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Digestive Issues, Soft Mushy Pooo
Hi guys, hope everyone is well.
I'm 28M, fit and eat well. for the last 6 months, I have gone from having perfectly normal solid poops, to very soft and mush poops pretty much every day. My diet has not changed and I don't have any other symptoms, sometimes quite gassy. not quite sure what's happened.
My diet consists of eggs and avocado, oats and fruit in the morning. Lunch and dinner I'll either have rice/pasta/potatoes with chicken/meat, sometimes fish and some sort of veggie. Supplements i take are whole foods multivitamin , zinc and l-citrulline.
I have attached a picture of my most recent poop (sorry), I'm not sure if maybe my body is struggling to diggest fat? Cant quite figure out. I've tried digestive enzymes but no help
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.A change in one's bowel habits can be a sign of bowel cancer. Importantly though, it can also be caused by many other things (including a lactose intolerance and coeliac disease) which are probably FAR, FAR more likely than cancer. Even so, as with anything which could just possibly indicate cancer, it's important to get yourself checked out by a GP.
^^^ As Andrés suggests, it might be worth seeing what happens if you cut out the supplements. You're only wasting your money on them anyway! (The NHS advice is that, with the possible exception of Vitamin D during the winter months, nobody who's eating a balanced diet needs any form of supplements and there's absolutely nothing to gain through taking them).
My motions were like chocolate mousse and extremely smelly some years ago. I was passing a lot of very smelly gas, too.
My GP arranged for a stool sample to be analysed and it turned out I had a rare notifiable infection from Africa.
I have never been to Africa. Three courses of treatment got me right.
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