To ask a slightly disgusting question re. your toilet habits?

[MattDillonsPants]

Don't read if eating.

Well DH and I have a disagreement.

I say if you need a poo, you need a poo...well I do anyway...there's no waiting about it. Personally I have to go immediately.

He says he can decide when to go...he knows "I need a poo" but can choose to wait sometimes for hours.

I say he's caused himself issues in this department by waiting habitually...which he does regularly.

He has all kinds of digestive problems including wind, diarrhoea and constipation.

He says these issues are simply because he has food sensitivities...he MAY but won't get that checked out...I say if he would listen to his body and poo when it wants to...then a lot would be sorted out.

Did you name change just for the thread Mov1ngOn. Made me smile 😊.

I only go when I am at home.

I can do it if I am on holiday or in a hotel, obv, but I could not go in a public loo or at work unless I had dysentery.

Agree I don't understand where people get these hang ups from. Some women seem to have a phobia of pooing in public toilets. My parents never seemed bothered by public toilets so I just accepted them and my kids have no toilet hang ups. At my allotment I wee in a bowl in my shed and pour it on the compost heap rinse out bowl wash my hands then use the bowl for weeding. I really don't get all the angst. I'd go home to poo but happily poo in any clean toilet with no need to mask plopping noise and waste toilet paper making a neurotic nest thing.

It's not a phobia. It just won't happen. Partly because I take codeine, so have to be pretty relaxed to go and sit with my feet on a stool. Some public loos are too high for me to even be able to empty my bladder properly.

I'm suffering immensely, today, from being out of the house when I needed a good, undisturbed sit down on Sunday. Might have to take extreme action, if it doesn't shift, tomorrow. The headache is quite ridiculous.

So on that note, I don't understand people who have no physical barrier to being able to relieve themselves in any suitable facility choosing not to. It's not choice for everyone, though.

Beau... No for a moving house thread!!

I had constipation my whole life and IBS for the last 20. I only went every day or so and would take ages. I could easily hold on and wait until it was more convenient.

Then I had severe gastroenteritis last year and have now gone the other way. I go 1-4 times a day and can't hold it for long. Such a nuisance. My specialist said there is no rule you should go once a day, just be regular.

I can poo anywhere there's a toilet. So glad I don't have this toilet phobia.

At my old place of work, the toilets were often blocked with too much toilet paper. I wondered why. I am now wondering if my colleagues were lining the seats and putting paper down to disguise poo splash sounds.

My DH goes at 11am on the dot every day.

This thread is fascinating.

i've never been able to go anywhere other than my own loo. Always about 20 mins after I get up.

I had a baby and just returning to normal pooing. Was horrifically constipated, it took me a week to go after my c-section. I had such bad trapped wind, it bubbled up my body and ended up in my shoulder. Yes, this really happens. I discharged myself so I could go home and fart undisturbed.

I then developed horrific throbbing headaches when I did one, literally the worst pain I've ever experienced. Was terrified to have a poo so the constipation got worse and worse. This has cleared up now but I'm still going to see a neurologist to see exactly what caused it on behalf on my GP who was baffled. Said he'd heard of it once before but never found out what happened after he referred it.

I'm still using laxatives and easy-poo glycerin suppositories as I also now have terrible piles. I might start smoking again as that always seemed to work in the morning.

Having a baby had really fucked up my pooing routine.

I feel better for sharing all that.

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My mil has tried to give up smoking for years but she says the only thing that makes her go is a cuppa and a fag first thing in the morning

I too love a good MN poo thread.

I had a big dose of reality when I went to work in rural Nigeria. (I probably do not need to say much more). To a pampered westerner I was horrified at the state of the toiets.

I was constipated for nearly a week, before my body just seemed to accept that it could not keep this up for 2 years.

I no longer have many hang ups about where I crap, certainly not about any noise I may make, and can cope without using toilet paper but rinsing my arse with my hand and a bowl of water. (pretty much like the majority of the world's population deal with poo)

It's quite liberating!

I'm not sure this one will make DM