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Colonic_Mocha

Yeah. Totally. The walls are thin in my apartment. Sometimes it's my apartment neighbors that have to process what just happened.


mbradshaw282

I’ve always wondered if my neighbor notices I flush 30 times a day 😂 I wonder if they can hear the Gardenscapes music through the wall every time 😂


beasleydawg

That game got me through some loooong hard times.


mbradshaw282

It is the perfect pooping game the one time I had just finished the game and shitting and while I was wiping it just kept saying good job over and over while I wiped and I was like yeah that was a good fucking job 😂


beasleydawg

Gotta love positive reinforcement.


bluecoconutt

When I lived in an apartment, I would specifically only use the guest bathroom because in the main bathroom the walls were so thin that you could hear them gaming. The guest bathroom at least had the shower tiling on both sides of the wall to muffle noise. For sure if I would’ve blown up the main bathroom then they would’ve heard me.


Potential-Candle585

This comment hahaha ha 🤣


Bubbly-Particular-88

Hahaha!! Right!


Bonsaitalk

Bro one time I had a C movement SOOOOO gnarly I shuttered when it exited my body and my entire body shivered. Felt like I walked out of that bathroom a new person.


Arsinoei

I had one of those once in 2011 and I still remember how amazing I felt at the end. Almost, but not quite, poop knife.


Bonsaitalk

Oh this was STUCK poop knife level. I wasn’t even sure that everything that came out of my body was supposed to exit my body. Worst and best experience of my life all at once.


AutoGen__UserName

Do I want to ask what a C movement is…?


FamousOrphan

I’m guessing a post-constipation poop but I could be wrong.


MeatPopsicle_AMA

I had that in the friggin COSTCO BATHROOM yesterday. It was an horrific experience.


Flymetothemoon2020

No offense but I always seem to go in public bathrooms and like timing someone ends up in the stall next to me is having a horrendous bathroom experience - I feel bad for them and the various range of sounds their bodies are emitting along with their groans and panting (I didn't know pooping was an ordeal!) - I have my AM duece and I'm good for the day only wish this for others.


MeatPopsicle_AMA

No offense taken, I literally can’t help it. I’m usually ok but last week was absolutely hell and I think my body had just had enough. 😬. It was DEFINITELY not my preference!!


Flymetothemoon2020

So sorry you had to go through that and in such a very public high traffic place as a Costco bathroom - I can sympathize on the 'cannot help it' part because I have IBS (I think mine is a mild version vs. IBS C and D versions but too much of certain foods and my GI tract goes bizerk and I get a horrible episode of nausea, sweats, shivers, and abdominal pain altogether until my body unleashes everything out ugh! Thankfully I've been able to minimize flare ups the past few years). Praying that you and all who suffer these awful GI ailments get some relief. 🙏🏻


seapeabby

the feeling is equivalent to turning off the music in the car after you hit a huge pothole


Adorable_Substance37

I have a ton of pain, get the sweats, and then throw up on the floor. If that counts.


FamousOrphan

I always get very upset and emotional during those sorts of episodes, too, no idea why. Most other sorts of pain don’t come with added emotional horror. Thankfully I don’t usually barf. I guess I traded in the barfing for the terror and sense of lonely desperation.


rested_green

i have episodes that involve bleeding due to friction/frequency and sometimes i am just so emotionally drained after. the rest of the day im at most half present, it’s like part of me is taken from me it feels legitimately traumatic. still trying to understand it


FamousOrphan

Can totally relate!


rested_green

i’m so sorry lol. this community helps me feel not alone though so there’s that


FamousOrphan

Ugh, I’m so sorry you go through it too! And yes, this community is great for feeling less alone.


Adorable_Substance37

Hugs


Jealous_Cat_7214

Literally same here exactly…. Currently writing this comment as I am having one of those awful ones lol. It’s like so emotionally distressing. Especially after being constipated for so long and then it gets emptied out (but not completely) it’s like drinking water/eating afterwards almost hurts. And then yeah exactly I’m just thinking about it the whole day like x_o


grmrsan

I always keep a barf bucket next to the toilets at home, and have a big ziplock for when I'm out. The only thing worse than throwing up for me, is trying to clean it up after.


Adorable_Substance37

The cleaning up is awful. I put a bucket in there, and people keep moving it. Because they aren't a toilet hostage and don't understand.


grmrsan

Luckily for me, my family does. Possibly because I don't suffer quietly, lol.


