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Offline The Village Idiot

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Digestive Tract Question
« on: March 25, 2010, 08:13:48 AM »
Wondering how long a person can live without, um, pooping...

no particular reason  ::)
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Re: Digestive Tract Question
« Reply #1 on: March 25, 2010, 08:19:14 AM »
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Re: Digestive Tract Question
« Reply #2 on: March 25, 2010, 08:24:34 AM »
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Re: Digestive Tract Question
« Reply #3 on: March 25, 2010, 08:26:25 AM »
Quote from: FGL on March 25, 2010, 08:13:48 AM
Wondering how long a person can live without, um, pooping...

no particular reason  ::)

Several days.
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Re: Digestive Tract Question
« Reply #4 on: March 25, 2010, 08:28:19 AM »
Quote from: thundley4 on March 25, 2010, 08:19:14 AM
This wasn't you was it?

http://www.conservativecave.com/index.php/topic,42270.0.html



That was wrong.  Really wrong.  Funny, but wrong.  

And for the answer to the question, you might want to check out WebMD.  They have some pretty good answers there.  
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Re: Digestive Tract Question
« Reply #5 on: March 25, 2010, 08:58:40 AM »
Will drinking lots and lots of water help?
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Re: Digestive Tract Question
« Reply #6 on: March 25, 2010, 09:03:51 AM »
I surely did okay, lasting nine days, back in the mid-1990s, when I was wandering around the socialist paradises of the workers and peasants with free medical care for all--and rare was the sight of decent and civilized plumbing.

There was no way I was going to squat like that.

The trick was to watch what one ate, and to eat very little of that.

Mahorka and weak tea pulled me through it, until I got to civilized plumbing.

I actually became a legend among the workers and peasants (although I wasn't aware of it at the time; revelation came later), who got this idea Americans don't have to do that.

A testament to my intestinal fortitude.
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Re: Digestive Tract Question
« Reply #7 on: March 25, 2010, 09:06:09 AM »
My intestinal fortitude is greatly in doubt at the moment.

It has been several days since anything but a watery sluice has emerged and it has me very worried.
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Re: Digestive Tract Question
« Reply #8 on: March 25, 2010, 09:08:12 AM »
Quote from: FGL on March 25, 2010, 09:06:09 AM
My intestinal fortitude is greatly in doubt at the moment.

It has been several days since anything but a watery sluice has emerged and it has me very worried.

Have you been eating normally?
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Re: Digestive Tract Question
« Reply #9 on: March 25, 2010, 09:10:27 AM »
There has been a stomach virus/flu thingy going around in our area.  That might be it as well. 
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Re: Digestive Tract Question
« Reply #10 on: March 25, 2010, 09:19:15 AM »
Quote from: thundley4 on March 25, 2010, 09:08:12 AM
Have you been eating normally?

I was until I got sick or whatever this is.
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Re: Digestive Tract Question
« Reply #11 on: March 25, 2010, 09:20:09 AM »
Quote from: IassaFTots on March 25, 2010, 09:10:27 AM
There has been a stomach virus/flu thingy going around in our area.  That might be it as well. 

Thats possible. I seriously thinking of gulping down some Ex-Lax and camping in the bathroom.
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Re: Digestive Tract Question
« Reply #12 on: March 25, 2010, 09:24:59 AM »
Quote from: FGL on March 25, 2010, 09:20:09 AM
Thats possible. I seriously thinking of gulping down some Ex-Lax and camping in the bathroom.

Well the malady you are describing, sounds like what has attacked people around here that I know.  I would suggest keeping your fluid level up, to prevent dehydration. 
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Re: Digestive Tract Question
« Reply #13 on: March 25, 2010, 09:27:53 AM »
Quote from: IassaFTots on March 25, 2010, 09:24:59 AM
Well the malady you are describing, sounds like what has attacked people around here that I know.  I would suggest keeping your fluid level up, to prevent dehydration. 

I have been.

