saw doctor about diarrhea

I've been suffering recurrent diarrhea for the last few weeks, weirdly without any other noticeable/relevant symptoms: ( I may need these notes, nobody else needs to read them )

I saw Carmen this morning, and she listened to my gut, and poked me gently in a few places to see how I reacted. Based on that, she doesn't think there's anything significantly wrong with my kidneys, liver, or pancreas.

Carmen had the tech draw blood for testing, and they sent me home with a stool sample kit (oh joy). If those tests don't produce an answer, the next step is either a GI doctor or a colonoscopy.

Also:

At Adrian's suggestion, I took a covid test a couple of weeks ago, which was negative.

The three of us don't eat all the same things, but the only thing that I eat and that neither she nor Cattitude does is most dairy, particularly ice cream, yogurt, and milk.

I've tried skipping dairy for a day or so, and separately tried a day of just rice, banana, apple sauce, and tea, and neither of those things seemed to make a difference.

ETA 12/20: the blood test showed nothing unusual. I gave them a stool sample two days ago, and there was a MyChart message about a new test result, but it turned out to be an updated version of the blood test results. Meanwhile, I keep having bouts of diarrhea, but at least they haven't kept me up horribly late, or had me out of bed before dawn, in the last couple of days.