One thing people can do is wear a thong undwear. YES MEN INCLUDED! This way the thong catches most of the leak. I also use baby powder in the thong and some on my butt to absorb and have a clean smell. Even to those macho guys working hard, I think it's better to smell like a baby than crap.

LISTEN GUYS,

My name is Ryan, I have read almost every post made here and am shocked at how many people suffer from this HORRIBLE condition, including myself.
I have had every symptom listed in any post for about 2 years now. It's like everything bad I did in my life has come back to kick me in the ass (or should I say stink me in the ass).
It all started with my bowel movements turning bad. I noticed every time I had a bowel movement, I would have to strain to get it ALL out. It's like some was getting left behind and I wasn't able to get it all out. This was a horrible feeling. This in itself made me feel dirty down there. I would wipe and wipe and wipe to get extra clean, not fucking 15 minutes later it's like I didn't wipe at all. I would have to go back and wipe again only to wipe nothing most of the time but moisture (get this it smelt like ass too). This was the start of a hell I haven't been to yet.
Well after my awkward bowel movements, I started noticing my ass would sweat profusely. This is because I work at a lumber yard in a mill shop. I do hard physical labor and am in the heat all day. Well throughout the day my ass, boxers, shorts would literally be soaked with what I thought was sweat. I started to notice (over months of time) that I didn't smell pleasant. I thought it was just sweat from body odor (May I add I wear deodorant, body spray, and have excellent hygiene). So I was like "what the fuck man this is driving me fucking crazy." Well I started to pick up on the subliminal messages you get when you're around people. I even caught my coworkers talking about how I smelt bad. I started to go home early because I knew I stunk towards the end of the day. I felt so ashamed I would actually avoid having to be close to people or customers so they wouldn't smell me. "LORD! just strike me down now." I would get home and my boxers would be soaked in this smelly sweat odor.
Well by this time I still haven't realized that my ass is making my whole body smell. Well I was unknowing and didn't know what was going on. I started to change deodorant thinking it was just my body reacting weird to my deodorant. Well after trying every brand and type of deodorant I realized this wasn't it. So I now focused on my body wash thinking the same thing about my deodorant. Tried every brand and type of body wash with no avail. By this time I AM GOING CRAZY. I'm getting pissed at myself for stinking. I changed laundry detergent just hoping. I even changed my fucking dryer sheets. "Seriously I must be crazy." Even changed my cologne.
Well I started to think real hard about the situation and started to realize more and more. So I paid attention to things that might be internal. I started with changing my bowel movement routine. So I started planning my shits at night so I can take a shower after I have a bowel movement. I figured if I take a shit I can clean up right after and hopefully prevent any extra leakage. Well this did very little for a very short amount of time. Even after the shower I still didn't feel clean and most likely didn't smell clean.
I bought this body cleanse and colon cleanse to start the internal check list (and by check list I mean everything on the list I can do to narrow what the problem is). Cleaned me out but didn't work. So I changed my diet and excluded red meats, chicken, and junk food, didn't do shit. Given I already eat healthy cuz I love salad and fruit but I still eat fast food. Nothing I haven't done before though. So I haven't really done anything different with my diet for this to happen. Then I started to take fiber supplements and it seemed to help with my bowel movements but not with the leakage. By this time I'm getting pissed at the world and my life has done a 180. This brings me to where I am now.
Well after all this time of this shit I'm thinking I'm going crazy. I found myself distancing myself from people I knew and people I loved. I became unsociable and started to stay in the house. I didn't even want to go in public anymore. Started drinking heavily. So by this time I am going insane and ready to fucking give up (even though I know suicide isn't an option). I was popular in my home town, had a lot of friends, fucked a lot of chicks. Hell I lived life up and loved it. Now I hate life and am depressed constantly. I know what the problem is now so I searched it online. I started getting proactive about the situation and started finding things to do about it. I said to myself "Don't give up man life is too short." I made an appointment with a gastroentronologist (sp.) I didn't man up and tell him my problems so I just requested a sigmoidoscopy to see if I had any growths or any problems medically. Only thing that came back was small hemmrohoids (sp.)
So guys this is where I am now at this moment. I searched this shit online almost 2 years later and found this site. I am not necessarily glad to know other people have this condition, just glad to know I'M NOT ALONE. I know now I'm not crazy and it's not just in my head. I haven't talked to anyone about this, so I'm am glad to write this post, and hear from people who are going through what I'm going through.
So guys now to get the end of this I have done my research and am glad to post this info. My homepage is set to Menshealth.com. It's a site about everything to do with men I didn't make it my homepage for this reason but for when I was actually happy with life. Well I got onto the internet today and on the main page was a thing about medical conditions for men. GET THIS: What do I do? I research anal complications and guess what I found guys. 4 conditions, with symptoms, diagnosis, prevention and treatment. It's like the light has shown through. I know its not over yet. But I made an appointment with my doctor and I'm bringing all this info so I can get this cured for good. No more remedies to cover it up anymore. Thats all this people post is remedies to cover it up. Yeah its good for the time being but not in the long run. Here is the site hopefully you get it alright, and if you don't post and ask me and I will send it to you personally.
THE ANSWER, NOW GO TO THE DOCTOR

HI...IM A 15year Old male. Ive been suffering from sweaty-ness around my butt bt near the middle bone.AT school its really embarassing. IV been having coffee thrice a day.HELP!

Is alchohol safe to use regularly on your bum?

ryan (above)--great post.

i found a really good and thorough information site. it's the merck manual online.

it does help to know others are struggling with this too. my doctor has no answer. but mine came on after i took a strong anti-biotic which affects the intestines. i also have a prostate problem.

metamucil is not really available where i currently reside. when i get back to the usa maybe i can get a better handle on this--i've had this for over two years.
best of luck.

Nice to find a site related to people sharing a similar problem. Just to add my experiences to the mix. I'm a 40 year old male, very fit, always exercising. I love the outdoors and am always cycling, walking, swimming or running. I eat very healthily and have fresh fruit and veg every day and plenty of fibre. SO when I developed very itchy /dirty anus problems as described earlier on the site (having to wipe regularly) I became very frustrated. Doing everything right but still having medical problems. I've found the following helps a lot.

try to time bowel movements for in the evening. If you normally shower, try to sit in a bath of warm water for about ten minutes every morning, this seems to help the spinchter relax and has helped me enormously. Sometimes, I need to go for a poo in the morning and sitting in a bath for ten minutes afterwards really help here too. moving about a lot after going to the toilet definately makes things a lot worse.

i like camping too and not being able to do this ritual everyday when we are in a tent has turned this into a less than enjoyable experience, sadly.

hi guys. i dont poop myself or have runs like some other people i have read about on here but i can pretty much tell you every adult person with hair in there butt has a smell. i cant help with drainage of poop but as for the smell here's what i do and you can knock it or try it . take a shower wash really good always wipe with a baby wipe after you poop. and here's the tip you can knock or try. now keep in mind this doesnt stop sweat like you will still be wet. but it stops odor. i use arm and hammer the yellow underarm deordorant inside my butt i rub it inside my cheeks and it works for odor. not sweat know if someone finds something about sweat let me know! hope this helps.

Do that to often lady and you'll end up itching in your rear end and that ain't nice i can assure you.

I just wanted to thank people for the advice on this site and add my bit if it helps others.
my five year old suffered badly from constipation when he was younger, and since has had a very leaky bottom. ruining several pairs of pants a day.I have been at my wits end! he was pooping so he wasn't actually constipated anymore, but his poops were small (but soft and healthy)
after reading the advice I have done 3 things
1) put him back on lactulose
2) increased the fibre from bran in his diet. (a handful of all-bran in his breakfast. and I made a delicious fruitcake from all-bran - google all-bran cake to find the recipe)
3) put him on the potty, rather than the toilet as it is a much better position for pooping.

and a week later we have had two days of pretty much clean pants. for the first time in ages and ages!!

and I had thought he was just lazy.
incidentally he had a healthy diet already. plenty of fruit and veg, wholemeal bread etc. but no bran fibre. I think bran fibre may be the key.

if you are having a similar problem with your child. I hope this gives you hope. because I know how awful this problem is.

I can't believe how many people suffer from this too! I don't have AL, but I do get the "sweaty bottom" all the time. I don't see how I get it... I do the whole wipe, wash, dry routine... and I have tried the baby powder trick.

So far, no luck in actually relieving myself from the uncomfortable situation. I know it's probably normal to sweat "down and behind" there when you exercise, but to sweat there often, even when you are leisurely shopping or reading a book? It sucks. I absolutely despise going out in crowded places, especially when strangers try to steer clear of you, as if you were the black plague or the like. There has been a situation where I was shopping and two employees had sprayed perfume all over me behind my back. Sure, the perfume smelled nice, but all it did was make me smell like rotten a** and expensive perfume. :(

It truly sucks if you are an active person like I am... ugh, I take dance classes, and it's really a pain in the a** (no pun intended) to have fellow dancers stray away from you. Or, go to dance performances and be in the crowded backstage area.

For those who want to at least control the "sweaty" problem, I use Carefree (yes, it's a woman's brand) wipes, whenever I have the chance to go to stop by the bathroom. And I carry around a travel-size container of baby powder. Johnson's has one made with pure cornstarch w/aloe and vitamin E. It works... until I go to school or my dance classes again.

I wish the best of luck to other people here...it's nice to know that others know what it's like. (well, I wish that no one would have to suffer from this, but you know what I mean.)

I will definitely try the Metamucil (sp?).

I remember stumbling upon this site last year, and here I am. Looking at it again. School started up again and I'm faced once more with the problem of a sweaty butt.
It's disgusting, poopy sweat. But rather, just sweat. This was also happening to my armpits.
Well, I approached my doctor about this issue and he prescribed me Prescription Anti-perspirant. Whatever it was (I'll find the bottle) Worked like a charm! My Armpits are doing much better and I never even sweat, it's a miracle really. Well, when I went to apply some more of this stuff to my pits, I dumped it all over the floor. So I never got the chance to try it on my buttcrack. But I'm thinking about getting some more of that stuff and trying it out.
I'll tell you the results! Wish me luck!
(Btw. I'm a 16 year old male. :D)

it amazes me to think many people over look the simple basic, as a trained medic, military most of our drivers get checked for internal hemorroids, internal hemorroids cause a jelly discharge of mucus, most time people can go weeks days or even years without having the full pain.

simple fact is diet or no diet , fiber or no fiber, stress on the rectum sitting during many times of the day, for years can have alasting affect in time to come.

you can use the hydrocor suppositories, or warm sits baths work, anusol works fine, any of the gear that contains whitch hazel works well too , all the above relieves itching, what is needed is to shrink the internal hemorroid

rubber bands work, injection to harden the vein causing the hemorroid to shrink, or surgeory, either way first step is to confirm this matter with your private doctor,

heres a clue for you, almost 65 percent of all grown ups get them and dont know whats the matter, and remain silient.

heres a guess to the discharge,
jelly like or wet but not actual poop, yellowish or white in color

thats the discharge from an internal hemorroid

I agree with Poonurse. Just ram a Tampon up in there and stop whining about it.

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"...human shit has more of an almond, or perhaps a macadamia flavor to it. I hope you will all take my advice and really consider tasting your poop some time, as I have. It's really quite an experience." - Ratz

I have the anal problem of leakage and I cannot get rid of it however it never used to be there. I went to the doctor and they think it has something to do with my back nerves. I found that about 2000 MG of calcium each day hurts but helps. Please find me a cure that doesnt involve tampons.

I have a white rubbery discharge at the top of my butt crack with some irritation and slight bleeding at times. Any ideas?

I am glad to see this site i have had some bad times in life with IBS or some thing it might be a hemroid but the doc says no they check 3 times in 3 years .
mom had colon cancer and it is lots in family.

i saw a tread early in 2005 ? abotu using a morning bran and gran multi gran with flaxseed oatmail type product and i am going to try this because i am in cuba and just sand and one toilet and when youare on a 12 hour watch and or military policeand 6 hour watch and have to stay there the hole time that suck because as we all now the leakage is bad adn the longer the bum is wet the effects and long lasting days long and i have tried a few of the metamucil and the pyhiplum but hope the gran and the Flaxseed Hodgeson Mill. will help.

but on a other note i have had a few hernias and surgery so it might be the effects of the hernias but the IBS WAS there for years 34 years old.

I have had for months what most on this board are describing as a sweaty butt. I am 100% sure, however, that it is not actually sweat, it's just clear liquid (which thankfully does not smell) leaking from my butt. It's easy to mistake for sweat.

