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Is it normal to have stool inside your rectum after you go to the bathroom?

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?? wording issue??: You may want to change the wording on your question and resubmit in a more understandable form. Some residual stool will always be in your rectum unless you have a total washout done. Like people in a ticket line, the people at the back of the line move up as soon as the front people get tickets. Same with poo.

Answered 4/29/2015

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