I have never brought this up with a Dr but you guys here are wonderful when it comes to the odd things. Anyway over the last few years I get a tingling feeling (like numbness tingling) in my "lower region" shortly (like 1/2 hours - hour) before a bowel movement (it doesn't seam to matter what I end up passing, sorry I don't know a better what to word that, I have IBS and go from one extreme to the other all the time). The tingling happens more when I'm already numb there. I don't have any pain or anything else that would make me worry enough to bring it up to a Dr right away. The only other thing is I would have a hard time knowing I needed to go if I didn't get the tingling now, I'm wondering if I'm number than I thing I am in that area. I don't seam to have "loss of control" but I don't know if this is a warning sign.

When I have numb areas on my body, if they're exerted (especially hands and feet) they will tingle and buzz for a while afterward.

My guess is that you do have some numb areas in your tract, and the exertion is causing you to buzz in that area.

I've been having muscle cramps of various sorts all up and down the digestive system - from colon to bladder. So it's quite possible to have MS symptoms internally.

As to whether it's a warning... well, warning of what? Just keep an eye on it (difficult, I know!) and be ready to rush to the room if you need to.

My butt and brain aren`t well connected any more, don`t know if is the spinal lesions causing it or the brain ones. Butt also feels kind of numb, can`t really tell if an acorn comes out or an anaconda.

The sign to get up and go can vary, from a real urge to a funny feeling in the pit of my stomach. One of the reasons I stay close to home, when I get the feeling I need to be close by!

hey Julie ...

sometimes .. I'll be just fine .. then all of a sudden WHAM .. gotta go gotta go RIGHT NOW ... and off I go ... get all ready to 'go' ... and nothing! aaauuurrggghh!! LOL

trying to explain it on my disability and doctor ... sure can't work at a regular day job ... every few moments .. run .. nothing, come back .. get ready to work .. gotta run again ... get exhausted and just want to go home! LOL

altho you said something that you're not experiencing 'pain' ... still let your doctor in on the episodes ... part of your brain cells has 'fried' to tell you that it IS painful ... and it's numb to functioning ...

thanks for sharing .. you may have to look into having a 'tracting' done on your large intestine ... for PRECAUTIONARY reasons .... you don't want to get bound up and have to have an operation at that point ...

my doctor said I had to 'listen' to my body ... and the more I am - the more I'm learning what I can and cannot do .. and what I need help with!!

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.

omg Julie, I have the EXACT same tingling feelings in the rear, and the same worry that it is a "sign." At first I didn't realize the tingling that would go in waves from the top to mid area of my butt down to the bottom of my butt were connected with bowel movements- but then it now happens regularly in connection with a bowel movement. I asked my boyfriend if he got any strange sensations ever when he has to go (he DOES have IBS-like problems), and he looked at me like I was crazy until he realized why I was asking. I don't think I have any problems like IBS, so the whole sensation thing does make me worry that it is a sign of current damage and a precurser to larger problems down the line.

Thanks for bring it up, I was about to do the same!