Hi Everyone,
I have been on this board for a few days now, and have learnt a lot already. My report of my colonoscopy
two years ago said the results were only suggestive of LC. I have managed in the last couple of years to
manage my symptoms with diet. I am unfortunately having a flare at the moment. My question is, do any of you have yellow diarrhea? Nine times out of ten my D is bright yellow, nearly fluorescent, does this
sound familiar to anyone? Thanks, (I have been really impressed with the help given here).
lillcol
New here and BM question
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Gabes-Apg
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Kia Ora Lillcol
(note you from New Zealand. I am in brisbane australia.)
welcome to the family... sorry to hear that you are having a flare.
I can not help you with yellow BM question i am sure you will get some answers in the next 12 - 24 hours....
have you started any different meds or vitamins in recent times?
(note you from New Zealand. I am in brisbane australia.)
welcome to the family... sorry to hear that you are having a flare.
I can not help you with yellow BM question i am sure you will get some answers in the next 12 - 24 hours....
have you started any different meds or vitamins in recent times?
Gabes Ryan
"Anything that contradicts experience and logic should be abandoned"
Dalai Lama
"Anything that contradicts experience and logic should be abandoned"
Dalai Lama
G'day Gabes,
Nice to talk to someone else from down under. No I haven't started anything new. I only introduce one
new thing every two or three weeks. I am under a fantastic holistic doctor, but she is on her first holiday
in a few years, I'm glad she finally has a break, but the timing for me is terrible.
lillcol
Nice to talk to someone else from down under. No I haven't started anything new. I only introduce one
new thing every two or three weeks. I am under a fantastic holistic doctor, but she is on her first holiday
in a few years, I'm glad she finally has a break, but the timing for me is terrible.
lillcol
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Gabes-Apg
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there are a couple of aussies on here. we have done some posts with aussie slang, we will have do a few re nz slang (choice bro, chilly bin, jutter bars etc)
you are very blessed to have a fantastic holistic doctor, if you have seen some of the posts on this site, that is quite rare. (i am lucky as i have a acupuncturist and naturopath who are long term friends)
one thing that i have learnt from reading posts on here is that things that work now, may not work in 12 months time ie meds / natural supplements / ingredients you can tolerate
My thinking is if you have a bad flare you have to go back to basics (rice broth & poached chicken type thing or whatever works) and start again. while the digestion is under the stress of a flare, we have to be patient and give it time to heal.
you are very blessed to have a fantastic holistic doctor, if you have seen some of the posts on this site, that is quite rare. (i am lucky as i have a acupuncturist and naturopath who are long term friends)
one thing that i have learnt from reading posts on here is that things that work now, may not work in 12 months time ie meds / natural supplements / ingredients you can tolerate
My thinking is if you have a bad flare you have to go back to basics (rice broth & poached chicken type thing or whatever works) and start again. while the digestion is under the stress of a flare, we have to be patient and give it time to heal.
Gabes Ryan
"Anything that contradicts experience and logic should be abandoned"
Dalai Lama
"Anything that contradicts experience and logic should be abandoned"
Dalai Lama
Hi Lillcol,
Welcome to our internet family.
Yellow stool can be caused by a number of things, but generally it indicates that food is passing through the digestive tract relatively quickly. The color is the result of undigested bile that has not been reabsorbed, because it moved too quickly through the intestines. Yellow stool can be a result of GERD, (gastroesophageal reflux disease), and it sometimes occurs with celiac disease, and microscopic colitis, (including LC).
Yellow stool can also result from insufficient bile output. Bile salts from the liver gives stool its normal brownish color. When bile output is diminished, it often first appears as yellow stool. If there is a greater reduction in bile output, the color can almost completely disappear, becoming pale or grey.
If the onset is sudden, yellow stool can be a sign of a viral or bacterial infection, or parasites.
Treatment with the antibiotic ciprofloxacin, will also cause yellow stool, at least it always did when I took it.
The most likely cause, in your case, is simply rapid transit, due to the LC, but your gallbladder issues could also be affecting it. Be aware that gallbladder disease has a very high correlation with MC.
Again, welcome aboard.
Tex (Wayne)
Welcome to our internet family.
Yellow stool can be caused by a number of things, but generally it indicates that food is passing through the digestive tract relatively quickly. The color is the result of undigested bile that has not been reabsorbed, because it moved too quickly through the intestines. Yellow stool can be a result of GERD, (gastroesophageal reflux disease), and it sometimes occurs with celiac disease, and microscopic colitis, (including LC).
Yellow stool can also result from insufficient bile output. Bile salts from the liver gives stool its normal brownish color. When bile output is diminished, it often first appears as yellow stool. If there is a greater reduction in bile output, the color can almost completely disappear, becoming pale or grey.
If the onset is sudden, yellow stool can be a sign of a viral or bacterial infection, or parasites.
Treatment with the antibiotic ciprofloxacin, will also cause yellow stool, at least it always did when I took it.
The most likely cause, in your case, is simply rapid transit, due to the LC, but your gallbladder issues could also be affecting it. Be aware that gallbladder disease has a very high correlation with MC.
Again, welcome aboard.
Tex (Wayne)
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.
