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Round Yellow Object in Stool

I recently got an all clear result on stool samples by my doctor.  However, that did not clear up what the round dark yellow objects (size and shape of a chick pea) that I've been passing in my stools are.  I started noticing them in loose stools within the past couple of months.  Don't know how long they've been there.  Usually 1 per bowel movement.  I do not consume anything that resembles these objects.  The inside holds a powder-like substance.  I am experiencing some nausea here and there.  I take 1 tri-sprintec birth control pill and 1 Prestiq daily @ bedtime.  When I began noticing these I think I was taking Cymbalta rather than Prestiq.  Neither the birth control pill or the Prestiq resemble this object.  Any clues?  
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I have them & take nothing. It means parasites.
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omg I just started Pristiq two days ago and just had exactly what you described in my stool
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I've had something similar to these yellow 'chickpea' looking substances and know (via lab tests) that I can't digest fats. I take a couple of supplements to help with this: Beta TCP and Beta Plus from Biotics Research.
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Same thing! Pea sized yellow object in loose stool!  I too take Welbutrin and Ambien CR... It has to be the welbutrin because my Ambien is blue... I've seen it in my stool about 4 times but thought I ate something with corn in it but was sure I hadn't so I fished it out for the first time today and squeezed it and it popped and powder inside as well!  It is surely not a parasite and is the ER capsules... I take a 300 mg and a 150 mg and it looks like the 150 mg tablet except its yellow instead of white!  
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I take Wellbutrin 300 and 150 as well and see these corn looking balls floating around ... gross
I take nothing and have the round flat yellow ones with white powered inside. TONNES of em. Have you ever had ropeworm? Have you noticed perhaps a lot of “ rolled up tomato skins” in your stool? It’s a parasitic infection :(
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This happens to me but the only medications im on consecutively is adderal and Vitamin D. Does the medicine make a difference or do you think it happens with all pills? also, which one do you think my body is disposing of? you seem to know a lot about this.
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Once again, I taken any pills, but I have a parasitic infection. They look exactly like tiny pills. Yes they do. But they’re & no knows what they are but they appear to have sulphur inside of them. Someone said one time, so maybe we should look up what would cause the body to be contained in a yellow skin with sulphur inside.. I’ll look it up and get back to everyone
LetsGetBetter, my whole family along with 70 others at a gathering on a farm with a contaminated cistern all got parasites. What a nightmare that was. Parasites usually have very specific symptoms. Horrendous smelling flatulence, diarrhea, weight loss. It's almost impossible to see them with the human eye. We had to provide stool samples at the doctors and took antibiotics to get better. I will say that the stool for all of us had a yellow color to it for sure. And "sulpher burps" are a real thing with giardia. If anyone suspects they have parasites, they should see their doctor. To note, the parasitic infection will clear on its own too. I could not take antibiotics because of nursing and my two year old couldn't tolerate them. We just had the symptoms longer. Everyone else got better with antibiotics.
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This happens to me but the only medications im on consecutively is adderal and Vitamin D. Does the medicine make a difference or do you think it happens with all pills? also, which one do you think my body is disposing of? you seem to know a lot about this.
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Google "casein curds in stool" I had them . They resemble a pale yellow M&M.. Fake cheeses have a protein that isn't digested by your body and this is how it comes out . Def not gallstones . I haven't had a gallbladder in years .
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Your symptoms are identical to mine in every way. What did you find out in the end?
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   Thank you Ferrariorhealth, I think you nailed it for some of us:
"If you have basically this but it's a brown, red, orange, or other color, research "casein in stool".  
   A quick Google search brought up this: http://www.curezone.org/ig/i.asp?i=42395 and this http://ehealthforum.com/health/casein-curds-the-peril-of-poop-pods-t206703.html  ...Which I think looks a lot like the original posters picture of the ball with a penny for scale.  This explanation covers all of the variables that people have mentioned with medication, diet, medical history, etc.
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Hey I am having the same thing now... Passing out those yellow balls with white substance inside and I am taking tablets but as far as I can remember these small yellowish white balls, I have been passing from before. As well as I am having some undigested foods in my stool alongwith this.

