Black tongue from peptides?

[member-8wbz9]

@MyB I did take pepto actually

[member-8wbz9]

@vpeps I hope so but I really doubt it.

[member-8wbz9]

@atlas01 for sure

[member-8wbz9]

@NobleONe subq

[member-8wbz9]

@Mydogdaryl423 nope raw doggie, but I see that was a mistake

[seadracos]

Bisthmuth, which pepto has in it will turn things black sometimes.

I honestly thought I had internal bleeding and was going to die when my stool came out pitch fucking black after spending 4 hours on the toilet earlier that day. Thankfully found out bismuth (which immodium and pepmo use a a primary active ingredient) does that sometimes.

It could be something else, and depending on where you got your stuff you might do need to, but if you've been feeling nauseous or acid reflux it's probably just the bismuth coming back up from below.

However, I'm in no way a doctor. Soo take that with an entire salt mine.

[mmp]

Bismuth subsalicylate reacts with sulfur in your saliva and gut → forms bismuth sulfide, a black compound that stains the tongue's papillae and the stool. It's cosmetic staining, not tissue damage

[Mydogdaryl423]

@member-8wbz9 said:

@Mydogdaryl423 nope raw doggie, but I see that was a mistake

Who knows what this is but without testing what you are taking you cannot rule it out. Could be anything.

[vpeps]

@member-8wbz9 you said you took pepto? That's likely it.

[MyB]

@member-8wbz9 glad we figured it out for you. Like someone commented above your stool will be black too, just fair warning.
Don’t fret, when I took pepto in the 90’s, before internet, I had a black tongue and stool. I called my grandmother thinking I was dying from internal bleeding. The first question was did you take pepto. It’s a right of passage to growing up I think.