To think it’s not just me who gets a weird Fanjo feeling

[Ahardyfool]

My daughter just showed me where she cut herself shaving in the shower last night. She came downstairs yesterday and announced that she’d caused the bathroom to look “a bit like a crime scene” and this also brought on the same bodily response. When she showed me her wound just now it happened again.
DD noticed my reaction and claimed to know what I was experiencing.
we both describe it as a bit like when you go over one of those bumps in the road that make your tummy somersault briefly…except this is felt in the vagina region.
Why the hell would that happen? Does anyone else experience this? Is it our cervix clamping shut in some kind of anti preocreative response to danger - albeit a bit OTT a response?

Oh gosh I get it too if I read horrific news!

Yes! This!

I need to know more about javelin arse?

OMG . A few hours ago for the first time ever. Saw a road accident and walked over with ex nurse colleague to see if anyone was injured ( emergency serviced not yet there) My feet sort of felt like they were clenching and " on edge"weird feeling .

I agree it's more anxious fanny than fanny gallops. Fanny gallops is something quite different. Anxious fanny is when I'm so scared it feels like my fanny is turning back in on itself. It happens when encountering or witnessing perils.

Never happened before I had kids.

I did used to have a very debilitating fear of heights, all heights, really bad, like James Stewart in Vertigo type bad. Then I had therapy and it's fine now as in I can control every other reaction to heights and don't even really feel properly scared, but I still get anxious fanny around them.

Also have this but only in respect of my children not more generally. So if they get an injury, nearly get an injury or even if they describe some kind of physical peril. It's very odd.

@Jelly4444

yes I feel it in my back too. Not my nether regions.

even people on TV set it off.

I get fizzy knees if I’m up high and look down, or if someone else is in that situation.

I believe it's caused by the vagas nerve.

I don't get it in my fanjo but if I see someone get hurt or nearly get hurt, my legs have a sudden flash of cold. No idea why.

This is going to end up in classics, isn't it?

This is so interesting because I mentioned I have it when I read a distressing article above and, actually, the ones I find most distressing will usually be about children.

When I see something awful or violent. Like when I'm scrolling social media and there's someone hitting/abusing a dog or being horrid to a child. I scroll past and try not to watch but yes!!

I thought I was weird. Why would I get a feeling THERE for something I find distressing

Yep I get this but it’s in the back of my thighs. If I see someone fall, etc. I’ve always presumed it an adrenaline response but it’s actually called mirror synesthesia. From what I understand it’s a nervous reflex and a sign of having a strong empathetic nature.

I get this but more around the bum. Obviously runs in the family as my Mum always used to say things like that gave her "the botty shivers" 😂

Person stands on nail with bare foot on TV programme
Me: "ooh that made my bits go funny"

I get it OP

I get this too. So weird

In our family we call it "funny fanny", have done for donkeys years, much to my fathers annoyance as he doesnt understand what we mean!

I get it ! especially if an injury affects my kids also things like seeing paper cuts and ripped nail type injuries do it too , i thought it was only me !

I have never had this, but will show it to my DH as whenever he hears about someone else's injury or sees a TV drama with a bit of gore or an autopsy he goes "argh, my balls" 😆

Haha Otherwise known as the man with the scaffold pole...

I get this! But not in the fanjo area. Mine is a horrid fizzing in my shins. My mum gets it in her stomach.

I get it in my knees but it's the same feeling, I think

The Fanny equivalent happens to me every time I remember my extremely sticky C-section plaster being quickly ripped off by my midwife just a couple of days after my surgery. 🤢😱

I get this & thought I was really odd... So glad I'm not alone!

I have not experienced this at all! The only place I get a twinge is in my solar plexus, no further south than that! 😅