Today I noticed these exact same light orange bean shaped masses in with my stool. I just had back surgery a few weeks ago and have been on all kinds of medications for pain, anti-inflaamtaory, etc... so I thought it was that but it seems most people here take Metformin which I do too and have for over a year and have never had this. But I take a generic one and I noticced that the manufacturer changed on my bottle I picked up 2 days ago. The mfg is Teva. Is that one anyone else is taking?
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I also take Metformin for type 2 diabetes (started 6 months ago) and I have been normally having diarreah and there has been clear jelly bean looking objects floating in my toilet after I defficate. Seems one person thinks they are un desolved pills, but another person said they are fecal fat. Should we collect a sample and send to the doctor?
I tend to think they are the metformin tabs because one day I saw three and another day I saw 1, but they looked a bit bigger than the pills, but could be bloated from being in liquid. Anyone else have pictures to see if they are the same things?
I tend to think they are the metformin tabs because one day I saw three and another day I saw 1, but they looked a bit bigger than the pills, but could be bloated from being in liquid. Anyone else have pictures to see if they are the same things?
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Thank you to you all for posting this information!
I, too, experienced one of these egg-like forms in my stool last night. It was Saturday night. My husband is a doctor and he has been wracking his brain all day too... I've saved the egg and we were going to take it to the lab in the morning...until we read this.
I'm 20 weeks pregnant. I'm taking DHA Extract for my prenatal vitamins with a metamucil drink every morning.
I just dropped one of those pills into a glass of water and within minutes it looks JUST LIKE what I found in my stool. Apparently, I'm processing too quickly for my system to break it down.
I am so relieved. I just had some tears of relief.
THANK YOU.
I, too, experienced one of these egg-like forms in my stool last night. It was Saturday night. My husband is a doctor and he has been wracking his brain all day too... I've saved the egg and we were going to take it to the lab in the morning...until we read this.
I'm 20 weeks pregnant. I'm taking DHA Extract for my prenatal vitamins with a metamucil drink every morning.
I just dropped one of those pills into a glass of water and within minutes it looks JUST LIKE what I found in my stool. Apparently, I'm processing too quickly for my system to break it down.
I am so relieved. I just had some tears of relief.
THANK YOU.
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Hello All,
My wife just posted here regarding the DHA capsule that passed through her stool. Yes it looked like a small bird egg. We placed one of her capsules in water and within 1/2 an hour it looked exactly like the capsule that passed through her stool. I see some posts here that refer to metformin. The most common side effect of metformin is gastrointestinal complications specifically loose stool. This occurs because the medication increases how quickly things move through the intestine. I believe this happened to my wife also because she takes her DHA with a fiber suplement that also increases transit time in the intestine. We hope this puts everyones' mind at ease. If you doubt if this is the problem for you then just take whatever capsules you are using and put them in a glass of water and watch what happens. While there are parasites that can pass in the stool and also eggs they simply don't look like bird eggs. I admit I was puzzled when I saw it but I can assure you we found the source of the problem. There is a good reason doctors and labs can't give you answers and that is because it is not an infestation of any kind. I was probably golfing that day in medical school when they taught us about supplements and their complications. lol.
Dr Gregory Bode
Board Certified in Family Medicine
My wife just posted here regarding the DHA capsule that passed through her stool. Yes it looked like a small bird egg. We placed one of her capsules in water and within 1/2 an hour it looked exactly like the capsule that passed through her stool. I see some posts here that refer to metformin. The most common side effect of metformin is gastrointestinal complications specifically loose stool. This occurs because the medication increases how quickly things move through the intestine. I believe this happened to my wife also because she takes her DHA with a fiber suplement that also increases transit time in the intestine. We hope this puts everyones' mind at ease. If you doubt if this is the problem for you then just take whatever capsules you are using and put them in a glass of water and watch what happens. While there are parasites that can pass in the stool and also eggs they simply don't look like bird eggs. I admit I was puzzled when I saw it but I can assure you we found the source of the problem. There is a good reason doctors and labs can't give you answers and that is because it is not an infestation of any kind. I was probably golfing that day in medical school when they taught us about supplements and their complications. lol.
Dr Gregory Bode
Board Certified in Family Medicine
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I'm not on any form of medications and have had them ( circular hot pink objects with white curd inside with foul smell ) for over three years...it's just fatty deposits or fatty tissues not digesting properly and is nothing to worry about. Eat more fiber and veggies then they'll go away. Or a Gluten free diet may help. I've seen 7 doctors about this in 3 years....and not one had a different diagnosis.
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*I'm really sorry if this doesn't help you, but I'm hoping it does! I'm trying to share my story with people who are having similar problems. My life has changed so much since I found out what was wrong!*
Here is the problem I have been having: cramping, nausea, diarrhea, and vomiting, followed passing small (one inch x one half inch) pod-like (chicklet-shaped, bean-shaped) objects in my stool, which always float and are filled with a white, powdery substance.
