Body Quirks

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When I feel very upset, something twinges quickly and sharply in my left arm. Just next to the inner elbow. No idea why.

What foibles does your body have?

If I see something really cute my front teeth hurt!

I have a tiny little lump in the back of my neck that if I scratch it sends a shooting pain down my spine

When I lie on my back after a meal I can actually see the peristalsis in my gut

If I get a random coughing fit it always makes me sneeze.

Eating polos makes me sneeze

Waxing makes me sneeze too 😂

If I’m eating and don’t like the taste of something I go deaf in my right ear for a few seconds

When I put something sweet in my mouth after not having eaten for a while I get a shooting pain in my jaw

If I'm getting ill, my gums around my big back teeth tingle and swell. I always know if I've got a cold coming cos they kick off 48 hours or so before anything else.

After I had my first child, I would get a weird electric shock type tingle in the base of my spine if I was surprised.

I also started having visual migraines

After I had my second child, the shocks just stopped. Unfortunately the migraines didn't.

If I eat sweets or drinks with artificial colours or flavours (which most of them don’t now) the outer part of my eyes (eyelids, under eye) becomes strangely moist & clammy.

There's a name for this!!! Photic sneezing! I do it too.

I'm afraid of heights and get nervous ladybits when I'm somewhere high. My feet don't clench with fear, my vagina does and it's not a pleasant feeling...

I have this! I call it my shingles tingles. Tells me I'm getting ill usually or really stressed.

Singing often makes me start to cry.

Which is inconvenient and embarrassing!

Chocolate with nothing in it (so like galaxy or dairy milk and not like a twix) makes me sneeze!

If I'm anxious I get a weird feeling under my right rib and if I do sit ups they make my upper lip twitch on the right hand side!

I believe this is a common reflex and fighter pilots are tested for it because of the speeds they need to fly at: any lapse of concentration (eg during the sneeze) could be disastrous

I have hypermobile feet and wrists and can get terrible cramp in my toes, when I was a teenager it used to be in the arch of my foot and I used to have to push the small bone back in. I get something similar in my wrists from time to time.

I go through phases of very clicky knees that are really loud - other people comment!

When I'm thirsty or a bit dehydrated my fingers swell up.

Very similar - mine is if anything touches the middle of my right bum cheek, I instantly need to pee! I've never known anyone else with this quirk!

If I sneeze, shortly afterwards I have to yawn. But not when sneezing because of a streaming cold....

The tingly thing is either adrenaline or blood vessel construction

Happens when we are anxious or panic

If I have waited a long time before relieving myself when needing a wee and I’m finally sat on the loo and letting go I get a weird tingling sensation in the tips of my fingers that travels up to my elbows.

I have a hole in the bottom of my spinal cord that means it is shaped like an upside down Y.

I'm always getting random stabs of pain . The body can be weird

I have this in exactly the same spot

I also have clomping hips.

if I angle my head a certain way, I can hear the pulse in my neck ticking like a clock. I didn’t realise other people could also hear it until we were being nosy one day peering out the window and my husband asked what the ticking was “ummm, I think it’s my neck”. Never known anyone the same, and a gp friend of the family had never heard of it either 🤷🏻‍♀️

When I’m really cold, my left nipple hurts. And sometimes it can actually be really painful!

The roof of my mouth itches when I eat hard boiled egg yolk.

My knee “locks” bent sometimes (like about 10 times in 35 years) and the only way to release it is to lie down and roll onto the opposite side so that knee is on top.

My Mum and sister both say this!! They'll often talk on the toilet.

Mine is that if I'm really tired I get this odd pain in my right knee. Never feel that type of pain anywhere else and no issue with my knee.

If I’m frightened my armpits tingle. Some wines give me stabbing sensations in my taste buds.