[Kathleen M.]

http://www.cdc.gov/parasites/fasciola/gen_info/faqs.html sounds like you have had more symptoms than "just" IBS.

It is not uncommon to see bits of undigested matter in the stool. What hard insoluble bits you don't grind up enough in the mouth will come out the other end mostly how it went down. Not nutrients or colors or water-soluble stuff may be leached out, so it may not look 100% the same going in and coming out.

Usually, the eggs are what come out. Things from "liver flushes" seem to be more a consequence of the combination of things put together to flush the liver than stuff that comes out of the liver.

 

[Kathleen M.]

I wasn't saying YOUR symptoms. Liver flukes can cause, "clinical features can include fever, malaise, abdominal pain, eosinophilia, hepatomegaly (an enlarged liver), and abnormal liver tests."

Pain under the sternum usually is more "heartburn" or other esophogeal pain (asuming you are not having heart attack after heart attack after heart attack without dying) rather than IBS.

Blood turns brown (then black) fairly soon after you bleed it into the GI tract. It mixes into the stool. How much is in the water vs how much is in the stool varies. Usually upper GI bleeds (like from your liver, where the flukes would be) has turned black and tarry.

Most red solids in teh stool are from red solids you eat. Probably spending a lot less time trying to dissect your stool would be helpful. Usually nothing in there that tells you anything, but plenty to scare yourself with if you tend to do that.