This happens to me quite often. This usually happens when I am rushed or just want to shit and go do something else. I guess the key is to relax, and spend some quality time on the bowl and try to make sure you are fully evacuated.

When you say, "log up your ass", it makes me think that you may have better luck with an altered diet. Lately, I've found it beneficial to "fiber-load" before a trip to the poo-recepticle. In much the same way that long-distance runners prepare for a race with a night of "carbo-loading" to build their endurance, you too can prepare for your bowel movements in order to minimize the endurance YOU'LL need to get through the ass-strain that you've been going through. Soon you'll reap the rewards of a long fiber-binge in the form of a sweet stream of fluid poo.

As for your problem with having to poop again as you stand up..., well, you may wish to invest in a "flight-commode" like the ones on passenger airlines. Try to suction your ass cheeks to the seat as you flush, and any remaining poo-residue will hopefully be whisked from your bowels. Be cautious however, your ass may become permanently stained blue from the chemicals. Like those monkeys in the zoo.

poop again.

Yeah I agree. Take your time. If you still have to poop when you stand up, just sit back and down and take another duke. There is no such thing as too much poo.

this only happens to me when i have the runs. There's nothing you can do but wait it out, or come back again in 10 minutes.

happens to me all the time. Lack of insoluble fibre, eat more fruit, corn, bran, etc. Fibre---Natures Broom

I've never had this problem. I wear a colostomy bag. It let's me poop on the run. No sitting, no stopping no wiping!

Just now, I feel unfinished. But not because I didn't crap well. I took a good crap, got up, went to flush, and --- nothing. The toilet didn't work. It was broken. And now... my ass feels half full. It's the strangest thing. It's as if my body relies on the whoooooosh of the toilet to reach closure.

Betty Poop- No wiping? Hmmm, how might I obtain one of these wonderful bags?

On sad days, I feel half empty. On happier days, I feel half full.

i think i am dieing or something.since i was 16 and up till now every time i use the washroom i wipe my self and find blood most of the time.i am scared i went to my doc and he said it could be hemmorides or lack of fibre. i am scared that i have cancer . do this happen to anybody else. every time i use the washroom it feels like i hab a bowel move ment but only a little bit comes out is that normal to

i'm really looking for some answers! i started bleeding when i took a dump, a real hard dump. after awhile i figured out that i needed to start eating more fiber, which i did. well to make a long story short my ass is always sore after doing my bowl movement and when i wipe there's a slight blood stain, kind of like wiping a small cut. what shall i do?

yeah, i hate when i shit my pants, i usually pull to the side of the road and put my hand down my pants and then eat some of my shit. then i wipe the remaining poop/shit on the steering wheel. also this one time, i found a used condomn in my poop shit logs. nice doing buisiness with you shitty folks.

hi, i am very scared. recently i used a "clean and non sharp" door stopper and put it in my ass for the curious feeling. now my ass has swallowed it, am in danger? will it come down next time i crap or will it digest? plz mail me asap.

Hi. I have a serious guestion. Well they all sound pretty serious. but lately when I use the bath room and do the #2 I would spot blood. Just a bit. But three days ago I went and there was no poop but alot of blood. Well I was scared but embarrassed. So shortly after that I went #2 again and this time it did come out with blood. Well needless to say I don't have insurance so I called a friend and told me it would go away but I didn't tell him the extent of it. So I waited a few days and I had to go again. The first trip there was only blood but second trip there was both. Each time it got a bit worse. What would cause that? And will it go away?

I'm actually in search of some poop for my baaaahhhh. I seem to have run out of poop and could really use some more. Can anyone help me? PS: Is poop in the diet of weasals cause I'm wondering if the weasal living in my anus has anything to do with my problem. And he never eats the lettuce sandwiches I feed him.

Drink more water. It stops this problem with the leftover poop.

shit eater is a shity site and I think that anyone that eats shit should try to get some help. That shit is just sick

Just don't strain...it hurts your ass and doesn't help much...sometimes when I strain hard the shit goes back up. Just reach in and rake it out.

Hey you guys ever get those turds that are hard and sharp and poke your rectum?

I GOT THIS THING ABOVE MY ASSHOLE LIKE A DRY CRACKLING BLOODY THANG, WHEN I WIPE TOO HARD WHAT IS IT.

when ever i try to shit my ass starts to bleed. when I do shit it is diarea and it sticks to my ass hairs and the shit and blood gets hard and it hurts when I try to pick it off. it hurts when i gets up to walk it scrapes my asshole and it bleeds more.

i have be bleeding when i have a poo for abt 3weeks now when i have a poo it hurts and it bleeds like some times it drops and some times its when i wap me self i am v.v.v.v. worried i do not no wot it is but its only when i have a poo

Sounds like an anal fissure, Kelly. Go see your doctor and get it fixed.

Hey, morons! This is about finishing a poop, not bloody assholes. Go to a damn doctor! Learn to read! Idiots!

omg, this is like the funniest thread ever...

Hey I just wanted too let you guys know..... THis is the most funniest site ever! Get a life, Get a job, and stop watching you asshole just so that you can have something to worry about!

I am having this problem with stuck shit right now. Occasionally it all comes out, but recently I have been shitting pellets that don't all come out at the same time. I can still feel them knocking on the back door all day and it's pissing me off big time.

I'm guessing my problem has something to do with the water in this shithole. I wonder if it will be better when I move.

Well, let me tell you one thing about my butt. It has recently swelled up to the size of a watermelon. I haven't been pooping at all for the past 3 weeks, and I am slightly worried that my anus has developed an alternate hole for the poo to slide out of, except this hole doesn't lead out, it leads right back into my butt. My ass is all lumpy and squishy, and I know im in trouble. Any advice would be welcomed.

