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TV personality Akiko Matsumoto appeared on comedian Sayaka Aoki’s YouTube channel and opened up about her years-long struggle with constipation. She revealed that she constantly carried around 4kg of stool in her intestines, that her symptoms eventually got so severe she needed surgery, and that she is now unable to pass stool on her own. The conversation, which also touched on her broken leg this past April, was part of a broader chat with Aoki about health and the body. On 5ch, the thread drew a flood of personal anecdotes about the causes and remedies for constipation, with heated debate over diet, lack of exercise, and laxative use.
Akiko Matsumoto Confesses Her ‘Horrific History of Intestinal Stool Buildup’: ‘It Got So Bad I Needed Surgery’ / ‘My Body Can No Longer Pass Stool on Its Own’
TV personality Akiko Matsumoto (60) made a guest appearance on an episode of Sayaka Aoki’s YouTube channel ‘Sayaka Aoki’s Where Are You Looking!? Channel,’ posted by the 4th. She opened up about her years of battling constipation and how she eventually improved it.
In the video, Matsumoto talked with Aoki about health and the body, including her experience breaking her leg this past April.
Source: news.yahoo.co.jp / Original article here
What people said
Nah, it actually tracks with how she looks, if anything.
That usually gets me needing to go within about an hour.
A queue (FIFO: first in, first out), huh?
That's some real IT-engineer logic lol
Re: #1 basically means she's got a 4kg buffer in her gut (a place that temporarily stores poop).
Result of Matsumoto relentlessly chasing him down.
Apparently her husband still doesn't fully get her even now, and part of why they're still together is his curiosity about 'what even is this woman.'
Do the people who keep whining about being constipated just not take laxatives?
Take one and it comes right out, your stomach's empty.
If you take them habitually, they gradually stop working as well as before.
A lot of people end up upping their dose because of that —
taking 5 pills when normally even one would do the job.
It's hard on your stomach.
Magnesium oxide?
Daichi no Kanpo Benpiyaku (formerly Takeda Kanpo Benpiyaku, a Japanese herbal laxative)?
Or the little pink Colac pills?
your constipation clears up.
I barely eat any,
so I never get constipated.
Nah, just eat a reasonable amount.
Eat some agar jelly and natto.
Her diet must have been seriously bad.
I started going right after waking up every morning, and it gradually became routine — cured my constipation.
Apparently it's so potent that getting the dose wrong gives you terrible diarrhea.
They're such 180-degree opposites that it's the strongest kind of compatibility — narcissists tend to marry people just like themselves, which is exactly why those relationships never quite work.
If it's just plain old constipation, there's no other explanation.
That's like a wild animal, kind of jealous honestly.
I ended up going even less.
Even on days I walked a fair amount, nothing.
Might be a side effect of meds I take for a chronic condition, but even now my stomach stays pretty bloated.
Sounds like your loose, diarrhea-ish stool firmed up into hard little rocks that are tough to pass, maybe?
Lactic acid bacteria matter, but
you might just be short on fiber.
Why not try oatmeal?
And ab workouts —
twisting your torso might help too.
then I go, and a few hours later diarrhea hits,
then I'm constipated again.
I eat fermented foods, eat my vegetables,
and exercise too.
What am I supposed to do about this?
Stress.
Re: #85
Go see a doctor.
Water, and
for me, taking oligosaccharides (food for your gut's good bacteria) worked better than lactic acid bacteria did.
Same here —
goes almost a week, ending with loose stool at the end.
I manage it with oatmeal, milk, and cabbage,
but if I'm not careful my stomach gets irritated, and the gas causes bloating too.
Are you taking Ebios tablets? (a Japanese brewer's-yeast digestive supplement)
Background and Key Points of This Discussion
When constipation becomes chronic, it’s known to develop into a condition called ‘retained stool’ (shukuben), where waste sits lodged in the intestines for extended periods — in severe cases, medication or medical procedures become essential just to have a bowel movement. In the thread, people who regularly rely on laxatives pointed out that ‘with habitual use, they stop working as well and you end up needing bigger doses,’ a phenomenon also recognized in medicine as laxative tolerance, which overlaps with Matsumoto’s confession that she can no longer pass stool on her own. At the same time, opinions in the thread split between those blaming diet and those pointing to lack of exercise, weak muscles, or stress, with no clear consensus reached. Readers should note that the 4kg figure is simply Matsumoto’s own self-reported account, not a medically measured value. It’s generally known that when stool keeps building up in the intestines over a long period, cases can arise where manual disimpaction or surgery ultimately becomes necessary — but exactly what kind of surgery Matsumoto underwent isn’t made clear from her remarks in the video.
※This article is excerpted and summarized from the 5ch (Geinou/Sports News+) thread ‘[Entertainment] Akiko Matsumoto Confesses Her ‘Horrific History of Intestinal Stool Buildup’: ‘It Got So Bad I Needed Surgery’ / ‘My Body Can No Longer Pass Stool on Its Own’ — 4kg of Stool Constantly Accumulated in Her Intestines.’
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