How do you get thinner poos?!!

[Egglett]

Just NC'd obviously, but am not the poo troll honest.

I 'struggle' with bigger poos, like 3cm diameter, occasionally bigger. However they are really soft and healthy looking. I am never ever constipated and never push even a tiny bit - they just fall out. But they are aggravating the grade 1 haemorrhoids I got from pregnancy so I'd like them to be thinner to give the haemorrhoids a chance to heal properly.

So what foods can give me thinner poos?! Google only says that insoluble fibre gives you fatter poos, but I don't overeat that really.

In brief, I eat two portions of carbs a day, usually white rice, homemade white bread,.or potato. I eat meat, full fat dairy, nuts, veg, fruit, chocolate and home baking. Copious water and tea. A bottle of wine spread over a weekend.

TIA!

I think the issue is the piles not the poo! Try popping a bit of vaseline on before you go then wipe with fragrance free baby wipes after (avoids irritation from loo roll) then use germoloids.

I would definitely eat more natural oils and natural laxative-like foods like dried prunes, apricots etc that have latex in them.

This helped me but I also had to get a hemmorhoidectomy

I saw a very helpful person in the gastro clinic at my local hospital recently. I think she’s described as a bowel function specialist nurse.

For fruit and veg she says to reduce the insoluble fibre and increase the soluble fibre. You say something about this above. If you pm me with your email address I’ll send you a photo of the sheet which classifies fruit and veg into soluble and insoluble eg, eat more apples and fewer pulses.

Why would the solution to a haemorrhoid problem be a more streamlined shit?! You've already said you poo perfectly and don't strain etc so you have no evacuation problems.
Just see a chemist about the piles

It's only a grade 1 haemorrhoid so it never pokes out. I only know it's there because I got bleeding checked out. It just bleeds a little bit after larger poos, but never after thin poos. I just want it to get better! I'm nearly 6mo pp so I feel it should be gone by now, especially as I never ever push let alone strain. I didn't know you could actually treat grade 1 haemorrhoids, I thought you just had to eliminate causal factors and wait for them to go away! So this thread has been useful ☺️

It’s 50p.

In the US they now say 10 and Japan has been saying 13 of veg and 4 of fruit for the past 20 years!

Thank you! This is really helpful. I can Google the insoluble/soluble fibre ratio in fruits and veg and avoid any really heavy in insoluble fibre. It's definitely worth a try.

Which isn't huge, really.

I once saw the enormous poo that someone had kindly left for the person after them at a station ladies loo, and it probably about 6 cm in diameter (truly, I'm serious).

I actually thought to myself at the time that it was so huge, they'd have really strained squeezing it out! And I was so shocked at how huge it was, both in girth and length, that I stood for a length of time that was entirely unacceptable to stare at another's poo..! 🤣

I have no advice but this thread has really perked up my dull evening. Thank you!

Good god I hope not

I was feeling a bit constipated and this chat has got me moving!

I find fresh orange juice makes me go twice in a day. Obviously along with other fruit and vegetables I eat but on the days I have the fresh juice I've noticed I often go twice.

Unsure if it would help and haven’t read full post, google kiwi fruit for constipation, they soften the stool. Wondering if that would help you.

@Egglett when I had my baby the nurse recommended anusol suppositories with HC. It's the only thing that got rid (but sadly not permanently and I'm sorry to say I still suffer 12 years on). That's another motherhood gift...

Try Yacult for a month and I’d say you will see a difference

2cm is like a chipolata. 3cm is like a regular sausage. Most poos are like a regular sausage no? Not like a Cumberland. They are more like 4cm

OP if yours are very soft and require no pushing I don't see why they would be aggravating your haemorrhoids anyway

i guess it depends on how often and the types of foods , and wet wipes help @Egglett

8 portions of fruit and veg sounds like a lot of fibre. If you have bulky poos already adding more fibre isn’t going to help.
Maybe talk to your GP about the haemorrhoids and focus more on them?
Your bowel is stretched to its normal of 3cms. I can’t imagine you can thin them out without going on a diet to reduce stool volume for a while and it having time to tighten up again.

Saying this from a hospital bed with bowel failure and utterly jealous you can even poo. My best piece of advice is to just enjoy them. Try not to worry and just remember how lucky you are to have a poop!

I wonder if the water in the toilet makes the poo appear bigger 🤔
Another vote for 3cm seeming to be on the thin side already!

I had bowel surgery last year and for some reason that made my poos thinner. I wouldn't recommend it though.

After 50+ rounds of bowel prep, more laxitives you could possibly imagine, about 80 enemas and 4.5 months on a gastro ward my poops were less than 1cm thick.

I would rather have haemorrhoids and perfect sausage poops.

OP you are lucky.

Definitely get the haemorrhoids fixed rather than the poop.

The sausage analogy works better than the coins for me.

It's pigs in blankets you need to worry about OP.

Surely your anus is a sphincter so it can expand and contract as required (to a limit)!