Squatting Toilet Platform

Hey Friends, Happy Easter,

I started naltrexone about six weeks ago, so far so good, stool finally became solid.  Now I have these bleedin' hemorrhoids (I'm not Scottish) and I'm doing sitz baths and witch hazel pads.  Seems to be helping.

Anywards, I read this article http://www.toilet-related-ailments.com/crohns-disease.html and like any other it has the "cure" for Crohn's.  Got me interested, since I've wanted a squatting toilet for a few years now.  I know biologically we were designed to eliminate that way, but I had never seen anything quite so connected to Crohn's.

Anyone got any experience with it?

ExJohnson

Yeah, there's been a lot of research I've done on it, but that article I posted was the most intensive Crohn's peice I'd seen. It'd be an investment of about 170 bucks, there's a guy in SC that makes em. That's money, but about the same as a copay for most of my doc visits. If it helps me 5%, 10%, than I would think that makes it worth it.

I love my sister, but she doesn't know anything about Crohn's. I was explaining to her about detoxing, and she said "My friend says if you poop, you are detoxing." So I said "So if you poop normally, you're detoxing?" She says yep. So I said "And what exactly do you think Crohn's is?"

remember when grandpa used a shoe horn? Well every good thing comes back in style!

Just got an email from my doctor saying that in all his research it was the most natural way to eliminate.

We still have this kind of toilet system in most parts of the country (India). That is why most villagers and people from country side are more healthy compared to urbanites.

Of course the disadvantage is that if you are at all overweight or under-energised, getting up from a squatting position can be harder, particularly after half an hour of diarrhoea. Me, I am a lazy man. When I know it is going to be a long day, I sit with my feet up on a box or a big book in front of me....even a little change makes such a difference !
And it's the only good reason I can think of to keep old shopping catalogues that have twelve hundred pages.

Does this toilet come with a lift. Just as Snohare points out, 30 minutes in that position for me would mean agony, plus I would never be able to rise again. As a famous football coach once said,,"the knees, always the knees" !!

onthecan, basically, a toilet is a raised hole in the floor, a squatting toilet is a hole in the floor.

Well I think they sell platforms to put along a regular western toilet so that you can squat instead of sit when you use it. Some eastern toilets are "squat pots." They are porcelin like a toilet but holes in the ground that flush.

I first heard about squat toilets when Bejing was preparing for the 2008 Summer Olympics.
http://nbcsports.msnbc.com/id/23716466/

It looks very similar to 'squatting in the woods', but in my home...I sometimes have *seconds* to get to the toilet. There are times I don't even get my clothing down before it's coming out. There are times I am *just barely* able to hold it all in and as I am lowering myself to the seat, my body cannot hold it back any longer and it explodes out. If I had to try to control myself to lower even lower than just to a seat...I'm sure I'd be having much, MUCH, bigger messes to clean in the bathroom besides just occasionally the toilet seat and lid, which get the once-in-a-while splash.