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To think it’s not just me who gets a weird Fanjo feeling

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Ahardyfool · 18/09/2024 16:35

My daughter just showed me where she cut herself shaving in the shower last night. She came downstairs yesterday and announced that she’d caused the bathroom to look “a bit like a crime scene” and this also brought on the same bodily response. When she showed me her wound just now it happened again.
DD noticed my reaction and claimed to know what I was experiencing.
we both describe it as a bit like when you go over one of those bumps in the road that make your tummy somersault briefly…except this is felt in the vagina region.
Why the hell would that happen? Does anyone else experience this? Is it our cervix clamping shut in some kind of anti preocreative response to danger - albeit a bit OTT a response?

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Cobblersorchard · 18/09/2024 23:06

I get this whenever my DD is hurt or doing something really scary/hard/upsetting, not with anything or anyone else.

Welshdavee · 18/09/2024 22:56

I get it watching “you’ve been framed”. So every 30 seconds or so when someone falls off a skateboard or trips down some steps. Thought it was just me….

BumpyaDaisyevna · 18/09/2024 22:54

I get that!

Whenever I imagine cuts particularly scrapes of skin/flesh I get what I feel as involuntary fanjo shudders! Like a spasm.

DH DDand DS were recounting stories of various mountain biking falls and accidents last night.

"I went over the handlebars and slid along, gravel took all the skin off my knee"

Shudder!

Awaywiththeferries123 · 18/09/2024 22:54

I get that feeling watching someone walk barefoot on a hard surface. Oddly specific!

Aydel · 18/09/2024 22:53

Known in our house as Fizzy Bits. Due to going over a humpback bridge at speed when DD was about 5, and she shouted that it had made her bits go all fizzy. (The bridge was henceforth known as Fizzybits Bridge.)

MabelMora · 18/09/2024 22:50

I also get a boom/whoosh feeling inside my head, like my brain is expanding for a few milliseconds. Bizarre!

Coffeeisnecessary · 18/09/2024 22:50

Yes I get this! Actually had a conversation with my sons and dh as I thought all humans have it but they informed me they didn't have the same sensation in the groin area from thinking about injuries etc. Most of the women I've asked have though!!

Enoughwiththisshit · 18/09/2024 22:49

Mandoidi · 18/09/2024 21:26

My feet also 'panic' when I see or visualise a slippy floor, especially if I'm just in socks. Like a tingly sweaty clenchy sensation that makes me feel frightened. Anyone else get something like that?

Meeee! I've never met anyone else who understands what I'm talking about. Anything that I might slip on gives me that reaction. Sandy beach rocks with bare feet are the worst!

PyongyangKipperbang · 18/09/2024 22:49

OnAndOnAndonAgain · 18/09/2024 22:46

We call it making your bum go funny, weird sensation that isn't fanny gallops

I agree, to me fanny gallops is when you find a man so sexy you just want to jump on and ride him like a stallion!

OnAndOnAndonAgain · 18/09/2024 22:46

We call it making your bum go funny, weird sensation that isn't fanny gallops

Bellatrixpure · 18/09/2024 22:43

As well as this fanny sensation I get a sharp pain at the top of my head like my skin is being ripped from my skull but only a split second

Grammarnut · 18/09/2024 22:43

Yes, it's common, I think. There is a male equivalent: wrung his loins - but this doesn't really cover the female thing, which I think is a rush of blood to the vulva in response to danger.

justasking111 · 18/09/2024 22:43

If on the TV a man is kicked in the groin I get it. So there's something in a primitive reaction.

Again IRL or on the screen heights give me the javelin feeling. I can't look until it's all over.

MabelMora · 18/09/2024 22:43

Definitely anxious fanny. Almost like a weird twanging feeling.

Endica1 · 18/09/2024 22:41

Fairground rides do this to me, particularly pirate ships with the swoosh down…

Fiddledeedeeee · 18/09/2024 22:40

‘Ooof, I felt that in my foof’

I get it when I’ve either seen or heard about something painful!

Tarkan · 18/09/2024 22:39

I'm another who feels it in my legs especially when I see someone get injured. A really bad injury and I'll feel it from head to toe, it's like a cold painful electric shock.

Pusheen467 · 18/09/2024 22:39

Yes I get this! Like my vagina is cringing lol.

conniefromaccounts · 18/09/2024 22:38

I get pain in my feet at the sight of an injury. Or even the thought of one at times! Weird.

IThinkImStillMe · 18/09/2024 22:37

I get this when I see other people especially children getting hurt or even think about it happening. For me it's like a sort of physical manifestation of empathy like feeling their pain. I don't know why I feel it there though 🤷‍♀️

CrunchyCarrot · 18/09/2024 22:36

I have not experienced this at all! The only place I get a twinge is in my solar plexus, no further south than that! 😅

noideawhat · 18/09/2024 22:33

I get this & thought I was really odd... So glad I'm not alone!

Jasperj · 18/09/2024 22:30

TheVeryAngryCaterpillar · 18/09/2024 22:25

I have never had this, but will show it to my DH as whenever he hears about someone else's injury or sees a TV drama with a bit of gore or an autopsy he goes "argh, my balls" 😆

The Fanny equivalent happens to me every time I remember my extremely sticky C-section plaster being quickly ripped off by my midwife just a couple of days after my surgery. 🤢😱

BatshitIsTheOnlyExplanation · 18/09/2024 22:28

DerekFaker · 18/09/2024 20:00

I get a weird feeling in my fingertips over stuff like that

I get it in my knees but it's the same feeling, I think

CoraPirbright · 18/09/2024 22:28

I get this! But not in the fanjo area. Mine is a horrid fizzing in my shins. My mum gets it in her stomach.

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