Could sleeping pills cause my symptoms?

[SomeRandomDude]

Ah, right after I say I've gotten better and i'm not panicking. My symptoms come back with a vengeance.

I just used used the bathroom, and felt like I had diarrhea again. But the stool didn't look like diarrhea. they were all solid stools. But were all broken into chunks (God I feel so awkward talking about this as it is ) and there were tiny flakes in the bowl.

I said when this all started that I wasn't afraid of anything serious like colon cancer. But at this point i'm honestly terrified, I just want all this to be over. Could sleeping medication be a contributor to this? I've been trying to get off sleep medication the last few days, and while I had a terrible time trying to get to sleep. I did feellike I was slowly getting better.

But last night, a severe thunderstorm was causing me stress while I was trying to sleep so I took sleep aids. And the day after is when this happened. I don't know what to do at this point. I think I need to see a doctor. But I don't know how to explain all this to my relatives, who admittedly were In the dark about all this since they advised me to take stool softeners. You guys have kept me calm about this since it all started, and i'm grateful for stumbling across this site. But i'm really scared about all this. It's been what a month? Since my first post, and symptoms have been all over the place.

 

[Cuchculan]

Hard, dry stools are the result of the colon absorbing too much water. When the colon's muscle contractions are slow or sluggish, the stool moves through the colon too slowly, resulting in too much water being absorbed. It can be caused by certain types of medication. Just see how often it happens. If it is regular, we will know it is the medication.