Hope u would have got an answer for this by now. Plz reply soon as I am really very worried.
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I meant to say Food Grade Hydrogen peroxide not h20. Read a ton about it online. Just went again 4th time today of solid stuff getting lighter & softer in color & less like balls & more full/fluffy. This is amazing! Had a headache earlier but after drinking lots of water I feel better!
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I just looked at your photo at http://i.imgur.com/yj8Nl9v.jpg & it clearly is a parasite cyst or egg sac. I've had hundreds of these passing the last few days after cleansing with food grade h20 (since the parasite pill cleanse or albenazole wasn't as effective due to my constant constipation for the last few yrs. if you read about parasites there are so many tests & specifics to these tests that have to be followed to a T to get positive results. They break down quickly or only present during the nighttime or don't have a serology for an ELISA test etc plus you have to do the specific test for that specific parasite & there's hundreds (many unknown or catalogued). Anyways I'm also passing what looks like moving tapeworm segments, tiny cream colored little stick worms that move in my stool & a pinworm or tiny Trematoda from my nose. I purchased a microscope & see what looks like a thread work moving possibly a larval ascaris or anakis or trichinella plus some type of egg but since I can't stain them or do a flotation it's hard to diagnose through the layers without staining. I'm just happy the h20 is working because I think the wormwood clove & walnut caused dissemination since I have clear larval migrans in my skin. It's crazy to look in photos the past few years zoom into my skin than up the contrast. There's little worm tracks all over my body - my face looks like a maze! I don't take ANY medications! My cholesterol is perfect! I went on a liquid diet to ensure they were not any food & it's insane! Dr's here really suck because they can't do one test to clear you of parasites - let alone 2-3 so those of you who believe you have no parasites are dillusional! Btw certain medications tend to incite or cause you to rid them more (my bf would pass more when he took his antidepressant) but we are literally expelling whole balls of what look like clear slimy brown biofilm or mucous covered balls filled with brown flecks, granules, sand or sediment, almost grain like specks, little yellow or brown sticks or worms, tiny mucous spirals, tiny yellow hard & soft  various sized little chips plus the corn pellets or yellow skin folds inside on the outside the various sizes balls (btw the balls also vary in shapes & sizes but always round or oval). Plus they include a small amount of clear worms filled with red or brown blood, black shiny things, and seem to have a buildup of the yellow chips on the outside as well as clear mucous tubes & white calcium or powdery buildups covering the outside of them. Almost too crazy to describe. I have various pics but also notice tiny floating clear almost unnoticeable floating swimming strings that look like rows of tiny bubbles. We knew it was parasites when we had what people describe as a morgellens type fiber invading our environment & bodies but under microscope it's not a fiber - it's a filariae or threadworms. They move. They attach to an end of a hair or fabric & travel to your pores & enter like a hookworm causing a sting sensation. Various topical treatments only aggravated them - or would pull them out but without removal of the sulfur, dandruff shampoo, enzyme cleaner, heavy Epsom water etc they'd just crawl back in. Nothing proved to kill them - just shedder their cuticle or sheath.
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I also find small yellow chickpea-type formations. I don't take pristiq. I wondered if they might be compactions formed in diverticula? I take quite a few scripts, but none are time-release.Noticed I got more whed I went on itraconazole for gut pain. Fungal colonies?
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I found this info on another site and wanted to share it.

"Metformin ER (extended release) and other ER medications are encapsulated in a "non-digestible" coating to prevent the medication from dissolving too soon. It is common to pass the shell. Never crush an ER type medication. That will defeat the purpose."

My pharmacist said that Metformin ER has a tiny hole lazered into it and the medicine filters out and is absorbed in the intestine and the shell is passed on through. The spent shell is what you are seeing and you  are getting the desired effect of the medicine.

