I am so anxious, all the time. When I sit down to poop my asshole tightens up and I can't shit. How do I fix it?

I am so anxious, all the time. When I sit down to poop my asshole tightens up and I can't shit. How do I fix it? This is a serious question. Laxatives work but I don't want to become dependent. I just want to fully empty my bowels again. I feel so bloated all the time.

  1. 3 weeks ago
    RHH

    Look into anxiety medicine.

    If that doesn't help see a GI doctor.

    Probiotics/psyllium husk may also help.

    • 3 weeks ago
      Anonymous

      I've been on plenty of anxiety meds. That's why my GI is all fucked up to begin with. I never had a problem with anything for over 30 years, then after nortriptyline something in my guts slowed to a crawl and now I'm constantly constipated. GIs just try to put me on laxatives and psychiatrists all deny such a thing is possible. I guess I can just keep trying more GI doctors...

      • 3 weeks ago
        Anonymous

        Most doctors are shit on their job, you need to search for one that will give you a diagnosis, not one you want, but one that will solve your problems.

  2. 3 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    Fuckin get in there and open it up manually

    • 3 weeks ago
      Anonymous

      Not a bad idea learning to control those particular muscles could help.
      Sorta like jelqing or kegals

  3. 3 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    squatty potty
    https://www.squattypotty.com/

  4. 3 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    I found that the green tea derivative L-theanine really helped my anxiety. It *naturally* mimics a brain chemical that is over produced (resulting in feelings of anxiety). Various different brands on Amaz0n. I take several over the course of a day. Noticeable takes away the "edge". Good luck.

    • 3 weeks ago
      Anonymous

      is this green tea with L-theanine, or an L-theanine supplement?

      • 3 weeks ago
        Anonymous

        Oh sure. It's a chemical compound found in green tea. Drinking green tea gives you a slight effect but nowhere near as much as the extract, yes you could call it a supplement (like a body building supplement I guess). Some people also like to have it with coffee for alertness with jitters.

        • 3 weeks ago
          Anonymous

          >with
          *without*

  5. 3 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    do poppers

  6. 3 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    You don’t eat enough fiber. Don’t overdoit or it gives you bloating and diarrhea.

    • 3 weeks ago
      Anonymous

      If I take no metamucil, I bloat cause I can't poop. If I take 1 scoop, I poop regularly and always feel like I need to go later in the day but can't. If I take more than 2 scoops, I feel bloated from the fiber. No matter what, I feel stuck. 🙁

  7. 3 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    lean forward and bend knees

    Western toilet is basically designed to close the shit hoal up like you describe and not allow easy drop outs. adjust yourself to natural, intuitive dung dropping posture and watch as the biggest, most satisfying dungs you have ever had come out without so much as a STRAINING

  8. 3 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    Seriously:
    Baked beans
    Prunes / prune juice
    Going for a walk

    But if your constipation is a symptom of your stress you could try and work out what is causing the stress.

    I used to have the opposite problem, that is I would get diarrhoea when stressed out. This was usually in the lead up to a stressful event at work for example. there wasn't much I could do about it. And it was often the symptoms (diarrhoea) that "alerted" me to the fact I was stressed.

  9. 3 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    meditation.
    Facing fears.
    Exposure therapy.
    I'm going to guess it's interaction you're generally afraid of.
    Being mindful of the states of every interaction generally helps me to maintain a cool head

  10. 3 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    Get Grindr, and hook up with a guy that has a huge cock. Tell him you’re willing to let him bottom you out no restraint balls deep as much and as hard as he wants.

    30 mins before sex, take 3 Tylenols and 2 sleeping pills, and let him know it’s a kink you have, for him to NOT STOP while you’re passed out.

    When you wake up your asshole will look like a permanently hollowed out donut. You’ll never have a problem shitting again.

  11. 3 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    eating more fibre might help. exercising the hole muscle and learning to relax it too

  12. 3 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    Relax

    • 3 weeks ago
      Anonymous

      I can't. Even breathing exercises seem impossible to focus on.

      Why is it always people who have the lamest, most boring lives in the history of civilization that suffer from "anxiety"?

      Ever since my mom died my life has been a spiral of anxiety.

  13. 3 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    Why is it always people who have the lamest, most boring lives in the history of civilization that suffer from "anxiety"?

  14. 3 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    Fibre foods or supplements. Unlike chemical laxatives, it doesn't affect your system, just generates enough fairly solid poop that it pushes its way through

  15. 3 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    fug i poop daily,
    today somehow poop didn't come out before work,
    come to /adv/ see this
    >mfw

  16. 3 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    A FAT LINE OF COCAINE
    wait 15 minutes
    take the best shit ever

  17. 3 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    Do some mindfulness or look up other techniques for calming down, also, cough or breathe as if you were coughing on the toilet, the reason prison guards tell them to cough is because it opens your anus more, it personally helped me recover from a week of constipation

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