Orange Stool

[BabyJebus]

Hey everyone, i have been sort of sick for a little while now and after all my symptom went away i didnt get back to the gym and a week later i get sick again and im getting kind of worried. Im very young so this is definitely not normal. My only "sickness" is that i have a very sensible stomach but am very used to it.

Recently i have been getting orange diarrhea in the morning followed by semi normal orangish/brown stools in the afternoon. Small discomfort in the abdominal area but most of the time i can't feel it. Before this i fought this virus that makes all your joints inflamed. went away when i loaded some ibuprofen like a drug addict for a week but yesterday with the stool it started to come back but only about 15cm higher than the sternum where the ribs are connectin so taking a deep breath is uncomfortable(also had a bit of pain on my right ribs yesterday but it went away) . What worries me the most is that i am so tired. Not tired falling asleep just tired apathetic. I cant even bring myself to do go on my hands and get a couple pushups in the get the blood pumping although my mind is wide awake and totally bored but uninterested in anything.

I want to go to an hospital and get specific test but i have no idea what to ask, i dont want to just walk in and describe symptoms because from experience the thai doctors i have met are clueless unless they are told exactly what to do. Been here almost 6 years and have never found a usefull doctor in fact i sent my 3 weeks old a few days ago because she was very sick. Anywhere in the west her symptom would warrant many test but here they decided on the flu after 5mins(which it wasn't but i wasn't there to tell them to wake the F up and do their job better than a 3rd grader from the west)

[Sheryl]

Where in Thailand do you live?

[BabyJebus]

Phuket Island

[jrtmedic]

Phuket provides you with choices

1, Bangkok Phuket Hospital

2. Phuket International Hospital

3 Mission Hospital

4.Vachira Phuket Hospital. (Government)

However, given your "experience " of "clueless" Thai Doctors , you might be best advised to go home.

[BabyJebus]

Bangkok hospital, i had the chance of seeing a specialist last year. I have seen 6th grade students with better insight on how to use wikipedia. He was paid to tell me the exact question i asked him. Never answered. Just did some xray and told me exactly what i knew, wouldn't tell me the details i wanted. But he was sure keen on trying to sell me some PT when my condition does NOT require pt.

Mission is even worse

Vachira has the only people who actually care but the wait times are insane

that is why i asked for the name of some test in thais that might be able to find out which exotic virus i have caught. I am not thai bashing, i am telling you that most thai doctors are very bad at anything requiring brain usage which leaves them being only good at surgery. I come from a medical family so i am not just making this up.

[jrtmedic]

You seem to have excluded two of the Phulet Hospitals using criteria I find interesting!

You exclude the Vichira because of Insane wait times! (It is cheap though!)

That leaves you with the Phuket International which I guess you will reject on the basis that they employ Thai Doctors.

Maybe your medical family could tell you what test you need to discover your "exotic Virus"

If not maybe you should just go home.

WIthout wishing to offend may I ask if your a troll?

[BabyJebus]

Thai doctors in phuket do not listen to anything said in english

[Payboy]

Highly recommend you get tested for Hepatitis.

[Sheryl]

It would be helpful to know what the "virus that makes all your joints inflamed" you report having was as that might or might not have relevance. If it was dengue then being wiped out exhausted for some time aftrewards (and also usually depressed) is normal and to be expected.

Otherwise I would suggest starting with the following tests:

Complete Blood Count (CBC) with ESR (sediminemtation rate)

Hepatitis panel

ALT/AST (liver enzymes)

HIV test

Stool test for parasites and for occult blood.

Any hospital can do these tests. Probably the lowest hassle approach would be to go to the health check-up dept.

If you know you recently had dengue then all this may not be necessary.