 [ Symptoms ] i am on medicare i realize that it was cut by 700 billion with the reduced payments to doctors and hospitals how do i know if i am getting the proper care and i have heard that certain procedures will not be covered after a certain age please explain [ Disease ] stress is a well known cause of diarrhea but usually in the acute situation for example before a final examination a student may have the urge to have a bowel movement and the bowel movement may be looser than usual chronic diarrhea is less likely to be caused by stress the relationship between stress and constipation has not been studied much since stress causes most things to be worse it is possible that it also exacerbates constipation or at least the perception of it the major causes of troublesome constipation relate to muscular abnormalities of the colon and rectum and these are not stress related to the best of our knowledge