Do you wipe your bottom standing up or sitting down?

[justtheonequestion1]

Well, I thought this was an entirely uncontroversial topic, but my DH has discovered (through a conversation) that I stand up to wipe my bottom after going to to the loo.

Do you, for whatever reason, do the same? Or are you a sitter and you lean either forwards or to the side?

I feel as though there are multiple reasons to stand, perhaps you have mobility issues, a larger body, or it is simply your preference (like me).

Please tell me that at least some of you do this and I am not entirely abnormal!!

Op I stand too, well a very dignified squat/hover over the toilet. I can’t do it sitting down the seat gets in the way ! I guess this is how I was taught to do it

I don’t wipe, that’s what knickers are for

I stand

I sit, I don’t think I could reach stood up and I think my fat arse cheeks would squash any mess and make it worse.

I sit, husband stands 🤔

@justtheonequestion1
I stand and so does my OH. I use loo roll, then finish off with wet loo roll.

And no, shit does not get smeared everywhere! I think sitting down and wiping is odd! But then we each have our own ways, if it works for you, brilliant!

Get yourself a colostomy bag. It all comes out the front. Possibly the only advantage, but lemons/lemonade 🙂

No need for the expense and environmental impact of wet wipes. A damp piece of loo roll does the job if necessary.

I use the "fine to flush" ones with the tick.
I do only use 1 per flush and I did do my own home test before I used them to see what happened.
1 wipe (clean and unused!!) put in a jug with cold water, had "dissolved" completely after a few hours.
I acknowledge that toilet paper would dissolve quicker, but it did dissolve.
My Victorian drains have never given me any problem.

I find the wet loo roll just leaves bits attached to your butt to be honest

I have a Japanese bidet. All you suckers are living in the past.

Toddlers are often taught that way because it's much easier to reach, but January progresses to sitting down wiping... maybe your mum's got to explicitly say that when you were little??

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i'm taking this as a genuine question and as more than idle curiosity.

I had a car accident a few years ago and wiping sitting down was no longer possible with my arm in the sling. Also, the pain on moving and stretching. Wiping in general was very very difficult, but I had to do it standing for awhile, then gradually found different ways of leaning and moving that made wiping sitting down possible once again.

Much more recently (as per my username) I had a couple of strokes and once again could not reach to wipe or use my dominant hand. At first I couldn't even manage myself in any way and had to get help.(whilst I admit it cannot be a nice thing to have to help with some of them did it with good grace and others of them were particularly nasty). I have a lot of nerve pain and one side of my torso is very difficult to bend, and I was wiping standing up, but I really hate the process of not doing it sitting over the toilet, overtime I have been able to find a way that works for me sitting down, but I really don't know how I would describe it. It's more of an arching my back then bending forward. I always use a wet wipe to finish sometimes sitting sometimes standing.

Thank you! And I quite agree

No, I never block the loo - that is why I need to flush 3-4 times after every few wipes as I am petrified that if I don't then it'll block! That is grotesque that this keeps happening your office! Warrants a complaint IMO

See it blows my mind that anyone would wipe sitting down!! I might be daft but I can’t even physically picture how that would work 🤣 I’m a stand-and-wipe all the way. Well, a sort of squat-stand combo to get right in there. Wet toilet wipes too.

I mean if I’m also using baby wipes apart from toilet paper.

My DH and I have had the same conversation. Wiping whilst sat seems wrong to me, not sure why! I always stand and DH always stays sat. Weird.

Yes - can confirm that an element of bending is required if you stand

I used to have a cat who stood up on her back legs to poo, but I’ve never heard of a human doing this!

Who are all these people using baby wipes.
you are the reason the planet is f**d

This has genuinely made my day

That’s factually incorrect! Wiping back to forward is likely to cause a UTI!

Oh for goodness sake - stop being such a prude. There is no need to read each response on the thread if it offends you so greatly. To be so repressed!

Yes, precisely

I sit but I’ve got a hunch dh stands because I’m forever putting the roll back on you have just offered me an explanation i hadn’t thought of.