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bowel movements and whey protein shakes

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Dhruv Gupta, MD answered this Whey Protein And Frequent Bowel Movements
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Hello.


I wanted to see if anyone else has had issues with drinking protein shakes. I was drinking the Ensure protein shakes last summer for about a month. I ended up in the hospital due to very low potassium, irregular heart rate and weakness...Was not sure of anyone else had this issue...I want a high protein drink and am now afraid to even try something new.
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Guest

Hi everyone,

I'm a 40yr female and have been using Whey Protein shakes, Whey Protein powders and Protein bars off and on for years and have only experienced gas.  I've started using Pro Performance AMP Amplified Wheybolic Extreme 60 powder mix yesterday and its given me gas and a bubbly stomach. This morning i had blood in my stool.  I'm going to see my dr on Friday but in the mean time, i will monitor myself and stop drinking it.

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jamesofjesus33221579

In the research ive done for a while and personal, get a good brand first.. no cheap c**p. and try to make food with it, not just making shakes....if its the shakes you love though add flax seed oil and google this, it has helped me alot and i love variety myself. you can make cakes and snakes and all kinds of stuff with the powder. Leanbodylifestyle on youtube has cooking ideas for the powder and they are yummy. ive had my shakes and ran for the washroom and dumped the c**p or thrown it up with the bomb in the gut feelings that come with. some flax seed oil and good meals as well, your good. just don't buy c**p powder, everyone is so different and we naturally become lactose intolerant slowly i understand know and you can tune your body with care.. I hope this helps peoples. Blessings
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Clos

The reason why is your body is new to protien in form of a drink so it quickly grabs the good stuff and force the unneeded out ASAP not knowing what it is, sooo for a week or 2 ul experience the runs until ur immune system says sweet u can use this more!! I love farting makes me laugh
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Guest

Hey im 16 turning 17 i started drinking whey protien for about two days the third day i feelt a disturbance in my bowel movments i first strtd with dieherra like symptoms then i exprinced thin stools can someone please explain to me thank you
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Samier

What you do is eat more fibre. You cant just drink all that protein without fibre ?? Lol eat more bannanas! More fruit and veggie, harden up! Same happened to me all i did was eat more FIBRE
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Guest

What I'm wondering is how long your bloody stool last for?

I received some whey protein shake in the mail 2 days ago. I've never used this stuff before. I opened it and it smelled so delicious I tried a glass at 9PM. When I woke up the next morning I had a glass for breakfast.

That afternoon I went to the bathroom, but didn't go #2.. but for some reason I decided to wipe anyway.. there was blood! Alarmed because I'd never had that happen before. That was yesterday. I had a few hours left of work and wiped once or twice more, because my underwear was a little wet.

Today the same problem. Wiping off blood. I had no trouble going #2, though.

I'm windering how long I should wait before going to a doctor.

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Guest

if you get the runnies after protein skates, is the shake a waste of time of does your body gain from the powder?

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Guest


hi, i had the same problem with pains in my foot! ok one day, the next, bang! could hardly walk, the whey protein had jacked up my uric acid levels, causing crystals to form in my foot joints, ( gout!!! ) i stopped the whey protein and the pain went, never had it since! whey protein always gives me diahhrea like the guy above so maybe its connected? who knows.

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Guest

Hi I had the opposite problem..everytime I use Protein shakes the BW after is extremely difficult to pass and it feels like a bowling ball wanting to come out and sometimes there is bleeding, I never get this when I am not drinking the shakes, it feels like trying to pass concrete out the back, the secret is to eat fibre something like Kellogs allbran works for me softens it up and no more pain and difficulty passing!

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Icantstop

Thank goodness I've found this. Just started with Whey Protein powder and I have been in and out of the bathroom all day which has been very difficult with 3 little kids running around the house. I normally do not have a reaction to milk products, but this bein highly concentrated makes sense. Thank you!
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Guest

ok, so in my case, I changed my mass gainer "Mass tech" and started taking Whey protein. That's when I started having red blood on the SURFACE of my stool, and some times some drops. There was also some mucus. Now I'm being disgustingly accurate because everyone's case is different but I hope I can help. I went back to my mass gainer and I still had the blood, the bad gas and the mucus. I did a lot of research, and asked a couple of people ( did not go to a doctor) and some nurses about the case. I came to a conclusion that, due the the stress I had earlier this summer, I started having Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS). The only thing that the protein did was trigger it. The blood is just some turn tissues, so just take it easy when you're in the bathroom. If you don't wanna go to a doctor, then you're just like me and I understand. google it though, see what should change in your diet what kinda treatment out there for you. I hope this was useful.
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Guest

So Ive had blood in my stool after protein powder 4x in the past 2 years.. I would take powder for a week hoping for some serious boost to my muscle gains, and then I would notice blood in my stools, even without straining. I would go off the protein powder and things would slowly return to normal. 4x this happened!! theres a correlation with whey protein powder and blood in poop. Now im starting to think maybe its an overburden of protein in the body. Obviously supplement manufacturers are going to tell you the highesrt possible numbers for protein so that they sell more of this sh*t.
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LEB

I'm actually having the same problem with Soy Protein. Started using it last week and have had terrible diarrhea since. Very frustrating! Has anyone had this problem with Soy Protein?
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sweetcandy28

Omg, this has also happened to me. I'm a woman in my trailer recommend me taking way shape after workout, 1 week now. My stomach hurts so bad I took medication bad decision. I kept going to the bathroom all night long the next morning I had blood in my waste. It was bright red it was very scary I almost went to the emerg!ency room! but I did take our school full of pure aloe vera before 15mins then the protein shake. I made some ginger tea and took it easy throughout the whole day,Thanksgiving is in 24 hours
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