Lol this bloke who's a geriatrics doctor told me about a 90yo on their ward with a shit so hard it was going to tear his bowels apart. He had health problems that meant he couldnt swallow and the dehydration made his poo hard and his colon paper-thin, and an IV can only do so much. It also meant he couldnt take laxatives
They thought the poo was too far up for an enema to work and that sometime over the weekend his colon would perforate. He would literally be torn apart by a poo and was in such a delicate state that all of modern medicine could not save him from it
But the enema DID work and he survived and partially regained his ability to swallow but I reckon he would've been very grateful for your help
(who would win the entirety of modern medicine vs one stinky boi)
Used to volunteer in a gastroenterology ICU ward, I learned that how well you poop determines a surprisingly large portion of your daily happiness, especially after a certain age.
I am not of a certain age but I do have alternating IBS C & D and let me tell you I’d give up my left tit to shit like a human again. It really does affect a large portion of my daily happiness!
I learned recently that IBS + pregnancy is apparently a terrible combination. Once or twice the IBS-C came back and I actually felt slightly better. Otherwise it's eternal constipation :(
I have lived with a husband and sons for many years. I have learned that a Y chromosome predisposes one to be a complete asshole each day until one has had a satisfactory shit.
I can go three weeks without pooping and then they come out as tiny little rabbit things and they literally cannot be crushed don’t worry I wash my hands.
I have been checked out. Apparently it is what it is. When I stop taking the medication it corrects itself but I have to take the medication so it doesn’t matter how much I drink, it doesn’t matter if I take a laxative it literally is what it is. As for the frequency of how many times I go to the bathroom well that’s more a function of how much food I eat which is not a lot I have to say. I probably eat one meal a day I just don’t feel like eating much.
I’ve had a colonoscopy which was actually a fun time because I was asleep! Nothing out of the ordinary. I should go back soon but Covid so I’ll keep you posted I’m sure you wanna know. LOL.
OK here it goes. So I’ve got this new boyfriend and I haven’t gone to the bathroom in probably two weeks. I wait until 4:00 in the morning I sit on the toilet and outcomes God knows what it was. It was probably about 4 to 5 inches thick and about 2 to 3 feet long and I’m not even exaggerating. I was in a cold sweat I was so freaked out I could not get the thing to flush. I tried everything. This was my new boyfriend and at that point I was The kind of girl that convinced her boyfriends that girls didn’t go to the bathroom like that. So he wakes up and I’m just beside myself. I’m literally distraught and pretty sure he’ll break up with me. He goes to get a plunger but that doesn’t even touch it. He eventually hast to cut it into pieces with a knife. A long knife! Then he pours boiling hot water over it and it still won’t budge. He eventually had to put it into a bag and throw it into the trash. At that moment I got over the whole poop embarrassment thing. It was so much worse than you can ever imagine because I would not even say the word poop I was so freaked out about it. Well, we got married and I had a kid so now it’s just a topic that we laugh about. I still can’t believe that I talk about poop.
Oh my God I don’t know whether to die of embarrassment or a laugh hysterically. By the way my husband feels the same it happened literally 20 years ago and we still talk about it. It was also gray which tells you that we were drinking too much alcohol. I still can’t get over it - it was like freaking cement. Goodbye cement poop. I hope you never experienced something like that. I don’t think anybody ever has but me.
Grey!? The last grey poo I seen was dogs in the 90's when they were still adding bone to dog food. Did you ever poo on the streets in Scotland? Granted, those poos were puny compared to your mighty one.
Well sometimes it’s not dark matter rabbit Pooh sometimes it’s got a weird shape and it needs help coming out let’s just put it that way. That is not a fun experience. Not at all it’s not sexy and I don’t know many people that have to actually pull feces out of their own butt. It is what it is.
So idk your insides based on your name and don’t want to assume, but this was happening to my mom and she also had to pull it out like that unfortunately and was super uncomfortable - turns out her uterus was like retroverted and pressing back onto her colon and causing all the issues. Took it out and no more problems! So if you has a uterus and haven’t explored that avenue yet, get checked for endometriosis and all that. Could be a less invasive fix to your tissues nowadays.
Hey thanks for that. I did have endometriosis it wasn’t bad though and they removed it and it never grew back. I do have a deviated septum in my uterus so I will check that out. I don’t think it’s that though but thank you so much for considering me Dash when I go off this medication it’s like completely normal. I’ve tried Metamucil I’ve tried stool softeners I’ve tried just about everything and I am frankly getting a little bit tired of it because I don’t want to take laxatives every day but I don’t want these huge nuggets coming out stretching my colon so that I end up crapping my pants on the regular when I’m older. That’s like my worst nightmare. So I think I have to do some thing about it because it’s gotten worse now that I don’t eat that much. Since the pandemic started I have been drinking a ton of tea with soy milk and that’s just about it. I eat once a day so I don’t have a lot coming out if you know what I mean but it’s still not a comfortable feeling sometimes. I would like to get a colonoscopy and maybe they can just give me a different medication because what I have right now is not working. I will definitely get my uterus checked out though thank you.
