WARNING! Gross Subject!!

Okay, just remember...you asked!!! I had a 10lb. 6oz son (natural childbirth) and he was easier delivery than some of my poops!!! Finally talked to PCP and he told me to take Fiber Choice 3x/day and Senna softgels 2x/day and I've been sooooooo much better. The Fiber Choice is chewable and I take it with my calcium and the Senna is small enough to swallow with no problems. Talk to your docs and see what they suggest. You don't want hemeroid (sp?) problems on top of everything else! Hope things get better! Later, Nancy

Mine are a pale milky yellow color and I go every other day, sometimes every 2 or 3 days. Haven't noticed any smell though...

OMG i cant believe we are discussing poopaloops. But since we are...I am constipated and go every 2 days. I have to sit on the toilet and rock back and forth to getthe sucker out..which usually takes 30 min. Now here comes the weird part...after i get it out..and do the wipin up...its not hard..its runny. now how can runny poop constipate you??? geez oh and CL mine is bright orange, yellow LOL I remember in the good old days when i ate oreos and it was black. My daughter called me and said..mom my poopaloops are black..i said did you have oreos? she said OMG how did you know??? mothers intuition :wink:

I had several of those rock on the toilet poops and they left me so weak and dizzy that I had to go to bed. That is when I started adding in the carbs. I may not lose as fast with them, but my butt doesn't hurt for days this way. Jenn Oh, now I want an oreo. I may have to get me a snack pack and just eat one, which I can do now, because one satisfies.

I'm also a rocker pooper, with constipation and terrible stickiness. All I want for x-mas is a nice easy poop! Kathy

One question only...how much water are you guys getting in? I am having no problem with the bowel issues...soft and natural color...but I go every day...so I think you guys are not getting in the water...and that is the problem...drink the water and see if it helps the bowel/poop problems... good luck...Dennis

I am getting a minimum of 80 oz a fluid a day, and have plenty of activity so its not that either. Its common because of a change in eating, exercise, fluid, and rerouting of intestines (for those of us that had anything like that done), even if we are getting enough protein/food, fluid, & activity.

CL.. I go every day, sometimes 2x a day...it used to smell bad but has gotten much better in the past 3 weeks....and definitely firm...like a normal poopaloop as Deb says and the color is pretty normal now too... I drink a lot of water and walk a lot too...I wonder if that is what is helping me? Jenn

Well, someone had to bring it up, Celia, because it's obvious it's a concern to all of us. So thank you for having the chutzpah to do it I am constipated. I go once every 4 days. I've weighed myself before and after, and I lose 2 to 4 pounds each time I have a BM. I've been eating 2 prunes a day and drinking 6 ounces of prune juice. That was on my surgeon's recommendation. After my gas pain disaster a week or so ago, I bought the Dulcolax suppositories the doc told me to get, but I haven't used them. I haven't had the gas pain again. I think it was from all the CIB I was drinking. It made me gassier than normal, and one of my hubby's pet nicknames for me is "Flatchmo" I'm going to stay away from CIB for a while. The gas pains hurt bad. The poop itself is green, yellow or tan. It's formed in the beginning (but remember, I've been holding on to this stuff for 4 days) and paste at the end. I have to rock to get it all out. It stinks to high heaven. I keep the air freshener next to me. I already have hemorrhoids, so I try not to force things. I've taken stool softener, but it only gives me the runs.