To ask you what's the most satisfying thing your body has done?

Thank you for sharing. Enjoyed your thread at the time, enjoyed it again tonight.

Two things:

One: I had one of my back molars removed many years ago because it broke and I couldn’t afford the treatment to save it. Three weeks later it was still really sore and then one day I saw something white poking out of my gum. I poked at it with tweezers and it slid out. Basically the dentist had left a whole root behind and it taken three weeks to work its way up to the surface. The moment it was out, the soreness instantly disappeared.

Two: I fell off my bike as a student and injured two fingers; they were bent out at hideous angles. Went to A&E and an x-ray revealed they were dislocated and i was told I’d need to wait for the doctor to come and manipulate them back into place. While I was waiting I thought ‘How hard can it be?’ and just sort of yanked them back into place myself. Obviously the pain was insane and took loads of attempts but the way they sort of clunked back into position was very satisfying. The doctor said I was lucky not to make things worse and also that they’d have given me pain relief if I’d waited but who has the time for that, eh?

Phantom poos are great

its a rare treat

I had a Bartholin cyst (spot on labia) I had tried to squeeze it a few times but made it worse, it was starting to hurt when I walked I decided needed to be brave and warmed it up with a hot compress and did a twist and squeeze manoeuvre and it popped. It wasn’t a moment I could share but one I shall always remember

a few months ago I was very constipated I eventually managed to pass a massive hard poo but I actually went dizzy and nearly fainted I had to lay on the bathroom floor and felt shaky for a few hours after

It’s when you have a good, big poo that leaves no evidence. You know you did it, you felt it pass, but it shot straight round the u-bend, and when you wiped there was - nothing.

Thoroughly weird. Thoroughly satisfying, like you body has done something magical.

I had an infected cyst at the top of my thigh. It was so painful.. I was sat on the loo crying in pain.. I doubled over and felt a warm river of pus pouring down my thigh.. it had finally burst and it just kept coming and coming... it was gross but the sweet relief was so worth it! Left a massive hole that took weeks to heal...

Gosh, for all these years I thought it was just me who had experienced the constipation in the days after giving birth to dc1 and eventual poo about a week later worse than giving birth. I can't say the satisfaction after doing the ginormous poo was worth the agony, and I made sure with dc2 not to get so constipated.

I once had a bad sinus infection. After a few days I had a horrible tickley feeling in my sinuses that nothing touched. Eventually I sneezed and a lump of bloody mucus came out of my nose that was the size and length of my middle finger. Suddenly I could smell things in France. It was glorious.

@DollopOfFun you win! That made me laugh out loud.

I have a sebaceous cyst zit on my back and every few months DS has a go at it. Last time I felt an odd 'click', I turned round to ask DS if anything had happened and there was an 8" long streak of thready bits across the front of his t shirt going up into his hair.

It’s called gleeking. Apparently some people can do it at will!

Oh my word...I'm dying! 😹 I have done it myself, thankfully not landed a cobra jet on anyone yet!

Shit like this is why I love Mumsnet

@oakleaffy I just googled it, it's called gleeking apparently!

I have one at the very top of my lower leg, behind my knee. I let it build up until it is about the size of a lentil and then let rip 🤣

CRAMP...When one's calf or thigh goes into an agonising paroxysm of knotted agony that makes one cry out, and it looks like there are living beings under one's skin.

YES!! What is this?! I had someone do this to me whilst talking, and he was like a spitting cobra

Ive given birth but im going to mention something more pleasurable in the moment instead. (And not sex either 😆!)

It’s called frisson and I get it after I’ve been in the sauna or steam room for a while.

The hairs on my legs and arms start to stand on end, also on my head all over my face and it feels strangely spiritual, it’s like an all over body euphoria, where I start to breathe deeply and it enhances the effect.

It doesn’t happen every time but it’s always such a great feeling. It takes me to another place.

I couldn’t talk and experience it at the same time. You have to be in the zone, somehow and let it wash over you.

Usually I’m extremely hot at this point.

I can get it listening to music but not as strongly or for as long.

I had my ears syringed years ago- the satisfying WOOOOOOOSHHHHHHHHH of the warm water and the sudden BLAST of being able to hear crisply again was great!
I didn't want to see what came out, but son who was little, was watching, and said it looked like a chick pea! 🤢

That thing where you squirt from under your tongue, it happens every few years, always by accident, and can never do it intentionally

Oh that sounds so bad.

I once was kneeling in front of the loo with norovirus and the force of vomiting made me wet myself. {Amazingly not poo!}

NOW I sit on the loo with a bucket cradled on my lap when I have norovirus.. so grim, so gross.

I have long covid and have had almost no sense of smell for 7 months. A few days ago I was delighted to realise that I could faintly smell and taste an apple that I was eating. I went to the cupboard and opened a jar of Nutella to see if I could smell it. The scent of sweet chocolate and hazelnuts hitting my nose was a wonderful and satisfying moment!

Getting wax out of my blocked ears. After weeks of not being able to hear properly. Was like being under water all the time.

I have one of those cysts attached to my ovary. It isn’t anything to do with twins - that’s a myth. It’s just tissue that’s grown from cells that are in the wrong place. Sometimes they can look a bit like an embryo but they’re not actually the remains of a twin. They’re your own cells that have grown from you. They’re usually hair, fat or tooth but in very rare cases they can even include brain or eye tissue. My gynaecologist thinks mine probably has a couple of teeth inside it. If I ever need it removing, I’m fully intending to ask if I can take it home in a jar.

I think is is utterly fabulous that we are on page three of shitting and squeezing and bleeding and not a single person has mentioned sex.

It hasn't even made the cut where people have provided lists.

I fucking love women.