Big nasty poo man, go into politics.

LOL. His poop is filling up his butt-cheeks?! That's a new one.

Ok lateley I have been trying to change my diet by cutting out fast food. I have been doing about 200 sit ups a day and eating more salad. Drinking more water. The salad has changed the consistancy of my usual disposal. So recently I have had more runny waste. I am thinking I might be trying to strain. Anyways I have had this consistancy of waste for 4 days now. But today after a night of about 10 beers(new years). I had to use the restroom alot last night. It all started when i ate chinese food that was really spicy(sarache red sauce) the first day. Stomach pains went away then I felt one come up. Well I also noticed it has just been watery inbetween sometimes. But I had used the bathroom and after I was done I gave it one more push and a good amount of blood came out, it felt like diarea but I noticed that this one time it was blood. Just this one time. Is it possible that I have wiped to much/hard to tear. Because I noticed blood wipings before it came out like that.....confused and worried no insurance no job.....

You know where you can stick your fibre etc, Turd Fergusson! I prefer and enjoy passing a nice big solid turd, NOT a load of mush or diarrhea!

Anyway, I have from time to time had this experience where I have done one poo, usually a good big solid log but felt that there was more to come down. If I am at home or not going anywhere I will remain seated on the toilet pan and wait for it to come down but if it doesn't then I find that I will need to defecate again perhaps an hour later, perhaps after a longer time interval and I will retrun to the toilet and do a second solid log, perhaps as big as the first one I had passed. Not a problem as far as I am concerned.

Lately had runny poos though i feel that my diet has been mostly fast food and junk. Would this be a reason for my runny poo as i have no pains in stomach areas and i dont have constipation. Should i eat more fibre and change my diet ???

Runny stuff,

It depends what you consider "runny". Is it diarrhea or just logs that break up easily.

First of all, eating as little junk and fast food helps, just for general health.

I, myself, have a high fibre diet. Fibre bulks up the stools and make them easier to pass; however, it does not ensure solid logs. MIne are never solid logs, unless I am constipated-the longer the period, the more solid.

In fact, having all bran for breakfast only produces "oatmeal" like shit. It's high fibre; therefore, I have a second movement in the afternoon. My usual movement happens after breakfast and on days without all bran, there is no second movement.

I am convinced age has something to do with it. Up to 38, I always had fat, solid logs. My diet has not changed. Now at 45, it's usually mud slides. Rather sad for me.

Stick your fingers up there, and wriggle them around. That'll jump start ya.
SamDamnit!
Rectum Rector
of
The Church of Poop
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If you are an IBS victim, you basically feel like you have to go all the time. The trick is to learn to distinguish the false alarms from the real thing.

Scratch SamDamnit's suggestion. Use a bicycle pump.

One of those cow milking machines mitght do the trick.

SamDamnit!
President in Exile
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Please see my recent tell-all under Anti-Diarrhea Pills: Cure Of The Century? As so-called "victim" of IBS, I have finally decided to "come clean" about my motivations for joining this site.

i'm 18 and i had found blood on my poop and when i wiped. i got really scared because i didnt know what could have caused it. but a couple of days later no blood showed up. now its been maybe a week or so and its happening all over again. why? im freaking out.

OOOOOOOOOOooooooooooooooooooohhhhhhhhhh, no!

Another blood-in-the-poop thread. Dear ones, except for menstruation, bleeding is NEVER normal! This is most especially true for internal bleeding. If you don't know what's causing it, or the problem persists, log off this site and GET THEE TO A DOCTOR, NOW!!

("Woe is me! I am undone!!" cries Dumpster, as he reaches for his xanax bottle.)

It's a shitty problem to have. Then again shit inevitably does happen. Ok - I'm just talking crap now so I'll go. :)

These blood in poop questions in the wrong threads are starting to irritate me. I think that if they are going to be asking about blood in poop they need to keep it to the appropriate threads, NOT just insert a blood-in-poop comment in whatever thread they feel like.

There is no reason to have a blood-in-poop question in threads about green poop, diarrhea, swallowing gum, or constipation.

They are getting about as annoying as posts like "I eat poop" or "this story is fake".

Can we please start deleting these things when they are not in the appropriate section. They are getting to be epidemic and STUPID!

The least these people can do is READ and start asking the question in the appropriate spot!

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Broccoli!

We are NEVER done in the sitting postion. If you don't believe me, try squatting for a minute or so after you think you are done, squeeze and release the anus muscles several times. You will be amazed what is left to come.

Dear Peter,

If you feel as though you need to poop when you stand up again, why don't you just try shitting standing up? Just a thought.

In the meantime, practice squid ring kegels: 'Big upward bung squeeze, hold for a 20-second count and release'. Deep breath and repeat.

I never understood: if a new asshole could be reamed, why can't the original one be rebuilt to specification???

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"Odor in the court! The judge is eating beans--his wife is in the bathtub counting submarines." Author Unknown

Ben, I tried squatting once. My knees gave out and I ended up smacking the inside of my thigh on the bowl. Ouch!

As Dave stated, either in this thread or another, squatting is great when you have been raised doing it. Otherwise your bones and joints are not used to it and you end up with my problem. A huge bruise on your thigh and a problem pooping for a week.

Oh, and Bunghole, I love your comments! Don't go anywhere! This site is a whole new place with you around!

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Broccoli!

