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Posted 7/9/2010 5:50 PM (GMT 0)
During today's BMs I have seen a few small cynlindrically shaped objects that looked like rabbit pellets. They were extremely hard. My first two poops were good and very firm, but the last one was softer and I still noticed two of them. Is this a sign of something seriously wrong, or what?
Posted 7/9/2010 6:25 PM (GMT 0)
Can you possibly trace it to anything in your diet.....? Peas, nuts, even bits of fruit....? (I've been having things that shaped - we've had a lot of fruit around this week...)
Or poop-covered pills (thinking of my asacol shells....)....?
Just trying to brainstorm.
My hunch would be that it isn't anything "seriously wrong" but that if this happened in the non-UC population they just likely wouldn't notice.
Keep us posted.
Posted 7/9/2010 6:33 PM (GMT 0)
Well I mashed it and it turned to powder, but it was really hard. They weren't from any one source of food I'm almost certain, in the sense that the small cylinder wasn't just something I swallowed whole.


As a matter of fact, I know my poops smell different especially when they are a little too hard as compared to when they are really soft and not as formed as I'd like. These cylinders smelled strongly like the constipated poos even though they were very tiny in size. (I know I know that's as gross as well, #@$%, but if something is wrong I want to know as much as I can about it.)
Posted 7/9/2010 6:48 PM (GMT 0)
You might just be a little constipated? I know it sounds like fantasy, but it might just be a bit of pellety constipated poop?
Posted 7/9/2010 6:55 PM (GMT 0)
Right, what KC said is the only thing I can think of then.... How many times a day are you going these days; what are your patterns....?
and, if it's hot where you are, are you hydrated enough (would that make a difference? I really don't know....)
Maybe you could raise the amount of Citrucel just a bit for a few days and see what happens.....?
(Just brainstorming...)
Posted 7/9/2010 7:34 PM (GMT 0)
Well I usually go two or three times a day, with the last usually after lunch. Yesterday my last was about 7:40 AM, so it was almost 24 hours before I went again at a little before six this morning, which is a long time for me.

It is also hot where I am, but I'm not outside much. I was at the pool over last weekend and it has been about 90-100 degrees and 100% relative humidity. Maybe that accounts for something.

The only reason I saw it at all is because I noticed a little string of red in a tiny piece that was at the end of my morning BM. I freaked out and picked apart my poop (I usually give it a cursory outer glance only) and found a ton of red stringy things. I freaked at that and decided it was either blood or the sweet potato I had for supper last night. I thought it was blood because it was red, but thought it was sweet potato because it wouldn't absorb into any toilet paper when I placed it on it. Also, didn't know if it would be a brighter red if it were on the inside of the stool. I notice lots of things turn red too, even skin of green veggies like string beans, or sesame seeds. I hope it wasn't blood, I don't think I've ever had blood inside my stool. Got an opinion on that while we're at it??? I'm actually more worried about that than the rabbit pellets.

My point was that maybe those "pellets" are there often, I just don't notice because I've never really dug into the poop itself.

Thanks for the ideas, so much to worry about. I wasn't getting jack done at work and my dad graciously told me to go home and get my mind off my UC and here I am at home still worrying. :(
Posted 7/9/2010 10:50 PM (GMT 0)
How have subsequent poops been?  If it was just a weird one-time thing, I wouldn't worry about it, probably from something you ate, but if you don't eat exactly the same things ever day but the poop still has red stringy stuff in it, I would definitely be wondering what I could be.  (I've noticed a few veggie type things that don't get fully digested, like corn, tomato skins, grapefruit, blueberry skins... that come out looking weird in my poo...)

 

Posted 7/10/2010 12:35 AM (GMT 0)
Interesting, Levi...I've never resorted to picking apart my poo.

If there was powder in whatever that was, I'd lean more towards your medication mixed in food/fibre/fat/mucus stuff.

Does your father know what you do when you're NOT at work??? lol.

I would also suspect you might have some low rectal inflammation hence the constipation and odd smell.

You could up the enemas to nightly .... It says every two nights...have you skipped any?

Up or change the citrucel to maybe metamucil or add that to the mix.

Make sure you get enough water since you may be a bit dehydrated.

q
Posted 7/10/2010 7:47 PM (GMT 0)
I'd guess it was something you ate. Any better today? I'm a poop investigator too. Nothing makes my day like a fantastic poop unfortunately.
Posted 7/10/2010 7:59 PM (GMT 0)
Yeah, he knows, but to your point, no, "looking for blood in my poop" isn't something I leave as a Facebook status.
:)

Today has been better. Absolutely nothing even resembling blood, hopefully it will continue. I went three times, the third time I had an "upset stomach" probably from stressing myself so much yesterday.

I think those cylindrical things might be some of the many supplements I'm taking. Thanks for the replies.
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