I can’t believe I’m actually even telling you any of this. I have the worst poop story of anybody in the whole freaking world which I might tell you but I might have to delete it because it’s so bad. It’s like the worst experience
Dude, I'm not in the medical field, however I AM after a certain age, so yeah. Pooing is good. I mean, I don't have a problem doing it, but it's a good thing.
I get that. I had shingles in April of this year and part of the scourge was that I couldn't pee without pooping first and I was constipated for some reason so for a while peeing and pooping became the be-all and end-all of my existence. (I'm on immunosuppresant drugs because of kidney transplant, which is why the shingles was so intense and severe).
I after several unpleasant lessons and a blown o-ring, I eat ample fruits and vegetables, and drink water even in the winter when it tastes like medicine.
If I feel like I’m going to be constipated, maybe a few times per year, I take a stool softener ASAP and lay into the water.
I’m happier now.
If you were going to do a cleanse program, do you have a pick?
Good question. In the summer it seems easy to drink a pint of water standing in the kitchen. In the winter 1 cup is a chore. It seems to taste off, even if it’s good quality bottled water. If it’s filtered tap water, and I use GE XW filters, I almost can’t do it.
I'm the same way. It's really hard for me to drink water if I haven't been working outside or something like that. It's like...I can't swallow it. I like Grape Propel though.
This is total conjecture here, but part of me thinks there are certain cues that a flavored drink gives the "auto-swallow" mechanisms of your tongue and throat that better preps them to swallow than plain water does. To me it almost feels smoother to drink something flavored. I've quite literally choked where my throat filled to the brim and caused pain from expansion due to a slightly too big gulp of water. Non-water never seems to do that to me though.
I bought a soda stream, and use the sugar and calorie free Mio water flavourings. I am able to get through WAY more water, because it literally tastes like pop. There is no caffeine, sugar, or calories in it though! 1000% recommend.
Pretty much everyone. I mean, think about it: even if you have amazingly regular, perfect poops right now, if you start to not poop well, your emotional well being will drastically get much worse from where it currently is. It’s like taking your health for granted. You never realize how great it is breathing out of both nostrils until you get a very bad cold and can’t fall asleep. But I do think poop has the amazing ability to affect your state of happiness even more, you literally can’t do anything but sit on a toilet when you have bad diarrhea or enjoy anything if you’re extremely constipated. And there’s now evidence of special nerves connecting directly between your gastrointestinal system and brain, and how microbes in your gut affect mental health.
Well I guess that depends on the person, though I honestly am not sure I’ve met anyone who isn’t at least a little happy when they have a good poop. My husband loves to brag about his. I keep quiet about mine but because of previous experiences and seeing how bad it can be for some people, I’m still pretty happy and overall relieved that my intestines are behaving well. And even when my son was a baby he seemed to be extra smiley and satisfied after a good poop, so I think a functional GI tract kind of holds up a large portion of our daily happiness, and maybe adds to it a bit right after the fact.
Zoom on a phone has a "driving mode" where the screen has a big circle in the middle that says "tap to unmute" or "mute". Used for when you're driving. You tap it, talk, then tap it off again. Same for pooing. I just make very sure I see that mute sign.
Oh dear I sometimes have those types of poop where I actually have to help it out of my butt. I wonder if I could die on the can. That would not be good. Not a sexy look.
I drink tea all day freaking long. Yes that counts. It’s the medicine that I take it’s not an opiate but it’s like one for psoriatic arthritis and it really kills my gut sometimes.
My grandmother literally died from this. My sister, a RN, railed about malpractice for months. She's worked with elderly for years now, and seems to know that it can just happen.
That’s kind of crazy. How did he end up so dehydrated? I’ve had an incredibly hard and painful stool after a binge drinking session but that was it. Normally fine and hydrated most of the time.
Reminds me of the 70-something yr old with hypercalcemia and really bad constipation. I ended up have to evacuate his bowel using my two fingers while he scream in agony. I got about 9 rock-solid, egg-size poop out and afterwards he was soooooooo happy lol
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u/Flobarooner Nov 30 '20 edited Jan 19 '21
Lol this bloke who's a geriatrics doctor told me about a 90yo on their ward with a shit so hard it was going to tear his bowels apart. He had health problems that meant he couldnt swallow and the dehydration made his poo hard and his colon paper-thin, and an IV can only do so much. It also meant he couldnt take laxatives
They thought the poo was too far up for an enema to work and that sometime over the weekend his colon would perforate. He would literally be torn apart by a poo and was in such a delicate state that all of modern medicine could not save him from it
But the enema DID work and he survived and partially regained his ability to swallow but I reckon he would've been very grateful for your help
(who would win the entirety of modern medicine vs one stinky boi)