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    Violet BaudelaireLaura Beck
    4/10/13 12:13pm

    Examining your poop is a really good idea (and also pee - it should be a very light yellow if you're properly hydrated!)

    My personal favorite poop fact; all poop starts out green, and changes color as it moves through the intestines. If you are having green poop, it's because your poop has moved too fast through your body!

    (also for other reasons, like diet and iron intake, but still!)

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      badmuthaViolet Baudelaire
      4/10/13 12:22pm

      Wow, servicey! That is very interesting. Your poo is green when you take iron too.

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      Violet Baudelairebadmutha
      4/10/13 12:29pm

      Oh yes, good point - I edited after you mention, since my post insinuated green poop was only because of this, when you're right, it can be iron or also, eating excessive amounts of cake with cheap green icing (this is my most common green poop culprit)

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    BeyonceIsTheLastUnicornLaura Beck
    4/10/13 12:40pm

    Thank you, Laura, for giving me a podium on which to talk about poo. I LOVE IT!*

    ~~~~~V. Gross Personal Anecdote~~~~ :-* <3
    I always examine my poo and ask those around me to examine their poos. I am known in my social circle as to go-to poo girl. Recently, I was having averagely healthy poos, but the worst bloating, gas and abdominal discomfort. I decided that before going to a doctor and having hard-earned money forceably ripped out of my colon (banks are for the well-adjusted), I'd try fasting for 36 hours to see if there is something lodged up in there that needs to be drained out by tea and willpower.

    I started my fast Monday evening. Tuesday morning I had a normal-but-on-the-soft-side poo and felt better. I thought, "Hm, maybe that was it. My work here is done," and was tempted to cut my fasting early. My boyfriend said, "Your decision to make, IF YOU WANT TO DIE. You know there is something unholy up in there. Give it 24 hours."

    Boy is he a keeper. Last night, proof that god does not exist slopped onto the porcelain throne, unseating the last wink of pleasantry in the bathroom. Today, I am a new woman, like a phoenix risen from the creamy aftermath of my reckless diet.

    *not even being the tiniest bit sarcastic or self aware here, people.

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      yvanehtniojBeyonceIsTheLastUnicorn
      4/10/13 12:47pm

      I cannot stop wondering what you eventually pooped out. I'm imagining a gremlin.

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      BeyonceIsTheLastUnicornyvanehtnioj
      4/10/13 12:56pm

      That's pretty close, if the gremlin was also drawn and quartered.

      Best part of me telling this story: I got a follower after posting this. I love you, Airam79, whoever you are.

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    RedBeansAndRiceDidMissHerLaura Beck
    4/10/13 12:26pm

    The weirdest poop I ever took was in college. I have absolutely no idea what I ate, or if maybe I had some sort of vitamin deficiency going on that day that prevented proper fat absorption, but it was BRIGHT orange, and full of literal orange grease blobs that floated on top of the water. If camera phones had existed back then I might have even photographed it. Since I was a poor college student and didn't feel sick and my next poop was back to normal, I never went to a doctor about it. I still have no idea what that was all about. Bodies are weird.

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      MadPiglet loves West HamRedBeansAndRiceDidMissHer
      4/10/13 12:29pm

      That... is gross and totally amazing.

      I have learned about a few food intolerance issues I have from checking out my poo. Tomato skins, for one. Bodies are so weird and gross and fascinating!

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      catfaceRedBeansAndRiceDidMissHer
      4/10/13 12:34pm

      I think that's what Alli (the weight loss drug) does to you! I have heard horror stories of the orange oil...

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    Nan LittleLaura Beck
    4/10/13 12:09pm

    Oh man did I get excited over this headline. I have actually gotten upset when my toilet paper fell into the commode so as to completely obscure my view of the poop therein. I ALWAYS look at my poop.

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      My dear, sweet brother Numsie!Nan Little
      4/10/13 1:20pm

      What about the "Phantom Poos"? The ones that sneak down into the hole in the bottom of the toilet as soon as they are out and leave no trace that they were ever there (no paper evidence only adds to the mystery!)

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      HappyBerryMy dear, sweet brother Numsie!
      4/10/13 1:51pm

      I want some scientist to get on researching them! I hate that when you know you pooped, and then you look in the toilet bowl and there is nothing in there. Where does it go?!?

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    rokokobangLaura Beck
    4/10/13 12:20pm

    Someone post the song from the Scrubs musical! "I broke my foot!" "Check the poo..."

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      Violet Baudelairerokokobang
      4/10/13 12:24pm

      Ha! This was my first thought too, I've been assuming someone would

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      RedBeansAndRiceDidMissHerrokokobang
      4/10/13 12:27pm

      Ha! Yes, I was thinking that too. And here it is:

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    MadPiglet loves West HamLaura Beck
    4/10/13 12:32pm

    When I was nursing WeePiglet, we could always tell what I'd been eating based on the terrible things that came out of her bum. One time I had a handful of dark chocolate M&Ms and the resulting poo was... blue. BRIGHT BLUE. I freaked out and called the doctor who talked me off the ceiling and we went through all the things I'd eaten that day... lo and behold, the dyes used in the M&M candy shells do fun and interesting things to our bodies and any bodies that use our bodies for food.

    That was a good catalyst for eliminating as many artificial dyes as we could!

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      GemmabetaLaura Beck
      4/10/13 1:01pm

      My the way, anyone read the new Mary Roach (of Stiff, Bonk, Spook, and Packing For Mars) book Gulp, it on the digestive system from your mouth to your anus. My copy's on order, CAN't WAIT!

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        anotsmallgirlLaura Beck
        4/10/13 12:16pm

        i dunno about your macrobiotic cooking teacher, but the color of golden wheat would signify a poorly performing liver to me.

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          badmuthaanotsmallgirl
          4/10/13 1:19pm

          I was thinking the same thing. Light colored poo is a danger sign.

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        Loose_SealLaura Beck
        4/10/13 12:15pm

        I make a lot of green smoothies at home and every time I give one to my 3 year old, she says. "I'm going to make a green poop!" I guess that's not something she should be excited about.

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          Sea AnemoneLaura Beck
          4/10/13 3:21pm

          I have to examine my cat's poop b/c she has digestive issues, and frankly, one being's poop is my max.

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