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My 16 year old son has a problem with having extremely large bowel movements. He is 16 years old and about 3 years ago he started to regularly plug up our toilet. I had to unplug it many times. Now he is more private about it and cleans it up himself with tools we leave in the bathroom.
Last weekend we took a trip on my brother’s boat. They have a portable toilet onboard. When he decided he had to go he told me he couldn’t use it because the bowl was too small. I pulled the “flush” lever which opens the hole at the bottom of the bowl so the stuff could go straight down to the reservoir and told him to try it like that. He still worried about it a little but eventually did it. After a few second he told me it wasn’t working right. When he openned the door the bowl was almost completely full. There was so much stuff there covering the hole that running the flushing water wouldn’t do anything except make a mess. To remove the bowl section from the reservoir you need to push in the flushing lever. If the throat from the bowl to the reservoir is clogged up that will make a mess. So I took the stuff in the bowl and put it in an empty half-gallon milk carton. When the bowl was empty and the throat cleaned out, the carton was 3/4 full. When I got the bowl section removed from the reservoir I found that a large amount of stuff had actually made it into the reservoir before it started to back up. I swear that kid produced a minimum of half a gallon of stool in one BM. He is big (6’6″ and 220lb) but it’s hard to believe it could all come out of one boy!
He has told me that he is afraid to use other peoples bathrooms and often holds it instead. I think he may have stretched out his colon to a rediculous size. He says he does not normally have constipation. I want to know what to do about this and if I should call the doctor. We have never mentioned this to the doctor mostly because until now I didn’t think it was that strange.
