OMG Julie, I so get that exact same tingling feeling before a BM. I have alternating IBS, constipation and the thebig D and I go like 5 times in one day.

Neurot Doc explained the tingling as your brain signaling the bowel to start contracting to have the BM. And because I have such exaggerated sensitive nerves I feel this more than other. THere are tons of nerves in your bowel, pelvic region more than anythere else and they lie in very close proximity to each other.

Atleast thats what he told me. I try not to worry about it (esp since I have so much more to worry about) since he said its just messaging going on in my body. Plus I have had a thorough check up in that region and nothing shows up. Just oversensitive nervous system.

I was dx'd with MS over 5 years ago. For the last two years I've suffered with severe constipation. It got to the point where I couldn't go w/o a laxative.

I was seeing a GI doctor who just wanted to keep trying different meds, which weren't working. So right before an appt with him I had a painful 24 hours. So I called his nurse and left her a message saying that if doctor So and So wasn't going to refer me to a surgeon then going to my appt would be a waste of his time and mine.

The nurse called me back and said she would have the doctor call me. He called me that evening and referred me to a surgeon.

The surgeon did some tests, one being a sitz marker study. You swallow a pill that has 24 tiny 'markers' in it. Then you go in for xrays over the course of 5 days. On the 5th day the xray showed I had 23 out of the 24 markers still left in my colon.

I had my colon removed Oct 07. I can now eat and go to the bathroom regularly.

Geez, makes me feel good to know others have the same feelings as I do. Seems that if we eat out, about 1/2 hr after I get a numbness in my legs and feel faint...that's my signal that I have to go NOW, I get real tense until I locate the washrooms...I have m.s. and I know that getting tired by going out brings this on but to me it's worth it...so far anyway...lol.

Thank you everyone. I feel better now.

Vonn, I have had that feel also, lucky not often.

shelley, Thank you. It seams funny to have the exact same thing just makes me feel like I not crazy after all. Maybe it's a IBS/exaggerated sensitive nerve condition. It's an IBSESNC, LOL.

OK now you really got me thinking. When I saw that we feel the same thing I did a google on sensitive nerves and overactive nerves and came across a page on Overactive Nerves May Account For "Ringing In The Ears",
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/93655.php

I don't know if you have this but it got me thinking more about the sensitive/overactive nerves in general and found something close to what you were telling me about. Patients with irritable bowel syndrome have abnormalities of a nervous system that serves their stomach and intestines, so they are saying the IBS may be cause by the abnormal nerves.

http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpag...c=health&spon=

Well I need to leave the house now so I'm not able to finish this post right now but I see links in this sensitive nerves/overactive nerve thing.