There Must be More Than Just 306's and Golf's?????

[bigcheez2k3]

Can I ask what happened on that day?

Well, I think a lot of people here know anyway. I'll warn you its not nice though, don't read if you're eating.

Basically I drove down to chelmsford (over an hour away) to meet a lad off .net with some wheels. On the way, my guts started playing up (ibs ftl) and I got the services just in time for - there's no nice way to put this - 'mass evacuation'. Was literally just in time too, didn't even have time to lock the car or even close the door properly, 5 mins of traffic and it would've been very, very different!

Then unfortunately a similar thing happened on my way to meet a mate just a week later but I turned around and got home in.time, then again a few months later while I was at college. So I'm now scared that it could happen any time, any where and those of you that are also unlucky enough to have ibs will know there is no way to cure it, just ways to try and make it less often (like avoiding stress.....yeah right!)

So I know there's about a half hour delay from the first signs until its really bad (although not all the time, sometimes there's no warning at all)......so I can go half hour from home, you can see the sense in it now I assume. And this is also why I need a powerful reliable car.....so I can get home f*cking quick if I need to (allowing more miles for the half hour)....and reliability, well one of my worst nightmares would be stranded broken down while having another 'episode' like before. So maybe it makes a little mote sense now why I want some things?

And I also have what's known as toilet phobia.....this means I need the loo (or feel i need to, even if nothings there) when I'm not near a 'safe' toilet (have a problem with public ones, really my only safe one is at home or nans).

I've never told anyone all of that before, just small bits to a few trustworthy people......and now I've put it on a public forum, maybe I'm finally past caring about embarrassment, or maybe I just don't give a shit anymore (no pun intended).....so anyway, now you know.......and as said above, it probably makes more sense as to why I do or don't do certain things now.

I have a few comments in reply to your post but my first is that I was eating the whole time I read that post, take more than that to make me sick

My dad's mate I think has a similar problem to you, he doesn't let it bother him though, he'll pull up on the hard shoulder and shit on the embankment or in a bucket in the back of his van. Not glamorous I know but if the needs arises that's what he does.

The toilet phobia thing I personally understand. I only piss in public loos and will only drop the kids off at a toilet I'm comfortable with. However I don't let it affect me, when I was away for 12 days on my charity run earlier in the year I of course had to go at some point so I did the next best thing, bog roll on the seat. (You f*ckers can take the piss all you like, I just plain don't like sitting on a bog that strangers have been on.) Slightly off topic; If I drop food on the floor the 10 second rule comes into play but I won't do the above, strange how the mind rationalises things.

I think in relation to you saying the doctors won't/can't help, you say you've been because of peer pressure, I don't think they'd be able to help you until it's you who wants to go to them, not because we've got you to go. Once you want to go, you'll be more willing to accept the help and it might actually do that, help.

One last thing, and I'll be honest(possibly too honest or blunt but hey that's me) I thought something worse had happened. Not putting down your issue, just wasn't as major as I was expecting.