Hi, @memehatter20, my experience differs somewhat for yours but may give you some added information to evaluate your current situation. My"partial colectomy" in December took a majority of my colon so that my food gets processed almost exclusively by my stomach and small intestine -- small in the sense of the diameter of the tube, not in its length which is considerable. Lacking the ability to cluster digesting food in the collecting colon (instead sending it almost directly to the rectum), my system -- like yours -- features stools of small, soft pieces with gas, although no odor I can detect with my Covid-damaged sense of smell. I too increased my water intake to stabilize my blood pressure and relieve stress on my kidneys and bladder. Martin