What Happens When You Hold in Your Poop for One Month?

On average, you probably poo at least once a day. But we've all had a day or two when we couldn't go. Let's take that one step further and imagine being constipated for an entire month. How would your body change? In 2018, a 28-year-old woman suffered from extreme constipation. She went 45 days without a single bowel movement. After a two-hour surgery, she luckily survived this situation. But would the same happen to you?

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[thor]

Now this video encourages me to poop everyday 😌

[mkultrapromax]

Ok so true story: my great grandmother died because of this exact reason. Idk about the people watching, but in India, the old generation used to use what's called Asian toilets. They don't have a commode or anything, it's a stylized hole in the ground designed for pooping which is connected to a drainage system. You basically squat down over a hole to poo. So when she got sick (because she was 90) we brought her to our place, and we had western toilets. She refused to poo AT ALL. She kept it in (somehow) and then it kind of hardened or solidified or something, and then even with suppositors and enemas, the shit just didn't come out. She eventually died because the shit started to rot her intestines from the inside and surgery was just out of the question since she would just die on the table. It was horrible, but also a valuable lesson for me.

[staytuned]

You know one thing I controlled it for 1 week 2days in hospital
Without going to toilet by shame

[xAstrophyte]

these r the questions we need answered

[Skout_Archer_Wolfe]

Just discovered this channel, as someone with IBS-C id love to see a video of being backed up for a month!! The longest id ever gone is about 2 weeks, and the only reason being because the adverse affects of laxatives and stool softeners are worse than the constipation for me as far as the pain and cramping, and at the time i was in a homeless shelter without access to prunes or prune juice or coffee, but the staff did wind up sending me to the hospital because if it and i had to take the stool softener prescribed to me... 🤔

[apocyldoomer]

I sometimes don’t poo for about 10 days, constantly constipated, after over the counter poo helpers, it finally happens, think I have IBS-C, seeing gastro doc next month, when you cannot poo, you get a little grouchy, bit sucks, and I’m so bloated!! More fiber and water helps!!

[annaperin]

Watching this video while i'm at the bathroom

[elvirhadzic]

Once I was constipated for like 17 days in 3 times at different time, I just didn't have the buthole and couldn't go to bathroom, it is a worse pain when it wanted to come out

[benprins]

Just don't hold in your poop, it's common sense.

In my opinion it will give you pain, it's not healthy for the body and yea you can definitely mess yourself.

So if you have the urge to go, just be smart and have a bowl movement.

[henryturpin]

Unfortunately last year I suffered from severe constipation where I would have only one bowel every 30-43 days for about 9 months it was the most debilitating and terrible experience I’ve gone through. The pain of going would be soo excruciating that I would scream as loud as I could and nearly pass out with my vision going blurry and afterwards I would be dripping blood and unable to walk sit or stand for about an hour. On average my stool would be about the circumference of an apple and the length of one to one and a half monster energy cans. Being 20 and 21 during this period caused me to become very depressed and have zero quality of life for I was unable to go out walk or do anything without being in extreme abdominal and rectal discomfort and always having the very strong urge to have to go to the bathroom. I regularly was fearing and grappling with the the though that I could tear my intestines and possibly go septic and die any day. Now Thankfully a year since then I am for the most part healthy but unfortunately have to continuously take laxatives everyday to prevent it from happening again.

[mashasavageml]

When I'm 9 years old I was holding my poop from January to early March without pooping but there is some poop stain leaking from my butt and every days I thing my body keep pushing my poop out but I holding it in January to early march

[rdsgamert.v]

I haven't poop 47 days so this is my problem idk what am I gonna do I need to make it soft

[leocarrillo]

Im Talking from experience jusst poop guys. I held my poop for almost a month. Since last time i was constipated thought i was dying. But today was my first time in a while and omg !! I wanted to cry, call an ambulance. Imthe harder i pushed it felt like nothing was coming out.

[shimipita]

wow, i didn't know the no poop july man has suffered this much

what a legend

[JamezplayzYoutube]

Moral of this video- don't hold in your poop

[EwilAlien]

I got really surprised when I saw the girl at 0:40. She's a swedish politician and I was expecting to see the constipated woman

[trinac]

What happens if you grow but you can't stop?

[sebastiancasanovarevilla]

4:05 Who is this girl and what video show is she from?

[rajsuriyang]

What happens if we don't ear for a week?

[AnsterMsm]

I haven't went in 16 days. Idk what to do