Hi, I'm currently having some dark green output and I firstly thought it could be bile, but from my experience it always came out more acid green than dark green (like a yellow-y green). Then I remembered that I ate blueberry jam five hours ago (specifically black blueberries) and I was wondering if my output might look like this because of that. I also ate my afternoon snack later than usual, so it could be a mix of both things.
HenryM
Dec 11, 2025 10:01 am
What you ingest will always control both the relative liquidity of your output along with its color.
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with contributing to this site,
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could be expressed in poetry.
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Axl
Dec 11, 2025 11:03 am
I've never had any effects from medication that I've had. A lot of beetroot can be exciting though .. 😂
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ron in mich
Dec 11, 2025 2:13 pm
Hi Liner i get that when i eat bb yogurt, and like Axl said beet root will make you think your bleeding out.
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Bill
Dec 11, 2025 3:01 pm
If you check on a colour mixing chart, I think you will find that yellow+blue = green.
However, I thank you for the opportunity of resurrecting a past rhyme of mine:
Best wishes
Bill
IN MY COLOUR-FULL RAG-TAG BAG.
Right from the start.
I sensed there was art.
In my colour-full rag-tag-bag.
I’ve so often said
The cherries stay red.
In my colour-full rag-tag-bag.
And to my delight.
All nuts stay white.
In my colour-full rag-tag-bag.
There in my sack
The currants stay black
In my colour-full rag-tag-bag.
I tell you my fellow
The sweet corn stays yellow.
In my colour-full rag-tag-bag.
Blueberries too
Will keep their dark hue.
In my colour-full rag-tag-bag.
Those carrots stand out.
Bright orange they shout.
In my colour-full rag-tag-bag.
I perplex and frown
As I ponder the brown
In my colour-full rag-tag-bag.
A vortex soup of colours blend
A pot of gold at rainbows end.
In my colour-full rag-tag-bag.
Were I an artist like Matisse
I would paint a masterpiece.
From my colour-full rag-tag-bag.
But I am just a simple poet.
Rhyming words is how I show it.
From my colour-full rag-tag bag.
I use the rhythms and the rhymes
To tell of smell and raw enzymes.
From my colour-full rag-tag-bag.
The subject matter won’t get worse.
By placing it within a verse.
The ostomate as graduand.
Will be the one to understand.
My colour-full rag-tag-bag.
B. Withers 2011
(In: ‘My Colourful Rag-Tag-bag’ 2012
& 'My Ostomy World Trilogy' 2014)