Have you seen a gastroenterologist about this post-poop illness. Or a cardiologist maybe because if it from vagal nerve stimulation related...i don't know. Just throwing some ideas out there. I am the last person to tell you its all in your head. Seriously go to a GI md first before accepting its all in your head..is what I would do.

I think Motherload hit the nail right on the head. I doubt if there's anything physically wrong with you. I'd take her suggestions and see if it helps. If not, see a doctor.

Pooping never makes me sick, but anyone who happens to be near....thats another story.

prarie doggin
took the words right out of my mouth (or the stench out of my ass). I always feel fine after a good poop or poot but those around me become ill.

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Eat chilies and feel the burn!!

Well Chief, the odds are astronomical that you and I will never be in adjoining public stalls at the same time, but can you imagine the horror?

I just had a horrible thought. Me being in the middle stall between you two.

Enough to keep you out of public shitters for a while huh?

Postman, Can I have your vote in the limerick
contest?, or must I track you to your
favorite stall and occupy the adjacent one.

Bwahahaha

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Eat chilies and feel the burn!!

I think there are many causes for this, but the "all in your head" thing may be a legitimate one to add to the list. Not to say that you are crazy, but sometimes the subconscious brain gets programmed a certain way and you have to give it a smack in the head (pun intended) to get it working in the right direction.

I cannot eat raspberry danish, for example, not because I am allergic to it, but because one day I bought the wrong type and it was filled with coconut. The painful allergic reaction that followed was so horrible that after that day, I could no longer stomach regular raspberry danish, even the kind I was used to, without feeling sick.

My mother had a similar thing happen with a game she played while pregnant with my sister. The electronic game was all she had when her morning sickness was so bad she could barely get out of bed. After the pregnancy she could not hear this game without feeling sick to her stomach, and she eventually had to give it away.

Keep working on it, though. If you are conscious of the moment that put you in this frame of mind, you can remind yourself that it's all a load of crap. (More pun intended.)

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Well, you don't actually blow on it. That's just an expression.

TSV- are you my long lost sister??? I'm allergic to coconut too!

As for the topic of associating pooping with feeling ill. It's very likely. I ate raisin bran one morning before having a series of bloodwork done. After they drained me of what seemed like pints I threw up on the way home. A raisin got caught in my throat and I just couldn't cough it up or swallow it back down for a couple hours. It finally made its way back up in another wave of puke. But for over 10 years afterward I could NOT swallow a raisin to save my life. I'd gag every time. No matter how well it was chewed. Finally I just had to tell myself "mind over matter" and force myself to eat raisins again. Now it's no big deal, I love raisins.

After pooping, take a few deep breaths, and just tell yourself "mind over matter", then go for a jog or have a glass of water and take a brisk walk. You'll get over this soon enough.

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Rock-n-roll! Poopy-poo!

Yes, shitwit, I am VERY allergic to coconut. It makes finding anything "natural" in a health store next to impossible nowadays. That, and it was REALLY hard to travel in the south Pacific a few years ago.

I almost forgot to say another thing I haven't been able to eat since I associated it with something bad. Salisbury steak. However, this doesn't have as much to do with puking it up with the stomach flu as it did with learning that the stuff turns white when it sits in your stomach for a while.

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Well, you don't actually blow on it. That's just an expression.