I've been reading this forum for a while hoping for a solution. It's fairly embarrassing and I couldn't figure out why it was happening, and why only for the last ~6 months pretty consistently except occasionally in the past. I tried cutting out lots of kinds of foods - all caffeine, all dairy, protein shakes, etc.; I tried adding foods like tea and cranberry juice and yogurt; nothing helped. I finally figured out the cause of my problem:

Water. Specifically, the tap water from the water fountain where I work. I've always known it was not the cleanest or best filtered water. I've been drinking more of it in the past 6 months or so than I ever did previously. For the last week I have cut out all tap water at work (including fountain sodas) and have had no butt "sweat" at all. Actually, Thursday morning I mistakenly bought coffee at work, brewed with that same tap water, and had a recurrence Thursday afternoon/night. Other than that, I've been nice and dry.

I want to emphasize it's not water in general, or even tap water in general. I drink water at home that I filter: no problems. I fill up a water bottle from the water fountain at my gym and drink it: no problems. I drink bottled water: no problems. I guess the water at work is just particularly dirty, or has something in it my body really doesn't like. I have not tried filtering the water at work; I think I'm just going to stay away from it completely. And I'll forever be more cautious about the source of the water I'm drinking.

Any of you with this problem who have not found a solution - and perhaps if you have some of the other problems described here and haven't found a solution - I suggest cutting out tap water and all items that contain a lot of it (fountain drinks, coffee, tea, etc. - pretty much all liquids) and stick to bottled and/or filtered liquids for a while. It only took me 2 or 3 days for the problem to go away once I stopped drinking that water.

If this works for anyone else please post and let everyone know! I'm curious to know if it's the cause for anyone else. And good luck to everyone in solving your issues. Those of you with issues involving bleeding, please go see a doctor!

I've had this problem intermittently since I was in college over 20 years ago. I also thought I was the only one! Since I stumbled upon this forum I have tried taking Metamucil daily, and it has improved greatly. So, thanks to those who recommended the fiber.

I've been scanning through all these, I have the very same problem...

nobody has stated whether or not the fiber really does clear it up? also I was wondering, how many of you developed this problem at university/college? perhaps the bad diet developed there is the cause? I was fine until I went to uni

A SHIT STORY (written in bad english)

PROLOG

hey guys, i know its been said and re-said... but you have NO IDEA how much this thread is helpful (in every way) to someone suffering from this. i have spent the last 2 hours crying (yes crying... i haven't cried in over 10 years) just reading this. i don't know if it was the relieve of seeing other people who suffers from those symptoms or just sadness that so many people are suffering but thank you everyone.

i started planning a list of reply to some of those post but i ended up realizing that this just went on and on and on and there was simply too many of them. so i'll just try to spec my side of the story.

i am a 22 years old male who watches what he eats, i do 1 hour of gym everyday, i have a bran type cereal every morning, i only drink water (alcohol on the weekend). i do smoke.

MY DEPRESSION

and yeah... anyone who wants to laugh at this... i seriously hope that you don't believe in karma because there are many days where i would have rather been dead or limbless then having to suffer this. i'm currently 22 years of age and this has started when i was 19. i was a brilliant healthy charming funny successful person... walking my way through life with a very promising future. coming out of college as first of my class in the field i loved and was deeply passionate with to then find myself in a straight downfall to straight hell. i have had bad times, but i could always tell myself that tomorrow would be better. and it usually was but this has just felt like if every day, i was simply getting deeper and deeper. loosing my friends... loosing my pride... loosing my confidence... loosing my life... into this condition (i also just lost my girl friend a few days ago which is like the cherry on top of the sunday). and every time where it felt like things were getting slightly better... the next day would be twice as worst. i'll try to explain here how it all seem to have started and where i think that i am up to. hopefully it can help people to see the early signs and prevent to reach the state where i am. (i have actually found myself thinking how easy it would be to throw myself in front of the train this week. and i am the type of people who usually is up front to say that suicidal people are weak cowards. thankfully this website has given me hope)

anyway...i have done allot of research on this subject in the past without much success (i'm surprised i never found this page). i also consulted several doctors who either laughed at me.... told me i was crazy... told me there was nothing wrong with me. also, the amount of people who will bring the problem to you are less than a minority. they either hate you very badly or love you very badly.

but yeah people... definitely DONT LOSE HOPE! this page is a proof that some people have made it through and god that feels good to know that some people can actually get through this.

My butt leaks too when I poop, but sometimes also bleeds -a lot sometimes. I haven't had anal and my doctor couldn't find anything after exploring my ass in detail. I'm going to try the fiber and see if it helps, but wondering if others have had bleeding when pooping??

I used to have this problem but I don't have it at all anymore. All I did was change my life. I changed what I eat, how I eat and started exercising and I lost 140 pounds, my ass stopped leaking crap and I am now much healthier, happier, and in better shape.
I am muscular, slim, sexy and my ass doesn't leak.
It took one year from the day I started everything to when I lost my last pound and reached my goal weight of 155. (That's right, I weighed 295 when I was leaking crap)
Exercise, lose weight, work out, eat better (no junk food, no greasy burgers and fries, none) and you can have a leak proof ass too!

Everything is better now. I sleep better, I feel better, I don't snore, sex is better, I can concentrate better, I now wear size 30 pants where I used to wear size 46. It's a great feeling and no more poop in the underwear.

Give it a try. Get off the couch and out from in front of the computer and get active before you die with a load in your shorts.

This is the greatest web site ever. I think a combination of gay connotations and childhood memories of toilet training have made this affliction such a clandestine issue. Like a shame that can't be spake. My GP was useless. But now I'm going to undertake a massive fiber boost to my diet. I'll report in a week. Thank you everybody.

OK i found this site because i just took a dump, wiped WELL, then showered, i went to scratch my ass and got poo under my nails! - I have it figured out... I think that our poops are RUSHED, therefore we dont sit there long enuff to let ALL the poop out of our large intestines! so then, we get up and go about our business, meanwhile - the poop that we werent patient enfuff to wat for makes it's decend. thus... leaving me w/ leaky ass syndrome. i have this eternal fear of having my anus licked during sex only for my partner to come back and kiss me w/ shit breath! UGH.... im going back to sit on the toilet!

I too suffer from this condition, often times I am too embarrased to partake in many party games or swim parties.

about the blood in the poop, it could be hemroids. do you work out? everytime i start hitting the gym i have to deal with toilet paper full of bright red blood. i saw a doctor about it and after his finger dug around in my ass for what seemed like an eternity, he concluded hemroids.
Now as far as shit leaking out my ass, wow it sucks. i deal with it probably 50 percent of my life. However, i am happy to see that im not the only one with leaky anus.

I had this problem yhears ago,when thru all kinds of tests, colonsocsopy, barium enemea etc, all showed no problems. Howevr the problem disappeard after this! I attributte ti to the enema. It took about 4 years but its back now, so maybe time to just give myself an enema. It alos may be due to age, I don't know how old anybody postinghere is, but I am close to 60. Muscles get weaker as you get older.

But anyway, try an enema, it stopped the problem totally for me for years.

glad to see my problem is common, I got a leaky butt too. but I blame it on being overwieght and drinking beer all day. dont exercise much ...had emphasima(misspelled) since 10 due to asthma now I can hardy breath. this leaky butt thing never worried me I sit naked all day on two towels .. had hemoriods a 20 years I guess just itches and hurts alot. never looked down there guess it would require a mirror. when it itches alot I take and put rubbing alcohol on a paper towel and cram in the crack..it stops the itch but then it turns sore for days. my boss had colon cancer around 59 ..guess he died by now but said the docs were shoving urainium rods up his arss.before this
he bragged about his hemoriods and said he operated or used wire clippers on them himself. I laughed.
one day soon I will stop drinking and get back in shape..and see if it goes away if not Ill seek a procto. doc or can it be cured once you got it?
ty for your time and this sight

I posted on 7/25/07,

21 yr. old male. I'm starting to give up hope. Enemas don't do anything to treat the problem by the way. Thought I'd throw that in there. Anyways, it's all bullshit and it's not fair anymore. Life isn't fair but this is just rediculous. Metamucil helps but doesn't relieve the whole problem. Went to the doctor and told him the whole story I posted on 7/25/07. That dumbass looked at me like I was stupid. I wanted to knock that shit-eating grin off his face. All he can come up with is a prescription to asacol. Some anti-inflammatory or something. I don't know if it is working but im still having the problem. whatever...

I have always wondered why I stunk and had such horrid shit stains in my underwear.On some occasions I would sleep in the buff only to find my bedsheets littered with brown and tan hash marks and the whole bedroom would stink horribly.This has sent my love life into a tailspin to nothingness.My coworkers talk behind my back about my stench and they know I am in the building even when they haven't seen me because they smell me.Management has done nothing to help me.But hey thats o.k. they are always wrong anyway.Someone is just jealous.

Thank you, thank you, thank you for this site. I am a 46 YO female, 104 pounds, work out religiously, eat zero red meat... and wake up in a puddle of poo with alarming regularity. Also have crap leakage with no warning, not even passing gas. Pull down the gym shorts and damn, all over the place. I will follow up on some of these suggestions. Thanks again!

46 year old female anonymous, my advice is don't pull down your shorts.

Thanks, bilgepump. I needed a good laugh!!

Bilgepump (571) -- 09.17.2007 wrote: "
46 year old female anonymous, my advice is don't pull down your shorts.

Bilgey, I'm surprised to hear you say that. ;)

AC 9.17.2007, You said that you work out a lot so maybe more bridge exercises would help. Go to ShapeFit.com and type in Lying Butt Bridge. It couldn't hurt.
Feto D. -9.16.07 Someone is just jealous? Of what?

Ive been reading most of all these and I just have to conclude I also suffer of a sweaty ass. I hate it! I had never washed my underwear so many times....anyway....the only thing that I wanted to say is that 5 days ago I started using a cream called Destin (Creamy - 40% Zinc Oxide Diaper Rash Ointment) and EUREKA!!! so far no mess on my underwear not even a bit. No sweat, no slimy secretion, no burning (specially after drinking alcohol)... the itching is still there though. Honestly I was really surprised when my underwear was still white. I know 5 days is very little time to vouch for this but I'm so happy that I had to tell you guys. However, here's a draw back, I think its making my anal fissure bleed a drop or two (which it hadn't bleed for a long time) every time I poop/push. I don't know which one is worse, the bit of bleeding or the sweaty ass together with the messy underwear. Either way I hope this helps many people, specially those that don't have a anal fissure. If someone tries this and it helps, let me know. I would feel very happy to have helped someone.

Hello fellow leakers. I've read the first two and last page of comments. I'm on the edge of life and death. It isn't extreme, at least anymore. My temporary solution is what i'm tagging at "The Shower Defence". Timing the BM for later in the p.m. a night shower plus a morning shower equals me not wanting to kill myself. I might go to the docter, if the metamucil doesn't work. If he is oblivious to what i'm describing to him (anal leakage), then I've got a date with pump-action 20gauge shotgun. Suicide doesn't bother me, religously, morally, or any other way. This is just fucking shenanigans. I WANT TO DIE. Even though I don't really "want to die" I'm just finding it extremely frustrating and don't really belong to the "want to live" camp either. Oh man if I live through this it'll be a miracle. I've always been super cynical, made fun of everyone. Now I'm that guy. I'm the smelly bastard who's stinking up the joint... I just can't take it. Suicide is looking reeeaaal nice to someone who used to be the life of the party to a recluse who doesn't even want human interaction anymore.

hi im a 24 years old male, it all started when i was @ university. dunno if its the bad diet or whatnot but i do know my life been hell for the past 3 years. First i was constipated i take a poop every saturday (which is very bad) i went to the GP he gave me some syrup and other prescription after a month it didnt do shit so i went back he gave me other stuff which didnt work neither the only way for me to take a dump is to get drunk that way i dont feel the pain.anyway back to the leakage, i noticed it about 6months ago i was working then @ the end of the day i started smellin like shit (litterally) i went home then found liquid shit in my underwear...now it got worse, whenever i take a shit it hurts during the first 2 pushes then @ the end after wipin/washin theres blood comin from my ass crack this is drivin me crazy..im gonna see my gp tomorrow he better gimme somthin or ill just go nuts

I have had this problem for over 6 years now and it's very humiliating,not even my GP could help me.I take a shower everyday and wash my bum with soap well,as soon as i step out of the shower this gross smell leaks out,it just rises out of my ass hole it stinks like shit and when people are around me they ask me if i farted.my workmates always call me shit bags and ask me if i've changed my nappies today.Please help me i can't go on like this smellig like shit.This problem has prevented me from having a boyfriend i'm 22 years old and have never had a boyfriend please help i'm in desperate need of a cure fast!!!

