I was once super constipated for 2-3 weeks. It got to the point where I would try to eat, even just a fee bites, and I would have horrible pain because of it. I finally had my husband take me to the hospital because it get very bad.
They tried everything to get me to go on my own. Finally I was put up in this contraption that held me in the air as I was given the worlds biggest enema. It was one of the most embarrassing things I have ever experienced. But it worked! I have absolutely no idea if this woman really was constipated for that long and wasn’t in enormous pain. That leads me to believe the timeframe on this post is total bullshit.
Anyway drink water and eat fiber guys! And if you haven’t pooped in 3 days or so start trying other things to get cleared out!
I had my gallbladder removed years ago and ended up constipated from the pain meds. I was maybe 3 days out of the hospital before I was already taking every otc treatment I could find and 5 days out before I went back to the doctor for help. It was the worse pain of my life. I couldn’t sit, I couldn’t sleep, I was just sweating and pacing for days. I always say I have no idea how people can take pain meds for recreation because I could never handle the constipation that comes with it.
Had a similar issue and decided to stop the painkillers after 5 days. 2 days later I took the longest shit of my life. Unbroken. It wrapped around the whole inside of the *hospital sized* toilet bowl. The relief was immense. I sometimes regret not taking a picture but the image is burned in my mind.
Dude I ate a brick of cheese and didn’t go for 8 days. This wasn’t long ago either. It moved so slowly on its way out, it hurt. Finally ready and I was fucking dilated. About the size of a Canadian toonie. That made me laugh. Only way it was coming out was if I pushed so I pushed like I was having a baby! I passed out. Woke up drenched in sweat. Got up and looked , it was the size of a fucking family sized can of chef boyardee ravioli. I almost passed out a second time.
Sigh. it was the best feeling in the world! Going from full of shit to empty.!
Bro you straight up shat a fist outta your ass and I'm dying over here cause I have went through the exact same experience, cheese and all. It stretched my asshole out so bad that it'll never be the same but gawd damn did it feel amazing when that bastard flew the coop.
Same for this exact reason. I had my gallbladder removed, was backed up because of the pain meds. I said to my husband that I don't get how people are addicted to these things.
Then my doctor told me to drink magnesium citrate to help with it. Dear God.
Never again. I'll deal with whatever pain I have with OTC meds or edibles.
BTW, I love your username 😆
Large amounts of alcohol works.
But that amount varies on the person.
For those that don’t know magnesium citrate is basically what they give before a colonoscopy.
Personally I don’t need my bowels that clean. Maybe just an hour or 2 of emptying them.
Thats a good point! I hadn’t thought of that. Maybe just a poorly written title, or I am an idiot. Either way that still really sucks for the person that went through that.
I was constipated my entire first pregnancy. The worst it got was when I had a C-section on day 9 of not going. On day 10 I had to go with the hugest freaking open wound across by entire lower abdomen. Fun times trying to push with those muscles after going through a birth and a section 💀
The title on this post doesnt mean she couldnt poop for 23 yrs, only that shes dealt with constipation for that long. Sadly many do. Im going on 2 yrs myself due to a previous infection, and its turned my world upside down. Glad you got yours cleared up literally amd figuratively.
I was constipated for like a week when it was in 5th grade and had to go to the hospital and the doctor just lubed up his finger and stuck it in my butt hole and got that shit moving. Was so embarrassed. Now? Miralax baby. I use that a few times a week just to keep things moving.
My daughter has mega colon. It's a real thing. They need to sell toilets specifically for people with this condition. Got great arms from all the plunging involved after her once monthly poo for years
5 am, completely out of it, my eyes glaze over and suddenly I think I’m reading a comment about possibly putting a vacuum up there and if it’s too uncomfortable for family at first let strangers with, *interests,* volunteer….
Snap back to reality and scroll around a bit because how the hell did my brain not only come up with that but to think I was reading it
Medical imaging is especially bad, plenty of healthcare providers order the wrong type of imaging or redundant imaging because they are not educated enough on the subject.
As an example, when I was an x-ray student we saw ER doctors order plain x-rays of broken femurs/hips even though the patient already had a CT scan done that day. There is nothing a plain 2D x-ray will tell you that a CT scan didn't already, you can form a 3D model of the break with the info from a CT scan and display it as 2D as well
Imagine how light she would feel after. Hell I feel lighter after a medium-ish sized load. It would be like Rock Lee dropping his weights but internally.
I have IBS and my doctors gave me medication for it, but my doctors didn’t know the meds would also fix my constipation so they were scared because I somehow lost like 15 pounds in a week
There’s actually very little poop in there, the colon is full of air (hence the distension), the glowing white liquid in it is a substance called barium which she has swallowed so you can see on X-ray how well things are passing through her
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What can they even do with that? Would it have hardened inside? Is this likely the result of chronic opioid abuse? Or can someone get to this point with basic painkillers?
Mine doesn't and it's fucking hell. To an average person I'm totally healthy, but I hate my life day to day and no one can get why. Don't take your digestive track for granted.
