Hope you get better soon Wha, it aint no fun when the old bowels start to rebel.
I am about to enter a period of similar problems, but mine will be finite, if they emerge at all.
I have just started a course of Anti-biotics, if these are the same ones I took a year or so ago, they are damn sneaky, what you think is just a bit of gas turns out to be incredibally explosive and more substantial than just gas, and there is no delaying getting to the John !
It only lasted for 2 days before, perhaps I'll get away with it this time, but I shall take Billy Connoly's advice and "Never trust a fart".
All the best old buddy !