# Dopers, what's your stool type on the Bristol Scale? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [October 2, 2017, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-whats-your-stool-type-on-the-bristol-scale/797828 "2017-10-02T22:05:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![MikeG](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mikeg/32/4329_2.png) [@MikeG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MikeG)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2017, 5:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-whats-your-stool-type-on-the-bristol-scale/797828/21 "2017-10-03T05:05:56Z")
Cholycystectomy skews it for me but 6 with regular bouts of 7 ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2017, 5:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-whats-your-stool-type-on-the-bristol-scale/797828/22 "2017-10-03T05:42:09Z")
Why is this not in **Cafe Society**? ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2017, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-whats-your-stool-type-on-the-bristol-scale/797828/23 "2017-10-03T16:02:25Z")
Bar Stool. ---
**Author:** ![Mona\_Lisa\_Simpson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ce7236/32.png) [@Mona\_Lisa\_Simpson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mona_Lisa_Simpson)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2017, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-whats-your-stool-type-on-the-bristol-scale/797828/24 "2017-10-03T16:41:02Z")
:Pretty much 4 all the time since I quit dairy. Quit. No “Lactose free” things. No “maybe goat cheese will be ok for you.” Like NO. More. Mammary juice in my food. Life is better outside the bathroom. I am a nurse. I taught my son the Bristol Stool chart at an early age. He also grasped the 10 scale for pain at an early age. He will still come to me and say “I had a 7/10 stomach ache but after having three #6 bms I feel better.” 😃 ---
**Author:** ![TreacherousCretin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treacherouscretin/32/476_2.png) [@TreacherousCretin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TreacherousCretin)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2017, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-whats-your-stool-type-on-the-bristol-scale/797828/25 "2017-10-03T18:52:12Z")
I don’t remember the occasion, but about 10 years ago I gave our beloved Primary Care doctor a _Bristol Stool Scale Coffee Mug_ as a gift. She reacted as I expected- half amused, half wtf. When she surprised a lot of people by retiring from her practice several months later at the ripe old age of 40 (to take a position in the local ER), I asked her if “the mug” had been the last straw. Nah, although she admitted it was one of her more interesting mementos. ---
**Author:** ![Walken\_After\_Midnight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/b487fb/32.png) [@Walken\_After\_Midnight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walken_After_Midnight)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2017, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-whats-your-stool-type-on-the-bristol-scale/797828/26 "2017-10-03T19:31:49Z")
> [@TreacherousCretin](#): > > I don’t remember the occasion, but about 10 years ago I gave our beloved Primary Care doctor a _Bristol Stool Scale Coffee Mug_ as a gift. She reacted as I expected- half amused, half wtf. > > When she surprised a lot of people by retiring from her practice several months later at the ripe old age of 40 (to take a position in the local ER), I asked her if “the mug” had been the last straw. Nah, although she admitted it was one of her more interesting mementos. Next time, you could try giving your favorite doctor something a bit more glamorous… like a [Bristol stool lapel pin](https://www.etsy.com/listing/262944346/bristol-stool-lapel-pin-gift-for-nurse). ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2017, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-whats-your-stool-type-on-the-bristol-scale/797828/27 "2017-10-03T21:10:18Z")
Is there a tie-in with personality types? You’d think there has to be. And how would one characterize what the Greaseman used to refer to on-air as “a massive”? ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2017, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-whats-your-stool-type-on-the-bristol-scale/797828/28 "2017-10-03T21:24:35Z")
> [@Jackmannii](#): > > Is there a tie-in with personality types? You’d think there has to be. > > And how would one characterize what the Greaseman used to refer to on-air as “a massive”? Your twin questions show us just how many varied and individual facets there are to the science and art of copromancy (aka scatomancy, poopgnostication, divination by deuce, etc.) This thread itself is just my attempt to expand the frontiers of what we know by querying the various anal expulsives and retentives here at SDMB. Perhaps the bits of data (kernels of knowledge?) we glean here by stooping at stool may one day answer your ponderable points. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2017, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-whats-your-stool-type-on-the-bristol-scale/797828/29 "2017-10-03T21:49:00Z")
I think I’m usually a #4, but easily run the whole gamut in any given week, depending on what I’ve eaten. Wow. The histogram is an almost perfect Gaussian! ---
**Author:** ![Inner\_Stickler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inner_stickler/32/318_2.png) [@Inner\_Stickler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inner_Stickler)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2017, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-whats-your-stool-type-on-the-bristol-scale/797828/30 "2017-10-03T21:52:09Z")
I haven’t been keeping records. All I know is I want the magic formula to ghost poops. ---
**Author:** ![Hari\_Seldon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hari_seldon/32/5173_2.png) [@Hari\_Seldon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hari_Seldon)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2017, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-whats-your-stool-type-on-the-bristol-scale/797828/31 "2017-10-03T22:17:08Z")
I checked 3, but it doesn’t look like the photos. And I take a tsp of PEG every morning and a Tsp of Metamucil split between morning and evening every day and it is still hard as hell. I also eat fruit and veggies regularly. ---
