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Good Morning,

I know that I am a newbie here and some of you probably know about this site but for those of you that have not come across it there is a lot of info. here.

For some reason I am starting to have several small "floating bowel" movement again. Don't know why???So I did a search on floating bowel movement and was sent to this web page.

www.glutensensitiveenteropathy.com/Indicators.html

Hope you find this useful!!

Annie


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julie5914 Contributor

Yeah, when I first learned floating BMs were a symptom of celiac, I was like, I thought everybody's poop floats. Lol. I kept asking everyone (who was close to me of course) if theirs did, and they all said no. That's when I started realizing this might really be celiac. And of course it was, and now it sinks!

Perhaps you had a gluten accident?

Guest kmmolina

As a newbie I am learning so much from this message board it is unreal. There are so many things I thought was "normal" and am now finding out it was the celiac disease. Perhaps I have had it longer than I realized. I have had floating poop forever...but I never ask anyone...I too thought that everyone's poop floated from time to time. When I got really bad, just before diagnosed, I had very yellow poop...and then I read that this was celiac disease also. The fatigue, the fuqqy head, etc...all this time I felt that I was lazy and a complainer. Thank you all for sharing your stories....Kathleen

AnnieMarie Apprentice

Hi Again,

Hello Kathleen and Julie Thanks for your responses.

I really should have started this post as"The Scoop on Poop"!!!!!

ANNIE

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