TSV,

Why don't you try with one foot on the ground and one on the loo seat or raise your feet on a platform while sitting

Ben, she's shitting not doing yoga.

The only platform in my bathroom is a kissing stool (no comments, folks). My husband is a rather tall gent and it makes up for the height differential.

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"Odor in the court! The judge is eating beans--his wife is in the bathtub counting submarines." Author Unknown

Ben, I might... after my thighs heal. Well, except for raising my feet on a platform while sitting. I cannot shit when my feet are raised for some reason.

You should write up an article for Poop Report on this matter. Maybe "squatting for non-squatters". Dave might publish that!

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Broccoli!

TSV,

I will not need to do a write up. There already exist my comment on squatting somewhere on this site

Bunghole in the...

Yes, being a tall person helps. The trick is to raise one's knee above ones butt in the sitting position

Ben, short of installing stirrups or a "swing" in the bathroom (and I'm sure they probably exist in the bathrooms of some PRs and not necessarily used as a toilet tool), just how the heck is a hugely pregnant woman supposed to negotiate her knees above her butt? If you've ever been pregnant before you'd understand my question.

I suppose I could use a crane.

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Broccoli!

Classic one liner, Shit Volcano.

All's I have a home is an American Standard :-(

Good grief, there I go again with the stoopid tying skills. This evening's dinner menu included chicken mole with coffe-bean mole sauce, a side of frites with coffee drizzle sauce and quadruple espresso for dessert.

Should read 'All's I have at home is an American Standard.'

I do also like the high flow Crane toilets, though, TSV.

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"Odor in the court! The judge is eating beans--his wife is in the bathtub counting submarines." Author Unknown

What does PR look like, a medical help site?

Seriosly, these blood in poop posts need to go in the apropriate thread. They doo have a place on PR, just not here.

My advice? Go to a city hospital. Sure it will take you a while, but you don't have to pay for it if you are careful in what you say.

B in the J, I have stupid tying skills too. That's why I don't wear shoes with laces anymore. I was just falling down too much.

Fortunately, to make up for it I have numchuck skills, and bow hunting skills, and computer hacking skills . . .

(I don't know why I feel compelled to pick on your typos tonight. Sorry.)

B2K, eh. You're not really sorry, though. I wouldn't be. You a sistah bitch, already.

I'm AB2K. B2K was a shitty 90's pop/rap/I don't really know because I dont listen to that kind of crap band. Please do not confuse the two again.

Orry, Say. Confusion not on this side.

I don't often really apologize so here it is. Sorry, truly.

My final word, though, with a poo pal like you who needs an enema? So, pals or enemas? It's up to you.

TSV writes, "I cannot shit when my feet are raised for some reason."

The reason you are made this way, TSV, is to keep you from messing up the bed and grossing Gilbert out, har, har har....

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"Say, has anybody seen my sweet Gypsy Rose Volcano?"

B in the J: Poo pals it is. Take no offense to my frequent sarcasm and smart-ass commentary.

AB2K,

Boy-- I never saw so many registered PR users scatter and log off in such a hurry after this was posted....

AB2K, I’m not butt-hurt over your remarks and the acerbic smart-ass exchange was mutual.

My philosophy is, “If you can’t take a joke, you are one.”

Bung, I love that philosophy. It has become mine.

But KOC, in an 01.31.2006 post under "Farts On Buses," you wrote: "Everything i say is literal and I take all things said to me literally."

So, since you have confessed that you can't TAKE a joke, where does that leave you?

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"Say, has anybody seen my sweet Gypsy Rose Volcano?"

Stop trying to start shit, Dumpster. KOC is a misunderstood artist.

I foresee Port-a-John still-life sculpture or 'studies in crap,' quarter-scaled diaramas hand-crafted from shriveled raisins and lunch truck leftovers and lauded by the art world as 'insightful genius in base human function.' These wrought by none other than PR's own sometimes crusty, but always adorable, KOC.

I don't know exactly why it is but I get a lot less satisfaction shitting in a public toilet than I do at home or work. In the latter two places, I'm able to produce a full stool and feel really relieved. However, at public places such as ball parks, football stadiums, shopping malls, I fail to get the "What a shit!" feeling. My boyfriend says it may be just using a larger. black-seated toilet that in some cases is a bit higher than what I have in my apartment. As colder weather comes on, I must admit the cold seats are a bit of a turnoff. Also, if I have to wipe urine off the seat before sitting down, I don't feel I have the comfort level of a cleaner place. Maybe I' just overreacting or too alert, but eyes peering at me through the space between the door and stall also embarasses me. I've learned to keep my skirt, jeans, panties, etc. at least at stool level so that there is less visible. I know that I should spread my legs more (a recommendation of my doctor a few years ago when I was experiencing constipation)but an unfamilar toilet does scare me somewhat and I think that hurts my productivity too. What's more even though I'm 30, I still get grossed out by farts, gas explosions and the strong stream of peeing from adjacent stalls. I try but I can't always get an end stall. Finally, I worry about taking too long on the stool--this is especially the case during half times or concert intermissions. Lines waiting for my stall cause me to get frustrated and therefore I don't have a full shit. Often I get up/give up when there's a knock on the stall door ("Are you still in there? HELL NO..I FELL IN AND DISAPPEARED DUE TO THE AUTOMATIC FLUSHER OR BETTER YET I SLIPPED IN DUE TO ALL THE URINE THE PREVIOUS HOVER PISSER LEFT ON THE SEAT!) or when I hear discussion about me falling asleep or being a George Strait fan and causing that lady to be arrested a few years back for being in the opposite gender's restroom because it was faster. Recommendations, fellow poopers?