Metamucil Metamucil Metamucil... Seriously Metamucil. After completely embarrasing myself to the point of extreme humiliation I started taking Metamucil, or at least some generic version. It's orange flavored and called Natural Fiber Supplement, or some shit like that. Any way I used to take a shit and clean myself up like the average Joe. Except something was up, later I'd start smelling like shit, even worse was most of the time I wouldn't even notice it. Someone would say something and I would discard it. Later on it clicked. It was just awful realizing for that the better part of a year I had been smelling like straight shit. Except when I wore cologne. Then the shit smell would combine with the cologne smell to create a dirty diaper odor. Yep. That's the kind of bull shit that earns a guy the nickname "Diaper Boy".
You guessed it, suicidal as fuck. Planned it out to make it look like an accident. I won't get into the details, can't risk some other depresed smelly soul else using my plan, that's how good it was. I was gonna end it all, without my family knowing I'm a huge pussy who killed myself because my ass leaks and I smell like shit. But it never came to that. I read Ryan's comment on this talk page. Demanded some metamucil. Got some generic shit which works just as well I suppose. I chug 1 glass with 1 table spoon 3 times a day. No big deal. My poop is a little wierd, and it's staining the bowl orange(which is actually pretty funny) but really I mean it completely stops the shit leak. For those of you blood, and or, yellow jelly pus leakers. I can't help you. To those of you stinkers who can't stop the shit leak. Metamucil Metamucil Metamucil... So any way just to put it in perspective. I (out of freaking no where by the way) started leaking smelly shit out my ass. Detached all contacts from friends (after I realized what was going on any way), becoming completely isolated for over three months (there were weeks when I wouldn't even go outside). Became completely depressed and planned my own suicide. Decided to wait untill after I at least talked to a Dr. Read Ryans comment and started a new life. I feel good. I don't know how else to say it without cheesing out. When I smile it doesn't feel artificial and forced, it's real. Oh yeah and my toilets turning orange. On a final note I just want to say no my life didn't go back to normal, it's just new. There's no way in hell I will ever associate, let alone call them friends, with the people that called me "Diaper Boy" or any thing else. In the period of my isolation I gained a lot of weight 20-25lbs. But I'm already working it off. The first day was a B, I could only do 50 pushups, 40 situps, and jog for 6min. Before my shitty mcshit stank. I was in good shape so that quite frankly made me feel pretty pathetic. But It's a week later now and I'm already doing 100pushups (two sets of 50), 200 situps (two sets of 100), and I run just enough to work my legs (fast jog for 15 min.) So I'm on pace to claim a normal life. Looking back at where I was just over a week ago is insane. Sorry I rambled on at the end but if I had left some of the good stuff in, like what a teacher had to say about my aura of stank, it could have been a lot longer. Since most everyone lists this crap here's mine. I'm 6'1'' 222lbs Male just turned 18...

Oh the magical workings of metamucil :) Good post by the way (10/7/07), I just think it's funny how people always use the anonymous coward name; I don't give a shit I use my name. Yes, I take metamucil (the orange flavored stuff) great tasting, but all I do is take a teaspoon of it and throw it in my mouth then down a couple gulps of water (it's a lot quicker). It takes a little more balls but I am always on a tight schedule seeing how I hit snooze button like 5 times in the morning. But there was one time where I had it in my mouth and slightly inhaled a little, felt like I took a hit of some crippy. I can say that metamucil has helped especially with bowel movements, it feels a lot better when I take a shit now. It's good to hear some one who decided not to give up. Life really is too short. I still have an issue with my smell and I'm not as touchy feely like I used to be. Meaning, I find myself still not getting close to people whether it's in line at a store or just in public. I still have a buffer of comfortableness. I don't know, I think life is a little better and I hope everyone who has suffered from any variation of this PUNISHMENT will find peace with themselves and their issue. I wish I could say there was a one day cure for everyone's Butt problems; unfortunately thats not the case. Still hanging in there but sometimes I wonder if everyones but has a smell, even after showers. Like, I want to dry my butt down like my whole body but I'm afraid to go anywhere near my asshole with my towel. I think, on more then one account, I have dried my ass with my towel and not realized I picked up some ass smell on my towel so if I use it again I'm drying myself with "ass." Just a thought, seeing if anyone else had that problem. I wash my towels and only use a towel like 2 times usually. Signing out to drink some beer. By the way male, 21 yrs, 165 lbs.

WOW 602 COMMENTS ON THIS STORY???!!!

IS THIS THE RECORD??????

Attention posters. From what I can judge, your age and weight have no play in how much ass leakage you can and will produce. It seems to be (for the most part) associated with diet.

I don't believe the issue is fat, but chemicals. The more chemicals in the food you eat, the more you shit yourself or leak out the ass.

I have discovered this for myself since the removal of my gallbladder. Foods that are fat free but loaded with chemicals squirt out my ass in ten minutes flat. (That's the record, anyway.) This happens with most canned, pre-packaged dry, or frozen foods, regardless of the fat content.

Since gallbladder disease and thyroid issues are becoming an epidemic in this country, along with diabetes, I think I may have something here. Maybe it has nothing to do with sugars and fats, but the chemicals that are continually being added to our food every year.

Try eating less pre-packaged, chemical laden stuff for a while and see if it helps with this awful ass leakage. It works for me.

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Beware the shitticane. Election, 2008.

I think the "Implications of Food Dye..." thread has more posts, but I'm NOT going to count them.

At least not today.

I'm glad I found this site, I don't have a "buttload" or a "crap-ton" of information to add, but I've suffered from Leaky Butt Syndrome for 7 or 8 years now. I've read through the ideas of what I can do to fix it and I'll keep you posted if it works :)

I have had leakage for 1.5 years, sometimes nothing, sometimes brown, sometimes only odor, etc. Always stinky and clear/wet when it gets real hot outside and I am sitting down on a hot seat.

Here is what it is. I have the worst case of hemmrhoids, both internal and external. This was caused by running around and jumping on and off heavy equipment seats, during our very busy season (a whole year of this) when the hired help called in sick, regularly. That is only part of it.

I also have IBS, (irritable bowel syndrome for those that don't know). I am a severe case- I sit and the crap literally explodes out sometimes. Well, with the hemmrhoids, poop gets locked between and around my inside anal area between them and holds there for minutes sometimes to hours other times. That is why I and maybe some other people, feel they are needing to wipe after the session is over.

Well my excessive wiping causes my sphinctor muscle to stretch and loosen. When that gets real loose, the smell is indescribably unbearable to those around me. I get a ass vent thing going. literally.

So, I went to a 3rd doctor who is going to do a colonoscopy. That's what everyone should do, I think because here is what I have figured out and maybe I can help someone else.

Anything diet adjustment that changes the consistency and structures in the poop cycle is going to adversely affect the leakage issue. My concern is someone might treat the symptoms but not investigate what might be an underlying cause; a more serious issue maybe.
If I have colon cancer, colitis, big polyps, etc., I want to know for me. Just my addition, hope it helps/

I've had the sweaty butt thing as long as I can remember... I'm 30, in good shape, active, and eat very well (mostly fresh veggies, little processed food absolutely no fast food, little meat, lots of whole grains). I've only had the "sweat" issue, for lack of better term, not true anal leakage like many of you poor saps are experiencing.

Like everyone else with the 'sweat' problem, I don't think what I'm experiencing is truly sweat - though it is worse if I sit for a long time, work really hard, or it is really hot (or all three, like a day-long bike ride in July- ack!).

What I've discovered, after trying all sorts of things on my ass (powders, wipes, deodorants, sprays, peroxide, etc), is that I'm mostly just sensitive to the soap I use...!

So basically, the worse the problem got, the more I was sure to clean the area, so the problem got worse.

The moisture, I think, is kind of like when you get a big scrape and after the bleeding is done, the wound is still wet, not really with pus or blood, but with somethnig else the skin secretes to heal itself...

Follow me here: So here i've got this really irritated skin from soap I'm allergic to or something, and then when I crap I wipe basically until it bleeds (so I can be sure every last speck is gone), then later when it becomes moist again, I either itch it (irritating it more), or I shower and scrub the soap all over it, or I rub a wipe all over it, all of which irritate it worse. Then I go to bed and do the same thing tomorrow. It just gets worse and worse every day.

So I switched to a lightly scented 'natural' soap and the problem is much, much less than it used to be. And now that I know what it is I can adapt my behavior to my advantage - for instance, not wiping too much or itching it or taking the extra shower or shoving the bar of soap directly into my ass-crack...

Anyway, just a thought for the "sweaty ass" folks out there.

Good luck to everyone.. .you have my sympathies.

I eat lots of fibre. It helps. The thing that is the trigger for me is eating trans-fats. Look at your labels folks. Transfats are everywhere. Keep an eye out for the terms "partially hydrogenated" these oils are in coffee creamer, cheap bread, cookies, crackers, snacks, creamy things... you name it. They never fail to cause leakage.

Just my two cents.

wow, im not the only stank ass. the worst part is when you start to fell it coming on, and when you move certain ways at work or wherever your at, usually at work for me, you can catch suttle little wifs of it. or when you sit down you can smell it, and i always think that other people can smell me, but who knows, maybe they don't. But im sure someone has to every once in a while. right??

I have sweat, not discharge. Or if it is, then it is clear. The itching is enough to make one go over the edge.

I have several GI problems, but 'roids are aren't one of them. I will begin taking more metamucil, but let me recommend a stop gap.

Go to your drugstore and buy a roll of 100% (absorbent) cotton. You usually have to go to the first aid section. Cut it into strips about 1.5" long, and 1" wide. In the morning, apply between cheeks, up close, but no need to insert.

Change as needed during the day. This will absorb the moisture and your skin will start to heal. Some days, I will change it several times, others just once or twice before the next morning. It is SO helpful in giving the skin a rest, that if I expect any sexual relations, I can skip 1/2 day and have no fear. Of course, it's back to the regimen ASAP.

This helps itch, squishiness and skin damage.

I hope the added fiber will eliminate my need for cotton, but it's a life saver. Do not use what you can get in the cosmetics aisle.

For the smell - try enteric coated peppermint pills and make sure you follow the directions! If they open in your stomach because you ate too soon, you will REGRET it. I've usually only needed 1 pill a day, although they recommend more. YMMV.

My skins actually smells fresher - when it opens up in the intestines, it gets into the bloodstream, which gets it to the skin.

I use the pills primarily to reduce cramping and the spasms of IBS. It doesn't decrease the diarrhea, but it makes the process much less painful.

The smell is something I noticed as a surprise side effect.

Beware - if they go through your system too fast, you may get not-diluted-enough peppermint exiting the body. This can range from mild discomfort to burning. So, I would suggest letting the skin heal for a couple of days with cotton prior to taking the pills.

Thanks to others, I ordered some CALMOSEPTINE OINTMENT last night.

If the metamucil doesn't help, at least I know that I have some measures which help me deal with the situation.

I have to go for another colonoscopy in the next 2 months (regularly scheduled each year) and will mention this condition to see what he says.

41 y.o. female

i find that most of the time after pooping that it seems i can go back hours later and its still not clean. my solution? go back for a "rewipe" every 15 minutes or so until you come clean.

It's amazing how little information there is on this topic. Thanks to everyone who posted here. I, too, suffer from leakage -- intermittently, but with increasing frequency as I age. I've always believed it was about diet, and I've altered my diet in the past to through certain periods... but I had no idea my diet probably of pretty much every known digestible cause to leaky crack: alcohol, caffeine, sugar free gum, fried foods, etc. Again, thanks to every single person who posted.

Hey, so im 19 and have some similar issues going on here. At first I just noticed my crack and thigh (beside my nuts) was itchy. Scratching turned out to be the wrong choice as it only made things more itchy and ended up becoming raw. So I just stopped scratching thinking that would make the rash go away. No such luck. Now if I don't scratch during the day i scratch in my sleep and wake up unable to sit comfortably. So I really payed attention to my area over about a weeks time and it turns out i would get a wet sensation in my crack and thigh at least once a day. So now im thinking that the wetness isnt being dryed properly and now i have some kind of fungal infection on my taint. I've been dealing with this for too long. I'm going to see a pharmasist and a doctor and ill let you guys know what i can find out. This unholy itch needs to stop.

