What whould happen to...

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Your body if you held in your crap for a long period of time?

There's no evidence for the theory that you reabsorb toxins. However, it does get rather hard and can hurt when you do get it out.In cases where the bowel is obstructed, the build-up will eventually cause the bowel to burst, ultimately causing death. I've never heard of that happening to people who just didn't go to the toilet, though - I think the pressure would force you to go eventually.

My co-worker lost her husband back in February do to that. He hadn't gone to the bathroom in close to a week, so he went to see his doctor and the doctor referred him to the hospital. Everything got backed up and he died unexpectedly two days later because of the release of toxins in his body. He was only 44 years old. It was a tragic and sudden thing. It's still unbelievable to me. I had met him a few times, and he went from the healthiest guy to a dead one in a little over a week.

ineligible, not true, at least for me...when i hold it in for a day (during school because my bitchy teachers wont let me go) it is VERY soft when it comes out. EDIT: also, amanda i'm very sorry to hear what happened.

It takes more than a day for what Inelegible is talking about.

Your intestines would distend (expand like a balloon) as stool accumulated. As that was happening, you'd be in increasing pain. More and more water would be sucked out of the stool, and it would get harder. As time wen't on, your body would realize something's really screwed up down there, and it would then pull water into your colon, if things were working correctly, and try to flush the obstruction. Your stomach would start to sound like a war zone as the bowels spasmed as they tried to clear themselves. Eventually the colon would stretch too much and tear. Then stool would spill into the abdomen, a serious infection would set in, you'd go into shock, you'd die.And did I mention the pain? Much of the process would hurt like nothing you've experienced.

Actually, my younger brother has some kind of a digestive disease and back when he was about 12 he didn't go to the bathroom for several days due to constipation. He was so used to it, he didn't think much of it. Then he came down with "flu" like symptoms, serious abdominal pain, constant vomiting and diarreah. After a few days of that, my mom took him to a doctor who put him in the hospital after he realized he wasn't getting better and was getting severely dehydrated. Turned out that what was happening was that my brother was literally "over flowing." The toxins were being rejected Yes, his "waste" was flowing up and out... He had to be in the hospital for several days and had to take laxatives and enemas and suppositories. He had to wear a diaper too. :frowning:

Yes, I forgot about the throwing up part. If there's no place for food to go, it'll come back up. Gas too.

i held it in for like 2 days, it just came out really hard the next day as a big thick lump

What was the point? Just to see what would happen?

ummmm ya

Please don't watch the MTV show Jackass. It might give you even more ideas.

I thought heard my stepfather, who is a policeman, talk about someone in prison who tried to kill themselves with a plastic bag by "plugging themsleves up"I can't imagine dying from it though, and I don't know if he actually did die.

you can possibly die of infection from the shit

When I was constipated, I didn't go for about 4-6 days. Didn't have any pain. Laxatives hurt like HELL though..just..pressure..

If you kept not pooping, eventually your colon would have ruptured and you would have died.

In reply to:I thought heard my stepfather, who is a policeman, talk about someone in prison who tried to kill themselves with a plastic bag by "plugging themsleves up"I can't imagine dying from it though, and I don't know if he actually did die.Is it possible he was talking about swallowing the plastic bag, or using it to suffocate oneself? Since there are a lot less agonizing and convenient ways to kill yourself than bowel obstruction.