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    Re: Anxiety caused by bowel movement?

    Yes that's the awful thing about anxiety - it plays on the mind and makes us want to retreat to 'safety' in a familiar place. Do you have BMs at a certain time? Maybe if you alter your eating times you can alter when they occur, although I think most people have at least one BM at some point in the morning. I'm guessing your city break is not a long flight, so you won't be on the plane for too long.

    Do you do any breathing exercises or anything to try and calm down when you have anxiety symptoms?

    I started re-taking VSL#3 probiotics yesterday to see if it has any effect. I wanted to ask how soon before you have the BM do you start experiencing the anxiety? Mine appears to occur when stool or gas is passing through the end of the sigmoid colon - which is the area I always seem to have symptoms in with Ulcerative Colitis.

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    Re: Anxiety caused by bowel movement?

    Unfortunately I tend to go 2 or 3 times a day and never at the same time which causes anxiety because I never know when it will "hit".
    I don't know the parts of the colon so I can't really say, usually the "click" as I call it, when I suddenly feel dread seems to come from higher up, nearer my stomach, but then symptoms get really bad when it's near the exit (another of my theories is that it has to do with sitting to many hours in my job and maybe I have a compressed nerve somewhere). If for whatever reason I can't get to a loo fast I just feel terrible and really agitated, shaky, tachy, etc, etc.
    Why don't you think this is your colitis? Does ulcerative colitis not cause these symptoms?
    I'll list all my possible theories:
    Hormones (but I think you're a man right?)
    Pressure on some nerve in coccyx area
    Blood sugar levels
    Diverticulosis
    Hiatal Hernia or Barrett's eosophagus
    Fungal or parasital infection
    Some form of neuropathy or MND

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