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Old 06-04-2013, 08:15 PM
 
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Do you have "Safe Toilet Syndrome"? Your Questions Answered! - Oprah.com


Very odd. I will be out with my friend, and she wants to leave, and go home, so she can use the bathroom.. I have this to a point, if possible, I would rather be home, not to her extent though.
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Old 06-04-2013, 10:53 PM
 
Location: Windham County, VT
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On the tv show "Scrubs", Michael J. Fox's (guest star) character had this issue as part of his OCD,
and would have to leave the hospital & speed home to his own toilet.

Personally, I avoid public bathrooms/having to use any other than my own, to the degree possible.
In that sense of the phrase, yeah.
However, since I don't travel & am never far from home (or away for more than a few hours),
it doesn't cause me medical problems.
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Old 06-04-2013, 10:56 PM
 
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If I had to wait to use my bathroom at home I would walk around wet and going pp down my leg all the time. My daily medication does not allow that to happen.
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Old 06-05-2013, 06:32 AM
 
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I have no problem using public restrooms, most of them are reasonably clean in my area.

And I don't wipe off shopping cart handles before using them either!
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Old 06-05-2013, 07:09 AM
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Location: Kansas
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I avoid sitting on the seat and, frankly, it you ever saw one of those germ shows where they go around swabbing everything to check for bacteria, all those toilet germs are everywhere anyway. Yuck! Life is too short to have to run home to use the potty every time you have to go. I am a "control" person so obsessions are just not going to ever be my thing, thankfully!
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Old 06-05-2013, 07:37 AM
 
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I'm one of those people that either hold it or go home for the bathroom. I just do not like public restrooms, haven't since I was a kid. If i'm within 10-15 minutes of home I make my husband bring me home, or come home myself to go to the bathroom.
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Old 06-05-2013, 10:26 AM
 
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Has anyone ever gotten a bacterial illness from sitting on a public toilet seat? Is there published medical documentation of this frightening risk?

Here's Cecil's take though

The Straight Dope: What diseases can you catch from toilet seats?
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Old 06-05-2013, 10:27 AM
 
Location: Texas
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I will hover and pee, but poops are best off at home.
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Old 06-05-2013, 11:22 AM
 
Location: SC
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I had to use the restroom at PetSmart because I was stuck in town for 5 hours wasting time with my dog while waiting on someone.

I took him in the stall with me and balanced his plastic Flexi leash handle on the door. As soon as I flushed, he knocked the leash handle onto the floor directly under the front of the toilet seat, and drug it across the nasty wet tile.

I almost died. /puke
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Old 06-05-2013, 11:30 AM
 
Location: Texas
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I tried hover pooing at a ski slope once (no choice, really had to go) and pooped on my ski boot.

Never again.
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