Quote: Hi, Speaking of poop texture, does anybody regularly suffer from the thin stool phenomenon? Also, is it due to the colon constantly spasming? By the way Minnie, I love that pic of your cats! Is one the parent and the other offspring? -Bob
I have a book about IBS with a drawn diagram of the intestinal tract. It shows a spasm in the large intestine that squeezes the stool so that it comes thru that smaller openning very thin. If you've ever seen them it is a bit like the children's Play-Doh toys. There is one toy where you stuff Play Doh in one end and then squeeze hard, and the big bulk of Play Doh comes out in very thin spaghetti strings. Same sort of principle.
Usually, the stool that is waiting to come out has been there at least a day or more. So if your body begins to have a "D" phase, that stool that was waiting will come out first and may then be firm and thick. Then the rest of the feces that do not have time to go thru having all the water removed and bound into a nice shape just washes out behind it. This is normal too as you go into a "D" phase.
My problem is that I don't have answers for why I go into a "D" phase. I eat the same foods all the time, so how can it be food? I tend to think it is something we do not consciously control much.
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