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Yes, a squatty potty. This ongoing Constipation is ridiculous. And while I’m on a plan to address that and help things along, my family and a few friends swear by the squatty potty so I gathered up my pride and bought one 😂 hooray for post op poop troubles 🙄

anyone else swear by it? Have one? Love it? Notice a difference? Still trying to ignore my embarrassment and realize my booty will appreciate it (hopefully)

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I'm afraid I'll fall off one and have to call 911! LOL. Let us know when the paper work's all done, mkay? :D

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Saw it on Shark Tank when the inventors, I think a mother and son,were trying to put it into production. My friend had one, loves it, won't share or buy me one. Drat I'll just have to buy my own!😦

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4 minutes ago, Frustr8 said:

Saw it on Shark Tank when the inventors, I think a mother and son,were trying to put it into production. My friend had one, loves it, won't share or buy me one. Drat I'll just have to buy my own!😦

It was slightly more expensive than I thought it would be (a step stool would probably work just as well) but I hope it's worth it!

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Yes have you ever seen a toddler squat down and easily fill their diaper? This mimics it for us grownup people. Friend said much less straining, said when she tried using her sons stepstool she couldn't get her feet far enough apart without them falling off the stool, said she'd be danged if she was gonna call Tom(her husband) or Tommy to put her fat feet back up😙

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You can rest assured that any product that would hire Gilbert Gottfried as a commercial spokesman is going to be of the highest quality. (Actually, on his podcast this week, Gottfried and his co-host admitted that neither had actually tried it yet.)

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I have one and I LOVE IT!!! There are 2 sizes (7 inch and 9 inch)... I didn’t measure my toilet and got the 9inch which was a little too deep a squat [emoji23][emoji23] so I ended up getting the 7 inch! Both are great!!!


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Fiber is not helping? You need Metamicil or some other equivalent. I am using chewable fiber gummies. Two servings a day gives me 6 grams fiber a day. My brick loads improved. I may even cut back to one serving. The chewables are so much better because the fiber will not form a homogeneous mixure.


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3 hours ago, redhead_che said:

Yes, a squatty potty. This ongoing Constipation is ridiculous. And while I’m on a plan to address that and help things along, my family and a few friends swear by the squatty potty so I gathered up my pride and bought one 😂 hooray for post op poop troubles 🙄

anyone else swear by it? Have one? Love it? Notice a difference? Still trying to ignore my embarrassment and realize my booty will appreciate it (hopefully)

You got to love any forum where you can ask about #2 and EVERYONE gets it.

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36 minutes ago, wjgo said:

Fiber is not helping? You need Metamicil or some other equivalent. I am using chewable fiber gummies. Two servings a day gives me 6 grams fiber a day. My brick loads improved. I may even cut back to one serving. The chewables are so much better because the fiber will not form a homogeneous mixure.


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Trying to find the right combo at the moment. I get anywhere from 5-20 g fiber a day, so I have to even that out and hopefully that’ll keep things going! But until then, I think this will make things slightly more comfortable 😂

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Are you drinking enough Water? Maybe you need more. The fiber pulls water from the intestines.

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Figure,i'll be on every,other day Miralax, at least that's what I heard from asking around. Actually found someone who,went through,my,nrw hospital's program, but I'm sur they also tailor to the individual person.😛

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2 hours ago, wjgo said:

Are you drinking enough Water? Maybe you need more. The Fiber pulls Water from the intestines.

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64 oz a day as directed :) guess I just have a system that doesn’t want to cooperate yet.

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