What's you remission pooping schedule? RE: Cluster pooping.

Being in remission is amazeballs. I don't know how else to describe it. No longer does half my paycheck go to Immodium pills. I can wear skirts with no fear. I no longer have emergency diapers in my bag. I don't furtively glance around everywhere I go to find out where the ****ing toilets are. I can exercise without stinking up the room, drowning out the music with my farts, or projectile pooping onto a water cooler.

I'm sure I've been in remission at some point since I was diagnosed over a decade ago (I'm 31), but I don't remember how it was. I don't remember feeling free, like I shook my shackles off, since I was diagnosed. Or, shook my, uh, uncontrollable pooping off.

But it isn't perfect. My pooping schedule leaves something to be desired. Now, I may poop a little here and there, but generally, I only poop once every week or so. Except that on the one day I really poop, I poop several times. To the point where it's hard to get any work done since I have to go like 6x and sometimes for a while at a time.

Is anyone nodding yet? And if you tell me to eat more fiber I'll curse you with low water flow in the toilets in your area.

A week? Wth?

Are you on a really low residue diet that you can go a week without pooping? I know everyone around tells me I'm full of it but I think you are taking that statement down a literal avenue :P

eat more fibre - wait, no, don't eat fibre - ever - no fibre forever -

now, that's better

and don't listen to bgirl - she has no idea how to go about pooping -

;-)

Boy did that surgery go wrong!

Hahaha, I love you guys!

When I do go, my BM's are formed and neither D nor C. So.. I don´t know. Whatever.

Wow, well I would sure enjoy the days I wasn't pooping/didn't feel the need to poop...but I don't think things are working quite normally yet if that's your poop schedule either.

Regarding fibre, it's your friend if you treat it right, fibre aids with D and/or C and keeps things moving regularly (so you likely wouldn't go days without pooping) starting with a small amount is key and working up to an amount YOU find works for your system and drinking plenty of water daily goes hand in hand with fibre regardless if it's via food or supplements (or both). To me, sounds like fibre is exactly what you need for a good poop schedule. Beware it may cause excessive gas and bloating which happens to healthy people as well, it's just your system adjusting to it and it will go away (varies for each person as to how long it takes to adjust) once it goes away, that's when you would increase your amount of fibre if you find the need to.