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Is it bad to hold in bowel movement a lot?
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No: Not sure what you mean by a lot. If you passed an urge until your next one, it is ok. If you let your stool sit in your bowels and new one is still being formed and you don't get to empty your bowels for days, then you will get impacted and it will become a problem then.
Answered 8/28/2013
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