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sbharley
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Posted 1/29/2014 4:13 PM (GMT 0)
Has anyone experienced a change is stool color post surgery, specifically a pale or yellowish color compared to our customary brown color. Don't want to read into anything, but since my 8 January procedure, my stools returned to normal 3 days post surgery, but have been consistently and uncharacteristically pale. Could be a combination of diet, or residual antibiotics, pain meds, etc... Thanks in advance... Sb
Steve n Dallas
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Posted 1/29/2014 4:19 PM (GMT 0)
The stool color should be unrelated... There are tons of charts on the internet like this one:
www.puristat.com/constipation/bowelcolor.aspx
Mr.Toad
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Posted 1/29/2014 4:24 PM (GMT 0)
Are you using a stool softener? If so that could easily be it.
sbharley
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Posted 1/29/2014 4:33 PM (GMT 0)
Thank you Steve, checked them already. Hope to attribute this to dehydration. Have been pissed, literally, with the incontinence I'm experiencing for 2 weeks since my catheter removal. I've, cut down on my liquid intake purposely. Stopped my customary 4 to 5 daily cups of coffee too! Going to step it up now, and deal with the dripping... Just came out of prostate cancer surgery, don't want to hear about
pancreatic cancer too, which this is one of the indicators... Incontinence would pale in comparison to that... Stepping up the liquid intake! Sb
142
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Posted 1/29/2014 4:42 PM (GMT 0)
All of those things. I see it happen when I have to do enemas and after my colonoscopy.
sbharley
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Posted 1/29/2014 5:08 PM (GMT 0)
Thank you 142, at this point, I'm sure I'm being way too speculative right now. Have had this type of discoloration a handful of times over my 52 years, amongst other colorations!... Always cleared up... Just have the "C word" jitters right now after this episode. I knew I would get prostate cancer eventually, Dad, and his two younger brothers are all in this fraternity. They were all diagnosed in their mid 60's, I'll attribute my diagnosis to early detection and through being pro active since I was 40. Hydrating now, and treating myself to a cup of caffeinated coffee, after a week. Can't harm the incontinence too much! Sb
sbharley
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Posted 1/29/2014 5:17 PM (GMT 0)
Well, just an additional side note, my Grandfather, my Dad's Father, died of pancreatic cancer. Never knew this, at age 53 in the early 1960's... Now I'll really be watching my stool color...
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