all you brave souls who share this
(d)asstardly problem. Happy wiping.

hi im 18 yrs old an suffer from anal leakage. i cant bare it any more. i've had it 3 yrs now and its an ongoing problem. i cant go out to discos or even hang out with friends because all i hear is " whats that smell". can somebody please help me?..

I have suffered from anal leakage for 10 years. The symptons are, as many people on this site have explained, after going for a crap it becomes apparent that there is some wetness around the ass hole. This is usually about 20minutes after crapping. A visit to the toilet for a wipe reveals that some yellowy brown discharge has occurred. The amounts of discharge vary from day to day and a further couple of visits for a rewipe are sometimes needed but for the rest of the day you are left with an irritation and a general feeling of being unclean around the ass hole area. As previous people have mentioned, this situation as well as being uncomfortable is embarrassing and depressing. I have been taking probiotic supplements and psyllium husk capsules and considered my diet to be healthy and balanced as I am not a great fan of fast food. I also tried removing caffeine, alcohol and dairy products from my diet, none of which worked. My breakthrough came when I stopped eating meat!! I decided to go vegetatarian (I still eat fish and dairy) and the leakage problem has now disappeared. I would encourage anybody suffering from this problem to try cutting meat out of their diet, I noticed and improvement after a couple of days and was leakage free after a week. I have been leak free for 10 weeks now :)
I also believe that a balanced, healthy diet is important and firmly believe that this leaking problem is very widespread, a lot of people will be unaware of mild symptons or in denial. Previous trips to a doctor were inconclusive (haemorrrhoids were blamed and an internal examination revealed no problems). Those people experiancing severe leakage, pain or passing of blood should go get themselves checked out by a doctor NOW...
Everybody suffering needs to take a look at their diet, cut out the crap AND STOP EATING MEAT FOR A WEEK AT LEAST, IT WORKED FOR ME SO GIVE IT A TRY!!!

I've read many of the comments on this page, and as a twenty-one year old male, I am stunned to see that (all due respect) so many individuals, especially those of substantial age, are not more educated regarding their health and fitness.
Father to this topic is the notion that a well-balanced diet paired with a thorough exercise routine can solve numerous problems, small or large, that many individuals face daily. I believe this to be truer beyond our own limits of applicability.
However, I am glad to see the betterment of all. Back to my cannabis I go...

Yikes - thought this 'leak' issue was mine only - sorry to hear it's rather rampant. Mine is due to a pesky anal fissure - never have pooped easily since as long as I can remember. Anyway I came across this ointment that is great for soothing the poop beast, seems to decrease leakage (and stink), drastically relieves the discomfort and seems to be helping to heal the fissure - all this in only two days of usage. 'Calmoseptine Ointment' is what I have been using and it can be purchased from you pharmacy however you must request the pharmacist order for you - it's not a stocked item. I'll keep you updated on how well it works over the next couple of weeks.
So far its great!! Good Luck!1

The active ingredients in Calmoseptine Ointment are Zinc Oxide and Menthol. It probably provides symptomatic relief but does not get to the cause.
Lots of posters seem to have one cure or another but if any one of them worked for all, we wouldn't be here reading this crap (I couldn't resist).
Haven't heard from anyone who claims to be a medical professional. A comment from a gastroenterologist might set us all straight.

If you have oily yellow/orange anal leakage, read on.... I thought I was dying of liver cancer or somthing, but found that eating "butterfish" causes this problem...Lepidocybium flavobrunneum, a marine fish of the snake mackerel family, is sometimes sold under the category of 'butterfish'. Ingestion of this fish was observed to be followed by the passage of oil per rectum. The fish was found to contain 23% by weight of lipid and analysis of this, and of the oil passed per rectum, showed that it consisted of wax esters. The high proportion of wax esters in the flesh of the fish, their resistance to digestive enzymes, and their low melting point, result in pooling in the rectum of significant volumes of oil, the lubricant quality of which causes frequent calls to stool. The symptomatology is therefore quite characteristic, but with the quantities normally ingested the condition appears to be harmless, despite reports of toxic effects in experimental animals.

PMID: 7195080 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

Hi, feel for you guys. I've got this problem but tbh its very mild and i know the things that i could do to get rid of it over night (well 2/3 days anyway). All I've got to do is up my fibre, take natural yogurt and do lots of sit ups.

My problem is pruritus ani (itchy anus). I use to over clean (ie until I bleed and all sorts of smellies up there. Been on a few sites but there doesn't seem to be any good sites out there for this problem. So if anyone can point me in the right direction I will be extremely grateful.

Thanks and good luck.

yep FIBER psyllium based bulk forming.
start with a couple of teaspoons daily and work up until problem ceases.

yeah i get anal leakage too. i find that holding in farts doesnt help and it either makes you feel ill and really uncomfortable or rather embarrased when it accidentally slips out. eating less seems to just dry up my poop but it leaves less of a mark when i get to wiping. the dried up poops feel like they go fine however they for some reason make the smell that lingers worse.

i think i have another problem with my penis cos whenever i get aroused it leaks seamen and sometimes sperm, and it causes a big wet patch to form in my undies. it can get pretty heavy especially when im talking to girls and stuff. but that doesnt worry me, its sometimes when i find orange bits come out with it that does. it isnt in large quantities, it just appears within the sperm/semen thats released every so often, like once every couple of months if it occurs. my theory is that its dried up sperm that is caught within my foreskin of the penis, and it just gets released when it slips away from all the penis leakage. i dunno if the orange thing is normal, however i do know that leakage from the penis is normal.

please help me!! do i have some sort of disease on my prostate or something?? :/

This thread has to hold the belt for the largest number of unverified users, with the most detailed stories. What the fuck to you people think this is? The Boston College of Medical Knowledge? We're willing, if not necessarily glad, to hear your tales, or tails, of woe, but our answer e're shall be, "GET THY ASS UNTO A DOCTOR, DAMMIT!!!"

I have found the new bible.

I have had the leaky itchy thing for a while. I would take the browns to the superbowl, wipe very clean and about 20-30 minutes later my O-Ring would start to itch. I would have to go to the bathroom and wipe again! I could not figure out how more shit would be coming out. Is my butt ring blown? Don't think so. I am going to try the fiber powder first. I hope like hell it works. This is anoying and very embarassing and sometimes it hurts. You gets so fucking mad that you wipe until your asshole bleeds. That hurts like hell. I was just recently getting scared that I had roids or maybe even cancer. This site calmed me down so much. Today is a new day for pooping. God dammit thank you!

i haven't read past the first page of comments cause i just dont have time (probably cause i spend so much of it wiping my ass)--but i saw several people suggest that vegetarians don't get this problem...well, my butt says otherwise. i eat free range meat only once/month, have no other medical problems, take no medications, and have had AL for the past year and a half, with no signs of stopping. i eat very healthy, lots of fibre, fruits, and veggies. but after i get ready in the morning and walk 5 minutes to the train station...well, let's just say my train rides are less than comfortable.

anyone from NBC on here? shouldn't Matt Lauer be talking about this site on the Today show so the (Today-show-watching) world will know they are not alone?

