A member asked:

If you don't go to release your bowels in about 7-8 days then all of a sudden you get crampy and urgently have to go, you can't hold it in, why is that?

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Dr. Robert Killian answered

Specializes in General Practice

Constipation urgent: The body is an amazing machine. If something is not working there are numerous processes to right one back to normal. If you have a problem with your colon and you get constipated the stool backs up and backs up till you could rupture the colon...Which would be a deadly emergency. In the case you describe the body is doing everything it can to protect itself. And in this instance a bm occurred.

Answered 4/6/2013

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