Hello all.
Last night I was feeling a little frisky (and hungry) and had a second helping of lamb and sweet potato for supper. After I finished, I felt fuller than usual so suspected I might have some trouble today since the recommendation is for small meals.
I started out this morning feeling o.k. so thought I might have dodged a bullet, but then around 11:00AM (my usual time to have a BM) I had a pretty loose stool (started out at #4 and progressed to #6). An hour later I was in the bathroom with watery stool, high volume.
Right now, I am thinking that either I just ate more than my digestive system can handle or possible too much oxalate from the extra helping of sweet potato (1/2 a potato). Is this the likely culprit(s)? I have not been experimenting with any new foods and have not had any stress at work lately.
John R.
Overeating
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Re: Overeating
Hello John,
I see that no one has responded to your post, so I'll take a shot at answering. As far as I can tell, very few of us are sensitive enough to oxalates for sweet potatoes to be a problem. However a few of us definitely do react to sweet potatoes, so in those situations, the problem has to be either the fiber or the oxalate content, so if you know from previous experience that oxalates are a problem for you, it's certainly possible that the extra sweet potato serving might have been the problem.
Probably you can already tell by how you're feeling today, if that might've been the case. If you haven't made any other changes in your diet lately, it's difficult to blame the reaction on anything else. That said, that appears to have been a fairly serious reaction to be blaming on sweet potatoes, but we are all different, so I'm not easily surprised, anymore.
Tex
I see that no one has responded to your post, so I'll take a shot at answering. As far as I can tell, very few of us are sensitive enough to oxalates for sweet potatoes to be a problem. However a few of us definitely do react to sweet potatoes, so in those situations, the problem has to be either the fiber or the oxalate content, so if you know from previous experience that oxalates are a problem for you, it's certainly possible that the extra sweet potato serving might have been the problem.
Probably you can already tell by how you're feeling today, if that might've been the case. If you haven't made any other changes in your diet lately, it's difficult to blame the reaction on anything else. That said, that appears to have been a fairly serious reaction to be blaming on sweet potatoes, but we are all different, so I'm not easily surprised, anymore.
Tex
It is suspected that some of the hardest material known to science can be found in the skulls of GI specialists who insist that diet has nothing to do with the treatment of microscopic colitis.
Re: Overeating
Could it be the extra lamb which has a lot of fat? I recently had a scare with eating walnuts to try to lower my cholesterol. While I didn't get D, my stool was becoming mushy and I figured it out to be the walnuts. Once I stopped them I was fine again. I think it was the fat content in the walnuts that did it. While I know we're all different, I eat sweet potatoes every day.
Marcia
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My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor and some style. - M. Angelou