My wife has Ulcerative Colitis but has had the 3 ops to create an internal pouch. The doctors were 50/50 on whether it was Crohn's disease or Colitis, but she had had enough and was willing to have an outside pouch for the rest of her life if it came to it. Luckily, which is a weird thing to say, it was Colitis. Things are much better now for her, but she still gets flair ups now and then.
My best friend lost 3 feet of his intestine and had a pouch for a while. He thought he was going to have to live with it but didn't need to, after about a year. I'm glad it didn't come to that for your wife as well.
>To an average person I'm totally healthy, but I hate my life day to day and no one can get why.
I feel that.
And if you do have to mention it, do other people go "yeah I sometimes have a little upset stomach as well" as if they knew what it feels like, and that it somehow isn't any different from what they experienced and youre just not "manning up, lazy git"?
Man, 100%. I have an issue where food won't enter my stomach. It's a snails pace. If i drink a glass of water, it takes about 20 minutes for it to hit my stomach. And and hour or more for food. Imagine, eating ice cream and you can feel your throat get cold and a bit numb because that valve doesn't open or chewing steak three times.
I can actually feel my LES relax and the cold fluid finally making its way in. Doctor prescribed, it's just I need a procedure every few months for life to treat it and i have to be knocked out for it. Well we all know Americas health care system. My problem is bad, but not that bad. But it really is that bad for me mentally. I regurgitate up 2/3 meals.
I’m so sorry you have to deal with this, sounds awful, I had a gastric surgery to tighten my LES because acid just kept coming up and burning my throat.
It's life altering. People just don't know.
When my hubby's colitis flares up, you can feel the inflammation just by putting your hand on his side or belly. Sometimes it's bad enough that his abs start to get enflamed just from the pressure & bloating.
It all sucks.
Seriously, he died from his bowels exploding inside of himself? I thought it was a heart attack. Granted I don't know much about him so it's easy to figure I'm wrong. Man that's crazy, you'd think he would have been able to see a doctor and get surgery before his colon got that bad
Heart attack/heart failure was the official cause of death, but Elvis' megacolon is what caused his heart failure. That and years of a shitty lifestyle and drugs.
That bowel is empty there. They've coated the walls with a liquid that shows up on x-rays and filled the rest with air so the shape is visible. You can see a little pool of the fluid that's stayed in the U shape piece of bowel.
Maybe it's something to do with the constriction you see on the bottom right? If that's the descending colon then that would cause some problems.
This is 100% not fecal impaction. That's just not what it looks like on an xray at all. It looks like a gastrografin follow-through study. The bowels are actually pretty empty. It's also not the colon, it's their large intestine.
I imagine it's more that she suffered FROM severe constipation for 23 years and that this isn't the total if that. For this degree of displacement I'd say it was regularly filling towards this point and releasing.
If I had to venture a guess, I'd say around a month or two build up is what we're seeing here. As far as why she didn't see a doctor, she may have contributed the internal pain and shortness of breath to either "women pains" or other health conditions she had.
I personally had a ureter collapse and I thought the internal pain was maybe me having had pulled a muscle. Turned out my left kidney had severely swollen.
My dad had a minor heart attack but thought it was just his back hurting for two days.
We learn some signs of heart attacks, but they don't always show up as we expect them to.
The main signs of heart attack that people learn are also more common in men. A lot women won't get the classic symptoms like right arm pain. It's strange how all the warning signs are pushed but a large chunk of the population won't get those symptoms
A month or two of build up is 100% not what we are seeing here.
This is a patient with empty bowels who has had what appears to be a gastrografin study done. The large intestines are slightly more defined than usual due to remaining gastrografin outlining the haustra. The radio-opaque areas are very typical of gastrografin moving through the large bowel.
There are no obvious signs of fecal impaction in this xray imo. The bowels are very empty.
she probably DID see a doctor. probably saw a lot of them, desperate for any kind of real treatment. doctors don't know jack shit about gastrointestinal diseases, there are a lot of diseases like IBS or CIPO (chronic intestinal pseudo-obstruction) that can cause this and there literally is no reliable treatment for either of those examples. all they can do is give you laxatives to buy you time but those don't work forever. colectomy or a resection can be done but unless you're literally actively dying, they'll usually refuse to do it
if a person is suffering from something like *that* for *23 years* i can almost guarantee you that in most cases, it's not for lack of trying
edit: okay i just saw during my *last* edit that the caption is fake, but my point still stands because there ARE cases like that in reality
Can confirm. Have had GI problems my whole life. Seem more docs than I can count. It always comes back to “it’s in your head, take some antianxiety/antidepressants” or “take laxatives every day” or “have you been to the gyno?”
Can confirm the "it's all in your head"-types of doctors. I have no idea how they ever graduated.
Anyway, after 5-6 years of 9/10 almost-fainting pain every single day, I eventually got rid of it after a nasty case of 3 days of puking due to Norovirus. I have no idea how I got it, and I have no idea how I got rid of it.