Holy crap, how did I even find this site? Everyone's talking about crapping. I'm sitting in the coffee shop and all of a sudden looking at everyone seated here very differently. Anyway, as I am in a coffee shop, I was reminded again today how strong the correlation is between downing hot coffee and needing to have a poonarino in the b'room. Why is this??? It's not the caffeine, 'cuz Diet Cokes don't do this to me. Is it simply the hot beverage? Inquiring minds want to know.

I just recently heard someone in my class say something about "smelly guy" and guess what ... I think they're talking about me. I have the execessive wiping issue and yellow mucus, etc. that many of you described. I plan to try metamucil and also see a proctologist to rule out any fissure, fistula, or hemorrhoid. My diet needs work, and could use more fiber (fruits and veg), I am about 40lbs overweight. I have had the issue off and on for about 10 years.

Many years ago I noticed an issue with loose stools (not quite diarhea, but not regular) and pinpointed it to the only change in my eating habits - regular gum chewing. You will notice that most gum on the market today has Sorbitol as the primary ingredient. Maybe for some of you it may be a solution to eliminate this from your diet - I did years ago so that's not my problem. Good luck.

RE: post from 7/3/07 and artificial sweetners.

from http://www.medicinenet.com/sorbitol-oral/article.htm
GENERIC NAME: SORBITOL - ORAL
Medication Uses | How To Use | Side Effects | Precautions | Drug Interactions | Overdose | Notes | Missed Dose | Storage

USES: This medication is used as a laxative to treat occasional episodes of constipation.

HOW TO USE: This medication is usually taken by mouth. Do not use for longer than one week and do not take with additional laxatives or stool softeners unless directed by your doctor. Laxatives should only be used temporarily until normal bowel habits return. Prolonged use can lead to laxative dependence. This medication may also be used rectally as an enema after properly mixing. Consult your doctor or pharmacist for more information.

SIDE EFFECTS: Nausea, gas, diarrhea, stomach cramps or anal irritation may occur. If any of these effects persist or worsen, notify your doctor or pharmacist promptly. Tell your doctor immediately if any of these serious side effects occur: rectal bleeding, vomiting, weakness, dizziness, persistent urge to empty the bowel. Tell your doctor immediately if the following highly unlikely but very serious side effect occurs: black, tarry stools. An allergic reaction to this drug is unlikely, but seek immediate medical attention if it occurs. Symptoms of an allergic reaction include: rash, itching, swelling, dizziness, trouble breathing. If you notice other effects not listed above, contact your doctor or pharmacist.

from http://www.foodintol.com/food_intolerance/hot_ibs.htm
Link to Irritable Bowel Syndrome
Sorbitol is also thought to be a cause of Irritable Bowel Syndrome (2). Most sugar-free products carry warnings like: Excess consumption can have a laxative effect.However, the packs are so small that reading them is difficult, and more importantly the term excess usage is not explained or quantified. Is one pack an excess?

Dateline June 1995: The Lancet publishes the case of a 35 year-old Flight Attendant diagnosed with Irritable Bowel Syndrome. She is admitted to a British Hospital and undergoes a series of gruelling tests: 14 procedures including blood tests, biopsies, liver biochemistry, gastroscopy, endoscopy and periods of supervised fasting. It eventually it turns out the cause of her diarrhea (up to ten watery motions per day) is the result of habitual use of sugar-free chewing gum containing sorbitol (3).

This is despite clinical results published twelve years earlier (Gastroenterology January 1983) from the Hartford Hospital and University of Connecticut warning that sorbitol causes gastro-intestinal distress in amounts as little as 10g per day (4).

Dateline June 2003: Popular sugar-free fruit pastilles, mints and chewing gum contain sorbitol in rather large amounts (42% - 50%) (5,6). This means a single tiny 25g purse-pack of fruit pastilles contains easily enough Sorbitol to cause gastro-intestinal distress and diarrhea and Irritable Bowel Syndrome.

What a great thread.. I've had this problem for years and couldn't find anyone (beyond my doctor) to talk about it. He had suggested a fiber supplement but I opted for citrucel instead of metamucil, which of course did not work.

So this weekend after reading nearly every comment on this post, I went out and bought metamucil at the grocery store. Took some after breakfast and another dose after dinner. Made a huge difference after just the first day, along with a very satisfying poop this morning. I will keep everyone posted.

I'm so happy not to be all alone in experiencing this embarrASSing and painful problem. Yes, I do eat greasy, spicy, meaty things. Now that I have read several pages of people's recommendations, I'm about to run out right now and buy some Metaumucil, fresh fruit, and bottled water. My history of butt problems started with the birth of my first child when my ob/gyn got a little too knife-happy and sliced me all the way through my rectum in order to get my baby out (vaginally). She then proceeded to do a piss-poor job of sewing me back up. I walked around in severe pain for a year afterward before being diagnosed with a rectal-vaginal fistula which required surgery. After that, things were more-or-less okay. BUTT now (14 years later) I have begun to experience similar symptoms and I wonder if it is a case of (1) return (REVENGE?) of the fistula or if (2) damage, injury, scar tissue, increasing age, and my becoming overweight have contributed to the complete and utter failure of my sphincter muscle. It's like my bung-hole is constantly OPEN and I cannot close it. Thus, matter (poop) is continually leaking out of it - which is quite irritating to the delicate tissues of my ass. I try to keep it clean, but to no avail. It is constantly leaking out. I have resorted to wearing the humiliating adult diapers because sometimes the panti-liner/pads just don't cut it. I've thrown away more underwear than I can count. Yes, this problem is not only soul-crushing and depressing, but for me, it is very very very painful. Even using the softest toilet paper, with each wipe, it feels as though I am using searing hot razor blades (instead of ultra soft Charmin) to wipe my ass. Every trip to the bathroom is sheer torment. Thank you for sharing all of your stories and allowing to vent mine. I'll try anything - so I'm headed out for Metamucil right now. I'm reluctant to go to my doctor (even though I have scheduled and cancelled two appts. already) because the last two visits at his clinic of filth resulted in me leaving sicker than when I went in. Twice before, I got a nasty staph infection from the staff in his office. So, I am very hesitant to expose my already sore ass to the filthy germs lurking on his colonoscope.
I'm so flipping tired of this.

This is a fuckin amazing site, Not to sound like a broken record, but i really thought i was the only one. My problem started when i was abouit 16 or so this shit literally runs my life. I have the whole deal wit wipin real good and gettin in there to make sure nuthin is left. but about 20 minutes later i get a bad odor and wet feeling like i never wiped and often i notice blood and in the shower i get in that ass for real. i plan my day around when i have to shit and shower usually very soon after. I always notice a wet feelin in my underpants but when i check its usually not too wet. I have been using shower to shower and baby powder, but it most of the time makes it worse after a long day of being out and about, giving off a bad scent from m backside. I hate hearing that " It smells like ass " comment because i get amazingly paranoid.. especiallyy in class because i'm there for soo long. I love concerts but i am real scared whenever i go to one. I also get real bad stomach aches usually being gas and notice a feeling like i still have somthin ready to come out and cant fart as often as i want to for the fear of the smell. No one has said much to me even myy reall good friends, but i feel like i notice it sometime especially after workin out and sweatin. in the gym. I feel confident for an hour or two but then in m head i feel like i notice sometin and get real paranoid. its ruining my life , im soo scared that girls i like will notice it and end any chance i had. ill try some of your advice, to those who go through exactly what i am and post some resolutions of yours

You mention gas - does your insurance cover bloodwork to see if you have food allergies? Maybe you have one. Start using Metamucil daily and doing Kegel exercises. Get medical help!

Let us know how things go.

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I am not sure if I have anal leakage, but I do when periodically wiping have remnants of poo juice on the toilet paper... just minute amounts but enought to smell but not enought to soil my panties? Is this the problem everyone else is having or are you guys actually having leakage where your undies get soiled as well?

Only read if you experience
Sweaty bum
Small stools and not everyday. (constipated)

Hey guys, I have been suffering for well over 4 years and all 4 years are my highschool years, I feel really bad I clean myself to the fullest. To those who make fun of us and say that we smell are naive and only think that we never took a shower.

I have almost eliminated all the smell problems basically drying yourself completely after a shower and staying confident will stop the ass sweat.

NOW GUYS READ IMPORTANT, if we want to eliminate this problem lets all agree on what we have in our lives if we all see what we have in common we may be able to realize the problems ill start...

Not enough exersise stays on the computer a lot
Eats a lot of junk food
6' 160 lbs (underweight)

Please lets all work together and find a cure if anyone wants to chat on MSN let me know

I'm going to start off describing some of my symptoms because there are a few different problems discussed on this thread. I had the yellow mucousy nasty shit that would constantly leak out of my ass even after I dropped my duke. I would take a nasty dump, never solid, and within 10 minutes feel all wet in the crack and have to go back and wipe. Like many of you, I had to plan my day around when I shit so I could shower soon after and at least have some confidence that I didn't smell like crap.

A few months ago I started taking metamucil and yes it did work, but only to an extent. I had solid shits most days, no wipers, and would feel clean. But once or twice a week you'd still get that big nasty stank shit and lose all confidence you had built up that maybe your shit is normal again.

I had been living with the stank ass shit and been hearing comments like "who farted" and all that shit for almost 4 years. About a month ago, I had a little bit of a cold and one of my friends suggested it might be allergies and I should try a OTC drug called CLARITIN. I'm telling you, that medicine is for real. This is why I think it works. The problem we've been having is we have too much mucous building up somewhere along the lines, whether it's in your throat, nose or intestines I don't know, I'm not a doctor. For me I think it's always been my throat, every time I go to the doctor they say I have post nasal drip. So we get a buildup of mucous and that gets into our shit and takes over, it makes shitting a not too pleasant experience. And since mucous is sticky and stinky, it sticks to your ass hole and slowly leaks out of you when you're done shitting making you smell like a sack of shit. The thing claritin does is dry up mucous for people with allergies. I swear to god, 1 day after I started taking it, I was shitting normal, brown logs. I've honestly never seen such huge turds, and they are solid brown, not a hint of yellow or orange like when you take fiber.

EVERYONE WITH THE SYMPTOMS I DESCRIBED TRY CLARITIN. What's the worst that can happen? It's a once a day allergy medication meant to dry up the excess mucous that causes us to shit our brains out and go out of our minds. The only downside to it is that it is a little bit expensive for anyone on a tight budget, but still very cheap overall. Depending on where you buy it, it's about $1-$1.50 per pill, but when you're buying for 30 days, it's $30-$45 dollars. But I know I would gladly pay $10 a day to get rid of the stink ass shit that's been following me around and ruining my confidence for years. Please give it a try and let everyone know how well it works. IT'S A LIFE SAVER!!

Happy shitting everyone, I hope this helps.

For the record...Age 22, height 5 foot 11, weight 170,

I am sorry to hear that so many are also going through things I went through (and still do from time to time, but not as terribly). Here are some things that have helped me.

Lomotil, the diarrhea stopper. I take up to 4 (2.5 mg)tablets of the generic a day. Cut out anyting with dairy or take one of the digestive products containing lactase. Most adults do not have sufficient amounts of the enzyme lactase to break down lactose, a milk sugar and it is hidden in many more things than you would think about so examine contents listings closely. When undigested sugars go through the intestines, they not only feed gas producing bacteria, they also bind large amounts of water to them because the sugar molecules are very thirsty. That is why sorbitol & manitol, sugar alcohols are non-calorie sweetners. The body cannot break down the molecule, but the molecules travel through us carrying large amounts of water with them that does not get pulled out by the colon because the water is bound to the alcohol. The alcohols are also irritants to the digestive tract.

Take calcium supplements. Calcium is a constipating mineral. If you like peanut butter, it is constipating also. A co-worker told me that they had to take her toddler granddaughter to the emergency room one night because the child was screaming in pain, especially if they held her with their arm under her butt or if they tried to put her in a sitting position. The doctors discovered her colon was impacted and that she had the beginnings of mega colon; the stool was too large to pass through her anus. They were told that peanut butter, which she loved, was something she should not eat except in very small amounts.

