Urination Duration.

I like peeing. I don’t think I can understate this. I like peeing a lot. In fact, this is the reason I’ve taken to increasing my fluid intake lately. Oh sure, there’s some supposed notion that drinking a lot of water and flushing the system is good for you. But peeing is a near-meditative activity for me. No matter what you’re doing, when you have to pee, you have permission to stop everything you’re doing, drop your undergarments (or lack thereof) and feel the sweet joy of urination.

In fact, I’ve taken to counting off how long my urination duration is. In a way, it’s making me more in touch with my body. If you feel like you have to pee, can you tell how badly? How long is your average pee? *smirks* No, seriously. Do you know the minimum threshold of bladder pressure before you feel the “urge”? I’ve noticed that if I feel any desire to pee, I average over ten seconds. If it feels pretty strong, I’ll go over fifteen seconds. I’ve gone just short of twenty seconds, so far, so I can only guess what my supposed bladder capacity is. So much for the time I thought I peed for 45 seconds. (Though, I typically try not to hold it for that long, ya know. Don’t want to be impotent simply because I love peeing for a long time.)

Most curiously is that I don’t think my urinate output is anywhere near my water intake. Obviously our body uses some of the water, or sweats it off. But so much of it? I haven’t peed into a measuring device to see just how much of a liter I end up peeing out, but there’s a delay of over an hour before I’m able to even pee a decent quantity. I’m guessing it takes that long for the body to realize, “Oh shit, water overload.” It makes me smirk at the thought of there being a liter more Timmy for an hour. Where does it all go? :: looks at his pale scrawny white boy body ::

Which really makes me think, “..Just how many years have I been dehydrated?” Oh sure, I love drinking jews. If I’m lounging, I’m almost always downing glass after glass of milk or orange jews or iced tea. But to have consistently clear urine? Haven’t really set out to do that. I don’t really like water. What, you think I like the taste of a liter of water? Much like the urination process is, downing a liter of water is meditative. It requires synchronizing your breath and your gulps. Go too quickly and you’ll find yourself stopping to catch your breath. I’m almost to the point where I can do the entire thing without pausing, but I keep swallowing air, so I end up pausing to burp, effectively releasing the pressure in my stomach so I can down more water.

Peanut Butter and Jelly is officially my new pleasure snack. To think I used to consider that a meal. No way, pb&j is a snack! Protein, a bit of fiber, and some ever-tasty jelly. Mmmm. It’s close to dinner, so I only had half. Mmmm.

So I suppose I should get around to doing some tabulation of the Urination Survey, before I lose the topic of urination.

:: process ::

Processed Data: Urination Per Day (Frequency of Data Occurrence)

1.5 (1)
3 (3)
3.5 (4)
4 (2)
4.5 (6)
5 (1)
5.5 (2)
6 (2)
6.5 (1)
7 (1)
7.5 (1)
8 (3)
8.5 (0)
9 (2)
9.5 (0)
10 (7)
11 (0)
12 (1)
12.5 (1)
16 (1)

Total Entries Evaluated: 42

Mean: 6.58333333333, or 6 – 7 times a day
Median: 6 times a day
Mode: 10 times a day

Low outlier: 1-2 times a day
High outlier: 16 times a day

I had to toss out entries by ladies who were incoherent or if I simply could not convert data into a processable number. If you pee every ninety minutes a day, that’s great, but I would need to know how many hours you’re awake. Besides, the pregnant urination quotient would definitely throw the numbers off. I went with data of non-pregnant, non-menstruating females. If there’s any kidney/bladder issues, well, so be it. It’s just a toy survey, after all.

I noticed two curves (if I were to model, anyway). Most ladies fall into two groups: Those who pee 3-5 times a day, and those who pee 8 – 12 times a day. Or, verbally, those who can hold it, and those who can’t. : D Some ladies admit to downing a lot of water throughout the day, which encourages frequent urination. Others claim to drink water, but still don’t pee often.

Now if you’ll excuse me, I downed a liter of water when I came home, and I need to pee. *giggles* This will be my… sixth urination today. Hey, when I increase my water intake, I pee!