Irritable Bowel Syndrome & Riding?

[BC2COCyclist]

My DH has terrible gut problems, oscilates between irregularity, then diarrhea, then anal fissures etc. He found an large increase in protein in his diet helped a lot - it was accidental, he was on a weight training regimen and found that his vegetarian diet wasn't providing enough protein for what he was doing, so he got protein powder.

He started taking it and noticed he had to take less of the OTC med he takes twice a day, it has a purple label and it comes in powder format...I forget the name.

Anyway, his diarrhea/anal fissure problems have drastically decreased.

Me, I'm pretty regular, but I did have some anal fissure problems after my C section which were awful! I'm VERY careful to go the minute I feel the urge now. Sometimes, I barely get to finish my morning Cheerios before I have to go poo...it used to annoy me but my DH said that's regularity and it's a good thing.

eta: I was just yapping at DH about this and he said his symptoms are nearly gone, with the protein powder supplementation.