PP, relax, everyone poops. I used to get embarrarassed about using public toilets too. Yes some public toilets are a bit gross, and I only use the gross ones in an absolute emergency. Just think of the noises in the next stall as normal bodily functions.
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It's not nice to fool mother nature.

AS for incomplete evacuations, I have some helpfull solutions to this.

1. Lots of water and juice, 8 to 10 12oz glasses a day.

2. More roughage. High fiber cereals, fruits, vegetables. No, Betty Crokker potato buds don't cout as a vegetable.

3. Don't rush, take all the time you need in the bathroom, until you fell clean.
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It's not nice to fool mother nature.

"But other times I feel like I still have a log up my ass...What should I do?
Log out.

I'm a couple years younger than Patsy Pooper, but I FEEL her pain. Maybe it can be chalked up to relatively less experience in using public bathrooms because I reside in a "community" of 400--of course in a rural area. However, my job and accounts served are in a nearby city and I, too, am grossed out by the women who pee without lifting the seat, shit without lifting the seat (how else would a log get on the seat?)and waste so much TP that there are only one of two pieces left for me to use! I also wonder if the large, black institutional (what a great word--I'm not sure what it means) seats are also a turnoff. When I'm at places like a Shell station or large office building with WHITE seats I tend to be more confident and productive. My mother suggests putting white toilet paper over the black seat before sitting down (funny!) but I just can't seem to get comfortable using a public bathroom with lots of stalls. Any ideas out there PoopReaders?

Like Patsy Pooper and AC, I have had the same concerns for years. I get frustrated waiting in line and when I finally get into a stall, I truly want to make the best of it and ASAP. Putting toilet paper over the black seat doesn't help me because it only reminds me even more that I'm in a public place. And it adds to the total time that I'm in the stall. Wiping the seat for occasional drops of urine or a couple of pieces of pubic hair (my grossest dislike) again only reminds me that I'm in a public place. What I found works best is holding my shit for a few minutes and then going in when I really am ready to dump. That way there is less time to sit and get frustrated and as Patsy found, have eyes peering at me through the openings between the door and stall petitions. Yes, it may get somewhat smelly carrying it around for a few minutes, but when I sit down I can produce. And I get a great satisfaction when I look at the full bowl and see that I had produced one very satisfying shit.

I don't know what or why it is but my friends at school think its "strange" that I can have a complete BM or pee by squatting. Yet when a toilet looks clean enough for me to sit down on I have to sit longer and often need to finish my shit later in the day or need to go in again on my next class break to pee. Am I as much of a "freak" as they say?

Yes, I think Janie is "strange" and maybe also a "freak". Most of us in school just sit down to shit or pee, although I agree that it's wise to look first to make sure you're not sitting on someone's log (I nearly did sit on one at a '80s classic rock concert this summer!)or in their pee. Janie has trained herself to go without touching the seat and she says she's successful with the technique. On the other hand, when she has what she feels is a cleaner toilet and does sit down, she can't totally eliminate because she is at a different angle because she is sitting on rather than standing over the stool. The difference is about 30 degrees and the hovering is what her body has gotten used to. More power to her as long as she lifts the seat. Shit or pee or a combination there of (yes, I saw that when at an I-29 reststop near Sioux City this past summer) on the seat is a gross out and totally uncalled for. I think, however, that Janie is making a lot more work for herself and could have some "issues" that need to be addressed by a professional counselor.

Of all the postings I've read in the three weeks since I've discoverd PoopReport.com (an awesome site by the way) I think the best approach to using public bathrooms is the 3Fs: focused, fast and friendly. Overall, I agree almost totally with Martika.

By FOCUSED I mean don't take up a stall needlessly while you are waiting on your friend in an adjacent stall. While it might be okey to get rid of a couple of tinkles, in many cases you are taking up a stall that others are waiting on and I don't think it's worth the effort.

FAST; When I sit down and pee I'm down, wiped and up in often less than a minute. When I shit I'm done in two minutes or less. If I'm shopping and my legs are getting tired, that's what food courts are for! Believe it or not, I've gone into bathrooms not certain that I can go and left, only to come back in an hour or so with certainty.

FRIENDLY; I wipe the seat off after I get up and that takes care of any pubic hairs or dropping when I wipe myself. Sometimes my waded wiping paper misses the bowl and lands on the seat or floor. Simple solution: I pick it up.

Again, Martika has the right idea. When you cut the time on the toilet you cut the lines and all the bitching and door pounding and peaking in that comes from such crowds.

What Tish posts is impressive; almost too good to be true! Apparently, though, Tish doesn't have to use public restrooms as much as I do because I'm finding there are lots of sloooow shitters and pissers out there. NOthing pisses me off more than standing in line for a stall, seeing legs under the door, listening for a flow or plop and hearing nothing. At least, I look for a little movement in the feet because that gives me encouragement that I have a chance of getting the stall before I turn 35!

If every woman would wipe off the pubic hairs and any urine droppings from the seat before exiting, it would be Utopia. And that would give those of us waiting in line movement and encouragement that we will be relieving ourselves ASAP!

I'm like Martika, I guess, in that I get rattled with people jiggling on the stall door, peeking in on me through the small stall door/partition opening, and last night for example, a lady making the remark, "Well, it doesn't look like we're going to get to see Robin Williams elected President tonight, does it?"
Sorry, but I had to wait in a three-deep line. There was about an eight-year-old girl in front of me and she must have spent 10 minutes on the stool! I don't know where her mother was, I sure as hell didn't see her. When the girl finally came out, I noted that there was no flushing but I could quickly see what was wrong. I had to flush her stool for her and when I went to wipe off a couple of trickles of urine from the front of the seat, I found there was not toilet paper. Since I had already inveted about 15 minutes in line, I decided to sit down and make the best of it.

