How Weather Affects Your Bowels

[Brian556]

During the summer, I have frequent diarrhea. I have little to no solid movements. I cannot make it through a shift at work without going #2. I always have to go about 20 minutes after lunch

However....
Now that the weather has turned cold, I go #2 much less frequently. I have a lot of solid movements. I can make it through some shifts at work without going #2.

Do any of y'all notice seasonal differences in you bowels?

[kphoger]

I think you're responding to me, but in the wrong thread.

But I get it!  I read the other post already...



As for me, I probably have loose bowels more often in the winter because the types of tea I drink more often in the cold weather tend to have that effect.

[hbelkins]

During the summer, I have frequent diarrhea. I have little to no solid movements. I cannot make it through a shift at work without going #2. I always have to go about 20 minutes after lunch

However....
Now that the weather has turned cold, I go #2 much less frequently. I have a lot of solid movements. I can make it through some shifts at work without going #2.

Do any of y'all notice seasonal differences in you bowels?

Checks author.

Sees it's not Tim.

Wonders if Tim has a clone who's posting here.

[ozarkman417]

No, but I had a middle school classmate with dwarfism who claimed to have joint pain when a major thunderstorm was approaching.

[cl94]

Checks author.

Sees it's not Tim.

Wonders if Tim has a clone who's posting here.

Nah, Tim doesn't post pictures of poo. This guy does. 

[US 89]

Checks author.

Sees it's not Tim.

Wonders if Tim has a clone who's posting here.

Nah, Tim doesn't post pictures of poo. This guy does. 

Or at least did, before they were removed

[Scott5114]

Pooing is cool.

[US71]

Pooing is cool.

OK Boomer

[J N Winkler]

I stick to two daily diet rules year-round:  at least five servings from at least three different vegetables (none of which is potato), and at least 100% of the fiber RDA.  I normally move my bowels just once a day, and stools are easy to pass over 95% of the time.  However, when I have difficulty, I think it is marginally more likely to happen in the summer, because heat promotes dehydration and that in turn can lead to overextraction of water from the stool.  This is offset to some extent by taking magnesium oxide tablets (which tend to increase stool water content) more often in the summer to replace minerals lost in sweat.

[Max Rockatansky]

Can't say I've had this problem, sounds shitty. 

But that said my wife (who is an IBS diagnosed) does have more issues in hot weather for some reason.  I haven't seen a dietary reason that would vary from season to season so there might be causality with the temperature somehow?

[hbelkins]

No, but I had a middle school classmate with dwarfism who claimed to have joint pain when a major thunderstorm was approaching.

There are a whole lot of folks whose aches and pains increase just prior to a cold front or approaching rain. My wife's one of them.

[GaryV]

Can't say I've had this problem, sounds shitty. 

But that said my wife (who is an IBS diagnosed) does have more issues in hot weather for some reason.  I haven't seen a dietary reason that would vary from season to season so there might be causality with the temperature somehow?

Everyone knows gas expands when it gets warmer.

[TheArkansasRoadgeek]

Can't say I've had this problem, sounds shitty. 

But that said my wife (who is an IBS diagnosed) does have more issues in hot weather for some reason.  I haven't seen a dietary reason that would vary from season to season so there might be causality with the temperature somehow?

On a related note, they may be considering a treatment for IBS that involves a transplant of healthy bowel bacteria.

[hbelkins]

Can't say I've had this problem, sounds shitty. 

But that said my wife (who is an IBS diagnosed) does have more issues in hot weather for some reason.  I haven't seen a dietary reason that would vary from season to season so there might be causality with the temperature somehow?

On a related note, they may be considering a treatment for IBS that involves a transplant of healthy bowel bacteria.

Wasn't there a thread here about people shoving other peoples' feces up their rectums as a treatment for something?

[ozarkman417]

Can't say I've had this problem, sounds shitty. 

But that said my wife (who is an IBS diagnosed) does have more issues in hot weather for some reason.  I haven't seen a dietary reason that would vary from season to season so there might be causality with the temperature somehow?

On a related note, they may be considering a treatment for IBS that involves a transplant of healthy bowel bacteria.

Wasn't there a thread here about people shoving other peoples' feces up their rectums as a treatment for something?

Possible cure or symptom reduction:

One of the side effects of Asperger's is that you always have diarrhea. Because of this, they believe that Asperger's is related to gut bacteria. There is this new treatment where they shove somebody else's shit up your ass in order to give you the proper gut bacteria.

