So what's the scoop on poop?

HAHAHAHA!  Seriously....what is our poop supposed to look like, smell like, etc?

Is it supposed to float?  Or sink?

Is it supposed to have a really awful chemical smell? Or bad breath type bacterial smell? Or even orangy floral occassionally!  LOL!

What is normal?

I cannot guess from day to day what to expect...I go from one extreme to the next...From one smell to the next...From one texture to the next...From almost flowery to downright putrid...From light green to deep dark green to almost white and rarely brown anymore....From long and thin to curly and floaty...to one giant pile of oatmeal to rabbit  pellets...to thick and compact.... What the heck? 

I used to be so regular and nothing too weird...NOW?  OMIGOD!  What is normal?  Anyone have a clue? 

Hope this isn't too vulgar!  Sorry!  I am a curious one!

OMG Anita...I had to laugh when I read this because I have the same issues.  Anytime you run the dog out of the bathroom with you...you know its BAD!  I will be watching this post to see what kind of answers you get.

Hey You! Haven't seen ya around in awhile! Welcome Back!!!

Well, Dr. Oz once said on Oprah that it should be shaped in the letter "C" or an "S", non floating and brown in color, LOL!! I have to agree that mine is never the same from day to day and doesn't usually fall into his categories for correctness.

Hope this helps!

Hey sweetie!  I got a busy job so I rarely have much time at my computer these days...But I try to pop in when I can hold my head up without passing out and hitting my head!  I am so tired when I get home!  LOL

I saw that episode on poop with DR Oz...(LOVE him!!!!)  but it confused me even more...RNYers definitely malabsorb fats and oils...I know I do for certain...so that explains the floaties the majority of the time...even diarreah floats!  LOL  When I eat something fatty or oily..., I can see the oil floating too...but I don't eat fatty or fried stuff  or butter if I can help it...I do eat cheese though...and I don't like fat free cheese!  LOL

But you'd think that after 4-5 years things would be somewhat normal or reasonably regular...lol...I eat a wide variety of foods, so I kinda expect a little difference....but wow....maybe it's the job and eating out and on the run more often...who knows what these places put in the foods they sell...I try to pack my own lunch and dinner often, but I don't have time to go shopping or cook a lot these days....

I dunno!  LOL

Good question Anita!

I think it all has to do with what you eat and what vitamins you take.  I have to admit, I was really bad last week.  I took my vitamins with me and they stayed in my suitcase.  My poop went back to what I would call "normal".

I'm not sure of smells, but colors has to do with what's coming out.  Deep dark green is excess iron-- ever had the same thing happen pre-op when you ate a big spinach salad?  And what about blueberries?  Purple!

I don't take any laxative although I've seriously considered doing it.  Instead I eat butter or a piece of bacon and everything softens up, but then I get the oily floaties.

So I think everyone is going to say the same thing, they can never predict what's going to come out!

Michele

LOL...I have seen the ever so interesting purple poop!  LOL

I had did have christmas poop recently too...Iron Supps and grape tomatoes!  Nice!  ho ho ho!

Well...I guess I will just have to continue the daily surprise party....because I honestly never know what to expect....and I am always amazed!  At least one thing I can say is that I do go daily at the same time ...So I guess that's good! 

Thanks for replying!  Noone really likes to talk about poop...So I do greatly apprecite it!
Hugs!

I had heard that floaters were better than sinkers because it meant you were eating more insoluable fiber.

I do eat a lot of fruits and veggies...but fat floats too....and I can always tell when it's a fat floatie by the oil slick!  LOL  But wow.... Nothing is ever the same....

(Anita!)
'ello gorgous! I know exactky where you're coming from.  I'm a pretty private bathroom person- and I actually called my hubby in the smell my floral/orangey poo! I'm pretty sure that one was due to me changing up my vit B suppliment as it smelled a LOT like vit B and I'd drank a lot of tea that day but man! pretty smelling poo! WEIRD!

Anita,
Got to tell you if you have a revision you get orange or yellow oil slicks!!!!  You never know what you are going to get.  We get the sharts (****s or farts) you don't know which it will be. 

The colors now are a rainbow as you don't digest much.  Sometimes it's the same as it went in.  I know TMI.  Not to talk about the gas and odor.  It can be horrendous.  You should be thanksful.

You asked for it.
Deanne