I sat farther back than I normally do to avoid sitting directly in the pee and maybe that's what made it so uncomfortable for me. About the time I expected my pee flow would start, I just couldn't get it going. I repositioned myself twice, but each time it didn't seem to make much of a difference.

Just about the time I was about to stand up, pull my panties up give up, I did get a small stream going. This was about the time when I saw a set of eyes looking in on me for the second time. I started to cry a little bit in frustration when I heard the lady remark to her friend "I bet she's fallen asleep".

Being able to completely drain my bladder or having a completely satisfying shit in a public bathroom has aluded me for years. I turn 30 next month and have little confidence that it will get any better.

I don't know how it is for my 18-year-old brother who is in college, but I just can't seem to get a break in using public restrooms. Overall, I find women are very insensitive and some are outright cruel.

How much more will I have to endure in order to complete a pee or fully take a shit?

Cherie asks a good question, "How much a person should have to endure in order to fully poop or pee when on a public toilet"? I agree with her that women can be cruel.

First, I have to use a public bathroom about three or four times a week. As a result of some of the same frustrating experiences she described, I have tried to avoid at all costs large bathrooms with ten or more stalls. They tend to have the largest amount of users and the longer lines.

Secondly, when I have to use a public bathroom I select the far stall at the end. There is less traffic down there and if there's a lot of users, I will have 50% more privacy since I will have an occupant on only one side.

Instead of wasting toilet paper by lining the seat, I carefully lay toilet paper on top of the water in the bowl. That mutes the noise of my pee or poop hitting the water: in middle school more than 15 years ago I was teased as "crapping Karen" because of the noise my bowel movements made when propelled by gas they hit the water hard. At first, I was in tears and tried "holding it" in until after school or unless I was the only student in the restroom.

Third, a friend showed me how to move to the very front of the toilet to pee, that way my urine is hitting the very front of the bowl and there isn't that pouring noise when I'm sitting further back.

Fourth, I don't pull my dress or panties down any lower than my knees so I'm less conscious about what those peeking in on me can see. Looking back to when I was in school, I was so naive in dropping them down all the way to the floor. Being one of the only African-American girls in my school, I feel, also generated more "peaks" than if I would have been Caucasion.

Fifth, I've learned not to be upset by eyes peeking through the doorway, pounds on the door, and on a couple of occasions, when they've jolted the door so hard that the latch is flipped open. I just push the door shut and tell them it's going to be a while!

As I've gotten older and more experienced, I feel I have more confidence in standing up to rude people. I guess I've taken the attitude that it's my space, my time and I'm going to sit until I can produce. However, I don't ever know that I will gain the total confidence of Martika. She sounds awesome!

Hey, Karen, us sisters are in agreement. Being one of the few African-Americans in my high school, and a relatively newly-enrolled freshman at that, since coming in October, I've detected some things. Sometimes when I come out of a stall (after I've flushed and picked up any extra toilet paper on the floor) the next girl in line will just walk off or get into the line for another stall. Once, I moved my bowels, found there was no toilet paper to wipe with, and asked a girl in an adjacent stall to pass me some, but she said she was short too despite the fact that there was quite a bit under her feet and on the floor that I could clearly see. In the locker room where there are no doors on the stalls, I see more stares and half looks when I'm on the stool. Sometimes I wonder, Karen, if they expect to see a tail or something evil on my body. I like your advice not to expose more of myself when I'm on the stool than I need to--I just have never thought about that. I would think the peekers could use their eyes for more important things. I would much prefer if I didn't have to use the bathrooms at school at all, but I've found that's not realistic as I have to pee and poop there daily.

Cheri wrote: "a lady making the remark, "Well, it doesn't look like we're going to get to see Robin Williams elected President tonight, does it?"

WTF? I don't get it. Anyone? Help me out.

And what is WRONG with people? WHY would women want to peep on another woman who's black? Who cares? People are WEIRD.

First regarding GottaGoGirl's question: The lady standing in line for the stall was probably pissed at being late to see the feature film which I suspect could be Robin Williams' current "Man of the Year". He is elected president of the U.S. on a fluke. Second, what Karen and Jasmaine are saying, I think, is that African-American students who attend largely white or suburban (is there any difference?) high schools are singled out for additional attention and curiosity when they are in the bathrooms and locker rooms. I don't shit at school because the bathrooms are so dirty and many of us guys just wait until we get home. However, at the urinals I have noticed several guys (especially the freshmen and sophomores)sneak a look at my penis. If there are questions of color, size, I don't know but I suspect that Jasmaine is saying that once she leaves a stall and the next student see is African-American, they don't want to use that toilet. I think we learned in my sociology class last year that such an action is a reaction from something like a cultural/racial socialization stereotype. I'm confident though that the very few African-American asses that sit on those toilets are cleaner than many of those of the white girls.

Occasionally, when I've seen the eyes at the urinals, I've thought of saying something like "Man, my pee is yellow, too!" but as a senior I need scholarship references and wouldn't want to get into trouble.

