Gross-out alert - shield your eyes if you are faint-of-heart.
We’ve all had it. Fart after fart after fart right up to the moment you poop.
So, what was the source of the gas? I thought the gas might be coming from the poop itself. But then why isn’t the poop bubbling in the toilet?
Was it coincidence that the air biscuits stopped at about the same time that I hit the can? Unlikely because of the timing issue happening often.
Is there a finite amount of gas produced with poo? I’m guessing no becuase if I refrain from going to relieve myself, I will keep farting until I finally make it to the toilet.
Is the poop causing the lower intesting to release the gas? Then where is the gas originating from? And why does the poo cause the gas to transfer from wherever to the intestine to … outside?
Well, here is what I know about the matter in a less than scientific way… Everyone farts, even girls, yes I know, I have had a very hard time coming to terms with this
Apparently, every sinlge human farts something like 40 times a day. Usually when you are very relaxed, they come out. Guys are pertty adept at feeling this out, and tend to push em through for the humor of it, while a girl on the other hand will let them silently creep out, often not even knowing this is happening. Apparently, this happens most often while we are all sleeping.
So I would estimate that the correlation between poo’ing and not having to fart anymore, is that when you sit down on Dr. John, your anus (oh man, this is getting icky) opens up enough to allow all pressure and built up gasses to be released, and just about the time it takes for them to build up again, will be just about the time it will take for you to have a normal bowel movement again.
ScottHaneda- I’ve thought about that one too, but sometimes the actual poo is unaccompanied by gas, but the flow stops. Also the frantic pace of pre-poo farts makes me belive the poo itself is somehow encouraging farts.
BigGirl- I’ve thought about this “plunger” effect also, but I think I’ve noticed it when the crap is right … iewww… at the edge, being held back, and no longer moving. In that case it couldn’t be the plunger effect.
