Regularly between 6:30 and 6:45 every morning.
Slight hijack: Are you more-than-once-a-day-poopers all thin?
[QUOTE=Merkwurdigliebe]
I thought women didn’t poop at all
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We poop, but it smells like roses.
[QUOTE=RoniaBorkason]
Haha! My kind of TMI!
Not regular at all. If I’m being good, eating normal people amounts, and avoiding milk products, every 2 or 3 days. If I go all-I-can-eat, every other day. Milk products, every 3-4 hours.
Isn’t cheese supposed to, well, bind one up? I have a real love/hate relationship with it.
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Maybe you’re lactose intolerant?
Well, since I’m here, I’m pretty regular. About 10-15 minutes after my morning coffee. The big problem is the only day of the week when I have to be at work at 8am and don’t get my coffee until I’m at work. I have shy bowels and can’t always go at work so it will try to wait until afternoon with a lot of grumbling, often as soon as I get home I have to go.
Even if I have my morning “constitutional” I occasionally will have an extra afternoon one depending on what I had been eating the previous day, for example something with a lot of fiber.
I also have problems like Ronia mentioned with dairy, only for me it’s just whole milk. No other dairy products bothers me, although the 2% milk is starting to cause problems, too. So I keep some Lactaid on hand for when I want cereal. I don’t use milk for much other than that.
And if I am really stressed about something, well forget it, I just don’t leave the house.
[QUOTE=Surly Chick]
Slight hijack: Are you more-than-once-a-day-poopers all thin?
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I’m not. Wish I were. And it doesn’t seem to matter whether I’m eating healthily or if I’m eating junk food. The volume and frequency tend to be about the same. I just poop a lot.
[QUOTE=gigi]
We poop, but it smells like roses.
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Roses that have been composted with manure. 
[QUOTE=Fear Itself]
Bingo.
Actually, I am having a colonsocopy *and * an endoscopy at the same time, bright and early tomorrow.
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Good time, good times. You’ll have a blast (or twelve). 
I am a morning person, almost everyday around 9-10 am. Unless I really rip er up on the weekend then all bets are off. Or if I travel. I think there have been times when abroad that I haven’t gone for 3-4 days at a pop. Flying, driving or just staying at a lodge or friends house can offset the normal rhythm.
BTW, there seems to be missing a reply from a certain poster…can’t place the name though…
[QUOTE=Gatopescado]
Strange side-note: I’m “retired” and don’t do much around the house, so as a result, hang out in my garage/shop alot.
Pretty much like clockwork, within 3 minutes of walking out there, be it morning, noon or night, I gotta run back to the house and pinch off some rope. It’s uncanny and frankly kinda weird. Sometimes, I’ll think about going out to start a project, and BINGO! Turtle’s head!.
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Bookstores do this to me.
I swear, walking into a bookstore is like an intestinal seismic event. Smell all that paper: gotta go, gotta go, gotta go.
Jerry Seinfeld, in his book, I think, described that he was the same way. Until then, I thought I was unique.
[QUOTE=Belrix]
Bookstores do this to me.
I swear, walking into a bookstore is like an intestinal seismic event. Smell all that paper: gotta go, gotta go, gotta go.
Jerry Seinfeld, in his book, I think, described that he was the same way. Until then, I thought I was unique.
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Shopping in general can do this to me, but you’re right that it’s bookstores in particular.
“We can’t take this back; it’s been flagged!”
[QUOTE=Merkwurdigliebe]
I thought women didn’t poop at all
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We don’t. I was just making an observation about prescription pain meds. 
[QUOTE=Indistinguishable]
This thread is giving me that impression, but it always seemed natural to me. The rule of thumb I’ve heard is that anything from three times a day to three times a week is considered normal, so… I guess it’s right at the top of that.
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Oh good, I was wondering about that. I go…lots.
[QUOTE=Dung Beetle]
Oh good, I was wondering about that. I go…lots.
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Well if you stopped rolling it into balls and making gifts of it, maybe you’d lose the incentive.
[QUOTE=gigi]
Shopping in general can do this to me, but you’re right that it’s bookstores in particular.
“We can’t take this back; it’s been flagged!”
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Yeah, I have the same problem with shopping (not for groceries) and especially bookstores. Since so many bookstores have coffee shops I figured it’s a reaction to the smell of coffee, but that doesn’t explain why the urge hits in department stores.
My shy bowels also extend to traveling, also. Not fun.
[QUOTE=Belrix]
Well if you stopped rolling it into balls and making gifts of it, maybe you’d lose the incentive.
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Say, that reminds me…when’s your birthday?
[QUOTE=Wile E]
My shy bowels also extend to traveling, also. Not fun.
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I’m fortunate to be the opposite. When I travel my bowels clench harder than a Civil War soldier on a musket ball. On flights I always take the inside seat and usually only have to go once per 4 hours. I probably wouldn’t have to go at all if I didn’t drink lots of extra water to combat dehydration.
I am a fairly regular person; usually between 6 and 6:15 am I’ve moved.
However, the last couple of days, I’ve been going every twelve hours. Not sure why, either. It’s a bit loose. This seems to happen once a month or so (I’m a guy).
[QUOTE=Dung Beetle]
Say, that reminds me…when’s your birthday?
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Umm. February 30th.
I have severe IBS, so I’m actually not very regular at all. I have had days where I have to go every half hour all day long. I have had days where I cannot leave the house.
Except… something happened that changed this all very much for me. I started eating lots of fiber. I wouldn’t exactly call myself regular now, but I function. I don’t often have to plan trips around bathroom stops or cancel plans with friends anymore. Stomach pain is greatly diminished as well.
Honestly, what you eat makes such a huge difference in how you feel. I wouldn’t have believed it, but I almost feel like I’m running around with someone else’s bowels now. Fiber rocks.
I’m not regular in the sense that I go at the same time every day, but I’m regular in the sense that I go often and it’s rarely an “effort” on my part, as it were. You can generally count on me to go 2-3 times per day, the first time almost always being 20-30 minutes after I wake up…whether I wake up at 6 AM or noon, 20-30 mins later I gotta take a dump. After that, all bets are off, but I will go at least once more before the day is out, I can assure you.
Those of you with IBS or such things, I’m curious, what were your patterns like before you got IBS (I presume it hasn’t been a life-long problem)?