And how do any doctors not know about this crap?

HEAR ME OUT- HERE IS WHAT SHOULD BE DONE.

A leaky anus is a very very serious issue. Your internal organs are your life- it is your self, what else is there?!

GO TO THE DOCTOR, PERIOD! It is fine to arm yourself with information and get moral support. Take the information you gather to your doctor. SEE YOUR DOCTOR!

Your symptoms can subside from changes in diet, granted. The important thing is, deciphering what the root cause(s) of the symptom(s) is or are. ONLY A DOCTOR CAN DO THIS.

If you think you will be embarrassed when your Doctor examines you because he or she will be grossed out, forget it, I've seen for 15 minutes of what doctors see for 5-7 straight years in medical school. Leaky anus's are not grose to a Doctor, believe me.

What's grose is the potential for poo to permeate the body's natural barriers and get into the bloodstream (i.e.via bloody anus), which, even on a microscopic level is, may cause serious conidtions. WOW, SCARY!

If you have poo in your pants you are a walking fungus/bacteria machine and you are allowing yourself to be a public health risk.

If anything, it shows self-respect on your part to take care of yourself. Any DOCTOR will respect that. GO TO THE DOCTOR!

I have been plagued for years by intermittent bouts of diarhhea. My doctors told me it was Irritated Bowel Syndrome but were unable to find the cause and a treatment that worked. Eventually I developed ocassional episodes of anal leakage. Through the internet I discovered I had lactose induced diarrhea and determined that milk, cheese, and other dairy products seemed to trigger my diarrhea and episodes of anal leakage 1-2 days after consumption of dairy products. I had told a couple of my doctors that milk seemed to trigger my diarhhea and one told me, "There is no way a milk allergy could be causing this problem." It's just too bad the jerk wasn't better educated and knowledgable about lactose induced diarrhea. Since I quit consuming dairy products my episodes of diarrhea and anal leakage have reduced dramatically in frequency. Ocassionally I still get episodes if I eat a fatty meal, have caffeine like sodas, tea, chocolate; eat spicy foods like chili or Mexican food; or if I consume a product that has cheese in it.

This site has helped me alot, knowing other people have the same problem actually helps more than anything. I have never had an "extreme" problem, just enough leakege to annoy/embarress me. I have been going to the doctor, and have yet to find a cure, the "fiber" cure helped me, but didn't fix the problem.

One thing my doctor told me that really helped was the use of immodium. I was surprised to hear the immodium is very beneviolent. Some people take it up to 8 times a day! By takeing two immodium's in the morening and one at night, my problem is almost gone.

Keep in mind this is a temperary solution, and should not be taken if your constipated! You should keep looking for the source of the problem. Mine is probebly IBS and I have yet to find a cure.

One thing I learned is that any intestine based problem is not easily cured. Only one solution will probebly work for you and there are a WHOLE lotta causes and not enough cures.

My problem is itchy anus and itch around my genitals (it's not sexual). I note someone above said take fiber, will this really work and how long should it take?
Thanks for any help.

I must be honest, I have had this problem for about 14 years. I have found that if I take things like Morphine or Vicodin for 3 or 4 days it will make me constipated and my butt will not leak. that is the only relief i have ever had from this, (I dont take that stuff recreationally, I was injured in a motorcycle addicent) I am trying the garlic and cranberry extract, I will let everyone know what happens. I thank this site for letting me know that I am not the only one out there with this problem. I would like to ad that if I clean my butt in the shower with a wet soapy washcloth, and then let the water rinse my hole off, it is better, then i put desitin on it and seems to help the itching and pain quite a bit. anyway good luck everyone

OK I'm probably being a bit thick here but does Fiber make your poo more solid? That's my problem it seems so runny and takes ages to clean up afterwards. Anyone any ideas or who can help me?

WOOHOO!!! 500th post rocks!!!! and the answer to all your questions are as follows:

Yes; only during monsoon season; cat-wiping; Forest Gump; three; and finally, Leeches.

Hi - I am so glad I found this site! I also have this problem and I'm sick of it! Mine is mainly the kind where I never feel like I've wiped well enough and it is really stinky. I also use the baby wipes and then dry with tp. But I do find that alcohol does make it worse. The itching is so annoying though...what a mess. I was diagnosed with hemorroids too - and haven't done much about it. But I'm going to go to the doctor and see if I may have a fissure like some of you have reporteed. One woman reported she had surgery back in 2005 - am wondering how that went. Thank you all for sharing your stories. It does feel better knowing I'm not the only one! Oh and boy it is embarrassing...yuck.

I'm not sure, but there may be something to the "fizzy-drink" answer. I quit cokes, but also made some other changes about the same time. I had an upper and lower I.G. done about the same time that I found this site, and found an internal hemmroid. I'm using a prescription strength ointment to help on this problem (which may be the cause, or just allowing the excessive digestive fluid to find a way out). A dermatologist told me to use Serna Sensative cream for the itching, and zinc-oxide ointment to heal the raw area. Both are over-the-counter meds. I also gave up dairy-products to check for a lactose intollerant possibility. The problem hasn't completely gone away, but it IS much better. I may still have to do more about the hemmerroids to completely solve the problem.

seems to me that garlic and cranberry extract are working. still have itching sometimes but i just started this a couple of days ago. i definitely have to say it is working.

Sorry if this is a daft question but what is cranberry extract? How do you take your garlic? Could you keep us informed of how your doing?

Ok people most of you can actually be helped very easily.

Firstly, if your taking drugs then choose do you want your drug or a nice clean healthy crap?

Secondly, minor stomach exercises to strengthen yuor abs and inners will help.

Thirdly, cut down on the booze (possibly even stop until you've got LA under control). Cut coffee totally out of your diet.

Fourthy, up your fiber intake. Not just tablet form. Eat whole fiber bread, porrige/bran in the morning. Cut that crappy Mac burger out of your diet.

Fithly, take your cranberry juice everyday (a liter or more if possible)

Sixthly, force those disgusting live yogurts down your throats. Some priobotics would be good too.

Seventhly, eat as much fruit a day as you possibly can stomach.

Follow these 7 rules for 3 weeks and see the difference in your AL.

