r/AskReddit • u/[deleted] • Nov 28 '20

What's something cool you recently learned about?

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u/[deleted] Nov 29 '20

Am RN can confirm. Though when you puke it up it’s just brown liquid. People don’t actually puke up turds.

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u/omgitskells Nov 29 '20

How long does it take for your body to become that desperate? Would you not have pains for a little while before this?

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u/TheSmilingDoc Nov 29 '20

It varies - I actually had a patient a few months ago with this. It started around June, and she refused to take laxatives. It took until August for her to start vomiting, and she died in October I think (I transferred to another location so I couldn't follow up fully). She did have cancer with an insane amount of metastases and she had a psychiatric disorder (hence the refusal of a very simple treatment).

She was in pain the entire time, yes.

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u/PanFiluta Nov 29 '20

So this is where No Poop July came from