Hope this helps!
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Here's the actual image I took on my phone. Don't worry, I don't think it's very gross at all. It's more weird. http://imgur.com/yj8Nl9v or [IMG]http://i.imgur.com/yj8Nl9v.jpg[/IMG] And also, through my research, which led me to this site and this topic, I did see one other thing that sounded similar until I researched it. If you have basically this but it's a brown, red, orange, or other color, research "casein in stool". I don't think that's what mine is related to, even though I do drink nearly a quart of milk every day. I'm pretty sure it must have something to do with my vitamins, most likely the BCAA or Glutamine amino acids, since the BCAA in particular almost looks like this... though not quite as large.
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I take a lot of vitamins, many of which (particularly the amino acids) are in clear capsules with white powder, and have been doing so for many months. I just had a bowel movement after having some slight discomfort in my upper left abdominal area after bending over a lot and picking up things, and I stood up and noticed I had what I called a "snake egg" floating in the water. It was the size of a grape, leathery looking, and very pale yellow... therefore... "snake egg" is what I called it. It looked a lot like this snake egg pic. http://m7.i.pbase.com/o6/76/500676/1/82685607.LoVTisTG.egg.jpg You could also compare it to banana flavored laffy taffy. http://www.candywarehouse.com/assets/item/regular/Laffy-Taffy-banana-im-1308111.jpg I imagine based on the things I read here, that it is likely the result of the large number of vitamins and amino acids I take. I didn't fish it out of the toilet, but I did take a pic on my phone, and I was able to push it toward the front of the bowl w/ a single piece of toilet paper very easily, so it was very lightweight and floaty. Regarding some of the concerns of people responding, I don't believe it had anything to do with gallstones or liver stones. I coincidentally did a liver cleanse involving epsom salt, olive oil, and grapefruit among other things 2 or 3 weeks ago (Dr. Clark's recipe), and liver and gallstones are a lot different than this. They look more like raw peanuts (out of the shell) and some look just as green as the felt on a pool table. They aren't snake eggish, and at least regarding my late 20s self--the gall and liver stones were much, much smaller than this snake egg thing haha.
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I also have had these same oval shaped objects in my stool. Upon inspection of one it had a white substance inside. I have to admit I am a bit freaked out. I have been having diarrhea for about four days now following a day of what I thought to be a stomach bug. (vomiting and diarrhea) I also am taking welbutrin but have been on it for a while now. I really am glad to know I am not the only one and hope to learn more soon. Will keep you updated.
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I have had severe abdominal pain off and on with diarrhea and constipation back and forth.  I started noticing these grape shaped objects floating in the toilet.  There was also excessive mucous, yellowish color and foul smell.  I got one out of the toilet and cut it in half.  It was like cutting into a thick jello and the inside was a white, ricotta cheese like substance.  I too take Pristiq but I've been taking that for years and these just now started showing up.  I had an EUS(endoscopy Ultrasound)and the Dr. said I had rotting food in my gut and had gastroparesis.  I'm having the EUS done again on the 12th and will see what that shows.  Can't believe anyone else has this problem.  
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sorry guys, first time on this, i thought my replies would go to ppl individually, didnt mean to keep telling my story! sorry:))
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I take welbutrin as well and it happened to me twice now & today i checked it out, i took it 24 hours before so it should have dissolved but it only resembles my wellbutrin, its much smaller as if the wellbutrin had a very thick coating, i also opened it to find powder. i havent checked other times, i only notciced twice bc my toilet was broken an overflown, if it is then the pill cant be working or doing its job....
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Yes, I noticed twice now & the only reason was my toilet is broken & had almost overflown twice now & I saw the small yellow object on the surface of the water. I didn't bother the first time, just thought it was something I ate, but when I saw it a second time, I had to check it. I had the exact same thing, it was a powder that came out. It has to be medication, it was kind of shaped like the welbutrin I take but a lot smaller, like it must have had a very thick coating on it, but I took it 24 hours before, I cannot understand why it wouldn't be dissolved!?I can't see what else it could be either....... ?
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I also am on metformin ER and have noticed these throughout the 15 years I have been on it. I never realized until today what it actually was. I only notice it with loose stools and it is usually the amount of pills that I took (I take 2 in the monring and 2 at dinner).  They look just like the shape of the pill but larger (water logged I would guess) and can take on different colors (typically yellow, but have seen red from eating too many red sugar free gummys).  
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i dont think they are gallstones as i get the same thing and i had my gallbladder removed 3 yrs ago...  so if you ever do figure it out i would b interested in knowing too
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After reading the comments, I do believe it to be some pills that are not being digested . I am on Metformin and the yellow objects that are in my stool also has a white powdered substance inside. After I fished one out and cut it open, the only thing similar to it that I take is the Metformin and I take four a night, which is about what I pass. The coating on the outside probably builds up while sitting or working it's way through the digestive tract. I think that it is as simple as some of the medication (pills) that we take are not being broke down and absorbed as they should and is passing straight through the digestive system. I will follow this up with my Endocrinologist.
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