Never drink orange juice before the ACT

<p>Seriously, this isn't a joke. I had to leave my house at 6 a.m. because the closest test center was a little over an hour away. I stopped at the McDonalds drive through and got an orange juice. Big mistake. My bladder almost exploded during the math test. I started to feel it coming towards the end of the English test, but it didn't set in that much until the middle of the math. Then BAM! I had to pee so bad I couldn't stand it. I even had to hold my crotch for the second half of the math test in order to retain myself from going all over the place. I couldn't concentrate. It took all of my effort to not pee all over in the test center. When she said we could go on break I was out of there and into the bathroom faster than a speeding bullet.</p>

<p>That blows because math is my best section and I got a 34 on it in April and June, but I probably got about a 30 this time because I couldn't focus on any of the more difficult questions.</p>

<p>Hopefully the curve is lenient, that's all I can say.</p>

<p>You might have an overactive bladder (OAB), or else that orange juice went straight through your system pretty quickly.</p>

<p>it just went through me quickly. I've never ever had a problem like that before in my life.</p>

<p>nerves really act up your urinary tract system...</p>

<p>haha omg LOL!! that actually happened to me on the sat last march. i drank a whole bottle of water while we were waiting for like an hour for our stupid proctors to set up the rooms cuz i was super nervous, and then i made it through until the second or third math section and i couldn't focus at all because i had to pee so badly.</p>

<p>LOL i drank orange juice and ate bread. ive been having A LOT of gas(farting and burping) and it doesnt get out of my body, and of course i have to hold it all in cept the burps, so i was like so bloated, on top of that i was kinda sick, had to pee and everything got so bad during the essay lol</p>

<p>After the Science section was done and the people who weren't taking writing were exiting the room talking I asked outloud if I could use the bathroom and the proctor did the "shhhhhh!" at the top of her lungs for about 5 seconds and looked me so angrily and yelled QUIET!!!! I got extremely scared she would cancel my test scores or something. Freaking crazy, it's not like I'm giving out answers.</p>

<p>I also went to McDonald's and had orange juice. I was fine. I don't get it?</p>

<p>I should have had some good fast food for all the carbs and sugars they put in there, though my mom's french toast and egg in the morning was just fine.</p>

<p>hahahahahaha you know you can get up in the middle of the exam and go to the bathroom right?
this is by far the funniest post i have read on CC
good tip though by the way.</p>

<p>LOL
never drink coffee either
i wanted to be alert and stuff
and had to go to the bathroom literally like 5 times no joke</p>

<p>starbucks are you serious? I thought nobody was allowed to leave the test room during a test. Had I known that I would have gone, even if I would have lost a minute or two on the math, because it really was an emergency. Seriously, I've never been that close to peeing my pants. I figured that if I went I wouldn't be able to answer any more on the math.</p>