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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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Longdistance · 20/07/2012 08:39

I know when it's cold, my nips go hard first.

I can bend just the first joints in my fingers, without bending the others.

I have an odd nobbly bit in one of my finger joints, that I injured as a teen, which over the years has somehow disappeared Confused

ChuckUFarley · 20/07/2012 08:26

I was just going to write about restless legs but it's upthread. I hate it. I have to get up and walk around and try to have a wee.

I also have nervous fanny and javelin arse.

I get a weird feeling on the right of my abdomen as well. It feels like a section of me is missing until I touch it. But as soon as I take my hand away it disappears again.

And taking a crap makes me sneeze.

Ephiny · 20/07/2012 08:24

'Javelin arse' is proctalgia fugax surely?

Anyone else sneeze in bright sunlight?

Acumenon · 20/07/2012 08:17

I do that, aurynne. The repeating words thing. Or sometimes I just get stuck on a portion of text and go back and forth on it, sort of acting it out. I call it pattern capture, because it happens with all sorts of things: sound sequences, some textures or fabrics, moving water, gestures, omg, all sorts of things. Blush

I am an extremely weird person though, just in general. I tend to take myself off to the loo or something if I get completely overwhelmed, or try to refer it somewhere so it's less embarrassing, like moving my tongue around in the pattern inside my mouth.

IsSpringSprangedYet · 20/07/2012 08:13

Oh, and I get an itchy thumb, on the meaty bit on your actual hand. I am always scratching with the fingernails of the same hand..... if any of that makes sense.

And itchy knuckles.

IsSpringSprangedYet · 20/07/2012 08:09

Another twitchy eyed, javelin arse here!!

(javelin arse can FUCK OFF!!)

Indith · 20/07/2012 08:04

When I get a cold my right nipple itches.

Going on the school run now so I shall leave reading and comparing til I get back!

shhhgobacktosleep · 20/07/2012 07:55

Your migraine sounds exactly like mine apart from the roof of the mouth bit. Oh and I also get the period pain right down my leg into my foot but mines the right leg.

SuddenlyMadameGlamour · 20/07/2012 07:49

I have endo metriosis and associated with my cycle I regularly get javelin arse, fanny pain and even shooting pains in my labia! Plus I get period pains in my left leg, all the way down to my foot.

I also get migraine with aura. I always know I'm getting a migraine cos when i look in the mirror I can't see my left eye, my hands don't feel like they're mine, I start to yawn and the right side of the roof of my mouth goes numb. And I lose all ability to string a sentence together. 'tis very odd. First time I had one I thought I was having a stroke!

shhhgobacktosleep · 20/07/2012 07:44

coco and garlic Just to reassure he doesn't press my off button, well he did a few times when we accidentally discovered it as its so wierd, but it's not some sort of sex game Grin It's an awful sensation feeling trapped inside a body you can't move. I suffer with crippling migraines and him rubbing my skull until my meds kick in helps to stop me from being sick. I shall show him the pressure point link though as when I told him about this thread last night he laughed loudly at my hoping to find someone else as odd as me.

aurynne · 20/07/2012 07:17

Thank you God! there are other weird people ot there like me!!!!!

I have been getting the Alice in Wonderland syndrome since I was a child... back then I got it when I had a fever and not only I felt myself growing enormous, but I had obsessive thoughts of balls and objects getting enormous too, accompanied by a sense of total horror. I also heard distorted sounds, and very loud ones. It still happens to me occasionally, apparently at random... and the fear is so intense that i have to stop myself from running and screaming.

I have a couple of weird things that I haven't seen described here, anyone else?:

  1. Sometimes when I am watching TV of even thinking about somebody that someone else said, I feel the need to actually repeat it myself loud. When there are people around I feel very embarrassed, so sometimes I try to say it very quiet, with my mouth shut, and through my nose. Some years ago I found out that it is called "echolalia".
  1. When I eat something very cold, or when I breath very cold air, sometimes I get this really sharp, intense pain behind my eyes! It is really, really painful, but usually disappears after some seconds.
Piccalilli2 · 20/07/2012 05:25

Loud noises make me blink hard. Makes it difficult to watch fireworks!

Arana · 20/07/2012 05:25

Raw mushrooms give me hiccups too :o

LesserOfTwoWeevils · 20/07/2012 02:13

I get hiccups immediately if I eat freshly baked bread or cold potatoes.

NellVarnish · 20/07/2012 01:45

Can't sleep because of Restless Legs and have almost woken the household up chortling and snorting with laughter at some of the ailments on here - the cat is looking at me like Hmm.

Yy to Javelin Arse, Funny Fanny and Cervix Twitch!

Can I add Fluttery Buttocks to the list? It's a fluttery feeling inside one perfectly proportioned buttock, a bit like baby kicks. Not altogether unpleasant and not painful like Javelin Arse. Grin

Cailleach · 20/07/2012 01:04

If I see someone I love getting hurt (family, friends, pets) I get a sciatica-like pain that shoots down from the small of my back through to my thigh.

EduStudent · 20/07/2012 01:03

My jaw clunks every time I open it and dislocates often Sad

cocolepew · 20/07/2012 01:01

Definitely not diabetic.
I sometimes dislocate my jaw by yawning too wide.

SummerRain · 20/07/2012 00:57

If I lean forward at a certain angle it feels like the bit the should be behind my ribs at the bottom of my chest is trapped on the wrong side of my ribs. It fucking hurts and there's a visible bulge. It gets stuck like that and takes about 20 seconds to 'release'

All my joints pop, some really loudly. I can pop my hips in and out and dislocate my jaw.

Sometimes I get a really weird itch on my top lip at the right, always at exactly the sane spot, feels like a bee buzzing.

Arana · 20/07/2012 00:53

DH also gets a thing when he sneezes, inside the bones in his upper arms really really hurts.

EduStudent · 20/07/2012 00:53

The sugar puff wee can be a sign of diabetes, might be worth getting that checked.

Needing a poo can completely fuck me up. Headaches, lethargy, terrible aching all over. My sister just goes a deathly pale white...

Inadeeptrance · 20/07/2012 00:38

Sometimes, (usually if I'm lying in bed going to sleep) I think about sex and it makes me sneeze!

I also get the neck twang hot feeling, I call it 'whiplash'.

My big toe on my left foot goes through periods of intense itchiness. As did my left nipple, though that has now stopped.

I sometimes get a weird feeling like I'm either really really big... Or really really small... Or something... Never tried to put that into words before!

bogeyface · 20/07/2012 00:32

I get funny fanny too :o

ALittleScatterOfRain · 20/07/2012 00:30

I have the twitchy eyelid too if I'm stressed and I get in in the slightly pudgy bit on the inside of my foot, just under the ankle bone. You can see it pulsing in and out, it's very strange.

I also have a spot on my leg with no feeling- it's where I have a sort of pit/scar from chicken pox so I'm guessing it's localised nerve damage.

I have a horrible one too, if I get cramp in my right arm (fortunately rarely) it's absolutely awful. It spreads very quickly and my arm pulls up and my hand curls in towards my forearm completely involuntarily. I think it must be something to do with the dominant muscle groups? It's quite scary though especially as it doesn't happen in my left arm Confused

Arana · 20/07/2012 00:28

I feel vindicated as a human being - everything that I have weird things about (electric zap in the neck, nervous fanny, vag bubbles, really itchy shins in bed, itchy chin when I'm having an asthma attack and neck itching when I tweeze my eyebrows) everyone else has too :)

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