Delicately wondering

[teigyr]

I don't recall where I heard about it but there are toilets with a shelf on them so you can inspect the, er, output.

[cylegoddess]

I dont think that three times a week is all that bad. I eat mostly all fruits and veggies, and its ok for me.
I find that if your having some of those problems, isagenix( get online) isaflush( not a laxative but herbs that keep you regular) works a treat. Oh and prune juice!Had to stop myself from getting that , as I love the taste but...

[SpinSpinSugar]

Hmm.. no coffee drinkers here apparently. LOL .. Usually 1/2 way through my first cup the colon bomb goes off and off to the loo I must go. Same thing for my BF. There is only 1 bathroom in the house and sometimes it's a race to get there first

[staceysue]

LOL

I'm a nurse on afternoon shift on a rehab unit. It's referred to as the "poop shift". The patients are ALL about bowel movements, and afternoon shift is responsible for making that happen. We have stimulant laxatives, fiber laxatives, enemas, stool softeners - you name it. It's at the center of everybody's mind. These are the people who are very happy if they go 3 times a week. They're old or very sick and don't move around much, not burning very many calories, with extremely small appetites. They eat as much in a week as most cyclists probably eat in a day.

What goes in must come out! The more you burn, the more you eat, the more you keep your bowels moving. I have taken care of constipated big eaters, though - young people. Talk about a mess!

My husband and I have a big garden and try to grow as much of our own food as possible and eat lots of veggies, plus I eat a big bowl of raisin bran every morning. That + cycling = good BMs.

Happy pooping, everyone!

[Jolt]

I'm a nurse on afternoon shift on a rehab unit. It's referred to as the "poop shift". The patients are ALL about bowel movements, and afternoon shift is responsible for making that happen. We have stimulant laxatives, fiber laxatives, enemas, stool softeners - you name it. It's at the center of everybody's mind. These are the people who are very happy if they go 3 times a week. They're old or very sick and don't move around much, not burning very many calories, with extremely small appetites. They eat as much in a week as most cyclists probably eat in a day.

What goes in must come out! The more you burn, the more you eat, the more you keep your bowels moving. I have taken care of constipated big eaters, though - young people. Talk about a mess!

LOL, I can relate!! I'm also a nurse, currently working in a nursing home (trying to change that part!). We have a bowel protocol that we initiate if somebody doesn't go for three days. I always joke about our job being the only one where we get excited about somebody pooping! Speaking of poop at the nursing home, I had to deal with a real mess one day last week. A resident who had a colostomy had been constipated and therefore gotten a laxative on the shift before mine. She then went down to bingo, and came back to the floor a few minutes after I had arrived and taken report. The CNA told me she needed a new colostomy bag because hers was leaking. What an understatement--more like it had exploded!!! The laxative had had its desired effect and the bag had gotten so full that it came unstuck from her abdomen, resulting not only in a mess on the resident's pants but also in a trail of liquid stool down the hall where she had been brought in her wheelchair. Needless to say, one heck of a cleanup was necessary. "Code Brown, third floor"!

[BikingNurse]

Code Brown! Those are the days that I really think I was a smart cookie for going to the clinic. Don't miss that mess at all!

[staceysue]

LOL Gotta love nursing!

[Andrea]

Hmm.. no coffee drinkers here apparently. LOL .. Usually 1/2 way through my first cup the colon bomb goes off and off to the loo I must go. Same thing for my BF. There is only 1 bathroom in the house and sometimes it's a race to get there first

Hahahahaaaaaaaaa... that's what I was thinking when I read the OP- halfway through my morning cup of coffee, every day...

[cylegoddess]

I need some kefir.
I have been quite , well bent out of shape so to speak cos I eat large amounts of fruit and veg( allergic to EVERYTHING), alot of it raw - and well, it gets a bit bloated feeling lots of days. In fact, I look fatter!!( must be those 6 apples a day!)
Kefir sounds good.
I think its no longer being able to have coffee that makes me feel so unwieldy. It was somewhat helpful( like a atom bomb, i would say.)
I just wish that raw food did not take so much SPACE to digest. Putting on lycra really makes it look like Im in my first trimester

[Michelemarrano]

Somehow handling and folding laundry gets things moving...hmmm.

[badger]

it was mentioned here before in this thread, but coffee works for me, too. As does rubbing my belly clockwise (looking down at your belly, it would be counter clockwise if someone's looking at you, if that makes any sense?) I do it in the shower with some soap to make it slippery, and honestly, within an hour I'm "going".

[cylegoddess]

Hmm, belly massage. I will try that too Cant have coffee

[owlice]

Pumpkin bread works for me; don't know why, but it does.

And it's yummy, too.

[shootingstar]

the phenomenon of poop-shame, from which many women apparently suffer. This is the reluctance to go in a public restroom due to embarrassment. He's also discovered that women flush with their feet, and he finds this fascinating because evidently men don't do this.)

Hmmm...I guess maybe that's why occasionally some women are constantly flushing the toilet...OR they are doing this because they are barfing (you know binging and barfing due to eating disorder).

For the former that is a huge hang-up for something so normal. For the latter, just covering up a terrible symptom. I did overhear someone for latter, do this ....and she was losing weight, quite concerned about her weight and looking tired with watery eyes after barfing 'secretly' in a public washroom with constantly flushing toilet. But for both, an unnecessary waste of water.

[badger]

I hate communal pooping stalls. My last workplace had a busy communal pooper and I seriously did hold it in sometimes.

Does anyone here have IBS?