Comments on: P.I.I. (pronounced "pee") is Real!

Question: P.I.I. (pronounced "pee") is Real!

Hat Maui — Sun, 07 Aug 2005 04:12:10 -0800

Attention: Urologists! Is there a name for the phenomenon where you have to pee, but you can still hold it awhile...

...but then as you get closer to home (or some other place/facility where you know you'll be able to relieve yourself), the urgency with which you need to pee increases greatly and suddenly and chronologically disproportionate (meaning, if you weren't physically near your place of relief, you could hold out much longer)? If not, I propose "proximity-induced incontinence."

By: peacay

peacay — Sun, 07 Aug 2005 05:18:39 -0800

More in the realm of psychologist/psychiatrist than urologist I would have thought.
How about 'associative urgency of micturition' or 'pissoir-proximus'.©

By: Kwantsar

Kwantsar — Sun, 07 Aug 2005 10:40:55 -0800

Proctologists could answer a related question about an analogous phenomenon.

By: trondant

trondant — Sun, 07 Aug 2005 11:22:06 -0800

analogous, indeed.

I think the term you're looking for is 'anticipation'.

By: Hat Maui

Hat Maui — Sun, 07 Aug 2005 12:44:15 -0800

thanks, Kwantsar. very helpful.

and trondant, i don't think anticipation is quite it -- i get eagerly anticipatory about a freshly made sandwich when i'm hungry, but not so urgently desperate for it that i must seize it and devour it immediately.

the urgency isn't based on the need so much as the proximity.

By: ramix

ramix — Sun, 07 Aug 2005 13:34:55 -0800

No answer for you Hat Maui, but i have a tangentially related observation: when I want to pee, and then hear the sound of running water, the the urge increases drastically and i have to find the nearest bathroom before i have an "accident" on the floor. I wonder why!

By: mkhall

mkhall — Sun, 07 Aug 2005 14:29:21 -0800

I will confess that I know all too well about this phenomenon, Hat Maui. I've asked other people about it, and most of them look at me as though I'm insane. (Moreso than usual, that is.) But some will nod knowingly, so I will spread the word of PII.