Wanna know if your ****'s gonna stink after the DS???
I also have to add...
There's wonderful power (not to mention consideration) in the curtousy flush. Frankly, I can't begin to understand how ANYONE can drop a load and let it sit there. I can not wrap my mind around the fact that I can sit in a WalMart bathroom and hear turd**** the water...wait...another turd...wait...another turd. Ummm....you can flu**** fills right back up. You're not paying the water bill...FLUSH!!!!
For me, I've always been an instant flusher. I think my mamma raised me that way. I've done it since I was small. My kids do it too. I find NO pleasure in sitting and smelling my own stink...PRE or POST DS.
I also spray the travel size febreeze into the water BEFORE I poop. There's no smell. It's gone before it hits and then it's flushed away. We have a faculty bathroom that 3 of us ladies use. I have literally pooped and had someone else go right in and say "I love going in the bathroom after you...it always smells so fresh". Of course, I laugh and think of those of all the OH posts about stinky poop. I'm confident that my poop stinks (who's doesn't?), but it certainly does not have to be a social death sentence.
There's wonderful power (not to mention consideration) in the curtousy flush. Frankly, I can't begin to understand how ANYONE can drop a load and let it sit there. I can not wrap my mind around the fact that I can sit in a WalMart bathroom and hear turd**** the water...wait...another turd...wait...another turd. Ummm....you can flu**** fills right back up. You're not paying the water bill...FLUSH!!!!
For me, I've always been an instant flusher. I think my mamma raised me that way. I've done it since I was small. My kids do it too. I find NO pleasure in sitting and smelling my own stink...PRE or POST DS.
I also spray the travel size febreeze into the water BEFORE I poop. There's no smell. It's gone before it hits and then it's flushed away. We have a faculty bathroom that 3 of us ladies use. I have literally pooped and had someone else go right in and say "I love going in the bathroom after you...it always smells so fresh". Of course, I laugh and think of those of all the OH posts about stinky poop. I'm confident that my poop stinks (who's doesn't?), but it certainly does not have to be a social death sentence.
HW/SW/CW/GW 231/225/123/130-125
~Surgeon's Goal of Normal BMI reached at 6 months Post Op~
~Personal Goal Range achieved at less than 10 months Post Op~
Heh. This is a great post, so thank you.
As a pre-op, it's not that the gas and bowel issues have me "afraid" of getting the DS. Even if I were going to be walking around smelling like a sewer, that would probably not deter me from the surgery. But as part of my research, I would like to know realistically what my day to day life will be like afterwards. I don't see anything wrong with that. In fact, I think a person would be remiss if they went into such a major surgery without knowing the big picture.
That said, I can appreciate that it must be annoying to see this question posted time and again. I am grateful to those of you who have posted bluntly about what it's like.
-Jenna
As a pre-op, it's not that the gas and bowel issues have me "afraid" of getting the DS. Even if I were going to be walking around smelling like a sewer, that would probably not deter me from the surgery. But as part of my research, I would like to know realistically what my day to day life will be like afterwards. I don't see anything wrong with that. In fact, I think a person would be remiss if they went into such a major surgery without knowing the big picture.
That said, I can appreciate that it must be annoying to see this question posted time and again. I am grateful to those of you who have posted bluntly about what it's like.
-Jenna
My day-to-day life in relation to the DS (I am 5.7 years out):
1) First thing in the AM, I get up and take a big healthy easy-slidin' DS poop.
2) I have a breakfast that has no wheat flour or milk, so I won't fart at work -- usually 2 jumbo fried eggs and 1/2 lbs (precooking) of bacon. (Sometimes I go poop again afterwards.)
3) I take my vitamins with grapefruit juice.
4) I eat something around 10:30 -11 because I get HUNGRY -- usually protein-based. By the way, I have gone poop at work maybe 8 times in 4 years, when I ate something wrong. So pooping at work is a ZERO issue for me.
5) I eat lunch around 12:30 -- usually a non-pasta containing Healthy Choice-type frozen meal.
6) I often get hungry again around 3-4 PM, and have another snack, but I might allow some flour carbs in, because I'll be leaving work by 7 and, unless we're going to be going out that night, I don't care if I fart when I get home. Sometimes in the very late afternoon or early evening, I'll get a little gassy even if I've been careful -- I step outside for a few minutes, or if I do fart, I have a can of Ozium in my office that takes care of it right away.
