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Weird things your body does, and you wonder if it happens to others too?

738 replies

OHforDUCKScake · 19/07/2012 21:14

I know Im not the only one.

I cant even be arsed to name change, here goes.

Nervous fanny.

You know when someone falls - hard and cracks their chin or elbow or whatever, my stomach drops, I get a shot of anxiety that shoots through the pit of my stomach down to my fanny. Right in the middle of my fanny I get a horrible feeling of anxiety.

Its only started in the last few years, its really unpleasant. Its like a bolt of aniexty, and I ONLY get it when someone hurts themselves. Wtf is that all about?

Anyway, what weird shit does your body do? Confess.

OP posts:
mumnosbest · 20/07/2012 22:40

lucjam you are just like me. Need a wee when touch belly button and bruised flaps during period. 1st can be useful eg when ive forgotten to do a wee sample but the 2nd is bloody 'orrible

yellowraincoat · 20/07/2012 22:36

I had a weird little lump above my eye for YEARS. Assumed it was just a feature of my body. Then one day I poked it when I was plucking my eyebrows and pus went EVERYWHERE. How can a spot sit there for about 5 years? Maaad.

TheOriginalSteamingNit · 20/07/2012 22:31

I have had a little lump on left knee for about three years, a little lump on head for about five years, a brown mark between two toes, and my neck feels all funny when I'm nervous or insecure or angry.

Psammead · 20/07/2012 22:29

Get a few of these - orgasm upon much-needed wee, gleeking, Alice syndrome...

Does anyone get weak thumbs? When I wake up, or laugh too hard, or think about my thumbs, they go completely weak. I cannot exert any pressure with them, am unable to hold anything if I need my thumb, and the bases of the nails bother me until I stroke them firmly. I have only ever met one person who gets the same thing.

Also, when I have had a wee and pull up my trousers, it feels like there is a wet drip on my right trouser leg. Like, I can feel it on the front on my thigh once my trousers are pulled up. When I look, there is never, ever a drip. I call it phantom thigh drip

I also get phantom doorframe drips which is when I walk through a door frame, and out of the corner of my right eye I can see a drip just in front of the frame, dripping down from the ceiling. Like a silvery drip. It only happens very occasionally.

FunnyLittleFrog · 20/07/2012 22:28

Anyone else have ridges on the back of their front teeth? I though everyone had them until DH said actually, NO, they don't!

BreakOutTheKaraoke · 20/07/2012 22:26

I don't have periods at the minute, but when I did, they used to stop overnight, and start again when I went for a wee the next morning. If I was laid down, I wasn't bleeding. I never have had to use any towels/tampax overnight, evem when I had just had DD. In fact, after having her, I bled lightly for roughly 1 1/2 days, spotted slightly for a day ar two, and it was over and done. Never needed maternity pads.

lucjam · 20/07/2012 22:24

Javelin arse - oh yes esp when in early stages of pregnancy or on heavy period

Twitchy eye - so bad earlier this year for 3 weeks thought I must be starting with MS or something was going to make GP appt but it did go eventually. Do get twitchyness above knee too on thigh muscle.

Belly button, when I poke it I need a wee urgently

Eating mints, mostly extra chewing gum, tic tacs or ex strong mints makes me sneeze.

Achy horrible bruised fanny flaps when ovulating

when nervous in social situations i get excruciating pain in the back of my head, I had it the other day and my head felt very bumpy as if some muscle had contracted making the back of my head corrugated. Talking about this now has set it off, ow.

TheOriginalSteamingNit · 20/07/2012 22:23

Cold tummy ache. If my stomach isn't covered I get a sort of cross between needing a poo and period pain and have to lie on my front.

Spare wee. Have a wee before bed, lie down, promptly have to get up for another.

toxtethogrady · 20/07/2012 22:10

god i get the lumps in the jawline thing too! so far i have acquired tonsil stones, possible javelin arse, and weird jaw balls. i need to get my medical records updated.

threeleftfeet · 20/07/2012 22:06

NiceCupOfTeaAndASitDown oh, is that what they mean by going weak kneed?
I'd never made the connection!

It's a strange feeling isn't it?!

bogeyface · 20/07/2012 22:05

Can no one else do deliberate Cobra Spit? Really?!

I'm a freak!