This site has provided me with a wave of relief. My problem started about three months ago with fecal leakage and some rectal pain with the occasional streak of blood. I visited the doctor and he told me that I had a small fissure and hemmorhoids. He gave me some hydrocortisone cream to apply and also told me to continue my use of prep h. The hydrocortisone did nothing for me. If anything, it caused my hemmorhoids to itch and flare up even more. For the last month or so, the hemmorhoids and fissure seemed to have disappeared but I am still having the brown leakage. It is never so bad that it gets into my boxers but no matter how much i wipe, I will always have to wipe several times again over the hours following a bowel movement. I visited the doctor again the other day. He gave me another rectal (god, i freakin hate that) and said that he found nothing. He is currently trying to get me into a specialist(I think it is called a gastrointerologist or something like that). I am only 21 years old, 5'9, and weigh about 120 pounds. My diet however, is complete shit(no pun). It consists mostly of whatever fatty, greasy foods I can get my hands on. As of today I am taking steps to try and fix the problem on my own. I am cutting coffee out of my diet, taking fiber supplements, and holding off on the greasy foods. Fruits and vegetables are also a goodthing to implement. I will post again after I see the specialist.

"Wave of relief".

Best phrase of the week.

Just wanted to say that I can stop spending bucks on Digestive Advantage now (Chroans version) since a glass of Cranberry Juice each morning stops the leakage problem for 24 hours at a time. Still haven't tried high fiber though. The Digestive Advantage worked but not as well as the Cranberry Juice. Still would like to know, then, what causes this...

This is a great site. But it still didn't answer the "sweaty" butt question. There seems to be two issues. The "mucus" out of your butt... And the "sweaty" ass. My issue is the sweaty butt. I use two paper towels. One right between my crack and one that just is in my boxer briefs. They absorb my sweat. When it gets really hot, I use a wash cloth and put that between my crack (like a pad to sit on and absorb)

What is the solution for the SWEATY butt? It's in my crack and around my butt cheeks.

This site has been my saviour. Here’s my story:

Like a few other people on here, a few years ago I suddenly developed the problem of not being able to wipe myself completely clean after going to the toilet. I could use a whole toilet roll and have a bleeding backside, and still not have the job done. Also, I noticed that even if I had a thorough shower immediately after going to the toilet, I would still end up with marks in my underwear.
When the problem first started, it appeared for a few months, then disappeared as quickly as it had begun. Unfortunately it came back, and after a few more short remissions, it came back for good.
After about 18 months, I sought medical help, and like others on this site I underwent a flexible sigmoidoscopy (camera up the bum). The specialist found no path explanation and my bloods were fine. Because my weight and general health were not adversely affected, I was discharged.
I began to realise that the problem was the consistency of my faeces - it was kind of sticky, and stained the toilet. It never used to be that way. I have always eaten reasonably healthily; plenty of fibre and very little processed food. Additionally, I should say that I was in my early 20’s when the problem started, and I was fairly fit. Though nothing about my diet had changed to cause this problem, I began to cut out various foods to see what made a difference. Nothing worked. I wondered whether the problem was stress-related or psychosomatic, but this just didn’t ring true. Over the past few years I’d undergone the most stress in my life followed by periods of flat calm - yet the problem never got worse or better - it was always the same.

So, after almost five years, and having resigned myself to a life of black underwear and frequent showers, I came across this site. I was amazed to see some people reporting exactly the same symptoms that had plagued me for so long. Anyhow, I noted the recommendation of psyllium husks, and bought some as soon as I could.
Ok, now this stuff is pretty grim (like drinking grass seeds in water), but I began to notice the effects within 12 hours. After a few days of my bowels being in overdrive, things settled down, and for the first time in years, I was completely free of my problem. After 2 weeks, I was able to cut down the dose, so less screwing up of my face at medicine time.
Nearly 4 weeks down the line, and my curse seems like a distant memory. This site rocks.

My ass used to leak constantly in my younger days, but I have since pulled my head out of it, and it slammed shut quite nicely...didn't even have to caulk.

hi, i woke up after a night of drinking and was ill in bed all day. I was sweating a lot and had a bath in the night. When i came out of the bath my ass felt blocked as if water couldnt get in and clean it. My ass has smelt really bad for months and my friends are making fun of me behind my back. My ass feels blocked and smells bad its ruining my life. It feels sweaty all the time, i even thought of suicide a few times please help me get rid of this its so embarrasing. Thankx.

Guess whos back smells... well hey if you remember me or not..my problem has reoccurred....i did take some things into consideration though..and i taught myself how to cope w/ this problem...

Im 15 and im turning 16 real soon folks...
but try this stuff out...

A.) If you feel really insecure about your sweaty butt and your in a public place(lol) grap a DRYER SHEET, ripe it in half, put it you know where, and put the other half in your pocket for later... it helps somewhat...but if your doing physical activity, put it in place afterwards, after wiping up that sweat...( I recomend you wear boxer briefs or granny pannys < so you dont have embarassing moments like me> boxers will let it slip on out and if your wearing shorts it could be very embaressing...and girls idk if it'd be comfortable to wear g-strings)

B.) Try different Colognes.... I have always been a pretty boy and am still known to this day as one * but my backside can get the best of me every once in a while*

Sean John Unforgivable (smells really good..if you have a gf id advise you wear this one) 3hrs
Kenneth Cole Reaction( fresh, crisp, green apply scent) 3hrs
Lacoste (very, very strong) 5hrs
Cool Water (gfs love this one too) 3-4hrs
Guess 2-3hrs
Curve (any) 1hrs tops < but is the cheapest of the bunch>
(If your a girl w/ this problem)

Lovespell
Paris Hilton
Cool water
DKNY

All of the following can make you smell great but you only need one , so dont go out spending all your money on this stuff...

C.) Take a bath, wash yourself..balls, anus, arse, vagina and all... BACTERIAL SOAP works... keeps me fresh for most of the day w/ a DRYER SHEET

D.) Drink Crannberry Juice or Juices w/ Crannberrys in it

E.) Exercise... (which i need to do more of..which is a good reason this problem popped back up)

and finally

F.) Make sure you have your share of fiber & fruits

When socializing w/ friends or work..shower before hand and use a dryer sheet and cologne..for best results...and if anyone has any other things in which i could improve my daily life..please say so....

I'm surprised that you don't get a rash from the dryer sheets. But, I've thought the same thing myself.

Metamucil, and check your diet. You sound like you're doing well, but you still may have too much fat in it. I wish you the best of luck.

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.....hugging bunnies since 1969
www.daphneszoo.com

I am a 26 year old male, I have had AL since I was 15 years old. it just came out of nowhere, people would always ask me " did you fart?" or I could over hear other people talk about "how much it stinks in this room" and would give me that look like, " you need to go!!!!". I broke down and went to see the doctor about this problem about three times now. the last time I went, the doc. asked if I was having anal sex. I AM NOT at all that kind of person which makes this situation even more depressing!! the doc did a balloon test, testing the strength of the muscle ( poop taper-offer) and told me that the muscle was "Asymetric", which means it does not close tight at the top or the bottom of the ring very well. I was told to do the kegal exercise for the rest of my life! talk about depressing. I have AL under control for the most part, but still is a nightmare I live with every day. God bless you all, and good luck in the future.

