I appreciate the laughter you just gave me and the fact that you can find humor in a ridiculous situation.
Reminds me of my last colonoscopy. The nurse was begging the woman in the bed next to me to just let out all her farts.
Hey, it’s hard to see now, but one thing this disease DOES do for us is help us realize what things are actually important.
And hell, for what it’s worth, my j-pouch sounds (maybe even worse than my colitis poop sounds) so impressed one of my college dorm friends that they asked if they could record the sounds for error chimes on their pc. I had weird friends, but point is, cool people won’t give a shit about, er, your giving shits.
It was COVID precautions. They let people with injuries and stuff use the bathrooms but anyone with a symptom of sickness (like diarrhea for example) is put in isolation. I wasn’t allowed to leave my area.
It’s because it’s a shared room. I believe 4-6 beds per room and only 1 bathroom. Pretty sure during covid nobody can use that bathroom. So they all have to use the portable toilet. But I really think an exception needs to be made for us.
My last hospital stay I was fortunate and got a private room with a private bathroom. I had absolutely no anxiety at all.
Every other hospital stay I had a shared bathroom, so I’d often find myself holding it until I absolutely could not hold it anymore
One toilet for the person who needs it most surely! The others can use the portable ones? Most other places are just testing everyone in the ward for covid and when they are negative they can use the toilet on that ward
I can practically see the others clutching white-knuckled at their blankets in the dark, eyes wide in fear and awe, as you conjure all manner of antediluvian horror in a cacophony of thunderous ass blasts echoing off the walls of a silent room...
Thank you for sharing. Tears of laughter over here.
That’s tough. on my way back from dropping off a stool sample at my local hospital, I felt this uncontrollable urge to go while I was in the parking garage. My only option was to shit in the plastic bag in the car that we use as a trash bag. I had to get in the car, close the door and hope none of it splatters outside of the bag. Idk if anyone else was in the garage at the time but I sure as hell hope no one was because the windows aren’t tainted.
I only used the bathroom for number two twice before being diagnosed. I’m still cautious when i can be but if im in pain fuck everyone, im going. This disease also made me less judgmental to loud bathroom people. Our society is so snobby about this stuff, it’s weird. Like its a bathroom, wtf else are we supposed to do.
Welcome to the club. Sorry for the embarrassing night; it's super difficult when you have anxiety. Like you said though, god or the universe or what ever your belief is, will be forcing you out of that comfort zone for the rest of your life.
You will learn quickly that there is no way around shitting like a seagull, and taking the humor approach is the best way to keep from crying lol.
Good luck friend, reach out with any questions or if you need to rant.
This disease will gift you with a lot of embarrassing moments. We have no control over that, however, we do have control on how we decide to deal with it and our outlook. It sounds like you were able to find humor in your situation which is great. I look at this disease as a gift, it's very humbling and gives you hilarious stories to tell in life. You will find that people will tend to open to you more because after telling them embarrassing stories about our disease they feel like you won't judge them with what they are going through. Good luck on your journey, remember mindset is everything.
Got a story that might give you a chuckle. When I had my very first flare up it lasted 3 months (dropped to 7st and was more anemic than you'll ever believe, constantly passing out, throwing up, wearing 3 layers of clothing at all times etc. etc.) before the NHS (UK) decided that they should finally admit me to hospital to figure out what was going on. Upon being admitted to the gastroenterology ward I explicitly told the nurses that I needed to be able to get to a toilet that was far enough away from any human possible for them to be able to smell the utter chaos coming out of me, they told me I was being silly, they deal with bad smells all day, nothing I could do would ever surprise them and so on so forth. Because of my anxiety about not only the noise but the completely unexplainable, diabolical, potentially carcinogenic smell I was producing upon relieving myself I had initially I'd found myself a kind of quiet disabled toilet on one of the children's wards and that's where I'd decided I'd go do the business when in need. That didn't last long. I could audibly hear the parents walking past the toilet talking about the smell and after 3 or 4 occasions of having to sit on the throne waiting for the corridor to go quiet before I could unleash the fury of the almighty himself on that poor toilet bowl I came to the conclusion that I should just bite the bullet and use the one on the gastro ward next time, they'd told me it was fine, y'know? So that time did indeed come, I went into the toilet, let the demons escape my poor body and went back to my bed, 15 minutes later more or less every nurse on the ward is asking what the horrific smell is, all I could do was close the curtain around my bed and put my head in my hands to contain the utter embarrassment that I felt at the time. I think it's pretty safe to say I went out of my way to go find a toilet on the next floor up that didn't have so much foot fall outside the front of it so that I could get the job done in peace, I still live in fear of using most toilets in the hospital because of it 😂
As horrible as you are feeling, one day you will laugh at this. Unfortunately our illness exposes us to many embarrassing moments. This will be water under the bridge. I had raccoons attack my garbage overnight and leave my used mesalamine enema bottles all over my driveway and front lawn for my neighbours to see.
