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Have chronic constipation and ostomy. take welbutrin. pill is coming out whole with medication still in it in my stool. why am i not digesting it?

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Dr. Bradford Romans answered

Specializes in Internal Medicine

This is called a: "ghost pill ".The medicine is leached out during the passage down the GI tract (before the colon ).You are seeing the inert shell.

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Answered 10/4/2016

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A member asked:

Have chronic constipation and ostomy. take welbutrin. pill is coming out whole with medication still in it in my stool. why am i not digesting it?

A doctor has provided 1 answer

Dr. Bradford Romans answered

Dr Munshower and another doctor agreed

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