No second bathroom

Most of my UC journey I've always had access to a second bathroom in my home - which has been a Godsend. But we are in the process of renovating a house that only has one bathroom. We plan on making another bathroom probably by the fall. However, we hope to be moved in this home in a few weeks. So even tho I'm in remission from my UC, I still get urgency from IBS and from my Diverticuar disease.

For any of you (of a multi person household) who has access to only one bathroom, what do you do?

When we travel and in a motel room he knows to ask me first before using the bathroom,lol.
I don't drink any coffee until the loo is all mine since he is "normal" and doesn't need it as often as me in the morning.

I've got an older and smallish house with just one bathroom. The DW and I have managed despite my uc over the years. The important thing is she can always hold it, so it's an unwritten rule that I always get priority seating lol. I'd always make it a point to get out of bed first and race to the bathroom. She can wait a few minutes and doze in dreamland while I make my stink. If she misses her "pooportunity", her urge goes away, and she'll have another chance at her work later on. A luxury most uc folks never have. Whereas us uc folks get exponentially more and more urgent as seconds tick by. Until the point that the bm is going to happen, I have no power to stop it, and it's only my choice whether it's in my pants or not

Worst case scenario, I pooped in a tall kitchen trashcan just once because she was "almost done, can I hold it?" and I needed it right, right now. She was horrified when leaving the bathroom and seeing me finishing up in the trashcan. I told her with a laugh that "now didn't mean I can hold it a for a few minutes". I asked for a roll of tp, and then took the trash outside lol. Hey, my motto is anywhere but in my pants and that was easier cleanup than the alternative would've been...

Tell him to leave the door unlocked so you can still use the toilet while he's in the shower. That's what we do. Privacy? Forget it. Haha

If I was in your situation, I'd pull out my port-o-potty that I used to use in the back of my minivan so I could leave the house...at least it's something to do your business in rather than crapping yourself....hope it all works out for you!

Andrina,we have clear glass shower doors. I wouldn't care if he seen me poop but I think I would be a bit traumatized seeing him shower. My little boy turned out to be chewbacca lol

I'd rather see a wookie and not poop my pants, than the alternative

And besides, I thought parents take great pride in embarrassing their grownup kids. At least mine do and my dad even admits it lol...

I feel you, I really do. Even before I had UC, having only one bathroom caused me to panic. When we first moved into our little ranch house as a family of 5, there was only one, but thankfully my dad built a second one. However, I refuse to use the upstairs one because there is very little privacy and you can hear a pin drop in there. So it's basically like only having one bathroom because if someone is in the downstairs one, I'm out of luck! I'm worried that, like you, I'll always have urgency because of my IBS.

So I don't really have any tips, unfortunately. Your son sounds like my brother. He takes tons of showers and takes longer in the bathroom than the women in our family.

iPoop explained our dilemma perfectly. Before UC, I could get rid of the urge to go. No big deal. Now that's utterly impossible. People who don't have to worry about that will never understand.

My only experience with one bathroom is when traveling. (I know, I'm hopelessly privileged) My husband always asks before going into the bathroom, and so far that's worked out. It's a constant nightmare, though.

We are living in a rented condo till our m stuff arrives from NC needless to say the one bathroom is awful . I ask hubby if he needs to go if not I get in there quick!
And I bought a can of Lysol spray to mask the stink😼

We have only one bathroom at the family cottage and I just remember having to wait to use the bathroom while in a flare.....horrible! But yes this will be short lived - my hubby said that once we are in there that he will put priority on installing a second one after I told him my fears :)

Yep towel helps haha

Stud I had to throw away pants too because I couldn't make it to my own bathroom back in my parents house. It was basically my bathroom nobody else used. We tried to clean them but we're unable to. Thankfully I never had that bad of an accident since. Funny that that happened at home and not in public but I'm glad it wasn't in public lol