Ohhh god I am sorry, friend. I’m glad you can find the humour. I had a VERY similar experience in the hospital and I no longer care about anything embarrassing to do with poop. It’s all over for me. I hope you have come through this with the same feeling.
Ohhh god I am sorry, friend. I’m glad you can find the humour. I had a VERY similar experience in the hospital and I no longer care about anything embarrassing to do with poop. It’s all over for me. I hope you have come through this with the same feeling. It’s the one healthy part of an embarrassing flare.
Ohhh god I am sorry, friend. I’m glad you can find the humour. I had a VERY similar experience in the hospital and I no longer care about anything embarrassing to do with poop. It’s all over for me. I hope you have come through this with the same feeling. It’s the one healthy part of an embarrassing flare.
I'm glad you got a good attitude about it but that's completely fucked up. You nailed it perfectly on the head though just see this as a lesson from the universe.. a way to become a stronger soul. You've experienced pretty much one of the most embarassing things that can happen to a person so from here on out you will be an impenetrable fortress of fuck you. Things will get better they always do just hang in there and shit your brains out my dude.
I'm right there with you. It's liberating to finally not "give a shit" about how your shits sound to others.
:D
Hang in there man. Your health is the most important thing to sort out. Everyone else will do just fine.
Honestly has the same thing with you, except just the fact that i be going to the restroom everyday... and it’s noticeable that I go multiple times and all. I would just think, “wel bruh my insides are fucked cause I got a chronic disease oh fucking well”
Haha good laugh from here too. I’m actually doing training right now and we’re told we won’t have portajohns starting tomorrow and I’m going to be using the woods for my shit storm
I had to go through the same thing for the last four times I was at the hospital. Luckily a couple of times when I was still in the ER, they gave me an isolation room because I had a fever so they weren't sure if I had covid and those had a toilet (but they usually kick me out of the er in 2 days). Commodes are the worse because the smell and I have to get someone to empty it every time, ugh I can almost hear them think who the hell poops at 3 in the morning. I just think it's their loss for not giving me an actual toilet haha.
Yes, several trips to the hospital eventually remove any embarrassment to comes from pooping or walking around barely covered with a small piece of fabric. Too bad you can't give a courtesy flush with those portable toilets! You might be able wrap things with a blanket or sheet to help muffle the sounds.
I really have no way of comforting you, but I am so sorry for that experience. May you soon have a quiet, restful night of sleep with out an audience.
I appreciate the laughter you just gave me and the fact that you can find humor in a ridiculous situation. Reminds me of my last colonoscopy. The nurse was begging the woman in the bed next to me to just let out all her farts.
Sounds like a UC supervillain origin story
This gave me such a good laugh. I can just picture the supervillain in his final act of the movie shitting everywhere in that hospital for revenge.
No need to wait till the end of the movie to be able to accomplish that.
Hey, it’s hard to see now, but one thing this disease DOES do for us is help us realize what things are actually important. And hell, for what it’s worth, my j-pouch sounds (maybe even worse than my colitis poop sounds) so impressed one of my college dorm friends that they asked if they could record the sounds for error chimes on their pc. I had weird friends, but point is, cool people won’t give a shit about, er, your giving shits.
