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Bob A Job | 23:07 Tue 31st May 2005 | Body & Soul
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Strange question here, and not for the dinner table.

But how often do you 'Number Two' a day? My Mrs says im wierd because i go at least three times a day every day, without fail. and often large amounts. She only goes three or four times a week! which of us is normal?

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I'd say you both are. Three times a day is normal for you and 3-4 times a week is normal for her. It's all very individual.I think it's only when there is a change in your usual habits that there is a cause for concern.
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So DH, how often do you?

Errrmmmm ...... I'm all over the place (metaphorically, not literally, speaking) as I suffer from IBS. Unfortunately, that has been pretty much "normal" for me for more than 20 years and I hate it.

I've always read, like DH says, that so long as people feel healthy then any regular pattern is normal for them.

However, one thing I have noticed over the years, with different boyfriends and a teenage son, is that men tend to go more than women (or at least more than me). I know that's a bit of a weeping statement ! 

I know someone who goes once every 1 or 2 weeks, and she does not have a swollen abdomen. She burns much of it off obviously, she eats plenty.
Others I know are regular as clockwork, once a day at the same time of day.
With me it's as soon as I arise every day, no matter what the time.  Good to get it out of the way.

I only smoke in the afternoon but sometimes if I smoke in the morning it makes me go within 10 minutes of having the fag... if I dont smoke, my bowels wait til later on in the day...

I read something everytime I go to the toilet - I find that it helps? Do other people share this? My friends laugh. Sometimes I surprise myself and go just because Ive been reading - and definately didnt feel like going!!

To answer your question, Bob A Job I go once maybe twice a day.
I hope posters to this question look at the one about loo paper usage  (1st June).
Smoking and reading are both 'relaxants' and this would relax the bowel and enable evacuation.
eve magazine has this in the 'how normal are you?' bit! how apt.  apparently, we average 8.2 a week.  11% of people go twice a day.  and to be healthy, regularity is the key.

Its proabably linked to the old fibre intake as well I'd have guessed. Eat loads of fibre and you go more. Eat less food genreally and go less as well i suppose so women probably do go less frequently than men. which is pretty much the case for everyone I've lived with

PS i wasn't keeping tabs you just notice these things after a hile

my husband can go 3 or 4 times before lunchtime and then again in the evening. i go once every couple of days

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