I would get very dizzy and nauseated, followed by very intense stomach cramps. Then I would have explosive diarrhea, almost completely liquid. It had a very strange musty smell, almost like mold or mildew. Really, really weird. This kind of thing kept happening. One night it was really bad and I was in the bathroom for hours. Then I started vomiting. The vomiting was the most violent I’ve ever experienced. It was awful.
That is when I saw them. Bright red pod-looking objects in the toilet. There were 2 or 3 of them, and they were about an inch long, a half inch wide, and a quarter inch thick. Kind of chicklet-shaped.
The outside of the pods varied in color. I rarely saw red ones after the really severe bout of vomiting. By this time I had seen white, orange, yellow, and even green ones. I saved one for the doctor’s office, then cut open the other one, scared to death of what I might find. The outside of it was soft and kind of see-through, like the consistency of a gummy bear. I saw that inside was a white powdery substance. And it looked like it was dry, as if the pod was completely sealed as I passed it! That freaked me out even more.
I told 2 doctors and my allergist. They looked at me like I was nuts and told me it was probably a pill casing, or some kind of intestinal problem. Finally, I saved a couple of the pods. I had never really examined one before, and I was horrified that it might have some kind of eggs or something in it. I mean, at this point, what could it be but some kind of parasite??
I brought the pod to my doc in a stool-sample container they had given me and asked them to please send it for testing. They did. The result? Negative. Um, WHAT?? Negative for what?? What IS it?? That’s all they could tell me. They couldn’t tell me what material it was or what was in it.
A few months ago, through some variation of gross keywords, I found a blog in which people were talking about the same symptoms, desperately searching for answers from one another!! (https://www.steadyhealth.com/strange_spongy_white_object_in_stool_t127457.html)
I was so relieved that I started to cry at my computer.
At that point, I was pretty convinced it was something really terrible. Something incurable, that I would probably have to deal with until whatever-it-was killed me. The blog was the first thing I found that even remotely described what I was dealing with. But everyone was as scared as I was, or even more scared, and there weren’t really any answers. I read about people going to doctor after doctor and getting no answers. Some even got colonoscopies and CT scans, others had been to ER several times. I read and read, and followed many scary leads and links until I finally found one that made sense.
It was a link to the Google Book Search Page for the book Diseases of Infancy and Childhood by Luther Emmett Holt, John Howland, specifically a section called: “Curds” in the Stools.
The undigested masses appearing in the stools of infants taking milk are usually spoken of as “curds.” These may be small, soft and white, and may make up a large part of the loose stool. An excess of mucous is usually present. [This was true with me too!] Such masses are composed almost entirely of fat. There are also seen, but much less frequently, larger smooth hard masses of a yellowish-brown color, but white on section. They are usually present in small numbers in a stool, the rest of which might be quite normal. These hard or “bean curds,” so called for their resemblance to lima beans, are composed chiefly of protein, usually with an envelope of fat. They are undoubtedly formed in the stomach, where the casein coagulates in masses, some of which are so firm and hard that they pass the intestine without being digested. Curds of this description are rarely seen unless proportion of casein in the food is high.
Curds of the first variety, if numerous, call for a considerable reduction in the amount of fat. The large, smooth, hard curds, if numerous and persistent, may usually be made to disappear by boiling the milk. This causes the precipitation of the casein to occur in smaller masses which are more readily attacked by the gastric and intestinal secretions.
Here are more Google links leading to other sources I found that discuss casein curds (casein coagula). They, like the first source I cited, are written in the context of occurrence in infants in children. (I am still looking for data about this issue in adults.)
Continued in my next post …
Here is the problem I have been having: cramping, nausea, diarrhea, and vomiting, followed passing small (one inch x one half inch) pod-like (chicklet-shaped, bean-shaped) objects in my stool, which always float and are filled with a white, powdery substance.
I would get very dizzy and nauseated, followed by very intense stomach cramps. Then I would have explosive diarrhea, almost completely liquid. It had a very strange musty smell, almost like mold or mildew. Really, really weird. This kind of thing kept happening. One night it was really bad and I was in the bathroom for hours. Then I started vomiting. The vomiting was the most violent I’ve ever experienced. It was awful.
That is when I saw them. Bright red pod-looking objects in the toilet. There were 2 or 3 of them, and they were about an inch long, a half inch wide, and a quarter inch thick. Kind of chicklet-shaped.
The outside of the pods varied in color. I rarely saw red ones after the really severe bout of vomiting. By this time I had seen white, orange, yellow, and even green ones. I saved one for the doctor’s office, then cut open the other one, scared to death of what I might find. The outside of it was soft and kind of see-through, like the consistency of a gummy bear. I saw that inside was a white powdery substance. And it looked like it was dry, as if the pod was completely sealed as I passed it! That freaked me out even more.
