• bluewing@lemm.eeEnglish
    7·
    2 days ago

    God bless nurses explaining things in simple term a child can understand.

  • li10@feddit.ukEnglish
    81·
    3 days ago

    I don’t know about anyone else, but I’ve had moments of pure despair as I feel like one’s gonna tear me in half.

    A real porcelain shatterer.

    • Comment105@lemm.eeEnglish
      15·
      3 days ago

      I ended up occasionally chugging about half a liter of water before going, because this started happening.

      That seems to actually do something very useful when I think I’ve not had enough water prior, but I don’t actually know the details of how the body moves and uses that water. It intuitively feels like 2-3 minutes should be too short of a time-span to start doing useful work, but it still seems to work.

      In general not using piddly little 0.2l glasses and instead keeping a large glass or bottle with me isn’t just helpful, it’s vitally important. I simply can’t get by occasionally drinking small glasses of water. Other than the first day I’d resolve to start drinking more water again, I never went to fill them up enough times to actually get sufficient hydration for my size.

      Additionally, I’ve learnt to feel my hydration on my lips, if they’re dry I need a drink. But I am an unreliable, irrational actor. I don’t always pay enough attention, or stay on top of things even if I notice, so I’m likely to resort to desperately chugging water again.

      • rhombus@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        4·
        3 days ago

        The way I understand it is that your colon will work harder to reclaim water if you’re dehydrated, so staying hydrated will help keep stool softer overall. That said, rehydrating while constipated (or immediately before a bowel movement) won’t make a real difference since the water has already been absorbed from the stool and it can’t add it back.

        I would imagine your drinking lots of water before, if you do it consistently, is probably just contributing to your overall hydration which makes it easier next time.

      • Mothra@mander.xyzEnglish
        14·
        3 days ago

        Chiming behind the lemming who said the water a few minutes prior going won’t do anything. It certainly won’t do absolutely anything no matter how much you drink. Once the bowel absorbs the water, adding more water to your body won’t restore moisture to the stool.

        What probably happened in your case is simply peristaltic movement, some people are more sensitive to it. So chugging a generous amount of water stimulates your gut tissues and encourages things to get moving along.

        Going back to the water - of course if you stay hydrated and keep things hydrated it will help. But you cannot rehydrate a stool just by drinking.

        • Cypher@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          2 days ago

          the water a few minutes prior going won’t do anything.

          That depends entirely on which end you put the water in

      • Death_Equity@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        3 days ago

        Just eat a handful of sugar-free gummy bears every morning before you leave for work and it will be so super easy to poop and clockwork regular.

    • JackFrostNCola@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      2 days ago

      Me too, once held too long when i was busy and kept hitting the ‘snooze button’ on going all day long, end of the day i dropped something that resembled a hand grenade, with the little square-ish ridges and everything. The pain, the relief, the lasting butthole tenderness afterwards.

    • fallingcats@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
      71·
      2 days ago

      That’s because it isn’t. As was just explained, the shape is pretty much set before the “extrusion die” sphincter comes into play.

      • sweetpotato@lemmy.mlEnglish
        3·
        2 days ago

        What are you talking about? The asshole works as a die. Extrusion is about deforming the object, it doesn’t have to change its general “shape”. If there is plastic deformation, which there is as stated(unless you hold it in unhealthily long), then it counts. You extrude a cylinder with a big cross section to one with a smaller cross section.

  • spirinolas@lemmy.worldEnglish
    361·
    3 days ago

    Somebody should write a small book about this. You could put it in the bathroom and read it while taking a shit.

    • Allero@lemmy.todayEnglish
      1·
      3 days ago

      As someone who tangentially studies IBS, have you tried to follow a low-FODMAP diet? It doesn’t remove everything, but makes it easier and is currently the best approach according to studies.

      • IHave69XiBucks@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
        4·
        3 days ago

        I have a lot of dietary restrictions to make it better. A bit of constipation is actually a huge improvement for me as ive been to the ER multiple times because i was emptying my entire digestive tract and literally passing out from the pain. I have some significant intolerance’s too like gluten(could be Oligosaccharides idk), and eggs which restrict me a lot in what i can have. FODMAP is a bit complicated because its like a grouping of different things and some of them i have no problem with, or are actually beneficial while others do mess me up. Like Sugar Alcohols like Xylitol actually help i have a really expensive gum thats pure xylitol and it helps to keep my digestion normal. Altho too much can be a problem. Its really complicated and weird. Like one thing ive figured out recently is if i take NSAIDs for a couple days it triggers a really bad episode. So i try to avoid them in general now but if i had to i just would not use them for too long.

        • Allero@lemmy.todayEnglish
          3·
          3 days ago

          Yeah, normally IBS folks do not have issue with every single group of FODMAPs, it’s just a general recommendation to lower them all, then see what can be added without issues.

          Good to know xylitol helps! And quite interesting, too.

          As per gluten, it’s probably not gluten, yeah, but fructans (oligosaccharides, you’re right on that), mainly inulin - they can trigger IBS as well.

          Sourdough breads should probably feel somewhat better then, as fructans are partially degraded through a long fermentation.