I poo myself every week while running – but I won’t stop

‘College ruined me’, Tiffani says (Picture: Tiffani Koonce)

‘Yo, come get me. There is poo coming down my leg’. 

It’s a call 20-year-old Tiffani Koonce has made to her boyfriend Cayde de Waal many times over the past year. 

A student athlete, Tiffani jogs almost every day, and almost once a week, she will experience the runs during one of those runs. 

‘It first happened when I was 17 and I was at high school doing cross country. I don’t really remember the moment, just that I told my coach: “something’s happened, I gotta go.”’

Tiffani thought it was a one-off but after starting college a year later, bowel incontinence became a regular occurrence. ‘College ruined me’, she tells Met...