Our son (you know the 15 yo who I removed the tick from 8 weeks ago and the one I continue to post about), has had blood in his stool (not fissures) off and on over the last few days. He has never had a 'good'/well day since tick removal day. Besides the chronic fatigue that has been pretty much 3 solid days now with an hour or 2 of him being up, he is experiencing low grade fever which includes low grade headaches in the afternoons with sweating, though his hands and feet are clammy and ice cold. He is not chilled he said. He has no arthritic pain today in his hip/lower back today.
He is still in a mental 'fog' as he describes it and even when he is awake is having great difficulty attending to any of his school subjects these last few days.
I moved our son up to 300mg of doxy per day today (he has been on 200mg a day since Friday) and will be moving him to more in the next few days to be in line with the ILDS until we can get him into an LLMD (I was able to get refills of his doxy). We are almost certain we will be traveling to California to see a particular LLMD. I will know more soon. In the meantime, I am documenting everything and upping the doxy while continuing the full throttle max-Buhner protocol (we have been on this for 5 weeks and are on the 2nd week at the full 4 of everything/4x a day).
I have not read anything on bloody stool though. Any thoughts on that one will be appreciated.
Posted by bigz123 (Member # 23755) on :
Hey texanmom, That was one of my first complaints. I have messaged/talked to others with the same. My colonoscopy came back normal. I also had terrible mental fog. Hope this helps!
Posted by texanmom3 (Member # 28840) on :
Could blood in stool be a symptom of a co-infection?
Posted by LymeGoAway (Member # 25041) on :
Don't know whether it could be a symptom of a co-infection, but it could be a symptom of a c. diff. infection. Any other symptoms like pain and/or cramping, frequent diarrhea, dizziness?
Posted by Keebler (Member # 12673) on :
- Is he eating enough moist foods? The colon could be too dry. -
Posted by texanmom3 (Member # 28840) on :
no pain or cramping or dizziness. He is on good probiotics, well hydrated, yet we seem to battle the huge swing between him wither having constipation or diarrhea.
He is on a yeast free (candida)- gluten free diet.
The first time he had it was on Sat (constipation BM with blood "in" stool more than surrounding the stool. stayed constipated until yesterday. No blood yesterday, normal BM. Today? blood in stool and quite a bit of diarrhea.
sorry if to graphic.
Posted by randibear (Member # 11290) on :
are you sure it's blood? the reason i ask is because i thought i had blood and the doctor said no, it wasn't.
local blood will be red from hemorroids and blood higher up in the system will be black.
i'd go to a gastro tho and get it checked out.
Posted by texanmom3 (Member # 28840) on :
being that he is 15, he has not "invited" me to view it ; ) This is why I questioned him hard about the blood. I was thinking it was fissures caused by constipation, but am not thinking that is the case...