Creatine, Water, and Stool...Yes Stool

Diet and Nutrition
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OK, so I’ve been taking between 5 and 10 grams of creatine per day for the last 6 months now. I had read in one of the articles here that if you take it at low doses like that you don’t really need to cycle it. Now since late June or so I’ve been drinking tons of water. I usually drank about 90 oz. per day anyway, but the water cooler where I work is right by my office and I always get tempted by those things.

I figure I play basketball a few times a week so I could use the extra water anyway…but I’m actually drinking about 200 oz. of water per day. Also over this period I have had an awful time with loose stool. Not diarrhea, just loose stool.

I’m not losing weight, I don’t have a fever, I’m not lethargic or becoming weaker. The only thing wrong is the loose stool. Last week I had 3 straight days off from work, and I happened to drink a lot less water on those 3 days, and I noticed that things kind of went back to normal…then this week started, I started chugging water again…and right back to loose stool.

Is this a coincidence, or could it be I’m drinking too much water, in conjunction with the creatine, and that’s causing the problem?

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200 oz = about 6 litres?
Yeah too much water, creatine is irrelevant but you probably only need 5g per day.

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I recently did the “shredded in 6 days thing” and drank about that much water.

I too had some looser poop then I typically had.

But honestly; if your not sick or having that “burning” poop…what’s the problem?

If you really wanna know more about your poop and what it means, read this:

http://www.elitefts.com/documents/shit.htm

If not; stop worrying about usless shit, lol.

(it took alot not to make too many poop jokes in this response)

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Happens.

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[quote]B rocK wrote:
I recently did the “shredded in 6 days thing” and drank about that much water.

I too had some looser poop then I typically had.

But honestly; if your not sick or having that “burning” poop…what’s the problem?

If you really wanna know more about your poop and what it means, read this:

http://www.elitefts.com/documents/shit.htm

If not; stop worrying about usless shit, lol.

(it took alot not to make too many poop jokes in this response)[/quote]

lol I was counting.

It’s nice being able to crap in under 15 seconds…but it still worries me that i havent had a normal log in 2 months almost

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Feces really do matter.

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yes they do matter.

2months is a long time.

read that link i sent and adjust accordingly.

i read it and found out i was getting rid of too many undigested fats. i cut back on my fish oil intake and so far i’m firing off normal dookies on a daily basis! its outstanding!

poop.

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[quote]B rocK wrote:
yes they do matter.

2months is a long time.

read that link i sent and adjust accordingly.

i read it and found out i was getting rid of too many undigested fats. i cut back on my fish oil intake and so far i’m firing off normal dookies on a daily basis! its outstanding!

poop.[/quote]

Ahh, the swimmers.