Gerd and IBS? Im rather confused.. btw is light-brown stool colour normal?

I have in the latest 3 years had stomach problems, it started with nausea, loss of appetite and weight. I also have a "thudding" sensation in my upper abdomen its also making me nauseous.. Last winter i was diagnosed with GERD, im on 40mg nexium.. daily.. Last summer to winter i was symptom free?!?! But they came back, and has been with me since.. In general I was able to handle it, i new it was GERD and that calmed me down, but when it returned during the summer something felt off. The symptoms changed, and scared me enough to go see a specialist.

Now a days, symptoms like this are normal.
- A bit nauseous.
- Dissy (often in the evenings)
- In the mornings it feels like the muscles are contracting, but when i get "warm" it helps.
- The stomach is upset in the mornings, a nexium generally calms it down after I'v been awake for a while.
- My stool has changed, at first i regularly pooped once a day, around the same time. Then it changed to 3 times daily.. its formed like small round ones, often 1-7 pices.. this is still the case but now I only go to the restroom every 1 or 2 days.. its also very light-brown ish. This has just started happen recently.. for the last two years my stool has been normal.
- Im also sweating alot in my hands..

With these new symptoms my doc took a stool-test & blood-test everything came back normal here, I didnt mention my light-brown color of the stool to him as I hadn't noticed it yet. Is this a problem? Do anyone else have this? After the tests i he concluded with IBS, he didnt think a colonscopy was necessary due to me not beeing in the risk-group of (cancer etc) cause of my age (20). He said i had to change my diet and find out whats working and whats not...

The problem is that i cant find a link, i can drink soda.. i can eat almost every food, sometimes my stomach gets upset.. sometimes it dont, on the same type of food. There is no system! (Or i cant find it).. I tried no fibre, i tried with fibre.. the results is the same...

I'm kind of scared right now, i dont feel IBS is the right diagnosis for me.. can anyone familiar themselves with my symptoms? And on top of that its the GERD.. its also worth mention that I dont eat much right now, due to the lack of lost appetite... could this affect my stool color? 5th of December I'm scheduled for a ultrasound scan of my stomach.. to check inner organs, its almost like I hope they find something.. because i cant get a hang of this... i cant figure out the system.. and i dont know how to handle it.



I dont really know what i want with this post.. an input if u guys does familiar with some of the symptoms? Do you think this could be IBS like the doc seems to think?

Sorry for the bad English

Yeah, the tought has passed my mind. But still i cant make sense of it, maybe your right on the water part. But its been like this for 2-3 months now, and in these 3 months I'v had periods with a bigger intake, and that should have done the trick. Right now i know i dont get enough fiber, I'm trying without it to see if the IBS improves (as others says). But until last week a normal day would consist of brown bread for breakfast, a solid dinner with chicken and vegetables (wok).. so it should be enough fiber there? I thought I should try some prunes.. just to kickstart the stomach!

Thanks for the reply btw ;)

Watched a segment on Dr. Oz the other day, he was addressing bm output and urine output. He had two tables set up and had samples of both (simulated of course).

For stool, he had 5 colors, light brown indicated a problem with your gall bladder and too much bile being dumped into your GI tract. OP, check with your doctor, ask if there's an indication your GB isn't functioning as it should. I myself had "hundreds" of gall stones during a pre-op cat scan procedure, while under anesthesia, my surgeon decided to remove my gall bladder when he did my colon resection (for cancer). He implied, losing your GB is no big deal.

Turns out it is a big deal sometimes, I experience light brown stool and blow out sessions (dumping sessions).

I am now on cholestryamine powder each night to absorb my bile. Is it working? Yes and no. It hasn't been the cure all I hoped it would be but I'm sticking with it for now.

If you have access to Dr. Oz's episodes, search for the one he explains both stool and urine output, what each color suggests. It was very interesting.