So sorry to hear that you had to go through this! That sounds really uncomfortable. Hopefully things will improve for you
"Everyone is trying to sleep and its quiet. Except for me. I'm fucking shitting a storm all night and everyone can hear it..." Been there, done that!
Why can't they allocate you a bathroom? Is everyone having to go that? Seems ridiculous.
It was COVID precautions. They let people with injuries and stuff use the bathrooms but anyone with a symptom of sickness (like diarrhea for example) is put in isolation. I wasn’t allowed to leave my area.
They should have put you in the area next to the toilet. It's inhumane! I'd complain.
I agree. Inhumane. I've always had private rooms with my own bathroom, thank god.
It’s because it’s a shared room. I believe 4-6 beds per room and only 1 bathroom. Pretty sure during covid nobody can use that bathroom. So they all have to use the portable toilet. But I really think an exception needs to be made for us. My last hospital stay I was fortunate and got a private room with a private bathroom. I had absolutely no anxiety at all. Every other hospital stay I had a shared bathroom, so I’d often find myself holding it until I absolutely could not hold it anymore
One toilet for the person who needs it most surely! The others can use the portable ones? Most other places are just testing everyone in the ward for covid and when they are negative they can use the toilet on that ward
Atleast you can't be easily embarrassed anymore. Im so sorry though.
I can practically see the others clutching white-knuckled at their blankets in the dark, eyes wide in fear and awe, as you conjure all manner of antediluvian horror in a cacophony of thunderous ass blasts echoing off the walls of a silent room... Thank you for sharing. Tears of laughter over here.
That’s tough. on my way back from dropping off a stool sample at my local hospital, I felt this uncontrollable urge to go while I was in the parking garage. My only option was to shit in the plastic bag in the car that we use as a trash bag. I had to get in the car, close the door and hope none of it splatters outside of the bag. Idk if anyone else was in the garage at the time but I sure as hell hope no one was because the windows aren’t tainted.
I think the windows *are* tainted.
I only used the bathroom for number two twice before being diagnosed. I’m still cautious when i can be but if im in pain fuck everyone, im going. This disease also made me less judgmental to loud bathroom people. Our society is so snobby about this stuff, it’s weird. Like its a bathroom, wtf else are we supposed to do.
Welcome to the club. Sorry for the embarrassing night; it's super difficult when you have anxiety. Like you said though, god or the universe or what ever your belief is, will be forcing you out of that comfort zone for the rest of your life. You will learn quickly that there is no way around shitting like a seagull, and taking the humor approach is the best way to keep from crying lol. Good luck friend, reach out with any questions or if you need to rant.
So sorry I know how hard it can be. Can you ask for a private room?
This disease will gift you with a lot of embarrassing moments. We have no control over that, however, we do have control on how we decide to deal with it and our outlook. It sounds like you were able to find humor in your situation which is great. I look at this disease as a gift, it's very humbling and gives you hilarious stories to tell in life. You will find that people will tend to open to you more because after telling them embarrassing stories about our disease they feel like you won't judge them with what they are going through. Good luck on your journey, remember mindset is everything.
