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Posted 11/27/2012 2:07 PM (GMT 0)
Haha I guess today was just one of those mornings, as I ended up eating my breakfast on the toilet this morning. Does this happen to many of you? Luckily, I'd say 66% of the time I get to eat my breakfast before my 1st bm, 33% of the time I am interrupted once during breakfast for a bm, and the remainder of the time it is like I described below in this post with multiple interruptions. Not a sign of a flare just randomness I cannot explain. Haha I guess it keeps life interesting...

I always know from the moment I wake up that I will have to take a bm soon, the million dollar question is always "can I get through my breakfast first". I typically lay in bed after the alarm goes off for around 15 minutes, and then I get up and put my breakfast in the microwave (1.5 minutes for tea and 40 seconds for the muffin). Today, about 1/2 way through the tea's cook time, I am walking quickly to the toilet (I mean seriously it takes 2 minutes 10 seconds to make my breakfast tongue). During my 1st poop I think "Sometimes the urge to go strikes before I eat my breakfast, so no big deal as I'll get through this and then eat." I'm back at the table, it can't take long to drink a small cup of tea and eat a muffin, right? Maybe 5 minute's tops? I get 1/2 way through my breakfast and then the urge to go strikes again. So, this time (frustrated) I take my breakfast with me and sit on the throne and finish eating during my second poop. I then get ready and have also a very rare 3rd bm before leaving for work.

So far that's it today; 3 poops. The urgency is variable but I might as well just go to the bathroom and get it over with. Seems like I am teetering around the edge of remission, like I fall into it and out of it with some regularity. I'll skip a day without going, have a day with 2 poops. I'll be back to 4 poops for apparently no reason. Then back to 2-3 the following day. It's like it is taunting me or something...
Posted 11/27/2012 5:26 PM (GMT 0)
I don't think any of this would have happened with the US healthcare system. Just kidding. Every once in a while I have to finish my dinner on the toilet. Just seems stupid to have to get up from the dinnertable more than once or twice. If I have to make a third trip I just take it with me and kill two birds with one stone. I go two or three times in the morning too but I generally reserve a half hour to an hour in the mornings to take care of business then I am usually fine for several hours afterward, even if I eat.
Posted 11/27/2012 5:45 PM (GMT 0)
don't know why i feel a need to say this, but ..........................................the thought of eating in the bathroom grosses me out -

i guess over the years i've kinda figured out that food isn't that important - kinda like the holiday food thing - my mom is always so concerned that i won't get enough to eat if she doesn't make "special" things for me due to my diet restrictions -

first, i'm special enough already, i don't want to be that kind of special - 

second, i won't die on the spot because i don't get enough to eat at ONE meal a year -

but i understand - my wife can be deathly ill and still need to eat -

so for me, when i need to take a dump, the only thing that goes with me is the readers digest - i can eat later -

Post Edited (soystud) : 11/27/2012 12:53:58 PM (GMT-7)

Posted 11/27/2012 5:45 PM (GMT 0)
Garylouisville, haha to funny on the healthcare bit (I didn't mean to hit too hard in that other post). More than one interruption and I just eat in the bathroom as I have about an hour to get ready for work in the mornings. I spend more of that time than I like sitting on the toilet just to make sure I'm all set for my car ride. Everything else I need to do (like getting ready, eating, and brushing) kind of has to fit around uc's *ahem* priorities.

Soystud, yeah my wife thinks I'm crazy/disgusting to eat anything in the bathroom. It's a matter of frustration leading to a need for efficiency and a hint of not being later for work than is necessary. When I'm having a bad morning I am going to be late for work, it is just a matter of how late I am. Luckily it is a once a month thing.
Posted 11/27/2012 7:05 PM (GMT 0)
Oh that's a classic!

