good to know it has a fancy name

[rone]

I suppose that i'm glad that i'm not the only one who experiences this.  It happened a lot more often when i was a kid.  Nowadays, when it does happen, it seems to happen before and not after.

Comments

[dawn-guy.livejournal.com]

If you keep this up, you will turn into haineux. Good fortune on the trivia meaningful-paycheque hunt.

[reverendluke.livejournal.com]

What we NEED some medical research in to is why you can never quite seem to shake out the last couple drops.

[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

Oh, that's just bad plumbing. Apparently our Intelligent Designer forgot to take capillary effect into account.

Somebody should have told the babelfish

[notr.livejournal.com]

about this oddly derived form of "micturate."

What I've always wondered is what makes it so much more urgent sometimes when I've only got a few ounces than other times when I've got a quart to get rid of.

and we need another reason....

[drieuxster.livejournal.com]

... to stop the evil liberal academics, uh, why???

WRONG!!!! WRONG!!! WRONG!!!

[drieuxster.livejournal.com]

What more clearerer and compellingerer a Proof of Proof by Divine Comedy does one need???

Proportions

[devonapple.livejournal.com]

I theorize that those "few ounces" are far more concentrated and thus more toxic (to oversimplify the chemical activity going on in one's water), thereby causing more irritation of the bladder valve lining (and a stronger urge to relieve the bladder) than the more diluted and relatively Ph-balanced quart of waste water. Get too much in the bladder, however, and simple pressure will stimulate those "imminent micturation" signals.

As for the shivers, I imagine it may have to do with shifts caused by core temperature regulation.

Re: Proportions

[notr.livejournal.com]

Hmmm. Overall solution strength doesn't seem to be the difference, but I hadn't thought of pH. That would make sense--more acid, more urgent. I'll have to test the hypothesis by seeing if a glass of wine has to come out more urgently than a pint of bitter.

My sense of the shivers has always been that they're directly connected to the action of the sphincter. I bet there's just some weird little motor reflex there.

And maybe, just maybe,

[notr.livejournal.com]

somewhere there's a heavenly choir that sings off key.

Re: And maybe, just maybe,

[drieuxster.livejournal.com]

embrace the HORROR, and laugh at the Divine Comedy, anything LESS and the Terrorists WIN!

Re: Proportions

[nixzusehen.livejournal.com]

I've thought about that often, too. My theory is that it's as much a function of how quickly liquid is flowing into your bladder – if you've had a lot of water, you may feel the urge to pee even though the bladder isn't full.

Re: Proportions

[devonapple.livejournal.com]

I base the theory on my own experiences when those few ounces have motivated a trip to the water closer, as it usually burns a teeensy bit.

I suppose if we knew the mechanism behind shivers, we'd be able to apply it to this phenomenon.

[nixzusehen.livejournal.com]

I'm adding that to my list of things a real engineer would get fired for designing:

backs
knees
eyes
urethras

[madmerle.livejournal.com]

Hmm... Altho this has never happened to me that I know of, I do often get a shivery-shuddery feeling when I do any kind of Kegel exercise (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kegel_exercise) - even a random clench might cause it. Of course, at least for women, this is also a great way to tone those pelvic muscles and prevent incontinence, so I wonder if there isn't a connection...

[brokensymmetry.livejournal.com]

Maybe I'm just woefully uneducated, but what I find most surprising about this is that "micturation" is a real word, having previously only encountered it in the context of vogon poetry (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vogon_poetry).

EXCEPT

[notr.livejournal.com]

that it's not. That was my point about the Babel fish above. Look more closely at the spelling.

This is WRONG!

[mononeuron.livejournal.com]

This is pathetic, and puerile, and a piss-poor waste of time (so to speak).

Absolutely pathetic.

Do your mothers know about this?

And no wise-ass cracks (so to speak) about being pathetic-er for remarking on the pathetic-ness of remarking on piffle. Forbidden! Verboten!

NO COOKIE!