I understand that. However my (albeit secondhand) account of what he was told is that his liver was likely being overtaxed by his heavy drinking and thus wasn’t producing all of the enzymes that contribute to normal BMs. Obviously having green stool doesn’t = problem drinking, but chances are that someone reading this thread might be dealing with the same issues that put him in that situation so I just wanted to give them a heads up. Of course, based on your username, you probably know much more about this than I do.
Good old Finland.
I was pooping white for a while when I had an illness that impaired my ability to digest fats, if that counts for anything.
Mine often do that. I guess my meals are demarcated that way.
For a few months after my cat was dumped in my yard and I ended up adopting him, he had the stinkiest, pastiest-textured poop, and was seriously underweight. One day, he vomited (the house was about 75% wood floors, so of course he did this on the carpet) and there was a small worm crawling around in it! :eek: I took him to the vet the next day, and they gave him some Pin-X, and an extra dose for my other cat. Apparently the intestinal worm medication didn’t work for a stomach worm.
Not to mention the gross-out factor! I asked the vet if I should have brought the worm in, and they replied that my description was good enough.
Afterwards, he started to gain weight and his stools became more normal. Now that he’s about 17 years old, I put Miralax in his water on the vet’s recommendation.
Our tortoise, Kevin, had extremely foul smelling feces. I had a sample evaluated by the veterinarian. He had several intestinal parasites, but a three day course of fendbendazole fixed him up.
His appetite improved, and his stools became nearly odorless (not surprising on a simple, vegetarian diet).
ETA: talking shit, we are.
Well, there was the one time I honestly felt like I was shitting a brick sideways. Something had gone wrong well back up the line one fine Saturday morning and I had a terrible, not quite painful, bloated feeling for a couple of hours. Tore things up on the way out when I finally had enough and sat down to get rid of it.
Another time I pooped out an anaconda that curled around on itself twice and ended up looking like the Greek letter phi (or the Russian ф).
And then there’s the one that I thought looked like a frosted Pop-Tart sculpted out of feces, but I was three sheets to the wind at the time and really can’t vouch for its actual appearance.
Weird about my one son is that his poops in his diaper were always these little balls. While my others sons were always very loose and almost like diarrhea. Always took several wipes to clean him.
Our childhood dog did that. The results were spectacular! If it had happened ten years later, in the 60s, it would have been called psychedelic.
OK, now THAT is an unusual excrement!!
I was taking a lot of opiates for an unremitting migraine and, of course, not getting my usual amount of exercise. To get things moving, I ate beans and rice. The next one was like giving birth. I could’ve used an epidural.
I was on some strong antibiotics once and was out at a nightclub. The insides of the bathrooms were lit with black lights, and it made my urine fluoresce a bright green, literally glowing and illuminating the urinal.
Being somewhat drunk at the time, I stood there peeing and aiming the stream around, making light saber noises and saying ‘Luke, give in to the dark side’. A guy in the urinal next to me busted up laughing.
He probably used my yard as a litterbox a few times before I brought him into the house.
I had green poop from eating back packing instant freeze dried food. Just mix it with water and boil.
I tried boiled poop once. It tasted like shit.
Pepto Bismol makes mine black.
[Jeez the threads you people start…]
I drank contaminated water on a hiking trip and contracted giardia. I pooped jet-black, tarry poops for a week before I got skeered enough to visit the doc.
And the farts, oh the farts! Truly monumental!