RTO and bowel issues

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:You can train your body to go at a certain time. I never got to WFH. And like my work bathroom better than home (no kids and few women so it's very private). I get in right before 9 and have a bowel movement at work. It's great for the day. Took me a while to get there but it's the best. Weekends are so much more annoying as my body is now trained to go at the same time.

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My entire family is trained to go in the morning as soon as we sit on the toilet. No one goes to work or school with a belly full of poop. You get up, go to the bathroom, use the squatty potty or a small stool, scroll the news, poop. It should not take more than 5 minutes to completely empty out your bowel.

We eat a lot of veggies, so we also poop in the evening. 2 or 3 daily, effortless bowel movements the best indication of good gut health.

"A belly full of poop?" What a disgusting phrase.

PP seems weirdly focused on the bathroom habits of her family. I have no idea when my kids go. Because they’re not toddlers. Nutcase

[Anonymous]

What is RTO?

[Anonymous]

This is just straight up weird. Some of yall got real strange over the past few years. What else can you think of to blame on RTO?

[Anonymous]

This is not about RTO, but anyway -- take Colace daily.

[Anonymous]

What is RTO????

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: I can’t seem to poop, it’s like the mechanism just grinds to a halt. Our office has horrible shared restrooms where as much as I try and am willing, my body just won’t give it up. Over the course of the week I get more and more constipated, bloated, and uncomfortable. I look pregnant.

Helpful ideas please?

You should not be pooping on company time to begin with, that's a fire-able offense if it happens too often.
Time it while you are at your place, not at work.

Anxiety can cause it. You probably just have social anxiety. It will pass. Don't take meds it just makes it worse.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If this is an issue that started directly as a result of RTO, then it’s not physiological but psychological (unless your diet is very different as a result of RTO). So upping vegetables and such probably isn’t going to help if you have some sort of a block. I would try to change the timing, either before or after work. You can train your body to time BMs much like other habits.

It’s both. Physiological because I have to rush out of the house early in the morning in order to get to work and get home at a reasonable time so I’m not eating dinner at 8:30 PM and getting heartburn at bedtime. Psychological since the bathrooms at work are awful, with absolutely no privacy, and in the whole huge building there is not one single private bathroom anywhere.

[Anonymous]

MD here. We call this the “RTO Syndrome”. Body is under stress with the sudden changes, etc. it’s a real thing…

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You can train your body to go at a certain time. I never got to WFH. And like my work bathroom better than home (no kids and few women so it's very private). I get in right before 9 and have a bowel movement at work. It's great for the day. Took me a while to get there but it's the best. Weekends are so much more annoying as my body is now trained to go at the same time.

Just drive in on weekends and do it. Kinda what we have to do with our dog

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: I can’t seem to poop, it’s like the mechanism just grinds to a halt. Our office has horrible shared restrooms where as much as I try and am willing, my body just won’t give it up. Over the course of the week I get more and more constipated, bloated, and uncomfortable. I look pregnant.

Helpful ideas please?

You should not be pooping on company time to begin with, that's a fire-able offense if it happens too often.
Time it while you are at your place, not at work.

Anxiety can cause it. You probably just have social anxiety. It will pass. Don't take meds it just makes it worse.

Shouldn’t be pooping on company time? Do you hold in your pee all day too?
Most people don’t need to spend 30 minutes doing #2. My ex husband would be in there forever so I assumed that was a man thing. It shouldn’t take more than a couple of minutes.