It's just too weird (I would suggest people stop reading here, trust me) that so much liquid is coming out of THERE. If you know what I mean, instead of the, um, solids... I am use to.
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Re: Digestive Tract Question
« Reply #14 on: March 25, 2010, 09:51:26 AM »
Sounds like that is exactly what you have. 
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Re: Digestive Tract Question
« Reply #15 on: March 25, 2010, 10:20:21 AM »
This past summer, I had a colonoscopy. After being cleaned out from the pre-colonoscopy preparation, I believe that it was a week before I had to go to the bathroom to rid myself of the built up excrement.
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Re: Digestive Tract Question
« Reply #16 on: March 25, 2010, 11:39:54 AM »
Quote from: Thor on March 25, 2010, 10:20:21 AM
This past summer, I had a colonoscopy. After being cleaned out from the pre-colonoscopy preparation, I believe that it was a week before I had to go to the bathroom to rid myself of the built up excrement.

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Re: Digestive Tract Question
« Reply #17 on: March 25, 2010, 03:21:30 PM »
I'm going to make it.... I will definitely make it to 8000 posts... oh wait.

scratch that last one.
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Re: Digestive Tract Question
« Reply #18 on: March 25, 2010, 03:32:02 PM »
Quote from: franksolich on March 25, 2010, 09:03:51 AM
I surely did okay, lasting nine days, back in the mid-1990s, when I was wandering around the socialist paradises of the workers and peasants with free medical care for all--and rare was the sight of decent and civilized plumbing.

There was no way I was going to squat like that.

The trick was to watch what one ate, and to eat very little of that.

Mahorka and weak tea pulled me through it, until I got to civilized plumbing.

I actually became a legend among the workers and peasants (although I wasn't aware of it at the time; revelation came later), who got this idea Americans don't have to do that.

A testament to my intestinal fortitude.

9 days?

Holy crap Frank!
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Re: Digestive Tract Question
« Reply #19 on: March 25, 2010, 03:37:34 PM »
Quote from: rich_t on March 25, 2010, 03:32:02 PM
9 days?

Holy crap Frank!

Sheer intestinal fortitude, assisted with a very modest diet that could starve a bird.

Intestinal fortitude is why I haven't yet freaked out over the primitives on Skins's island.
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Re: Digestive Tract Question
« Reply #20 on: March 26, 2010, 06:46:30 PM »
more than 2 weeks, you should go to a  hospital...they do therapeutic barium enemas to get you to go...we had a girl yesterday that had to be dislodged.
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Re: Digestive Tract Question
« Reply #21 on: March 26, 2010, 06:48:10 PM »
HG...what exactly is it that you do?

I thought you were a stockbroker....
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Re: Digestive Tract Question
« Reply #22 on: March 26, 2010, 08:04:17 PM »
Quote from: Hawkgirl on March 26, 2010, 06:46:30 PM
more than 2 weeks, you should go to a  hospital...they do therapeutic barium enemas to get you to go...we had a girl yesterday that had to be dislodged.

I think I'd rather die.
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Re: Digestive Tract Question
« Reply #23 on: March 26, 2010, 08:18:30 PM »
Quote from: FGL on March 26, 2010, 08:04:17 PM
I think I'd rather die.


That's a certainly more dramatic option.


You could just go to Walgreen's and buy a Fleet enema and do it yourself.

Or some Dulcolax and take a couple of them.....they are what gastroenterologists prescribe as part of the prep "clean-out" for a colonoscopy. Trust me...they are highly effective... :uhsure:
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Re: Digestive Tract Question
« Reply #24 on: March 26, 2010, 10:28:41 PM »
Quote from: debk on March 26, 2010, 08:18:30 PM

That's a certainly more dramatic option.


You could just go to Walgreen's and buy a Fleet enema and do it yourself.

Or some Dulcolax and take a couple of them.....they are what gastroenterologists prescribe as part of the prep "clean-out" for a colonoscopy. Trust me...they are highly effective... :uhsure:

I've had stools so hard that a Fleet enema wouldn't go in.........  :o  (I think it was post surgical and on a lot of pain meds)
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