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

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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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MeeWhoo · 19/07/2012 22:49

I can really feel the connection betwen my eyes, nose, ears so I can always taste eye drops at the back of my mouth ( vile) and I always cough if I use a Cotton bud in my ear.
Also, not weird but just wondering if someone else has it or knows what it is. Every so often, usually around my period I get these tiny bumps in my fingers that are really itchy. They are very small and look a bit like tiny round blisters,my mumalso gets them.

TheEnthusiasticTroll · 19/07/2012 22:49

when i need a shit and have held it in I get a feeling like my head is growing bigger.

My Dr told me the unreachable itch was to do with thrush affecting the nerves a bit like shingles or herpes does. may have no symptoms else where.

NotGeoffVader · 19/07/2012 22:49

I've only had javelin arse when I've had trapped wind. I have to tense everything up and slowly relax. And fart. [shocked]

I've also had the twanging thing that was mentioned upthread. Funnily enough in the same ear that gets the horrible ache.

Everton4me · 19/07/2012 22:48

Nervous stomach and fanjo when watching You've Been Framed when people fall, slip, injure themselves. I also have a clicky left ankle that clicks on every stair when the ankle extends downwards. My mum has it too.

atosilis · 19/07/2012 22:48

Haven't read the whole thread but if I clean my ears with a cotton bud, I will gag.

I also can relive an itch by scratching somewhere else.

No nervous fanny but genuine rock in pelvis - is that what you mean?

I can always tell if someone is behind me.

Smellslikecatspee · 19/07/2012 22:48

Tastelikepanda

Hey

It's a thing google, Alice in wonderland syndrome! It can mean lots of crap things but sometimes it's just there

Stannwigg · 19/07/2012 22:47

Oh I sometimes get calf twitches. Last time I had a huge panic attack as I googled and though it was a DVT.

GreenEyesAndHam · 19/07/2012 22:47

Sparkle yes I get the snapping band in my neck thing too, I can even hear it when it happens. Ugh

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OHforDUCKScake · 19/07/2012 22:47

Oh, is it weed that does it then? That would explain why I havent had it in years.

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Chubfuddler · 19/07/2012 22:47

I get referred pain in my shoulder from random parts of my body.

Strong mint makes me sneeze

If I have an intense orgasm my right leg gets the trembles.

fluffygal · 19/07/2012 22:46

Ooh Queen I was a bit of a pill/ pothead back in the day (long long time ago!) so could very well be drug related.

gremlindolphin · 19/07/2012 22:45

what a fab thread!

tasteslikepanda, fluffygal etc - I do the swelling up thing and sometimes shrinking thing too!

Stannwigg · 19/07/2012 22:45

This is just the best thread on the world. I finally feel normal, to the extent I can't even be arsed to name change.

BulletProofMum · 19/07/2012 22:45

I used to get it too, and still smoke the weed ;£

fluffygal · 19/07/2012 22:44

Oh by moving slowly I mean in my puffed up state in my head not moving physically. Ah I miss it, hope it happens soon. Its like everything around me has puffed up to into massive cushions.

Queen0fFlamingEverything · 19/07/2012 22:42

Oooh I used to get the growing-to-gigantic-proportions feeling too - like my hands were huuuuuuuuuge with great big enormous fingers.

I always put it down to the fact I used to smoke a ridiculous amount of weed, and it very rarely happens since I stopped.

AuntPepita · 19/07/2012 22:42

pachelbel - that is your cervix twitching. It dips into the pool of semen (sorry TMI). saw it on a tv prog once. But am not googling....no siree.

smellsofsick · 19/07/2012 22:42

panda I get the opposite Alice in Wonderland feeling. I feel like a shrinking at a rapid rate

Weirdness.

MrsBaggins · 19/07/2012 22:41

Nervous fanjo - check
Sleep orgasms -check Blush

I get sleep paralysis - if im really tired I wake up and Im paralysed. I try to speak and move and cant.I get horrible noises in my head. Now I just lie there and wait for it to pass but its awful.

TastesLikePanda · 19/07/2012 22:41

Poofyness rules!

GreenEyesAndHam · 19/07/2012 22:41

Doesn't it just show, we're not half as unique as we like to think we are. Which is quite comforting really

TastesLikePanda · 19/07/2012 22:40

Yay, we are not alone! It's not an unpleasant situation, it certainly doesn't worry me, so I do just tend to ride it out... but I do have to check just to make sure I am not actually puffing up!

Aerobreaking · 19/07/2012 22:40

Oh, and the random itch somewhere that is actually an itch somewhere else - that is probably due to the sensory homunculus So two places that are actually far apart on your body may be next to each other in the brain, so the nerves get 'confused' sometimes as to which part is which. It's why some people find feet/toe sucking erotic - they're next to each other in the brain.

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OHforDUCKScake · 19/07/2012 22:39

Tasteslikepanda I used to get that! For years!! I used to get (at night!) an overwhelming feeling that I was enormous and that everyone else was tiny. Really tiny.

Havent had it years.

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Sparklyboots · 19/07/2012 22:39

Aha, Panda my head sometimes stays the same but my body shrinks in the same way... movement makes it all right itself.