Hi there, and welcome. Yep, yellow is my color, too when having a flare. In my case I am sure it is because of too rapid transit thru the gut. I just got over a flare and as it resolved, the yellow became more tan, and finally brown. I have had success with things in general calming down in my life, and using a small amount of Loperamide Hydrochloride, 2 mg tablets (Imodium). This slows down the transit and if you use too much, can cause constipation. One tablet will do it for me, taken once. It allows the bowel to get some rest and irritation to lessen, I think. I only flare once or twice a year, but things do turn yellow and watery, mucous is present and it looks pretty dramatic. Amazing how it can go from sooo terrible to normal again when things resolve. Good Luck, Sylvia
Do good or do not
Hello Lillcol, also 
here from another part of the world, not down under up north the Netherlands. Others (read Tex) already has answered your question about your yellow stools (that is something new here what I haven't read before, must be quite scary). Great that you have an holistic doctor. That is something I can only dream of. I am not complaining at all about my GI doc. But instead of finding everything in one doc, I have to do like Gabes, collecting them all in different persons and that works well too.
Hope you will find the support and answers here to get your LC under control, it was a great help to me.
If you are interested in finding more out on food allergies and this disease, take a look at the website www.enterolab.com. Sorry I should use the word intolerances. Most of us are intolerant to Gluten and Dairy and about half us has to avoid soy and some of us have even a longer list (like me). Maybe you have already read about the enterolab testing, they offer food intolerances stool test on gluten, soy, milk, egg and yeast. Testing from abroad is also possible (I did it from the Netherlands, a year ago I would have never figured out that my poop would go in bowl in a box in a plane to the USA...). According to Tex and a lot of others here is enterolab the only lab in the world offering reliable stool tests. After finding this support group and having done the testing I started the diet. It did not change my life from one day to the other (as some people sometimes claims after making life changes), after almost 4 months of a very strict diet I am still on my medication. But I do notice slight difference. Every month I look back I feel the difference in a positive sense.
here from another part of the world, not down under up north the Netherlands. Others (read Tex) already has answered your question about your yellow stools (that is something new here what I haven't read before, must be quite scary). Great that you have an holistic doctor. That is something I can only dream of. I am not complaining at all about my GI doc. But instead of finding everything in one doc, I have to do like Gabes, collecting them all in different persons and that works well too.Hope you will find the support and answers here to get your LC under control, it was a great help to me.
If you are interested in finding more out on food allergies and this disease, take a look at the website www.enterolab.com. Sorry I should use the word intolerances. Most of us are intolerant to Gluten and Dairy and about half us has to avoid soy and some of us have even a longer list (like me). Maybe you have already read about the enterolab testing, they offer food intolerances stool test on gluten, soy, milk, egg and yeast. Testing from abroad is also possible (I did it from the Netherlands, a year ago I would have never figured out that my poop would go in bowl in a box in a plane to the USA...). According to Tex and a lot of others here is enterolab the only lab in the world offering reliable stool tests. After finding this support group and having done the testing I started the diet. It did not change my life from one day to the other (as some people sometimes claims after making life changes), after almost 4 months of a very strict diet I am still on my medication. But I do notice slight difference. Every month I look back I feel the difference in a positive sense.
Hi Everyone,
Thanks for the warm welcome, the thoughts and ideas.
Tex,
Thanks for your input, I wasn't aware of yellow stools with celiac or LC, nor was I aware there
is a correlation between MC and gallbladder disease. You are a wealth of information and I appreciate it.
All your information has been food for thought for me.
Ant,
That makes us even, I have never been to Hong Kong, but hear it is fascinating. Would love to
visit one day, and yes, I think New Zealand is a beautiful country, and I am fortunate enough to
live in a wonderful spot with lovely views. Thanks for the welcome and thoughts.
Sylvia,
As sorry as I am that we are all in the same boat, I am glad to hear that I am not the only one with
yellow D. I too thought that it probably had something to do with transit time. I also take hydrochloric
acid to help with digestion and slow transit, but it's not working in this flare. Thanks.
Harma,
Great to hear that you have your support people, and that it is working for you. I may do the testing, I hadn't
realised that I could do it from here. Thanks for your thoughts.
Gabes,
I have actually had a really good day, I had to go into town (first time in a month) to get blood tests, I managed to
do a few other things before I became anxious and came home. Hopefully things are starting to settle and it is only up
and up from here. Hope your day was as good.
Thanks for the warm welcome, the thoughts and ideas.
Tex,
Thanks for your input, I wasn't aware of yellow stools with celiac or LC, nor was I aware there
is a correlation between MC and gallbladder disease. You are a wealth of information and I appreciate it.
All your information has been food for thought for me.
Ant,
That makes us even, I have never been to Hong Kong, but hear it is fascinating. Would love to
visit one day, and yes, I think New Zealand is a beautiful country, and I am fortunate enough to
live in a wonderful spot with lovely views. Thanks for the welcome and thoughts.
Sylvia,
As sorry as I am that we are all in the same boat, I am glad to hear that I am not the only one with
yellow D. I too thought that it probably had something to do with transit time. I also take hydrochloric
acid to help with digestion and slow transit, but it's not working in this flare. Thanks.
Harma,
Great to hear that you have your support people, and that it is working for you. I may do the testing, I hadn't
realised that I could do it from here. Thanks for your thoughts.
Gabes,
I have actually had a really good day, I had to go into town (first time in a month) to get blood tests, I managed to
do a few other things before I became anxious and came home. Hopefully things are starting to settle and it is only up
and up from here. Hope your day was as good.