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Within 10 minutes of getting into a mall, I have an attack. I can't figure it out, either! Only when I'm really stable can I avoid this. Usually, I abandon all dignity in a run for the bathroom in a panicked cold sweat.
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Maybe it's the smell of new clothes! It travels to the lower intestine like a fast food meal and wammo we're dead meat!
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You're going to laugh, but I haven't been in a store in years because I'm so sensitive to the smell of the chemical they use to finish fabrics. I think it may be formaldahyde. It doesn't cause an attack, just makes me feel ill and headachy and miserable and cranky and claustrophobic and panicky and and and ...etc. And it's NOT all in my head!! It's real. It's a chemical sensitivity. So you all may not be imagining things. Something could really be a trigger.
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Hi, there. About all I know of to answer your question is that walking stimulates the bowels. I don't know exactly how to explain it but it's true. If you're constipated, but not in too much pain to move, sometimes taking a walk makes you have to go, sometimes right away. I've found it kind of by accident that this happens. Maybe it's the walking and not necessarily the shopping itself? And I mean longer walks stimulate the bowels, not a short walk from the bedroom to the living room... *grin* hope that helps. Good luck.
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Walking!
#43848 - 02/09/04 08:41 AM
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Bevvy
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Hey, Sommer! I think you've got something there! Come to think of it, every time hubby says, "lets go for a walk," I have to poop. And if I don't go before we leave the house, we'll get as far as just a block down the street, when it'll hit me, and I have to run back home. One time, when we were about a mile away, the big "D" hit me and I barely made it back in time.
Yeah, you're right -- there's something about going for a walk that does it.
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Oh, thank goodness it's not just me!
As I'm reading your posts here, I can identify with most (except the clothing! I would NEVER not shop for clothes, I don't care how many races to the potty I have to take!). (oh, and Toy R Us doesn't get me, either...)
Jerry Seinfeld is a genius and I'd love for them to add some big bathrooms in bookstores. I walk in Barnes and Noble and head right to the bathroom. Same with Safeway. My bestfriend, who I often shop with, always laughs at me when we go to Safeway- I think she times me to see how long it's going to take before I excuse myself!
Anyway, glad to have company on the mad dash to the potty when I shop! 
*jen
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Sometimes when I go shopping (groceries or anything) I feel the anxiety hit me for fear of possibly having an attack and sometimes I just have to make a mad dash to the restroom and a lot of times I'll get to the restroom and it will be a false alarm.
I think it is a combination of walking and anxiety.
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Re: Walking!
#43887 - 02/09/04 10:35 AM
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Sommer
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Loc: Phoenix, Arizona USA
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Heya Bevrs,
Yep, i figured i kind of probably hit the nail right on the head especially as i continued reading everyone else's replies. It became very clear we are all dealing with the muscle contactions that occur in our bowels when we go for what we hope to be a leisurely walk. It usually turns into an uncomfortable situation that becomes more uncomfortable if we try to hold it in! I remember complaining to my mom when i was little about how walking always made me have to poop. Glad I could shed soem light.
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Actually, I know it's not the walking for me because I go for walks all the time outside and have no problems. It's specifically in stores, even if I've barely walked at all.
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