I told 2 doctors and my allergist. They looked at me like I was nuts and told me it was probably a pill casing, or some kind of intestinal problem. Finally, I saved a couple of the pods. I had never really examined one before, and I was horrified that it might have some kind of eggs or something in it. I mean, at this point, what could it be but some kind of parasite??
I brought the pod to my doc in a stool-sample container they had given me and asked them to please send it for testing. They did. The result? Negative. Um, WHAT?? Negative for what?? What IS it?? That’s all they could tell me. They couldn’t tell me what material it was or what was in it.
A few months ago, through some variation of gross keywords, I found a blog in which people were talking about the same symptoms, desperately searching for answers from one another!! (https://www.steadyhealth.com/strange_spongy_white_object_in_stool_t127457.html)
I was so relieved that I started to cry at my computer.
At that point, I was pretty convinced it was something really terrible. Something incurable, that I would probably have to deal with until whatever-it-was killed me. The blog was the first thing I found that even remotely described what I was dealing with. But everyone was as scared as I was, or even more scared, and there weren’t really any answers. I read about people going to doctor after doctor and getting no answers. Some even got colonoscopies and CT scans, others had been to ER several times. I read and read, and followed many scary leads and links until I finally found one that made sense.
It was a link to the Google Book Search Page for the book Diseases of Infancy and Childhood by Luther Emmett Holt, John Howland, specifically a section called: “Curds” in the Stools.
The undigested masses appearing in the stools of infants taking milk are usually spoken of as “curds.” These may be small, soft and white, and may make up a large part of the loose stool. An excess of mucous is usually present. [This was true with me too!] Such masses are composed almost entirely of fat. There are also seen, but much less frequently, larger smooth hard masses of a yellowish-brown color, but white on section. They are usually present in small numbers in a stool, the rest of which might be quite normal. These hard or “bean curds,” so called for their resemblance to lima beans, are composed chiefly of protein, usually with an envelope of fat. They are undoubtedly formed in the stomach, where the casein coagulates in masses, some of which are so firm and hard that they pass the intestine without being digested. Curds of this description are rarely seen unless proportion of casein in the food is high.
Curds of the first variety, if numerous, call for a considerable reduction in the amount of fat. The large, smooth, hard curds, if numerous and persistent, may usually be made to disappear by boiling the milk. This causes the precipitation of the casein to occur in smaller masses which are more readily attacked by the gastric and intestinal secretions.
Here are more Google links leading to other sources I found that discuss casein curds (casein coagula). They, like the first source I cited, are written in the context of occurrence in infants in children. (I am still looking for data about this issue in adults.)
Continued in my next post …
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I have had a milk “allergy” since I was a child. Doctors told me that I was not lactose intolerant; I was allergic to milk. In fact, before I was diagnosed with the allergy, I would get so sick that I would wind up in the hospital, completely emaciated from not keeping any food down. And of course, my parents and my doctors were feeding me dairy to build my system back up, wondering why I could not get well.
Yet, when I had allergy testing done just earlier this year (the first time I’ve had it done as an adult), I tested negative for milk allergies! I made them try it again at a higher concentration. Still, nothing. My allergist told me that dairy issues were commonly misdiagnosed, and that my issues sounded more digestive then allergy-related.
I’ll be honest, I am still not clear on the difference between milk allergy and food intolerance and food sensitivity. But since I showed no allergic reaction to milk or casein, I definitely feel that “allergy” is the wrong word to describe what I have. From what I’ve read, allergic reactions tend to occur pretty quickly after you eat and tend to be severe, while the intolerance/sensitivities tend to occur during the digestive process. (After you eat, it takes about six to eight hours for food to pass through your stomach and small intestine, but complete elimination from the body typically takes 24-72 hours.) But I’ve also read that having allergies can lead to the digestive problems, so it goes round and round. And these issues are so often misdiagnosed so who knows WHAT we really have. We have to be our own detectives.
Here is an awesome site that discusses allergies/intolerance:
And here is a study about casein and milk allergies:
I found it very interesting that, in the first blog I found, many of the people afflicted by this didn’t drink milk or didn’t “do dairy at all.” That suggests that they have had problems with milk in the past, just as I have. But little did they (or I) know that avoiding dairy does not mean you are avoiding casein.
Following are some things I learned about good ol’ casein.
CASEIN
(kāˈsēn)
Well-defined group of proteins found in milk, constituting about 80% of the proteins in cow's milk, but only 40% in human milk. Casein is a remarkably efficient nutrient, supplying not only essential amino acids, but also some carbohydrates and the inorganic elements calcium and phosphorus. The calcium caseinates form an insoluble white curd when acidified by hydrochloric acid or sulfuric acid, or when milk is soured by bacterial contaminants. Acid casein is used widely in cheese, adhesives, water paints, for coating paper, and in printing textiles and wallpaper. In neutral solutions the enzyme rennin converts one of the caseins to an insoluble curd; most of the protein in cheese is rennet casein curd. When treated with formaldehyde the curd forms casein plastic, used for manufacturing imitation tortoiseshell, jade, and lapis lazuli.
