Is this just me ?

My crohns symptoms tend to wait for the most inopportune times to show up. I can almost set my watch by my gut and what I am doing. For example, I do some custom airbrush work on Harley gas tanks. I can get set up, paint is mixed, air blowers on , air compressor running, mask on and just as soon as I pull the trigger on the brush,,,,its a 4 alarm rush to the bathroom. Really , I can count on it. I sometimes wait until late in the day to work so my old gut is mostly empty , but , there is always that one more time urge . I have been shooting clear coat and when you start that you have to apply coat after coat as soon as one coat becomes tacky. It's a two part acrylic with a hardener,  so its not something you can stop. Yep, here comes that gut alarm again. Then I try to hold it just long enough to get the coats done but, it ain't happening. I've had to run to the bathroom 10 times or more, just long enough to get up again, run put another coat of clear, run back to the bathroom, and so on and so on until I finish one or the other job. When your shooting 15 coats of clear you can't just stop and take a chance of messing up the whole job. When the job is done , so is my gut . Looks like anytime I need to ,NOT Go, thats when I need to go the most. The same applies when I go to the store and get caught in traffic, or get my hands full of grease or oil or any other activity that needs my undivided attention long enough to finish. I can watch some crappy movie I have seen 40 times from start to finish without a rumble ,,but let a good movie I have never seen come on TV and I bound for the toilet. I have not gone to the movie theater in years. Have to wait for the CD so I can pause it. Anyone else notice this phenomenon ? I'm baffled .

I think part of it is psychological. I used to have similar problems. For instance, whenever I went to CVS I would have to go. Why? Because I knew they didn't have a bathroom available to the public. Same with Kohl's. Their restroom is wayyyyy in the back, so naturally when I was shopping up front, I'd have to go.

I believe they've proven their is a mind gut connection (the gut is known as the second brain). When my gut was at it's worse, I also had mega problems with anxiety and OCD. Now that my gut is good, my anxiety and OCD are much better.

EDIT: Here's a good article about our second brain: http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=gut-second-brain

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Post Edited By Moderator (Nanners) : 2/15/2011 7:47:58 AM (GMT-7)

Kind of like Murphy's law. Yeah I have the same experience.

are you guys ready to get grossed out, one thing, can't gross out cd'er. But I keep a bucket down at my shop with large ziplock, when I get those bile attacks, I just take aim and fire right into that ziplock, I use the bucket so I can at least sort of sit and then I can aim a little better, then zip it shut, done. Throw that sucker away. I have about 100 ft to my house from shop, to far.

AG

I am the same as Zanne!! No sooner as I start out of the garage, I have to tell the hubby hold on, I gotta go to the bathroom. And I usually suffer with more slower bowels, but getting ready to go out, boom it hits everytime. It rarely happens as I am heading out to work, but pleasure trips, everytime. Maybe its because I am not always sure where we are going and if there are br's available. Hugs!

I think that sometimes it is stress and that's what brings it on. If I am going to a place with no or limited bathrooms, that is when I am going to need the bathroom the most. I can tell you where every bathroom is located in every store in my area. Also can tell you which stores do not have an available restroom. My thing is if there is no available restrooms then ZI do not go to that establishment.

Guess its the whole timing thing that gets me. I can feel fine until the moment I commit to doing something I cant walk away from. Thats when I get clobbered in the gut. Becky, the last thing you said fallss into the You are a crohnie if list. If you can run , unbutton, unzip, unlock, check for TP and the lid down all at the same time, you may be a crohnie. Stripy, I take it there is no main shut off valve right ? Squittie, the cereal isle, hmmmmmmm, thats why they say, Big G little O , GO with the goodness of cheerios,,,so you have to go ..

Totally hear you guys! For some reason, major retailers, like drug stores, supermarkets, etc seem to trigger an immediate need to hustle to the restroom. It's really bizarre. Home Depot seems to be a consistent trigger, and I'm there a lot.

Has anyone else found that stepping outside into the cold or taking a trip down to the basement has a similar affect?

sniper i was thinking along the lines of your last post but taking it even farther... since its just you and the missus, how about going bare nekid while painting, just run in and git'r done!. course you have to be carefull what got clear coated....

Randy and Sniper!! LOL I almost spit my gatorade on my computer. Thanks for the laugh.

It would just go to prove, 'you've always good for a laugh'.

Back to you're original post. I call it my standing up syndrome. Shopping, fishing with my husband, it's
all the same. I think when I stand my muscles are done for. Something to be said for sitting on it!!

Sniper I was laughing at lacquer thinner getting where its not supposed too. Then you started with the gloves and I lost it:) Haha...

I think Spookyh has a good point, I kinda think sometimes it is a psycological thing cuz we are so focused on where the bathrooms are all the time.

June I swear everytime my hubby and I go to the laundrymat, no sooner as I put the clothes in the washer and I have him drive me back home (only about 6 blocks) so I can use MY potty. Haha! I have a daughter who lives in Iowa, and I have seen some of those long rural roads. Seems to take forever to get anywhere there. And that comes from a California girl who is used to fast freeways to get anywhere. LOL

Hugs!

Olderthandirt, they make nitrile gloves for those with latex allergies. I have no such alergies but I could shoot a little air in the glove to keep it from touching so much skin. That being said and returning to the three glove theory , the addition of a little too much air in a latex glove positioned in a said spot could give an allusion in the lines of Bessy the Heifer .Thats not an image I would wish on anyone let alone our fine paramedics .
I have to run to the restroom when I bounce on the riding lawn mower too. I think being jarred around sorta does the old gut like a katsup bottle and you know thats how you get them to flow.
Nanners, with the weather they are having in Iowa I would not recommend going on the side of the road. Leaning against frozen metal could cause bare flesh to stick and having your fanny stuck to the bumper of your SUV could be very embarrassing, or is that just,, barrassing.