Use chlorophyll geltabs or capsules to control odor. You do not need those expensive things from the incontinence section and do not try the liquid; it is vile. Go the health food store and buy real chlorophyll. This is not the same as the green food made from grasses. World Organic 60 or 100 mg capsules contain the sodium copper chlorophyline from green grasses and algae, but in a concentrated form. Too much will give you the runs, but the proper amount (I take two twice a day) will control the odor of body waste products. It makes poop green also. I think it does somthing to the bile that passes out of the body in poop which gives poop its usual color and odor. Bile is also very irritating which is why gall bladder or similar problems that upset the bile flow or let it get where it does not belong make a person so sick. I discovered the benefits of chloropyll because I am bladder incontinent and it helps control urine odor. If you eat a lot of red meat, poop smells worse and the digested compounds from red meat can be intestinal irritants. That's the difference in the odors between elephant poop, which is not overpowerfully horrible in stench and which the zoos and circus give to gardeners, and terribly vile poop from carnivors like cats.

In cases of lax sphincter, try Keegel exercises where you flex the pelvic muscles, like you would if you were cutting off urine flow in mid stream in sets of 20 a couple of times a day. They strengthen the pelvic muscles and the anal sphincter.

Do not use dry toilet tissue. It is very irritating. Use moist wipes and push at least one use of the wipe a bit up inside to try to get what might be hiding behind the door. Protect the skin around the anal area from leakage with a waterproof barrier, plain petroleum jelly, if nothing else (caution, some people are allergic to zinc oxide) and use something absorbant to soak up the discharge so that it is not smearing your skin; easier said than done. Years ago Coloplast made or listed a product called an anal tampon, but I never found any place it was available. Maybe it was a product only available through medical professionals. Maybe a regular tampon would work, but I don't know about that and don't want to think about it either. I think the idea of buying them is among the bad nightmares of most males.

If you ever have to take an antibiotic, you know that it wipes out the good garden in your guts. Lactinex and other "probiotic" preparations will relieve a lot of the gas, cramping ahd loose stools that result from a lack of the natural flora in the gut. You need to ask for Lactinex at the pharmacy counter because it has to be kept refrigerated, but you do not need a prescription. I chew three tablets, which taste sorta like malted milk, at the first sign of crummy tummy to ward off anything worse and it really works. You follow it with something containing sugar to help the bugs grow.

Do not drink large amounts of apple juice. It is often used as an extender in fruit drinks. It is a big cause of gas and diarrhea. Pediatricians warn parents about this since many think it is healthy to give a child a bottle of apple juice without knowing it can give the child gastrointestinal distress.

Consider a small flush enema (a cup or so of mildly salty body temperature water) after pooping. Salt in the water makes a solution with electrolytes more like blood and other body fluids so the saline solution causes less cramping than clear water. In addition to flushing the remaining feces, it will dilute or thin the mucus that leaks out as well as soothe the inflamed tissues that are producing the mucus. Sometimes the mucus is just over secreted, but other times it is a response by the body to flush poisons or irritants from the tissues. Runny noses are the same response whether the invader is pollen or a cold virus.

If excess sweating is the cause of odor from the nether regions, doctors can prescribe medicine for hyperhydresis, the name of the condition.

I don't think that many people (including medical professionals) who have not suffered symptoms like we are discussing know the awful effects they bring to daily life nor do they know what they can do to a person's quality of life. I think our discussing what we have found to help relieve our problems is the surest way we will either be able to help ourselves or ask our doctors for specific things to help instead of just having them run a bunch of expensive tests and proclaim nothing is wrong. Initial tests to rule out serious diseases like ulcerative colitis, celiac disease or related conditions like gluten allergy are proper, but after that, we have to be our own advocates. We do not have to settle for being dismissed just because standard medical training often does not have a one magic cure that works for everyone. Before the internet we had to do our own time consuming detective work. Now we maybe can help each other quicker.

hey guys, i posted on 09.01.2007. my post didn't fully go in but anyway. I went to the doctor, then to the proctologist (again) who checked me out, performed an operation. he put a rubber band around my hemmorhoid so that it just die and fall off. but that didn't help much. I drink soy milk with my cereal now... tried changing a little my diet. I've timed going to the gym at the same time as I evacuate during the day so that i can shower right after. This doesn't always help...

i started playing badminton to increase my exercise.

anyway the proctologist said he couldnt recommend anything so he refered me to another proctologist which im seeing on monday...

3 words... THIS IS FUCKED!

but yeah, gotta keep fighting. i might give metamucil a try. (i think i already did but i'm not sure anymore... too many different drugs)

i just sadly quit alcohol. i'm on second weekend without.

i wish i could say more... good luck everyone and try to not do anything stupid

Oh and I'll try to get the doctor to look at this thread (the last one didn't use internet).

hie my butt is kinday leaky and sweaty i have to go to the toilet to wipe myself and its smelly to sometime im even emberassed at work but they nothing i can do cud anyone pliz help me sometime i feel like going to tiolet but nothing comes out and then it start to have that leakgae/sweaty and especially wen i sweaty it lives some stain on my pant and it smell really bad can someone advice me on wat to do

i'm the dude from 11.17.2007
i went to the other doctor who was pretty cool (for once). they had a look and apparently, there are still some internal hemoroids in there. he also said that they were currently doing researches and noted a few people with the similar type of problem. its basicaly the same theory i was on during the last few months.

i would have internal hemoroids that stops the stool form coming out completly (or anyway... pieces stays in there). then whatever is in there kind of slowly slides out which creates the leakage. i'm going soon for another operation to get the remaining hemoroids off. hopefully, this is the last time i need to worry about this (somehow i strongly doubt that i'm gonna get away with it that easily but less hemoroids can't hurt right?)
if that doesnt work, they're going for another deeper colonoscopy (shrug...)
i might just start praying to Joe Pesci... (god didnt seem to listen...) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MeSSwKffj9o i hope this can put a smile on your face... i know it doesnt happen often enough

good luck folks

Like the long list of people before me, I also have been suffering from what I like to call "Swamp Ass." It's been several years and it seems to be on and off, however much more on than off. I take a dump and a half hour later my ass feels not so clean. I go to the can, wipe, and the tp looks like I never even wiped in the first place! When this happens I am often going to the bathroom to wipe 5 to 10 times a day, after actually going to bathroom only once!
I never really made the connection between my condition and the term "anal leakage" until recently, and since dicovering this site. After all, at least for me, it doesn't really feel like "leaking" per say. I don't feel anything "leaking." I just feel messy, go wipe, and almost magically, there's poo on the paper.
Anyhow, I just wanted to say that I'm comforted by the fact that this site, and especially this thread exists. I'm 90% convinced by reading through all the posts, and my own lack of a truly healthy diet, that changing my diet is the solution. I'm gonna give the fibre a shot and let ya'll know how it works out. I'm just plain tired of wiping my ass!

Haha My butt leaks poop too. We get it from being probed by aliens. Their big tools in there stretching our sphincters wide open looking for impooptant information. Seriously, let's all get together for a group picture and bend over and moon the camera. Eewwwwwwwwww!! Nasty MoFos :)

i just wanted to add a random comment. ive had the icky poo leaking from my ass for a few years, tried the fiber, it helps, then i tried the claritin like the guy a few posts before suggested, def works better than the fiber. i dont even take the fiber any more, just one pill in the morning and its like the spicket in my ass is turned off. cept i didnt get claritin, i got the generic target brand, much cheaper, seems to do the trick still. just my 2 cents.

READ THIS ASAP!

Ok I might be on to something here. I have had this problem for the past 10 years and it has been driving me crazy. I found this site about 3 or 4 years ago. At first I was incredibly happy to know there were others who knew exactly what I was going through but after never really coming across any real solutions I became depressed again.

I have pretty much all the same symptoms you all speak of. I've gone to a number of doctors over the years and they all said I was fine and I should take metamucil or amodium AD or eat more fiber. I tried all this and none of it worked for more than a day or 2.

Anyways for the past few months the smell was getting really embarrassing. it seemed like every where I went someone would say something. I even thought about suicide like some others here. I really didn't want to but it's hard to keep it from popping into your head when you are embarrassed to be around anyone, even loved ones.

Anyways I THINK I MIGHT BE ONTO A CURE. THIS IS NOT BULLSHIT. I went to the doctor 2 weeks ago, and printed out a ton of these posts just to show him exactly what I was talking about. He looked at it for a about 1 second which kind of pissed me off. Anyways he prescribed this medicine that comes in powder form (kind of like metamucil) that is called CHOLESTYRMINE. You take one packet a day. I have been on it nearing 2 weeks and since the first day I have been way better. I'm still not 100% but I feel like I can be around people without smelling. I also think maybe if he lets me increase the dosage it will get better too. It has been years since I have felt this good.

Please go to your doctor and ask him about Cholestrymine if you are having this problem. If you live in teh Chicago area go to Dr. Stevoff at Northwestern Hospital downtown. I also had some urinary samples taken but I won't find out about that until next week. I will let you all know what happens next.

Stay strong everyone.

What I've learned from all these comments is what I am going to attempt to implement, and that is as follows: smoke more weed, drink more coffee, eat less fiber, eat less fruits and salads, drink less water and exercise much much less so to have more anxiety and stress. Just joking. Do the exact opposite.

Hey guys and gals,

I have the same problem as everyone else. When I'm at school I can get very sweaty and when I stand up I leave a large sweat stain on metal seats which is unbelievably embarrassing. I don't drink I don't smoke my diet isn't great but I'm in good athletic shape. I am extremely afraid to answer questions on the white board infront of the class because I'm worried that there is a wet stain on the back of my pants. It's sucks.

I've tried adding more fiber - didn't work. I have eliminated soda from my diet completely and still I have this problem. I find small amounts of blood on toilet paper after wiping because I wipe so hard trying to prevent the leaking.

I've had this problem for 7 years. I don't know what else I can do.

Noticed I had a little BO problem and wanted to hunt down the cause. Of course after a little diarrhea some BO might be expected for a while. My problem is that I sweat!!

I read a post that makes sense - I use an antiperspirant, and at the first hint of sweat, guess where it is? Not in my pits, it is "forced out my butt" as one guy put it lol. I also drink a TON of pop, coffee once in a while, milk liberally but off and on.

I had a couple scary experiences though. I noticed this summer when it was real hot out. I was sweating and my butt was sticking to restaurant seats, and finally it hit me that somebody was staring at me. Couple days later, I noticed my jeans had a nice round wet spot right after I took them off. I had been sweating profusely (in general). Smelled my jeans and about knocked myself out.....

And on a separate occasion, I had to study for a test and literally got about 2 hours of sleep in a 48 hour period. During this 2 hours, I was probably having a heart attack, or going into shock or something, but when I woke up my ENTIRE body was covered in sweat, my underwear was sopping wet. I thought I literally had peed myself. But it had no odor. I think the odor comes more from lack of good hygiene mixed with all the sweat which does a good job washing out my crack lol

In summary my main concern is *visible* moisture that ends up on my pants when I sweat enough.

I'm 13 years old and I also have a "sweating" problem. It's not a leakage problem, but I have a little advice. If you notice your over-worked or stessed out, or if your constantly thinking about this problem then I suggest some self-therapy or professional theropy. Because I have been worrying about this for about 3 months and I would arrive at school and just worry about this one problem, but what I needed to be worrying about is getting my school work done. I have a theory that if you worry about butt sweat then you will have it, or if you think about odor then you are more likely to have it. It might sound kind of stupid, but it's so true. One day I was like, I'm tired of having sweating, so I started talking to people (to get my mind off of it) and say to your self who cares who sees it. About a week or so of just saying who the fuck cares who sees my ass-sweat then I started seeing results. It really takes self-control and motivation. It's a really complicated self theripy cause you have to think about it w/o thinking about it, that dosen't make much sence but please try it...you'll see results.

---thanks---

Wow, great to find out that others experience this too! I'm a 36 year-old guy and for the past couple years, probably 4 out of 7 BMs a week, I'll do the morning deed, wipe furiously, then have to go back for a little more 20 minutes later, wipe furiously, then have to go back 20 minutes after that to do a quick final wipe to get the last tiny bit of itchy, burny chili that slips out. What a killer time-waster in the morning! My diet is pretty good with plenty of fiber. Others here have talked about caffeine being a problem, so maybe I'll try dropping my one cup of morning coffee, but that's going to be tough. And there's no way I'm going to be stuffing dry Tampax cotton up there! Thanks, and good luck everyone!

I know this problem well.I have suffered for years with it.I think mine is a combination of leakage and poor hygiene.My wife left me and I just completely gave up.I dont think I will ever get married again because I dont want a woman saying I need to bathe or brush my teeth or wipe better.My inflatable love muffins never say that to me.I have tried many cures and none have worked.I have come to the conclusion people are jealous and management is always wrong.

Dear Feto,

We are tired of finding inflatable love muffins in the break room.

