A cure???

Time for some embarrassing medical issues, a few years ago, I noticed some issues with my bowels... basically, a lack of regularity, and timing issues. I went from being a normal poo in the morning person to, 2 or 3 poos at semi random times... 
Not the most unusual of things in old fat jocks with a liking for fried fast food.. But I did notice in my 50's a lot more urgency to get to the loo...and on 1 occasion some unpleasant consequences to finding the train station loo closed......oh yes, had to do the waddle of shame to get home...

Now... like most old farts I didn't really do anything about this, didn't go to the docs, even when the urgency of needing to go went from being, when you get home go to the loo, to, you're going to shit yourself in 3...2.......

Then I had a an episode where I had severe pain and felt very ill, and went to the docs, who did that palpation of my tummy trick which just about knocked me out from the pain..... I had a problem... and was hospitalized. Where they discovered I was having an episode of Diverticulitis... basically an infection in my bowl that could have turned very nasty... 

The primary cause was an undiagnosed underlying condition called Diverticulosis... you can look it up, but basically there are malformations of my bowl resulting in little thin pockets forming in my gut, and can from time to time pop or otherwise become infected, leading to the Diverticulitis.

This... explained my irregular bowel movements, my gut has issues moving things down to the colon, which means the regularity and consistency of my bowel movements is highly variable.

Ok so I got an issue, the problem is there's really no cure for it.. Other than taking drugs like Loperamide (Imodium ) to shut your bowels down, which has knock on issues and can give you constipation if you do this a few days in a row... also not nice as struggling to poo can make the diverticulosis worse.....

But for the most part I have managed this for a few years, taking Imodium when I know I have to be out and about for a few hours, and trying hard to stay at home the next day, or 2, not taking any, knowing when the Imodium wears off, and I can get access to the loo. But this is rather restrictive.

Now... there are of course contributing factors to this, my weight and my diet being the 2 biggest things I have some control over.

I'm afraid I have been very bad at managing my weight, and I'm surrounded by so much wonderful food in Thailand, but a lot of it is low fibre, when I need a high fibre diet.

I tried various granola/cereals but they have the opposite effect on me, providing loose movements, and the added random 3,2, 1 go... problem.

So to the point... I think I have discovered something, though only a few weeks into it. I tried to do a bit of a fasting diet... and don't eat now until around 5. And.... I've noticed there's a direct connection to my eating and an hour or 2 later...needing to go.

Basically if I don't eat, I don't shit...... which is a perfect, but impractical result... it sounds more obvious than it is, but there's sound reasons behind this.. my system kinda shuts down when there's nothing to digest, but when  there's  food to be processed, my digestive system kicks in, but starts with initiating the clear some space now protocol, which is causing most of my issues.

If I don't eat in the mornings, I seem to be ok for the rest of the day, after I eat however, all bets are off....But that gives me some margin of control when I can be at home/near a loo.

Lets see how it goes?

Ahthankyew