I am 37 years old and I poop my pants approximately twice per year, always from a fart. I've had perpetual diareah since I was a teenager. I poop many times per day, every poop is an emergency, every poop is liquid. Ive brought it up to multiple physicians and it has gone undiagnosed. Basically sometimes I fart without thinking about it and sometimes more than the fart comes out. I don't have any solutions, I just always have spare underwear and shorts with me anywhere I go.
Agreed, but you need a referal from your primary care provider to see the GI and the primary care guy always says some variation of "Do you drink coffee? Do you drink alcohol? Do you eat spicy foods? Thats why you have diarrhea. No need to see a GI" Ive brought it up every time ive seen a physician for any reason. Different physicians, same response. I even switched from HMO to PPO to try to circumvent the primary care but every GI I called said even though my insurance didnt require me to have a referal, their clinic's policy didnt allow them to book appointments without referalls.
or a naturopath (just throwing it out there... I find specialist MDs to be very narrowly focused and often don't look outside their box to find solutions)