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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:
CharlieUniformNovemberTango · 19/07/2012 22:26

garlic yes to the itching too! I've been known to use a fork to try and stop it in the middle of the night when I just want to bloody sleep! But nothing stops it!

I do the sleep jerking thing. When I was younger my mum told me it was because I was having an outer body experience and the was my soul jumping back in. My mum is a freak.

And the eye twitching thing drives me insane!

TastesLikePanda · 19/07/2012 22:25

Occasionally, if I am laying in bed, I get the strangest sensation that I am swelling up to massive proportions, like Alice, when she eats the cake (or drinks the drink - whichever one makes her grow)
It feels like I could burst, or fill up the whole room, but then if I open my eyes, and kind of 'ground' myself by touching the wall, then it goes away.

I have never confessed that to anyone. Ever.

Fiveflowers · 19/07/2012 22:24

Oh, yes, I forgot the post bath whoosh, Tortoise!

Why does it stay up there so long, ie until I'm fully dressed Confused

NotGeoffVader · 19/07/2012 22:22

Quite a few of the things listed here....what is the explanation for the feeling of having hot or cold water spilled or poured on you? Had that several times - and have quite often had to check that there is no water around!

I also have a 'funny ear'. It aches into the ear canal, and is painful to touch all around there if I have been anywhere near a draught on that side. It has started to click a bit now when I lay on it. The other ear is fine.
At the moment I also seem to have some form of tinnitus or possibly just blocked ears - when I am drifting off to sleep I can hear a low throbbing noise which I assume is the blood rushing around my ears. A few nights ago the throbbing was replaced by a weird dripping noise (sinus?).

EyeoftheStorm · 19/07/2012 22:22

So far javelin arse linked to periods and ovulation. Not really linked to your bum though?

MimsyBorogroves · 19/07/2012 22:22

My eyeballs make a clicking noise sometimes when I lie on my side.

If I sleep on my side and DH curls up behind me he cannot breathe on my back, or it gives me stabbing pains in my side.

hiddenhome · 19/07/2012 22:22

When I'm throwing something down the stairs like the laundry bag, or a towel, or perhaps some of ds2's soft toys out of his loft bed when I'm changing it, I feel all weird like I'm falling too Confused

Fiveflowers · 19/07/2012 22:21

I get random missing and additional heartbeats that make me cough

Mine make me burp, VisuallyChallengedFiend

Tortoise · 19/07/2012 22:21

I know others get this because I've read it on mn before!
My fanjo sucks up bath water! Always seems to release it just after I get dressed which means wet knicks. Very annoying!

lubeybooby · 19/07/2012 22:19

I get javelin arse when I ovulate

sassytheFIRST · 19/07/2012 22:19

Nervous fanjo. Prickling palms when trying not to cry. And either of my kids vomiting leads to a total bowel evacuation for me within seconds of finishing cleaning and comforting child.

sallysparrow157 · 19/07/2012 22:18

I have sweaty knee-caps - have noticed when I go to the gym I get sweat patches over my knees even when I don't anywhere else (it's not due to trousers being loose and coming into contact with my knees more than anywhere else, it happens in tight legging type joggers too...)
I get the twitchy eye thing too, very much stress related! Had it for weeks starting a job I was really anxious about, which reqired a lot of fine-motor dexterity - I could SEE my sodding eyelid twitching when I was trying to do things!

EyeoftheStorm · 19/07/2012 22:18

Orgasms in sleep! Is that not normal then?

VisuallyChallengedFiend · 19/07/2012 22:17

Plucking my eyebrows makes me sneeze

I get random missing and additional heartbeats that make me cough

All my joints crack. It is really quite disgusting. My neck is the worst.

orangeandlemons · 19/07/2012 22:17

I get a restless fanny (different from nervous). when I get restless legs which are a bloody nigtmare, I also get restless genitals. It is not fun. I have to press really hard against it with my hand, like when you want a wee to stop it. Fortunately I only get it in bed

Fiveflowers · 19/07/2012 22:16

Nervous fanjo - check (watching You've been framed is agony!)
Gleeking - check
twitchy eyelids, thighs, fingers - check
orgasms in sleep - check

Also, if I raise my right arm above my head, the first joint in my index finger tingles.

garlicbutter · 19/07/2012 22:16

Oh, Charlie, I have exactly the same left shoulder-blade numb spot! In fact, it's started burning just now - in sympathy, no doubt Confused It itches sometimes, too, like crazy. But scratching it doesn't help ... because it's numb Hmm

My Granny said it meant I'd been touched there by a witch as a baby. She was a tiny bit superstitious.

I'm another pre-sleep jerker. It's your brain discharging excess static, apparently.
I also "gleek" when talking sometimes (yeuch) and am v. twitchy when tired.

toxtethogrady · 19/07/2012 22:15
Grin
EyeoftheStorm · 19/07/2012 22:15

You have no idea how proud I am that I have named cobra spit correctly and introduced some of you to javelin arse.

ForFoxsGlacierMints · 19/07/2012 22:15

toxteth perfect description! Though it happens very quickly, then they must find the exit - until you do it again!

Yes, this is how we while away the hours in my house!

fluffacloud · 19/07/2012 22:14

I get goose pimples in odd patches on my arms and legs for no reason.

Whenever I hear applause it makes me cry.

If I pluck my eyebrows in a certain place I have a sneezing fit.

Nervous parping Hmm

GreenEyesAndHam · 19/07/2012 22:13

No but Discus Clit is an absolute bugger

SausageSmuggler · 19/07/2012 22:13

If i'm cleaning my belly button in the shower or something and I poke a bit too far it makes me cough.

toxtethogrady · 19/07/2012 22:12

Grin well, i can say, hand on heart, i have never experienced javelin arse.

anyone had shot-putter's fanny?

toxtethogrady · 19/07/2012 22:10

like a couple of ferrets in a sack looking for the exit, fox?

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