• PieMePlenty@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    I once went 9 days without pooping in a hospital. They wouldn’t let me use the toilet (wanted me to go in a pan), so I refused to shit. They even gave me laxatives, and I beat them. The nurse said they were going to have to stick things up my ass if I don’t shit soon, so I gave up my protest - though was able to use the toilet. It was painful and I clogged it with pure shit. Never again.

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      1 day ago

      You refused to shit because they were trying to keep you I’m assuming safe because from the sounds of it you were confined to the bed for a reason. Stubbornness level over 9000!

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        I wasn’t that sick, I knew I could make it to the toilet. They were just blindly following procedure where it says “illness x = no toilet” without any nuance to the rule.

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          21 hours ago

          They all say that until a surgeon is stapling their head shut after a fall and they’re drinking lunch through a straw.

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      2 days ago

      A similar thing happened to me when I had to travel a bit while having to take some antibiotics and when I got to the doctor I was on my 10th day of not pooping. She said “we’ll have to clear the blockage if these laxatives won’t work” and when I asked how she twirled her index finger in the air with a scary grin on her face. That night I ate a box of prunes, immediately downed a beer followed by two coffees with those laxatives and I gave birth after an hour of labour. I then unclogged the toilet after a half hour of work. Do not recommend it

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        2 days ago

        Yeah, the body can do crazy things. At first I was surprised by the storage amount, then amazed I was able to fill the whole toilet bowl.

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      Yeah there’s a reason we get worried when you haven’t pooped. It’s like you said but then sometimes people also just die of it.

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        I remember them treating me like I was 90 years old (I was 27), unable to go to the toilet. I knew my body and I knew I can shit just fine, but apparently they couldn’t let me go due to protocol. So I guess my only hope was to try and keep it in. I felt humiliated, unable to even take a shit in piece. It taught me anything its that I sincerely wish I die before I’m unable to use the toilet by myself. I also found a new respect for what we take for granted, even the simplest task of going to the toilet.

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      2 days ago

      Hopefully you heed the advice of medical professionals more willingly in the future 😂