Potty talk - probably TMI for most people

[ColieCallwell 129]

OMG y'all, DO NOT TRUST A fart. First, I'm 8 days post sleeve surgery and haven't had a proper bowel movement. So, I'm at the DMV with my husband so he can get his truck registered, and I'm sitting in the BRAND NEW truck with our 5 y/o while my husband is inside. Surprise! I have to fart, so I do, only IT'S NOT A FART! I literally **** my pants while sitting in our brand new truck. So I text my husband, "I just **** my pants, I need to come into the bathroom." He says come on in, so I grab the 5 y/o after much complaining about not wanting to leave the car, and go running into the DMV bathroom. I run in, to my relief, it's a 1-only with a lockable door, I look at the toilet and SOMEONE HAS ALREADY CLOGGED THE TOILET! There are no paper towels, 'cause covid, I threw my underwear away and cleaned my shorts as best I could with toilet paper and then ran out the DMV, jumped back in the truck and sent a text to my husband that I was off to find a bathroom - he texts back hurry! I'm number 23 and they're on 21! (Because they needed to check the VIN on the truck) By the grace of God I found a public bathroom down the street. So there I sat, amongst the hypodermic needles, a pile of someone's clothes and somebody else's thrown out deodorant. Fortunately nobody else was in there. I made it back to the DMV just as my husband came walking out with the new tags. And now I'm traumatized...(and so's my husband, lol!)

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[summerseeker 2,347]

38 minutes ago, ColieCallwell said:

OMG y'all, DO NOT TRUST A fart. First, I'm 8 days post sleeve surgery and haven't had a proper bowel movement. So, I'm at the DMV with my husband so he can get his truck registered, and I'm sitting in the BRAND NEW truck with our 5 y/o while my husband is inside. Surprise! I have to fart, so I do, only IT'S NOT A FART! I literally **** my pants while sitting in our brand new truck. So I text my husband, "I just **** my pants, I need to come into the bathroom." He says come on in, so I grab the 5 y/o after much complaining about not wanting to leave the car, and go running into the DMV bathroom. I run in, to my relief, it's a 1-only with a lockable door, I look at the toilet and SOMEONE HAS ALREADY CLOGGED THE TOILET! There are no paper towels, 'cause covid, I threw my underwear away and cleaned my shorts as best I could with toilet paper and then ran out the DMV, jumped back in the truck and sent a text to my husband that I was off to find a bathroom - he texts back hurry! I'm number 23 and they're on 21! (Because they needed to check the VIN on the truck) By the grace of God I found a public bathroom down the street. So there I sat, amongst the hypodermic needles, a pile of someone's clothes and somebody else's thrown out deodorant. Fortunately nobody else was in there. I made it back to the DMV just as my husband came walking out with the new tags. And now I'm traumatized...(and so's my husband, lol!)

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Oh you poor thing, I cant imagine anything worse happening to a person. I bet your heart was racing. I hope you got clean without being spotted. Please remind me 2 months on as I will be in a similar phase of recovery

[lizonaplane 1,613]

I'm so sorry this happened to you. I had IBS for years due to medications I was on so, yeah, it's awful when that happens! I hope your innards calm down soon!

[MistySkye 181]

😆 Day 2 of pre-op liquid diet - everything came out of me, I mean everything…and I didn’t always make it to the toilet 😜 What sucked is I had to go on an airplane, so thankful that it stopped literally right before heading to the airport. But I was so scared that whole day that it was going to happen again.

[ColieCallwell 129]

[emoji38] Day 2 of pre-op liquid diet - everything came out of me, I mean everything…and I didn’t always make it to the toilet [emoji12] What sucked is I had to go on an airplane, so thankful that it stopped literally right before heading to the airport. But I was so scared that whole day that it was going to happen again.

Oh man, I can't imagine going through that and then having to get on a plane!

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[ShoppGirl 5,072]

OMG, you poor thing, sounds like you dealt with it like a champ though.

[RickM 1,753]

While this is classically a bypass problem (look up the "Al Roker White House Shart" story - yes, it happened to him at the White House) it can certainly happen to sleevers early out. This is mostly due to the radical dietary changes and the body working to adapt to it. I had both diarrhea and Constipation at the same time for a while. It passes (so to speak) fairly quickly for us as out diets and GI tracts get to know each other again. Probiotics may be helpful in helping the gut flora adapt to the changes.