TMI....BM/POOP!! Read on...

[Tim C 336]

This is definitely in the TMI category. Look away now and don't read this for the faint of heart!

My poop since surgery and delivering those twin rocks 8 days later has been almost BLACK! Not brown but black! I understand why the stool has improved and not as it once was when eating carbs. My carbs are really low right now and that results in a better stool. The color is what is killing me. Must be some red dye in the chewable vitamins maybe? So weird!

[SummerTimeGirl 582]

You taking Iron? I know that can do that too.

[Tim C 336]

I just added Iron back into diet a few days ago so I don't think that is it.

[catwoman7 11,214]

I was going to say Iron as well.

You might want to run it by your clinic. Multi-colored poop is not unusual the first month or so after surgery, but you're almost three months out at this point. It may be fine, but I'd check.

[Betty1971 386]

The magic 8 ball says iron......iron turns poop black and it only takes a day or so. It turns it hard like concrete and black like wet dirt.

Colored poop is pretty common but Iron can be quite the little devil to the poop system....too much is troubling too little is tiring to the body and systems in general .....ohhh the problems of iron.....LOL

[Tim C 336]

38 minutes ago, Betty1971 said:

The magic 8 ball says iron......iron turns poop black and it only takes a day or so. It turns it hard like concrete and black like wet dirt.

Colored poop is pretty common but Iron can be quite the little devil to the poop system....too much is troubling too little is tiring to the body and systems in general .....ohhh the problems of iron.....LOL

That is just the thing. I have just added Iron back in to my diet and those boogers have been black all along.

[Betty1971 386]

14 minutes ago, Tim C said:

That is just the thing. I have just added Iron back in to my diet and those boogers have been black all along.

BUT....the majority of the food you are eating now is.........protein. The foods you are eating right now are super high in Iron .....therefore you have been eating low amounts of food but the ratios of iron is high.

Your body flushes the iron out every day that is does not use therefore you poop it out.......and it is dark in color.