Poopie SItuation

Seriously I originally posted on the poo Pourri am I have to say it works wonders. Would be great to take with you doing home care. I don't leave home without it. I am a nurse also but I work in a facility. I do understand where you are coming from though.

Good luck on your job search.

Kathy

Thank you for all the encouragement. I have faith something better will come along. =D

Irishnurse-

There is a way, and its name is Ozium! 

I get a big 'ol 14 oz can from my local car wash.  There is a place you can order it online, too.  I'll find it for you. Also check eBay.

Also, ask for m-9 at your local  home medical supply store.  It's not as good as Ozium, but it does work in a similar way.  They use it in nursing homes.  The bottle it comes in is purse size.  You can also get a purse-size Ozium at Walmart, in assorted fragrances.  The plain is the best, though. it comes in a  dark blue label with silver and white art and lettering.

The smell is still there, but it chemically bonds with the molecules so that it is not perceptable as an odor. 

Internally, there is Devrom.  It comes in chewables ( with sorbitol - which gives me the runs), and in a capsule form.  If the carb monster gets you, you can even "cut  one" with no smell whatsoever!

You can order them online from the manufacturer, Parthenon.  Might want to check eBay for that, too.  It's amazing what you can find there!

Isn't chemistry wonderful?

I do use Ozium. I love it and it works great. It is more the fact that they will know I am in their bathroom taking a poo two or three times that is embarrassing. I mean I have to sit for about ten minutes a couple times in the morning and at night. If this calcium thing works I may call this place back. 

I seriously hope that it will help things. I've run out of calcium a few times and had to go a few days without it. It's like night and day! Without it, my bathroom schedule sounds really similar to what you've described. With it, as I mentioned it's once or twice and I'm in and out in a matter of moments! Good luck and I hope you'll be able to call them back after some experimenting with that calcium!

Calcium, if you're not careful, will make things too firm...more like cement, if you know what I mean.

Nevertheless, calcium is a good way to make BM's more solid.

Can they really expect you not to use the bathroom during a 12 hour shift?  I use Walgreens bath spray - I like the vanilla, but the cotton candy covers nicely too.  The vanilla really covers the DS-BM smell nicely. 

I keep sprays in the bathroom here at work, and would you believe I'm not the only one who uses the spray.  Even normal folks have to poo sometimes during the day.

Did you talk with the folks?  I've never had a problem explaining that I had surgery and may need a few trips to the loo, but I always have Ozium in my purse and other spray available.

I think it's a little unreasonable to think that someone would be in one place for 12 hours and not poop, with or without the DS.  There are things you can do to lessen the stink, too.  One is probiotics.  Once in your system, poo isn't nearly as offensive.  Same with antibiotics, killing all good and bad bacteria in the bowels.  The best course of action is to eat accordingly.  Being as early out as you are, there is still some trial and error to work out.  I work as a corporate trainer and am up in front of groups or in mass meetings, and no problems here.  I have one giant void first thing in the morning before I even leave the house, then I'm  done for the day as a rule.

The calcium and iron used to make me constipated, but not any more.  I've been trying to stop the loose, multiple BMs in the morning and evening and nothing was working.  Some times I have to go again in the evenings, sometimes not.   

I started researching probiotics on the internet to see if this would help.  I started using Jarro, and that has 8 different strains of probiotics in it - and it is room stable.  So I don't have to keep it in the frig.  That has helped some what.

I just tried a probiotic called Garden Of Life Raw Probiotics 5 Day Max Care.   It was over 20 dollars, and had only 5 doses in it.  Man, what a difference!  On dose last night and I had 1 BM this morning and no gas for the day.   This is like magic powder.  I'm going to see how long the effect lasts from one scoop of powder.  Maybe I would only have to take it once a week, or less as needed.

Suggest you check out some probiotics.  Get the kind that has different strains in it, and has a lot of live cultures in it.  This 5 day max care product has 400 billion cultures and 34 different trains of bacteria in it.

And I would call those people back and at least try it out.  You have the sprays and you can change your poop schedule to do the majority of it at home.  You never know - you could really like this job and it might work out really well for you at this point in time.

I posted about  this a while back. My  gas was really bad. Instead Of Antibiotic, I use oil of oregano capsules. Problem mostly gone.  Eat Yogurt too.