I keep pooping yellow. I had yellow poop for a few days last month too. Today, I ended up pooping yellow fuzzy poop and I'm beginning to worry. it's not pale yellow, it's like mostly yellow yellow with a brown tinge to it. Sorry for the TMI !
I went to the doctor and he said not to worry unless its black, red, or white. My total bilirubin is normal (1.0), I didn't eat anything yellow or with yellow dye in it, my poop doesn't smell foul, and I don't have GERD or Gilbert Syndrome. I don't think it's my gallbladder either because I feel completely fine and there is no pain.
I tend to bloat, especially when my period is coming which seems to be around the same time I get these yellow poops. I don't know if they are related. & I'm scared it could be pancreas cancer because I feel totally fine and they say pancreas cancer is very sneaky.
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I would say you have 0.1% chance of having pancreatic cancer (the normal chance). Yellow stool is not a major symptom, so you would not have only yellow stool if you had cancer, and from what I know about it, its fast acting and incredibly painful (so if there is no pain, you don't have it). Also, jaundice is a common symptom of the cancer (that means your skin and eye-whites turn yellow). So don't worry, you have almost no chance of having it.
Maybe the yellow stool is indicative of your food passing too quickly through your system (not necessarily GERD), or your diet being to high in fat. If it were a serious condition, you would probably be experiencing severe pain or other symptoms like vomiting etc. Trust your doctor; if he ruled out the serious stuff, it ail be fine :) Try not to stress yourself out too much, keep well!
Pancreas Yellow Stool
I actually just read an article about five minutes ago regarding a 54-year-old woman with terminal pancreatic cancer. She was given a 1% five-year survival rate. She was put on a natural healing program with Dr. Edward Wagner, a holistic healer out of California. It consisted of metabolic therapy with pancreatic enzymes, coffee enemas, carrot juice, Laetrile (derived from apricot pits), and a specifically-tailored diet. According to the article, the patient's symptoms gradually disappeared. Even "terminal" cancer is not always a death sentence. More treatments exists outside the realm of Western Medicine. In my opinion, your neighbor would have a hard time pulling through chemotherapy at her age, especially if she's very sick or weak. Chemotherapy destroys cancer cells, but it also destroys the immune system, rendering the body virtually helpless against infection. Her decisions are, of course, must be solely based on her beliefs and personal desires. If the doctors are giving her extraordinarily low chances of survival, alternative medicine certainly isn't going to hurt anything. It's better than nothing. I sincerely hope for the best.