Reluctantly, I post this query in the hope that it brings to an end one of the strangest recurring conversations my wife and I have.
My beloved wife’s intestinal process is a marvel of modern efficiency. Between 10 AM and noon, every day, she will take a crap and then crap no more until the next day.
Whereas I… spread the wealth. I typically have two “poops of significance”, ie. the kind you feel noticeably lighter when you stand up than when you sat down, every day. And I will probably have two minor excretory experiences, where a visit to pee gets augmented by a sphinctural addition.
She thinks I am a bizarre freak, and I would never admit aloud or by type to thinking anything like that about her. Which leads me here.
A poll: How often, in a day, do you poop?
Factual information: What is common? What is healthy? What might cause such disparities?
I apologize if this has been discussed before. My search using every synonym for human solid waste produced a buttload of threads, but nothing quite like this.
I’m the same as the OP, and have been for years. In concern, I went to hospital, where I got injected, inspected, detected, infected, neglected and selected about it, with ultrasound, colonoscopies, endoscopies, laproscopies, spectroscopies (on the bright side, at least having an “oscopy” makes me a scientist), bloods, stool samples, fingers in every orifice, and all sorts of various other nasties.
After all the pain and humiliation, the consultant’s conclusion: “You’re just like that”.
The only time I went “normal” was when I did the Atkin’s diet. So probably I have intolerances to most food apart from cheese and meat. But I like my food, so I choose to live with this state of affairs.
On the downside, everyone in my office knows where I’m going when I take that long walk down the hall exactly 30 minutes after lunch. Maybe not embarassing to a guy, but I’m not!
In general, once a day, usually between 10am and noon.
Occasionally, something throws off my rhythm and I miss my window of opportunity. Often what happens then is I simply lose the urge to go until the next day.
Pretty much once a day; not quite as regular as clockwork, but usually morning or evening. I tend to settle into a roughly 24-hour rhythm, but that sometimes gets upset and I postpone by 12 hours.
I know people you could set your clock by, and I’m not sure that’s entirely a good thing. No scope for bending like a supple willow against the buffeting winds of fate.
My grandma thinks that if she doesn’t shit at least 3 times a day, she’s constipated. She’s 90 years old, eats and drinks as many laxatives as she can get down her gullet each day. She’s on no medications and is quite healthy, other than the fact that she’s batshit crazy. shrugs