If your sentence begins with any of the following, please consider whether there is an actual need to relate the information you are about to divulge:

Don't freak out or anything but...
I probably shouldn't say anything but...
Don't get the wrong idea but...

In fact, if the "but..." conditional is anywhere in the opening sentence of your anecdote you may want to rethink the necessity of speaking whatever is on your mind.

And if you should decide that your personal world will stop unless you divulge your mental gem please, please, please verify that there is nobody within earshot who shouldn't, mustn't or doesn't want to hear what you are about to relate.

Especially if that person is me.

And you are talking about bodily functions gone awry.

Thanks,
Jim

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