While it's always a great idea to care, sometimes you might see things that aren't so bad. For example, I had little white balls in my poop, but then I figured they were seeds from the okra I ate the evening before. AFter that one time, I didn't have them again.

David, I feel bad for you. All I know to tell you is to try Motherload's advice. What works best for me, though it's slow, is to just get over the illnesses/infections however I need to, and then take time to re-stabilize. Hopefully in a week or two you will feel better. Good luck, David!

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There's lots of good yogurts to choose from at Trader Joe's and stores like that. If you don't like dairy products, there is soy yogurt you can eat. We buy it from Fred Meyer.

Best of luck with your butt.
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while i am no doctor, i do know that it is not unusual for certain things to show up undigested in one's poop. corn and peanuts being the main culprits.
i personally am a huge bell pepper lover, and my research has found that the skins and seeds of such are generally undigestible. given this bit of information, i do not worry too much when the brightly colored skins appear in the bowl.
in fact, i have even come up with a name to describe the end result: the Luau Loaf.

David, is it possible that tomatoes are growing in your belly? You need to contact Art Bell, man.

That quack doctor of yours, is probably getting kick backs from big pharma, to promote some anti IBS drug. Either that, or the HMO he works for, is.
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Everyone knows tomatoes are evil. There's a famous story about a sailing ship during the 1600s, and they're months into their voyage, and ran out of tomatoes long ago, and this guy is swabbing puke off the deck and notices there's tomatoes in all the puke. Tomatoes are evil...they just sit inside you and never ever digest. Stay away from them, unless they've been turned into pizza sauce.

Anonymous Coward - you're evil. And full of shit. Tomatoes are nature's prefect food. Those and corned beef hash.

I like corned beef hash! And tomatoes. I've heard rumor that some foods do stay with you for a while, and I've also heard that everything keeps moving if you eat right. I don't know what to believe anymore. Maybe we should ask Motherload.

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So your a man and you have a yeast infection? -_-

Hope you get better.

Re: veggie skins in poop, I wondered if roasting green peppers first, and skinning them would eliminate the "greenish" smell at exit. I experimented with this last night; made spaghetti sauce with lots of gbp, roasted first.

It was very tasty; the roasting of the peppers was a great enhancement of flavor, and the absence of skin not only took out the "grassy" taste, but I noticed this morning that the usual "green pepper cloud" is much reduced.

I bet steaming tomatoes and peeling them before cooking would work, too.