(The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition Copyright© 2004)
The Wikipedia entry on casein: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casein.
Okay, so now I knew a little bit about casein. I started to wonder why this started happening to me after I moved to TX. It had never happened before that (unless some pods went unnoticed, which is possible, but certainly it hadn’t gotten as extreme as it got here). I began to realize that my diet became a lot different here in the South. I had never had much Mexican food before but I found that I really liked it. I knew that cheese bothered me but I have always just dealt with that and had it in limited doses. I expect some discomfort and gas when I have dairy, so when I splurged, I made sure I was hanging out by myself that night. But what could have prompted such an extreme response?
Casein is a protein found in milk, but it is used in LOTS of other processed foods. It is often listed as sodium caseinate, calcium caseinate, or milk protein, whey, whey protein concentrate, and many more. The biggest and baddest source of casein (in my experience) is called Milk Protein Concentrate (MPC). This is basically the heroin of casein!! I read about it as my casein research linked to more and more articles.
You can find these casein proteins in food that is creamy. Scientists have isolated the specific proteins that give foods a creamy, dairy-like consistency. So when people buy “fake” cheese, they are actually getting those concentrated proteins. What was I buying late night in the grocery store? Kraft singles. Poison for me. Velveeta? Poison for me. QUESO (oh no!!)? Yup, definitely poison for me. Never, before I moved, had I ingested so much CONCENTRATED casein! I could always handle fresh dairy like small amounts of milk and tiny amounts of fresh cheeses now and then, but the concentrated proteins tear me up.
Here are some disturbing articles about the controversial use of MPC. Granted, the source is Family Farm Defenders, who are very biased, so use your own judgment. They slam Kraft products pretty bad. But I can testify that Kraft products make me sicker than just about anything else (Kraft Singles, Velveeta, and Kraft salad dressings).
And here’s another anti-MPC article:
Some more casein-containing foods that surprised me were: salad dressings (Not just the thick ones either! Creamy Italian used to be my fave but that can be chock full of it!), cheese flavored chips (Doritos, I will always remember you…), protein shakes and “health” drinks (watch out for these!! Slim-fast, Ensure, and a lot of protein body-building drinks are really packed with milk proteins. For those without this sensitivity, it is good protein. For the rest of us, not so much.), etc.
I really recommend reading this page for some info about where casein may be hiding:
Casein is also known for breaking down into casomorphins, which can have an opiate-like effect on the body. Hence, comfort foods!! A lot of fast food chains have been accused of using caseins intentionally for this purpose, profiting from the good feelings (and literally addictive qualities) of caseins.
Here’s an article that addresses this and other casein issues:
I have also noticed that many of my worst reactions have occurred around days that I drank beer. I read in couple of the resources that when you have intolerance and sensitivity, any extra strain on your digestive system can make your problems worse. Since alcohol wreaks havoc on even normal digestive systems, it’s a good idea limit your alcohol intake if you’ve had foods you shouldn’t have had, or vice versa. You will be sorry if you don’t.
I am still looking for info and modifying my diet as I find MORE things with casein. Ugh. It is crazy how much of it I was ingesting before. No wonder I couldn’t isolate what was bothering me. It was basically everything I ate! But knowing is way more than half the battle. Way more. I can’t possibly provide every piece of info that exists about casein and this health issue. So please research on your own. Please. For your issues, all this could be completely off base. But all I can tell you is what makes sense to me. And removing casein from my diet (or minimizing it, at least) has improved my life SO much!
So good luck!!
~The Caseinator~
Yet, when I had allergy testing done just earlier this year (the first time I’ve had it done as an adult), I tested negative for milk allergies! I made them try it again at a higher concentration. Still, nothing. My allergist told me that dairy issues were commonly misdiagnosed, and that my issues sounded more digestive then allergy-related.
I’ll be honest, I am still not clear on the difference between milk allergy and food intolerance and food sensitivity. But since I showed no allergic reaction to milk or casein, I definitely feel that “allergy” is the wrong word to describe what I have. From what I’ve read, allergic reactions tend to occur pretty quickly after you eat and tend to be severe, while the intolerance/sensitivities tend to occur during the digestive process. (After you eat, it takes about six to eight hours for food to pass through your stomach and small intestine, but complete elimination from the body typically takes 24-72 hours.) But I’ve also read that having allergies can lead to the digestive problems, so it goes round and round. And these issues are so often misdiagnosed so who knows WHAT we really have. We have to be our own detectives.
Here is an awesome site that discusses allergies/intolerance:
And here is a study about casein and milk allergies:
I found it very interesting that, in the first blog I found, many of the people afflicted by this didn’t drink milk or didn’t “do dairy at all.” That suggests that they have had problems with milk in the past, just as I have. But little did they (or I) know that avoiding dairy does not mean you are avoiding casein.
