I Keep Pooping Out my Meds

Uhm. Yes. That means you are not metabolizing it. It, also, means your depression is likely being caused by your inability to metabolize vitamins and nutrients. You need to look into digestive enzymes and methylated b-vitamins.

You sure it wasn't corn?

It means you are going to die. Imminently. Can we have your stuff?

What you're pooping out is the empty capsule. It's designed to remain intact, there's a little vent that slowly releases the medication into your body as it passes through the GI system. The payload delivered, you just evacuate the empty shell. This is usually explained on the patient information sheet. Completely harmless. And yes, looks like a piece of corn.

Funny you mention this, OP. I have the same problem. I just started on Cipralex and I get cramps and have to run to the bathroom. I think it's a side effect.

Thanks R4

OP here. If this wasn't an anonymous board, I would NEVER admit I just did this, but... I fished out the pill in the bowl. Yes. I put on some rubber gloves and reached into my own feces to retrieve a pill I had swallowed hours earlier.

I did think maybe it was a piece or corn, so I squeeze it to make sure. And to my astonishment it was EMPTY inside (except for the toilet water)!

AND after writing the above I just saw the post at R4. Had I seen that before my fishing trip, I could have saved myself from this horrifying event.

DID SOMEONE SAY, "SCAT?"

What you are seeing in your poop was what you consumed a few days ago, not the pill you took in the morning. And, more about corn.....

It takes the stomach around four to six hours to empty a full meal, and then the small intestine takes about six to eight hours to squeeze out all the nutrients and empty into the colon. The remains linger there for another one to three days, fermenting and being formed into what ultimately is flushed down the toilet. So-called bowel transit time varies significantly from person to person, but gastroenterologists said you can easily find out what’s normal for you by eating corn and watching for when the indigestible kernels appear in your stool.

R9 But there have been times when I've seen lettuce in the toilet, and I KNOW I only had lettuce on, for example, my burger at lunch only a couple hours before. Do leafy greens pass through that quickly?

This is hilarious! More! More!

[quote]OP here. If this wasn't an anonymous board, I would NEVER admit I just did this, but...

Please, OP, for the love of God, just pretend this isn't an anonymous board and stop giving us details about your dietary habits and bowel movements. You have your answer, now please just flush this thread away.

R12 Then don't read it!

R10, I don't think there is an express line in the bowels for lettuce or anything else. I think it runs on the "first in, first out" principle.

So, it's just like the Holland Tunnel?

Never heard about so many pooping problems until coming here.

R10, I find the same with tomato skins. They seem to pass quickly

I just shot the biggest load to this scat thread.

Lol R18. I just shot a laughter bomb.

In a word, yes, R15.

Yum

Yuck

Disgusting

You sound like my 93 year old dad, OP. Yesterday he shat all over the den, back hall, his bathroom, and his bedroom. It was awful, and his caregiver had the day off. I had to clean it all up, and I noticed the spinach and red & yellow bell peppers i put in his scrambled eggs were accenting his poop plops. The way they went in was the way they came out.

OP, ask your doctor for a script of Welchol, an old cholesterol lowering drug that has the side effect of slowing gastric motility. You want to keep your food in your system long enough to provide the nutrition you need.

Hospital orderlies call pills, especially supplements, Bedpan Bullets.