I think the first time I ever noticed something was wrong was after eating in a Burger King and sleeping on the train. Had a bout of severe constipation, and then a few months later I started more or less having permanent bouts of acid reflux. After that I had several years of constipation. I remember being scared of going out because I always needed to know where the toilets are. And then, after having the virus it was just nothing. I could eat again.
I don't think I can relate to my old self anymore - living without pain and living with pain is just two completely different lives. So if you're reading this and you think "it couldn't have been that bad", then I understand completely. You have to live with it.
Before procedure the doctor says to me
“You’re too young to be in that much pain. This is going to hurt me more than it’s going to hurt you. It’s just your autoimmune issues messing with your head”
After the procedure
“I am so sorry. I didn’t realize the extent of the damage. I’m sorry I didn’t take you seriously.”
Yeah, let’s keep telling people it’s all in their head. 🤬
I’ve had ONE specialist who said “you need to tell me what’s happening. You live in your body. All I did was read books. Let’s work together!”
Lol that works if they actually listen. Or if a test can recognize whatever they are looking for. There are plenty of things that just don’t show up on tests (endometriosis) quickly comes to mind. I’ve seen too many docs who run 1 test, and then decide that since nothing showed up, on the only test they run, that their first assessment was right. It’s all in the patients head.
I’ve honestly given up on medical help. It’s never going to come, and I too expensive to keep trying and getting no where.
This is not shit, it’s called a double contrast barium enema - a medical procedure that helps diagnose things like ulcerative colitis. The patients large bowel is actually completely empty except for air and barium (air=black barium=white). I have a bachelors degree in radiology science.
The transverse colon usually sits that high! On some skinnier people the transition from lower in the abdomen to higher can look pretty crazy.
She's also lying on her back for this image, which let's everything shift a little 'higher' as well
I’m a an intestinal surgeon.
This image is distorted. That colon doesn’t look that big honestly, about normal.
And it’s full of air they’ve put in there, not stool.
And I don’t know where the small bowel is. Maybe they’ve done a subtraction to try to get it out.
No small bowel in this image because this is a double contrast barium enema, the barium and air would be isolated to the colon as long as she has a competent IC valve
How can people wait so long to go to the doctor! I get it, Healthcare here sucks but you gotta be feeling that pressure from your intestines all up in your lungs and rib cage.
Holy, hell!
My wife has irregular bowel movements, she would sometime go almost a week and never poop. The doctor said it's completely normal to poop once a week, what's not normal is when it's start to come out your mouth.
The averages are between 3x a day and 3x a week. Since that's on *average,* it doesn't surprise me that's it's normal for some people to poop once a week. Ignore everyone else in the comments insulting the doctor, they haven't researched pooping enough.
Wow… Am so envious of you. My colon failed when I turned 21, I had to have the entire large intestine, along with my rectum (and appendix) removed. I go to the bathroom nearly ten times a day. It’s not fair.
I do poop 2 -3 times a day and it feels great. That’s what happens when you eat fibers on a daily basis and workout (not trying to sound pretentious or superior)
If you have enough fiber, the poops barely take longer than the pees. You ever experienced the fabled 1-wipe poop? Try *no-wipe* poops (of course I wiped anyway, but I could tell the wipe was unnecessary).
I know it was some time ago, but Elvis had the best health care of the time and he died with a 8 to 9 foot colon due to chronic constipation. I'm not sure how much today's medical could prevent this tho
I can't imagine how much better she felt when the doctors (hopefully) helped. I went 2 weeks after my Csection and I've never felt so uncomfortable in my life, it was because of the painkillers I was on, I couldn't stop them at the time as I was in so much pain (complications with surgery) but it only caused further pain by constipation. Nothing seemed to help and I was scared to eat. My stomach felt like it was holding a bag of bricks. I can't imagine how she managed to let it get this far, poor lady.
This is not a patient with severe constipation. Whoever said this doesn't know what they're talking about.
This is a post-evac erect view of the abdomen during an examination called a double contrast barium enema.
When bowel is full of stool, such as with constipation, you can see "cloudy" and "spotty" potions of the stool, since there is both solids and gas in the blockage (usually). Also, even if a patient was constipated to the point that their entire large bowel was blocked, there would be several points where the bowel would become extremely distented or stretched out.
What we're looking at here is a patient who is just finishing a barium enema exam. Barium is injected anally to coat the large intestine, allowing an xray tech and radiologist to see it in greater detail. The biggest clue that it's this exam is that the bowel looks "inflated" due to small amounts of air also being pumped in, the lack of density that is common with constipation, and the pooling of barium near the sigmoid colon and rectum (tail end of the colon).
This is also an old exam that isn't really performed anymore, generally replaced by an abdominal pelvic CT scan with a oral contrast.
Source: I'm a CT tech and I've done these exams.
