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Hi Everyone,
I have not been dx yet, my GI doc keeps saying he is sure I have IBS based on my symptoms.
My biggest issue is pain. I have cramping and pain all the time which gets worse after I have a BM. Anyhow I have noticed that I have these black specks all throughout my stool. It looks like pepper( though I eat no pepper). I cannot attribute it to anything specific that I eat either. My diet is very bland as it is.
I asked my GI nurse about it fearing maybe it was blood but she said that NO, if it were blood the entire stool would be black that it would not be specks.
Does anyone esle on here experience this and if so any clue what it is?? The only thing I eat that I can think of is maybe the banana I eat daily. They have these tiny seeds in them, but I have been eating bananas for a long time and never noticed this before.
Any ideas???
I have not been dx yet, my GI doc keeps saying he is sure I have IBS based on my symptoms.
My biggest issue is pain. I have cramping and pain all the time which gets worse after I have a BM. Anyhow I have noticed that I have these black specks all throughout my stool. It looks like pepper( though I eat no pepper). I cannot attribute it to anything specific that I eat either. My diet is very bland as it is.
I asked my GI nurse about it fearing maybe it was blood but she said that NO, if it were blood the entire stool would be black that it would not be specks.
Does anyone esle on here experience this and if so any clue what it is?? The only thing I eat that I can think of is maybe the banana I eat daily. They have these tiny seeds in them, but I have been eating bananas for a long time and never noticed this before.
Any ideas???