Ok yall weird question. So when I have to poop but am unable to go to the bathroom, I’ll hold it and the urge goes away. So I have to wait till my poop window of time opens again to poop. I can’t just go whenever, I need to feel the urge or the window of time to poop. Husband said that’s not how pooping works. He says I’m the weird one.
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I thought this was going to be like the poop knife, but a window to poop out of
Yes. I also call it a poop window and my husband also says it’s weird that I can’t just poop after the window has closed and have to wait for the window to open the next day.
I used to have a poop window and when I’d miss it, I’d have to wait a few hours. Nowadays if I miss the window, I just sit on the toilet when I’m home and if I wait a minute or two, my brain+body gets the message and it kinda just activates.
You have OCD prolly
This is a bad idea. I used to resist the urge when I was young at school and this made me end up never having the urge again. My whole adult life I have had to remind my body to go with laxatives and sometimes I forget for up to 2 weeks.
No, but I’m able to hold it much easier the further away I am from a bathroom.
I have a window as well. .
Like a poop schedule?
Geez, such an odd thing to exist. My pal once talked about having a “pee window” for her bathroom comfort, so this ain’t that different after all. Fascinating how our bodies work in their own patterns. It blows my mind.
I have this too!
I have poop “windows” and severely constipated all my life.
Yes, but sometimes the end of the window is not good 😐
Yes, same. I hate it when someone schedules a meeting during my poop window. Then I’m uncomfortable until the next day’s poop window.
maybe it’s like a woman thing? cause i’ve heard of it. never understood it.
my wife doesn’t have it. she gotta shit, she’s gonna go shit. i’m worse than her honestly, i’m like the american pie dude, gotta be at home…cause we have a bidet. and i need that. i got anal fissures once from wiping too much because i am hairy and hygiene is important to me and just…no. i’ll hold it till i’ll vomit instead. even when i travel i always bring a portable bidet. or i just bring the actual bidet because they’re crazy easy to install and move. if it’s a long stay.
but yea, no, you’re weird. i think that’s how one of the queens died; holding it in. shit, literally, is not good for you.
Yeah, no.
And now I’ve got to poop.
I have that too…
Every morning when I wake up, or in the evening if I miss my morning window. No in between.
No, when nature calls I have to go poop. I work construction so I might have to find a more clear toilet on the jobsite. But most of the times I go every morning when I first wake up.
I am just like you.
I have pelvic floor dysfunction so I am comptely understanding this. I am constipated all the time it’s like 1 day out of 4 I feel normal. Otherwise i feel terrible pressure on my rectum and vaginal area all dam day. Cant have sex on those types of days either. My situation sucks
Yes but it’s not set in stone, there are times where I poop outside the window but usually it’s always in the morning and even if I feel like I have to go later in the day nothing happens.
Yes, I have exactly this—but I have IBS, frequent constipation, and pelvic floor dysfunction lol
Bruh I thought you shat out a window.
My poop window is my anus. When it opens, I poop. When it closes I don’t.
I go when I need to go, no holding.
Umm no. When I gotta go, I go.
You’re not supposed to hold it in/ignore it. It can lead to problems in the future.
Yep. It’s annoying.
Sure. There was even a Seinfeld episode about it.
Oh god, this brings me back to when my ex-husband would most often blame me if he missed his poop window. He was obsessed with pooping.
Yeah, it saves my neighbor the cost of fertilizer for her plants–
…Oh.
lmfaoooo im the same and my husband also doesnt get it
I think it is related to stress in a way. Some situations feel safe and you can ‘go’ when you are relaxed, but when you feel like now is not the right time, the system shuts down because your brain tells the body so. Although sometimes stress can actually make you have to go, so I guess it depends on the person.
Can’t miss your pooppurtunity or there may be hell to pay.
I shit whenever I feel like shutting. Unless I go to pick up some drugs then I have to stop on my way or I feel the urge right after I hanf up the phone
I have ibs so my poop window is non existent, I’m at the mercy of my raging butthole
My husband CAN NOT AND WILL NOT POOP anywhere or anytime besides night time. After the day is over, it’s poop time. Never seen him have a morning poop or afternoon, always after 9pm
Am I the only person here whose first thought was the movie Rat Race?
