How gross is your toilet??

[My Butt Hurts]

How often do you clean your toilet?
Mine's pretty gross!
How long until it needs it again?
Mine - about a half a day.
How high have you found a poop splatter??
I found one way up on the wall about 4 feet from the floor.
Powerful bowels we have huh?

 

[katiesue1506]

Ewwwww

 

[Kev]

Yeah, I second the 'ewwww' Personally speaking, I find that one of the aspects of this disease I have the hardest dealing with is toiletry and hygenic issues that one just can't escape. I find that the process of going to the bathroom is now one of the most embarrassing things I have ever experienced. To compensate, I now find myself acting almost (no pun intended) anal retentive. I typically clean all of the bathroom every other day. I open windows, turn on exhaust fans, light candles, use air fresheners, well, you get the idea. Now matter how fastidious I am with my cleaning regimen,(and I'm referring to both personal cleanliness and facilities cleaning) I still... feel, percieve, imagine... (I'm not sure which is applicable or accurate).. that the 'odour' of what happened in the bathroom.. lingers thru the house, or follows me about... like an invisible badge of shame or something. Bizarre or what? So, my bathrooms are literally clean enough to eat off the floor, not that I'm suggesting that, AND I use disposable wipes plus toilet paper, AND shower both EVERY nite AND occasionally following some of my more 'horrid' episodes.

Now, being a guy who was raised in farming background, intimately familiar with outhouses (outdoor privys or loos), animal waste in abundance, then spent a decade in the construction industry (again with the outhouses/porta potties), I find a puzzle that I'm now aghast at the least little sign of anything other than pristine conditions in any of the bathrooms in my house, OR after using a public toilet.. I don't care what it looks like going in, but I'm 'aware' of what it looks like going out. so, I typically will do a quick clean up there before exiting. OK, there you have it.. My 'insanity' since coming down with this IBD.

 

[Wiles]

I usually clean the toilet a bit every time I use it. I live with other people, so I don't really have a choice.

I know what you mean about the phantom stink, Kev. Sometimes it just seems get stuck in your nose.

I'm always very embarrassed when I have to use someone else's bathroom. Especially if they live in an apartment. I can stink up the whole place on a bad day.

 

[Cog]

I really hate this part of the disease - I really wish I could find a good self cleaning toilet - I know my family would appreciate it. I often wonder about the turbo toilets advertised in the handyman magazines anyone able to find some feedback?

 

[Jeff D.]

Yeah Kev some days I feel like I just smell like crap but I ask one of my friends to smell me and they say I smell fine. I guess it's all in our minds sometimes.

 

[TheyCallMeRC]

I cannot stand using the bathrom anywhere but the comfort of my own home. My family knows of my condition and understands but it can be very embarrassing to go into the bathroom of a restaraunt and you have to let it go and wonder how bad you are scaring the guy sitting next to you.

 

[Lee1975]

I make it a habit to use the loo brush after I flush and then flush again if required. I've got one of those toilets at home that has a normal flush for normal 1's and 2's but somehow it knows when I've been busy as when I press the lever on these occasions it fills the toilet bowl with water to just under the rim and then flushes it all away. I can tell you on those occasions I always hold my breath as i can just imagine it overflowing.

 

[Gemma]

i clean my toilet everytime i use it as i have a young son

 

[Kev]

Here's a little something that I stumbled upon that may help, either @ home or in the 'public' facilities... I'm not associated with this product, I'm not selling them, or even getting a kickback... just passing on the info. There's a product by the name of "Just a Drop to go"... They come in a little plastic bottle, but are individually wrapped inside so you can carry them in pocket, purse, what have you. The idea is you pour the contents into the toilet before you take a seat, and a deodorizing layer is formed on the water surface, reportedly trapping 98% of embarrassing odours. now, they are made in China, sold under the brand name 'just a drop to go' in Canada, and list 'justadrop.ca' as their Can. website.. I dunno if they're available yet in other parts of the world, or what the principal ingredients are.. Just that, for me, one of the most embarrassing things about this disease is that phantom odour that seems to permeate the bathroom after I've been in there... worst when I'm visiting, you know what I mean? Anyway, this product has eased my conscience and allayed those fears

 

[22wendylou]

Now, if only that company made something to block out extremely noisy flatulent sounds so the people in the next , stall, room, or TOWN (some days), wouldn't hear the varitable "marching band" performance coming out of my "back-end" sometimes!

 

[katiesue1506]

Sad but true :ylol2:

 

[Kev]

Just download some John Phillips Souza to your i-Pod... Or maybe as a 'ring-tone'

then, just sit and wait for a call...

 

[Digits]

i swear my worst fear in the world is getting the urge to go in public, and having a J pouch, it happens A LOT, and QUICKLY.

im a woman, im not sure what goes on in mens rooms, but in womens, you dont let one slip, or else its like the end of the world. ive gotten very good at timing when one person leaves before the next person comes in.

 

[Kev]

Welllll, a lot of things happen in 'Men's Rooms'... just ask our politicians. OK, forgive me for going there (and aint' that a funny concept). But I recall being in a college 'public' men's room for the 1st time at a relatively naive time in my life (yes it did exist, but didn't last long).. and this college was my first exposure to other cultures.. (and w/o naming names, just illustrating cultural differences that can broaden one's horizens) a group of men of similar backgrounds were using the facilities, AND thoroughly enjoying a 'contest' to see who could make the most noise AND lend their own 'air' to the overall... atmosphere of the area.

now, it isn't for everyone... but it did show that, given the realities of life, one is in a position to live life as if it were a shameful experience, or to 'laugh' at the foibles of the human experience. Hey, even for a farm boy used to animal waste and outhouses, it took me off guard the first time.. but I adapted. Tho I could never join in, as I didn't speak the language (at least the spoken version)