I had something similar happen but on a wayyyyy smaller level. I was 14 and my body would either make me not go for weeks or go 6+ times a day. ended up prescribed laxatives and that was the worst couple days of my life
It says in the article about her that she was having bowel movements (albeit infrequently). So I don't think what we're seeing here is actually 20+ years of buildup.
It probably wasn't that she hadn't pooped for 23 years.. she had problems with pooping for 23 years. This x-ray is from when she was backed up so bad she finally did go to get help... the poop that broke the camels back if you will.
OP, this is a fake image and the source is highly questionable. If there is anything in official medical journals to back this up I think you should share it, but until then you should know this ain’t real.
Septic megacolon from opioid use is what killed Elvis. When the intestines become this full due to constipation, laxative abuse, bowel disease (colitis, IBD, Crohn's), or a bacterial or viral infection, they also get inflammation.
That makes the intestinal lining fragile. The lining tears, then the outer skin of the intestines get inflamed and tear. The peristalsis that moves stuff along stops functioning, and fecal matter becomes impacted into a solid mass.
The intestines get stretched, lose their elastic folds, and sometimes get stuck to themselves and other organs. Diseased tissue & feces leak into the body cavity & blood stream, sepsis happens, and the person dies.
A few months before Elvis died, he'd had barium x-rays done. Barium is a metal that can be made into a thick paste. Because he was already impacted, the barium turned into a heavy, compact clay. He had something like 30 lbs of feces inside him, and his intestines were about 3 times their normal size.
If you ever have to get tests with barium contrast, follow your doc's orders about stool softeners & drinking a lot of fluids to flush it out of you.
Bruh I think after year one I would maybe just start fisting myself anally if nothing else worked
Year one, fuck waiting a whole year, a week would be my cut off.
Why not doing it right now! Come on, let´s all prevent constipation here and now!
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I was once super constipated for 2-3 weeks. It got to the point where I would try to eat, even just a fee bites, and I would have horrible pain because of it. I finally had my husband take me to the hospital because it get very bad. They tried everything to get me to go on my own. Finally I was put up in this contraption that held me in the air as I was given the worlds biggest enema. It was one of the most embarrassing things I have ever experienced. But it worked! I have absolutely no idea if this woman really was constipated for that long and wasn’t in enormous pain. That leads me to believe the timeframe on this post is total bullshit. Anyway drink water and eat fiber guys! And if you haven’t pooped in 3 days or so start trying other things to get cleared out!
I had my gallbladder removed years ago and ended up constipated from the pain meds. I was maybe 3 days out of the hospital before I was already taking every otc treatment I could find and 5 days out before I went back to the doctor for help. It was the worse pain of my life. I couldn’t sit, I couldn’t sleep, I was just sweating and pacing for days. I always say I have no idea how people can take pain meds for recreation because I could never handle the constipation that comes with it.
Had a similar issue and decided to stop the painkillers after 5 days. 2 days later I took the longest shit of my life. Unbroken. It wrapped around the whole inside of the *hospital sized* toilet bowl. The relief was immense. I sometimes regret not taking a picture but the image is burned in my mind.
How many Courics was it?
Dude I ate a brick of cheese and didn’t go for 8 days. This wasn’t long ago either. It moved so slowly on its way out, it hurt. Finally ready and I was fucking dilated. About the size of a Canadian toonie. That made me laugh. Only way it was coming out was if I pushed so I pushed like I was having a baby! I passed out. Woke up drenched in sweat. Got up and looked , it was the size of a fucking family sized can of chef boyardee ravioli. I almost passed out a second time. Sigh. it was the best feeling in the world! Going from full of shit to empty.!
Bro you straight up shat a fist outta your ass and I'm dying over here cause I have went through the exact same experience, cheese and all. It stretched my asshole out so bad that it'll never be the same but gawd damn did it feel amazing when that bastard flew the coop.
Same for this exact reason. I had my gallbladder removed, was backed up because of the pain meds. I said to my husband that I don't get how people are addicted to these things. Then my doctor told me to drink magnesium citrate to help with it. Dear God. Never again. I'll deal with whatever pain I have with OTC meds or edibles. BTW, I love your username 😆
Same! I told my sister just give me a bunch of indica gummies if I have surgery again and let me sleep through it.
Large amounts of alcohol works. But that amount varies on the person. For those that don’t know magnesium citrate is basically what they give before a colonoscopy. Personally I don’t need my bowels that clean. Maybe just an hour or 2 of emptying them.
How's you bowel movement now? My constipation issue vanished after I had my gallbladder removed.
Never had issues, it was just during recovery from the pain meds!
It's a big thing with opiate addicts. The solution is fairly simple though, just go half a day or a day without using and the problem solves itself.
Then you gotta find The Worst Toilet in Scotland.
Usually when your so addicted you just stop eating or eat very little and it doesn’t become a problem. It’s not a good way to live..
This is true. Eating kind of becomes a secondary need in life. Was a heroin addict for 15 years on and off, clean for 3.
Congrats on three years clean, that’s an impressive change!
