I can't stop........
 

pooping. You know that feeling you get with the shivers down the spine. And you're not sure if you'll make it to the bowl on time. I like to call that a moment of human urgency. Well, I get that 5 times a day. Usually 3 times within an hour of waking up. Sometimes in the middle of the night. This has been going on for 12 days now. I'm in pure hell. I provided a stool sample yesterday to my doctor. Talk about being reduced to the disgusting beings we really are. I'm not sure if something's going around but I need this cured. I can't live like this. Thought I'd share.

Well, if you stop putting stuff into the system stuff will stop coming out the other side!

I am eating much lighter.

There's a reason it's called fast food.

More salads and bran? More caffeine? More tobacco?

Under stress?

Are you comfortable with public restrooms? ;)

What's with all the poop threads?

I know the feeling. Suffered from ulcerative colitis for years. I was up to about 20 trips a day, for six years, and it ruined my life. Good thing is, pretty much all GI ailments are fixable & manageable through medicine or diet/exercise changes. Wait for the results to see what it might be. If you're not vomiting too, it's probably not a virus or bacteria.

Wi-fi, laptops, and magazines were invented for just such problems.:p

Roundel & Excellence right next to the bowl. The new ones can't arrive fast enough.

Have you been out of the country recently, eaten any strange foods. Had a similar experience many years ago and just ate dry toast and water for over a week. Never did find out what caused it. That was back in college so it could have been any number of strange behaviors that I pursued.

Hope you get to the bottom of this, so to speak and feel better very soon. In the meantime drink lots of fluids to stay hydrated.

Try a clear liquid diet for 24 hours. No cheating, or it won't help.

JR

You mean water only? What other clear liquids qualify?

Have not been out of the country. I don't eat alot of fast food. I did have some steak tacos from a Mexican joint near work before this started.

Broth soup, flav-o-ice, jello etc...

You should always chase that kinda food with lots of high octane tequila. It works like that stuff they advertise on TV for your septic tank.

I had something similar happen to me in college. Of course, it was caused by my eating 2 boxes of frosted mini wheats in one day.

Try eating a bunch of hot peppers for the next 24 hours. Jalapenos, habaneros, etc.
That won't help but in a couple of days after the burning goes away you won't mind pooping as much.

Sorry. That was ****ty thing to say ;)

I always blamed it on a bad cigarette! :D

Hope it comes out all right in the end.

http://www.gicare.com/diets/Clear-liquids.aspx

I'll try that. Of course after the pizza I just ate clears out. No word from the doctor yet either. I'm curious if the stool sample tells anything.

HUH????The ole BAD TACO routine...

The thing about a clear liquid diet is this; you have to stay on it 24 hours, with no cheating. Think of it this way; anything you eat that's not on the list resets the 24 hour clock back to zero.

I once ate some bad tuna, the night before a vacation trip to Florida. I spent the next week trying out every toilet I saw. I finally went to a doc, he put me on a clear liquid diet and the next day I was fine. The wife had the same problem; she was cured as well.

JR

A friend in college told his dad he ended up naked in a ditch on the side of the interstate near Milwaukee after a Phish concert at Alpine Valley that he ate a bad fruit cup.

He neglected to mention the 7 hits of LSD.

This seems appropriate to this thread:

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That makes me cringe. The awful is much too strong. There's a point where you're no longer being goofy. This video is evidence that some go way beyond that point. Way beyond.

I'm still trying to figure "the Hoff" out. If he's just goofing around, it's a bad joke and he should stop. If he's serious, isn't there SOMEONE in his retinue that's ballsy enough to tell him he's pathetic?

The term ghey was invented to describe that video.

On topic:

You might want to investigate Giardiasis. It's a parasite. Severe & constant diarrhea, lack of appetite etc. I had this years ago. In 2 weeks I lost 17 lbs.

Ian

I'm not sure if you're commenting on me or the Hoff.

what he said, maybe work yourself up to rice that has been sort of overcooked until it starts to fall apart, perhaps with a dash of cinnamon, or the dry white toast, soda crackers, bland stuff. What did your doctor say, other than poop in this and bring it back to me?

I lasted 2:00 on the video...

Not good.


KT

See what the doctor says, but I have taken liquid Immodium in the past, and it is very effective.

Try working overseas for a while and you get used to it. Doc finally gave me a couple of scripts for this after I spent a month in India...

I've been doing the liquid diet since last night and will continue with it. Would a little powdered cream in my coffee be cheating? I hope not. No word from the doctor yet.
Immodium AD did nothing. I went through a bottle last weekend.

Yes, the powdered cream is something you should avoid. Repeat after me, if you can't see through it, don't eat it.

JR

I'm talking about the Hoff. You and me is tight, yo.

A hint of coffee cream won't spoil the clear liquid diet though. What it's designed to do is give your digestive tract a resting period to clean itself out and fight off anything that's in there, starve anything that might be growing (bacteria, etc). A little coffee creamer isn't the same as a stack of pancakes. Still, avoid as much solid food as possible. If that doesn't help, the doctor will probably be the next best source for a fix.

I've gone beyond 24 hours at this point. It wasn't very difficult considering I slept though about a third of it. I'll see the doctor tomorrow.

I had this one doctor who always seemed to prescribe some meds and say " just be near a restroom" That was when I was commuting 2 1/2 hours each way.:eek:

Right. Stick to doughnuts and bagels.

Seriously, here's a tip: if you're stricken with dire pangs of urgency and terrified that you won't be able to make it to a terlet, clench your fist, or both of them, as hard as you can! Don't let up!

Years ago, I was captive in the back seat of my inlaws car on a freeway in Florida when, outta the blue, I hollered "WHOA! Stop the car, I gotta go NOW!" My sweet little motherinlaw turns around, says "Here" and hands me a big wad of Kleenex she'd quick drawn from her purse.

She obviously saw my wide-eyed panic stricken, WTF?! look and quickly added "Squeeze this in your fist as hard as you can!" To my relief, the dire pangs subsided. They came back numerous times until my fatherinlaw could get off the freeway to a gas station, but squeezing the wad of tissue worked every time.

I discovered years later, in a similar situation, that, unless you've got long fingernails that you'll puncture yourself with, squeezing your empty fist works just as well.

Hope this helps.

I'll have huge forearms if I do that.

I spent several hours in the ER last night due to dehydration. I need to get to the botton of this. I see the doc. in about an hour. Man, you spend 5 hours in an ER, you see some crazy chit. Motorcycle accident, 16 y.o. girl beaten with a belt buckle...