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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:
BalloonSlayer · 20/07/2012 16:09

I'd say you are allergic to Blue Cheese, elephants.

LadyClariceCannockMonty · 20/07/2012 16:06

Elephants, 'Eating blue cheese makes mouth and tongue go numb and sore.' I get that ? well, numb, not really sore. Maybe I'm just not eating enough. Grin

Also the 'sick spot' between big toe and next toe. at the thought.

MissFaversam · 20/07/2012 16:04

I get something like that OP when someone I care about hurts themselves, my bum cheeks atomatically clench.

Mate's ears click when she sees a spider.

Also if I drink alcohol too quickly I get "the monsters" - my hands and feet clench up Grin

ElephantsAndMiasmas · 20/07/2012 15:58

I get achy sore ankles and knees when I'm tired beyond comprehension.

Ever since I was a kid I will occasionally (few times a year) get an awful piercing spine spasm pain that means I can't move (at all) or even breath in properly until it passes. Anywhere from one second to 10 minutes or so. Terrifying.

If I am thirsty when I finally drink water I feel my eyes lubricate themselves INSTANTLY.

Around once a month the skin starts peeling off the inside of my mouth in great sections much in the manner of PVA glue if you spread it all over your hand and wait for it to dry then peel it off. Doesn't hurt and is quite fun.

Eating blue cheese makes mouth and tongue go numb and sore.

I feel like i'm going to be sick if anyone presses on belly button or between toes (no flipflops)

What's scary is that NO-ONE seems to have mentioned these things yet

lubeybooby · 20/07/2012 15:57

I have another one.

Sometimes when I sneeze, I sneeze so hard that I get pins and needles instantly in my arms. anyone else? bloody hayfever the usual culprit

lubeybooby · 20/07/2012 15:54

Hooray FateLovesTheFearless I'm not alone on the random aftershocks! :o

They last just a second or two and have been known to make me blush a little bit.

NameGotLostInCyberspace · 20/07/2012 15:41

wierd feeling in my stomach very much like a baby moving - has made me wonder on occasion even when I am SURE I am not pregant.

HedgeHunter · 20/07/2012 15:41

Javelin arse - always seem to get it sitting with DH watching tv - I suddenly sit bolt upright and suck in my breath! Then relax as it subsides, DH raises an eyebrow and asks if I'm ok - I just brush it off with yeah just a spasm - there are some things he doesn't need to know and trying to explain javelin arse with a straight face would be too much!

Also have a patch the size of a 50p on the outsides of both my thighs that are really painfully to touch or press. About 6 inches up from the outside of my knee - I've never had an explanation for it but a masseuse did once say it was a chi spot or some such that had a blockage ??

Restless legs at night drives me nuts - they start after a couple of glasses of vino!

cocolepew · 20/07/2012 15:33

I love your extra nipple story minko, if it was me I'd be telling everyone

QuenelleOJersey2012 · 20/07/2012 15:29

Really Condensedmilk? I am so pleased to find someone else who does that. It is annoying though isn't it?

TheNamesTheyAreAChangin · 20/07/2012 15:27

yep, I know the yawning but not being able to do a "proper" one.

(and I think this is common but still wierd, just writing yawn made me do one. reading the word will make me yawn - there i go again)

StuckInTheFensAwayFromHome · 20/07/2012 15:15

Twitchy legs at night - check
Gushing after bath (and getting dressed so need a new pair of knickers) - check
Recurring dream with fever - check (on a corridor, every picture is a horrible witch, every door I open she's behind it, she always looks the same)
Thinking I'm swelling up like Alice - check
Wanting a poo when going into library/certain shops/my mum phones me - check
Going pale and goosebumpy before a poo - check
Hairs on end like a cat when talking about ghosts/moving music - check
Random 'waking' up when I am already awake - check
(Isn't this therapeutic to realise we're not weird and other people also do this!)

This may be a new one - not yawning properly, but can't relax till I do a proper yawn, but its really hard for me to describe the difference between a 'proper' yawn and one that isn't - I just have to keep going till I've done a 'proper' one.

ShowOfHands · 20/07/2012 15:09

Roseformeplease- mint makes me sneeze too.

I also hiccup when ovulating.

Ephiny · 20/07/2012 14:58

Right, since we're doing TMI/over-sharing - does anyone else occasionally have an orgasm following a much needed wee? Or is that just me? Blush

Condensedmilk · 20/07/2012 14:56

Quenelle yes me too. I do it with numbers too - looking for patterns.

lauratheexplorer · 20/07/2012 14:44

Sometimes my fanny tingles and goes dead especially if I've been sitting. It's really very uncomfortable and lasts about a minute.

Anyone?

FateLovesTheFearless · 20/07/2012 14:44

Lubey, I get mini orgasm aftershocks too! Grin

FateLovesTheFearless · 20/07/2012 14:40

I can't just sneeze once. It never happens. If I sneeze, I will continue to sneeze for at the very minimum eight or so more times.

I get hiccups when I smoke.

Sometimes if my nipples are touched, I feel it in my teeth! Not all the time but sometimes!

Sure this one is normal but just incase...if someone I love is angry at me i get an actual physical pain in my chest. Almost like the pain you get with a cramped muscle.

minko · 20/07/2012 14:36

When I first had DD and I was breast feeding milk started coming out of my armpit. I had to stick a breast pad in my armpit at all times. Turns out I have an extra nipple (not that it looks like one, more of a large pore). Gross. Embarrassing too...

OHforDUCKScake · 20/07/2012 14:35

I get sticky lung too.

OP posts:
LadyClariceCannockMonty · 20/07/2012 14:35

I used to get this as a child/teen but haven't had it for years. It's v hard to describe but here goes nothing ...

A feeling in my head like it's suddenly full of slightly warm, slightly itchy/tingly, very fine sand. In my mind's eye the inside of my head is full of a dark/black mass. At the same time I get a kind of reverse tunnel vision and feel as if I'm looking at everything from very far away. Hmm

YES to hot clunking neck thing, javelin arse and belly button-fanjo connection.

SarahStratton, please expand on 'throw things involuntarily' Grin

electricalbanana · 20/07/2012 14:30

i have an area on my back which has no sensation of touch. But deep underneath it itches...but that itch cannot be satisfied by a scratch....cos i cant feel it!

Also i have restless legs syndrome, i kick about in the night!

TroublesomeEx · 20/07/2012 14:26

I always sneeze with every pluck of my right eyebrow.

Never happens with the left.

Never doesn't happen with the right.

TroublesomeEx · 20/07/2012 14:25

I get itches that can't be scratched. So I scratch where I feel the itch, but as soon as I scratch I realise that isn't where the itch is at all, it's just where I can feel it.

So sometimes I might have to scratch one part of my body to get rid of an itch in another.

I get sticky lung

and nervous fanny

picnicbasketcase · 20/07/2012 14:25

Just remembered another one. If I eat anything chocolatey with bubbles, like Wispas or chocolate mousse, I get sneezing fits.

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