Like Jasmaine and Karen, as a minority student (African-American) I do feel pretty regularly itimidated using the bathrooms at school. That causes me to question how long I should sit and whether I am fully done or not. My feeling is that too often I will sit for about five minutes and have a portion of my daily (well almost!) poop and then give up on trying to get the rest out because of what's being said in the line (are we going to make it to 3rd hour class?, what time does it say on your hall pass--shit it's already been 15 minutes, I'm going to pee my pants!), the jigglings on the door, the eyeballs I see through the larger-than-necessary crack between the stall and door, and occasional remarks about my shoes and jeans not moving as those waiting watch from under the stall door. It doesn't help me that occasionally I forget to check for toilet paper first, and then when I'm ready to leave I find there's none on the roll. Because the stalls are not as high as in some public places, I've also had girls in adjacent stalls stand on their tip toes and peer over on me as I sit. A friend told me not to pull my jeans or dress and panties down any lower than my knees so as to maintain more of my privacy. Peeing is less of a problem because I can usually fully get done within two minutes and the toilet tissues (or lack of them) is not as important. Our school is a metropolitan city-wide high school and other girls are also sometimes harassed and imtimidated. It's just so inconvenient to go back in an hour and finish up on something that I think I could have accomplished earlier. It just seems the longer I'm on the stool, the more frustrated I become. I just almost never know whether I'm done or not. I'm only a junior so I have more than a year yet to endure this. How can we teach others to be more considerate? There are at least a dozen stalls in each of our main bathrooms, but in a school of 3,400 they get both crowded and sometimes quite filthy. They call one girl in my junior English class "Camel" because she refuses to use the bathrooms at school. I don't think I can do that!

I, too, am intimidated about using the bathroom at school. When I'm home or at a friend's house, I can sit down and take a complete poop in one, soft, long log. Twenty seconds at the most. However, at school it is common that I will sit for five minutes or more before I can release anything and that may be only one of two balls at first. After I re-position myself on the toilet (and yes I know its gross sitting directly on those large black seats but spreading paper on the seat beforehand only makes me more germ conscious)it may take me five or ten minutes to release another small drop. Sometimes then when I push real hard I can release most of my daily dump, but in the meantime, I have to go through much of what Tamarrian experiences. I basically give myself 10 minutes on the stool, otherwise I give up and get up and leave the stall so someone else has a chance. Even then I have to experience several eyeballs in the doorway gap, remarks that they can hear me snoring, and occasionally jiggling or pounding on the door. My boyfriend agrees with me that several things need to change--the biggest for him is the requirement that he use an open stall to shit. Otherwise, he says it's something like voyeurism that he has somewhat gotten use to and something that scares him from completing a shit in public in just one sitting.

When I'm home or at the apartment of a friend I have no trouble fully emptying my bowels or bladder. When I'm in a public place...well, good luck! I don't know what it is but I find so many things about using a public bathroom to be unnerving: sitting on a toilet that I don't know who sat on before, wiping with toilet paper that is different (and many times inferior) to what I have at home), listening to coarse language from adjacent stalls (a cell phone conversation I heard yesterday--"If mom doesn't get to finish her shit right now, she's doing to miss the f****** bus and your g******dinner will be even later!"), loud farting and splashing from a nearby stall, eyes peeking in from between the door and stall partitions, stools that run over and sensor-tripping flushers that go off when you re-position yourself or start to wipe, faucets that don't work or have only cold water, impatient women in line ("I know you're going to pee your pants honey, but some people are just rude and inconsiderate"), and children waiting and waiting and knocking on your stall door. What are the "tricks" necessary to enjoying using public bathrooms. At 30, I sure can't think of many.

With Olivia and Pryia, two ladies who have no trouble going to the bathroom at home, using a public restroom is decidedly more difficult? I wonder what is in their background and what they were taught/or perhaps not taught by their parents that has made going in a public toilet so traumatic for them.The fact that Olivia needs 10 minutes to get her shit going because of using a black toilet seat and worry about sitting in germs causes me to wonder about how much experience she's had as a child growing up. And with Pryia, she also seems to be somewhat tormented by needing to sit on a public toilet and diversions from other stalls, etc. I like that question about what "tricks" are necessary to enjoy using public bathrooms. As for me, I just sit down on the toilet and what needs to come out happens. Seat color and privacy issues just aren't that big with me.

IT'S NOT THAT EASY, TIMI: "As for me, I just sit down on the toilet and what needs to come out happens. Seat color and privacy issues aren't that big with me." Before you question the backgrounds of people such as Olivia and Pryia, and I also suspect you would include me also in your judgmental prose, you need to accept that there are millions of us out there who are turned off by having to regularly use public bathrooms. Yesterday I had to pee really bad at City Hall, only one of nine or ten stalls was vacant, there was pee on the seat and no toilet paper to wipe it off with, but I had to sit down to avoid a floodgate breaking in my pants. I had to position myself way far back the seat to prevent sitting in the pee. Last week, I was taking a shit in one of the handicapped stalls at our city auditorium (only stall out of about 20 open and five minutes left in the concert intermission at Gwen Stefani) and I had three people knock on the door and at least two different sets of eyeballs peering in on me. Sorry, but when you gotta go and you have a large investment in your ticket, you gotta GO! On Memorial Day weekend my boyfriend and I made a five-hour trip to the beach. At an Interstate rest stop at two in the morning, two of three stalls were out of order and the other one I gave up on after waiting ten minutes. An older lady was on the stool with a Vonnegut paperback open. I don't know what her reading rate is but she's probably still there and they probably just clean around her stall. Anyway, I had to both shit and pee bad so I went into the adjacent mens room while my boyfriend stood guard at the door. Two gross stalls, I thought I was going to stick to the seat, and I hadn't used an open stall since middle school ten years ago. There was pubic hair on the front of the bowl and three phone numbers for oral sex on the stall partition just above the toilet paper dispenser. Also, it reaffirmed why for years I have wiped and flushed from a standing position: the stool overflowed. Although there was hot (actually very hot) water, their was no soap and the dispenser had been vandalized. My question for Timi is How many REAL experiences have you had?