Following are some things I learned about good ol’ casein.
CASEIN
(kāˈsēn)
Well-defined group of proteins found in milk, constituting about 80% of the proteins in cow's milk, but only 40% in human milk. Casein is a remarkably efficient nutrient, supplying not only essential amino acids, but also some carbohydrates and the inorganic elements calcium and phosphorus. The calcium caseinates form an insoluble white curd when acidified by hydrochloric acid or sulfuric acid, or when milk is soured by bacterial contaminants. Acid casein is used widely in cheese, adhesives, water paints, for coating paper, and in printing textiles and wallpaper. In neutral solutions the enzyme rennin converts one of the caseins to an insoluble curd; most of the protein in cheese is rennet casein curd. When treated with formaldehyde the curd forms casein plastic, used for manufacturing imitation tortoiseshell, jade, and lapis lazuli.
(The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition Copyright© 2004)
The Wikipedia entry on casein: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casein.
Okay, so now I knew a little bit about casein. I started to wonder why this started happening to me after I moved to TX. It had never happened before that (unless some pods went unnoticed, which is possible, but certainly it hadn’t gotten as extreme as it got here). I began to realize that my diet became a lot different here in the South. I had never had much Mexican food before but I found that I really liked it. I knew that cheese bothered me but I have always just dealt with that and had it in limited doses. I expect some discomfort and gas when I have dairy, so when I splurged, I made sure I was hanging out by myself that night. But what could have prompted such an extreme response?
Casein is a protein found in milk, but it is used in LOTS of other processed foods. It is often listed as sodium caseinate, calcium caseinate, or milk protein, whey, whey protein concentrate, and many more. The biggest and baddest source of casein (in my experience) is called Milk Protein Concentrate (MPC). This is basically the heroin of casein!! I read about it as my casein research linked to more and more articles.
You can find these casein proteins in food that is creamy. Scientists have isolated the specific proteins that give foods a creamy, dairy-like consistency. So when people buy “fake” cheese, they are actually getting those concentrated proteins. What was I buying late night in the grocery store? Kraft singles. Poison for me. Velveeta? Poison for me. QUESO (oh no!!)? Yup, definitely poison for me. Never, before I moved, had I ingested so much CONCENTRATED casein! I could always handle fresh dairy like small amounts of milk and tiny amounts of fresh cheeses now and then, but the concentrated proteins tear me up.
Here are some disturbing articles about the controversial use of MPC. Granted, the source is Family Farm Defenders, who are very biased, so use your own judgment. They slam Kraft products pretty bad. But I can testify that Kraft products make me sicker than just about anything else (Kraft Singles, Velveeta, and Kraft salad dressings).
And here’s another anti-MPC article:
Some more casein-containing foods that surprised me were: salad dressings (Not just the thick ones either! Creamy Italian used to be my fave but that can be chock full of it!), cheese flavored chips (Doritos, I will always remember you…), protein shakes and “health” drinks (watch out for these!! Slim-fast, Ensure, and a lot of protein body-building drinks are really packed with milk proteins. For those without this sensitivity, it is good protein. For the rest of us, not so much.), etc.
I really recommend reading this page for some info about where casein may be hiding:
Casein is also known for breaking down into casomorphins, which can have an opiate-like effect on the body. Hence, comfort foods!! A lot of fast food chains have been accused of using caseins intentionally for this purpose, profiting from the good feelings (and literally addictive qualities) of caseins.
Here’s an article that addresses this and other casein issues:
I have also noticed that many of my worst reactions have occurred around days that I drank beer. I read in couple of the resources that when you have intolerance and sensitivity, any extra strain on your digestive system can make your problems worse. Since alcohol wreaks havoc on even normal digestive systems, it’s a good idea limit your alcohol intake if you’ve had foods you shouldn’t have had, or vice versa. You will be sorry if you don’t.
I am still looking for info and modifying my diet as I find MORE things with casein. Ugh. It is crazy how much of it I was ingesting before. No wonder I couldn’t isolate what was bothering me. It was basically everything I ate! But knowing is way more than half the battle. Way more. I can’t possibly provide every piece of info that exists about casein and this health issue. So please research on your own. Please. For your issues, all this could be completely off base. But all I can tell you is what makes sense to me. And removing casein from my diet (or minimizing it, at least) has improved my life SO much!
So good luck!!
~The Caseinator~
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Nice to find this thread. Most guys here seem to using the SR formulations that are giving the white floating balls. I do not use any medication. I consume about 120 ml of (40% v/v) alcohol daily in the evenings. I saw the white floating balls in my loose (brown-black) stools today. I tested their consistency by pressing one between the fingers and found it soft and had no peculiar smell. Ocassionally I do get pain in the back that is sensitive to breathing. However the pain subsides in a day or two. Also recently I have lost some weight.
