diarrhea

• If you're mixing protein with milk - stop.  Try eliminating straight milk all together.  It's one of the only dairy items that affect me.
• Try egg protein instead of whey.  Even whey isolate does numbers on me.
• If you're like I used to be adding onions to everything savory - try omitting them.
• Take more calcium citrate - I can tell from my stool texture whether or not I've taken enough.
• Immodium is your friend.

In addition to the other suggestions, you want to look out for sweeteners and try cutting those out for a day.  Your symptoms are such that one day ought to be enough for you to realize if sweeteners have an effect on you.  I've even heard some people say that stevia gives them issues, so omit it and see.

If you chew gum cut that out for the day too as the sweetener in gum can have a real effect, even though you'd not easily guess it (I know from personal experience).

Some vitamins contain sweeteners and I've read about those causing people issues, so check the ingredients.  As a DSer you need to become a reader of labels! 

Are you taking iron?  That along with calcium (not taken simultaneously) helped firm things up for me.

Cut down on the fat if you're having lots - that really used to affect me early out.

I'd also try cutting out protein powder for a day to see if that's a trigger.  You can then start to play with different brands of sweeteners/protein powders if they're a culprit.  Please let us know how you get on, as folk on here are knowledgeable about 'safer' versions of things.

OOO - totally forgot about sweeteners.  Good one!

I had sweetener issues pre-DS and figuring out gum was an issue took me a long time to figure out. ;-)

I talked to my surgeon today and he has me cutting out all dairy to begin with, and if that doesn't do it, cut out gluten also. I have an appointment with him in a couple of weeks and if it's still an issue we take a look at c-diff. I have already tried cutting out dairy but I'll give it another go to say that I've done it. Thanks for your input- it helped me realize that it was time to contact my doctor.

And I took another look at my vitamins. I bought Bariatric Advantage high in aedk, Vita4Life ADEK support and AquADEK. Looks like the only one worth a hoot is the AquAEDK (and of course that's the most expensive one). I also take a prenatal vitamin (as advised by my dr) and that has a large amount of iron in it. I had my blood tested a couple of weeks ago and my iron levels were good.

Thanks again for your advise- it helped.

Nothing worked for me. I just learned to live with it . I now just eat whatever I want bc it all reacts the same with me. Believe it or not but lots of coffee helps settle me down and i do not understand that. I've been on every medication out there for diarreah and sevaral test and several elemination diets and to no avail. Again...I just learned to live with it .The good news is I've lost 170 pounds and am at my goal wieght !! and yes I would do it again !!!

I hear you. I will wear a diaper if it means never weighing 400 pounds again. I hope that I don't have to but it's a small price to pay.

I'm having a bad afternoon having had 3 protein shakes this morning.  I normally have 1 in the morning and 1 in the evening... liquid in liquid out and 3 at 2 hourly intervals don't work for me.  I was trying to be extra good and it backfired, so eat some real food if you're having all shakes.

Not sure if anyone will see this, but my issue cleared up the day I spoke with my surgeon. I didn't change anything to achieve it, it just went away. 

And this morning I was constipated (calcium induced). Feast or famine, I guess. Lol.