It’s past time for a thread dedicated to an issue near and dear to my heart…
Perhaps more accurately, I’m speaking of the alcohol squirts. Booze can give you the poos, and this becomes especially true for chronic drinking.
In my case, ending as a daily drinker for a few years straight, I recognized IBS-like symptoms at least a year before I quit drinking. When I noticed it was becoming a daily problem, I looked it up and saw plenty of articles explaining how the drinking (and often-correlated horrible diet) bring it on. There was a bottle of anti-diarrheal always at the ready. I didn’t care about myself or my health enough at the time to actually do anything about it.
Let’s focus on the positive though: Sober poops are magical, not discussed often enough, and for me resumed in full about 10-14 days of sobriety. With better diet than I, you may find you enjoy them sooner. One of the many gifts of sobriety.
I’m on the flip, actually needing a bit of fiber in the morning like I used to. The friend who led me to finding TS had his train completely stop for a few days.
Probably I need to work on getting the carbs back under control…
Well, being a heroin addict I experienced the exact opposite symptoms. If I’m being honest, back when I was using I would only experienced a bowel movement once a week if I was lucky. Today being 10 months sober I’m happy to report I am back on track and having regular poops.
PS: Great Thread
I had a time a couple years back when I didn’t poop, but it wasn’t because of the drinking.
Ive have a few abdominal surgeries for various things, creates a lot of scar tissue. The scar tissue can cause my guts to kink up. That was a rough 3 days in the hospital lol, tube shoved down my nose into my stomach sucking out black muck.
In my old house, both fridges would occasionally make sounds like chuckling. Sometimes at the same time, as if they had some appliance inside joke about humans. Does that count?
Programmable toilet audio. Starts Final Countdown or Eye of the Tiger when the seat senses pressure, then at flush, “Weeeee are the champions…”
Lucky you went! I have to go sometime this winter and I’m not looking forward to not eating for 24 hours. I have dystonia and if I miss even one meal I terrible all over, it’s embarrassing.
Alcohol made pooping easy, when I quit drinking I found myself needing to change things up. Magnesium is my newest bff as well as probiotics! I developed candida from drinking, those with colostrum is helping to heal my gut. Much better this way!
