When You Have To Pinch A Loaf or Hold Your Bowel Movement for a Long Period of Time, Where does it go? What’s Causing the Pain you Feel After a Long Period of Holding it in?

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When You Have To Pinch A Loaf or Hold Your Bowel Movement for a Long Period of Time, Where does it go? What’s Causing the Pain you Feel After a Long Period of Holding it in?

In: Biology

Answer 1

The pain from holding in bowel movement is the pressure against the bladder/anus from waste materials.

Imagine the bladder is a balloon (which it is) and you fill it up with pee. The bladder stretches to accommodate the pee, and the cells stretching is what causes pain.

I sincerely hope I answered your question.

Answer 2

It isn’t going anywhere, which is the problem. If you hold in poop for too long it gets compacted and gets hard to push out. The pain is partially from you resisting the muscle movement and mostly from the hard poop and gas pushing on your intestines.