It may be parasitic worms that slow down the circulation of the feces...

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I don't think this is necessarily true. My stools have never come out as hard pellets, or lumpy looking "logs" as I've read is a red flag for impaction.

I also need to mention that before all of the above I was able to go one decent solid "log" nearly daily. I didn't feel fully evacuated, though. Over the past year or so I've had to really start straining to get them started.

So I'll go back to my original question, and add a few more. Is it an impaction? Do i just have a lazy colon and it's possible if I waited a bit longer things would pass more easily?
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The symptoms you describe are similar to what i had a few years ago when i was persuaded by the allopath doctors that i was constipated.

One more time, they were wrong.

From what i learned and experienced, there are two main causes of "constipation" or slow elemination of feces.

The first cause is mechanical, it happens when you eat foods that are sticky or not easily dissolved by the digestive juices (chocolate, cheese, sugar, etc...). One of the purpose of the colon is to absorb water, so at the beginning of the colon (the x area), the feces are liquid, but as the feces travel in the colon, they become drier and drier. Now if the foods you ate were sticky, then the feces at the end of the colon (the stigmoid area) will be dry and sticky. Add to this the fact that most people don't drink enough water and they sleep in a room with not enough fresh air and this produces chronic dehydration. (especially in the colon)
When some feces have hardened too much, sometimes they stay blocked in the colon. That's why you can evacuate feces with a small diameter or small pellets.
This is often the same facts you can observe when you wash your plate after a dinner. Some foods require only a little effort to be dissolved and removed from the plate, however if you don't wash your plate just after the dinner and there are sticky foods on these plates, the next day you'll have to use a lot of warm water and maybe a dissolver to remove the dry sticky foods.

The second cause is a parasitic worms infection like ascaris. These worms can grow up to the diameter of a pencil and 30cm in length. When they are in the colon they can adopt a twirl shape or a ball shape. You can now understand why the circulation of feces can be slowed down by parasitic worms. Also they eat feces which can produces the small pellets you were talking about...

A few years ago, I was so suprised to see such huge Ascaris worms in my feces after having done several high enemas and after having eaten herbs with antiparasitic properties. I wonder how i was able to live with these big worms in me. Seriously it's crazy.
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