I doubt if the booze is beating the sh*t-out of liver, that is blocking the bile flow allowing the white floating balls to form. If yes, I will have to abstain :-( .
aspeedesai
I doubt if the booze is beating the sh*t-out of liver, that is blocking the bile flow allowing the white floating balls to form. If yes, I will have to abstain :-( .
aspeedesai
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I recently began taking Pristiq (desvenlafaxine) and was also noticing these ricotta-filled alien beans in the toilet. I did the suggested experiment and dropped a pill in a glass of water. Sure enough. Same thing. If anyone else is taking Pristiq and is experiencing this, have no fear. :-P
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I found one of the "bean" things for the first time in my otherwise normal stool today, and freaked out thinking it was a strange bacterial pod or perhaps a type of worm sac. So what else besides internet searching is the first thing to do, right? The first google search matching my find was this thread, and reading it has helped calm me very much. The common denominator amongst most posters here seems to be medications and perhaps poor diet. I'm not on any medications except a daily oral contraceptive.. and that is a really tiny pill, which I've been on for years and have never noticed any "beans" until today. I eat healthfully and execise regularly, and have no known metabolic or digestive conditions. Perhaps it is relevant that I had a 2-day bout of gastroenteritis (stomach flu) about 2 weeks ago, but have since made a complete recovery.
But THEN i remembered that because of seasonal allergies I've been taking a 24-hour allergy pill almost daily for about a month. This itself is not new, I have taken the same drug during allergy season over at least the last two summers as well. However, the last package I bought I was trying to save a few bucks by getting the Walgreens generic variety of the brand drug Claritin-D 12 hour or 24 hour. I'm pretty confident in hearing all your testimonies, that it is just the generic allergy pill I found in the toilet today. I see it has taken some of you months, or years, to come to that answer, and I do hope it satisfies you. Thanks to all who have shared here, it's quite the relief to know I'm not alone in the mystery of the orange bean.
But THEN i remembered that because of seasonal allergies I've been taking a 24-hour allergy pill almost daily for about a month. This itself is not new, I have taken the same drug during allergy season over at least the last two summers as well. However, the last package I bought I was trying to save a few bucks by getting the Walgreens generic variety of the brand drug Claritin-D 12 hour or 24 hour. I'm pretty confident in hearing all your testimonies, that it is just the generic allergy pill I found in the toilet today. I see it has taken some of you months, or years, to come to that answer, and I do hope it satisfies you. Thanks to all who have shared here, it's quite the relief to know I'm not alone in the mystery of the orange bean.
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My friend who is on metformin ER was having the strange egg shaped spongy white things in her stool. She would have like 20 of them at a time after being on the med for about 6 months. Not good considering she has a history of diverticulitis.
Personally I have been on Metformin ER for over 2 years and have had no sightings--until recently. I had a bout with some severe nausea in the middle of the night along with severe upper abdominal cramping pain. I vomited repeatedly, and vomited up about 12 of these along with dark brown thick and smelly sludge. I think I had a partial bowel or gastric outlet obstruction.
I am a nurse practitioner and to me this is very serious. I have a patient who had to have a bowel resection last week because of these pills. Apparently 40 0r 50 of then stayed in her stomach and she had hundereds in her intestine, causing gastric outlet and bowel obstruction.
I am going to speak with some Drs at UPMC in Pittsburgh and Cleveland Clinic to see what info I can come up with. Brand name fortamet or glumetza which are tablets and alot smaller, are available and I am sure they dissolve a bit more consistently. Generic drug companies should be ashamed--they are making more money than the brand name companies. The Brand name companies had to pay for all the research required to get the drugs approved. Generic companies have far less overhead--and with most all insurance companies pushing generics--they are highly successful. Did you know that generic drug companies can vary a drug's potency by 12-20%? That is ALLOWED by the FDA. Trouble is most pharamacies change generic drug companies constantly, depending on who has the best price. Certain drugs you should NEVER get generic--Synthroid --because the therapeutic range is so small--it is much harder to control TSH/T4 levels on generic meds. Not to mention, people dont feel all that well. Also, digoxin--for the same reason!
Sorry for the rant--I will keep you all posted on my research progress!
Personally I have been on Metformin ER for over 2 years and have had no sightings--until recently. I had a bout with some severe nausea in the middle of the night along with severe upper abdominal cramping pain. I vomited repeatedly, and vomited up about 12 of these along with dark brown thick and smelly sludge. I think I had a partial bowel or gastric outlet obstruction.
I am a nurse practitioner and to me this is very serious. I have a patient who had to have a bowel resection last week because of these pills. Apparently 40 0r 50 of then stayed in her stomach and she had hundereds in her intestine, causing gastric outlet and bowel obstruction.
