Postby sandym » Tue Oct 28, 2008 6:44 pm
All right I have to get in on this one. My poo has ranged in colors from beet red during a chemo session ( the nurse actually came in the bathroom, checked it out, made me poo in a hat thingy and no blood--it was from eating raw beet salad and beet chips) and I frequently have green poo from too many green veggies and the fact that chemo causes bacteria to act funny in the intestinal tract and stool passes to quickly. I did have white to cream colored poo right before they found cancer in my liver, but that is all stablized and gone now. Orange poo from carrots and carrot juice and also some of the suppliments and meds I take. So brown poo is out, I very seldom have normal poo but the docs don't seem too worried about it unless it stays white or clay-colored which means the liver bliirubin levels are out of whack and the liver is not working good. It is funny because I just discussed this with the docs at MD Anderson last week and again today with my local oncologist. Who would ever thnk we would discuss poo on the internet-LOL!
43 Year Old Female/Mom/Wife
Colon Resection/Hysterctomy Oct 08/2 Ports Surgeries
Folfox/Folfiri/Cisplatin/Irinotecan/Xeloda
Who knows what now?