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jek9106 t1_j3pp1jl wrote

Reply to comment by lovelikemeow in I tracked my poops every day in 2022. [OC] by lovelikemeow

Me too. 15 cycles last year. Siiigh.

I really expected the higher poop counts to coincide with your period. I've never tracked it (yet), but it sure seems like they are a package deal for me.

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lovelikemeow OP t1_j3ppsed wrote

15 cycles a year moon sister! I hate it here.

100% they're a package deal. It's because the uterus and rectum are so close to each other physiologically. The body gets the cues messed up.

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AugustCharisma t1_j3q8kz7 wrote

But looking at the chart (disclaimer: I’m a scientist and see a lot of data) it doesn’t look like a package deal.

I would create a “score” for your periods (just use number of poops and average them for those days). Maybe both sum and average. Then repeat for the week after. Then repeat for the week before. (I’m using week loosely.) Then average all scores per category. So you might go to your OBGYN and say “after tracking 15 cycles, I poop x times with an average of Mx during my period but y and z times in other weeks with averages of My and Mz”.

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AugustCharisma t1_j3q8uve wrote

Looking at the dates/seasons/weekends… it looks more to me like physical activity/exercise is correlated (you mentioned you’ve already looked at allergies). But scores will be good to check your hypothesis that it’s period related.

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