Pale stool?
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im a 12 year old girl and lets say, my mental health is not at its best and I think it have been messing with my digestive system. Many people including my doctor thinks it's either anxiety or IBS, even both! But lately (which is a few days for me), I've been getting gallbladder/liver diseases fears. My urine is never darker than yellow, and never have been orange. My stool, however, can get pale. Usually when I have diarrhea but even just randomly sometimes! It's not white or clayish, just sometimes a paler color. Like tanish yellow or very light brown. It would usually go back to my normal light-medium brown color. I also sometimes get upper right abdomen pain but it happens after eating. Having a BM and passing gas helps a lot. pain in this area doesn't happen a lot and it's quite mild. I get lower abdomen pain and cramps A LOT, especially the lower middle and the lower left. The upper abdomen overall is what I think is due to bloating/gas. Passing gas almost always or even always relieve the pain? I sometimes get mid abdomen pain too, I don't know why. Sometimes the mid right, sometimes mid left, sometimes my belly button. I also got right shoulder pain and it's, of course, a symptom of liver disease. My parents thinks it's because of how long I spend on my computer and then "unhealthy" position I'm always in. I don't know why, I always find myself in a position where my left side if basically resting but my right is always in an awkward state. My parents reduce my computer time and tried fixed how I sit and I think the pain is getting better. To make matters worse, I have family history of liver disease! But 99.9% of them are due to excessive drinking. I don't drink cuz I'm barely even a teen yet. Is what I'm describing sounding like anxiety and IBS or liver/gallbladder issues? Why does my stool look lighter in the water than without? Also, I have like 4 people in my family who has IBS, my mom use daily to have depression and OCD, if that's makes anything different. My dad, he's a whole other mess. He's been getting really bad digestive issues but no cancer, he went to so many doctors and non of them can diagnosis him, it all conclude to weak stomach or something like that. I don't think there's cancer running in the family.
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paul75665 lil_lily
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Hi.
I think you keep posting on here with the same issues, I guess your anxieties are really controlling your way of thinking, and probably your life as well. Don't worry, I'm in my 40's and it wasn't long ago that my anxieties were controlling my life, and still do to a certain extent. It's easy to get stuck into the circle of 'what ifs' and 'it could be this, it could be that'. True, there could be a lot of things wrong, but that doesn't mean there are, and you could be the picture of health other than IBS triggered by anxiety.
Pale stools are ok as long as they are in a shade of brown, and even yellow is ok as that it a by product of the gall bladder bile, it just means it's not been digested for long enough to turn it brown, probably due to IBS. If it's yellow then it shows you are producing bile and your gall bladder is working fine. As for your liver a very simple blood test will show whether that is working well, so get booked into the doctors, a little scratch on the arm from taking a blood sample is worth it if it gives you peace of mind. You could always ask for an upper abdominal ultrasound scan, it's an easy scan with no preparation needed, takes about 20 minutes if that, and will be able to check your liver, kidneys, gall bladder, pancreas and spleen just to make sure they all look normal. As for abdominal pain and bloating, again another sign of IBS, I was in so much pain once I had to call the paramedics out as I was in so much pain I thought I had appendicitis, turns out it was my bowel in spasm.
My only advice would be see a doctor as soon as, get some investigations underway, and try to get a diagnosis. Then accept the diagnosis if you can and start trying to live your life, and if you can't do it on your own, ask for counselling or CBT therapy. Trust me, you don't want to let this get any worse and end up having colonoscopies, endoscopies, etc looking for something that might not even be there, their not much fun!
Good luck and do try and get some help, but from my point of view, I think your just suffering with anxiety triggered IBS, but I'm no doctor, only they can tell you for sure.
All the best.
lil_lily paul75665
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I went to the doctors in the beginning of Feb. everything seems normal and fine but I still can't help but doubt. I had a panic attack thing and ended up at the doctors again just 4 weeks ago, again, they said it's my anxiety and that I've been stressing so much. I really don't want to go back there again. I know it's probably just IBS and anxiety combined by with anxiety, things are harder for me to take in. I am just probably overreacting and posted the same issue 3 times.