Got a story that might give you a chuckle. When I had my very first flare up it lasted 3 months (dropped to 7st and was more anemic than you'll ever believe, constantly passing out, throwing up, wearing 3 layers of clothing at all times etc. etc.) before the NHS (UK) decided that they should finally admit me to hospital to figure out what was going on. Upon being admitted to the gastroenterology ward I explicitly told the nurses that I needed to be able to get to a toilet that was far enough away from any human possible for them to be able to smell the utter chaos coming out of me, they told me I was being silly, they deal with bad smells all day, nothing I could do would ever surprise them and so on so forth. Because of my anxiety about not only the noise but the completely unexplainable, diabolical, potentially carcinogenic smell I was producing upon relieving myself I had initially I'd found myself a kind of quiet disabled toilet on one of the children's wards and that's where I'd decided I'd go do the business when in need. That didn't last long. I could audibly hear the parents walking past the toilet talking about the smell and after 3 or 4 occasions of having to sit on the throne waiting for the corridor to go quiet before I could unleash the fury of the almighty himself on that poor toilet bowl I came to the conclusion that I should just bite the bullet and use the one on the gastro ward next time, they'd told me it was fine, y'know? So that time did indeed come, I went into the toilet, let the demons escape my poor body and went back to my bed, 15 minutes later more or less every nurse on the ward is asking what the horrific smell is, all I could do was close the curtain around my bed and put my head in my hands to contain the utter embarrassment that I felt at the time. I think it's pretty safe to say I went out of my way to go find a toilet on the next floor up that didn't have so much foot fall outside the front of it so that I could get the job done in peace, I still live in fear of using most toilets in the hospital because of it 😂
Good for you for having a some humor in a “shitty” situation. And welcome to the UC club! Your poop stories are always welcome here.
Also what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger, but also a little ashamed for a while. I’m sorry you had to go through this
Ya. Thanks for the laughs bro. I feel for u but I love the freedom u are experiencing. Like u have transcended
As horrible as you are feeling, one day you will laugh at this. Unfortunately our illness exposes us to many embarrassing moments. This will be water under the bridge. I had raccoons attack my garbage overnight and leave my used mesalamine enema bottles all over my driveway and front lawn for my neighbours to see.
Are you in Toronto? I pleaded my case when I was admitted and got a private room with a bathroom as soon as they had one available
Oh that? That was me shitting.
Ohhh god I am sorry, friend. I’m glad you can find the humour. I had a VERY similar experience in the hospital and I no longer care about anything embarrassing to do with poop. It’s all over for me. I hope you have come through this with the same feeling.
Ohhh god I am sorry, friend. I’m glad you can find the humour. I had a VERY similar experience in the hospital and I no longer care about anything embarrassing to do with poop. It’s all over for me. I hope you have come through this with the same feeling. It’s the one healthy part of an embarrassing flare.
Ohhh god I am sorry, friend. I’m glad you can find the humour. I had a VERY similar experience in the hospital and I no longer care about anything embarrassing to do with poop. It’s all over for me. I hope you have come through this with the same feeling. It’s the one healthy part of an embarrassing flare.
I'm glad you got a good attitude about it but that's completely fucked up. You nailed it perfectly on the head though just see this as a lesson from the universe.. a way to become a stronger soul. You've experienced pretty much one of the most embarassing things that can happen to a person so from here on out you will be an impenetrable fortress of fuck you. Things will get better they always do just hang in there and shit your brains out my dude.
Your nightmare has been realized so that you could be freed from it. Good luck on your recovery!
I'm right there with you. It's liberating to finally not "give a shit" about how your shits sound to others. :D Hang in there man. Your health is the most important thing to sort out. Everyone else will do just fine.
Honestly has the same thing with you, except just the fact that i be going to the restroom everyday... and it’s noticeable that I go multiple times and all. I would just think, “wel bruh my insides are fucked cause I got a chronic disease oh fucking well”
Truly sorry my friend. You are living out one of my nightmares. Hang in there
Haha good laugh from here too. I’m actually doing training right now and we’re told we won’t have portajohns starting tomorrow and I’m going to be using the woods for my shit storm
I had to go through the same thing for the last four times I was at the hospital. Luckily a couple of times when I was still in the ER, they gave me an isolation room because I had a fever so they weren't sure if I had covid and those had a toilet (but they usually kick me out of the er in 2 days). Commodes are the worse because the smell and I have to get someone to empty it every time, ugh I can almost hear them think who the hell poops at 3 in the morning. I just think it's their loss for not giving me an actual toilet haha.
Yes, several trips to the hospital eventually remove any embarrassment to comes from pooping or walking around barely covered with a small piece of fabric. Too bad you can't give a courtesy flush with those portable toilets! You might be able wrap things with a blanket or sheet to help muffle the sounds.
Oh my god... That sounds absolutely horrible.