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Oh, I think this is a post of a home-shitter ( someone who only shits at home, not at someone else’s home, not in public toilets and definitively not in nature ) who tries to go on a multi-day travel. Rather a than getting over his mental block, he tries to prep his body to not shit for 3 days.
Poor soul.
I used to be a home shitter. Then I took a job doing over the road trucking. Now I don’t care. As long as it looks like I won’t catch anything putting cheeks to seat I’ll go for it.
Hell, sometimes I’ll stop and pinch one off on my way home just so I won’t stink out my own bathroom. Giant gaps in the stall where people can look? Fine, enjoy the show. I would and have made eye contact.
Free your poops!
3 days seems fairly doable. I know after my stomach has been upset and I’ve taken Immodium or an equivalent it can be several days before the seal breaks again
Oh yes. You can take a safe amount of Imodium and not wind up going for 3 days. I’m very sensitive to it, so without an upset stomach, 4mg might clog me for 3-4.
when I was a child and was sent to summer camp, I refused to use the showers because they were communal
I probably would have tried to not use toilets too for similar reasons, but I had already had to learn to use public toilets because of public school
Public toilets and communal showers are kind of different tho
have had IBS my whole life. hearing people say this is like hearing people say they only breathe at home. they just. hold their breath. until they get back. Shit WILL exit my body when I’m away from home and I generally prefer it to be in a toilet.
i’m at the complete opposite end of the brown spectrum. i poop on average once a week, at most twice a week, thrice if i ate something bad. i have a fecalysis scheduled for today and so far it’s been 3 hours of me unsuccesfully forcing my bowels to move lol
A very cold apple juice + a very strong espresso will turn you into a propelled vehicle in about 30minutes. Hope you read this early enough.
I skip the juice, but coffee plus a cigarette is pretty much laxative in my experience lol
A Poop one a week is totaly fine but if you’re unsuccessfully trying for a bowel movement/poop for 3 hours something’s not right. A more fiber richt diet might help. Also drinking enough water helps. Mabe get something like a squatty-potty or channel your inner rat king.
Ehm… i would respectfully disagree that a poop once a week is fine.
That would be a reason to see a doctor if this persists for any length of time…
I actually read up on this a while ago and apparently anything from shitting 3x a day to 3x a week is considered normal.
Recent study says good = around 4 to 21 times a week. https://www.sciencealert.com/your-poop-schedule-says-a-lot-about-your-overall-health-study-reveals
Twice a week is considered constipation.
So I did a little more reading you’re and you are right. Most sources that I found say 3x/day - 3x/Week is the usual range. More important is the Bistrol stool scale, I mean if you are having a poop once every 4-5 days but the consistency is a perfect 3-4 I dont see any harm in that. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bristol_stool_scale)
Sources I checkdd
Have you tried magnesium? You can get it in a lot of different foods. Just look up what foods have it. You can also take magnesium supplements. I used to be like you, and once I started taking magnesium it got me to go regularly like everybody else.
Make sure it’s the “citrate” variety. That’s the one that mostly helps move things along. There are other types also available as supplements that have different effects that probably won’t benefit someone looking for digestive help.
I used to be a home shitter, i used to even be a home pisser at school age, but then i started drinking a healthy amount of water.
I am so so glad i’ve gotten over the mental block.
At the school I went to if you shat at school someone would bang on the cubicle door and laugh at you. Caused some definite problems for me
Or someone engaging in three days of hardcore anal.
uh then thats the wrong plan for sure, for that its more about eating the right things at the right times, if done right that can make like 8h of each day usable without going hungry
Whoah, share that wisdom with the rest of us. I’d just like more regularity in my life. (and don’t tell me to eat more fiber. I eat enough fiber. Beans are cheap, and cheap is important right now.)
I feel thats very subjective to every person due to different digestion speeds, but its all about knowing how your body will react do different food, drinks (mostly coffee) and physical activity. Eating portions that will basically go out in one go, while the next one is far enough up and sold enough to give you time. Normal pasta with cheese gets me good results. Like if you had your last meal around 18:00 last day, get a full night of sleep, have some coffee, do a little sport, get it all out at lets say at 10:00, then have the next meal of pasta…you got yourself a 8h time slot for fun.