Isn't it something Tabster ???? It is always like this - "mass" murder of the butts !!!! One butt starts and all follow the trend ! It must be something "in the air" LOL, and we all are looking for the cause in the food we eat and the anal opening . Maybe some electromagnetic change in the energy field of the upper atmosphere ??? We should start sending those weather balloons up and do some research

Corsi,
Sorry about your pain. Are you sure that the dark chocolate constipated you? I have been eating quite a lot of chocolate lately and hadn't done that for awhile.
Cheryl

oh no corsi,not you as well.was it hard poop?are you taking movicol?hope tomorrow is a better day for you

Thank you girls :lovetree:
I couldn't have been the chocolate, I didn't eat chocolate yesterday and today the pain was worse and there was blood there again. I now have that wonderful and sore feeling
I actually upped my Miralax dose yesterday. I have taken 2 teaspoons with the last meal for a week, but I see that the recommended dose is more like 3 teaspoons (17 gr.).
Maybe I eat too many prunes?
Today I will not eat cheese with the last meal as I normally do, who cares about osteoporosis?? No calcium for me.
I have eaten cheese with the last meal so that it shouldn't affect my BM.
I don't know what causes what anymore, I hate my butt big time!
Bloody Mary

How many prunes ????
Sent you a love letter

hi corsica,
as much as i was a prune freak and i grew to love them on my anal fissure diet, i think for me the prunes and raisins with their chewy consistency somehow ends up in my digestive system contributing to very chewy, play-do like poo...it's very thick, elastic, and dry when it comes out that it feels like i was constipated as well.
i started to make that connection with the raisins as i loved to put those in my oatmeal all the time and just eat them for snacking....
now that i don't eat them or very sparingly, i don't have that kind of poo anymore.
odd!
and yes, prunes are delicious.

oh by the way, my laverne and shirley are acting up.....
they have been since obama won!

i am trying to work on those girls asap! :bathtub:

I HATE that there seems to be no rhyme or reason for these things. I have even kept a journal and still can't always rely on things working the same every day. With prunes, if I eat too many I actually get more stinging poo. How many is too many? I wish I knew.
What I am findin helpful is taking a big swig of fish oil ( I use the kind that is infused with lemon so it doesn't taste fishy) and that seems to coat the poop so that I don't get as much residue especially since I am trying to keep it soft.
Well, at least it isn't chocolate. That would totally suck.
Sorry to hear L&S are acting up. Those wenches!

happyass wrote: i think for me the prunes and raisins with their chewy consistency somehow ends up in my digestive system contributing to very chewy, play-do like poo...it's very thick, elastic, and dry when it comes out that it feels like i was constipated as well

That is exactly what happend to me today. I could hardly get that thing out, it was like pushing out a glue like play-do like painful poop. I had to go a second time, and as I wrote in my love letter Tabby, I almost passed out in the bathroom. It was so painful, and the pain has been present the whole day. I'm not complaining, so don't feel sorry for me. Just telling my poop story Think what we can share her??? Poop stories
I will not eat more prunes today, have had 4 already....
How many is too many Tabby? You are the prune expert among us

Lecia wrote:I HATE that there seems to be no rhyme or reason for these things. I have even kept a journal and still can't always rely on things working the same every day. With prunes, if I eat too many I actually get more stinging poo. How many is too many? I wish I knew.
What I am findin helpful is taking a big swig of fish oil ( I use the kind that is infused with lemon so it doesn't taste fishy) and that seems to coat the poop so that I don't get as much residue especially since I am trying to keep it soft.
Well, at least it isn't chocolate. That would totally suck.
Sorry to hear L&S are acting up. Those wenches!

No, it cannot be the chocolate... I know you take fish oil, the box you sent was a fish oil box. I will take fish oil tonight Lecia.
I too think it is so frustrating that there is no pattern, what works one may cause "catastrophe" the next day...
Yours sincerely, Bloody Mary
Tell Laverne & Shirley to go to Alaska Happy!
How are they acting up???

ughh corsi it sounds horrible today! i've had BMs like that where i just could not get it out. those are the most dangerous kind for a fissure. maybe you need to clean your system out...try eating bean soup, oatmeal, lots of fruit and other soft stuff today and keep taking your miralax or MOM.
you could even try mineral oil, that helped me coat the hard BMs after surgery. i even had to use a warm water enema, which wasn't as painful as it sounds, even right after surgery. that can be another option to help you get those sticky hard ones out. yuck, i can't believe what we talk about on here. LOL. i hope tomorrow's better!