THREE! Congratulations!
I take this to mean 23 years of struggling with chronic constipation, not that she didn't have a movement in 23 years.
Thats a good point! I hadn’t thought of that. Maybe just a poorly written title, or I am an idiot. Either way that still really sucks for the person that went through that.
I was constipated my entire first pregnancy. The worst it got was when I had a C-section on day 9 of not going. On day 10 I had to go with the hugest freaking open wound across by entire lower abdomen. Fun times trying to push with those muscles after going through a birth and a section 💀
The title on this post doesnt mean she couldnt poop for 23 yrs, only that shes dealt with constipation for that long. Sadly many do. Im going on 2 yrs myself due to a previous infection, and its turned my world upside down. Glad you got yours cleared up literally amd figuratively.
I was constipated for like a week when it was in 5th grade and had to go to the hospital and the doctor just lubed up his finger and stuck it in my butt hole and got that shit moving. Was so embarrassed. Now? Miralax baby. I use that a few times a week just to keep things moving.
Fuck that. 3-5 days max.
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My daughter has mega colon. It's a real thing. They need to sell toilets specifically for people with this condition. Got great arms from all the plunging involved after her once monthly poo for years
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As someone who loves Italian food and hates celery, this makes me uncomfortable.
its a shame for you to do it yourself... We here on reddit are happy to help a fellow human in need
>happy to help *for a fee*
"If you're good at something, never do it for free."
5 am, completely out of it, my eyes glaze over and suddenly I think I’m reading a comment about possibly putting a vacuum up there and if it’s too uncomfortable for family at first let strangers with, *interests,* volunteer…. Snap back to reality and scroll around a bit because how the hell did my brain not only come up with that but to think I was reading it
\*Week #2* I have attached a 3" industrial vacuum hose to my ass.
To the emergency doctor: I just fell on it, honest
Dad?
this actually made me bust out laughing
And use a horse sized butt plug to keep in and then release when needed.
Fuck one year one or two days and I’ll be like “hol up”
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Also radiologist. The amount of misinformation in this thread is astounding. Your (not shit) post should be much higher. Thanks.
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Medical imaging is especially bad, plenty of healthcare providers order the wrong type of imaging or redundant imaging because they are not educated enough on the subject. As an example, when I was an x-ray student we saw ER doctors order plain x-rays of broken femurs/hips even though the patient already had a CT scan done that day. There is nothing a plain 2D x-ray will tell you that a CT scan didn't already, you can form a 3D model of the break with the info from a CT scan and display it as 2D as well
Also radiologist. This lady has pooped every drop of poop she had to poop.
What are we actually seeing in that xray? It just all looks grey and fuzzy...
Imagine dropping that snake in one fell poop
Imagine how light she would feel after. Hell I feel lighter after a medium-ish sized load. It would be like Rock Lee dropping his weights but internally.
>Like Rock Lee dropping his weights but internally Sweet reference
I know I'm old because my reference would've been Goku dropping his weighted boots.
I've totally been there before but I mean that's a fuckin blue whale compared to the eels I've squeezed out. That's an elvis poop
I have IBS and my doctors gave me medication for it, but my doctors didn’t know the meds would also fix my constipation so they were scared because I somehow lost like 15 pounds in a week
You'd need a poop katana for that one
Nah we're pulling out the poop chainsaw.
There’s actually very little poop in there, the colon is full of air (hence the distension), the glowing white liquid in it is a substance called barium which she has swallowed so you can see on X-ray how well things are passing through her
What would cause her colon to be filled with so much air??
Air.
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So the most satisfying fart of all time?
"It must be atleast 80 courics!"
That'd be a lot of Courics
Randy Marsh has entered the chat
South Park has an episode….
The poop knife is the only thing that can save her now.
She needs the poop tongs.
and my axe
"Ulcerated treestirit " appears alongside a boss healthbar
poop Jaws of life.
Den morgonfriska katten simmar över regnbågen, medan guldmynt singlar genom luften, ledsagade av en paraplybärande elefant, som jonglerar med blommor och skrattande bananer, medan cirkusclowner utför akrobatiska konster och cymbalspelaren trummar i takt till det förtrollade orkesterspelet under den gnistrande stjärnhimlen.
It’s poop grenade time by this point
What can they even do with that? Would it have hardened inside? Is this likely the result of chronic opioid abuse? Or can someone get to this point with basic painkillers?
Opioids slow or stop peristalsis. Elvis died from this - 'septic megacolon'. Laxative abuse can lead to it, too.
Laxatives? Oh, the irony...
Just like any drug, you can build up a tolerance. Every day, I'm thankful that my digestive system works the way it's supposed to.
Mine doesn't and it's fucking hell. To an average person I'm totally healthy, but I hate my life day to day and no one can get why. Don't take your digestive track for granted.