Is there anybody here who actually knows? A lot of us have the same problem, but not answers. Wickipedia is no help. It gives a number of explanations that don't apply to many. Epistiotomy, eating indigestible oils, runny stools, etc. But if none of that is the case, and it still happens, is there any authoritative answer? Maybe somewhere.

_How did you come up the the dryersheet idea? The more I read PR, the better I feel about shit that happens to me and my poop. I have always been a closet shameless shitter.My family was always kool about bodily functions. I just learned at an early age that society frowns on such acceptence. So I kept the poop jokes to family gatherings and close friends. Now it's great I have a place to fit in. ______
Producing waste since 1967

Okay, i get that wet sensation in my underpants and it feels dampish, like from sweat however, no shat comes out nor itchiness.
**As a consequence of this, i think it is though, i SMELL when walking in public, ie going to school. Sometimes more and sometimes less, not at home though. i think it has something to do with what i eat, ie. junk foods and/or the amount of stress i get. I cant stand smelling like this anymore, altough i dont smell it, people around me do, like when i walk past people. ive been to the doc a few times and they dont know.
hopefully... someone does. And yeah, GREAT SITE!

Another thing of consideration that I didn't see posted (but I didn't read them all) is human papiloma virus. This is the virus that has had much attention lately with the vaccination for young girls (and possibly boys) as early at age 11.
In women, it can cause cervical cancer, but in both men & women it can cause anal cancer. And you didn't have to have had anal sex to contract it (unless someone was lying). There is an anal pap smear that can detect the presence of the virus, and there are about 20 of them, and 3 of them are particularly conducive to cancer.
Yearly smears and some other test I don't remember the name of can detect any progression of the disease. If cancer is found early it is completely curable, but if it has spread past the area, in severe cases, anal cross-section is required.
A cousin of mine in mid-fifties who had refused traditional treatment for breast cancer, and had irregular cells in her cervix, was irregular cell free after a year of RAW diet, in which noting is cooked, and I'm sure the roughage content would be high, as well as not having any other cancer in her system, in spite of the fact that her breast cancer had spread past the lymph nodes.
So, don't give up hope, but if you have much irregular happenings, don't discount anal cancer which can cause a variety of anal leakage, and displacia, and blood in small or varying amounts.

OK, I haven't read all of the comments, but I have the same problem and my solution is Kleenex tissue paper. I just spread the cheeks and insert the folded tissue between the buns, and if no Kleenex is around I use TP. I recommend using the Kleenex with the Vitamin E and Alo Vera, it helps to sooth the irritated bunghole and blocks leaks.

As mentioned before, we may all have AL as a symptom from different conditions. In any event, I reluctantly tried the Metamucil solution but, since I already had loose stools, it seemed that a pseudo-laxative would make it worse. On the contrary, stools became normal and, so far after three weeks, no AL! One teaspoon daily is worth a try for everyone. Yes, I thought I already had a high fiber diet but it does make a difference.

Psyllium. That's all I have to say. Used to have a horrible problem, gone in 3 days. Let me tell you about psyllium....

Psyllium (seed husk) contains exactly the right proportion of soluble & insoluble fibers for human consumption. This fiber REGULATES your stools so they're neither too hard nor too soft. It acts like a sponge, soaking up excess liquids and loose stool pieces but softening any hard lumps. It also gives your stool more volume, so you no longer have that feeling like you still have a little more to go but can't quite get it out.

You can get psyllium as Metamucil, but I recommend the types available from NOW Foods. Capsules work all right, but you have to take a lot of them. I just go for the straight powder, which is more hard-core (it tastes awful) but it's a guaranteed fix.

Start with a half-dosage and then work your way up. You will have to endure several days of an over-active bowel and some abdominal discomfort (gas) while your digestive system adjusts to having more fiber. But once you adjust and you consume as much fiber as you OUGHT to, you won't want to go back.

I'm healthier and happier because I've been drinking this crappy-tasting, indigestible powder. Who'da thunk it?

Someone posted this a while back. It's on thei first page of this thread: "When you eat food such as Meat and chicken you intestine secretes large amounts of mucous and after years of doing this with a low fiber diet this is almost inevitable ...". Now this may be the cause of my problem. When I was in primary and high school I wouldnt eat much fibre but I ate loads of kids meals frozen meats, like chicken drumsticks etc. Now because of my ignorance when I was younger I am now suffering as a result. It feels horrible :( It annoys me so much. I wish I had known as a child that a healthy diet is ESSENTIAL to prevent any problems in later life.

Well i'm pretty sure it is a Pilonidal Cyst...You have to have it drained....There should be a bump about your buttcrack?...I have the same thing and i was lookin things up about it yesterday.
There is also a whole in the buttcrack..not the whole but crack not a big one or anything but thats where the liquid comes from...The liquid is puss i believe and it happens when there is pressure on the bump about the buttcrack..It is either a pilonidal cyst or a fistulla but i think its a cyst.
Any one who has these syptoms should go to the doctors...Warm baths help with

Hey everybody- I'm a 36 y.o. female in decent physical condition. I posted some months back about having anal leakage- not the latent poop stuffs but the yellowish stinky liquid stuff. I had just cut out dairy completely and also started taking fiber powder every day. Well, it's been like 5 months now and i've stayed off dairy religiously (which has also lost me at least 5-7 lbs because of all the cheese, ice cream, butter-rich baked goods, etc that I won't eat), and I only need one spoonful of the fiber powder with lots of water every night before bed and not only is the leakage totally gone, but my poops come quickly and easily almost every morning. I try to drink water whenever I think of it throughout the day. I think this is key too.
The impacted poop thing sounded like something I had, but I think the fiber got that all moved out. (For awhile there before the fiber, all my poos looked like they had had to squeeze past something blocking their way. Not anymore.)
Anyway, about dairy, I'm sure lots of people are Not lactose intolerant, but if you think about it, we're the only animals that drink the milk of other animals (except pets when they're fed it by us) and it makes sense that many of us lack the enzymes for digesting dairy. For me, when I suspected dairy as the cause of the leakage and then stopped eating it for awhile, whenever I gave in to some tempting treat or easy meal that had dairy and then had leakage for a few days after, I'd feel like such a loser. Like what a fuck-up I am to do something that is going to make me feel so gross and miserable and alone- the loneliness that only your own body going haywire can make you feel. (And all for a fucking croissant or whatever.)
Now, every time I look at all the buttery, cheesy treats at the restaurant I work at I remember all those heartbroken moments alone at the toilet feeling like a victim of my own body. Now I reject the little tempters and I feel strong and in control, like the champion of my body. It's really helped me get in touch with the fact that I'm the only one responsible for this one thing of mine. And it's like an everyday reward to have big, healthy poops and no leakage.

