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Posted 3/11/2014 3:17 AM (GMT 0)
i've been feeling good for a while now and no UC symptoms.

my sister had to take antibiotics for an infection so i decided to make her some SCD yogurt.

i made some this weekend and the timer was supposed to go off at noon the next day. i thought i set it right and went about my day and night.

the next morning around 9 am, i noticed the timer was off before it should've been. i asked my stepdad if the yogurt maker was still on when he came down at 6 am and he said "no."

i'm guessing we had a power outage at some point and it just turned off.

technically, the yogurt looked "fine" so i put the caps on and refrigerated it. i ate some last night and today i can't stop crapping!! i have no urgency with it but every time i go, it's diarrhea. even just touching my belly, i can hear the water swishing around.

do you think it was the yogurt? i didn't see any mold on it...

anyway, it's annoying and i think i need to take another crap as i'm writing this even though i just went.
Posted 3/11/2014 3:22 AM (GMT 0)
What was your total incubation time supposed to be?
Some yogurts are only incubated for 6 hours...
Posted 3/11/2014 3:33 AM (GMT 0)
24 hours at 110 degrees

i honestly have no clue at what time it turned off. i usually don't look at it after i set it. it set and has the texture of yogurt and actually tastes really good. i haven't had yogurt since last year since i switched to kefir.
Posted 3/11/2014 3:48 AM (GMT 0)
you know jb, i think it's safe to say literally anything can give us the runs
Posted 3/11/2014 3:49 AM (GMT 0)
Well, bad dairy can be horribly upsetting to my GI tract...

One time I bought this fancy milk at Whole Foods, and drank a good amount before going out one evening to a friends. I thought it tasted funny, but figured it was the "fanciness" of the milk, lol. Well... never has my gut gurgled so much or have I been so explosive on that end of things. I got back home that night and found that the milk had chunks in it.

Yuck!!!
Posted 3/11/2014 3:52 AM (GMT 0)
haha liz, you are so right!! it's definitely out of the ordinary for me at the moment so i was surprised and P'OD!!!

thoreau, i know what you mean. i have to work tomorrow and i'm dreading it. i hope i can get it out of my system before then. my yogurt isn't smooth, but it is chunky. i figured that was normal for cow's milk (i usually use coconut milk).
Posted 3/11/2014 3:55 AM (GMT 0)
I don't see why there would be anything wrong with it if the consistency and taste was ok. I do agree with pluot though, anything can give us the runs.
Posted 3/11/2014 3:56 AM (GMT 0)
You'll probably be good by morning, as long as you give yourself a couple tries at the toilet before leaving.
Posted 3/11/2014 4:19 AM (GMT 0)
If there are chunks, it curdled, it didnt culture.
Posted 3/11/2014 4:40 AM (GMT 0)
Pathogen, is curdled milk bad?? Ive seriously been living on the toilet all night. I feel like i have food poisoning. I usuallu have 1 normal poop in the am and its after midnight and my guts are just pouring!!!
Posted 3/11/2014 5:11 AM (GMT 0)
Probably the most logical reason is that it just incubated for a shorter time - let's say 12 hours or less instead of 24 hours... Or whatever the time frame may have been. So there's going to be LOT's of lactose in it.

I know (or am petty darn sure) you've been off milk for some time - and because of all the lactose in it, and I'm guessing you had yourself a decent helping of it. Soooo.... this = the runs! Probably in a major way.

Also what did you use for starter? If it was anything with lacto bacteria in it this can also cause the runs in a big way if your system isn't used to it.

I only say this cause I've been there before, haha...

EDIT: When I make cow's milk or goats milk yogurt I use full fat or ummm 3.5% or even un-homogenized milk. The results is always nice and smooth, even for low fat milk. Chunks or slightly chunky will for sure have you in the can as well... haha. I missed where you said it was chunky! But It won't kill you... or shouldn't ;) Make a new batch and let that one get outa your system. I flushed myself with lot's of water... lot's and lot's and lot's and lot's of water. Seemed to help from what I recall. Was a while ago though.

Post Edited (Canada Mark) : 3/10/2014 11:46:26 PM (GMT-6)

Posted 3/11/2014 8:27 AM (GMT 0)
Yes I had that happen to me where I had a power outage and the yogurt turned out "bad". It was good in itself but the lactose wasn't completely eaten up. I had the worst tummy ache...

Better make a new batch.
Posted 3/11/2014 10:42 AM (GMT 0)
Oh gosh. Thanks mark and andrea!!

Ive lost count of how many trips ive made yo the toilet. Im calling my doc for stool tests in the am or if it gets bad, i will have to call off work and go to the ER.

Its the same yogourmet starter i always use and full fat cows milk.