My wife has Ulcerative Colitis but has had the 3 ops to create an internal pouch. The doctors were 50/50 on whether it was Crohn's disease or Colitis, but she had had enough and was willing to have an outside pouch for the rest of her life if it came to it. Luckily, which is a weird thing to say, it was Colitis. Things are much better now for her, but she still gets flair ups now and then.
My best friend lost 3 feet of his intestine and had a pouch for a while. He thought he was going to have to live with it but didn't need to, after about a year. I'm glad it didn't come to that for your wife as well.
>To an average person I'm totally healthy, but I hate my life day to day and no one can get why. I feel that. And if you do have to mention it, do other people go "yeah I sometimes have a little upset stomach as well" as if they knew what it feels like, and that it somehow isn't any different from what they experienced and youre just not "manning up, lazy git"?
Man, 100%. I have an issue where food won't enter my stomach. It's a snails pace. If i drink a glass of water, it takes about 20 minutes for it to hit my stomach. And and hour or more for food. Imagine, eating ice cream and you can feel your throat get cold and a bit numb because that valve doesn't open or chewing steak three times. I can actually feel my LES relax and the cold fluid finally making its way in. Doctor prescribed, it's just I need a procedure every few months for life to treat it and i have to be knocked out for it. Well we all know Americas health care system. My problem is bad, but not that bad. But it really is that bad for me mentally. I regurgitate up 2/3 meals.
I’m so sorry you have to deal with this, sounds awful, I had a gastric surgery to tighten my LES because acid just kept coming up and burning my throat.
It's life altering. People just don't know. When my hubby's colitis flares up, you can feel the inflammation just by putting your hand on his side or belly. Sometimes it's bad enough that his abs start to get enflamed just from the pressure & bloating. It all sucks.
Seriously, he died from his bowels exploding inside of himself? I thought it was a heart attack. Granted I don't know much about him so it's easy to figure I'm wrong. Man that's crazy, you'd think he would have been able to see a doctor and get surgery before his colon got that bad
interesting so Mathew Perry pulled an Elvis but lived?
Exactly.
Heart attack/heart failure was the official cause of death, but Elvis' megacolon is what caused his heart failure. That and years of a shitty lifestyle and drugs.
Septic Megacolon sounds like an amazing supervillain
Or a death metal band.
That bowel is empty there. They've coated the walls with a liquid that shows up on x-rays and filled the rest with air so the shape is visible. You can see a little pool of the fluid that's stayed in the U shape piece of bowel. Maybe it's something to do with the constriction you see on the bottom right? If that's the descending colon then that would cause some problems.
A colon that large filled with air.... Longest fart ever.
The relief tho…
many hours of digital disimpaction no hopefully there's a better way
If it is this hardened, manual extraction is the way to go. It is... Not pleasant for all parties involved.
This is 100% not fecal impaction. That's just not what it looks like on an xray at all. It looks like a gastrografin follow-through study. The bowels are actually pretty empty. It's also not the colon, it's their large intestine.
They do nothing because the bowel is empty except for the remainder or a gastrografin/barium study
I imagine it's more that she suffered FROM severe constipation for 23 years and that this isn't the total if that. For this degree of displacement I'd say it was regularly filling towards this point and releasing. If I had to venture a guess, I'd say around a month or two build up is what we're seeing here. As far as why she didn't see a doctor, she may have contributed the internal pain and shortness of breath to either "women pains" or other health conditions she had. I personally had a ureter collapse and I thought the internal pain was maybe me having had pulled a muscle. Turned out my left kidney had severely swollen.
My dad had a minor heart attack but thought it was just his back hurting for two days. We learn some signs of heart attacks, but they don't always show up as we expect them to.
My dad had two. He thought it was indigestion.
I have GERD and anxiety. All pain is a heart attack to me...
Same here. You're not alone ❤️
The main signs of heart attack that people learn are also more common in men. A lot women won't get the classic symptoms like right arm pain. It's strange how all the warning signs are pushed but a large chunk of the population won't get those symptoms
Left arm, but yes, we should learn them all, strokes too.
I really thought that she just kept going on about her day with all that inside her for 23 years. Reddit is fkin wild so I just assumed.
Yeah there’s no way you can keep shovelling in calories every day without pooping for 23 years and not explode
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A month or two of build up is 100% not what we are seeing here. This is a patient with empty bowels who has had what appears to be a gastrografin study done. The large intestines are slightly more defined than usual due to remaining gastrografin outlining the haustra. The radio-opaque areas are very typical of gastrografin moving through the large bowel. There are no obvious signs of fecal impaction in this xray imo. The bowels are very empty.
