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

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.