To pee or not to pee, that is the question
#1
Posted 11 June 2004 - 10:15 PM
#2
Posted 11 June 2004 - 10:28 PM
not me. when i gotta go, i go. i can't afford to hold it in too long and end up with a kidney infection.
#3
Posted 11 June 2004 - 10:45 PM
#4
Posted 11 June 2004 - 11:28 PM
It may sound gross, but I can't imagine NOT peeing in my wetsuit underwater. Especially if I have a surface interval to sit through. Nothing that a little 'sink the stink" at the end of a trip can't handle Hey... if you gotta go, you gotta go... I did once learn through experience though that it's not a great idea to drink coffee just before diving..... who knew cramps could be THAT bad... and I thought I had experienced it all!
One of the dive magazines recently had an article this issue and it gave an explanation of why your body develops an urgency to pee while you're diving ... I'll have to see if it was one of the issues I saved....
#5
Posted 12 June 2004 - 04:49 AM
I think it is really gross and I can sometimes even identify the people who do pee by their smell. EEWWWW
I just can't pee in my wetsuit. Guess I had really intense potty training becuase it just seems so wrrng to me LOL
Ana
#6
Posted 12 June 2004 - 06:21 AM
I've heard that one for decades, but it's not true.
I know 3 people (all happen to be women) who can't force themselves to pee in their wet suits. At least one of them can't even do it in her swim suit.
I used to pee in mine, but like Ana says, the smell is bad. Sink the stink is hard to use on surface intervals. The other issue is the slimy feeling. I stopped the practice about 1987.
Last year, I head about using your suit (almost has to be a one piece to be effective) like an air lift. As you pee, or immediately after, orient yourself head down in a 45 degree angle. Stick your second stage in the neck of your suit and hit the purge button. This completely flushes your suit. No slimy feeling, no stink, but also no hiding what you did. Since then, I've resumed the practice when wearing my one piece wet suit.
Walter
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#7
Posted 12 June 2004 - 06:57 AM
#8
Posted 12 June 2004 - 07:11 AM
jennifer
#9
Posted 12 June 2004 - 07:25 AM
I was sent this link, found it to be an interesting article.
To Pee or Not to Pee
WG
#10
Posted 12 June 2004 - 11:32 AM
I use a seal suit so if I did, I definitely would have trouble flushing it through!! I also am a drysuit diver and I would HATE to get into the habit of peeing in my wetsuit and then forget one day that I'm in my DRYsuit!!
I don't find too often that I have to go when I'm at depth but when I surface, look out! Do I ever have to go! In Coz with SD, I had to have help from Todd getting my suit off I had to go so badly and then I jumped back into the water to go! That was probably the worst I've ever had to go but I just couldn't bring myself to go in my suit. I hadn't even heard about peeing in a wetsuit 'til I joined a diving messageboard.
Diverlady
What do you mean "it doesn't come in PINK"?!?!
#11
Posted 12 June 2004 - 02:25 PM
--Vince Lombardi
#12
Posted 12 June 2004 - 03:05 PM
Dr. Bill
#13
Posted 12 June 2004 - 03:07 PM
#14
Posted 12 June 2004 - 05:26 PM
slimy???The other issue is the slimy feeling.
walter, what the hell are you ingesting that gives you SLIMY PEE???
in all my years as a nurse...and we're talkin' 25 yrs here.....i've NEVER seen
SLIMY PEE!!!!!!
#15
Posted 12 June 2004 - 05:46 PM
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