My poop is a weird color.....

So for about a week now, every time I have a poop, it's a weird color. Light, light brown.  Almost a taupe color with a hint of yellow to it. I'm looking around my office right now trying to find something that explains the color better.... Hmmmm.  The color of a cardboard box.  So it's pretty light.  I'm usually a dark chocolate pooper. I have no other symptoms that would explain this change in poop color. I am a bit more fatigued this week, but nothing major. I haven't been eating anything in abundance that would change it either.  No new meds. No diahrrea, no constipation. The consistancy isn't different.  If you're still reading this I applaud you :) 

I'm just wondering if anyone here has had this happen?  Any ideas what it might be?  I see my pcp next Tuesday. If it's still like this then, I'll tell him about it. I Googled this and liver/bile/gallbladder stuff came up. 

Bit of a mystery.

Hey Ginny,

I have the pale colored poop also.  I would never have given it a second thought to this,  if you had not post this for us.  this is remarkable.  the website is really good.  I had no idea this color poop would be important. so I wrote it down to tell the doctor.

Thanks

Hester

Post Edited By Moderator (Admin) : 2/6/2009 10:24:06 AM (GMT-7)

lol i just had to read this. im just glad everyone is comfortable talking about things like this, it makes me feel very "at home" to be able to come to you guys with anything.

also i hope that your poop has returned to a normal color. lol my son poops neon green when he eats blue yougurt, its always very funny to hear his reaction!!

okie said...

well I hate to blow your theory but I drink a little coffee with my creamer. Creamer being coffeemate or any other powdered creamer. I go through about 4 HUGE jars a month. Sorry no color changes. Than again everyone is different. You should see what spinach does to me.   hahaha!

You know what's really sick? This topic is getting a huge response. We are a lot sicker than I thought.

love ya

I saw this and joined this site just so that I could pass something on to you Okie. I too used to drink about 4 'vats' (that's the name my husband and I gave to the large cans) of coffeemate a month. I began to experience some strange symptoms just this year (2009). I began to rapidly gain weight no matter how I tried to diet or exercise (I'd been dieting off and on for the past few years) ..and to have slight itching in my hands. I've had allergic reactions before so I recognized the itching. The weight was weird because it felt more like my body was swelling. I couldn't figure out what was going on.

Well long story short..I finally read the label on the 'vat' one day and realized that at 10 calories a teaspoon and 500 teaspoons in a can ..I was consuming 5000 extra calories a week just from the Coffeemate alone. I stopped drinking it..immediately. ..Approximately 2-3 days later I felt 100% better. Within a week I had energy that I hadn't had in years and was visibly shrinking. I began to reform this chest area where just a few days before I'd had nothing but gigantic, swollen cleavage. I could actually put my hand up and feel my chest. I can now reach around and scratch the middle of my back with complete ease. ..And sleep. I can sleep again. I am not obese by any means but I had gained weight (swollen) and my energy level was reduced to an all time low. I had achiness in various parts of my body..all of which began to cease when I gave up the Coffeemate. ..I believe I am allergic to something in it.

This didn't happen overnight. It all started about 2002..when I began to regularly drink coffee at work. My energy level started slipping and I begin to have to work like a demon to keep the weight off. ..That became worse after I married and began to make coffee at home everyday. It reached an apex starting last fall until I stopped having Coffeemate at all during the first week of February (2009). 

The symptoms began very slowly then became worse over time. And just think, if I hadn't become aware of the calories I was consuming by drinking so much of it ..I would never have discovered that what I was experiencing were allergic side effects from it. I consider it poison now. ..If someone drinks only a little ..then, to me, it's like they are taking only a little arsenic. Slow poisoning. .If someone drinks a lot of it..they may be rapidly killing themselves. ...So please be careful with that stuff. ..You may be in for a pretty bad experience down the line.

Post Edited (Ashima) : 2/27/2009 6:25:56 PM (GMT-7)

Poop dilemmas are so much fun to talk about aren't they?!  The likely reason your poop is green and has mucus in it is because there is bile getting into your bowels.  Your liver is doing something funky. I would make an appointment with your family doctor. You can probably get in to see them much faster.  If it's not your liver, then you're eating A LOT of spinach or something!  The mucus is what tipped me off that it's your liver.

It's SUPER common to have an irregular period when you're on high doses of prednisone. No need to worry about that at all. It'll work itself out eventually. For now, be happy you don't have a period!! Woo hoo!  If you're concerned, bring this up with your family doc too.  But it really is extremely common.

Blessings!

Ginny