I am going to speak with some Drs at UPMC in Pittsburgh and Cleveland Clinic to see what info I can come up with. Brand name fortamet or glumetza which are tablets and alot smaller, are available and I am sure they dissolve a bit more consistently. Generic drug companies should be ashamed--they are making more money than the brand name companies. The Brand name companies had to pay for all the research required to get the drugs approved. Generic companies have far less overhead--and with most all insurance companies pushing generics--they are highly successful. Did you know that generic drug companies can vary a drug's potency by 12-20%? That is ALLOWED by the FDA. Trouble is most pharamacies change generic drug companies constantly, depending on who has the best price. Certain drugs you should NEVER get generic--Synthroid --because the therapeutic range is so small--it is much harder to control TSH/T4 levels on generic meds. Not to mention, people dont feel all that well. Also, digoxin--for the same reason!
Sorry for the rant--I will keep you all posted on my research progress!
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My friend who is on metformin ER was having the strange egg shaped spongy white things in her stool. She would have like 20 of them at a time after being on the med for about 6 months. Not good considering she has a history of diverticulitis.
Personally I have been on Metformin ER for over 2 years and have had no sightings--until recently. I had a bout with some severe nausea in the middle of the night along with severe upper abdominal cramping pain. I vomited repeatedly, and vomited up about 12 of these along with dark brown thick and smelly sludge. I think I had a partial bowel or gastric outlet obstruction.
I am a nurse practitioner and to me this is very serious. I have a patient who had to have a bowel resection last week because of these pills. Apparently 40 0r 50 of then stayed in her stomach and she had hundereds in her intestine, causing gastric outlet and bowel obstruction.
I am going to speak with some Drs at UPMC in Pittsburgh and Cleveland Clinic to see what info I can come up with. Brand name fortamet or glumetza which are tablets and alot smaller, are available and I am sure they dissolve a bit more consistently. Generic drug companies should be ashamed--they are making more money than the brand name companies. The Brand name companies had to pay for all the research required to get the drugs approved. Generic companies have far less overhead--and with most all insurance companies pushing generics--they are highly successful. Did you know that generic drug companies can vary a drug's potency by 12-20%? That is ALLOWED by the FDA. Trouble is most pharamacies change generic drug companies constantly, depending on who has the best price. Certain drugs you should NEVER get generic--Synthroid --because the therapeutic range is so small--it is much harder to control TSH/T4 levels on generic meds. Not to mention, people dont feel all that well. Also, digoxin--for the same reason!
Sorry for the rant--I will keep you all posted on my research progress!
Personally I have been on Metformin ER for over 2 years and have had no sightings--until recently. I had a bout with some severe nausea in the middle of the night along with severe upper abdominal cramping pain. I vomited repeatedly, and vomited up about 12 of these along with dark brown thick and smelly sludge. I think I had a partial bowel or gastric outlet obstruction.
I am a nurse practitioner and to me this is very serious. I have a patient who had to have a bowel resection last week because of these pills. Apparently 40 0r 50 of then stayed in her stomach and she had hundereds in her intestine, causing gastric outlet and bowel obstruction.
I am going to speak with some Drs at UPMC in Pittsburgh and Cleveland Clinic to see what info I can come up with. Brand name fortamet or glumetza which are tablets and alot smaller, are available and I am sure they dissolve a bit more consistently. Generic drug companies should be ashamed--they are making more money than the brand name companies. The Brand name companies had to pay for all the research required to get the drugs approved. Generic companies have far less overhead--and with most all insurance companies pushing generics--they are highly successful. Did you know that generic drug companies can vary a drug's potency by 12-20%? That is ALLOWED by the FDA. Trouble is most pharamacies change generic drug companies constantly, depending on who has the best price. Certain drugs you should NEVER get generic--Synthroid --because the therapeutic range is so small--it is much harder to control TSH/T4 levels on generic meds. Not to mention, people dont feel all that well. Also, digoxin--for the same reason!
Sorry for the rant--I will keep you all posted on my research progress!
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My friend who is on metformin ER was having the strange egg shaped spongy white things in her stool. She would have like 20 of them at a time after being on the med for about 6 months. Not good considering she has a history of diverticulitis.
Personally I have been on Metformin ER for over 2 years and have had no sightings--until recently. I had a bout with some severe nausea in the middle of the night along with severe upper abdominal cramping pain. I vomited repeatedly, and vomited up about 12 of these along with dark brown thick and smelly sludge. I think I had a partial bowel or gastric outlet obstruction.
I am a nurse practitioner and to me this is very serious. I have a patient who had to have a bowel resection last week because of these pills. Apparently 40 0r 50 of then stayed in her stomach and she had hundereds in her intestine, causing gastric outlet and bowel obstruction.
