It was the fucking RIBENA all along!!

[RozHuntleysLeftHand]

Deliberately not name changed so you can tell I'm not a gross poo troll!

TMI alert.

For the past few days I've had awful, weird poos and they were like a dark green colour and sticky.

After reading a few threads on here about black sticky poo and internal bleeding, I rang my mate who's a HCP in a bit of a panic (getting an appoinment round here takes like 4 weeks)

She came round, checked me over, said I seemed alright but should get properly checked anyway, at a walk in ASAP.

THEN she saw me necking a pint of Ribena, and asked how much I drunk everyday (a lot)

She advised me to give it up for a couple of days, see what happened............

Well.......As I'm sure you can guess, turns out it was the fucking Ribena!!

Moral of the story, don't neck that shit, I feel so fucking stupid now.

I did similar with beetroot recently and was in a right panic.

Ribena, beetroot - yeah I know about those after reading a few things. But when DH put a loo block in that was bright red - that proper put the wind up me! I thought I was haemorrhaging or something.

too many carrots can turn your complexion orange, allegedly

I parted company with Ribena when they stealth-dieted it.
Not only is it now artificially sweetened (headaches, hours of cloying after taste) but they had to put thickeners into it because sweetners aren't as syrupy as the original sugar.

Blackcurrant is a diruetic. Not good before bedtime.

When I was about 13 we travelled around Australia camping. One afternoon Dfather came across a snake when he was peeing behind a bush. A few hours later we were driving down the road and my mother saw red dripping down his leg. She asked him (quite casually, considering) if the snake had bitten him. Cue dad screaming to a halt, him leaping out of the car and running down the road in a blind panic. We sat in horror to see him stop. Look at his thigh for a bit then walk back slowly. 'I must have spilled some beetroot juice at the bbq' he said.

Full pack of Oreo’s = black poo.

This is true, it’s the carotene in them, but you need to eat a SERIOUS amount

Omg had forgotten about blue wkd
Awful substance!
Remember VKD?
The black one gave me horrific food poisoning!

I ate some blue raspberry sweets once and forgot about it until the next day when I shat out what I can only describe as Flubber. It was BRIGHT green.

@iklboo I would have been terrified too tbh.

Beetroot poo is scary, but asparagus wee is the nastiest…….. and I always forget it’s coming, you would think I would remember after a million years of eating it.

Ribena drinks now contain under 5g of sugar per 100ml and have been replaced by controversial sweeteners Acesulfame K and Sucralose.

They've also added Polydextrose to make it thicker but when consumed in large amounts it's also known to cause bloating, flatulence and diarrhoea.

@SunnyLobelia
fuck.
That would have shit me right up!

Oh we laugh about it now....... (or at least 3 out of 4 of us do. DDad still goes slightly pale 30 odd years later)

@WhackingPhoenix that sounds ummm nice!
I think there's something in the blue shit.
(not a pun!)

@viques I was going to mention asparagus wee......... God it smells awful.

I saw the thread, so glad you're OK OP! Would've have suspected ribena either.

I once spilled a Pernod & Black on my leg but carried on drinking and forgot... when I got home thought I had third degree burns on my legs somehow!

@AttilaTheMeerkat yeah my mate said that..... I won't be drinking it anymore!

Vegetable crisps with beetroot are the worst for giving a post poo heart attack.

My DC love the awful bright blue bubblegum flavour ice cream you get from the chain ice cream parlours.

It turns their poo bright green the next day, yet every time we forget and freak out

@LoveSpringDaffs my next name change is definitely going to be RozTheRibenaPooer!!,

Ahh I'm dying, oh no wait I had beetroot.

I thought I had a burst stomach ulcer or something. I usually move around a lot when I'm teaching but I just stayed sat in my chair resting and said goodbye to my students in case I didn't see them again! The gp surgery asked for a urine sample which I was going to drop in on the way home. But I rang a friend and she said a bleeding ulcer would come out black in your poo and she asked if I'd eaten beetroot. I mean, who knew? They should teach stuff like this in school. I certainly did after that! 😆

Yes, also cashew nuts give you white poo. Thought I had pancreatic cancer at Christmas - turns out it was from eating a big box of spicy cashew nuts.

@napody I'm fine! Nobody expects the Ribena!