When I was a bit flaring had to wake up at least 3 hours before my shift.
Because I had to maximise my time on the loo to avoid accidents on the way to work I would make up on the loo, do my hair on the loo and yes finish my coffee on the loo.
If I was quick enough to do those I would get the benefit of reading my emails too!
Posted 11/27/2012 7:32 PM (GMT 0)
I don't know if anyone remembers this or not but probably around 5-7 years ago in some city 911 was called by a live-in boyfriend to help get his girlfriend off the toilet. The paramedics discovered that she had been sitting on it for like 20-30 years. The seat was basically glued to her butt, they took her to the hospital, and the boyfriend was eventually arrested for negligence. It was a funny but disgusting story that something like that could even happen. Ever since having my UC (2 years ago) sometimes I think back on that story and wonder if she had UC or Crohns or something. I could see some of us saying screew it, bring me a blanket and a pillow, install a T.V. and computer in the bathroom, and bring me some food 3 times a day!
Posted 11/27/2012 7:40 PM (GMT 0)
Gee, I resemble this scenario! I get up an hour earlier than normal just to get in the bathroom trips. However, I push off eating until 10 or 11 a.m. because by then most of the urges go away and the rest of my day is fine.
Posted 11/27/2012 8:09 PM (GMT 0)
I wake up 1/2 hour earlier to make sure I will be ok for the commute to work.
Posted 11/27/2012 8:36 PM (GMT 0)
i could never eat in the bathroom. that would just be too gross while i'm taking a crap. it is good time management though.
Posted Yesterday 2:22 AM (GMT 0)
I couldn't eat on the toilet because it makes eating seem useless. Just throw the food in the toilet and cut out the middle man.
Posted Yesterday 2:53 AM (GMT 0)
This thread reminds me of the sinefeld episode when Kramer was doing all his basic washing dishes cleaning and eating in the shower to maximize his time. LOL.
Posted Yesterday 2:54 AM (GMT 0)
I agree - tiolet eating is not just kinda gross guys!! I would stop eating! Move on and eat a little later! R u eating fried foods, high fiber cereal?????
Posted Yesterday 3:41 AM (GMT 0)
'"This thread reminds me of the sinefeld episode when Kramer was doing all his basic washing dishes cleaning and eating in the shower to maximize his time. LOL."

classic grossness !

"I couldn't eat on the toilet because it makes eating seem useless. Just throw the food in the toilet and cut out the middle man."

excellent point !
Posted Yesterday 4:28 AM (GMT 0)
i never had to do that, luckily. But I really think it's gross too, in fact i am so crazy about it, that if someone brings cookies or something into the house for my son, I will take them in the bathroom for a second then I won't eat them. Or if someone takes a cup into the bathroom, it gets tossed. I hate bathroom germs!
Posted Yesterday 5:50 AM (GMT 0)
Ive thought about this numerous times. Still think its gross and will be probably never do it. Its why I wake hour and a half before I have to begin my commute. Did it taste better on the crapper haha?

If I were to so sonething crazy it would be getting a sleeping bag and sleeping by the crapper. Also have you considered putting a crapper in the kitchen by the table instead of chairs? I should patent this "crap". :D
Posted Yesterday 2:29 PM (GMT 0)
*phew* today was a normal breakfast at the table I guess uc had its tantrum yesterday and things are back to usual. Thanks for the responses it made me feel a little better both to vent and to know a few of you have been in the same situation. Haha I have to say this topic has really become quite amusing and I certainly needed a good laugh yesterday after such a rough morning. Yeah it is a little gross to eat on the toilet, but my bathroom is very clean, the ventilation fan was on full blast, but I am a man (and therefore gross by definition).

Madcat25 said...
Did it taste better on the crapper haha?

No taste difference that I could discern, but admittedly I was half awake at the time and therefore not at my most alert. The key is to eat or drink during calm/idle periods during the bm tongue

46&crashing said...
I couldn't eat on the toilet because it makes eating seem useless. Just throw the food in the toilet and cut out the middle man.