So..my main suggestions:

-FIBER (great if you can do it with foods, but if you just want to get it done without being a perfectionist, just find a decent powder form, take it with loads of water, and stick to it)

-WATER, WATER, WATER

-try cutting out dairy in case you're one of the tons of us who can't process it

Good luck everybody, thanks for sharing your woes. Take control of your body through choosing what to put in it, you're the only one who can and you'll feel powerful for doing it, trust me!

If you want to stop anal leakage eat 6 whole meal buns a day. Worked for me. Takes about 3 weeks to get the full effect though, but it'll stop those leaks.

Hello fellow buttleakers, using a dryersheet doesn't chaff, itch, or rash, well it does not have any effect on me...so if your wiling to do whatever to help prevent sweatiness, try it out...

Six weeks on Metamucil (psyllium) and all symptoms of AL have disappeared from day 3 on. One "well rounded teaspoon" in water daily. I drink as much coffee and alcohol as I want. Why did I wait years to try it? How psylly of me!

had this problem for about 6 months. then i realized a solution to a problem that my wife had might carry some weight. my wife used to leak a little urine when she sneezed, coughed, etc. a health care professional suggested that what keeps everything inside is MUSCLES, muscles need exercise! it was suggested she do kegal exercises, everyday, often. it worked for her. i tried it, and, in addition to diet and fiber it stopped completely within a month. remember we are told diet and exercise will keep us healthy, those tiny little muscles at the bottom need exercise too.

I saw this from searching and figured I'd add my experience.
I began having pain when I took a dump and it started to intensify a ton over a couple days. I had about a 1/2 pinky finger sized lump about a 1/4" under the skin near my butthole, and the whole area swelled really bad (which is what caused the pain). Ended up in the ER, where they said I had an anorectal abcess. They drugged me up and I had surgery to slice it open to drain it. They said in about 50% of cases this will result in a fistula, which I now have and am getting surgery for some time soon. I'm glad to have read a couple of people's posts on that surgery, as it had me pretty frightened of becoming incontinent (unable to control crapping).

The all-day wiping issue used to happen to me. This was because of the consistency of my poo - it was messy, tar-like, wouldn't fall in, stuck to me, took forever to wipe, etc. Since altering my eating habits, my poo has radically changed and I feel so much better. I went from a high fat, high calorie intake to a drastic reduction in not only the amount of food I was eating, but the kind of food. Now, I eat three really clean meals per day. I try to stay away from processed junk and am no longer bingeing on sweets & white sugar daily. I'm eating more fruits, vegetables, whole grains, lots of fiber and drinking about four, 16 oz. water bottles daily. I'm actually going to the bathroom more frequently and producing "clean" floaters meaning, when I wipe, there is hardly, if anything, on the tissue. I no longer have an all-day itchy ass crack that is harboring a mess from the last sit down. It's too true that you are what you eat. I've been obese (200+) for more years than I was thin. Without even really trying to lose the weight, just the small changes in eating habits have taken off 15 pounds in eight weeks.

Props to whomever it was that came up with this brilliant idea for a site/forum - truly humanitarian!

I have had a leaky butt for about 5 months, at the most. I am 23, have a better-than-average diet, am somewhat inactive, have a desk job, and I am a homosexual (really bi - but haven't taken it up the butt for ages, and am, if I may say so, "tight"). Overall, I am healthier than the average bear.

My problem is about 90% sweaty mucous stuff/ 10% other (always a combination of the two). The problem is that it does have an odor, and I am therefore self conscious of it - more than I would be if it didn’t smell. Anyway, thanks to this forum, I have gathered that I am probably not exercising enough and that my diet may be lacking in fiber. I also have a theory that this issue may be, in part, due to my recent healthier dieting habits (I’m slooowly working towards the RAW foods thing). My theory is that it is part of a cleansing process, perhaps a reaction to my avoidance of red meats, fast foods, etc.

Anyway, I do give myself enemas and wheatgrass implants with random frequency and I’m sure that in the long run that will help. I also purchased psyllium husk, and am excited to see what sort of changes that will bring. I also pumped some metal today, and perhaps tomorrow I will go for a walk. I will let ya’ll know if I come upon something miraculous. Otherwise, good luck.

Dude,

1. Cut the junk and over-processed foods out of your diet... (eat "whole foods" instead), have fruit for breakfast in the morning, easy on the starches, etc).

2. Goes with step 1 - sharply reduce you alcohol intake.

3. Get yourself some fiber, in powdered form (Metamucil, Benefiber) and do it up once or twice a day.

4. Make sure you are getting enough straight-up water (Gatorade might be fine).

If the above don't work, consider:

5. Jog, go for a walk and work out. Just BE ACTIVE.

6. Cut dairy out of your diet (many people develop an intolerance to it that may cause digestive issues).

7. Consider an enema bag. Most pharmacies sell them as water bottle-enema bag combos, so you can always pretend you are after the water bottle part. They are not as difficult as you may think, and if it’s an old chunk of poop lodged up there that is causing the problem and the other steps didn’t help, this is something to consider.

SEE A DOCTOR!!!

Okay I don't have a problem with AL. It happened to me once a few months ago, but it was caused by a prescription.

My problem is with but sweat. I've tried everything. EVERYTHING. It leaves a mark on my butt that is very noticeable, the same as an underarm stain but on my butt instead. I've tried deodorant, corn starch, talc powder, napkins...

Nothing has really seemed to help. I'm 18 and in good shape, and only my butt is sweaty. It's pretty hairy, but nothing crazy. I do drink coffee, but I dont know if that causes sweating. Anyone have any ideas/things that have worked???

THANKS

my butt leaks and its itchy as hell, i stuffed TP all up it the crack, til the day i was at a BBQ and the brown wad of permantly formed to the shape of my crack TP came rolling out my pant leg onto the ground in front of the 2 girls i was flirting with! so this method only works if your sitting in your chair typing on the poopreport.com and touching it every now and then and sniffing your finger to see if its time for a new wad. the wad only stops the brown eye from watering, but the itching remains. I suggest rubbing a stick of old spice on it after youve scratched it raw, the result will make you forget all about the itching!

That must have been some bbq.

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.....hugging bunnies since 1969
www.daphneszoo.com

I fear some are not taking this seriously.

May we have a show of hands?

Clean ones, please.

Hello everyone. There are a million posts on this already, but I, too, have dealt with anal leakage, and I thought I would offer the solution to this problem that worked for me:

It's all about diet. I learned this when I went and visited my girlfriend in Japan last winter. Long story short, my girlfriend cooked for me, and my diet was completely different than what I ate in America. The problem vanished. Totally.

It has come back before, and in fact, I am bothered a bit by it now. However, I have a few tips (which I, too, should try harder to follow):

1. I have noticed a direct correlation between beer/marijuana intake and the level of severity of this problem. Beer, especially, may as well function as a laxative substitute. Going 100% clean made an enormous difference in my digestion. In Japan, I never drank, and once I stopped back here, I could feel the change within just a few days.

