Green stool

Hi, just wondering. I had my first flare in December and have been recovering since then. Currently taking 4g oral mesalazine daily and prednisolone foam. If I'm honest, I don't think either medication has helped much but I'm taking them anyway. For most of January, I've been going 1-2 times a day and most stools were yellowish with small amounts of blood. I've started feeling better in the past 7 days (systemically) although my GI symptoms have remained the same. My energy and appetite are improved and I've stopped having fevers.

However in the last two days my stools have been dark green (with small amounts of blood). I've never seen this before. It's not diarrhea. Should I be worried I wish my bowels would just go back to normal.

Post Edited (SuperBowser) : 2/5/2017 6:50:06 PM (GMT-7)

it does sound like food, but could be changes in gut microbe composition.

the blood, not color, is the major concern. it could be form small anal tears or hemorrhoids. if you also get bloody mucus, then you meds are not enough.

If it is not food or iron then perhaps bile, which starts out green.
If too quick a transit time it can stay green.
Old Mike
/www.verywell.com/green-stool-meaning-89207

My sons stool is olive green color, ironically when he is not flaring . It's been like this ever since he started Remicade in September. It's solid, completely formed but olive green. He is on iron supplements so that could be part of the reason. He's had some times when the remicade hasnt worked and he has unformed bloody stool or semi formed brown stool. That's the only time it's not green.

He only has one bowl movement per day on average, fully formed, so I don't think it's due to the food moving too quickly through his GI tract and the bile not absorbing. It definitely could be caused by bile but not because it's moving too fast. For him it seems to be a side effect of the Remicade but he's done very well on it for the most part (except getting each dose to last longer) so I'm not going to worry too much about it now.

It's bile.

Sue

After looking at some pictures online of bile in stool, I don't think that's what my sons issue is. Bile is much brighter/lighter in color and is usually seen in very watery, unformed stool. That's not what my son is having and it doesn't seem like what SuperBowser was describing either.