Weird things your body does (not seen one of these threads for a while?)

[Williaint]

Just in the shower once again counting how many tiny TINY little red dots have newly appeared on my boobs and arms and made me remember some of the past MN threads about weird shit the body does for no reason, especially the things that Google says = death imminent.

the ones that sound concerning have all been checked out and explained as "body can do strange but harmless things".

As above - I get random pin prick red dots mainly on my boobs and upper arms. They are so teeny if I didn't look for them id prob never notice. They aren't cherry angiomas, just dots like I've been jabbed by a needle 🤔

When I wake up in the morning if I go to touch my eye bag area even just slightly, no actual touching, i hear a whooshing in my ear on the same side

I get very slight beaus lines on all my nails for no reason whatsoever

If I get VERY stressed I sometimes get a splinter haemorrhage, always on the same nail, same place

I occasionally get slight purpura in the exact same place on my thigh. Nothing like googling "tiny bruises on leg no injury" to put the shits up you!

Angel by Thierry Mugler literally smells like BO on me. Perfumes with similar notes are fine, just something in that reacts to my....oils???

I have one random very straight thick ginger pube that just grows forever and I have to trim it. (not just one pube, just one ginger one)

I once had a cyst on my forehead and when I finally squeezed it cut it out with a scalpel from Amazon a shard of glass came out 🥴 do not recall having an accident!!

Anyone else have anything a bit weird? Or am I not that weird and others get stuff like this?? 😃

Wow! I never knew. I remember my dad showing me his when I was a kid and then looking at my own.

My nose itches when I’m about to fall asleep (very annoying!)

My left eye waters whenever I start running, no matter what the weather is like. Both eyes water in the cold and wind, but only my left waters when I start to run.

I get a pain in my elbow and have to stretch to click it out - it feels like muscle or tendon has caught on a bone.

I used to get three stabbing pains during my period it was so painful that it would take my breath, the pain would last for about 30 seconds but that was it, slight back ache occasionally but rarely needed to take paracetamol just this (which I’m thankful for as since hitting peri it’s very different)

when stressed but it’s only when related to love of a partner, like when breaking up or being heart broken I get hives or strange swellings (around eyes/lips) and i become extremely sensitive to dairy especially yogurt other times im absolutely fine

I too had a few bouts of Alice in Wonderland syndrome one was when I had chicken pox so maybe fever related

I had it a few times during pregnancy maybe stress related I can remember the incidence very clearly

ds had it once too I think fever related

Wow the Alice in Wonderland thing has blown my mind. For YEARS every now and then I'll get a memory of being ill as a kid and feeling like I was tiny in a massive room, like just vastness, or the walls would look like they are stretching away from me. Very scary and having googled it was that!! Never knew it was a thing 😱

SteamingTangerine I did consider it but then thought of the conversation that would inevitably result.

"Your nose does WHAT? Do it then."
<no nose action>
"Right. Well you probably had a cold. Yes, all 16 times. Come back if you die."

This discouraged me from attending :D

I've got quite teary about the Alice in Wonderland thing now 😩 very vividly recall being really ill one time when i would have been maybe 11? Remember crying hysterically that I felt like I was very 'alone' and everything was enormous around me and my poor mum just kept putting cold flannels on my head and gently shushing me. It was a really terrifying feeling!

I never poo outside of my own house. I don’t particularly like using public loos and am a bit self conscious of pooing in public. I don’t hold it in, I just never need to go, causes some problems on holiday (take laxatives)- this is to give a picture of how much I don’t poo outside of my home…

… yet, every time I go to IKEA I need to poo. Every time!

I used to get this “thing” when I was little. It’s really hard
to describe but I’ll try.

Sounds started to sound “weird”. If I was reading a book for example, if I brushed the page with a finger, or maybe even stroked my arm, the sound was sort of distorted. Almost echoey but not exactly. If I could hear my parents talking downstairs, their voices sounded odd too.

It was sort of like… you know when on tv or film when they slow
down the action/audio? In fact I remember once having an episode of this “thing” and wandering into my parents bedroom and them asking what was wrong and the only thing I could say was “slow…”.

It’s so hard to describe. I grew out of it eventually.

I’ve just checked and I can see my pulse in my wrist. I’d never noticed it before.

I got the liquid pouring out of my nose thing once, after a sinus infection. It was dayglo yellow and very disconcerting.

I used to get this! Everything just sounded slow and my brain would think it was all in slow motion but it clearly wasn't. Like my head was just full of slowness.

I had Alice in Wonderland Syndrome a lot when I was a child, always when I was ill. I still get it from time to.time, and it's like a weird sense of comfort. Disconcerting and yet reassuring at the same time.

The need to poop in book shops - always when I was the library as a child and i am not a frequent pooper. Madness

If I eat fish, my privates smell like fish the next day. I don’t have BV or anything like that, it never smells like fish otherwise. So yeah, I actually can’t eat fish anymore for this reason.

I have Alice in wonderland syndrome, brought on by a bad case of flu when I was a child. I know experience it when I’m feeling ill or very tired. Sometimes I can kind of force myself to feel it.

I get a really sore jaw when eating peanut butter.

my hair hurts if I get a fright

I get this too 😳 thought I had BV then spoke to a pal who said she gets it when she eats prawns then it clicked - it was the fish finger barms I kept buying from the canteen at work that was new on the menu 😩 like you I don't eat fish anymore!!

I've got another that's appeared today - the bit of gum behind my two front teeth at the top sometimes swells up so much it makes me lisp!! It goes after a day or two. Strange.

Apparently Elizabeth Taylor had the double eyelashes thing, which was, according to celeb legend, something which added to her being known to her fabulous eyes.

When I was a child, I assumed everyone saw the same thing so I never asked anyone or questioned it. It wasn’t until I was older that I thought it was a bit weird and I started googling it.
I went on to suffer from migraines and ME, which seems to link.

I prefer to think of it as 'shooty arse', myself. 😂

It's funny I used to call it "javelin bum" way before I saw it on MN! Mine started when I was pregnant and now I get it a few times a month when I'm on my period. Happens during work meetings sometimes which is fun

@Williaint I get the same with that bit of gum occasionally. It only lasts a day at most but it’s so annoying!

Sounds started to sound “weird”. If I was reading a book for example, if I brushed the page with a finger, or maybe even stroked my arm, the sound was sort of distorted. Almost echoey but not exactly. If I could hear my parents talking downstairs, their voices sounded odd too.

I get this with the radio when I’m about to drop off to sleep in the car (as a passenger I hasten to add!!)

The Pink Floyd song Comfortably Numb is the best evocation of Alice in Wonderland syndrome outside the book after which it is named: ‘When I was a child, I had a fever,/My hands felt just like two balloons./ Now I have that feeling once again.’

I’m sharing that I’m just coming out of a backache bout, generally triggered by very long car journeys. I always get a weird dragging headache and tiredness first, then my lower back sort of seizes up such that I can bend forward but can’t straighten up or lean back. For the first day, the pain is excruciating and nothing touches it, it almost feels like burning. The second day I sort of hobble around and painkillers help a bit. The third day my mobility returns and I’m just bog standard stiff-after-a-workout sore. Then it just disappears. It’s almost like a spinal migraine. 🤷‍♀️

I don't even know how to adequately explain this one but I get a sort of croaking/vibrating/rumbling in my throat that actually makes a noise.
It was happening this morning in bed, sort of feels like the start of a burp but then my throat just sort or croaks/rumbles for the time duration of a burp, bit like your stomach rumbling but in your throat, I have no control over it

The lips on your face, right? Just checking. 😁