Doctor Adams got this same question some time ago. He said what he did was to use a 3" diameter, foot-long section of PVC pipe to insert up the ass of his "full of shit" patients.

Then Adams said he would send his pet parrot up the tube to examine the constipated patient's loaded colon. The parrot would return and report to Dr. Adams regarding the quantity and quality of feces lodged in the patient.

Apparently, Adams had this parrot so well-trained that he could get him to retreave a stool sample as well.

Unfortunately Dave has removed all the great material regarding the wonderful Dr. Adams ... ARGGG.

Peace in the Parrotchute.

and relaxes his or her tummy, it is not too difficult for a doctor or nurse to feel whether that person's intestines have poop in them or not.

If you can do this on yourself, you can give yourself a tummy massage, which can actually help get the bowels working if you're a bit stagnant.

Girls can feel their poop from the... inside. I don't know about the outside.

I was wondering why does poop stink and why do people laugh when you fart?

Because it's funny when you fart!

I had a girl friend that would take a week between poops. You could feel the solidity of her abdomen, when she was particularly full of shit.

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i give my tum a massage almost every night to get things moving. you can generally feel backed-up crap with your hands. i like to move gas around with massage, it gurgles a helluva lot.

"...you can generally feel backed-up crap with your hands..."

Perhaps, but why would you want to?
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Santa Caca!

"Is that true or was he rooster pooping me?"

rooster pooping?? what in the crap does that mean??
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i love poop.

Yes, you can feel your intestine if you are going to take a bowl movement, especially at night. I know I went to my gynocologist and asked her why my right side was raised up and i feel an almost tube like structure, she said because I am skinny that I would be able to feel it and if I massaged the area in a few hours I would most likely be able to have a bowl movement. Note I do weigh 110 lbs.

I'm a chick. I can feel an impending poo from the outside. I feel it on the lower left side of my abdomen. It's a solid tube-like thing. Then I crap and it's gone.

I can feel the poop on the outside and i can feel it on the outside as it's comming out of me also.

Yeah I can feel it. It'll be like a week since I have pooped last and my tummy begins to stick out weird and get hard lumps. I can actually feel the poo in my colon which is kind of cool but also gross. Then one day (hopefully soon) I just poop it all out. and there is nothing left. However I am very thin, I need to gain weight and eat much more fiber. This crazy pooping trend I have developed is not very comfortable.

The only thing I've ever been able to feel from the outside is distention from gas. I can feel the bloat, and the lessening of it as I fart it out. Never felt poop from the outside, probably because it never stays in for days and is fairly thin and smooth as it comes out.

Hell, yes, it can be felt from the outside. I went to the quack's once because I felt a bit sick, and had diarrhoea. He felt my stomach, and said that I was constipated!
Sez I: No, that can't be right- I can back 'em out with the best of 'em.
Sez he: Maybe so, but you're still constipated.
Sez I: But I'm squirting Yarra water!
Sez he: Yes, the lower intestine is a wondrous thing. It can accommodate an enormous amount of solid poo, and it's walls can swell to several times their original size. It can hold all this impacted poo, and still allow a small passage for the squirty diarrhoea to pass by. So you can be constipated and have the squirts at the same time.
Sez I: Shit, eh?
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(Note: The Yarra is a river in Melbourne, famous for being brown).

If only I could feel it, it would stop all those IBS induced accidents. I WISH!

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whats that smell?

A good doc can even feel the spasms in the large colon on palpation. That is, if you have a spastic colon. On thin people the poop can be felt, as well as, be seen on the outside of the abdomen. Even a fart bubble can be seen and felt on the outside in thin people.
Anon coward go to the docc for the constipation. Try some docusate sodium (generic for Colace) until you are seen only after you take a laxative or an enema to get the already accumulated hard stuff out.