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Skin rash, unusual stools

Skin rash, unusual stools

Hello,

I am 25, sorry for the graphic details in this paragraph. Over the past several months, I have been getting unusual stools. One kind is mustard-colored, hard, containing white lumps (about the size of peanuts), with the consistency of chewing gum (or caramel). The other kind is very flaky, mustard-colored, with lots of undigested food (it disintegrates easily). Both of these are unusual for me because I've always had brown ones of normal consistency.

I also have a skin rash for a few months on my hands (knuckles, joints), which looks like eczema. The skin rash has not been getting worse on its own, but it refuses to clear.

I've also had cough for a long time, which is gone now. I had a chest X-ray done and nothing was found.

I was on ciprofloxacin for a week for a urinary tract infection when this all started happening. I also had bacterial eye infection. During the cipro course, I've had bright yellow stools, which never completely went back to brown. I have tried taking probiotic supplements and foods. I am not suspecting celiac, but I've never had issues with gluten.

I had a general blood test done, a chest X-ray and a stool toxicity test which all came back fine.

If anyone knows what these may be symptoms of, or has similar ones please let me know... It's making me very nervous all the time, and I don't know with what to go to my doctor, especially after all the tests that I did for no reason.

Thank you!
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well i'm having similar but i dunno if it's really the same i was on microbid for my first UTI ever and i ended that on friday but on friday i started getting a rash like a bunch of hives mixed with red skin on my  thighs and chest i took some benidryl and that was better on sat night but then sun morning i noticed that the skin at the joint by my elbows was red and had the hive looking bumps and also my skin underneath my knees had the same thing and it itches really bad i've taken benidryl and everything and these refuse to go away or stop itching on top of that starting today i've noticed i've had really soft green poop i haven't been to the doc yet but hopefully it'll help ya to know that someone else is having semi the same symptoms as you
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