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?

I am not opposed to your view, I just KNOW that what came out of my gallbladder were 16 little hard gallstones, verified to be gallstones by my doctor boyfriend. And since their expulsion, I no longer have pain in my gallbladder.

If they weren't gallstones, fair enough, I'll know down the line, after years of cleansing my gallbladder this way, but winding up in hospital with huge, painful stones in the end, because I tricked myself with the placebo effect.
At that time, I will eat my words.
But until then, I will go on what I have experienced and have seen with my own eyes, and I will believe the words of my boyfriend, who is far from stupid, and who is usually the first person to speak up if he thinks that something is a bit cuckoo, and I will listen to my body, which has been telling me for years since that I no longer have pain in my gallbladder.

'Left to dry'. No, I didn't go that far and then string them onto some thread and wear them as a necklace.
Who dries their gallstones?
Weird.
:)

"Who dries their gallstones?
Weird."

Ha! yeah...

I just mean if they're left in air for a little while - the time it might take for you to fish them out of the loo, give them a rinse, maybe leave them on the bathroom shelf for little while and then present them to your boyfriend, they will harden some more.

Thread has moved on slightly...but I would just like to share that a very old and prim great-aunt of mine had a beautifully embroidered sampler hanging in the loo, saying

'Never Ignore the Need to Evacuate'

Wow, your boat's made of shit!

I have a boat. It can sail round the world but it is of a medium that is unconventional.
Paper, gold or cheese? ... Merde!

I guess it stands to reason - all those caffeinated poos forming a highly durable, yet plastic, boat-building medium. Smart!

Boats can be made from paper or gold, btw. Not so sure about cheese.

There was a Victorian fashion for gallstone necklaces. Apparently they're iridescent. Well, they would be, wouldn't they, having developed in much the same way as pearls?

No, we didn't keep the 'gallstones' hanging around for too long.

Garlic. Not all boats are plastic, and yes, they have been made of gold, and paper, and leather.

Bay Polar, you remind me of

Going back to the original thread topic. Several times a day.

I prefer Pinotage.
Funny.
:)

Nope. That's not me. You'd be surprised at how relaxed and fun I am, even though I know a lot.
;)

Note to all name changers: when confirming your regular poster status refer to 'coffee enema trampolining videos and biting your gallstones'

Ive had several milk and treacle enemas in hospital (didn't work for me though)

My bowels and bladder don't work because of a spinal cord injury. Exercise, diet, the usual, have no effect at all on my bowels. Sometimes even on a cocktail of laxatives my bowels won't work, even when using my peristeen (bowel irrigation system). I'm waiting to be taught manual evacuation, but thing is it won't work for me unless the poo is within finger reach, which it hardly ever is.
In the future I may be facing bowel surgery, and /or some kind of nerve stimulation to see if it gets them working.