I posted this as a reply to a comment below — may be best situated here.
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I, too, am learning to live with a tortuous colon, diagnosed in my last colonoscopy several months ago. I think I can feel where it is bent in a tight switchback because there is one spot in my gut where I feel discomfort and sometimes pain. Sometimes massaging that area seems to relieve the pain/discomfort. I, like many say, am bloated all the time, have tried the low FODMAP diet to little avail, avoid gluten and a lot of dairy because they both seem to bring on severe diarrhea, bloating and pain. I can’t leave the house until after 10AM because I make 3+ trips to the bathroom every morning, usually feeling like less than complete evacuations. I was told that there can be both constipation and diarrhea going on at the same time, some stool gets through but other is hard or impacted. I have tried Miralax and need to go back to it. I had cut the dose to 1/2 capful every few days. It didn’t have a lot of effect but maybe I didn’t use it long enough in that way. The recommended dose was too much. The only thing that gave relief was a RX for a special gut-related anti-biotic after testing positive for an overgrowth in the colon. For about 2 weeks my gut felt normal but the NP would not refill the RX again.