Erm, how often do you poo?

[Mrskbpw]

I've never been regular (!) but recently have been keeping an eye on how often I go and it's averaging once every four or five days. Is this normal?! How often do you go?

I'm really struggling to lose weight at the moment and I wonder if this could be related. I feel like everything needs 'speeded up'. Any ideas of what I can do to help?

54 days? That sounds very uncomfortable. I'm sorry to hear about your spinal injury Reenypip.

I also poo more with alcohol Haziedoll - my friend calls it the 'post-booze-poo'!

I think I'll stick with my new discovery of Activia yoghurts (containing the obviously made-up-Latin-named Bifidus ActiRegularis) and lots of water rather than squirting coffee up my bottom.

Am now worried about how interested I am in other people's poo.

Baypolar - it's spelt 'poo'.

poo no pooh.

Pooh is a bear FFS!

LOL- *not

Not sure coffee would get the bear out of my arse.

If you have a fat yellow bear stuck up your rabbit hole botty, you should use a jar of honey to entice him out.

Your colon is intended to be full of poo, that's what it is there for. Reading recommendation - Bad Science.

I know someone who only goes once a week and is perfectly healthy. As long as it is normal for you and you are comfortable, that's the main thing.

Fruit, veg, pulses, water and being active all help to keep the bowel moving, and don't ignore it when you get the urge to go, or the urge will pass and the stool low down in the rectum will get harder and drier...that way lies haemorrhoids, fissures and discomfort.

I see there's little evolution going on in the UK with regards to preventative medicine. Still, t'is your body, not mine. I'd rather stay out of hospital by incorporating poo-active, I mean, pro-active measures into my lifestyle, than live with the knowledge that the NHS is there because one day I am going to wind up sick and need to use it.
All my friends, and even strangers (I have a website) have told me that their lives changed healthwise once they started colonic cleansing.
Migraines disappeared. Aching backs. Constipation issues. Skin problems. Weight issues. All these can be helped and I wonder why? Maybe because your body isn't having to fight so many toxins all the time.
For those of you still considering it, just do a search for coffee enemas for more information.
Obviously I don't have kids, else I wouldn't have spelt 'pooh' wrong.
;)
I love you all on MN, you are a bunch of wonderful women, I just wanted to help.

p.s Even the Egyptians, back in the times of The Pharaohs, were colonically cleansing! They knew what was good for them. The coffee benefit was discovered in WW1 by Dr Gerson.

This is what I found when looking this up - areview of scientific research shows that claims of health benefits from such procedures may be a steaming pile of nonsense. New Scientist article:
"a review of scientific research shows that claims of health benefits from such procedures may be a steaming pile of nonsense."
"The reports showed little evidence of benefit but plenty of negative side effects, including vomiting, electrolyte imbalance and kidney failure."
etc

Still think it's hilarious that anyone would fall for this. Normal poo pattern causes major health issues? That'll be why the human race has died out.

Aaargh! Link

Must need coffee - in the correct end.

Go and check out the hundreds of other links lauding the benefits of coffee colonic cleansing. The one you pulled up is about poncy herbs and stuff.
Anyway, each to our own internal health.
I just want to say that I feel wonderful having a spiffy colonic tract and when I don't colonically cleanse - if I am traveling somewhere in the boondocks and am between 'pegs' to hang my bag on, albeit I have hung it on the boom of my boat - I feel sluggish and don't have my usual glow.
If only one of you secretly looks into it further and takes the plunge, you will not regret it.

The human race won't die out because of 'normal poo patterns' but the human race might spend less of the NHS's time and money if they employed preventative measures to enhance their health, instead of waiting to get sick, when they could have done something to help themselves stave off sickness.
Keep on poo-ing the natural way but as intelligent beings, some people have discovered new ways to enhance health - like those of you now eating special yogurts, thinking they will help your health - and coffee enemas is one of those evolutions, to help the human body, instead of dragging it down, like our modern diet does to our organs.

Well, I don't know anything about the suggestions of the poster above, but if you have found something that floats your boat, as it were, then good for you!

