Are you drinking anything weird before or during your workouts?
I keep getting diarrhea anywhere between an hour to three hours after downing my post workout shake, which I drink right after the workout. Usually it's just an upset stomach and then one watery bowel movement, and then my stomach is fine and my bm goes back normal. I don't get diarrhea otherwise.
I have tried the following with the same results :
2 scoops Muscle milk with 2 cups water
2 scoops Optimum nutrition whey natural (no artificial sugar) with 2 cups water plus 2/3 cup carbo gain
2 scoops MRM all natural gainer with 2 cups water
2 cups milk blended with 2 tbsp peanut butter and half cup raw oats
I drink milk on its own fine, so I'm pretty sure it's not lactose intolerance. I never get diarrhea from any dairy.
I can't figure out the common denominator. Any thoughts? I'm going to just have a bit of milk and a big meal instead of the shakes going forward but still curious what the issue was. Thanks!
Last edited by pat9966; 02-24-2014 at 11:15 PM.
Are you drinking anything weird before or during your workouts?
I cannot stay out of a diarrhea thread.
If you are sure that it isn't lactose intolerance, the next thing I would look for is artificial sweeteners in your whey powder and pre-made shakes. Some artificial sweeteners cause diarrhea. (I learned that from an episode of House MD.) Do you chew a lot of sugar-free gum?
I use unflavored whey isolate for this reason. Downside -- you have to mix it with some real food, it tastes too bad by itself.
Unflavored isolate is bland, but the flavor it has I don't like. I mix it with some milk and yogurt, add fruit and nuts and breakfast cereal and eat it with a spoon.
How about eating a steak, 3-5 eggs, and some toast with peanut butter after a workout?
Thanks for the responses. To answer the questions:
-I am not drinking anything weird or anything else before or during workouts; Only one of the shakes mentioned in the original post, right after the workout. Then about an hour or so later, I'll have a normal meal.
-At first I thought it was the artificial sweeteners in the whey. That's why I switched away from regular Muscle Milk to Optimum Nutrition Whey Natural (no artificial ingredients except Stevia). I also tried MRM All Natural Gainer. As a final attempt, I tried just milk, honey, raw oats and peanut butter. All of these still led to diarrhea.
-One weird wrinkle is that with all of these, the first few times I used them, I didn't get diarrhea. After the first few uses is when it started.