2. It is wise to do a re-evaluation of your entire diet, right down to your tiniest snack - because the tiny snack may be the problem. You need to find exactly how your body reacts to different foods. This will require some experimenting, and some patience, because you will probably react poorly to eating too many new things. Hint: simple is good, and so is cooking for yourself.

3. Striking a balance between fiber and starch is key, along with minimizing fats and oils. Starch makes your stools bulkier, and fiber absorbs water to make your stools harder. Remember that there are many different kinds of fiber, and you need variety. Don't think that eating a truckload of broccoli will fix the problem.

4. One important feature of my diet in Japan was that I was eating three balanced meals a day. Eating regularly is a great step toward getting your bowels to perform regularly.

5. For me, and for most others here, the problem doesn't have much to do with the strength of our sphincters. Instead, it's just that our poop is too watery at times, and therefore it is too unconsolidated for it all to be squeezed out very easily. A little bit remains in our rectums, and it seeps out slowly as we go through our day. Think of your poop; is it long, loose, and moist? If you answered yes, your problem is your diet. Now, do you remember ever having gone to the bathroom, tried to wipe, and finding that there was nothing even left for you to wipe at all? That should happen to you at least a few times per month. Ultimately, you need to make your stool thick, low in water and well consolidated.

6. Finally, in my case, let me just say that when I am having trouble, giving the ol' butthole a good rinse pretty much gets rid of anything that might leak out. I literally sit down on my sink, turn on some warm water "freshen up", and then wash my hands and the sink. Don't exactly penetrate yourself, but make sure that the water gets into as many places as it easily can. Those countries that have butthole spraying toilets have the right idea. ;)

Good luck!

Thanks for all the comments. I've had this for years and will try anything.

so excited to find this site...anal leakage has been a big problem for me for many years. Female, 63, over weight. I will try eating more fiber like maybe an apple a day and see how that goes. I also ordered the anal pads which I hope will save my underwear. Will let you know how it all goes. Thanks for being there cause I thought I was all alone.

I ran into this thread searching for info on Lipitor and AL but only found one passing reference -- I guess I will keep looking on that topic. But I may as well share my experiences since so many of you sound like me. I have had this problem for about 15 years. My diet sucks and I don't want to really deal with it. Several doctors found no physical problems but didn't have any useful suggestions other than eat more fibre (almost impossible for me). Then someone gave me the Mucilages recommendation and I achieved an almost complete turnaround. Here are my suggestions:

1) Fibre. Try Konsyl - it has twice the psyillium as metamucil and similar products. Twice the bang for a single yucky slug of fibre and water. Works wonders for me and several friends who tried it.

2) Itchy bum. Try hydro-cortisone cream. Also works wonders for me. But if this was more than an intermittent problem I would talk to a doctor.

3) Coffee. A lot of people think caffeine is the problem but I found several sites that say it is some ester in the coffee itself and you should switch to tea. It helped me but I really like coffee so I have strayed back and the Konsyl seems to be holding things in so to speak.

4) Lipitor? Does anyone know about this? I will be POd at my doctor if he prescribed lipitor and failed to mention a serious AL side effect.

Here is an addendum to my previous post. I forgot one issue I learned about that could be affecting some of you:

4) Gluten. A fair number of people have a serious IBS type reaction to the gluten in flour, with cramps, gas, loose stool, anal leakage, etc. The solution is pretty extreme - you have to get flour completely out of your diet. But it sounded like this is a well established problem and is certainly worth researching for anyone with the issues most of us are posting about.

i find it so annoying that there are many people in the world who eat badly that dont have this problem whatsoever. lucky fools! lol :S

Have this problem since 1992, and survived by one way only: when i have it, i THROW AWAY ANY RED MEAT I HAVE STARTED TO USE FOR THE LAST TWO DAYS, and don't buy from the same batch anymore.
I do NOT say that red meat is bad, what i say is THAT THERE IS BAD RED MEAT out there.
Also watch the dairies (probably coming from the same lifestock), i mostly stopped using them since '92.

ok so some people have this leak... well i never new nothing of it untill a freind told me i should wear underwear to bed because of this leak so it won,t get all over my sheet,s ..well iam just woundering if this is common for people in general or just in some ....i mean i really never put much thought to this .i wip my ass everytime i peee or poop so to me no big deal like what ever..but my freind tells me probley threw my sleeep i wipe my face with the sheets and get this leakage on my nose,,,,well iam a down to earth girl(tom boy) and i wash my face every morning. so i ask you out there really is this leakage a big deal.........?may be there is some powder to put on your ass so it will dry it up i really don,t no................

I can see that there are even more than two camps in this.
I am one that thinks it is in something we eat, and NOT in something we DON"T eat.
For Candyhart, i see you don't have problems in that area, nice, and you want to know more, then why don't you ask your friend about it ?
I can tell you, it is NOT common, although MORE common than you thought, as you can see on poopreport.com. And also it seems not well identified by the medical society, probably partly caused by the late (embarrassing) visits by patients. Same as you have probably a problem asking your friend ?
As i read the reactions here, i can see nuances of which i did not knew they existed, like:
some have "blank liquid", some have "yellowish liquid", some have "blank liquid + some poop", some yellowish liquid + poop". Some talk about "very bad smell", some seem not to bother about that. Some can have terrible pain, some never speak of that.
I would like to know how many have pain with it, especially if this could occur (without their knowledge) in the night, when they are asleep, and by that maybe as fainting pains around the anus in the morning.
Also a nuance i read here are the "hemorrhoids" which (i think) is a different matter, although these can give the same sort effects.
I have had hemorrhoids thirty years ago (on the outside), and so I can tell the differences a bit, and the most significant difference for me are that with the hemorrhoids the rectum itself doesn't discharge so much liquids (and is not painful), but the hemorrhoids can break and leak (bloody or dark watery and smelly) and can be painful in a "damaged" way (like a little cut) as you have to sit on them.

The comment i wrote earlier told my way of dealing with leakiness, and that was to stop consuming the "red meats" (and also try/watch the dairies). For my knowledge pork gave me the most problems in the past (specially meat, i think not the fat).
But i am sure that is only half the truth.

Experience:
What i am sure of is that it is caused by an environmental addition (pollution), and that the causes of the problem(s) can be district- or country-dependable. I have already read some comments of people that changed country for a while, and completely cured, until they returned. I have similar experience that if i "escape" my environment that things definitely change.

