Published on 12, July, 2020
Hi Everyone,
I have a friend who is autistic and he has had gastro-intestinal issues his whole life, or as far back as he can remember anyway and he is awaiting a colonoscopy. I am also autistic and have had my own issues with this too. I have been reading different studies and scientific research online and have found that there may be a link between autism and bowel problems. I know from personal experience that all the autistic people I have encountered in my life have had a lot of bowel and tummy problems from a young age. I wonder if any of you have had a similar experience or have managed to resolve these issues in your self and what tips you may have to ease this? Hopefully more research is done on autism's connection to gastro-intestinal problems instead of research money going towards trying to invent cures using old drugs like Suramin for example.
Hope everyone has a good week.
My digestive system runs too fast. It's been that way since birth. My autistic father is exactly the same. After many many years of trying to train my body to digest a healthy, high fiber diet with no success, and confirming via elimination diets that it's not solely a reaction to any specific food (although there are some triggers which I now avoid) I've designed myself a nutritionally adequate but very bland, starchy, low fiber and low fat diet and eat that every day. It helps a lot, allowing me to only have to use the bathroom about three times a day I still have to take loperamide a few hours before long car journeys, hiking, etc to be on the safe side
too fast digestive system, kinda sounds like diverticulosis maybe.my aunt had that, it got so bad that anything she ate or drank just passed straight through and she was like that for days which was pretty bad.
Symptoms don't match at all (diverticulitis often causes constipation, which I've never in my life experienced, and bleeding) and diverticulitis tends to be something that develops during life and flares up periodically, rather than being consistently present from birth.