Tried it for a couple of minutes until I got bored.
Nothing.
I came across this on the web, if anyone is interested - another hypothesis for ‘piss shiver’:
www.madsci.org/posts/947350899.An.r.html
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. - Aristotle
That is a very interesting explanation, and seems to coincide with some thoughts I have on the subject, however, I wonder if his explanation also applies to females.
I was thinking that the only time I have PMCS is after I have been holding my urine in. For instance the last time I shivered after urination was when I had been at a theater, and I didn’t want to miss the movie, so I held it in until I got home. Perhaps then it has something to do with the chemicals in the body produced to hold in the flow of urine like this doctor guy says. Seems to make sense to me. (The doctor guy I am referring to is the one found at the link provided above by Coosa. Try it, it really is the closest explanation we seem to have found yet.)
“I celebrate myself, and sing myself, and what I assume you shall assume, for every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you.” --Whitman
I finally left the church when I realized that what I was faithfully believing was the Holy Spirit, was the same sensation as the aforementioned Piss Shiver.
Then I saw that Andre Serrano, famous micturating artist, had made a similar connection in his vilified work, “Piss Christ.”
Anyway, since Piss Shiver isn’t specifically mentioned in the Bible, I’ve put my faith in the Straight Dope.
- Rumpskin
Another possibility: the air temperature in
the bathroom is lower than in the rest of
the house? Bathrooms tend not to be heated.
If not always true for every bathroom, maybe
the shiver is a conditioned response to a
cold bathroom in the house where you grew up?
Maybe I’m just a freak but I also get it after im done brushing my teeth. I have one of those electric toothbrushes that have bristles than spin in place. about 10 seconds after im done I get the same shiver.
Do you ever get the feeling that everybody thinks you’re paranoid?
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Also, what’s up with feeling like I have to pee after sex? Anyone else get that?
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Shadenwawa, I get the same urges. Have had girlfrind, (current and one in the past) who have expierenced the same thing. My current girlfriend believes that it will cause a bladder infection if she goes post coital.
Morkster
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[[My current girlfriend believes that it will cause a bladder infection if she goes post coital.]]
I think that it is recommended that one urinate after intercourse to prevent bladder infections.
- Jill
All I know is that the “heat leaving your body” theory is bunk. If body A and body B (the body and urine, here) are in contact, given some time, their temperatures will be the same. If you then separate them, their temperatures do not change. Body A would not suddenly drop a few degrees in temperature. The heat leaving in urine was in the urine while it was still in the bladder. It doesn’t suddenly steal body heat as it’s leaving!