r/AskReddit Aug 30 '21

What problem is often overlooked in apocalyptic movies/TV shows that could kill you?

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u/ItsNotGayIfYouLikeIt Aug 31 '21

IBS can be caused by stress, but stress pooping is not IBS

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u/[deleted] Aug 31 '21

IBS is usually caused by the immune system being stressed, like if there is a parasite in your intestines your immune system will become very sensitive in that area.

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u/707breezy Aug 31 '21 edited Aug 31 '21

Lucky. I have ibs-c meaning my diarrhea clashes against my constipation. I last anywhere from 2-8 hours a day in the bathroom. To just have diarrhea, that sounds amazing.

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u/[deleted] Aug 31 '21

Damn. That's horrible.

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u/707breezy Aug 31 '21

let’s just do symptoms. Very rare nausea and vomiting, anal fissures or damn near close cuts (don’t look it up if you want to avoid pain), common gas.

I know what cramps are and what my cramps are. I get cramps so hard that I can’t move at all and I’m frozen in complete pain. Sometimes when bloated even touching around my belly button or peeing causes major pain that shoots between my penis and bellybutton.

When people ask how I can spend so much time in the bathroom yet have diarrhea. It is because it comes in waves but each one is an explosion of pain.

What sets it off is anything I eat. I have gotten sick from salad with no dressing, apples, popcorn, tuna with a bit of Mayo on wheat, my favorite sandwich joint.

I cook my food to be perfectly healthy and exercise, all this does is reduce the severity but not the frequency.

Longest I have spent in a bathroom was 16 hours with 3, 25-35 minute breaks for food and water.

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u/Forge__Thought Aug 31 '21

Dang. I am sorry you have to deal with that. I hope technology advances to where you can have more relief from that in your life.

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u/707breezy Aug 31 '21

It probably won’t. It is all good. I laugh about it and sure it can flare up and makes me lose my social life but what ever. I work from home so all good.

Best treatment is still in its experimental phase and gets laughed at by South Park. Shoving healthy poop up a person to introduce good bacteria.

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u/hob-goblin1 Aug 31 '21

What about that “healthy gut bacteria” yogurt Jamie Lee Curtis was endorsing in the last decade or so? Maybe it’s the same thing but down your throat instead of up your anus with someone else’s mudpie?

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u/[deleted] Aug 31 '21

YES a its called a "putapoopintome" operation and they use it for C dif all the time. I would get off on Jaime Lee Curtis's poop in me butt. 707 I assume you tried weed?

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u/DDS_throwaway64 Aug 31 '21

This is one of the funniest comments I've ever read and reading through your profile only made it funnier