It's Not What It Use To Be

Ok maybe this is a TMI thing. I guess it's the stool softners or what I'm eating now but the poop is a bit smaller, or slimmer than it was before. Is that what most of you have noticed? I guess the anus likes it that way but I was just wondering if this is normal.
David

It depends.. If I don't take a laxative.. and delay my bathroom visit for a week. I can get a hard beer can sized peice of sh-t.  I started regular miralax last week. Now I go all the time. and yes.. it is smaller now...

My doc told me to take Miralax too. I have been doing it for a few weeks now. I do the RX type so I don't have to pay the OTC price. My RX generic is no co pay.,
I have had constipation for years.
David

From the git-go I have not used any stool softners, Miralax etc.  Have had the "beer can" type turd one time.  Pardon the pun but I **** you not it weighed three pounds!  I had been on the scales before and I weighed after.  I don't panic if I go a day without a BM.  I usually make up for it the next day with a two or sometimes three.  If I get too concerned about it too much SF candy or undercooked egg and I'll be shortly there after.  My main issue with my BM's is how they foul up a low flow toilet!  Flushing 2-3 times to get the bowl empty is wasting water!  Defeats the purpose.

I make sure I get my fluids in but do beer cans at 6am and thats OK.  However a good plunger and yard stick is a must.  You know your are processing with beer cans