Problems with Activia yogurt?

[Unregistered]

I started eating Activia yogurt once a day for the last month and a half, and initially was very happy with the results. But in the last week I've had a bout of intestinal cramping with very sharp intermittent pains, and fever. Pains are in stomach and lower ab area, with more pain on the right side. I'm wondering if (after reading some of the threads here tonight) that I should be checked for a problem with my appendix. Or is there a possibility that all the Activia yogurt (with the "good bacteria") could have caused a bacterial infection? Any thoughts?

[Unregistered]

I use Activia and get great results from it. I've never heard of any bacterial infections developing from use of it or any product containing "good" bacteria. As far as I know, there is no way good bacteria can "go over to the dark side" so to speak.

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I started eating Activia yogurt once a day for the last month and a half, and initially was very happy with the results. But in the last week I've had a bout of intestinal cramping with very sharp intermittent pains, and fever. Pains are in stomach and lower ab area, with more pain on the right side. I'm wondering if (after reading some of the threads here tonight) that I should be checked for a problem with my appendix. Or is there a possibility that all the Activia yogurt (with the "good bacteria") could have caused a bacterial infection? Any thoughts?

I took Activia 3 days ago, and on the 2nd day my stool was green. I'm wondering if Activia could be the problem. Please let me know if you have heard of anything like this.

[notregistered]

I don't know about the green stools, but I've experienced periodic bouts of intense gas hours after eating it, plus stomach aches and liquid stool. Others swear by this stuff and that's great but it's not for everyone. I posted in hopes that someone else having the same hassles would realize it's the Activia and go back to regular yogurt.

[Activiaschizzle]

Holy Sweet Jumping Jehosaphat!!! I've eaten two cups over two days (that'd be one per day) and I cannot begin to describe my experience. It isn't pleasant, except for the 10 year old inside me that still laughs at fart jokes and other toilet humor.

Day 1:
Had a cup of the Activia at lunch. Polished it off around 12:15. By 1:05 I was in the toilet, praying that the Almighty would stop the cramping. I started sweating. Profusely. Kastanza on the commode profusely. Between the cramps that were doubling me over and the sting of sweat in my eyes, I hoped that something, anything would give.

It did.

Has anyone had one of those nights when you may have consumed a wee bit too much beer, perhaps a few drags of an herbal supplement that is currently not on the approved for consumer use list, and then thought a run to White Castle was a good idea? Remember the next morning? Yeah, like that.

Honest Abe, I wish the toilet had a shoulder harness. Or at least a seatbelt. I think I came two or three inches off the seat when the dam finally broke. Shrapnel everywhere. My gut was making as much noise as my keister and I think the ships at sea turned away from the fog horn going off in the men's room on the third floor. At about the third contraction, a coworker came in, stopped short, and left. Yes, potency my dear friends.

The nice thing is that the whole episode took about ten minutes. I was back at my desk, dried and cleaned, and wondering "What in the holy hell was that?!?"

Day 2:

I don't know why I did it, but I did. I had another cup. Maybe it was the pasta salad I had for lunch yesterday. Maybe that was what did it to me. Or maybe I drank my diet soda too fast. Yeah, that had to be it.

Nope.

I made it about two hours after my cup of Activia at lunch. This time, however, I was in the middle of a meeting. That familiar gurgle, that lovely pinching of my abdominal muscles convinced me that the new production matrix was just not that damned important. Off I went.

First floor this time. Men's room about twenty paces from the cafeteria. Not highly travelled at this time of day.

Thank Vishnu for small favors.

Had the joint all to myself. Sounded like a truck stop bathroom after the all you can eat chili buffet.

This is powerful stuff, this Activia. Tastes great but makes me shizzle like a moose that ate a pan of ExLax brownies.

YMMV

[Woodgee]

I bought a four pack earlier this week, and after the first day, my stomach hurt, but heck I thought it was the Tylenol I took for a headache. Day 2 - bad stomach pains and bloated feeling and a few more trips to the bathroom for a #2. Day 3 - gave it the benefit of the doubt and regret it. I've had stomach pain for like 2 days and too many visits to the bathroom for #2 visits. The pain I had was similar to the pain I got when I was on Bactrim (antibotic) a few months ago for an ear infection. Other than the Activia, there were no changes to my diet. Each day I eat a bowl of Kashi cereal for breakfast with milk, I drink water or selzter water during the morning, lunch consists of a yogurt, granola, apple, and some other fruit. I replace my normal yogurt with the Activia this week to try something new. And literally, within a half hour of eating it, all went down hill. I guess this stuff is supposed to be for women (which I am) but be warned, if eating a 4 ounce will do this do me, just think what it can do you too (or if you ate two to equal a normal yogurt serving). This stuff also only has 1 gram of fiber and I consume between 25 and 30 gram of fiber a day. Trust me, when I decided to eat two servings of fiber 1 before (this would be about 32 grams of fiber in one sitting) I didn't get as bloating, gassy, miserable, for have the horrible bowel movement that went along with eating this stuff.
Consume in small doses until you know what it does to you. If you get weird body signals, stop, don't suffer what the rest of have. It's not pretty, especially if you're at work and are bathroom shy in regards to going a #2.

[Anne20]

I've had trouble with Activia too, but the result was simply bloating - the opposite of what it promised to do. Regular natural yoghurt is fine with me, it's cheaper too!

[punkster8]

Like others on this blog my experience with Activia was miserable. :( A family member, who is a nurse, suggested I try it. I ate it two days in a row. I got horrible stomach cramps, bloating and had go to the bathroom within the hour. I could have sworn I had food poisoning. The second day was much worse than the first day. Why, oh why, I ask myself did I eat it that second day? I was in intense pain. I don't plan to be too graphic but let's just say I vomited AND I had liquid stool--I spent about an hour in the bathroom. I'm still feeling sick and crampy 48 hours later.

I'm convinced this stuff has a hidden laxative in it that the company isn't telling us about. I've been on mega powerful doses of probiotics before for weeks on end and never had anything like this happen.