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Yellow stools

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joeyline6
joeyline6

Hi all

I am 21 years old, male and for the past 2 months I have been experiencing a wide array of worrying bowel related symptoms.

It began with a change in the colour of my stools to a pale yellow/brown colour. Since this the colour and consistency of my stools have been consistency alternating from a normal brown colour to a pale yellow colour and an orange/tan colour (sometimes a mixture of each colour within the same stool!).

The consistency itself also began to be more loose and separated (unlike the 'sausage like appearance of normal stool) along with undigested food including vegetable matter such as peppers, carrots, tomatoes, leafy greens etc and whole grain foods including brown rice, undigested particles from wheat cereals and so on.

Despite my stools remaining loose I will normally only pass 1-2 bowel movements a day (almost always in the morning).

Since noticing these symptoms I have taken many trips to the Drs and revived many different tests. First lot of bloods which showed a slightly raised white blood count however liver function, and thyroid all fine. A second lots of bloods 2 weeks later showed my FBC had returned to within normal ranges. Stool samples also showed no sign of bacteria causing problems within my bowels however a slightly raised fractal calprotectin level (102) suggesting inflammation. Due to these results I have been arranged to receive a colonoscopy which I'm hoping to have within the next couple of weeks.

Besides these bowel symptoms I have also noticed more hair falling out more than usual, breif episodes of breathlessness and becoming more tired than usual (wake up approx 7:00am and becoming very tired by 8:30pm along with boats off tiredness throughout the day). Generally I feel very limited pain with my bowel troubles besides occasional burning feeling in upper abdomen however gurgling and noises is a common occurence.

Does anyone else experience similar symptoms or know of anything which might point out to what can be causing these symptoms as any help would be much appreciated!

Many thanks

Joey

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    arman46171 joeyline6

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    I started to have Similar Symptoms to you after my Gallbladder was diagnosed with cholecystitis. after the discomfort went away from under right rib cage, my bowel movements started to act weird. I do have bowel movement 1-2 per day, and some days I have non. My doctor suggested it is due to lack of bile. I have done HIDA scan and showed less than 30% ejection rate. Following bowel movement problems my GP ordered couple of blood, urin and fecal tests and all came back Normal. My doctor ordered colonoscopy which Also turned out to be clear and no problem.

    So the culprit lies within gallbladder.

    I dont have any pain unless I have to go toilet. its a very dull cramp pain cuz bowels are so hard and dry. 

    Im going to my appointment with surgeon in 3 weeks and hopefully he will have some suggestions. cuz the question is if i take out gallbladder will it solve the problems or not, my gp says at this rate my gb function is veriy low.

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