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

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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?? 😃

When I poo, at the exact moment it starts to come out and my anus expands, I get a really sharp pain in my right arm, in the side of the bicep, its so bad that I have to rub my arm to soothe it, it feels like a needle going in, its been happening for years. 😂

When I yawn too widely I get a sharp pain in my left ear and can feel the sensation of liquid trickling inside my ear. Very painful and disconcerting.

I can blink inside my ears. There's a muscle in there I can control and it's audible.

When I was a child, I would find things getting far away and long ago when I looked at them. I didn't know it then but it was called Alice in Wonderland syndrome and the prelude to migraines in adult life.

When I am startled, even mildly, I feel an electric shock in my finger tips.

One day as a child I choked on stringy cheese. Ever since then, I have thought I might be about to choke during eating and have a burning feeling down my lower back - happens at least once a week.

Every so often I wake up and can't move. I often hear things happening like my children standing over me and breathing. Occasionally much more frightening things. If my eyes are slightly open I can see through the slits. Sometimes I will think I'm walking to the window but when I look out, it's usually a detailed scene from a different age and covered in an snow or a beautiful sunset. A bit like an old Dutch painting. I will realise I'm still asleep and wait to fall back into a dream again. I used to be able to fight my way into being awake but I've lost the knack.

⬆️ That sounds like sleep paralysis.

Me too . Only with white fish though . I can eat tuna with no problems .

The reply link didn't work . I meant I smell of fish if I eat fish . Delightful 😆

I'm the same with coffee, curry, garlic and onions.

I'm such a catch 😂

@Dalriadanland i can do the ear thing g too.

All my daughter has complained intermittently at night of ‘things looking big’ or ‘things looking small’. She gets really upset, whimpering and crying and it’s hard to soothe her. Having seen AIWS on here I think that’s what she’s experiencing. It sounds terrifying. I have migraines (aural and headaches rather than extreme pain) which didn’t start until after I had her so I wonder if she’s the one that gave them to me and she’ll have migraines herself. Hope not!

😂 I’m literally CRYING.

I sneeze eleventy million times sometimes after eating, or after going out into the sun / bright light. So did my mother, and my son. Google reckons it’s a sensitivity thing somewhere in the eye that makes the eye water and it dribbles down the nose and causes the sneezing. No idea why after food though. On the good side I rarely get a cold.

Also like a pp when I need a poo my nose runs. I always assumed the body produces mucus to help smooth things along and it just happens to get produced everywhere…

This post has just made it click for me that Alice in Wonderland syndrome is what I get! First happened when I was ill as a child, I remember being absolutely terrified. Rarely happens now luckily but I really hate it.

My husband has this, usually when laying in bed at night. Not a burp but more of a froggy croak in his upper chest not quite in his throat.

Oh my goodness, I never knew that this had a name, and had always assumed it was from having a tiny amount of damage after having pleurisy! It sometimes feels a pop and then a part of my lung knocking a rib, or something like that, but obviously isn't! Bloody painful and takes my breath away but luckily goes off quite quickly!
Loving that this thread is enabling me to add to my weird diagnoses that aren't life threatening list!!

Thank you very much 😉

I sneeze repeatedly when I eat or drink too much too!

Ooh love these! I’ll list my top favs:

As a child, if I turned my head too quickly I’d get a horrific aching pain in the back of my head/neck and be completely unable to move or speak until it subsided.

Madelung’s deformity (Google the pics!!!) meant my wrists had HUGE knobs on them from where the bones were growing too much/not enough. All treated now with an op, but I can’t bend my wrist at all and still get the odd twinge.

Overproduction of cells on my tongue means I ‘shed’ in the form of little stringy white bits of tongue skin. Annoying for me but a mood kill for DH if he accidentally chews on some!

If I breathe too deeply through my nose, my nostrils close completely and I look very MJ-esque. It only goes away when I open my mouth.

I have this thing where, if I accidentally move my head in the wrong way, it feels as though part of my windpipe "pops out" in between the other bits of muscle and gristle in my neck. When this happens I can't move my neck and it hurts to swallow, and I have to manually push it back in, an act so painful that I actually have to psyche myself up to do it.

And another throat one: sometimes when I'm eating chocolate (usually when I'm scarfing it down, rage-eating or whatever), it causes a weird dry-feeling patch in my throat, like a tickly cough x1000. It's horrible and no amount of eating/drinking/lozenges helps, and it can last hours and hours. I never learn my lesson though

My late DH had this, but K-Mart.

As a child, if I turned my head too quickly I’d get a horrific aching pain in the back of my head/neck and be completely unable to move or speak until it subsided.

I still have this and it does take a while for the pain to subside! I thought it was normal but friends say not 😳

Hallucinations are not uncommon when you have a fever. AIW happens at others times too sometimes for some before a migraine (personally not for myself but it’s thought you are more likely have AIW if you have migraines) but I do have this strange compulsion before it gets to the point where I just need to by laying down is to look at bright lights it’s like my eyes are drawn ti them it’s weird as it’s very uncomfortable too

sorry you are upset it is frightening experience especially for a child

and thanks for starting this thread it’s really interesting how weird our bodies are

Without fail, if I eat a crab stick it will trigger hiccups. No other food does this to me I'm not generally A hiccup-y person. No idea why.

If I see or hear about something that's painful, I get a weird shooting pain 'down below'. Only started happening since I had kids

My ExMIL used to reply “Ooh, did it give you a pain up your bum?” if I told her anything shocking, and I never had a clue what on earth she meant! 😂

I had this often as a child (and still v occasionally as an adult) and one of my kids gets it now. I would describe it as intense, hot and staticky! Lasts a few moments then gone, always after turning my head, but not every time I turned my head