Years of voluntary fecal compaction.

[johnmarlon23]

Since as far back as I can remember, around the age of five years old, I have suffered from an extreme irregularity in my bowel movements. When I was a child, I once counted the days to find out how long I could go without excreting feces from my body. I know that the days were close to a month or over a month without passing a stool. Up until the age of 18 years of age, it has always been typical to prevent excretion for 2 weeks or more, and if I had to guess, about 3 weeks on average. This was a normal part of my life for 18 years.

The process of preventing excretion was physically performed by exertions of muscles inside my body. This occurred through placing my foot under my buttocks and applying pressure, and while doing so, I would use my inner muscles around my inner feces to compact the feces.

I felt my feces inside and it would cause a deep discomfort and bloating pressure. I always got rid of this discomfort through my process of physically compacting the feces. This physical, voluntary compaction, probably occurred more often as the stool inside me got larger and more dense. When the day came that physical compaction no longer helped alleviate discomfort, I had an unbearable urge to pass my stool. When this day occurred, it was extremely painful. The stool was large enough that it would always clog the toilet, and I learned to use a pencil or pen to break it down inside the toilet.

Now, as a child, this voluntary compaction always squeezed out small amounts of liquid feces onto my underwear. Somewhere along the line, this stopped occurring. I don’t know why, perhaps my muscles learned to completely close up my anus while still being able to constrict the muscles inside.

Around the age of 18, I had the largest stool I have ever seen. Sometime later that year, I had dried feces stuck to the hair on my anus, and I had an extreme urge to pass my stool. The dried feces were blocking my ability to excrete into the toilet because it was hardened and stuck across the surface of the hair. My urge caused me to decide that the force of my exertion would break the hardened feces caked on my anus. When I attempted to evacuate my bowels, I pressed very hard on my inner muscles. This caused something inside of me to stretch and bulge. The inner walls of where my feces are stored, it felt as if the wall bulged and stretched on one side of the wall. I immediately got scared, and I went to get a scissors to cut my anus hair so I could attempt another evacuation. I believe I did pass a stool, although I believe it didn’t all come out.

Ever since I felt the damage to my insides, I have never been able to feel fully evacuated. I never pass a compacted stool anymore, even if I sit on my foot and use my inner muscles. I went through a period where I decided that completely stopping my voluntary compaction might heal and create a normal bowel movement. This didn’t occur at all, it doesn’t help whether I do it or not, it doesn’t seem to change the outcome of my bowel movement. The only thing it will do is alleviate the discomfort at times. I have learned to live with the discomfort but on occasion I will sit on my foot and constrict to alleviate the discomfort. I no longer do it countless times every day like I used to for 18 years, it’s almost non existent but I fall off the wagon and find myself doing it at times.

I now pass stools about once or twice a week, and often over a week at times. I know that the small sizes of my stools indicate that my body still holds much more feces, and I can feel the feces inside. On a rare occasion, I get a strange feelings of being sick but I’m not sick, it’s a bitter sick taste in my throat, and my body feels slightly strange. My guess is that this is the time when my body decides to absorb my feces into my body, maybe into my blood, I’m not sure. If it doesn’t come out, I can only think that my body absorbs it.

I don't have a doctor and the last time I tried to explain to one, she told me to buy fiber power to add to a drink, and when I asked her if she ever heard of this, she told me no. The fiber doesn't help, and I don't think making my stool harder could help the years of inner stretching I have incurred.

[Rhame]

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[TrudieC]

I'm not sure why you felt the need to do this for so long but am glad you are getting away from it.  Keeping feces inside for so long can lead to disease and infection.  I would suggest you go to your pharmacy and ask for the laxative they prescribe for people who are going to have surgery or colonoscopies.  This will help you to get a good clean out so you have a beginning place.  Then if you still have pain and uncomfortableness it is time to arrange for a colonoscopy so you know what you are dealing with.