It’s normal for your body to have a “window” of time when it thinks “okay time to start a bowel movement”. Sounds like that’s what your body defaults to when you suppress a bowel movement that you can’t release in the moment. But you should avoid suppression because basically your body starts drying out the poop to keep it in you for longer. That’s what makes the urge go away, but it also makes constipation more likely
Yeah, it can happen when you hold it too long; try not to hold it so long, it’s probably not good for your guts (even if you’ve been doing it all your life and nothing bad has happened, it’s still probably creating unnecessary wear and tear on your guts that will bite you when you’re older)
I don’t think it’s weird-I’ve had the same experience a few times, and it’s actually quite common for people. It’s just the reflex of your body, combined with the psychological programming of associating that activity with other things.
My husband says I’m weird for this too and should be able to poop whenever I need.
But I can only go if my body allows me to go.
Travel is the worst for this! Always end up constipated when traveling.
It causes constipation. Don’t do this. Learn from me.
I don’t know but I’m glad this didn’t involve you pooping out of a window
Dude I have this. If I miss it I can get constipated! It’s like you have to go when the bowels are moving or you wait for the next time. Crazy that someone on Reddit has the same thing
Fun fact, the phrase “look out below!” originated from people tossing buckets of their waste out of windows in the days before indoor plumbing!
I kinda get what you mean. Once you’ve forcefully retracted the poop back in, it takes a while for it to be ready to leave again!
Oh thank god you weren’t being literal.
I’m amazed that you can hold it in.
Sounds like something from r/curb
Do you eat like a bird?
I have a low appetite, and I can very much relate to this. But I went on a medication that increased appetite, and I ate enough I needed to poop every day and when I did I couldn’t really hold it for long and needed to shit RIGHT THEN. It was wild.
YES. I’ve said it before to my bf and my mom and they don’t get it. I’m like….im fine now. I’ll just go later. This is how it is for me like 90% of the time
It’s called missing your pooportunity!
Omg!!! I have this. I literally call it my poop window too!!! When I get the urge to go, I HAVE to go. If I miss my window, I risk serious constipation and a world of pain for days. My bowels are pretty regular, but if it’s disrupted for any reason it becomes a problem. When people say “I can’t poop in public restrooms!!” I can’t fathom that. If I have to go, I have to go, and I can’t wait and miss my window.
I call it my window of pooportunity. If I miss it I have to wait for the next one.
Yall need more fiber
Yeah but I really gotta make that next window or it’s gonna be a problem.
Yes omg!! Glad I’m not alone lol
If I’m at home, then I don’t, but if I am not at home, I have a poop window. I went on vacation for 4 days and didn’t go at all because I wasn’t home. If I go to the store and have to go but hold it, which I always do because I can’t go at a public place, then I have to wait for the next window (probably the next day) to go.
/r/accidentalseinfeld
You just gotta sit there with you feet on a stool and play on your phone a while. The body will get the message
Yes, that is how it works for me as well. I’ve always assumed it was a good thing since, if I couldn’t find a toilet, I didn’t exactly want to poop my pants.
This is the best click bait headline I’ve clicked in while!!!
No. As soon as I feel it, I have to go or I WILL shit my pants
Most do because if you hold it it goes back up and gets processed to pull more water out. This is how constipation occurs for some lol
I hate waiting for a poo just sitting on the toilet. Like why does poop get to take up my time like that? So I ALWAYS wait for the second window. I just hold it at first and then wait for it to go away. When the second window opens up, I can go immediately and quickly and I’m usually in and out of the bathroom in just two or three minutes, including washing my hands. I think it came from being a server for years. Didn’t have time to sit on the can for 5 minutes to wait for a poo when I had tables waiting. I still go multiple times a day with this second window system. I just have to be holding my poo a lot.
Society made it so that we feel the need to reserve a specific time of day for pooing lol.
My work life is super flexible so I can go whenever I want. Because of this, it’s almost always after breakfast. I won’t feel the need to go until I’ve had coffee, most days lol.
“the one that got away”
Yup. I poop EVERY morning about 10 mins after I wake up.. If, for some weird reason, I can’t, I will not poop again until the next morning usually. I’ve worked hard for this schedule as someone with IBS. I don’t like my schedule getting messed up lol
Around 07:00 around coffee time.
“that’s not how pooping works” for him. It works like that for others, though. He’s probably blessed with convenient intestines.
I kind of have a window, I have to go until a certain time of the day, and if I don’t, I’ll have to wait until the next day and go during that same window, but you know, do a double unloading, so I do everything I can to go within that window each day.
Yes I do. It’s called a pooportunity. Like opportunity but for the time window of your poop
Likw clockwork 😉.
Poopportunity
That’s exactly how it works with me.