Remove them immediately. We are always right.

Management

go to your doctor and ask him for a prescription for Chlorestyramine. I have been on it for a month and I swear i'm 100% better. I'm not afraid to be around people anymore. I'm not saying it's 100% gone but it's totally manageable now. do it tomorrow.

I think its wine. I was off wine for 2 weeks with no wet stinky ass. I had 3 glasses of red wine last night and it came back.

First off, I am 20 years old and 6 ft 165 lbs. I've had this problem for about a year and a half. I'm sorry to hear so many others are going through the same thing. I leave for basic training in a few months and HAVE to figure this out because whenever I do any type of exercise the problem is magnified. I couldn't imagine getting yelled at by a DI for smelling like shit...

Anyways I have tried the fiber and it might have helped a little bit, but not much. The Claritin sounds like a good suggestion and if that doesn't work then I'm going to try Chlorestyramine from a doctor.

I'll let you guys know how it goes and good luck to everyone else.

I need help!!!!!When I Exercise or just when it's a little hot I feel like there is something in my ass. I have to stop what I am doing and wipe my ass, there is nothing there. I guess it's just sweat but I start smelling like shit. It's horrible!!!!People cover their noses and start sayng that something smells like shit(I shower really well everyday and I wipe clean after every BM). Please somebody help, I'm scared of talking with people. What can i take or how can this be solved?

I have many of the symptoms as others who have posted before me. I think it has something to do with eating McDonald's. How many people who have posted eat McDonald's at least twice a week? I use to and once I stopped all the symptoms went away, and when i began to eat McDonald's again the symptoms came back. Not positive but definitely a possibility.

hey, i'm the guy who had the rubber band operation (pile ligation)
i went for a second time get some rubber band around my hemoroids. it seems to be slightly better. i wouldn't consider it 100% fixed but yeah... i think it helped. i'm considering ringing back to see if there r more that can be taken off. anyway, if you feel that something is blocked down there that stops you from evacuating completly, this might be a solution. nyway, i found myself able this week to go to the toilet and have an "average shit" and i think it didnt leak. im not sure if the smell is completly gone... or if its just my work chair that is cursed with the smell and then it sticks to me... nyway... its worth a shot

I have had AL for the past 3 years and have reached the conclusion that no one knows what causes it which is very annoying.

At first I thought that no one wanted to know about it because it is such a gross subject - but then I realized that there are much grosser things out there than some minor leakage from ones asshole.

Maybe not.

In any case, many times I have screwed up my courage and asked my doctors, then my friends who are doctors, then my friends who are not doctors, then casual acquaintances, then total strangers about this embarrassing situation with the same answer - a blank stare and no answer.

I have had enough - there are times my poor asshole is so itchy that I can't think straight....co-workers are starting to think I am a little strange because sometimes while we are in the middle of a conversation I will start doing the twist - hoping that my trousers will scratch my ass....it just looks unseemly.

I am ready to take drastic action unless this issue can be resolved soon-

The only problem is, I don't know exactly what would be considered "drastic action"?

All suggestions will be appreciated.

damn!!! im a 16 yr old boy and i been having the same problem for over 4 months now. I dont know what trigger my shitty smell, but i think it started from me beeing constipated for so long during the summer. Every time im done using the bathroom, it still feels like there some poop left. but when i tried to wipe it off theres noting there. This problem is ruining my life, now i cant hang out, or even have a social life because of this foul smell. im a tried metamucil or claritin and hopefully theyll help.

Good luck to all and hopefully well find a cure to this fucked up problem

Laying in bed my ASS is real red what do you think the cause is Dierria.

Wash out, I think the problem stems mainly from misfiring synapses, or lack of gray matter altogether. Perhaps and I.D. chip implant would be of some help...or just connect some battery cables to your ear lobes and give yourself a jump start. Neither of these, I am certain, could possibly do you any damage.

ok... i've came to the conclusion that the operation has helped but i'm not 100% sorted. there has to be some piles left in there... i can physically feel it so i'm just gonna take my courage and ring the doctor back.

"12.21.2007 16 yrs odl boy" you sound like you have exactly the same problem as me. constipation developped internal hemoroid which are blocking your stool from fully coming out. (anyway i think...) you might want to suggest that to your doctor

also i've noticed that a bunch of peolple have different problem

having a bit of shit leaking is completly different than someone waking up in a puddle of shit. this sounds more like bowel incontinent.

sweaty ass also sounds like a different thing

or itching

personally i found that itching occurs when i whipe too much (it gets irritated) but your itching sounds alot worst than mine. (or maybe i can control it better)

nyway i dont wanna say that but i do feel like in my case where i could feel like i couldnt get everything out and thats what caused the smell and the leaking.... getting my internal hemoroid removed seems to help. get it checked out... it isnt fun at all but its a quick operation and it if it can stop it... the pain is worth it. i've done it twice and i do feel like things are getting a bit less clogged down there. even almost managed to have what would have usualy been a mess... a semi clean thing.

also, if anyone ever find another website about this, please do post. i have now made it my current life goal to get rid of this and hopefully help a few at the same time.
i'm turning 23 soon and this has been going on since the age of 20. and there's no way i'm wasting my youth for this shit. i have better things to do, girls to screw, party to go to and fun to have.
i mean... FUCK! THIS! SHIT!
every problem has a solution and i'm gonna find it even if its the last thing i do.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hemorrhoid not a bad read
of course, not nessessarily helpful for everyone but they do mention that "lots of people don't know that they have internal hemorhoids"

and for the people suggesting hygiene... sure this can help a few i guess but be careful when saying it. some of use take 3 showers a day, pass a roll of toilet paper a day whiping and use enough colong to kill the atmosphere and yet... we still smell like shit

a few links i found last night

that one is about the smell which is personally what annoys me the most http://www.poopreport.com/Doctor/Knowledgebase/reallysmells.html?from=140&comments_per_page=140

that one is mainly about Candida which i didnt knew existed but apparently can cause some bad smell. http://beatleakygas.com/?p=37#comments

As I've been reading through the comments on this thread I've noticed a few people mention pain, weeping and bleeding at the *top* of their ass-crack.

If this is you, or you have a swollen lump at the top of your ass-crack, you may have pilonidal disease. It is a surprisingly common problem in the tailbone area, usually just inside the top of the crack.

I urge anyone with these sorts of symptoms to see a doctor. It can be very quickly and easily diagnosed, and it can be treated. pilonidal.org is a good source of info.

I've drunk more coffee for the past year cause I found that it stopped me being constipated. I used to go once every fortnight or so and could only ever get about 3 hours sleep a night. Since drinking 4 or 5 cups of coffe a day I found that I go usually once a day or at least every other day and found that my sleep problem fixed itself. The problem is that yes - I too have got anal leakage now!! If I stop coffee my constipation comes back immediately - so do I live with the leakage or go back to constipation and insomnia!!!

I have suffered from this for a few years now. I have to wipe my butt several times a day while at work. I am pretty sure I have the answer and I do not like it one bit. Brace yourself - WORMS.
Check out this quote from a medical site:

Human worms are usually found in your feces (poo). (Sometimes they stay in the small intestine and do not leave it and there is no indication of them.) You can see seed like white/beige bits/things or you may actually see small worms. Most people who are infected with worms usually have a itchy anus, anal discharge or lose weight or have abdominal cramping. You can only tell if you have worms by seeing your doctor and take a feces sample with you. Your feces will be tested for worms and parasites and you will know without a doubt then if you have worms.

Everything I read points to this - also had a dog right before this started. I researched on how to self-cure and got alot of herbal remedy B.S. The only sane solution I found involved going to a feed store for horses and dogs and getting the chemical Pyrantel Pamoate. You can administer it as you would to an animal, dosage based on weight.
I figure I have nothing to lose and they say many more people have parasitic infections than you would think. I am going to go buy some tomorrow and do it. I will let everyone know how it goes.
Do yourself a favor and research this and I think you will come to the same conclusion. Good luck.

I leak to! I felt it was something I got after taking prozac for two years. but then i also took aqutane for my zits prior to my problem. and i worked with quimicals like laquer and sealers and ink. so if you took fucking prozac like me prior to your leaking stool. plz let us know! Im geting a ton of good info here and im going to try everything i can. thanks for your post!!!

i've actually had my feaces tested and it came back negative :(

i got a bit of a story for you guys. i'm saying it here because who else will listen anyway. its not the best motivation but here it is.

last night i decided that to build my life back there were certain steps that i needed to take. so i wrote down a big list of things i wanted to do and how i would do them etc.

this morning i wake up and decide that i'm gonna attempt to have my first "daily adventure". i had a bunch of things noted down like going out to the city, saying hello to a stranger, smiling to a girl, trying some new food, etc.

so here i go... i head to the city (1 hour train ride). i go to a restaurant i never tried, have food i never had. it was all nice and good. then i needed something from a specific shop that i didnt knew where it was. i though i'll just head in a random direction and ask my way around. who knows... i might meet someone interesting.

and then... i feel a gas coming out... no big deal i though... so i let it go...

and i shat my pants.

middle of the city...

gives you alot of hope doesnt it....

uh....yeah.....I hope I'm not walking behind you any time soon

THANK YOU SMELLY GUY!!! A scientific answer is always the best! I have had this smelly clear discharge from my rear for awhile now. Also itching to the point that it became uncontrolable. I thought I was scratching my rear in two. Finally I thought well since I'm having these runny BM's that maybe caffeine has something to do with it. I cut out caffeine and almost instantly my BM's were more solid and satisfying. However, my rear kept itching but the discharge was almost gone. I had a coke yesterday for the first time in two months and yet again I get a little discharge this morning which I haven't had after stopping the caffeine almost two months ago. My theory is the SORBITOL in the gum destabilizes your intestines and rectum and causes itching and discharge etc. The caffeine only worsens the intestinal symptoms. After reading your post I looked at my favorite gum; Dentine Ice and what do you know. The first ingredient is SORBITOL. Going to buy some gum without it and I'll keep everyone posted. Thanks to everyone for your posts especially SMELLY GUY. I thought I was the only one. Human clinical trial beginning today. :) I'll keep everyone posted.

I've had this leakage for 20+ years. It started shortly after having a thrombosed hemrrhoid cauterized. I lost my pucker. I blame it on sloppy medical work. I never saw that Dr again.
I might try more fiber. I hate to give up my single cup of decaff in the morning.
I've been using Serenity Pads in my underware. Sometimes I have to change 2-3 times a day.
I wish I could blame it on Agent Orange like my diabetes. Not likely. I'm still fighting the VA for my agent orange compensation. Too bad this isn't part of that.
I'll go with more fiber and try it.

Thank God, I found this site. I had anal itching, and first thought it was yeast infection. The itch was stronger after long walks, and bowel movements. On the phone, I asked my close relative, who is a doctor, and he told me it could be hemorrhoid. I tried over the counter topical creams, and while they seem to help, they did not solve the problem. So I went to the doctor. He said it was not hemorrhoids, neither internal nor external. Then he checked stool samples and did not find any worms or parasites. His final guess was yeast infection, so he prescribed Nystatin ointment. I used it about 10-12 days, it did not help. Then tonight, as I was searching the net, I realized that it would not itch when it was clean, and I always had a stain in my underwear. From that I made the connection to anal leak, and found this site. I drink coffee every day, and I am confident that my diet is the problem. I will start avoiding coffee, and eat better. Thanks to all who shared their experiences. Thanks to the Internet as well.

I began destroying my underwear a couple of years ago. I googled this website today and began reading all the comments. As many, my chair stinks at work, pants smell like hell, stains on underwear, the "infiniwipe syndrome" (having to wipe pretty much all day long. The smell of shit can only be masked by TAG body spray for so long.

One thing I noticed in trying to put 2 and 2 together is that I started to drink starbucks on a regular basis about two years ago and drank the occasional Monster drink. High intakes of sugar and caffeine. I also drink beer (weekends, watching football games, etc) and about 30 lbs over weight and just turned 39. I like spicy foods as well and eat very little vegetables and fruits. This almost sounds like on-line dating for shitters. After reading, it seems all of these habits are potentially the cause of my skidmarkitis.

My wife came to me the other day and actually asked me what the "deal" was with my underwear AND where most of my underwear went. (I throw much of them away). Hence, my excursion to this website.

It's January 2nd, 2008. I have not had any spicy food today, no starbuck, no beer. I'm going to tackle this the diet route. More fruit and veggies, water, cut down on red meat, more fish, etc. Sounds hokey, but I'll see how January goes. I'll check back with my reults. NO BEER! Holy shit..no joke.