7) When I get home, I eat a protein-based normal meal. Often with Yukon Gold potatoes -- I can eat potatoes with NO problem and I do.
8) 2 or 3 days a week, before dinner, I exercise with my daughter, and if we do a walk/run, we usually end up at Starbucks, where I get a soy mocha (because their milk tears me up) with 2 pumps of chocolate syrup instead of 4 (because sweet stuff tastes TOO sweet to me anymore -- weird, huh?), and A TON OF WHIPPED CREAM -- because I can. (PS: if we're working out in the tiny windowless exercise room in the basement, I DON'T eat flour carbs at 3 PM, because my daughter doesn't enjoy me farting in there while we work out. I CAN be considerate, yannow?)
9) I have dessert around 9:30 PM. Sometimes a bowl of Cheerios with milk (to make sure my poops are a nice smooth move in the AM).
10) I take my vitamins, with the diet Fresca I drink all day long.
11) Sometimes, I have a brandy or port with my goodnight cigarette.
I swear, there IS more to my life than that, but those are the DS related things.
1) First thing in the AM, I get up and take a big healthy easy-slidin' DS poop.
2) I have a breakfast that has no wheat flour or milk, so I won't fart at work -- usually 2 jumbo fried eggs and 1/2 lbs (precooking) of bacon. (Sometimes I go poop again afterwards.)
3) I take my vitamins with grapefruit juice.
4) I eat something around 10:30 -11 because I get HUNGRY -- usually protein-based. By the way, I have gone poop at work maybe 8 times in 4 years, when I ate something wrong. So pooping at work is a ZERO issue for me.
5) I eat lunch around 12:30 -- usually a non-pasta containing Healthy Choice-type frozen meal.
6) I often get hungry again around 3-4 PM, and have another snack, but I might allow some flour carbs in, because I'll be leaving work by 7 and, unless we're going to be going out that night, I don't care if I fart when I get home. Sometimes in the very late afternoon or early evening, I'll get a little gassy even if I've been careful -- I step outside for a few minutes, or if I do fart, I have a can of Ozium in my office that takes care of it right away.
7) When I get home, I eat a protein-based normal meal. Often with Yukon Gold potatoes -- I can eat potatoes with NO problem and I do.
8) 2 or 3 days a week, before dinner, I exercise with my daughter, and if we do a walk/run, we usually end up at Starbucks, where I get a soy mocha (because their milk tears me up) with 2 pumps of chocolate syrup instead of 4 (because sweet stuff tastes TOO sweet to me anymore -- weird, huh?), and A TON OF WHIPPED CREAM -- because I can. (PS: if we're working out in the tiny windowless exercise room in the basement, I DON'T eat flour carbs at 3 PM, because my daughter doesn't enjoy me farting in there while we work out. I CAN be considerate, yannow?)
9) I have dessert around 9:30 PM. Sometimes a bowl of Cheerios with milk (to make sure my poops are a nice smooth move in the AM).
10) I take my vitamins, with the diet Fresca I drink all day long.
11) Sometimes, I have a brandy or port with my goodnight cigarette.
I swear, there IS more to my life than that, but those are the DS related things.
But don't get the RNY either b/c they have gas and obnoxious poop too. (Just ask them, they'll tell you the same!!)
Lies! All lies! Most of us can't poop--- at all! I know I haven't taken a dump since---oh, the Carter Administration!
RNY-- The Perfect Surgery for the TRULY Anal Retentive!™
Lies! All lies! Most of us can't poop--- at all! I know I haven't taken a dump since---oh, the Carter Administration!
RNY-- The Perfect Surgery for the TRULY Anal Retentive!™
"Oh sweet and sour Jesus, that is GOOD!" - Stephen Colbert Lap RNY 7/07-- Lap Gallbladder 5/08--
Emergency Bowel Repair 6/08 -Dr. Meilahn, Temple U. Upper and Lower Bleph/Lower Face Lift 12/08
Fraxel Repair 2/09-- Lower Bleph Re-Do 5/09 -Dr. Pontell, Media PA Mastopexy/Massive
Brachioplasty/ Extended Abdominoplasty (plus Mons Lift and Upper Leg lift) / Hernia Repair
6/24/09 ---Butt Lift and Lateral Thighplasty Scheduled 7/6/10 - Dr. Ivor Kaplan VA Beach
Total Cost: $33,500 Start wt: 368 RNY wt: 300 Goal wt: 150 Current wt: 148.2 BMI: 24.7
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