I would be very hesitant to get this. I would be afraid of it taking away the good parts of Asperger's, including my interests.

[Max Rockatansky]

Can't say I've had this problem, sounds shitty. 

But that said my wife (who is an IBS diagnosed) does have more issues in hot weather for some reason.  I haven't seen a dietary reason that would vary from season to season so there might be causality with the temperature somehow?

On a related note, they may be considering a treatment for IBS that involves a transplant of healthy bowel bacteria.

Wasn't there a thread here about people shoving other peoples' feces up their rectums as a treatment for something?

Even if that worked I'd much rather suffered from IBS than have to suffer the indignity of methods like that. 

[bandit957]

Wasn't there a thread here about people shoving other peoples' feces up their rectums as a treatment for something?

I remember hearing about some celebrity (it might have been Kenny Loggins) who kept giving themselves Coca-Cola enemas.

[Max Rockatansky]

Can't say I've had this problem, sounds shitty. 

But that said my wife (who is an IBS diagnosed) does have more issues in hot weather for some reason.  I haven't seen a dietary reason that would vary from season to season so there might be causality with the temperature somehow?

On a related note, they may be considering a treatment for IBS that involves a transplant of healthy bowel bacteria.

Wasn't there a thread here about people shoving other peoples' feces up their rectums as a treatment for something?

Possible cure or symptom reduction:

One of the side effects of Asperger's is that you always have diarrhea. Because of this, they believe that Asperger's is related to gut bacteria. There is this new treatment where they shove somebody else's shit up your ass in order to give you the proper gut bacteria.

I would be very hesitant to get this. I would be afraid of it taking away the good parts of Asperger's, including my interests.

And how would that cure Aspergers now much less be the cause?  Sounds like some bull shit to me. 

Found an NBCnews article on the topic of fecal transplants.  Looks like there might be some causality that it "could"  be a medical treatment.

https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/fecal-transplants-could-ease-ibs-symptoms-if-they-come-super-n1068646

[J N Winkler]

Fecal transplants are actually now under consideration as a treatment for many diseases, owing to our ever-improving understanding of the gut-brain axis.  However, at the moment they are routinely available in the US only for treatment of Clostridium difficile--everything else requires participation in a clinical study.

There have been reports of people giving themselves DIY fecal transplants, which is fairly straightforward (requires just a donor stool that is puréed with saline solution and loaded in an enema syringe for insertion through the anus), but this is considered medically inadvisable because a stool from an unscreened healthy person can easily harbor microorganisms, such as rotavirus, that cause infections in the recipient.

I don't think it makes a lot of sense to worry about dignity when dealing with gastrointestinal issues in a clinical setting.  It is hard to think of a colonoscopy as dignified, for example, but it is a fairly essential diagnostic procedure.

To an extent, your weight is mediated by your gut bacteria--this is part of the reason I treat the fiber RDA as a floor and try to maintain nutrient diversity.

[PHLBOS]

Oldie but a goodie from the Mighty Carson Art Players (pardon the grainy quality):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bRSLRn0MHAU

[kphoger]

Can't say I've had this problem, sounds shitty. 

But that said my wife (who is an IBS diagnosed) does have more issues in hot weather for some reason.  I haven't seen a dietary reason that would vary from season to season so there might be causality with the temperature somehow?

Everyone knows gas expands when it gets warmer.

Does your body temperature tend to go up during the summer?  Mine doesn't.

[cl94]

A picture speaks a thousand words.

Have any pictures of how weather affects things?   

[SectorZ]

Wasn't there a thread here about people shoving other peoples' feces up their rectums as a treatment for something?

I remember hearing about some celebrity (it might have been Kenny Loggins) who kept giving themselves Coca-Cola enemas.

That gives a new meaning to "Danger Zone"

[Brian556]

Wasn't there a thread here about people shoving other peoples' feces up their rectums as a treatment for something?

I remember hearing about some celebrity (it might have been Kenny Loggins) who kept giving themselves Coca-Cola enemas.

That gives a new meaning to "Danger Zone"

  Sounds like Mr Loggins was trying to put some Coke in to get a log out

[bandit957]

  Sounds like Mr Loggins was trying to put some Coke in to get a log out

And once he got the log out, he said, "I'm free!"