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Someone help calm me down. It's been nearly a year since my original post on this topic. I've had my ups and downs with it but have been doing really, really great the past few months. I've still had a little ache under ribs every once in a while. I've had loose stools on occasion, light brown stools a lot, but also more than a few stools that I would call good solid brown normal ones. I had pretty much put most of the fear out of my mind. Last night when I got home I used the bathroom and when I went to flush my fears immediately escalated when I saw a nearly pure white stool. It wasn't just one smallish piece like last time. It was well formed, long and white, almost toilet bowl white. i went again this morning and things seemed to be getting back to normal with a lot more brown in my stool. Pretty much my normal light brown color. I can't think of anything I ate that was different than normal and can't think of any different medications or drinks over the past few days. I'm trying to ease my mind after this mornings stool having some color in it. I'm also trying hard not to go down the Google rabbit hole. It does nothing good for me. My question is, should this be a concern if I feel good and haven't had a white stool in about a year? This site and your insights here have been a blessing to me whenever my anxiety kicks in. I would appreciate any comments or insight on this. thank you all.

Thank you so much for the reply. My urologist ordered an utlrasound in late december to make sure everything was healing right after my stent removal from kidney stone surgery. I told my GP and he ordered a complete abdominal ultrasound dedicated to looking at the kidney. The results came back as clean. No inflammation or infection of gallbladder. No masses. Kidneys, spleen and pancreas all checked out as normal or unremarkable. I'm not sure what is causing my stools but it's probably not the gallbladder. I just hope all the scans didn't miss something as big as pancreatic c. All logical thought tells me that at least one of the scans would have picked something up if it was something bad with the pancreas, yet my mind still worries causing high anxiety. Thank you again for taking the time to reply to my post.

I am again having the upper abdominal pain and pale stools. The ache is pretty consistent. The stools come and go although they have been pretty pale the past few days.

Please delete. I posted a similar thread a few weeks ago and will need to add onto it instead of starting a new thread. My apologies.

I agree with what others have said. They anxiety and stress you are feeling over this is probably making it worse. The CT and MRI would most likely catch c****r in the stomach/abdominal area if it were present. At least that is what my GP has told me over and over. I am far from one to give great advice since I am a health anxiety mess myself but I would try and relax and give it a few days.

Ok here we go. Hopefully some of you will read this and weigh in. About a month ago I made the mistake of looking at my stool and I have been fighting my hypochondria ever since. When I looked at my stool it was almost white. It sunk, was solid and didn't smell but was very pale. I made the mistake of googling and went down a health anxiety rabbit hole I'm still in. I have had stomach discomfort on my right side for well over a year. It's not painful, just irritating, like an itch deep inside I can't get to. Usually it's high near my lower ribs but sometimes moves around to other areas on the right side. Since that initial kickstart, I have been conscience of my stools. They haven't been white since but are mostly floaters, and light brown/tannish in color. Sometimes they are mixed in with a sinker or two in the same stool and every once in a while one will refuse to go down on the first flush. All of this adds to my PC fear. The last few days I am convincing myself that my eyes are yellowing, mainly in the inside corners. No one has mentioned it to me but I check constantly. Now the good news, because of two fall kidney stone episodes this fall that ended in the emergency rooms I have had an abundance test since July. Late July:. Kidney Stone trip to ER. CT scan showed two stones, a lesion on my kidney and a 6mm no calcified nodule in lower left lung. It also showed liver, spleen and pancreas to be normal. Urine and blood test were good. Early August: Ultrasound showed kidney lesion was a cyst. Also noted normal pancreas and liver. Late Sept.: 2nd Kidney Stone trip to ER. CT showed another stone and what looked like another lesion in kidney. Interestingly the radiologist did not mention the lung nodule, which was puzzling to my GP. Urine and blood test were normal. Pancreas, spleen and liver listed as unremarkable. Late Oct: urologists ordered MRI with contrast to check kidney lesions. Both came back as cysts. Radiologist noted pancreas, liver and spleen showed 'no worrisome findings's Early November: surgery to remove 5mm stone from ureter. Blood test and urine test were good. Late November, the pale stool showed up and began my PC worries. My GP is a good man. When I called about my fear after the stool he went back and looked at all my test and said he found it hard to believe that all those test would have missed pancreatic c****r if it was lurking. He said as long as my stools had a brown shade and my urine was clear I was most likely fine. I have not mentioned my fear of jaundice in the corners of my eyes yet. Hopefully he's right and I'm obsessing about nothing. I go back in March /April for a CT to check on lung nodule. Hopefully it's gone. In addition to all my fall test, I had a colonscopy and endoscopy in the spring of 2015. It came back clean although my gastroenologist did prescribe daily omoprozele for heartburn. if you've read all of this, thank you so much. I look forward to hearing your thoughts on my fears.

Hello everyone. I am an admitted hypochondriac and I hate it. I am 49 years old. In the past 5 years I have convinced myself I've had prostrate c****r, colon c****r, kidney failure and ALS. At this point all of those have thankfully been shown to be incorrect. Now my fear is both lung c****r and pancreatic c****r. I will post topics on both f those fears in hope of getting help from the community. Thank you all for reading this introduction.