yellow stool ...

[nickii11]

well for starters im 19 yr old female and have always been healthy .. never had any problems with my health.

for the past 2 months ive been alternating with constipation and diarrhea and its yellow! it went to brown a few times but its mostly yellow.

this all started in about late april .. for about two weeks and a half around that time ive been constantly working and during that time i ate a lot of fast food and chinese food .. when i say a lot .. i mean alot.

right after i started feelin constipated and couldnt go but i just thought it would go away on its own .. wen i starteed goin again i noticed it had a yellowish hue to it but i thought it would just pass by .. later on i found it somewhat hard to use the bathroom .. wen i would go it was either be gas mucus yellow stool yellow diarrhea or half and half .. its alternating ..

right b4 that i would go to the bathroom about 2 to 3 times a day and it would be normal .. and still now i still get those urges to go to the bathroom but instead or the normal way i was used to ..

not only did i have bowel movements but i was feeling really sick

SO i went to the doctors and he told me i had no fever and he did like a checkup for usual things .. my blood pressure was normal everything was beating normal but he said my heartrate was a little fast

he suggested i do blood test and ultrasound of the abdomen to make sure everything was fine and i had no gallstones or nthing like that

my blood work stated everything was functioning normal and nothing was foud in my ultrasound other then having a lot aoverlying bowel gas.. watever that is..

just to add .. i couldnt do blood work for the cholestoral and sugars and all that stuff cause i alreadi did it a month b4 and i had to wait every3 months to do so ..

my doctor told me most likely its because a change in my diet at that time and its like an after effect but how long is this suppoesd to last for! im a little bit of a hypochondriac i might add which stresses me out evn more..

another thing just to add i have no abdominal pain wat so ever and if i do have something hurting its because of the bowel gas because thats what the doc told me

i later on called a digestive health care customer service i found and she told me because of all the fast food i ate it most likely lowered my enzyme intake

another thing just to add .. ive searched online for a lot of things involving yellow stool and i would find many things like parasite or bacterial infections or had to do with my enzyme count ..

i dnt want to keep annoying the hell out of the doctor because i feel like they are alreadi annoyed by me lol .. but wat can i do .. i just wanna go back to normal

i would always see this thing to take digestive enzymes because it will let your stomach actually aabsorb the food you eat instead of retain it .. oh and btw i had seen undigested food in my poop too like onions peppers things like that [sry ikno its gross but it could help]

i went to my local cvs and shoprite to look for digestive enzymes but they dont have it .. i think u need a prescription for it so icalled my doctor and asked but he wasnt in so i have to wait for them to call back .. if they call bck.

another thing i would like to add is that my family has no history of anything that serious expect for the men in my family most develop kidney stones but i know its not that because there is absolutley no type of blood in my stool or urine and i think i have gotten hemmorhoids from all the straining!

please someone give me an idea of what could be causing this or what i could take to help because it would be really helpful and it would def calm me down a lot .. thank you for taking the time to read this and/or give me back answers.

[nickii11]

noo hes just my regular doctor ... they checked everything and it was all functioning normal and everything looked normal in my ultrasound and im not feeling anytype of pain anywhere on my body at all other then gas wen i get bloated

also im havent been eating much other then boiled chicken or steak or plain rice and gatorade cause i dnt want to eat the wrong thing ..

im going in today and ask if i can do a stool test or something because i kind of think its because of some malabsorbtion problem due to all the sugar and fat i had in a small time .. im hoping its that!

and i was thinking of waiting to see results of a stool test before i consider doing anything elsee ..

thanks for responding

[jthreatt]

Hi nickii11,

Quick question, is your physician a gen prac or a gastro?  You may want to call the nurse line at your dr and ask for a referral to a gastroenterologist (sp?).

Not a dr, but the yellow stool could be due to some poor digestion.  Could be a several things causing that.  The gall bladder is what they checked first on me.  It wasn't functioning properly, so they removed it.  It didn't fix my symptoms, so now they're looking at other areas (pancreas, small bowel, etc).

Good luck and hope this helps!

[nickii11]

oh yea and another thing is that ill wake up with nausea .. i used to vomit because i  couldnt take it but iwas just all yellow .. [bile] never blood in that either .. it made me feel better .. but i think its becasue after i felt sick ive been paranoid and didnt rly eat anything much ebcause i dont wanna make nething worse .. and wen i lay down for a long period of time  and get up i get really dizzy but then wen i walk for a bit or excercise i feel a lot better and energized .. i think its the stress thats making me feel this way to because i really have no one to talk to bout it anymore because they seem like not to care .. and im still getting normal periods at the same time everymonth but i do get a little more cramps then b4 but everything it still is that same with that .. and i can eat wen i want to but if i dont and have a loss of appetite its because im worrying my self sick to my stomach which i know is not good either