Emptying Your Stomach With Less Straining

When in pain, we tend to concentrate more on the pain rather than the position during a bowel movement, that could be a cause for an anal fissure's recurrence or an obstacle to healing it

There is one point where we wish for watery stool because of the extreme pain during defecation. I can still recollect how intense the pain was. But I never doubted the posture I assumed on the toilet, not until recently.

Anal fissure made me forget what the relaxation of sphincters and pelvic muscles felt like. I was living in distress for long due to that. There were times when I mistook pain due to spasm for anal fissure symptoms. Sometimes I used to unnecessarily strain just to avoid going to the bathroom or experiencing the pain again in a day (relevant to those who go to the loo more than once a day). That unnecessary straining causes the speck of stool to get stuck somewhere in the rectum, consequentially, forming an irregular shape, which sometimes could be large and hard enough to injure our anal lining (I have experienced this, once).

I remember once I questioned the doctor that even after following the diet rigorously, the stool wasn't softening. If you have this question, then the prior paragraph might be the answer to it.

When I heeded the position: the results were good. After reading a few articles, I switched to Indian pot (fortunately, we had one). The squatting position helped smooth the bowel movement: thus, relaxation of the muscles.

(Squat: crouch or sit with one's knees bent and one's heels close to or touching one's buttocks or the back of one's thighs. -- definition from lexico.com)

Yeah, you have seen it, that's the posture I assume for every trip to the toilet. Let's analyze: look at the butt, it's almost touching the heels; the chest has been brought closer to the knees.

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