How old is your son? If diet does not alter the density of the fecal dam, then the only alternative is to arm the lad with a dam breaker such as a coathanger or stick to break up the damn dam before it dams the damn commode. You'll have to teach Junior how to break up his turds enough so they'll flush. My daughter went through this. Nothing worked to make her turds softer. The stuff I bought for her to take to make her regular was a waste of money because of course you have to stand there with a gun to get a kid to take anything. What worked for me was the coathanger and putting her to the task of cleaning up the mess herself. This oddyssey started when she was 8 and when she turned 14, that's when I gave her the coathanger. Her mother bitched at that because of course it's mean..... So I gave her mother the coathanger and retired from the turd clearing business. When her mother got tired of clearing the dam debris, she made the girl do it herself. Once that occured, the problem mysteriously went away......

tonya.....If I were you I would discuss this issue with either a doctor or a pharmacist.
While in the hospital several years ago with bacterial pneumonia I was given a stool softener that turned all my craps into soft custard. Your pharmacist could recommend something OTC and tell you how long it was safe to take it.

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perhaps i's not the poops at all but the amount of tp the kid is using. How old is this kid anyways? My 3 oldest 8,6,and 4 all at one time or another decided that more was better when it came to tp usage and thats how come we were using 2 rolls a day at the house. Clogged the toilet nicely too, but after some demonstration, rationing, and threats we no longer have that problem.
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I have the same problem with my 12 yr old girl...I can sympathize with you..Yeah I gave my girl a coathanger and also TAUGHT her how to use a plunger.But I will say this last weekend the family went camping and she clogged an industrious state park toilet!! Because her crap was cement and it laid sideways in the bowl she tried in vain to flush and it would not go down,she even laid tp on it and no avail...All the while an elder guy was banging on the door waiting for her to come out...Little did he know...HE HEHE

Sorry - I forgot to tell you that we rationed the tp at first, thinking it was that with nothing better coming from it. He has been on stool softener but the poop still will clog it. We have asked him to give a half flush - when he's half done, flush and flush when he's through. That doesn't work unless you are standing right there with the gun!! :) I like the coathanger trick. For a long time, it was because he was so embarrassed to poop that he would hold it for days!! Then finally we got tired of the plunging and realized what was going on, told him everyone does it or they'd blow up! It did get better for a little bit but now, we're back to the same - I think it's cuz he forgets to take the time! We are going to try the coathanger and see how it works. Maybe seeing that in the bathroom, it might remind him to go more often... because seeing the toilet sitting there doesn't remind me at all!!! Thanks for the suggestions!

BTW... he is 13 now. It started at about age 6 or 7...

Get rid of your cheap ass plumbing fixtures and get an American Standard Champion model. I have them in all my bathrooms and I could flush a fucking catchers mitt down any of them, no problem.

Now that sounds like an invite, CEP! As to the lad with the dense loaf...METAMUCIL!!! It works and the orange flavor tastes like Tang.
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Increase the water flow of the flush! I don't have the particulars of how to raise the water level in the tank to make that happen, but maybe another on here can tell you. Maybe more water pressure would help! If thats not enough get a big gallon piture handy to pour extra water in during the flush? Ok, still not enough? Bring in the damn garden hose!

That and be like the dog weesperer, make him sit on the pot til he poops after every dinner. Hopefully his body will get in tune after a couple days and do it naturally.

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Metamucil is what I bought for my daughter and unless I poured it down her throat with a funnel, it sat in the cabinet. She also would go once a week or so for the same reason as your son; embarrassment and too much in a hurry. Your on the right track Tonya. When it's HIS problem entirely and HE has to overhaul the damage EVERY time he clogs, then he'll do what he knows he needs to do do. It's not about getting an industrial waste removing crapper, it's about home training and personal responsibility. I wish you the best Tonya, stand firm, keep a straight face, and keep a coathanger in the crapper.

Uh oh, time for one of those long ass cut-n-pasted medical entries...meanwhile, have the lad lay you a new drive way! Also, remind the boy that a brick in the TANK is what actually saves on the water bill.
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Any ideas?

1. Get him a job in a toilet-testing lab.
2. Move to Japan.
3. Bottle and sell his shit as radiator stop-leak.
4. Move to India.
5. Give him a goal -- four clogged toilets in a day.
6. Buy him a gigantic catcher's mitt and move him in with CEP.

Cat litter tray in his bedroom should solve the problem.

Some things I can count on to soften my stool if I need it: (a) lots of nuts; (b) pizza; (c) Honey-Nut Cheerios or equivalent; (d) leafy greens such as spinach or lettuce. I don't have hard stools anyway right now, but those foods, among others, make them softer yet. He should eat enough of whatever stool-softening food he chooses to make an effect. Also, make sure he drinks enough water.

Have you actually seen the turds he can't flush down? It sounds like they go partway through the pipe and stop at a bend. They must have a combination of density and girth to set up a clog, because just hardness, as in pebbles or small hard turds, doesn't clog.

It's 2:30 AM and I've had a few margaritas. I'm going to tell you a true story.

When I was a kid, my brother was a toilet stopping wonder. If he could have been a superhero, he would have most likely been branded The Incredible Bogstopper. No, wait. That's if he was a Willy Wonka candy.

Had he been branded a superhero, he might have been monikered The Increndible Bulk.

Because of his toilet-stopping abilities, he was given a blue knitting needle that he (or one of my parents) hid in the under-sink cabinet next to the toilet. It was his own personal shit chopper.

I did not know this until about eighteen months ago, but it was true.

Anyhoo, if nothing else works, give the kid a shit chopper. Knitting needle, extra large stir-fry chopstick, metal barbecue skewer, or machete. (You can buy a machete at your local US Calvary store - unsharpened.) I hear unwound wire hangers work well, too.

If the little guy is producing such monstrosities, it won't hurt him to do a little hack/n/bash. It's either that or teach him how to stand over the commode with the plunger.

I truly wish you luck, because after being reminded of what I'd forgotten years before last year (read Linkin' Wasn't Plinkin or Conversations with Mimi), I know big poop is the stuff of which myth is made.

Best wishes, tonya. Sometimes, poop is serious business.


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Maybe the problem isn't hard poop. Maybe the poop is too soft. Like wet cement, or peanut butter. Ever try to flush peanut butter. It sticks to everything and enough of it could easily clog the toilet.
Your son may be the perfect candidate for the much talked about toilet blender attachment.
Or he just needs to eat less red meat and more leafy veggies.

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Tonya, how big are your toilets? Can I suggest a larger one?
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Forealdo, it sounds like he has been eating a lot of meat. Excess meat can turn your grossest national product into greasy sticky peanut butter piles that cling to the porcelain for dear life. After being a vegetarian for 20 years , I saw a big difference when I went back to eating meat.
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Send him to the Seven-Leven once a week for convenience duty.

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7-11 has a burrito that might fix him up nice!
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