Pale stool for 6 months, chest pain.

Hello,

This all started in January/February.  Work stress was at an all time high, I had a baby on the way, I had to fly out for a meeting in vegas a 24 hour trip no sleep, VERY stressfull, came back got strep throat and was on antibiotics, which i didnt finish 5 days of...... (i only mention not finishing the anti-biotics because i sometimes heard when strep goes internal it can cause some of the following symptoms)

So back in March I went to the doc not feeling well and he had an XRay and CT Scan done after consulting. My doc found I had a fatty liver and an enlarged spleen with no stones in my gall bladder.  I did have a low platelet count in my blood too, but only slightly.  They also said my liver enzymes were just a tad low after blood tests but they attributed that to the fatty liver.

During that time, I started to notice yellow/pale stool which would be well formed and they always finish being smaller and a little looser and sometimes burning a little at the end of the BM.

My doc suspected GERD or reflux and put me on prilosec, i was later moved to prevacid.  He also put me on probiotics for the pale stool issue.

Later, my doc wanted to test for Celiac disease (which ended up not being), so he had a stomach scope done.  They found some almost ulcerative tissue right near the lower opening of my esophogus, so the doc upped me to prevacid (30mg) twice a day.

All was going well for a while, stool was almost back to normal color, then my sisters mother in law died, stress came on, then a week later I had a baby boy.  

The yellow stool is now back, and now I have a pain in my checks behind my breastbone which Im assuming is heartburn which sometimes radiates to my back.  (ive never had heartburn before, I think ive always had just reflux burning my throat after a spicy meal, but never this chest pain)  I dont have any gal bladder area pain and i dont feel any aching or pain at all on my right side...

Anyway it comes and goes randomly day to day sometimes even on an empty stomach.

I've since stopped eating large meals and have went to drinking alot mroe water and several small meals a day thats only been for the past week.

Has anyone experienced these issues?  Does it sound like anything that I can ask my doctor about that they may not have already checked for?   Does GERD cause yellow stool or am I dealing with two completely different issues that arent linked?  Could my digestive system just be completely messed?

Any thoughts or ideas would be so  hugely appreciated, im losing my mind.

[michell221]

The yellow  stools can come from many things such as  Gerd, GB issues , pancreatitis, bacterial infection etc...  It sounds like you just have a bad case of GERD.  If you feel any new pains or notice new symptoms then  be sure to tell the doctor and for now just try to have a healthy diet and take meds .  Try not to eat late at night and eat a low fat diet.