Haha if I could I would cut out the middle man, but I'm already too skinny to forgo the calories.

faithmac said...
"This thread reminds me of the sinefeld episode when Kramer was doing all his basic washing dishes cleaning and eating in the shower to maximize his time. LOL."


Yeah, a classic episode. I liked the bit where Jerry is grossed out when Kramer returns the Tupperware he washed while showering...

DMC2011 said...
R u eating fried foods, high fiber cereal?????

I didn't eat anything out of the ordinary the day before -- nothing high fiber and nothing greasy. I had shrimp scampi, a sandwich, apple, and my usual muffin and snacks. Nothing that explains the morning reaction; I think it is pure randomness and uc being a b/witch sometimes.

garylouisville said...
I could see some of us saying screew it, bring me a blanket and a pillow, install a T.V. and computer in the bathroom, and bring me some food 3 times a day!

I've seriously thought this during my initial flare. Let me telecommute to work (log into my work computer from home and then do my work), and it would be more efficient to just sleep in the bathroom when having bms at all hours of the day and night.
Posted Yesterday 4:31 PM (GMT 0)
None of my bathroom visits take that long, they're just often, so I'm not sure why I would need to eat in the bathroom.

I usually eat breakfast at work now. Never have time at home.
Posted Yesterday 10:15 PM (GMT 0)
IPoop, glad you are better today! Do you peel your apples? Peelings, seeds, nuts and grapes kill me!
Posted Yesterday 10:39 PM (GMT 0)
Even chewed up apple pieces for me dont digest and give me problems. I bet there's a way you could cook the apples and get them soft. I feel like some apple pie.
Posted Today 2:25 AM (GMT 0)
Had to laugh at work today. A co-worker is having her kitchen remodeled so she has had to get creative cooking for her family. She came in today stating that she had a crock pot full of beans cooking on her bathroom counter. I immediately thought about this thread.
Posted Today 4:59 AM (GMT 0)

xeekk said...
Even chewed up apple pieces for me dont digest and give me problems. I bet there's a way you could cook the apples and get them soft. I feel like some apple pie.

Throw em in the oven. It works.
Posted Today 1:56 PM (GMT 0)

DMC2011 said...
Do you peel your apples? Peelings, seeds, nuts and grapes kill me!


Food has no affect on my uc that I can ascertain: fruit skins and seeds don't bother me. I cannot blame them for an occasional bad day as I am consistent on having a sandwich, apple, and a snack of homemade trailmix each day with: peanuts, baked sunflower seeds, shredded coconut, craisins, pretzels, and m&ms. I try to limit my spicy food intake, and greasy fast food intake but I do have both on rare occasion as a treat.

xeekk said...
None of my bathroom visits take that long, they're just often, so I'm not sure why I would need to eat in the bathroom.

Consider yourself lucky. I have that urge to go to the bathroom and then I can be in there for 20 some-odd minutes before I am done, and other times it's just 6-10 minutes; it's rare for me to be in there for just a minute or two. Repeat that long duration 2 times in the morning and there isn't time for much else (eating, getting ready, etc.). I had constipation issues before uc reared its ugly head, so maybe there are some remnants of that left as a hint of IBS or something. Just sucks to have an urge to get to the bathroom, sit down, go only a tiny bit, wait a number of minutes, go a little bit more, and repeat until it feels like it is over with. I always have either a book or a videogame on my cellphone to pass the time just sitting there and waiting for it to be over. Haha my wife is in the bathroom 2 minutes a day for her bm and then she's done ... man do I envy her.
Posted Today 5:33 PM (GMT 0)

46&crashing said...
Had to laugh at work today. A co-worker is having her kitchen remodeled so she has had to get creative cooking for her family. She came in today stating that she had a crock pot full of beans cooking on her bathroom counter. I immediately thought about this thread.

Ugh, you have brought back memories of when my kitchen was being redone. Washing dishes in the bathtub. What fun.
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