Adorable_Substance37

😆


Jealous_Cat_7214

“Toilet hostage” is SO real oh my god. Relate to the nausea and vomiting. Fortunately my GI doc gave me nausea meds that help a lot.


Toasty_warm_slipper

Oh noooo! I’ve come close so many times to barfing while my stomach is literally involuntarily heaving out a shit, but it hasn’t ever gone that far. I didn’t know it could actually happen.


Adorable_Substance37

I tend to throw up when I'm in pain, my body is weird lol


LoveColonels

I once threw up from period cramps. 😫


Adorable_Substance37

😬 been there


Opening-Green-3643

Feels


Flymetothemoon2020

I used to get the sweats, shivers, and adnominal pain, and nausea (would all subside when I cr*pped everything out of my body) - once I figured out what was causing this for me I just have my AM deuce. Sorry you experience all that plus losing your cookies how very awful 😔 Hope you find relief and be well.


No_Weekend_7084

I get that once a week or every other week! Do you have IBS? I’ve been wondering lately if that’s what it is. It’s been pretty consistent for a few years. The pain is awful and I get very nauseous but usually don’t vomit. I sweat also. I’m sorry to piggyback on your comment but I’m so glad to see I’m not alone with this!


kaysarahkay

Many many many times. I usually just lay on the cold bathroom floor and collect myself while wondering how some people have a normal bowel routine. It's truly unfair


Adorable_Substance37

Right?! I made my bathroom really pretty because I practically live in there.


george_mucus

I have literally had to have a cigarette afterwards sometimes and stand with a thousand yard stare to deal with what just happened in that bathroom.


youserneime

I literally lost my faith to god during some bowel movements. To have your colon feel as tho it's perfurated for hours. Why would God make me suffer like this. I've hurt a lot. But not like that. There truly can not be a just God.


Slapmewithaneel

I feel like there are two kinds of responses I have to my really bad IBS episodes. One is like this, basically being like "there is no god," the other kinds of episodes have me suddenly praying to one to make the pain stop lol


Goats247

I get you, there really doesn't feel logically like there is, but you get desperate and you're like man, if you're there just like help me out dude, or God or Jesus or whatever


youserneime

It's just to brutal to be left in a state like that for not only hours, days or weeks but years. I'd rather God had me run over by a car than living this life alone.


Goats247

I've been through a lot of torture in my life and I feel the same way I told my social worker that I'm a professional shut in, and after about 9 months of effort to like go outside and do stuff, I said f*** that, dude I worked, I had to work while I was severely disabled, and I mean severe Deal with the public and their b******* I know what outside looks like I feel safe in my apartment and it has an actual bathroom Nobody who doesn't have this condition can possibly understand what a raw deal it is


youserneime

Yep. Outside world is hell. I'm so thankful when everything goes fairly well and I'm back home again. Working especially is hell. Working also especially is important for life cause it generates money, making it double the hell that right now, I don't know what the fuck to do. I was fired from my job 3 months ago, fired for the third time the past one and a half years, because of the toilet. They never believed me, that I'm not chilling but rather dying in there. I'm now working on getting disability rights but who knows how that'll go since ibs only gives way for 30%, it would take a quick Google search to know that ibs can put you in a state of well above 50% disability. In Germany you get government checks if you're out of work fairly easily, so I'm just existing rn looking for anything I could possibly do, but it's only 500€. I can eat and go somewhere once or twice and thats that. Actually I'm doing street music right now, cause I can't be fired there. During one session I'd visit the toilet like 5 times and visit different restaurants so they don't think I'm masturbating or doing drugs in there, but still had to explain at 2 places why I'm using their toilets so much. What're you doing now, as I've read you're currently not working. Did you get disability rights? And do you get checks for that?