Hi. I am only 13 years old, yes, i know weird to see me on this site yes? Well, today is the 4th day of me experiencing blood on my toilet paper. When i poop, right before it comes out, it feel like it is stretching the anus so that it can come through, and hurts a little bit. when i wipe, there is very little blood, and little specs. Since today is the 4th day, the blood on the toilet paper ans been decreasing. When i take a mirror and look, the outside skin, or w/e, of the anus has little spots of red, i guess blood. I am wondering if this is just a tear in the anus or what. Since i am only 13, im sure you would think that i would be scared by thinking if its a disease, or cancer. And you guessed it, I am.

YP. Most times, a bit of blood on the TP is nothing to worry about. Lots of people get it sometime. If you've been a bit constipated and you've had to force one out, you might have made a little tear that has bled. It does take a while to heal, and you say the blood is decreasing, so that's good. If the bleeding stops completely, then fine. If not, you must go to your doctor. It is very unlikely to be cancer - there are other harmless little things it can be - but it is best to get it checked out, however embarrassing you may think that is. Also, to help, you could look at your diet - more fibre and roughage, fresh orange juice, that sort of thing. And try not to force it out - let it come when it's ready. Someone on this site said 'never sit at the first cue' - wait till you get a good urge and it will slide out naturally!

I am aged 23, and doing some post-graduate research into an aspect of cancer, and have been surfing the net into aspects of bowel cancer. I have come across 'PoopReport', and got a bit side-tracked. However, there are human and humorous sides to the subject, and the title of this 'thread' caught my attention: 'Am I done or not'. It's nearly 5 years since Peter began this thread, but there are still worthwhile comments and questions.

I was fortunate in my own early days of toilet training. I had a brother (still have!) 9 years older than myself, who took it upon himself to share with my parents in my upbringing, in this matter (and others) and he was a very good role model. We have very good parents, mum a nurse, and dad a dentist. He used to take me into the bathroom with him after breakfast, and sat me on my potty. After cleaning his teeth, I saw him pull his trousers right down to his ankles, and sit on the toilet, to do his bowel evacuation for the day. I saw him do the whole operation, and as I took rather longer initially, on school days he had to leave things for my mum to finish me off, but at weekends and holidays, he would stay with me until I had finished. Gradually I got quicker, and when I was two I started using the toilet, with a child seat. When I said 'finished', he kept me a bit longer, and told me to try and do a bit more. This meant I rarely had to go more than once a day. He always insisted that I pulled my trousers down as far as they would go, and I still do. Then you can move your buttocks around.

My brother taught me how to wipe - gently but firmly, and I could do that by the age of 3 (In fact I can't ever remember anybody else wiping me.)

I can understand Young Pooper's concerns. Perhaps Hamster's advice should be heeded. We were brought up to eat plenty of fresh fruit and vegetables and also to drink plenty of liquid. Also it might be worth checking whether the family should buy a different brand of toilet paper. And certainly he should wash the area with soap and water - it may sting a bit though.

Since PGM has contributed his thoughts, I've been looking at the earlier posts again, and find the comments of Patsy Pooper, and others in similar vein, to be very interesting. PP asks why having a dump in a public toilet is less satisfying than doing it at home.

I think it is all about two things. Relaxing and timing. The relaxing bit is obvious - most of us are more relaxed at home!! But timing is very important too. I suspect a lot of us time our visits at home to the moment when the big urge is upon us, or is imminent, and this usually results in a full evacuation - that 'what a shit' feeling mentioned by PP! In other words, at home, we often time the visit according to the BM itself. Whereas, in public, the timing is all around the availability of the facilities - and sometimes the big urge has past, sometimes we aren't quite there yet - and this contributes to an incomplete movement and lack of satisfaction.

I can do an acceptable job of peeing or shitting in a public toilet UNLESS I have to wait in line. The longer the wait, the less I can produce. I don't know why that is but that's the way its been with me since the beginning of middle school, or when I first had to regularly encounter lines. I agree with some of the early posters who say it's essential to be able to see movement under the stall door. Shifting of legs, movement of feet...anything! Such action induces hope that the user is at least 1) alive; 2) going to the bathroom. I remember at Christmastime last year at Wal-Mart, I waited more than 15 minutes for a young girl (about 8, I think) to get off the stool in a two stall bathroom (the other stall had a "Out of repair" sign on it!). I was just about ready to leave and walk to the nearby mall, when the mom finally came in and allowed the girl to leave! The mom had used the stall as a babysitter while she bought the girl a gift! First time I had ever heard to that and it pissed me off. By the time I finally sat down, and by the way on one very warm seat, I was able to drop only about a third of my planned dump. On another occasion, I was next in line and a young woman in front of me finally got her opportunity to pee. I was hurting real bad but the time she sat down and you could hear a really strong stream for about a minute and a half. Then her cell phone rang and she spent about five minutes talking about where the pizza for that night's party was going to be delivered from. By the time I finally got to sit down, I was too pissed to produce and even started crying a bit. I got up and about 15 minutes later was able to fully relieve my bladder at a Sinclair station. The larger the bathroom, the longer the wait,and the amount of wasted time seem to take their toll on me. I'm 31, have a promising career in business, but I get so frustrated by those who waste my time.

