Rickajho wrote:
I am so frustrated - and a little freaked out by now. I went through eight days of yellow bowel movements. Solid, but they looked "bloated" or larger than usual. No other symptoms until day nine when my appetite just switched off. Nothing at all is appealing and I have to "force" myself to eat - taste, smell, texture - all of it is a turn off. The same day I lost my appetite I began feeling very tired and sleeping 12 hours. (Still feeling tired and weak.) I didn't eat for an entire day and called my Doctor the next day to get an appointment. He ran some blood tests to check basic liver and pancreas stuff. Then, on day ten, my bowel movements turned orange (Yay! No more yellow. I guess...) and changed to diarrhea. They have been that way four days now.
I have no other symptoms like vomiting. No fever. Maybe mild nausea on occasion, but very little if any. I'm losing weight - five pounds already. And this not eating/total loss of appetite/not wanting to eat is obviously not a good thing. After I'm up for hours my appetite might change to "food doesn't totally repulse me" and then I eat something. But no where near a normal amount of food on any given day. I also seem to feel bloated and unreasonably full in my stomach no matter how little I eat. The results of the tests he ran all came back today in normal ranges - I can see them in my on-line record. But I'm no MD and he won't see the results until he gets to the office on Monday.
Ok, so I know he's done blood tests to check pancreas and liver functions and to a lay person those results all came back in normal ranges. He absolutely doesn't think it would be pancreatic cancer. Where should I got with this discussion with my MD on Monday?
I want a cookie! Or something ANYTHING that might be appealing. Unfortunately, right now I can't think of anything. Sigh...
Rick
When I first originally posted this, I also got sick again 2 months later, and they did a blood test and I had "traces of Mono" (whatver that means). I never got all-out sick. But I am not sure if this was part of the Mono or not. When I went to the doc 2 months later, I had been super tired and getting headaches, just not feeling good at all. Did the doctor test for mono?
Hi.
Thanks for the reply. No, he didn't test for mono. He did some basic liver & pancreas tests and everything came back normal.
Since I first posted the b.m. color was normal for one day. Now it consistently has a greenish/yellow tint to it. It's in the range of normal, but not a normal color for me.
The appetite is back - thank god - but I'm still feeling tired and wiped out. That seems to be cycling up and down, even within the same day.
I don't see this as mono because I have had none of the top tier symptoms for it like a high fever, swollen glands, headaches or a sore throat. I have had no fever at all throughout this.
I see my MD next week for follow up. I will ask, but this doesn't appear to be mono.
I am soooo tired of this.
gmb777 wrote:
Rickajho wrote:
I am so frustrated - and a little freaked out by now. I went through eight days of yellow bowel movements. Solid, but they looked "bloated" or larger than usual. No other symptoms until day nine when my appetite just switched off. Nothing at all is appealing and I have to "force" myself to eat - taste, smell, texture - all of it is a turn off. The same day I lost my appetite I began feeling very tired and sleeping 12 hours. (Still feeling tired and weak.) I didn't eat for an entire day and called my Doctor the next day to get an appointment. He ran some blood tests to check basic liver and pancreas stuff. Then, on day ten, my bowel movements turned orange (Yay! No more yellow. I guess...) and changed to diarrhea. They have been that way four days now.
I have no other symptoms like vomiting. No fever. Maybe mild nausea on occasion, but very little if any. I'm losing weight - five pounds already. And this not eating/total loss of appetite/not wanting to eat is obviously not a good thing. After I'm up for hours my appetite might change to "food doesn't totally repulse me" and then I eat something. But no where near a normal amount of food on any given day. I also seem to feel bloated and unreasonably full in my stomach no matter how little I eat. The results of the tests he ran all came back today in normal ranges - I can see them in my on-line record. But I'm no MD and he won't see the results until he gets to the office on Monday.
Ok, so I know he's done blood tests to check pancreas and liver functions and to a lay person those results all came back in normal ranges. He absolutely doesn't think it would be pancreatic cancer. Where should I got with this discussion with my MD on Monday?
I want a cookie! Or something ANYTHING that might be appealing. Unfortunately, right now I can't think of anything. Sigh...
Rick
When I first originally posted this, I also got sick again 2 months later, and they did a blood test and I had "traces of Mono" (whatver that means). I never got all-out sick. But I am not sure if this was part of the Mono or not. When I went to the doc 2 months later, I had been super tired and getting headaches, just not feeling good at all. Did the doctor test for mono?
Hi.
Thanks for the reply. No, he didn't test for mono. He did some basic liver & pancreas tests and everything came back normal.
Since I first posted the b.m. color was normal for one day. Now it consistently has a greenish/yellow tint to it. It's in the range of normal, but not a normal color for me.
The appetite is back - thank god - but I'm still feeling tired and wiped out. That seems to be cycling up and down, even within the same day.