Hello, i am a 22 year old male, and have been having this problem for about 3 years. I used to be a tweaker, started smokin dope(meth) when I was 18. I ran around with this girl for about a year just gettin high, crashin in random places, jackin shit. I am 5'9" and used to weigh about 170 and was really into weightlifting, I dropped down to about 110 when on dope. I ate very rarely and had a pattern of staying up for 3-5 days then crashing for a day. Needless to say I really put my body thru hell. One day I went to go to the bathroom and strained too hard while going. I heard a popping sound and there was blood in the toilet, I was high so i didn't feel anything but I imagine it would have felt painful under normal circumstances. Well i continued right on using but my ass felt weird now, like it was "loose" and I couldn't get rid of it. I tried just shoving TP in my crack for awhile and finally came to the conclusion that I really was that high and this was a figment of my imagination. Stay up too long and you start to see "meth monsters", shadows n your mind play tricks on you. So I said this is bullshit I'm gettin off this drug or I'm gonna go crazy (a blessing in disguise I guess), I ran home to my mom n got clean. After many weeks of curling up in a ball in my room feeling like i was gonna die( and only 1 relapse).
I realized my problem is still there I get the whole sweaty ass thing, 20 min after going I have to wipe again. I get this sensation that i can't hold my gas in very well sometimes and sometimes I get a stinging after i go that subsides after 10 min or so. REALLY ANNOYING

So I ran to the doctor and had em test my blood for every STD and explained my problem. Well after blood and other tests come back negative, he refers me to a Gastroenterologist. I refused the colonoscopy at first (ya right your gonna stick a camera up my ass!!!) and just took some general antibiotics they thought might help. AntiB's did nothing so I went back for the colonoscopy and they found some hemmroids and the doctor told me to get some preparation H. I thought great problem solved, the preparation H helped the hemmroids and the stinging feeling, but not the AL.

At this point Im feeling very discouraged, and start to get really depressed, feeling sorry for myself and all that other shit. I didn't do anything about it for awhile, just "managed" it. I tried eating different things, I started working out again, I stopped drinking milk and started drinking soy milk. While changing my diet and working out made me feel a lot better my problem still persisted. Finally i went to see another doctor who recommended the kegel exercises. Well that didn't help and at this point im beginning to wonder if all doctors are quacks and what the hell they are doing in school. Then i went to see a naturalpath who tried to get me to meditate, like i was gonna think my problem away, lol. Believe me if i could think/wish my problem away it would have been solved the moment it began.

So I figured I'm a smart person, I took PreCal in HS, I'm gonna solve this like a math problem and the first variable that doesn't need to be there are the hemmroids. I had a doctor refer me to a surgeon to get them removed, he explained banding to me and that surgery was a last resort. So I went in for banding and he said I don't see any hemmroids right now. But based upon the pain I was feeling when he was "in there" w/ this crazy looking tool and then after some probing with his finger he said I have an Anal Fissure. A tear in the rectum that never had a chance to fully heal because everytime I went to the bathroom, the skin would expand and tear it open and shit would get in it again, a vicious circle. He said imagine a washer w/ a tiny cut on the inside of it. So he said there are 2 solutions to this problem, some special type of suppository or surgery called Anal Dilation. So I opted for the dilation which really isn't much of a surgery at all (this was 2 weeks ago) basically they put me under and applied some sort of numbing stuff on my rectum so that it fully expanded. So that when I went to the bathroom my sphincter wouldn't spasm and the fissure wouldn't tear back open, so it could heal naturally. It is sort of disturbing to think about I know, but at this point I'm open to anything. Tired of cutting myself off from society because of some problem.
Well my followup appointment is today, I have to say that the surgery seems to have helped A LOT but there are still some of the familiar problems just not so bad. The doc explained sometimes this doesn't work on the first try and some people have to go in for a 2nd dilation. Bad timing on my part considering I got a $1000 deductible each year for my Health insurance, but whatever id pay a million to feel like I was normal. So I'm on my way to my appt. now, I thought id hop online n do a little research before i went. I'll keep you updated on this and see if I cant find my personal "ultimate cure"

To all the people out there with this reoccuring problem, don't give up. I know at times it seems hopeless, that you are "doomed" and you are searching around for a pause button on life. But all the liquor, oxycontin, weed or whatever you vice is aren't gonna make your problem disappear or help you forget about it for more than a few hours. You just have to man up , grab this thing by the balls n find an answer. Good Luck

The smell can sometimes be controlled with ordinary white vinegar, especially for women who can also get a vaginal smell that isn't too nice. I keep a bottle in my bathroom. Use a hot washcloth to steam off the crap, then rinse and wring it out and wipe/dab vinegar on your ass. You will be surprised at how much the smell is contained.
For the guy whose chair smells bad- Lysol it! If you are fortunate enough to have a walk in freezer where you work, roll it in overnight. Bacteria (that causes the smell) cannot survive the freezing. No walk in freezer? Do you live in a climate that stays below freezing all day? Take chairy outside and use a folding chair for a couple of days.

wow MyOwnRoad, your post remind me so much of the one i first posted a while back (under the anonmous coward name)

same age, the problem started about the same time, and we were both heavily on some kind of amphetamine at the time (opiat based drugs will constipate you btw)

i also spent alot of time on amphetamine and seem to have gotten this from holding myself for too long (leads to constipation) and then forcing too much.

althou i had many doctors telling me that i did not have a fissure (i fuckin hope they're right)

nyway from year 2007, i quit drugs

and now from year 2008... i quit alcohol

been working out at the gym 5 days a week for the past 6 months

got on the soya milk for a while...

im about to turn vegetarian... (i'm the type of person who love animals... especially with some sauce on em)

right now im trying to do the low carb diet (candida... yheast infection)

but yeah... after 2 rubber band operation... i kinda feel that there's more to be dug out of there

I just found this site. None of you are alone. I have had this problem for quite a while and chose to ignore it like an idiot. I can roll through a roll-O-TP in a day if it is bad enough. It gets a bit old after a while, and to sit and wonder if every one is pointing and staring at you...
I had an instance a couple weeks ago that I woke up in the middle of the night to a severely wet ass. It did not smell like crap, but had a really weird rank smell and had a very yellowish and sandy consistancy to it. You could see where it ran out of me and got onto my sheets, forever covering them with shit. It actually stained my skin, it was fun to get off of me. I than layed up the remainder of the evening wondering if it was going to reoccur, it didn't. Fortunately, I was alone that night. I did tell my GF so she would never get nastified about it. She claims she has never smelt it on me, hope she is right. Getting old sucks.
I am going to see a GP about it, but unfortunately, I feel it will be a "wait and see" situation. I hope I am wrong. I will also try some of the remedies given on here to see what happens. I am glad to hear that I am not alone. :)
Gotta go wipe...

I think the problem may lay in butt hair. I have quite a bit of butt hair and I think that when you shit some poo gets stuck on the hair and dries. Then when you sweat it becomes liquidy again and runs on whereever and smells. Have you noticed that poo smells much more when wet? Well it does.
Try shaving your anal hair. I tried it and it seems to be much better.

I think my problem is a little more severe than everyone elses. I fart without knowing, and the people around me seem to notice very well. At the same time, there is poop that drips out of my but. I take a shower, clean my butt, then i wipe my butt and there is brown all over the toilet paper. Plus, I dont go to the bathroom everyday. I have tried to take everything i could think of. I need help!

hair definetly does affect smell. thats how my problem started. shave it before it becomes worst...

michael, i sometime feel a bit that way too. or sometime its like if some farts are stuck within my butt and instead of coming out normally... they slowly come out without me noticing. i've suspected that anyway but never could be sure. it does feel like if there's something stuck there sometime and its not always shit... sometime its just air. and it does tend to smell even if my colon is well emptied.

is there a way to fix it?

Im 16 goddamn years old and everytime i go to do any excercise my ass sweats like a fat kid at fat camp wen he sees a cake. Im not overweight or anything but i think i will be if this shit keeps happening. Every girl i go out wit im afraid to have sex wit or they will find out wut i got. Im a physical guy and people be wonderin y im not goin out for football dis year and y im not doin SHIT than stayin at my house. First i thought it was sweat cuz its a clear liquady substance. It never seaps through my boxers into my jeans unless im doing hard work or excersising.and then i have a big ol fuckin line on my ass. I stopped drinkin cokes and smokin weed and grits for more than 2 monthS and not 1 thing has changed.this shit is gunna ruin my fuckin life if anyone finds out. Can sum1 PLZ help me. I.would really appreciate it. And im relieved dat im not da only one suffering dis horrible shit. Peace out!!!

Sweetie, if it doesn't happen unless you're working out, it's just sweat.

Try wearing one of those velcro-wrap stomach supports one day with a bandana tucked into the back of it. It if comes out soaked, and your butt isn't so wet, you have your answer.

Go out for football.

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I'm 32 and have been suffering with this problem for a couple years now. I have seen the gastro doc. for this and they did a endoscopy and he found some small hemorrhoids but that was about it, and he more or less seemed clueless. Although the hemorrhoids problem is something that I might revisit because someone on this board previously said they had some comfort reliving AL using rubber band method.

The way I am thinking is that it begins first by eating something that can not be digested. Then AL becomes triggered by physical exertion, or sometimes stress. One more thing that makes it worse for me is multiple bowel movements in a day (>1). in my opinion we are dealing with an uncharacterized underyling disease/condition i.e. some kind of pancreatic, liver, or colon, or nervous disorder that is not in the literature and that is why some of our docs seem a little clueless about this.

I have been able to control this by diet. I have been concentrating on trying to find particular foods that give me problems. First off anyone that has this should first increase their fiber intake naturally or using supplements. in addition take a daily multivitamin. Next create an extensive food diary and also keep track of when you have AL problems. I use to have AL everyday and I finally was able to control by cutting out lactose. I developed lactose intolerance late in my late 20's and I have found this to be a major trigger for AL. Interestingly, I found AL to come about 48-72 hours after eating lactose. so keep this delay in mind while trying to find some of your trigger foods. for me it is dairy for you it could be something else. I should note that I still get AL in the complete absence of lactose and I have be able to narrow it down to some foods and I am trying to figure out the ingredients to determine what is giving me problems. So I have been able to cut out everyday AL by restricting my lactose but I still suffer from occasional AL. I also realize that cutting out lactose in my diet could create an umbrella effect that really cuts out the true problem in my diet.

I think the best way to make use of the food/AL diary is first start eating very simple and cut out a variety of foods this would help to narrow down what is a trigger. Then I think try to eat foods that do Not give you problems and just eat those foods for a while, those are you "safe" foods get to know them. Then start to re-introduce some other foods into your normal diet and see if the new foods will give you problems. If you can narrow down certain foods to AL keep track of the ingredients as there could be something specific that is causing problems. I hope this helps and let's all hope for a AL-free life.

I think the above treatment Cholestyramine also look promising, as it seems to be helping at least one person on this board. I have found it in the scientific literature reporting that it does help with fecal incontinence.

I've had this problem for several years, though not as bad, I think, as many of you. Usually notice that when I poop and then wipe, it's usually a liquidy yellowish color mixed with the poop. Of course, the doc says it's IBS, and did recommend a specialist, but wasn't encouraged that he would find anything.

One thing I've recently noticed is that my poop is much more dense and less leaky if I eat raw vegetables. I'm actually making it a point to eat a salad every day with raw broccoli, cabbage (lots), sprouts, maybe some cheese for those who can handle it, and some cut up turkey. Dressing of choice.

Haven't been doing it long, but noticed a few weeks ago when I had this meal that a day later things seemed much more "normal." Occurred to me that I was eating few, if any, raw veggies, and that if it didn't help, at least it's healthy. I'll report back in a week or two to let you know how it's going.

errr what an awful day... i hate those company meeting where they crumble every single employees in the same room.

i finally had the strength to ring back the hospital to rush my appointment. the guy said there was no spot until march :( but that he would try to do something

i've been considering starting a food diary and i think i might just start it now. althou i can definetly feel some hemoroids still coming out every time i have my bowel movement which i awful for those days where you have to go twice. thats usualy where it gets the worst. and today was a double :(

the good side is that i have had worst althou now that i go to the fym during the day after going to the toilet and then shower (kind of covers the whole purpose of having a shower in the middle of the day, every day) it is not as bad...

i'm so fuckin sick of this... and i need to get brainwashed in not thinking about it too...

