sounds like typical diarrhea to me. you should maybe revel in the fact that it's just once a year? you might want to try and think through what you ate or drank when this happened in the past and stay away from those things. if it totally makes you sad you should talk to your doctor.
wake up with severe nausea and stomach cramps. after having a large unfirm bm the nausea and cramps stop. what is it? . about once a year i get woken up in the middle of the night with severe nausea and stomach cramps. i have to sit on the toilet for hours before any form of relief in the form of a bowel movement comes. the bowel movement is typically large and unfirm (but not diarrhea). once this happens the nausea and stomach cramps stop. i go back to sleep and then get woken up again but it's less severe. the second bm is usually diarrhea. and then i'm better. i'm on no medication. what gives?