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Yellowish light brown Stool, I'm still confused and concern. Please Help!

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luisen
luisen

Male 37 years old

I had an endoscopy about two and a half week ago I was diagnosed with GERD , a little Heital Hernia, Duodenitis without bleeding and a Decreased Peristalsis in the Stomach suggestive of Gastroparesis. They also took me some biopsies but now I'm wating for the results in 2 week. The Dr. put me on Nexium 40mg and a diet with out triggers (spicy, graesy food etc)

I quit the Nexium 2 weeks ago as I started to have "yellowish light brown stools" Mustardy colored Stools and I got very scared.

A couple of Days ago I was having my stools more darker colour, "almost normal" more brownish but after 3 days It came back to the Yellowish colour.

This past tuesday I had like 7 bowel movements with yellowish colour and I went to the ER I had a Blood Test including a Amylase and Lipase Test and a Fecal Leukocyte test and occult blood in stool test. All the test came back normal. Dr. says I'm ok. On late

November I had a CBC Blood work too that include Bilirubin ALT and AST and came back normal.

But I still don't know why I'm having this light colored on my stools NOT white or gray just Mustardy Light Brown colored. I'm very scared . Afraid that this could be something worse like pancreatic cancer.

I don't have other symptoms no pain, no yellow skin, no yellow eyes, no itching. I have lost about 5 pounds on the last weeks but I wanted to think is because I quit junk food since I'm trying to be on a clean diet (Fish, Chicken a Veggies) cause my GERD dx and I'm I lot of anxiety and I read that you can loose weight when your have Anxiety.

The only thing I have is stress and anxiety. I read that anxiety can cause yellow stools too. BUT Dr Google don't help that much.

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  • crystal24820
    crystal24820 luisen

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    hi sorry your going through this i hope you find out whats going on. i was having pain awile back under my left side rib cage it would every time i would eat i have GERD and IBS so i dont know which one its coming from now i started to burning pain in my Esophagus it hurts so bad to eat anything so i havent really eat anything but mashed potatoes and smashed beans after i ate my stool was a grayish white color im freaking out cause they say it could be bile duct that is blocked or cancer but i had alot of stool test about 2 months ago and were fine and also a ulter sound and it came back fine and been to the hospital and bloot test done and normal i dont get whats going on with me im terrified i left messages with my doctors and nobody has called me back .

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