To ask you if your poo ever goes up the wrong way?

[ScaryHairyFairy]

Seriously. This happens occasionally since I was small. Say, once every 2/3 years. I think it's one of those things that happens to everyone at least a few times in their life.

It hurts like hell. Like giving birth but I never knew that when I was a kid. I had it happen to me today and it was excruciating pain for about 3 mins I had to breathe like I was having contractions. It's the first time it's happened in about 4 years.

What's the scientific reason for it?

(I'm not a poo troll or anything, just want to know if it's one of those human bodily functions that are strange and happen to everyone).

I have Bing rather than Google. I binged javelin arse and got no Mumsnet but lots of arse javelin which definitely means something else!

I thought this was going to be talking about vomiting poo. Seen and smelt once only, but never forgotten!

Pmsl at "javelin arse". It's the worst.

I recently had to have poo removed by a professional via enema.

It was in October actually. I still feel victimized.

Someone please explain 'javelin arse' properly.

Bing it arsenic

So glad there's a name for it; javelin arse. I thought it was just me that gets it! Also much worse when on period and was excruciating for a few weeks after having DS. MN, you have not disappointed!
As for OP, that sounds scary as hell and must be so uncomfortable. Hope you get it sorted. It's making me clench just thinking about it.

Hopefully the docs on this thread can confirm this, but my understanding of why javelin arse and similar is most noticeable during a period is that women get heightened 'visceral hypersensitivity' during a period (due to hormones) so the normal movements of poo etc in the bowel suddenly become excruciating.

I'm scared to web-search anything since vulva-gate

Thanks neeps

Glitterbelle you probably have a fissure - v painful when opens up, often associated with constipation and fresh red blood

Yes to taking the movicol BUT if the blood doesn't go away when the pain settles (or the pain doesn't settle) then you need to go back to your GP

Keith Lemon calls it shooty-arse.

Thanks to everyone with advice. So I may have a rectocele? Could I have had it since childhood? I never had piles or anal fissures or major butt problems before my second baby. Can't really remember if I was a constipated child.

My third baby definitely weakened my pelvic floor and it's been a year now and I still get a flare up of piles. Going to the loo involves holding my arse cheeks incase I disturb a fissure and it tears again. If I do have a rectocele, could it have caused all these problems after childbirth?

glitterbelle what you describe sounds like anal fissures. It feels like there's glass scraping inside your a-hole? I'd give you advice but I suffer with the same. Some days it's bad some days not. When I stopped exclusive breastfeeding it got about 90% better.

Sacharissa it's the poo faints! I get that from time to time

OP, in all seriousness, you should see a GP. Just get it all checked out, it can't do any harm. We all to often ignore problems with our bowels.

No idea about the "reverse" poo, but a few months back I had one of those really painful ones that other posters mentioned. I had just had a poo (easy, quick, not hard, no bigger than my norm) and I suddenly had this intense pain up my rectum which I think was probably a spasm. Jeez it was so bad I had to lie on the bathroom floor for a few minutes as I thought I was going to faint; went really hot, lightheaded and sweaty all over. I've never had it before or since, never have constipation (veer more the other way if anything) and no idea why it did that

If Keith lemon suffers it then it can't be period related!

scaryhairyfairy you definitely need to go to your GP and get a referral to a colorectal team with an interest in pelvic floor/lower GI physiology

Javelin arse - a term I will now start using is more commonly known as proctalgia fugax ( translated as fleeting pain in the arse)

Good luck all

Well I thought I knew it all as been having bum problems all my life (over 50 years) but had to Google rectocele (yuck!).

Scary there is indeed somewhere else it can go (saw it on embarrassing bodies) - a week pocket just at the anal opening - might be connected to having kids, sorry can't remember. I think it can be fixed

I've had every test known to man so nothing to be afraid of - make an appointment. Arse javelin sadly no cure for as I get this too.

Good luck!

note the 'knitting needle vag' too I also get javelin arse.

Life's a pain in the arse sometimes!

Anybody who gets the 'stabbing pain in the arse' feeling , that can be a symtom of endometriosis, a long with other symtons of course, been there and done it.

I'm a shooty arse sufferer, often I will get an intense and sudden urge to go to the toilet alongside it (which is a pain, because the shooty arse pain has me paralysed till it passes). So I figured it was something to do with me having Crohn's, at least till I heard Keith Lemon talking about it!

Anyway, I think it's officially called Proctalgia Fugax, and it's caused by muscle spasms in the rectum area.

I don't get cold and shivery when I go to the toilet, but on occasion I get warm (like a wave of heat rising from my toes up to my head), sweaty, light headed and nauseous. I'm guessing it's the same sort of thing as a vaso-vagal episode. Again I put it down to Crohn's, as it tends to happen when my bowels are playing up.

My rectocele makes my piles worse. Its caused by (i do believe) the added pressure on your bum, as there is more poo-weight pressing on a larger area than there would be without the rectocele.

A rectocele is basically a hernia, so its very possible you had it as a child and it has gotten worse over time and with childbirth

You need to see your gp, it is fixable :)