Andrea, remember a few days ago we talked and i was really nauseous? Do u think i couldve eaten the offending food last week and started really getting the runs yesterday? Ive never had food poisoning so im trying to connect when it started. I keep a food diary thank god.
Posted 3/11/2014 11:13 AM (GMT 0)
I think CanadaMark and Andrina hit the nail on the head...FWIW I have never incubated yogurt longer than 12 hours.

If you are sensitive to lactose, that's probably why you're feeling ill.

Hope it clears out SOON!
Posted 3/11/2014 11:14 AM (GMT 0)
Do you think you got food poisoning? I'm not sure if it would be the yogurt but either way a not fully fermented yogurt (24h) is not good for our tummies. Also it affected me a few hours after as long as I ate it. How long ago did you eat your last yogurt?

When I had food poisoning it took me maybe 2 days until I started noticing it. Do you think you've been eating something bad the last couple of days besides the yogurt?

Everybody is different though. Either way check with your doc and I hope you get better very soon.
Posted 3/11/2014 11:54 AM (GMT 0)
Andrea, i ate the yogurt sunday night and the runs started all day monday. The nausea started last wed/ thurs. I thought maybe i was getting my period but instead its horrendous diarrhea.

My simponi shot is tomorrow and i dont know what to do.

I didnt even mention the best part. When i got home from work last night, my stepdad said the basement was flooding because the pipes are backed up and to be very conservative with the toilet/ sink and no showers. Ahhhhhhh makes me laugh haha
Posted 3/11/2014 1:11 PM (GMT 0)
Could it be related to the car incident? I think we have a bad batch of kefir, I had similar symptoms after I drank some (which was a couple of days after my kids had stomach bugs again). Hope you are feeling better!
Posted 3/11/2014 1:57 PM (GMT 0)
Are you feeling better banana? Figures the pipes are backed up on the day you're not feeling well. Story of my life.
Posted 3/11/2014 4:29 PM (GMT 0)
Thats awfull!...I hope your feeling better soon, and the whole incident has not put you off yogurt permanently!
Posted 3/11/2014 7:27 PM (GMT 0)
there are no words to describe today.

well, maybe... but i can't swear on here.

so had diarrhea all night. at 8 am, i called my gi and asked for stool samples. the nurse said a lot of patients have had a GI bug going around but they would still check me out.

i end up falling asleep around 9 am and wake up at noon. i have a ton of missed calls from my boss around 9 am. apparently, her son is really sick and she needed me to watch him all day and night (13 hour shift). i called her when i woke up and ended up picking him up from her work.

so while all this is happening, the plumber is in the basement and discovers that our pipes are FILLED with used tampons. literally, hundreds. since i don't get a period and my mom is post menopausal, my sister is the culprit. we aren't sure how long she's been doing this but let's just say my step dad is not happy.

anyway, as i'm doing my stool samples in the bathroom, my sister calls and says she got out of school and is waiting at the trolley. i am literally covered in poop. my outfit is so gross from pooping all night and i couldn't shower today. i ended up leaving and getting her and then dropping my samples off. when i'm there, i discover my doc has sent over a ton of blood work (14 vials) so i get that done, too. at this point, i was so dehydrated and hadn't eaten so i'm not even sure how she got blood- took a few tries.

so now i'm at home on this GORGEOUS day and we can't go anywhere cuz eli and i are both sick haha
Posted 3/11/2014 10:17 PM (GMT 0)
Sounds like the worst day ever! Poor you.
Posted 3/11/2014 10:22 PM (GMT 0)
BANANA!

**hugs** xoxoxoxoxo
Posted 3/11/2014 10:34 PM (GMT 0)
You used pasturized milk, right? If there was no mold and it didnt smell bad you should be okay.

Likely you are just reacting to the milk if you havent eaten any dairy in a very very long time even if you arent intolerant, you might have none of the bacteria to digest it.

So sorry you are so sick! It really sucks to have to take care of my own kids when Im sick, much less someone elses ;)
Posted 3/12/2014 1:48 AM (GMT 0)
Sorry you are feeling so bad! I hope they are checking you for c-diff, just in case!
Think positive! You are on Simponi so hopefully even with all the diarrhea, maybe it will protect you from a full blown flare!

Take care!
Posted 3/12/2014 2:33 AM (GMT 0)
mom2toboys, definitely the worst day ever! everything that could go wrong did go wrong. must've been a full moon.

ok, yeah, it was just a carton of organic milk. wasn't expired. i've actually been using it for kefir and it's been fine. i think it was just a bad bout of food poisoning or GI bug from something that i don't know of. my sister has been eating the yogurt with zero gastro issues.

pmedic, i'm delaying my shot til the samples come back but hopefully i will be back to normal tomorrow. i'm gonna pick up some type of probiotic at the store just to help my gut get back into shape. i literally felt like i had drank a colonoscopy prep.

katie, i'm pretty sure if u had been here with me, u would have been laughing like a mad woman. the crap that just kept happening today was too much for any one human haha
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