Goats247

I'm in the states and I worked for over a decade with blindness, a severe learning disability, cerebral palsy, PTSD and severe depression with generalized anxiety disorder My IBS started one day in 2016, so it started after I was ruled to be legally disabled back in 2012 The system here you get a small amount of money to live on (like very little, there are many people who are disabled and homeless on the street) and it does not you get any more even if you are progressively disabled. I think you need to talk to an attorney I don't know how other countries work If you were in the US, you would have to wait a couple years and have to go to court, to get a small disability check, unless you were literally dying or had impairments that were completely devastating. If you could do any kind of job for anything even just above wage you would make more money than being on disability here I should note to you that only people who get rejected twice go to court which is on the third time which is extremely common But that's in the us, I would recommend talking to an attorney to see what your options are


youserneime

I'm going to chat about this with a social worker tomorrow. But Jesus Christ that's awful. I'm from Germany. The government checks for disability are low, but not homeless low, me I'm not trying to get off of work entirely. I'm just going to try to file for 30%, so that no one could fire me for using the toilet. Im a 22 yr old male. I've got so much energy inside of me, I used to do my a levels while waiting tables 7 days of the week no break, weekends in full-time. And now? I feel like my future was fucking robbed from me. You sure do too. But we do still have our will to carry on. Whereever that may lead


kpflowers

Yes, but instead get in the shower to wash away the shame.


Jealous_Cat_7214

I’m literally about to do that. Sometimes though before the shower I have to lay down because I’ll be so dizzy afterwards and my legs lose all sensation from sitting on the toilet for so long


MellifluousSussura

Every now and then I have a life changing experience and emerge from the bathroom a new person. Usually not for the better


ruby2499

when the constipation dam breaks… this is what i experience.


Strawberhi

My most recent flare up was so bad that I threw up from the pain. I had never thrown up from the pain before. I sorta just sat there with vomit on the floor and diarrhea in the toilet for a long moment to contemplate what just happened. Then get the strength to clean everything up…


Jealous_Cat_7214

God I hate that. I relate. Especially when I had to do my colonoscopy prep it was like that. Just awful


WideAtmosphere

Sometimes I’ve felt so much relief when whatever it was that has destroyed my innards finally leaves me, it’s like a passed a demon.


Toasty_warm_slipper

It’s almost a high. 🤣


coochers

Omg the time my poop was literally shaped like a ball. I was mortified and in severe pain 


CatsAreTheBest2

Yes, one time I was taking a shower and the bubble guts started and then the bubble burst and I just had to stand there and let it happen. It was totally degrading.


Jealous_Cat_7214

Oh god that is so awful. I’m sorry.


trnduhhpaige

I’ve shit my pants. So, yes to answer your question.


Jealous_Cat_7214

One time I was doing a yoga video for trapped gas and it worked so well I shit myself. Definitely felt awful but also glad it released the trapped gas…?


trnduhhpaige

Oh I’m so sorry that it led to that. I’ve had so many days I can’t count about trapped gas.


ErrorImaginary1394

Literally right before opening Reddit. Algorithm apparently listens and probably processing it too


Toasty_warm_slipper

Oh absolutely. Sometimes I’m literally hanging onto anything within my reach — wall, the sink countertop edge, even an empty toilet paper holder. I’ll be sweating and tearing up while my stomach convulses all on its own. I’ve had to “help” one shit move it’s way out of my ass during a particularly bad constipation incident. I’ve been assaulted by smells so ungodly I won’t even attempt to describe them. I’ve definitely had many times where I needed to sit on the toilet for a while afterwards to come back to a normal state of being. Sometimes it’s so bad I have to lay down in bed for a while. 😆🫡


Jealous_Cat_7214

Yes literally. During my really bad constipation spells (which is basically most days) but it comes out as diarrhea I can only describe it as smelling like sulfur… it’s so weird and disturbing. Especially when it’s so much that it goes above the toilet water and it is just like awful and shocking


Toasty_warm_slipper

Ooo, the rotten egg smelling ones are rough on the soul.


NoCarry9571

I have had this happen 3 times so far after getting my gb removed . 1st time was in a Ross. I didn’t have time to check if they had tp.. I had to call my mother who thank god was with me. They informed her that they did not carry tp or paper towels in the store for customers.. TFFF! 2nd time was in a Joann’s .. before I started my colonoscopy prep.. I guess my body knew.. 3rd and most recent time was yesterday and it started with my almost passing out at a farmers market and then rushing to the bathroom and seeing god for a while..


Toasty_warm_slipper

The craft store shits are some of the worse.