Yup, I do. Mostly what happens is, my significant other is using the bathroom and that’s the exact moment I have to go. He takes forever, so by the time he is done, my window has closed. Usually within the next 5+ hours, I’ll have the urge again. Or on some occasions, I don’t have the feeling again until the next day. I’ve been like this for as long as I can remember. It’s so annoying, I only ever have to go when it’s inconvenient. Either the bathroom is taken, or I’m about to go out the door to work or an appointment. I never catch the first poop window lol.
Ye
Me, but I also have IBS-C
Oh, that kind of poop window.
I’ve heard this phenomenon referred to as the Burden of Damascus.
Poopirtunity is knocking!
I do. After drinking coffee or coming home and getting stoned so I’m relaxed. If I miss it, I will probably get constipated.
6 am, 2 pm, 6pm
Yes it’s so common.
yup, if it doesnt happen about an hour after waking up its not gonna happen
My husband and I call it “the poopertunity”. “The poopertunity passed”.
Are you an adult?
Sure do!
It’s like the circadian rhythm, but with poo.
Used to be that way, but after they took 18 inches of my colon for diverticulitis now when I got a poop, I gotta find a bathroom. I got about a five minute window 10 at most and then it’s coming out.
Mornings generally, at home. I almost never feel the urge outside at work or in the city or wherever.
I’m with you. I have a window, and as long as the window is open I can go in about 30 seconds. My husband doesn’t have windows but takes 10+ minutes to poop. I prefer our method.
Kramer had this same problem.
100%. I can be very regular but if I miss my regular time one day who knows when I’ll get back on track. I think it’s a result of the one time I didn’t poop for two weeks in the Army.
The first time you feel like you have to poop is the “first knock.” You should answer it, but it’s ok if you don’t. Then comes the “second knock.” A little more urgency behind this one, but maybe you ignore it too. But that “third knock,” no one can ignore the “third knock.”
But also, yes same. I can’t just go on command. Gotta wait for another knock.
This is a real thing the dr told me about. He said not to hold it or I’d lose that window to be able to poop. After so many mins of resisting the urge your body gives it a break and then the poo loses more water and can contribute to being more constipated. The urge comes back again and if you resists more the poo becomes more dehydrated and hardened each time you don’t go
this is in fact how pooping works. your digestive tract works in batches, it’s not an inelocutable conveyer belt
I have exactly the same thing! I can only go when I have a very strong urge to go. Even if the urge is weak I can’t do it and have to wait til the feeling intensifies.
I thought I was gonna get to tell about my poop sliding door
That isn’t where I thought this post was headed!
If you keep suppressing the need to poo you can damage the whole process. When you feel the urge you should empty your bowels really. Occasionally on long journeys etc and if it it very occasional that’s fine but should not be a regular practice.
No I’m with you on this one
I thought you flung your poop out of a window. That would have been more interesting
Uh, no. I have chronic tummy issues and not going when I feel I need to is a surefire way to end up horribly constipated. That can be really bad for anyone’s health. Impacted bows can be deadly.
Poop window, yes. But also poop days, incidentally free days.🫠
I have more of a poop countdown. I have IBS, but I don’t care about what I eat, so if I need to poop, there’s no turning back or stalling it. It’s coming.
It’s biology.
We have regular peristaltic waves passing through our bowels and periodically there are stronger ones, it’s been a long time, but I think they are actually called mass movements.
The internal anal sphincter gets a nudge and you get the urge.
When you override it and do not poop, you’re left waiting on the next big wave to come. It’s as simple as that.
… never actually thought of it that way but yeah.
Yes people are different… I cannot go number two on command… Heck half the time I think it’s telling me it’s time it’s not… I’m not necessarily normal but I’m not the only one and neither are you.
6:27, 2:07, 3:54, 7:18 (🤭), 10:47
I think this is pretty normal for humans. I read the evolutionary reasoning is so that you aren’t dealing with the constant need to go when you’re in a situation where going would be dangerous/ highly undesirable.
It’s like the body is offering up “Gotta go–is this a good time?” And then, if not, it shuts up and waits to offer again later.
You had us in the first half
I have this but I also have gastrointestinal issues so do with that information what you will
Seinfeld did an entire episode on this.
Yes. Thankfully (or unthankfully, depending on how you look at it), my poop window is like every 3 – 4 hours, so if I miss it, I’m not waiting too terribly long.
Yes this is why I’m always constipated while traveling 😭
I have 6
My butthole has a GPS. IYKYK
Yes. I’m fortunate to be very regular and I’m also lucky that my body knows to skip the window if I’m on like, a road trip or something. Usually another window will open up 12hrs later almost never more than 24.
But if I don’t have to go, I don’t have to go and no amount of sitting on the can will change that. If the window is shut, it’s shut.
You’re not weird.