I am going to speak with some Drs at UPMC in Pittsburgh and Cleveland Clinic to see what info I can come up with. Brand name fortamet or glumetza which are tablets and alot smaller, are available and I am sure they dissolve a bit more consistently. Generic drug companies should be ashamed--they are making more money than the brand name companies. The Brand name companies had to pay for all the research required to get the drugs approved. Generic companies have far less overhead--and with most all insurance companies pushing generics--they are highly successful. Did you know that generic drug companies can vary a drug's potency by 12-20%? That is ALLOWED by the FDA. Trouble is most pharamacies change generic drug companies constantly, depending on who has the best price. Certain drugs you should NEVER get generic--Synthroid --because the therapeutic range is so small--it is much harder to control TSH/T4 levels on generic meds. Not to mention, people dont feel all that well. Also, digoxin--for the same reason!
Sorry for the rant--I will keep you all posted on my research progress!
Personally I have been on Metformin ER for over 2 years and have had no sightings--until recently. I had a bout with some severe nausea in the middle of the night along with severe upper abdominal cramping pain. I vomited repeatedly, and vomited up about 12 of these along with dark brown thick and smelly sludge. I think I had a partial bowel or gastric outlet obstruction.
I am a nurse practitioner and to me this is very serious. I have a patient who had to have a bowel resection last week because of these pills. Apparently 40 0r 50 of then stayed in her stomach and she had hundereds in her intestine, causing gastric outlet and bowel obstruction.
I am going to speak with some Drs at UPMC in Pittsburgh and Cleveland Clinic to see what info I can come up with. Brand name fortamet or glumetza which are tablets and alot smaller, are available and I am sure they dissolve a bit more consistently. Generic drug companies should be ashamed--they are making more money than the brand name companies. The Brand name companies had to pay for all the research required to get the drugs approved. Generic companies have far less overhead--and with most all insurance companies pushing generics--they are highly successful. Did you know that generic drug companies can vary a drug's potency by 12-20%? That is ALLOWED by the FDA. Trouble is most pharamacies change generic drug companies constantly, depending on who has the best price. Certain drugs you should NEVER get generic--Synthroid --because the therapeutic range is so small--it is much harder to control TSH/T4 levels on generic meds. Not to mention, people dont feel all that well. Also, digoxin--for the same reason!
Sorry for the rant--I will keep you all posted on my research progress!
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I'm not on any meds, and don't take any pills, so that's not it for me.
But I do love cheese, and I think the casein angle is likely the cause of my chiclets.
Being generally dissatisifed with doctors, I did some amateur investigating recalling freshman biology. I rinsed off one of these chicklets, cut it open and dripped various indicators onto the white cheesey filling.
Iodine, which turns purple or even black in the presence of carbohydrates, did not change from its normal yellowish color (negative).
Coomassie blue, which shifts from red to blue in the presence of protein, turned blue (positive), and in distinct clusters, not uniform.
Orange G, which is pretty worthless but does test for keratin, was negative (longshot anyway).
Finally, alizarin red, which turns from yellow-orange to red in the presence of calcium, turned bright red (positive).
The outer, brownish casing did not markedly change color in any of these tests, though its dark color may have obscured small color changes. However, small pieces I had set aside (untested as above) were sitting in a small volume of water and began to dissolve into a clear, colorless goo that when dried, was stuck quite well to the plastic dish i was working in.
I really wish I had some sudan red, but I think the tests were easy to interpret: the white matter is a proteinaceous aggregation with high levels of calcium. This is fully consistent with casein.
Obviously--well, it should be obvious--different processes can lead to the same sorts of physical manifestations. So your curds may be caused by something else. But I'm fairly certain mine are casein, most likely as a result of my love for cheese. If I can come up with a definitive homebrew test for that, I'll let you know.
But I do love cheese, and I think the casein angle is likely the cause of my chiclets.
Being generally dissatisifed with doctors, I did some amateur investigating recalling freshman biology. I rinsed off one of these chicklets, cut it open and dripped various indicators onto the white cheesey filling.
Iodine, which turns purple or even black in the presence of carbohydrates, did not change from its normal yellowish color (negative).
Coomassie blue, which shifts from red to blue in the presence of protein, turned blue (positive), and in distinct clusters, not uniform.
Orange G, which is pretty worthless but does test for keratin, was negative (longshot anyway).
Finally, alizarin red, which turns from yellow-orange to red in the presence of calcium, turned bright red (positive).
The outer, brownish casing did not markedly change color in any of these tests, though its dark color may have obscured small color changes. However, small pieces I had set aside (untested as above) were sitting in a small volume of water and began to dissolve into a clear, colorless goo that when dried, was stuck quite well to the plastic dish i was working in.
I really wish I had some sudan red, but I think the tests were easy to interpret: the white matter is a proteinaceous aggregation with high levels of calcium. This is fully consistent with casein.
Obviously--well, it should be obvious--different processes can lead to the same sorts of physical manifestations. So your curds may be caused by something else. But I'm fairly certain mine are casein, most likely as a result of my love for cheese. If I can come up with a definitive homebrew test for that, I'll let you know.
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