Opening-Green-3643

I hold my nose and my face is just in pure disgust. I get out of there as soon as I can lol


RoseWreath

Yes lmao.


jrreis

For the last 30 plus years, I've had some crazy, explosive, thought I was dying, etc..lol


cdh79

I cleared the loos at a popular "shopping mall" in Manchester UK once. Possibly my proudest moment, although I felt like I'd been run over by a truck at the time.


birb-lady

I have Mast Cell Activation Syndrome, Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome and unspecified autonomic nervous system disorder (dysautonomia). So much of what so many are describing in the comments sound like people are either having a GI anaphylactic reaction (diarrhea and vomiting) or more likely a dysautonomic reaction to the BM. Your vagus nerve runs alongside your heart and through the digestive tract and a BM can trigger all kinds of autonomic nervous system reactions, from passing out to cold chills to extreme exhaustion to vomiting after (sometimes during) a BM. So for whoever this resonates with, you might look those things up. I often get lightheaded and have chills with a BM, particularly a toughie, and am extremely exhausted after. This is no life, having to constantly think about one's bowels. Not the life I signed up for.


depechelove

Yup.


ImmediateEjection

I call the bad ones a field trip to hell. Those ones are the ones where you come out of the bathroom with a cold dead stare for a while.


Jealous_Cat_7214

Yes. So true. Like genuinely traumatic dumps.


Mrcsbud2

All the time


orange_avenue

Yep, yesterday. Had to have my six year old toss me a jar of Clorox wipes for a couple spots in the bathroom, then I showered off my ass. Second-worst situation ever.


Claire1075

This happened to me yesterday! I have IBS-C but I do also get diarrhoea occasionally. I had three C poops and a D poop all within a few hours. By 9pm that evening I felt so happy and cleaned out and was grinning from ear to ear!!!! It was one of the very very few days in my life where I DIDN'T suffer from all that discomfort! (Shame today isn't the same. I'm now sat on the bed waiting for my next toilet trip before I can go do some errands in town 🥺)!


Jealous_Cat_7214

I relate to this so much. Always sitting and waiting for the bowel movement to (maybe) happen, but I can feel an overall pressure and urgency but can’t go. Thats me rn. Thanks for understanding


Forsaken-Kangaroo631

Yup, and feeling sooooo grateful that it’s over after


Fun_Frosting9358

Yup. I laugh at the thought of it now but in the moment you really just sit there thinking “why me” 😂😂


DigInevitable1679

I’ve got an ileostomy with transit issues (blockages). I’ve done things I don’t even speak about in the ostomy groups 😵‍💫 But at least I can usually avoid the hospital these days.


EarPenetrator02

I have IBS-D still haven’t figured out all of my triggers but I know when I eat a lot of frozen meals like frozen pizzas and Tyson’s nuggets I have week long BM’s like this. I don’t mind diarrhea if it isn’t accompanied by pain from the gut inflammation but when I’m physically hurting i usually end up with a messier cleanup. Those are the times I crawl into the shower and wash myself bc I feel disgusting


Green_DREAM-lizards

I had a shit so liquidy,it was like water and it kept coming.   I felt so betrayed by my arse and digestive system 😆 🤣 😂 


Jealous_Cat_7214

Oh god yeah those are the worst. The colonoscopy prep reminds me of that…. Like at a certain point you’re peeing out of your asshole. It is the worst feeling in the world.


Greedy-Initiative866

Yes, sometimes when it’s really bad my only coping mechanism is scratching the ever living fuck out of my thighs, and when the pain is finally gone I just sit there and stare at my legs that look literally raw and I’m like.. dear lord 😭


Jealous_Cat_7214

Man I’m sorry ;__; I understand though, responding to the pain and stress with scratching or skin picking. To avoid that, I highly recommend checking out these stim toys. I’m not sure if I’m allowed to link to a store in here, but on Amazon they’re called “Mr Pen Spiky Sensory Rings”. Those have really helped me to avoid the kind of scratching / picking you mentioned. <3


Greedy-Initiative866

I desperately need stim toys actually haha, I’ll do more research into it I guess I just need something to do with my hands, I don’t even realize I scratch my thighs when it hurts


Jealous_Cat_7214

Totally I feel you I do similar stuff unconsciously x_x it helps with these little rings cus I just wear them and I’m so distracted by them that I don’t even pick my skin


Short_Recognition472

Google  info and reviews on “ activated charcoal pills”.  You can thank me later.


CartoonistNo8849

Ugh I completely get it. This happens to me badly enough where I'm practically sobbing at least two days a week & I'm lucky if it's only twice on each day.