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At age 50 am suffering from indigestion and getting difficulty with my bowel. whenever i have the urge to go to the toilet, i hardly deficate.?
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See your physician: While your symptoms are non-specific and can be caused by changes in diet, stress, age and benign causes, given your age, it would be worthwhile seeing your physician if you do not respond to a short course of over-the-counter treatment with an antacid, stool softeners and taking in extra water. You are at an age where screening colonoscopy is recommended to rule out colon cancer.
Answered 3/1/2013
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Win-win: It is a win-win situation for you: you need to have a colonoscopy at age 50 to diagnose any potential colon or rectal polyps/tumors (win). The laxative given to you to prepare your colon for the colonoscopy will clean you out (win).
Answered 2/26/2013
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