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Usually, after breakfast, I take a bowel movement right afterward, in my house.

Then, when I get to work, I take another bowel movement.

Then start work. Then eat lunch.

Sometimes, it takes three bowel movements between breakfast and lunch. And usually, bowel movements do not feel complete anyways.

That is so inconvenient, b/c I take public transportation between home and work. It takes about 90 minutes. Some train stations have bathrooms. Bathrooms sometimes out of order. The bathroom at my work is often out of order. The hand dryer is too loud and has given me headaches. Three toilets and two urinals are not enough for all the precious lil "people" in the building. The bathroom is frequently gross. The janitor often takes over the bathroom, for a long amount of time. In that parking lot, is McDonalds and 24 hour Fitness only. There is no other bathroom available. Public urination and defecation are illegal (indecent exposure, public urination, littering). There are videocameras that could "catch" me if I urinated/defecated in the parking lot. Defecating often takes a long time, 15-30 minutes, anyways. There are plenty of suspicious looking characters (customers, homeless, day laborers, and employees) lurking around, and I am afraid that if they see me urinating/defecating in the parking lot, they will overreact. (It is also correct, that I have seen some people urinating/defecating in the parking lot, and I did not react.)

Been taken Glycolax, by prescription, since March 2023. It seems to make bowel movements take less effort, but I think that that is because the winter temperature is colder and exacerbates constipation.

You post about bowl problems a bit. I'm sure it must be very difficult & frustrating to deal with. Did the docs give you any diagnoses about what's wrong or some ideas about what's causing the problem? If you seen a few docs about this who are kinda clueless about what could be done to improve things, I'll suggest asking them about getting a colostomy. It will not solve or treat the real problem but at least you wouldn't have to worry about staying in the bathroom for a long period of time.

I've recently found that drinking a glass of lactose free milk helps my bowel. Not that I was having a bowel movement as frequently as the op but I felt there was some kind of irritation in my intestine.

Have you ever had endoscopy or colonoscopy?

isabella

in july, a gastroenterologist told me to get a colonoscopy, but i have not done so yet b/c:

if no driver, have to get it unsedated

$$$, and if i earn under the Medi-Cal amount this year, then I am eligible for Medi-Cal and won't have to pay for a colonoscopy altogether

emotional overeating, do not think i will be able to follow the dieting instructions
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yesterday after work, went to two grocery stores (usually do not do that. public transportation takes a longfuck time where i live).

grocery store one: one of each: lentil salad, tofu sandwich, tuna sandwich
trader joe's, hummus wrap

dinner: hummus, tofu (and some other veg in the tofu sandwich), yogurt, metamucil, mangoes,

(44 min bowel movement). way too long.

today, breakfast: 4 servings pita bread, 1 serving focaccia, 1 yogurt, 1 broccoli, 1 serving sandwich veg

(4 min) bm, uneventful, log

2 hour nap

(29 min bm) strained, bm

jogged to the library, (18 min bm)

lunch

(12 min bm)


seriously need a colonoscopy - @ least, a colon cleanse. but afraid of the above issues.

Mine's next week. I'll let you know how it goes.

isabella

how was your colonoscopy prep?

how was the colonoscopy?

how was your health after the colonoscopy?

how much did the colonoscopy hurt?

The prep was OK.

Starting at noon the day before I could only have clear fluids and Jell-o.
I had a big meal right before noon, so that was no problem.

At 6 pm I had two laxative tablets and a glass of the mixture.
It's a powder you mix into water.

Then I just had to keep drinking lots of water all night.
I had some chicken broth and more Jell-o but wasn't even hungry.

It's hard to be hungry when you drink that much water.
I felt a bit nauseated from all the water, but not from the prep.


In the morning:
Another laxative, another glass of prep powder, and more water.


I had both colonoscopy and gastroscopy (mouth).
It was general anaesthesia by a general surgeon.
I fell asleep in the OR and woke up in recovery.
I didn't feel anything.
No bloating, no sore throat, no gas.

They said my colonoscopy was perfect - no problems.
That's good because I had a bowel resection before.

They're doing a biopsy on something in my stomach.
That was from the gastroscopy.
I won't know about it for about six weeks.

I'm fine, just very tired because I skipped my ADHD meds.
I also had to get up very early.

It didn't hurt at all.
I can't even tell anything was done.

Sorry IL,
I forgot to offer prep advice.
Lanolin baby wipes.
Don't flush them...bin them, but you are going to get SO raw from wiping acid.

That was about my eighth scope so I know how to prep.

I really hope sfbum will decide to go.


@sfbum,
My partner is having his first one at the end of October.
I'll let you know how it is for him as a newbie.


@carbon,
I'm allergic to lanolin so .. no.

update:

yesterday's bowel movements

1. (18 min), uneventful
2. (17 min), uneventful
3. (15 min fail)
4. (24 min fail)
5. (1hr fail)

The only other time i remember failing three consecutive bowel movements: 2016 after eating two bus stop tamales. (suspect food poisoning).

except yesterday, did not eat anything out of the ordinary

nothing unusual happened yesterday.

feel like my gastrointestinal system failing and my worthless corpse going to drop dead, just like Elvis. but WTF ever, b/c my "life" has been royally f****d up for a long time, and only getting worse, medically and financially. besides, 41 years old, middle aged. (shrug)

I have a bowel movement once a day or once every two days. Going five times a day is a lot and is maybe why you get nothing on most bathroom visits. Straining that much can't be good for you.

renaeden

most of my bowel movement attempts are successful. however, failures do happen.

today, bowel movements 16, 39, (lunch) (50 min fail) dinner (15 min).

besides, nine servings fruit/veg a day (sometimes more)

dyssergenic defecation, gastroenterologist said

so inconvenient

not enough litterboxes, and the litterboxes there are, often out of order, customer only, filthy, loud, dirty, dangerous,

i can't relax in the litterbox, esp @ the one @ work.

I can understand that lots of fruit would make you use the litterbox more.

I'm with you on the work litterbox, I can't relax there either and won't do #2 there unless I absolutely have to. I have IBS and so sometimes I do have to. I'm very lucky that I don't have trouble going, I have the opposite problem.

How long have you had dyssergenic defecation? I've read a bit about it and it sounds very unpleasant, some people even get it as children, poor things.