**Author:** ![Bumbazine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bumbazine/32/362_2.png) [@Bumbazine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bumbazine)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2017, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-whats-your-stool-type-on-the-bristol-scale/797828/32 "2017-10-03T22:29:46Z")
Varies from #4 to #6 since I’ve been on metformin. ---
**Author:** ![teela\_brown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d9b06d/32.png) [@teela\_brown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/teela_brown)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2017, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-whats-your-stool-type-on-the-bristol-scale/797828/33 "2017-10-03T22:41:18Z")
> [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](#): > > Your twin questions show us just how many varied and individual facets there are to the science and art of copromancy (aka scatomancy, poopgnostication, divination by deuce, etc.) > > This thread itself is just my attempt to expand the frontiers of what we know by querying the various anal expulsives and retentives here at SDMB. Perhaps the bits of data (kernels of knowledge?) we glean here by stooping at stool may one day answer your ponderable points. Your conversation reminds me of a line from one of the courtiers in _The Madness Of King George_, discussing with a physician the King’s poop: “When will you get it into your head that one can produce a copious, regular and exquisitely turned evacuation every day of the week and still be a stranger to reason?” ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2017, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-whats-your-stool-type-on-the-bristol-scale/797828/34 "2017-10-03T23:14:01Z")
> [@teela\_brown](#): > > “When will you get it into your head that one can produce a copious, regular and exquisitely turned evacuation every day of the week and still be a stranger to reason?” There’s wisdom in that. Great wisdom. Even so, fecal fraud at times must be considered in the differential diagnosis. Such as the time a constipated madman stole a corn-studded turd from a neighbor and placed it in his own bedside commode chair in an attempt to confound his critics. :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Arrendajo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e0b2c6/32.png) [@Arrendajo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arrendajo)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2017, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-whats-your-stool-type-on-the-bristol-scale/797828/35 "2017-10-03T23:15:38Z")
> [@Inner\_Stickler](#): > > I haven’t been keeping records. All I know is I want the magic formula to ghost poops. Yes, ghost poops! I want to get to the bottom of this. ---
**Author:** ![TreacherousCretin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treacherouscretin/32/476_2.png) [@TreacherousCretin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TreacherousCretin)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2017, 3:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-whats-your-stool-type-on-the-bristol-scale/797828/36 "2017-10-04T03:12:48Z")
> [@Walken\_After\_Midnight](#): > > Next time, you could try giving your favorite doctor something a bit more glamorous… like a [Bristol stool lapel pin](https://www.etsy.com/listing/262944346/bristol-stool-lapel-pin-gift-for-nurse). Duly noted. ---
**Author:** ![Ignotus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/ecc23a/32.png) [@Ignotus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ignotus)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2017, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-whats-your-stool-type-on-the-bristol-scale/797828/37 "2017-10-04T03:15:48Z")
I just did a #4. ---
**Author:** ![kopek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kopek/32/337_2.png) [@kopek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kopek)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2017, 4:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-whats-your-stool-type-on-the-bristol-scale/797828/38 "2017-10-04T04:15:14Z")
> [@Walken\_After\_Midnight](#): > > Next time, you could try giving your favorite doctor something a bit more glamorous… like a [Bristol stool lapel pin](https://www.etsy.com/listing/262944346/bristol-stool-lapel-pin-gift-for-nurse). I actually made my doctor something like this once. [https://cdn.instructables.com/FLT/T6B3/HAVGJEDJ/FLTT6B3HAVGJEDJ.MEDIUM.jpg](https://cdn.instructables.com/FLT/T6B3/HAVGJEDJ/FLTT6B3HAVGJEDJ.MEDIUM.jpg) She actually appreciated it and keeps it on her desk. ---
**Author:** ![Walken\_After\_Midnight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/b487fb/32.png) [@Walken\_After\_Midnight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walken_After_Midnight)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2017, 4:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-whats-your-stool-type-on-the-bristol-scale/797828/39 "2017-10-04T04:34:48Z")
> [@kopek](#): > > I actually made my doctor something like this once. > > [https://cdn.instructables.com/FLT/T6B3/HAVGJEDJ/FLTT6B3HAVGJEDJ.MEDIUM.jpg](https://cdn.instructables.com/FLT/T6B3/HAVGJEDJ/FLTT6B3HAVGJEDJ.MEDIUM.jpg) > > She actually appreciated it and keeps it on her desk. Phew! I was half-expecting a laminated stool paperweight. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![TreacherousCretin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treacherouscretin/32/476_2.png) [@TreacherousCretin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TreacherousCretin)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2017, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-whats-your-stool-type-on-the-bristol-scale/797828/40 "2017-10-04T20:57:54Z")
> [@Walken\_After\_Midnight](#): > > Next time, you could try giving your favorite doctor something a bit more glamorous… like a [Bristol stool lapel pin](https://www.etsy.com/listing/262944346/bristol-stool-lapel-pin-gift-for-nurse). On second thought, I’d stick with the mug. I wanted the gift to be something she could use in her everyday worklife. Your pin would’ve been more appropriate for formal occasions. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-whats-your-stool-type-on-the-bristol-scale/797828.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-whats-your-stool-type-on-the-bristol-scale/797828.md?page=3)