However, I am a convert to the principle of eating soluble fibre. This is contained in porridge oats and some other foodstuffs. I used to eat 'Fruit and Fibre' years ago and found that going to the loo was always painful and took ages. I didn't connect the two for years, but now think that porridge in the morning can really help.

Every day for me, btw, sometimes twice.

I'm blocked up

BayPolar I am concerned that you need to cleanse your colon so regularly in order for your bowels to work well. It doesn't sound healthy to me.

If it was that effective the treatment would be available on the NHS.

I don't HAVE to, I CHOOSE to. If I don't have a cleanse this morning, I will be poo-ing naturally anyway. It either comes out straight - I'm a regular once-a-day person - or I enhance the process by retaining a coffee enema for 13 mins or less to stimulate the bile ducts, which aids the liver in getting rid of toxins from the system, so NO, I am not doing coffee enemas because otherwise I have problems with my bowel movements - far from it - I do them to enhance my health, to hopefully help prevent myself from getting serious illnesses.

Prevention is the name of the game, in my eyes, not waiting to get sick because that's what hospitals are there for.

If it was that effective the treatment would be available on the NHS.

The NHS, just like hospitals across the US, balk at alternative routes in either treating illness, or teaching people how to prevent illness.
It's big money.
Chemo is big money.
Operations are big money.

For example, if you have stones in your gall bladder, and we all do, 99% of people will wait until they start to hurt and it becomes so much of a problem that they go to the doctor. Then 99% of doctors will recommend an operation.

Those who practice preventative medicine, know that we all get gall stones, so maybe once a year, do a 1 week fast, on the 7th day, at night, before you go to bed, drink a 1/3 of extra virgin olive oil, swish out your mouth with lemon juice, go to sleep. Your gall bladder, having not had to process fats for a week (I do a healthy wheatgrass and Bentonite clay fast), contracts and squeezes out any gallstones you might have the following morning when you go to vacate your bowels. The last time i did this, I counted 16 small stones, in runny, not so offensive poo, having just done a fast.
If you keep up on your health with such easy preventative measures, you don't wind up having to have major ops.

p.s I HATE fasting. BUT, it's better than winding up sick. I'm also not some loopy New Ager. I'm a sloth, a wine drinker and so on.
There ain't no yoga mat in my life.
But these coffee enemas, having read up on alternative treatments for cancer when I had Borderline Ovarian, have really changed my life, not that I was unhealthy before, albeit getting the BO was a bit of a wake-up call. I was 35 when that happened. I am a healthy - touch wood - nearly 44 year old now. Have done coffee enemas since 35. Zero side effects. Just a nice glow and I feel clean from within.

I did think you were a wind-up merchant but you're writing like you think sticking coffee up your bum prevents major ops. Up the bum, or elsewhere too?

Oh hang on. Are you American?

That explains it all!!

I have s very very long history of sluggish movements.

A friend advised all bran I've never looked back. I kid you not! It's a damn miracle. Don't ignore me, do it, try it. Get a supply of all bran.

No, British but I live in Japan. I also drink coffee, of course.
At the moment I'm 'retaining' my morning dose though.
I just made a video to show how easy it is. He he he.
But it won't dumpload.
Sigh.
I love my enema bag. It's a pretty one from Japan. I forgot it on my recent trip to the US and had to buy one of their horrific ones. No wonder nobody embraces the pipe over there. The bags are vile. I love it when customs finds my bag. 'What's this?'

Anyway, I didn't expect folks to look at coffee enemas in a favourable way. 99.9% of people give the default 'ewwwws' and 'ha ha ha's and so on.
As Chairwoman of ACER - the Assoc. of Coffee Enema Rogues - I am used to it.
:)

So, for something more palatable for you folks, you might also want to consider Chia Seeds.
A spoonful of these in a glass of juice in the morning is REALLY GOOD for those of you who have issues with your bowel movements.
They are healthy for you in so many ways.
Do a search.

Once a day on the button 9.00 am may I recommend wheetabix x2 or fruit and fibre to get the bowel moving. All the other stuff, what a load of cac.