Found this informative.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anal_leakage

Me....you... poop contest now!!!!!

my anus itches. a lot. and i dont know why. i dont really have anal leakage. so i dont think thats it. and sometimes i see blood. any ideas as to what this is???

alright i just came back from the doctor and... there's nothing left for him to do. i'm back on my own...

errr...

this sites been a great help ,ive had similar probs to some of you guys and decided to look for info (too embarrasing to go to docs) and this was the 1st page i found ,, great , several possible answers but i reckon i drink loads of caffeine (coffe and redbull) so gonna try to completely cut it out and see if it makes a difference ,im all into health living lately as a i stopped smoking 3 weeks ago , soon be a new me

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I, also, suffer from the dreaded leaky butt. I have read and tried just about everything on this PoopReport. No solution so far...

However, I do have a very old joke that might just shed some light on our common problem:

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A young boy asked his dad: 'Why are my turds tapered at the end?'

Dad responded: 'So that your asshole doesn't slam shut!'

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Well, maybe, that is our problem! Our assholes are not 'slamming shut'. Now if I can figure out how to eliminate the taper on my turds......

i have mud butt once in a while, when its really hot or if i run around. i used to have it bad when i was younger. i would get nervous in school when i was sitting with the cute girls and it would feel like i had liquid in my crack. it would smell so i was always leaving class to clean it. as i got older i played sports and one time i actually kinda shit myself during football while running to catch the pass (the lubricating feces seemed to make me run faster) lol so since then ive been using the “stuffed tp” method. it hurts when i play sports because the paper rubs my skin raw sometimes. other then that it worked well for a while untill one night i slept over my girlfriends house, i went to bed and it must have fallen out because when i woke up all of the sheets were in her washer. i havnt had mud butt for a couple months but when i fart and it sounds wet i get real scared. i changed my diet alot and healthy food does seem to help for the most part, i used to eat burgers n fries atleast twice a week but now i dont and im feeling and smelling much better, im really thankful for this site i thought i was the only one, i also thought i invented the tp suffing method

surely if some poop is retained in the sphincter (outlet control valve), then it will cause an irritation which will raise the temperature and create sweat. It will also generate mucus and gradually slide out unless you exert more muscle control which all starts a visious circle.

Every now and then my butt leaks. I sometimes just leave toilet tissues in between there. One day my wife saw it (the tissues) and said what is that for? I was so embarrassed. Of course I brushed her off.

What would be a good cure for this crap with "shit" spit???

Dododawa

Dododawa, in answer to your query, the first thing that pops into mind is a shit spit licker, of course.

Bilge, he really needs a slick shit spit licker. It'll be quicker.

I used to suffer from itchy and leaky butt since I was 17. In my awaking time I was able to avoid scratching my butt my in my sleep I scratched the hell out of it. At the age of 40, it wasnt getting any better or worst, but I was too old to be embarrassed so I consulted my doctor.

He thought it was a mixture of not keeping it clean and eczema (I get hey fever and sometimes eczema in spring and summer). He told me to clean my butt with baby wipes and gave me some eczema related cream to apply after cleaning. I did this and amazingly enough after about 2 weeks it was like I never had any anal problems. But I had to continue cleaning with the baby wipes and apply the cream every now and then.

My itch has started again, this time with bleeding and burning. It coincides with when I started taking lipitor to control my cholesterol. This time the itching is more around and inside the anal ring where as before it was the inside walls of the cheeks.

Starting tonight I have decided to stop the lipitor tablets for a month to see what effects it has. I intend to get back and report the results.

Thanks.

/m

I never had this problem until I had a colonoscopy. :( I've had it ever since then. And its disgusting. I've always been a clean person. Now I go to the bathroom really often, not because I have to go, but because I have to wipe. :(

Are you sure it wasn't a bolonyoscopy?

COMPLETE AND PERMENANT CURE!!!!! i too suffered this terrifyingly painful fate, i suffered an anal fissure from sexual assault and like others i did believe it was ne that smelt so terrible, it was someone else, and at times when it reoccured (due to mistakes i made that i have outlined below), however there is hope for all!!! back in the day christians, muslims, hindus, jews and others, all fasted, yes thats right FAST! now compared to standard fasting you need to take it a little further, and reduce your food intake to an absolute minimum, you may wish to take suppliments for a month or so before hand so that your body tissues have adequate reserves of nutrients. then begins the fast, eat only fresh fruit or veg, i use a blender, about 250-350ml of food matter is more than enough per day NO MEAT! NO SMELLY FOODS! NO DAIRY! NO GRAINS ESPECIALLY WHEAT!! NO SUGAR!. expect to feel a little hungry and loose a little weight at the start, but after a while your body should normalise by decreasing your metabolic rate, your stomach will shrink, and your anus will tighten. eat at the same time each day, regularity enables a good 24 hours between each 'gut cycle', i found lunch to be the easiest and most energetically feasible time to eat, yes a little hungry in the morning, and a little hungry at night, but nothing too bad, and i didnt feel hungry all day. do this for a few weeks until your symptoms have stopped and then, do it for a few more weeks, this gives your bowels plenty of time to repair themselves! thus when you do start eating more, or varied food, of course start slowly otherwise you'll end up back in the horrible mess you were in before, and gradually work your way to say 2/3, yes two thirds, of the food you used to eat, you'll feel lighter, healthier, have less body fat, and you wont smell! it works a treat, its like getting your life back, no surgery no med, just your body's natural way of self repair. oh yes and if when you start eating normal food again, you begin to notice symptoms reoccuring, ie the next day, take a note of the foods you were eating, fast for a few days, and then try the foods you ate that day one by one, as you may have an allergy, grains are particularly bad they aren't that fiborous, mostly carbs, but they make you feel full, who needs to fill a large stomach, when you have a small one, no beer belly, and only put nutrients in it? not me for sure. Good luck!

Poocomander, I always like to read comments from people who have gotten relief. Thanks for sharing. I hope someone else can use this technique for success, too.

Good luck back at you with your butt.

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www.daphneszoo.com

Hello all....first off im a relative heathly male, 41yrs old. I recently (three months ago)killed two birds with one stone so to speak when my doctor performed a colonoscopy and at the same time a hemmroidectomy. I know some are problem askin why a colonosopy at 41 thats a little young, but my father had a history, so they just wanted to be safe....they did remove one small polyp turned out to be non cancerous. Well as you can imagine after this operation i was pretty much useless for about two months...i couldnt sit for long periods of time in a car, workingout was simply out of the question as was anything else that included the smallest of physicall exertion. The two months of recovery was actually worse for me mentally/emotionally(due from not being able to do anything except lay around and wathc tv) than the physical pain from the hemmroidectomy. The pain killers they give you these days do an excellent job of limitting the pain to a very tolerable level...although your first bm will pretty much take your breath away for about a half hour, hurts pretty bad (i quickly learned to have my percs readily available after the first couple of bm after my surgery). Anyway point of the story is that i have noticed going on three months of recovery now that i to am experience a wet/sweaty mucus 24/7. I never had this problem before the operation. So i have a strong feeling that this is definetly related to the effects of the operation. I started noticing about three weeks ago after a bm i would wipe very clean, using both tp and wet wipes only to go check a half hour later and it would be like i didnt wipe at all....very fustrating. Then there were the times even when i didnt have a bm i would still have this wetness down there. I went to my doctor for a follow up in connection with the earlier coln/hmmroid surgery, and i brought this to his attention. He also suggested more fiber. Well i have been on benefiber faithfully for two weeks now, and still no improvement. I will however tommorrow try metemucil brand and give that brand a shot....I am now also starting to think that this very well could be a fissula but will have to have that determined by my doctor if this wetness problem does not subside anytime soon. i have put in a call to my doc today to try to find out more info on this condition. Will post more if and when i come across what works for me. Until then everyone good luck with the blot drying every couple of hours, lol.....hey ya gotta keep a sense of humor.

I have also had a problem with AL. for two years never had any problems before then. I have been driving myself crazy tring too figure out what is causing it. On christmas I tried metamucil as other people suggested here and has seem to help alot. First I tried taking a spoonfull of metamucil everyday but my BW. I thought might to hard so I cutdown to every other day it was softer but i had a little bit of leakage not near as bad as before. I got a little worried that taking metamucil everyday might cause dependence or screw up my bowels so I called ask a nurse the nurse said it was ok to take that it was pretty much just fiber. I stopped taking for a few days all together and back to as bad as it was before so just go back to taking it once aday if you buy the off brand a 6 mo supply or more is just $5 the nurse did tell me that i should go to doctor AL. is not normal so that got me a little worried.

I thought about why I am getting AL. now and b then I think I got the answer. When i was a child I am now 30 I only went like once a week so it was very hard as I got older I went twice a week. Starting about 2 years ago it's more everyother day or everyday so it's much softer so that would explain the leakage.

Hi everybody,
I'm writing for the people who are having leaky anus and who started to think ab't a suicide attempt.

With complete happiness i'm writing this letter comparing to the situation of suicide attempt thinking couple of weeks before . My subject is leaky anus.

My anus was leaky since i was 17 years old .Now i'm 25 and truely saying, though my education went well, i'm always sad and angry due to this leaky problem. On going through severe desperate condition i accidentily found this site. I was quite surprised to see this site.Till that moment i was thinking i'm the only unlucky person who has leaky anus which emits such a bad irritating smell every second of the day. Day by day my hope was exponentially decreasing.
At last with severe, sometime pathetic praying i was determined to find out the problem myself.
With that determination i searched all through the net. Then i tried to understand about the internals of anus. Through some medical documents i got to understand that to block the leak we have to tighten up the sphincter muscle( Which we try to control when we feels the gas leakage ).So i searched for some excercise to strengthen the muscle.That was the turning point in my life.
I got a pdf document ( now i believe god directly send that file to me ), which specifies the excercise to strengthen the muscles, which i was exactly expecting.On doing that excercice 2 or 3 days smell started to decrease in a very noticeable manner. At that time i was able to see a star of hope that extends my healthy social life.

After doing that excercise for 2 week i'm now feeling as i'm iin heaven. You can understand how much pathetic was my condition to say these words.

wishing you all the best

God has a wireless Intertron connection, I am so jealous.

I bet that copy of Adobe Acrobat he's using isn't licensed.

My anus started leaking some several years ago,for what reason I don't know. I had anal surgery about 25 years ago, but I don't think that would just now cause the problem. Anyway, at about the same time, I started to have a lot of itching, so I thought I had hemorroids. I went to the doctor, and he said I had some small ones, but they were definitely not what was causing the itching. He said it looked like I was having some leakage, and said the most practical solution was to fold up some TP and keep it stuck in my crack next to my anus. I tried this for a few days, but this works much better in theory than in actual practice.

Since then, I've figured out that I have to sit and wipe again about an hour after a BM.

That solves the problem, so apparently, it does not leak any more after the first hour.

I'm keeping my fingers crossed.

Maybe keep the legs crossed also. Good luck.

Hi again.....just checking back on this site since i found it about a week ago. I have a previous post dated 1/31/08 if anyone cares to read what my story is. Anyway since that post i just wanted to add a few more things. First off, if any one here has not seen ryans post dated i beleive 1/25/08, i highly reccomend checking out his post. At the end of his post he has a link to menshealthmagazine which is very very informative (thanks ryan).
secondly, and this has more to do with the fiber cure. My doctor recommended fiber as well....so i went and bought benefiber, and mixed(two teaspoons) it with my protien shakes....was doing that for two weeks, and really did not see any improvement. two days ago i switched over to mettamucil brand. the directions say use one teaspon, up to three times daily....after the first day, i called my doctor and told him i was using a teaspoon, he said oh thats probably not enough, he said go ahead and mix at least a full tablespoon with the glass of water. I guess my point is....if your following directions from the label of the mettamucil, and are not seeing an improvement, you may want to increase your dosage to a full tablespoon or two every day. I know i have only been on the mettimucial for two days, but i do believe that i am seeing somewhat of an imporvement. the one imporvement i have noticed is that when i take a bm its a fairly clean wipe...i am not using nearly as much tp to wipe after a bm now....and when i go back an hour later, and rewipe its clean. I still do however have the wetness going on, but i think that has begun to decrease as well, and hope after being on it for a few more days the wetness will all together dissapear. So in recap....read the link that ryan supplied...very informative, and if you havent tried the mettamucil go try it....and if your trying it, and not seeing results, try increasing the dose. Of course consult with your doctor just to make sure. I will come back and report after a few more days of being on this mettamucil if in fact it takes care of the leakage alltogether. good luck all