I remember the first time i had it (that was 1990, not 1992 as i said before). It felt like an attack that grew within a few seconds to a large area of pain and swollen anal area (rectum), impossible to be covered by something like a viral or bacterial infection. It most accurately felt like a knife stuck in there, so suddenly. About three hours later it had slowly faded away.
But, from that moment on, the embarrassing side effects began, the liquids, poop, stains, smell.
For me, pain is sometimes a part of it, but I have not heard many here that confirm this, although some state that clearly.
Imagine, you have burned your hand on the stove. Your skin is red. Coming into a wide area of a heatsource is painful to that skin already. Well, thats how it feels around my anus/rectum sometimes. Being struck many years ago, and repeatedly (but never so hard as in that first period), i have developed a sensitive rectum, that reacts on a little bit of "something" very quickly, and the rectum/anus thickens a bit, and produces liquid for a few hours, mostly the hours after bowel movement. As now, the thickening seems more permanent, and i think that that is caused by the forming of a sort of hard skin (callous ?) The thickening causes some poop to stay behind after bowel movement, that comes out at body-movement, or just sitting, or sometimes on a quick spastic cramp that occurs when the rectum "has been made sensitive". Sometimes more poop, sometimes less, sometimes a few days or a week healing, but still dirty, sometimes a day shit.

My opinion:
Just because (i think) it is in the environment, it is so damned difficult to pinpoint. Animals eat, as we do, and when they eat what we eat, we will find these effects everywhere. Life stock eats almost anything, from potato-peals to animal fats to whatever contains the smallest restbit of protein, mostly the recycling of all the waist acceptable to "run" a pig on, when your talking about a factory-fed animal. For this, some people will have a cure by stopping with meat, some by stopping wheats, and some by stopping corn, and some by stopping chicken... FIND YOUR ROPE ! RECORD YOUR INTAKE ! BE ALERT FOR ANY NEW PACKAGE OF FOOD YOU OPEN, but DO NOT BE- OR ACT PARANOID, lets say: stay scientific about it, and don't let your emotions bring you on a destructive course. Why do i say this ? Well, some say it is what they DON'T eat, and so they lay the cause by themselves..... But i say that it is something in the environment, and that lays the cause with someone else (the polluter and the foodproducer), which can result in a very angry attitude towards these. DON'T. (save that emotion for that part of the world that just states that you don't have an illness)

See e.g. that globalisation means that the things you eat don't come strictly from your well protected hometown, but a ship can be sailing from 10,000 miles away, where the rules can still be a bit medieval. There are still countries where a wastburning facility with a "dirty" chimney can be standing in the same area where crops grow. And even if not in the same area, wind and rain WILL take it to a crop anyway. You just don't want to know whats burning up there in some cases, and the life stock is never able to tell you where they have their pains. (IF their system got affected by it at all)
Beside such example, there are still hundreds of other ways in which our food can become polluted. Just don't be naive when you can't afford it !

My thoughts:
A spectral analiser (a machine that can record every atom and/or molecule in a substance) could do wonders here, but most of us are just to poor to have these means available, and have to wait for an "anal-iser" himself to be struck by it.

Going to a doctor is a must i think, just for the RECORDS. But you need at least a good relation with him/her for that.
As i did this once back in the nineties, my doctor got mad at the first talk of poop, and that contact lasted no more than a minute. You can't imagine how long and how many thoughts it can take to take that step, and then such reaction...

Social implications:
I live alone for many years I almost always eat alone so no one around me can act as a "control" person. Beware of that, it can grow into a self consistent loneliness that way.

I always wear a double pare of underwear, sometimes even with some sort of patch in between.
Going away is a disaster concerning a lot of fear. Trips for more than 12 hours are past. Riding a bike, forget it.
A birthdayvisit only two or three times a year, and to do these, i have to get my BM in rhythm a few days in advance.

Once, in 1990, i ate about 100 ml of dairy product imported from Germany. I burned my mouth for the Chernobyl pollution in it.
DON'T TELL ME IT IS IMPOSSIBLE.

ive had anal leakage for about half a year its not shit but a yellowy liquidy substance and smells like dead fish. it only happens when i start to do anything that i have to get up and work even a little bit. it just started out of nowhere and i dont no how to cure it becuase im to embarressed to tell my parents about it. what do i do i would really appreciate some advise.

This is seriously one of the greatest things Ive ever come across because Ive been avoiding looking into this problemm, and came across this site after Googling "leaky ass." I have avoided going to the doctor or anything because of the embarrassment, plus he's also my mom and dad's doctor. Not to mention my family doctor is also a proctologist and thinks everything from sore throats to ear aches are anus related and wants to stick a camera up my butt for every little ailment.

I live in a rural area, so pollution is not the cause. I'm a vegetarian and eat a lot of fiber, so lack of fiber isn't the problem. I drink about 10 glasses of water a day, so that's not the problem. I dont take any drugs, drink alcohol, or even caffeiene, so that's not the problem. I don't stick things up my ass, so that's not the problem. But I've been having this issue for about 6 months now and previously had nice poos that came out without hardly any wiping. I only wiped just to make sure. But now, I think I wipe as much poo as comes out on its own. Plus, I'll get everything nice and clean and within 10 minutes I'm getting crap leakage. It's driving me nuts. I've tried some of the tricks on this board and they do nothing but make my ass raw.

I don't have much stress in my life so that's not a cause. Why on earth would this suddenly appear to a young healthy male who breathes clean air and is free from stress? I exercise 1-2 hours a day as well.

Well, I dont know for sure, but I think it may be artificial sweeteners. I do chew sugarfree gum quite a bit (pack of orbit a day) and this started about the time i started chewing gum with Nutrasweet in it. Also, when I was in college I ate a pack of sugarfree gummy bears one time and HOLY MOSES! did they ever light me up! I farted all night long and they were the strongest farts ever. People could hear them two rooms down in my dorm on a party night. It was just nuts. So I stopped with the gum and the problem with leakage went away, but the problem is that I need to chew gum and my dentist yells at me when I chew sugary gum so I started chewing again. Anal leakage got worse. So I need to know how I can use artificial sweeteners without the leakage. This is a serious issue and I don't want to have to choose between my ass and my teeth. I want both to be healthy and fully dunctional. Thanks so much in advance for any help.