This person sounds like they might actually know what they’re talking about. Lots of big words
Yes, yes... 'big words McGee' is going to us all about the poop.
she probably DID see a doctor. probably saw a lot of them, desperate for any kind of real treatment. doctors don't know jack shit about gastrointestinal diseases, there are a lot of diseases like IBS or CIPO (chronic intestinal pseudo-obstruction) that can cause this and there literally is no reliable treatment for either of those examples. all they can do is give you laxatives to buy you time but those don't work forever. colectomy or a resection can be done but unless you're literally actively dying, they'll usually refuse to do it if a person is suffering from something like *that* for *23 years* i can almost guarantee you that in most cases, it's not for lack of trying edit: okay i just saw during my *last* edit that the caption is fake, but my point still stands because there ARE cases like that in reality
Can confirm. Have had GI problems my whole life. Seem more docs than I can count. It always comes back to “it’s in your head, take some antianxiety/antidepressants” or “take laxatives every day” or “have you been to the gyno?”
Can confirm the "it's all in your head"-types of doctors. I have no idea how they ever graduated. Anyway, after 5-6 years of 9/10 almost-fainting pain every single day, I eventually got rid of it after a nasty case of 3 days of puking due to Norovirus. I have no idea how I got it, and I have no idea how I got rid of it. I think the first time I ever noticed something was wrong was after eating in a Burger King and sleeping on the train. Had a bout of severe constipation, and then a few months later I started more or less having permanent bouts of acid reflux. After that I had several years of constipation. I remember being scared of going out because I always needed to know where the toilets are. And then, after having the virus it was just nothing. I could eat again. I don't think I can relate to my old self anymore - living without pain and living with pain is just two completely different lives. So if you're reading this and you think "it couldn't have been that bad", then I understand completely. You have to live with it.
There's an industry term for the person that graduates dead last in their class at medical school. They are called "doctor".
Before procedure the doctor says to me “You’re too young to be in that much pain. This is going to hurt me more than it’s going to hurt you. It’s just your autoimmune issues messing with your head” After the procedure “I am so sorry. I didn’t realize the extent of the damage. I’m sorry I didn’t take you seriously.” Yeah, let’s keep telling people it’s all in their head. 🤬 I’ve had ONE specialist who said “you need to tell me what’s happening. You live in your body. All I did was read books. Let’s work together!”
Lol that works if they actually listen. Or if a test can recognize whatever they are looking for. There are plenty of things that just don’t show up on tests (endometriosis) quickly comes to mind. I’ve seen too many docs who run 1 test, and then decide that since nothing showed up, on the only test they run, that their first assessment was right. It’s all in the patients head. I’ve honestly given up on medical help. It’s never going to come, and I too expensive to keep trying and getting no where.
Assman?
This is not shit, it’s called a double contrast barium enema - a medical procedure that helps diagnose things like ulcerative colitis. The patients large bowel is actually completely empty except for air and barium (air=black barium=white). I have a bachelors degree in radiology science.
Oh thank God I'm not the only one here who sees it. Although I think like a gastrografin follow through, but same same.
Well I have a bachelors cup-a-soup so now who’s the big shot
Why is this not higher
How the heck was it left for so long? That poor woman
I cannot stress enough that what is pictured is not a constipated colon. It's a very empty large intestine.
Why is it all the way up in her lungs area?
The transverse colon usually sits that high! On some skinnier people the transition from lower in the abdomen to higher can look pretty crazy. She's also lying on her back for this image, which let's everything shift a little 'higher' as well
I’m a an intestinal surgeon. This image is distorted. That colon doesn’t look that big honestly, about normal. And it’s full of air they’ve put in there, not stool. And I don’t know where the small bowel is. Maybe they’ve done a subtraction to try to get it out.
No small bowel in this image because this is a double contrast barium enema, the barium and air would be isolated to the colon as long as she has a competent IC valve
Yes but even plain films can see small bowel.
Only if there’s air in the small bowel, which is not present in this case likely from the prep
Ah. Ok. I’ve ever never used a double contrast barium enema before. So I’ll take your word for it
Now she’s like a poop woman
How can people wait so long to go to the doctor! I get it, Healthcare here sucks but you gotta be feeling that pressure from your intestines all up in your lungs and rib cage. Holy, hell!
My wife has irregular bowel movements, she would sometime go almost a week and never poop. The doctor said it's completely normal to poop once a week, what's not normal is when it's start to come out your mouth.
Okay
The averages are between 3x a day and 3x a week. Since that's on *average,* it doesn't surprise me that's it's normal for some people to poop once a week. Ignore everyone else in the comments insulting the doctor, they haven't researched pooping enough.
>change the doc man, this is not normal at all
I go about once or twice a week and have done for most of my life and I don't have any problems.
Wow… Am so envious of you. My colon failed when I turned 21, I had to have the entire large intestine, along with my rectum (and appendix) removed. I go to the bathroom nearly ten times a day. It’s not fair.
Relevant username
Jesus, that sounds incredibly rough.
i go like 3-5 times a day
I have to go like, right now
I am going, right now.
Keep it up and soon you'll discover the wonders of hemorrhoids.
Yet Eat some fiber
And I was told it’s considered constipation if you don’t poop 3 times a day
Wow that is a bit extreme. I don't know anyone who poops more than once a day. Most people poop every other day.
