Washing My buttocks for a lot of time

[Noonehelping]

I really need somebody help me coz i am so much ashamed to tell this things frankly to anyone. My problem is that i am washing my buttocks for a lot of time after each morning act. i washes it first then put some pressure, pull out some water from inside, again washing, pushing water inside and again pressurising out the **** and water, like that a lot of time (may be upto 10 to 15 minutes). i went a maximum of 40 minutes too, doing the same thing again and again.

I am afraid, i am getting piles or some diseases. Now i am doing it for more than 7 years i think.

Pls give your suggestions on this. How to overcome? Does this can cause piles? (my all time fear!)

Thanks in advance.

[mum2four]

I can slightly relate to what your going threw. I was diagnoised with OCD at 27 one of my more uncontroalbe compulsion was/is scratching I was even doing it in my sleep and I still struggle from time to time with scratching I have not beable to compleatly stop giving in to scratching once I start catching my self scratching I try to breath and tell my self I can stop ect.

I scratch places I wish I did not mostly at night when I'm trying to fall asleep It drives me bonkers. I'm not itchy before I start scratching. Controlling my hands can be extremly hard. It use to be way more intence I was scratching my C-section scar and I think when I scratch where I dont want to its more about the scar caused by having an a episiotomy to give birth to my 2nd child. I have noticed that I scratch other scars on my body as well. I also cant leave scabs alone. I'm also away trying to keep under finger nails clean because I scratch so often I get anxious that people will think I'm a fithy person. I scratch my scalp so much that it bleeds often and I worry people will think I have head lice when I dont, but I still cant leave my head alone compleatly. I have several spots just on the edges of my hair line(forehead) that rarly heal compleatly. When I'm trying to avoid scratching I tend to rub my skin. I've started rubbing my skin so much latly that even just rubbing the skin I'm surprised people have not told me to stop. I have not been able to talk to my phycologist about these embarresing compulstion's.

I have to have a shower before bed every night or my compultion to scratch is way more intence. At my worst before my OCD med's my fingers really never stopped doing the scratching motion and even now I use a computer to keep my hands busy when I can stop. It helps that I have a laptop with a touch pad a mouse does not make for a good substuit. A substituite is proberly not a fix but it'a enough for now.


The only real way that I have found to get over the worst part of my compulstions has been to expose my self. In other words dont give into what you really want to do and let the anxiety build up try healthier coping methods like breathing slow and deap. The longer you can NOT do a compulstion the less you give in to the compulstion the easier it is the next time. I'm also on 200mg of fluvoxamine meleate and that has taken a lot of the intencity of the compulstions away for me giving me a easier time.

try to set your self a challage to avoid your compulstion for as long as you can. Try to make it longer each time.

[adel_ezz]

there is no shame of telling this to a pdoc. in fact washing one's buttock is known with the muslim but not of course for 15 minutes. but it can happen. when you said once 40 minutes you were under some stress of some sort. some women push water into their vagina too.

i think the best thing to combat OCD of this sort is to think that everything which belongs to you is pure and clean. i know a doctor (not heard of him) very well who uses to smell and taste the urine of pts to recognize their illness, doing this he must know that it's of no harm. stools inside you are part of you. only when they are out they become offensive indicating what sort of trouble you have.

again if you clean the external part of your buttock, there will always remain deeper parts containing stools and i wouldn't imagine needing a surgeon each time you go to the bathroom

i don't think it causes piles but that doesn't mean that you try to reason

[shay69]

wow I can see the frustration I think you defiantly should bring it up with your doctor cause I have no clue. I hope u can get anof courage to tell your doctor or just right it down for him so u dont have to explain it and go from there.