I haven't gone through and read all of these posts (wow there are a lot of you!) but I thought I'd throw in my two cents. I have only very rarely had a noticeable, visible leakage. My problem was more odor based. One day I had a strong odor after going to the bathroom at work, noticable to others who subtly notified me of the smell, so I returned to the bathroom and found that apparently I didn't wipe well enough. No biggie, done deal I thought, but the smell came back the next day and there was no leakage to be found. And the next day. And the next. Uh oh. It becomes a major, life altering condition. I remember going to a concert and sitting in the car while my friends went in because I was (secretly) sure that I smelled like dirty ass. I never said a word to anyone except my mother, but the situation was obvious to all of my friends and family nonetheless. I smelled like ass. I would wash my ass over and over and over, and always within a few hours a subtle aroma would return. The worst part was that a I don't have a strong sense of smell, so I sometimes relied on the cues of others to know when I needed to wash up. I tried consciously tightening my anus, and that sort of worked. The more I thought about it though, the more I flexed, and repeated flexing made the problem worse. I spent all day everyday with my ass on my mind for years, trying to get up to the level of ass tightness of an average 6 year old (I was in my early twenties). Now I feel confident that I am ok, but it came after years of building up muscles in my anus that I didn't realize needed to be consciously held. I thought it was all automatic. It basically is automatic, but your mind has to be there, your whole body has to have a general level of tightness that is based in your ass. To illustrate, I had to get from soft floppy farts to tight machine gun farts, and it took a while, but I feel like I'm almost there. I don't think about it as much anymore, by being consciously active in maintaining a tight ass it has become nearly automatic. I'm sure diet can be a factor, but if you think about the general diet of America, why aren't we all a bunch of greasy meat eating ass leakers? There's a definite need for conscious, constant maintenance of the anus muscles, but don't go crazy because flexing and relaxing too much seems to create moisture (for me at least). Maybe this is something else entirely, but some of you sound just like I did a few years ago. Just don't let others try to get too far into your head using double speak to try to show you 'how it's done' they might just screw you up even worse . . .

Also, as an aside, I smoke marijuana and have taken quite a few different types of drugs, and I can say that some drugs make the anus tighten and the smell sort of go away (cocaine, ecstasy) and some drugs make it much worse (lsd, marijuana) so it doesn't surprise me at all that it might be some sort of medication. I can say also that if you have this problem, DON'T SMOKE WEED!! And you can kind of cover the smell with cigarettes, if you smoke them. Good luck to everyone who has posted and to all those suffering in silence. It boggles my mind that such a socially debilitating condition goes unmentioned. I had to figure out what to do myself, which is ridiculous in this day and age.

I've had anal leakage now for about 2 months. At first I thought it was from too much anal sex but I realized it was happening even with vaginal sex. I know my boyfriends can smell it which is embarrassing and makes it hard to climax. Luckily, I've only had 1 guy confront me on it and unfortunately he broke up with me because he said his mom mentioned the smell when I was over for dinner. I have now started to itch a lot and people can tell when I am moving around in my chair to scratch. Please, please help!

Help My ass is the proverbial johnny cash ring of fire. When I bathe the pain releve's slightly but as soon as i take a dump I have to wipe ("million wipe") Multiple times. I have tiny blood spots on the TP but nothing major. All seems well but twenty minutes later I'm walking funny like i shat myself. I go clean up again and by this time my ass is on fire.

I'm shifting uncomfortably as im typing this. Its becoming a problem at work as i keep having to dissapear to wipe and clean my ass.

I'd be wasting my time going to see my G.P. as all they do is write out a prescript for some penicillin. So any help is appreciated

This website changed my life.
Metamucil.
It was metamucil that did it for me. I had tried a lot of things, and nothing worked. Change in diet, constant ass-cleaning, nothing seemed to really make it go away.
It's hard to make new friends when you're afraid to sit beside them because you catch whiffs of your own crapulence. It's really affected how close I got to people at various workplaces. I'd completely obsess about it. And with good reason. I mean, I smell like poop. people meet me, and as I walk away, I can't help but think they say "did that guy smell like shit?"
Yes, yes he did. I can smell it too. I've smelt shit coming off of other people, and I just want to grab them and say "OH MAN, YOU TOO?!?!"
But I can't, because our disease is unspeakable. What a horrible thing it would be if we all got together to talk about it. the smell of that room...
I finally had to do something about this, as i'm now a waiter. and i have to run around all the time, and the smell was unbearable. I was always afraid that my table, or co-workers could smell it. could they? i'll never know because they never said anything. I'll also never know because the smell is gone.
It's been about 8 years that i've had this problem, that i can remember. Once i found this website, tried to take two spoons of metamucil a day (morning and then again at night) it just disappeared. no more poo stench. no more unwipable ass. Sometimes i forget to take my metamucil for a few days in a row, if i do that, it comes riiiight back.
Take the metamucil. stick to it, or the stink will stick to YOU.

I have the same problem, it started 2 years ago when all of a sudden I couldnt havea bowel movement, it was as if I was extremely constapated and the doctor took and xray and there was ton of fecal matter backing up. He told me to increase my fiber and Im not pooping with ease but now I have residue after I poop. 10 minutes later it will be back even after im sure Ive wiped clean. I do sweat a lot but even when Im not sweating at all Im still having that problem. If fiber is the answer maybe Im taking too much fiber making thngs to easy to pass? Or do I need to take more?

Fuck, this site changed my fuckin' life!
My problem:
Bright red blood in ass paper, would have to clean like 10 times after I pooped because every 20 min. I wiped my ass, it was like if I didn't wiped before. Went to poop like every 5 days.
Solution:
Metamucil!!!!!!
I read this thread and saw the Metamucil thing and I was like yeah, yeah, bullshit, mhhm. Anyway I bought it and at the next day my shit would just slide out when doing number 2. No blood, no residue, no nothing. So for the next 2 days it was intermitent, some days it would be ok, other days would be shitty. Anyway after those 3 days when I clean my crack there will not be any leftovers, NOTHING!!! :)
It's was weird to me to see just a clean piece of ass paper. It's like a miracle. Before, I had to plan my shits at night and shower after a few wipes so the next morning my ass wouldn't leak. I have hemorrhoids so I bet that this is a win-win situation since my ass will be clean, and my ex-hard shit won't fuck my intestines further. As a side note, most of the time my shits would be very soft, but leave my ass and TP dirty (no blood). But sometimes it would be very hard and leave blood (and sometimes shit leftovers). I think the metamucil makes the shit less sticky and that's why it will leave your crack clean.

Metamucil RULES!!!

Thankfully, I'm not alone. My ass smells like shit when I sweat and sometimes its so bad my whole body smells. I soemtime have gas in my stomach and that worsens everything. Well! for now, I do the wipes.

Response to Kelsey - Your post was so insensitive and stupid I had to comment. You must get a lot of chuckles from the cancer or heart disease sites. You posted so long ago I doubt you will return but just in case, get a clue, medical issues are not funny and these posts were not here for your amusment.These issues are difficult for the people going through them. Grow up you stupid cow.

Okay I couldn't make it through all the postings but I did see a few people with sweaty butt syndrome...what can be done about this? No stink just excessive sweat leaving the big sweat circle on the pants, this sucks. Big on MTV's Rob & Big mentioned the "manpon" where you stuff some TP in your crack but this is only a temporary solution...also have tried anti-perspirant in the crack however my ass seems to acclimate to the anti-perspirant within days and defeat it. I heard there are botox injection treatments for excessive sweat in the armpits etc. but I am a bit hesitant to ask my doc to inject my ass for the simple embarassment of all this. Please help anyone got a solution?? Ass hair has been shaved no noticable difference...so here I sit with the manpon until someone else comes up w/something better. PLEASE HELP!!!

do hemmoroids smell like burning skin or urine?