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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.

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maristella · 20/07/2012 11:14

Try flaring your nostrils and see what your fanjo does Grin

I also get javelin arse, I'm pleased so many of you do too, without wishing you pain!

Occasional twitchy eye

When I've done a huge wee that I've been really needing my kidneys kind of groan...

When I need a poo my whole body changes, I go pale and goose bumpy and I always break into a sweat when I have pooed, even though they are not difficult at all.

Yes to nervous fanny!!

kitstwins · 20/07/2012 10:34

I used to have the Alice in Wonderland thingie when I was a child - as everyone said, tended to be linked to fevers. I also had this strange sensation when everything would 'shift'. It's really hard to explain but everything around me would feel very large and round, my skin would feel as if it had big scales on it, I'd see lots of hexagonal boxes everywhere. It's the oddest thing to describe and a horrible sensation. I've no idea what the fuck it is, but I've never come across anyone else feeling the same.

I had repeat mastitis with my last baby (a year ago) and from time to time I get a twinge/sensation of it in exactly the same spot. It's grim. I can actually feel that teeth grindingly awful ache for a few seconds. It may be related to a damaged duct or something.

Get the post-bath surge of water. I can also shoot water from my fanny when I'm in the bath, up like a fountain. It's a bit of a (private) party trick and I guess down to good pelvic floor .

seabuckthorn · 20/07/2012 10:33

If I am up high or I see anything or anyone at a height I get this funny feeling in my feet! Tingly almost.
Anyone else?

toxtethogrady · 20/07/2012 10:31

hervana, i used to get those too!

Idlegirl83 · 20/07/2012 10:28

Long distance - I can do the finger bending thing too! Party trick :)

Hervana · 20/07/2012 10:27

Blimey balls mind your eyeballs when your plucking!

Hervana · 20/07/2012 10:22

thank goodness for the Internet eh?

Hervana · 20/07/2012 10:19

When I say very young I mean in my teens yeah admittedly that was a while ago now!

BoysWillGrow · 20/07/2012 10:19

Whenever I pluck my eyebrows it makes me sneeze until I finnish, weird me Grin

Hervana · 20/07/2012 10:19

I used to get these little smelly yellow lumps appear from the back of my throat-found out years later they are some sort of mineral deposit?? Don't get them so much anymore for some reason

When I was very young I mentioned it to my dr and he didn't have a clue what I was talking about which made me feel like a proper freak!

Hervana · 20/07/2012 10:16

Oh how I love this thread loads of this stuff happens to me too!!

OHforDUCKScake · 20/07/2012 10:12

I gpt migraine aura once, I thought I was having a stroke too. It started off small flashy coloured thing then got bigger to the point I couldnt see. Then I got pain on the orher side of my head, but it wasnt a bad headache by any means.

aureyne number 2 is 'brain freeze'.

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BabyGiraffes · 20/07/2012 10:11

When I get stressed I start to see things in half-sleep. dh was not amused the time I woke him because I had to tell him quite urgently that there was a gecko trying to climb on his bedside table...

Before job interviews I get IBS type symptoms and go for enourmous diarrhea like dumps several times. It's like my bowels get nervous and need to get rid of everything I have ever eaten.

marge2 · 20/07/2012 10:07

I can pull the tendon in my wrist up towards my elbow onto the 'wron' side of my arm, and when I let it go it you can see it snaking back accross. Freaked loads of people out with that one.

I get the 'womb clench' anxiety thing too.

If I slip, like in socks on a very slippery floor, but don't fall, I get a really intense tingling in the palm of my hands, a bit like the boob 'let down' feeling. If I do fall it doesn;t happen.

If I see a big spider my fists clench of their own accord

CBear6 · 20/07/2012 10:06

littlemachine, I've Neve lost my pregnancy heightened sense of smell or taste.

CBear6 · 20/07/2012 10:04

I often get a feeling in my lower (and sometimes upper) abdomen that feels exactly like a baby kicking. DH says it wind but it's not like any wind I've ever known, it's identical to kicks.

I don't grow armpit hair, I never have, my pits are completely bald. The ont exception is when I'm pregnant and I get a couple of wisps.

Anaesthetics don't last long on me. I have an EMCS with DD and the spinal lasted long enough for the surgery (thankfully) but completely wore off not long after, within minutes of getting to recovery I had movement back. When I got a filling at my last dentist appointment the numbing injection wore off and had to be topped up, that lasted long enough to do the filling but it wore off again before I'd even left the building. It's now in my notes but I wonder if anyone else has this? My cousin has it too (her spinal wore off mid-CS though).

I also get twitchy eye, nervous fanjo, and javelin arse. I get the finger blisters too.

My cycle is bizarre. I have four weeks and a period then six weeks and a period, then four, then six and so on. It was like this when I first started my period at 13, then went all weird when I went on the pill at 21, vanished entirely for three years, then went back to its original 4-6-4-6 pattern after DS was born. I only ever pregnant during the six week cycle and never the four week one.

WicketyPitch · 20/07/2012 09:58

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littlemachine · 20/07/2012 09:52

Oh yes I get repetitive phrase syndrome as well! Often it's foam banana.

littlemachine · 20/07/2012 09:50

A few of these for me - mint and sunlight sneezes, sleep orgasms, sleep paralysis, sat in invisible water syndrome.

When someone is physically close to me who I don't want to be, I get a weird feeling in my left hip, like really sensitive skin.

Since being pregnant, I still sometimes get superhuman sense of smell. I can smell everything in the world at the same time (so it feels anyway). If it happens at night I have to put karvol drops on my pillow so I can only smell that.

garlicbutter · 20/07/2012 09:44

Oh, excellent googling there, SoftKitty! The Wikipedia entry could have been written from your heart-popping post.

Shhh, you've found more than a few people at least as weird as you Grin

MildredIsMyAlterEgo · 20/07/2012 09:32

Shock Interview

Interviewdilemma · 20/07/2012 09:31

Sneezing fits, one after the other.
Record is 22

MildredIsMyAlterEgo · 20/07/2012 09:22

Ephiny yy to sneezing in sunlight (the photic sneeze reflex, according to our learned friend, Google Grin )

If I have a sneeze coming that I think needs a little 'help', I turn on the light or look at the sun. Sorted.

AngryFeet · 20/07/2012 09:15

Oh my god I thought I was the only freak with the nervous fanny syndrome! I get it quite a lot though - if I get properly frightened like looking down from heights or on rollercoasters or if one of the kids runs into the road. Very strange indeed...

tryingtoleave · 20/07/2012 08:57

This thread is making me feel like I have very well behaved nether regions.

I do get a very intense, tingling feeling in my forehead when I eat some kinds of chilied food. It makes me screw my eyes up, but it is fairly pleasurable.