[vreihen16]

The timing of this thread is spooky for me. One of the side effects of the massive doses of diuretics I take is chronic constipation. Yesterday morning, I felt all kinds of violent gurgling i what is normally an arid desert in my bowels. Long story short, my water broke a few minutes later, and I rushed to the toilet to give birth to a large/hard deuce along with plenty of mud. According to the scale, I dropped 4.7 pounds in one sitting.

After several rounds of plunging, augering, chemicals, hot water, etc, we had to call for professional backup last night to clear the resulting blockage from the toilet trap and sewage main. I'm not going to say how much that emergency house call cost, except to say that my butt still hurts from writing that check.

I blame reading this thread for triggering it, since there was no dietary cause.....