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Can anyone else feel their poop?

9 replies

Yogipineapple123 · 01/12/2022 02:15

I can always feel my poop in the left side of my intestines. As in, if I put my hand on my abdomen I can feel it.

I’ve mentioned this as the doctor before as I thought it was a weird lump - they explained what it was.

I’ve never heard of anyone else having this though!

Is this the same for everyone then!? Can you feel stuff in your intestines?

OP posts:
dolor · 01/12/2022 03:28

Oh lovely, a poo troll.

Popvan · 01/12/2022 03:58

Yes when I put my finger up my arse.

ZooMount · 01/12/2022 04:09

Yes I can and I also went to the doctor's about it thinking I have a lump. Ignore the poo troll comments. It's normal, although I'm still a bit sceptical as it's there even if I've emptied my bowels, but lots of people have the same thing apparently, particularly if you are relatively thin.

MrsMorrisey · 01/12/2022 04:52

Probs need to drink more water. I'm guessing you're quite thin and can feel it when you're lying down?
Don't think it's that unusual.

goodmother90 · 01/12/2022 04:54

I can if i'm constipated!

TheLadyofShalott1 · 01/12/2022 05:56

It is one of the main reasons medics palpate our abdomens if we are complaining of pain, or of not having had our bowels open for longer than is usual. Many A&E doctors and Gastroenterologists will start any bowel investigations by palpating and listening to your bowels (through a stethoscope) often accompanied by a finger up your bum!

A doctor can detect quite a lot through the palpation of one's stomach. First of all they will probably be testing if and/or how painful, firmly pushing on your stomach is, that will also help them establish whereabouts the actual potential problem is. They will often be able to discern if there are any lumps, and if so, through maybe extra tests, what type of "lump" it is. If it is within the intestines it will most often turn out to be a poo.

I don't know how many people palpate their own stomachs (which is not necessarily a good idea if they don't know what they are doing), but if you do, and you find something firm and lumpy, statistics show - that without other symptoms - the lump will probably be a poo. However, if the lump stays in the same place for longer than a few days at most, even if there is no pain, it might be a good idea to get it checked out just in case it needs further investigation.

I am not a qualified medic of any kind, so this is just a slightly educated guess, but I do wonder if you keep on feeling your poo in one particular place in your bowels, if that is where one of the turns in your bowels happens, and maybe it is just a bit narrower there for some reason, so the poo takes a little longer to be pushed along, therefore that is why you only feel it there?

Good luck with getting to the bottom of this

@Yogipineapple123 😉🌻

Yogipineapple123 · 01/12/2022 13:01

Thank you all!

Yes, thin and when lying down. I’m not a troll, I just wanted to check with others as obviously this is not the sort of thing that comes up in conversation a lot!

The doctor checked it out and it comes and goes - so I’m not worried and I’m sure it’s just poop, but this for me wondering why this wasn’t more common knowledge!

OP posts:
2020Gemma2020 · 01/12/2022 22:07

Yes, I can feel it too, especially if I haven been for a while

Bestcatmum · 01/12/2022 22:43

No, I'm too fat.

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