ParanoidAnnie · 20/07/2012 22:04

Can't believe so many people have javelin arse I thought I was dying Grin when I first got it!

yesiamanaturalblue · 20/07/2012 21:58

Wow, I have read the whole thread, can't believe I have so many of these
yy to
javelin arse/fanjo
Bucket bath fanjo
Sugar puff wee
Gleeking

Will add my other oddities

Sometimes i get a Elvis type twitch in my lip, very embarrassing Blush

Quite often, just before I go to sleep, i start uncontrollably imagining horrible scary, horror type, disturbing images, then it goes and I fall asleep.

Sometimes during sex, just as I am about to reach 'the grande finale' I get fucking cramp, in the top of my leg and hip.

If i'm building up to a big sneeze and someone looks at me, even if they are in my peripheral vision, my sneeze disappears and i can't sneeze.

When the song by The Strokes came out 12.51, for ages after, I would look at the clock, and it would be exactly 12.51

BustersOfDoom · 20/07/2012 21:56

Javelin Arse and Funny Fanny here too and random Cobra Spitting.

If anyone touches or breathes on my right ear I get goosebumps all over my body and go shivery. Nothing happens with the left one.

If I'm coming down with a bug or illness the skin all over my body goes very sensitive and sore. My DM gets it too. It's like an early warning system.

My belly button piercing always used to be sore when I had a period. Thanks to the gift of Cerzette I haven't had one for over a year.

I have sneezing fits, I usually sneeze 8-10 times before it stops.

And I sneeze too if I'm having naughty thoughts. Very odd!

NotGeoffVader · 20/07/2012 21:50

I know it's quite a way upthread but I have had that pain in the chest thing too, SoftKitty - not actually where my heart is, but on the left side of my chest, just under the middle of my ribs IYSWIM.

I am feeling less and less like a freak as I am working my way through this thread.

I also get those funny little finger blisters, and on my palms too (will have to now see if they concide with my period).

Promethea · 20/07/2012 21:49

Haven't read all the thread but the itchy itchy itchy finger blisters are probably Pompholyx Excema, I get them when I'm ill or stressed. You can get a mild steroid cream from the doctors which sorts them out really quickly....

I get a mad inside my head itch which I'm pretty sure is something to to with that tube which joins your nose and yours ears up (eustachian tube?). I have to do a weird clicky throat thing to scratch it.. my dad has the same thing

EveryPicture · 20/07/2012 21:39

If I throw stuff down the stairs, I feel like I am going to float down the stairs after it. Not step down them, or fall, but float. Confused

I have sleep paralysis. Awful thing. I can 'see' myself pinned to the ceiling. Ugh!

Head massages give me headaches and shooting pains within minutes. Don't touch my head...I'd have to kill you Grin

I roll my tongue more or less constantly.

Touch typing and shorthand lessons have a lot to answer for. I either 'type' the news out in my head or envisage it in shorthand.

God, I'm weird.

Fiveflowers · 20/07/2012 21:31

I occasionally get a small very painful lump in either my finger or on my foot.
It feels like a stone under the skin and when I rub it the pain goes and a bruise appears.

I get hiccups every time I eat toast.

After I eat Chinese food my head feels as if it's being squeezed tightly.

JKSLtd · 20/07/2012 21:29

YY to that burning in the neck feeling (MadamFolly I think)
&
Twitching eyelid, esp when tired or stressed.
(it feels so 'big' that i've looked in the mirror and it's hardly noticeable, weird).

Also, whenever anyone drives too near behind me (or walks but i don't notice it as much) i can't help myself doing a sort of all over body shiver.
Even if I think it's coming and I try to stop it. V strange.

I can roll my tongue in a weird way, sort of forked. Dh hates it. Think some celeb was on tv recently saying they could do it too which made me feel better. :)

DifferentFutureAhead · 20/07/2012 21:29

I know when I am actually going to be sick (as opposed to just feeling like I am) because my jawline gets a weird feeling in it. Once I get that feeling I head straight for the bathroom as it's guaranteed I am going to be sick. No feeling in my mouth, no need to panic.

DifferentFutureAhead · 20/07/2012 21:24

The top of my mouth itches when I have a fit of sneezing.

I cough uncontrollably when I scratch the inside of my right ear. Only my right ear.

yellowraincoat · 20/07/2012 21:19

If I scratch the inside of my ear, the roof of my mouth itches.

SrirachaGirl · 20/07/2012 21:18

wombat! I do the finger typing thing too. Usually when watching tv/ movies; I feel compelled to type the dialogue as the characters speak. I blame it on the endless typing drills we had to do in ninth grade... I've been unable to stop ever since. I would probably be an excellent court reporter Grin.

NiceCupOfTeaAndASitDown · 20/07/2012 21:16

Aufaniae hurrah somebody else with the weak knees, I thought I was alone!

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