Ra'Niah - after waiting 15 minutes I'm not surprised you lost the urge!! I think this sort of proves my point. Like you, I also value my time, and to be honest, I've only once waited for a stall when I've wanted a dump - that was at a station when my train was delayed, so I was waiting around anyway! Normally I'd just walk back out and go later - but then we men aren't so used to waiting for stalls as ladies are!!! On the other hand, I've never had this problem with peeing - if I've got to pee - that's it!! But the real point here is that people who just linger in the stalls are plain selfish - end of story.

Ra'Niah brings up a good point in her report. A parent puts a child, about 8, in a Wal-Mart stall for at least 15 minutes while the mom then goes elsewhere in the store to buy the child's Christmas gifts. Not only does that inconvenience those such as Ra'Niah who need to use the stall but must wait (because the other toilet was broken), but it puts the child in harms way. Abandoning a child, even for a few minutes in a public bathroom, could result in the police being called and a report made to child welfare! I would never leave one of the children I babysit in such a situation. What if a hostile woman and a out-of-control child get sick of waiting and start beating on the door? What was the child coached to say if asked "Are you OK in there?" or "How much longer is it going to be?" More often than not, when I'm out with the children I babysit, they need to go right away and its totally unacceptable to have that long of a wait. And for a young child, it's frustrating and potentially demoralizing, to say you have to go, bring the parent/babysitter to the public restroom, and then not be able to produce because the "urge" passed while you waited for a stall that was largely warehousing a child while the parent shopped. I still remember times when I was in a public place and not sure how long I should sit because the pee/poop just wasn't going to come. My mom was very sensitive to such feelings, but one teenage babysitter she hired a few times was not. This girl would relieve herself in a nearby stall and have a hard time understanding while I needed a little longer to push it out.

Young Pooper: don't worry!! It's good that you've noticed the blood on the paper (better to be aware of it than not). From your description of the "stretching" feeling with a little bit of pain, I'm sure you've probably irritated a small blood vessel near your anus, or maybe caused a small tear.
Once you have a minor injury like that, it tends to get reinjured every time you have to poop: it can take a while to heal itself.If you can just have a few BM's that pass easily, you should notice the problem will disappear.

I know this is a humour site. It is strange that people come here looking for medical advise. Most OGPR(Old-Guard Ppporeporters) have told them to seek a doctor. Here it is five years later and people still come here about ass complaints. Last time I needed some medical info I went to WEBMD. Any other time I get my ass to the Dr.s office pronto. I'm just saying......
Producing waste since 1967

Hamster is right in my experience - the best time for evacuation is when you feel the urge (usually it isn't being 'desperate)

On another related website - I can't find it, there is a quote from Marcus Brutus in 'Julius Caesar'.

Our grandfathers both died before we were born, but one of them left a complete volume of Shakespeare's plays, with the quotes which he had marked in pencil which obviously meant a lot to him.

'There is a tide in the affairs of men
Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune.
Omitted, all the voyage of their life
Is bound in shallows and in miseries.
We must take the current when it serves,
Or lose our ventures.' (Act 4 Scene 3).

Is this an example of 'intellectual appreciation of poop humour'. Maybe, but it's also basic common sense. As a child, you usually learn when the time was ripe, and conduct your own negotiations between your body clock and your schedule.

Or, 'Go when the going is good'.

MISS SIMONE SCAT - humour and medical matters often go together, and help each other. Voluntary work in a hospice has taught me how important humour is for 'terminal' patients.

MSS - do agree, but I think some people are looking for, 'oh thats nothing to worry about - happens to me all the time' responses. Amazing how many people are frightened of the doctor - or rather what they might find out ... !!!

Ra'Niah is so right about how time is wasted in public bathroom stalls. From ten years ago when I was in school to now as a member of the "corporate world", it is appalling the amount of time that's wasted and the inconvenience and, yes, harm (peeing pants, crapping pants and puking in a sink) done while some inconsiderate person spaces off on the toilet.

Last weekend I stopped at the mall to pick up some office supplies for my department. Five stalls and I had been holding my crap for a half hour in traffic when I peeked in on one of the occupants because I couldn't see any legs or movement under the stall door. It was a girl about 5 sitting with her coloring book, legs dangling, and no evidience that after about 5 minutes that she would be off anytime soon. I asked her "Honey, will you be done soon because I really have to go bad?" Her reply was a mumbled "I dunno". Then an older lady from the next stall started to curse me: "My daughter's got the right to use the ####### toilet for as long as she ###### wants We're both ###### constipated and unlike you we waited our turn". I then went up to the second level which luckily was not as busy, but by the time I went in (I even got a choice of stalls), wiped the seat and put myself down, I was only able to produce a small amount of what I needed to. Back out into the traffic, a half hour later I needed to stop at a Shell station to produce what I feel is my more regularly sized crap.

The speed and ease of using public restrooms is important. When it's not available to me, I feel like I'm being victimized.

As the mother of a young child, I think Terralynn's got it wrong in automatically assuming that a 5-year-old sitting on a public toilet with a coloring book is just playing aroud and wasting time. That situation could have involved my daughter and myself because often when I am in a public place and need to crap--especially if it's a big one that's going to take some time--I've found it is much easier to have my daughter on the stool in a nearby stall and occupied. A coloring book or any toy makes a wonderful tool to keep her occupied. She's also buiiding confidence in herself when she's sitting and going just like her mother is. The only problem I have with the mother is the repeated cussing which I fear the child may resort to as she gets older or is threatened by a stranger such as Terralynn. Children will take longer in public restrooms, but sitting and reading is an important part of the confidence and learning process necessary for their later success. For those who are inconvenienced by it, there are other options available.