....so I just had both a COVID booster and a shingles shot on one day and I felt pretty weird. When I was nearly fully recovered about a day and a half later, I got leakage at night. This is a kind of clear substance, not poop, but it's a bit smelly, and just a little bit comes out and it immediately wakes me up. It doesn't stain my bedclothes and isn't enough to get on the sheet since I wake up right away. I assume it's some sort of pus and associate it with pouchitis. Usually it follows a period of lower gut (pouch) inflammation as expressed especially by a lower back ache, which I might not have noticed due to the other aches from getting the shots. Once this pus thing happens, I take some extra VSL#3 and it typically clears up (knock on wood).
So that could have been a response to my system being down in general or maybe it was from the pain killers/fever reducers I took (one dose of naproxen, then later I took acetaminophen twice over the next day and a half). Sometimes taking pain killers seems to irritate the pouch. I wanted to follow up since I just had the shots! This didn't happen when I had my last COVID booster or the other two COVID shots that kicked my butt, especially the second one. So who knows!?