I don't see this as mono because I have had none of the top tier symptoms for it like a high fever, swollen glands, headaches or a sore throat. I have had no fever at all throughout this.
I see my MD next week for follow up. I will ask, but this doesn't appear to be mono.
I am soooo tired of this.
sounds like a bug, given the severity. the color could indicate that the bile has had insufficient time to settle, giveing the stool its typical brown color. alot of test fail to detect bugs, even when they are full blown.
that said, there is another possibility; actually, ive seen this to be the case a few times with different people. people get low sulfer for alot of reasons like pollution, certain nutrients (like high dose vitamin c, copper, b5) germs (which expend our sulfer reserves) and mostly dietary fat. this one friend of mine had horrible diarrhea with whole milk and not skim, so she ignorantly though she was lactose intolerant. i got her to try some sulfer bearing aminos and in 5 days she could drink whole milk with no diarrhea. when i talk about sulfer, im not talking about msm (which i havent found to have therapeutic value). Im talking about methionine, n-acetyl cysteine, and threonine. my friend took 1500mg methionine, 1800mg n0acetyl cysteine, and 2ooomg threonine per meal and the stool normalized. actually, these nutrients are used to construct bile acids and improve fat absorbtion, so that fat doesnt sit in the gi tract and cause problems. a doctor named don lepore wrote an awesome book that talkes alittle about how to properly manage dietary fat by getting the right nutrients in. basically, when these aminos are low, the body starts reacting bad to fat intake; symptoms include heaviness in the chest, chills, tiredness, and a sore thoat (if you have your tonsils still, which are basically a sack that hold sulfer and let you know if supplies of it are low). we ordered the powders from a site called nutrabio.com since that was the cheapest way to get the stuff. the theory here is that u caught a bug and your body used its supplies that would help metabolize fat to clear the bug, and now you have an ongoing condition. the amino powder test here will give results in 5 days of faithful usage, and even though alot of docs dont consider this, it makes sense when you consider you have a sign of low bile and you are putting the amino acids that comprise bile and act as lypotrophics.
yeah, the gallbladder produces bile which is what we uses to digest fats; actually, people have gallbladder problems all the time, but they typically 'resolve themselves" when the body gets what it needs; there are various techniques to flush the blockage, though i dont recommend them; they work i mean; ***this post is edited by moderator *** *** web
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anyway, about the sulfer/fat relationship. its interesting to note that any kind of virus is going to drastically deplete sulfer. smoking does as well, as does eating large amounts of vitamin c and copper
gmb777 wrote:
For the past four days, something has been wrong with my appetite, stomach, intestines, or something. I have no idea. But all of a sudden, one day I was hungry, but when i tried to eat something, I would lose my appetite. Kind of sounds like an oxymoron, I know, but it's the only way I can describe it. If I don't eat something, naturally my stomach growls and eventually starts to hurt. Then I force myself to eat it (I am very hungry and feel better when there is something in my stomach.) Then after a little while, usually 10-15 minutes, my stomach starts to hurt and I go to the bathroom. I am having yellow stools. I've never had this before. They are actually yellow, and weird looking: not diarrhea or loose bowls, but a mix between normal and loose bowels. Once they're out, I feel much better. But then my stomach eventually starts to hurt again because it's empty, and it all starts over. I can't be anorexic, because I LOVE food, and it just started out of nowhere! I think I am going to the doctor tomorrow, and I wonder if that will even help.
If anyone has any idea at all why this is happening to me, please leave a post!
Did you go to the doctor? What was the outcome? I would definately have this checked out by a doctor. Don't wait. It could be that you picked up a bacteria of some sort that is affecting your stomach or it could be a something more serious. Do get is checked and keep us posted.
Sadly my mother had that - went to the doctor's and was diagnosed with final stage IV liver cancer and she died 4 weeks later. GET TO THE DOCTOR IMMEDIATELY!!!
gmb777 wrote:
After a week of all of it, my stomach finally started to welcome food again (my friends also made sure that I ate). I had lost 5 pounds. Now, I think I have already gained back those five pounds. It has been about a week and a half since i started feeling better. I never went to the doctor because by the time I got a chance to go, I was starting to feel better. So I don't know what was wrong with me. I figure it was some kind of bacteria. My stools were back to normal color, and I had started gaining my appetite back. Now, I am eating again. So it is all good, and nothing happened to me besides losing a few pounds.
i'm having yellow stool,stomach pains,vomiting and lost of appetite,what can i do?
I did *not* have pain or vomiting. If you do you need to get that checked out ASAP. You didn't say where the pain is, but it could be a gall stone blocking a bile duct. That was one of my MD's speculations about what was the source of my symptoms, but "atypical me" didn't have any pain that is usually associated with gall stones. If you have pain and vomiting plus additional symptoms see someone very soon.