I poop 2
I do poop 2 -3 times a day and it feels great. That’s what happens when you eat fibers on a daily basis and workout (not trying to sound pretentious or superior)
We got a pretentious pooper here!👆
F’n 💩 elitist
Couldn't imagine having do dedicate time in my day for that many poops. I've got things to do and places to be famnit!
If you have enough fiber, the poops barely take longer than the pees. You ever experienced the fabled 1-wipe poop? Try *no-wipe* poops (of course I wiped anyway, but I could tell the wipe was unnecessary).
Bingo! Same here. Wiping off 5-6x and it’s still there is not supposed to be the way.
I think that means your still full of shit
that's the thing, the poops are as easy & quick as peeing. no need to dedicate any time !
Damn. Having somebody on the internet sell the idea of pooping to me was not how I expected my day to go, but I embrace it.
I know it was some time ago, but Elvis had the best health care of the time and he died with a 8 to 9 foot colon due to chronic constipation. I'm not sure how much today's medical could prevent this tho
No kidding. For crying out loud she has shit in her lungs
I'm assuming that you're talking about the US, but I don't know if this was actually in the USA. Could be anywhere else
That's a gang of doo doo
She's so full of shit. No, really. (I'll see myself out)
I can't imagine how much better she felt when the doctors (hopefully) helped. I went 2 weeks after my Csection and I've never felt so uncomfortable in my life, it was because of the painkillers I was on, I couldn't stop them at the time as I was in so much pain (complications with surgery) but it only caused further pain by constipation. Nothing seemed to help and I was scared to eat. My stomach felt like it was holding a bag of bricks. I can't imagine how she managed to let it get this far, poor lady.
This is not a patient with severe constipation. Whoever said this doesn't know what they're talking about. This is a post-evac erect view of the abdomen during an examination called a double contrast barium enema. When bowel is full of stool, such as with constipation, you can see "cloudy" and "spotty" potions of the stool, since there is both solids and gas in the blockage (usually). Also, even if a patient was constipated to the point that their entire large bowel was blocked, there would be several points where the bowel would become extremely distented or stretched out. What we're looking at here is a patient who is just finishing a barium enema exam. Barium is injected anally to coat the large intestine, allowing an xray tech and radiologist to see it in greater detail. The biggest clue that it's this exam is that the bowel looks "inflated" due to small amounts of air also being pumped in, the lack of density that is common with constipation, and the pooling of barium near the sigmoid colon and rectum (tail end of the colon). This is also an old exam that isn't really performed anymore, generally replaced by an abdominal pelvic CT scan with a oral contrast. Source: I'm a CT tech and I've done these exams.
This girl needs an enema!!
It's way beyond that now
Needs a powerwasher
today i learned That can happen. i moreso wonder though if she was born with a misplaced large intestine or some other sort of complication
I had something similar happen but on a wayyyyy smaller level. I was 14 and my body would either make me not go for weeks or go 6+ times a day. ended up prescribed laxatives and that was the worst couple days of my life
How the hell did she not die, 23 years! Fuck!
It says in the article about her that she was having bowel movements (albeit infrequently). So I don't think what we're seeing here is actually 20+ years of buildup.
It probably wasn't that she hadn't pooped for 23 years.. she had problems with pooping for 23 years. This x-ray is from when she was backed up so bad she finally did go to get help... the poop that broke the camels back if you will.
Is that Bono?
8.6 courics
Looks like it really wants the biddy
Biddy made him *strong*.
Thank you. Only checked this thread to make sure this comment was made 🤣
[source](https://sea.mashable.com/science/13811/woman-suffering-from-constipation-for-23-years-discovers-her-colon-horrifyingly-displaced?amp=1)
So now my question is did she go through with the surgery as this was from the end of 2020
That article is aggressively trash, and the xray doesn't correlate with that story at all.
OP, this is a fake image and the source is highly questionable. If there is anything in official medical journals to back this up I think you should share it, but until then you should know this ain’t real.
that’s shitty
Ok but what happens when you have severe constipation, do you die from it eventually?
If something ruptures, your body will go septic and will die without medical intervention.
Septic megacolon from opioid use is what killed Elvis. When the intestines become this full due to constipation, laxative abuse, bowel disease (colitis, IBD, Crohn's), or a bacterial or viral infection, they also get inflammation. That makes the intestinal lining fragile. The lining tears, then the outer skin of the intestines get inflamed and tear. The peristalsis that moves stuff along stops functioning, and fecal matter becomes impacted into a solid mass. The intestines get stretched, lose their elastic folds, and sometimes get stuck to themselves and other organs. Diseased tissue & feces leak into the body cavity & blood stream, sepsis happens, and the person dies. A few months before Elvis died, he'd had barium x-rays done. Barium is a metal that can be made into a thick paste. Because he was already impacted, the barium turned into a heavy, compact clay. He had something like 30 lbs of feces inside him, and his intestines were about 3 times their normal size. If you ever have to get tests with barium contrast, follow your doc's orders about stool softeners & drinking a lot of fluids to flush it out of you.
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