• Alpha71@lemmy.world
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    Okay, here’s what you do. Just keep a small container of skin cream with you. when you are done your bisuness, apply a small amount to the toilet paper, and wipe until clean. it helps remove and moisturize at the same time. you would never need to but those non flushable wipes again.

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    2 months ago

    I eat a lot of fibre; makes the cleaning part a lot easier.

    But these hairs that we have a fetish for removing are functional for our health and comfort, to varying degrees.

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      2 months ago

      I take a monster shot of psyllium husk everyday. Hardly anything to wipe and my shit no longer stinks.

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    A bottle of water. Wash yourself back there. Yes, like properly with your hand, like what you do in the shower. A lot more hygienic.

    No, it’s not “disgusting” doing that. You go back there with toilet paper anyway. You think shit moisture doesn’t get on your hand when using toilet paper?

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      I tend to just hop in the shower for a sec.

      But all of that is only really an option at home, anywhere else it’s eternal wiping.

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      It’s a good idea if you have the right sort of skin tone. IPL works best on people with light skin and dark hair, but it might work on other combinations as well. Unfortunately, it doesn’t work very well on dark skinned people

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    2 months ago

    Horror story:

    Shaved mine in prep for my first colonoscopy. I know, they see some nasty shit, don’t know why I cared. Took TWO bottles of the lemon flavored ass blaster juice.

    Ended up holding my ass cheeks apart and screaming at my ex-wife, “Get the neighbor! GET THE NEIGHBOR!” Said neighbor was a nurse but I was in such agony I couldn’t think of her name.

    Halfway down my ass cheeks, and all the way down from there, my flesh looked sandpapered, sunburned. Pain doesn’t make me cry, but my eyes were plenty blurry that night.

    And I still had to shit more lemon juice. Try not to think on this story.

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        Before a colonoscopy, you typically have to drink something called “prep” to clean out your system. For the better part of a day before the procedure, you drink nothing but this liquid that is meant to clean out your intestines, and it makes you shit your guts out until it’s nothing but the clear liquid. It’s usually lemon or pineapple flavored, and it tastes awful.

      • IngeniousRocks (They/She) @lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnesium_citrate

        In solution with water it tastes somewhere between the worlds worst flattest sprite and a sweet lemon.

        Edit: I’d marked Sodium Citrate, which is a similar compound but is used for different reasons. Sodium Citrate is an anti-coagulant. If you’ve ever donated blood plasma, its that weird sterile taste you get in the back of your neck when they feed the blood solids back in with saline. It is also used in nacho cheese.

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            Can’t tell if you’re joking, but you have to. The doctor prescribes it, and it cleans everything out of your system. By the end, you’re just crapping out the lemon drink itself and you’re squeaky clean for the camera

          • IngeniousRocks (They/She) @lemmy.dbzer0.com
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            Your colon is like a road:

            Would you rather drive down a smooth, well maintained, Clean road or a muddy mess that’s never seen a cleanup crew?

            You don’t technically have to, but I think whoever is driving the colonoscope might refuse to work in those conditions.

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              It’s not about the driver experience, it’s about the road inspection. If the patient has a pre-cancerous polyp the inspector sees, they will cut it out, problem averted. If the patient has a pre-cancerous polyp obscured by stool, it gets missed and then in a few years turns to cancer. And survival rates for colon cancer are depressingly low.

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            I think he’s mistaking it for magnesium citrate. It pulls water into your intestines via osmosis and makes you squirt constantly.

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      I could not imagine the regrowth itch from that being part of the blessed experience?

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        that is 100% true.

        but since i found that i actually enjoy all my body hair being off, i just shave everything 1-2 times a week.

        except my beard. gotta have something to remain dwarven.

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          Ugh, that’s so much work, though. I found that the OG Ball-ber (trimmer for your balls) had guide combs that were perfect for my body hair and trimming my whole body only took 10 minutes.

          When I broke it I upgraded to the Pro, and unfortunately the guide comb sucks (it’s a shitty dial one that’s facing the wrong way).

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        As someone with a lot of experience shaving body hair, if you do it regularly it’s fine. If you do it every once in a while, that’s where it gets itchy. Tbh armpits get the itchiest regrowth, for me anyway.