To ask you what's the most satisfying thing your body has done?

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I've been in hospital for a small procedure which left me with lots of trapped wind. I've been home for 2 days, turned over In bed this afternoon and did a completely silent but REALLY long burp which felt like it deflated my whole body and all the pain in my upper back and shoulders just went. It felt so relieving and satisfying.
My sister once pulled a hair from her foot only to find it was really long and had somehow wound over and under every toe and when she pulled it , she felt it on each one.

In my mid twenties I got a small cyst on my lower eyelid. After a few months of just putting up with it I finally went to see the doctor who checked it and confirmed I would need it surgically removed. This would involve an injection (local anaesthetic) near to my eye and me being totally awake as they just scalpel this thing off. I’d then have to wear an eyepatch for some time afterwards until it was healed.

Can’t explain what happened but my body on a cellular level obviously decided “Sod that for a game of soldiers” and within a week of me seeing the doctor, the cyst had disappeared by itself.

I took magic mushrooms a couple of times and once while I was on the loo I looked down and saw the whole universe emanating from inside my vagina! There is definitely a very primal connection with birth, the universe, life etc Women are fucking magical.

The babies were pretty amazing but the most miraculous thing my body has done was to regrow the skin over the middle section of my middle finger after I cut the whole thing off by being careless using a mandolin cutter. The piece was an inch long and almost an inch wide and deep enough that the ligaments were showing. They dressed it with a silicon grid to grow into to encourage regeneration and it's just a white ridge along my finger now. Amazing.

Dermoid cysts are different and not a fetus in fetu twin

my.clevelandclinic.org/health/diseases/21864-dermoid-cyst

If we’re talking satisfying then multiple orgasms has to be up there along with the giant poos and ingrown hairs!

I used to have waves of them that felt like a psychedelic experience - layers of colours and shapes, moving through them continuously like floating through windows/doors in my mind. Since menopause (or splitting from my abusive ex, annoyingly) I don’t have the same experience of orgasm. I’d have 10-15 good ones and rhen one absolutely mind blowing one that left me unable to speak or move for several minutes. I miss those!

Coughed up two huge tonsil stones like a pair of fetid Fabergé eggs

Not me but my brother but I'm thrilled I was there to see. His eye over three days had swollen and was very red around the tear duct. He had an appointment with the doctor for two days later. He has a few medical issues due to an accident 22 years ago. He kept bathing his eye with cooled boiled water and wiping it with cotton pads as advised by the pharmacist. He got a swelling over the tear duct. He wiped it, it popped and two stitches came out. Stitches he got when his arm was amputated 22 years ago. He brought them to the doctor who verified them. A few months later a tiny piece of metal came out his eye. Twenty two years these had been travelling around his body before deciding to exit

Years back I had a really bad cold. As I do when these things happen, I clean my nose out by scraping around inside the nostril with my index fingernail whilst in the shower. This goes on with plenty of blowing out each nostril by pressing on the opposite side. On this occasion a large slimy slug of gelatinous mucous hung down so I grabbed it with my fingers and pulled, then used my fingers on the other hand to pull. I finally pulled out a roughly 20cm goopy rope of snot that I could feel coming away from deep within my throat and then out my nose. An amazing sight and such relief!

That horrible aftermath of a cold when you sometimes feel a bit phlegmy or your throat tickles, resulting in an annoying cough, then you cough up something big and chewy and all the irritation is gone.

That was a cross post!

Had a headache which lasted a few days. Paracetamols didn't really help.

Then one day I felt my nose start to run. This luminous green/yellow liquid came out of my nose and the headache was gone. Such a relief.

Clicking my joints (not dangerously so), it just feels great and like it releases stress. Honestly I could do with a personal massage therapist, that would just stretch my legs, and click me. Oh I also remember having acupuncture after a car accident. I was really reluctant as thought it was complete nonsense. I was completely wrong, one of the pins the physiotherapist put in started moving like crazy, and hit the exact spot; I could feel so much tension dispersing it was amazing.

Ok this is possibly one of the most WTF I’ve read. Didn’t even know that was possible!

I love this but I have to disagree so intensely - giving birth (twice) for me was so satisfying, literally pushing out a baby, and your body becomes a machine to do it, but then also sitting communing/skin to skinning with the fruit of your labour. Both times for me it was labour from midnight to 6ish and then meeting the new baby in the early-morning light, just so high and elated at my my achievement. Also both times in total love either with my midwife or anaesthetist 😁

Had a wisdom tooth extracted. The hole improved but then stayed just a little bit sorer than I thought it would. Took my children on holiday. Driving home, went round a massive roundabout that had exits to various motorways.

Felt one of the pokey fishbone style pieces coming out of the extraction hole. Sucked hard and it popped out - followed by what I presume was a sack of pus. It felt like a slug. Was still negotiating the roundabout and couldn't get a tissue so had to swallow it. The hole was instantly 99% more comfortable and healed overnight!

And...

When very young, I moved my foot in bed and (I'm guessing) my ankle dislocated. The pain was excruciating. I started to very slowly bend my knee and bring my foot up towards my hands (so I could check it out) and within 2 seconds it popped back into joint. All pain gone and I never had a problem with it again.

I have had this, at work and my eye felt really uncomfortable and saw a little hair poking out a tiny little hole in my upper lid, a little duct. Had tweezers on me, grabbed the tiny bit and out slid a long eyelash. Thank you SO much for reminding me am going to go the bed satisfied at the memory!

And then you felt better. I’ve had that

Were you on antibiotics

These are compulsive reading. I had a series of cysts on my scalp and while been driven home by my now in-laws one popped. Waves of pus came out - gross. I also had a sore toe and dh pulled out a whole bundle of dog hairs that had formed a screw of sorts and had drilled through the skin between my toes so I had a hole all the way through. I dislocated my thumb and jerked it back in which felt good but whatever the crack was in my neck when the chiropractor adjusted me was primal. My neck has had twice the range of motion ever since!

In my early twenties I had my wisdom teeth removed. Weeks later I went on holiday to Tunisia and after the flight my jaw became swollen on one side and quite sore. I didn’t link it to the extraction weeks earlier because I thought it had healed. I could feel what I thought was a crisp stuck into my gum at the back of my mouth and kept poking at it with my tongue. It was becoming annoying so I sat in my hotel room with my tweezers and hand mirror to have a look and could see something stuck in my gum. I grabbed it with my tweezers and pulled out an entire sliver of my jaw. The bone just kept coming, it was so long. Slightly terrifying yet satisfying. I wish I’d kept it.

Nor did we.....We didn't know what had come out of his eye hence why he kept them to show his doctor. To think that they were there for twenty two years......they came from the stump of his arm and travelled. As did the piece of metal. There was a third time but I can't remember what it was. Doctor said it was unusual that it took so many years but I had never heard of it happening before

I usually a bit squeamish with bodies. But I do get a lot of satisfaction watching vids of people have their ears unblocked.🤢🤣

Just remembered about the stye I had once. I got some OTC treatment for it but had a bad reaction it literally ballooned up. I could hardly see out of it there was puss dripping from it, it was disgusting. Managed to get a doctor's app and got some antibiotics. This was around 2002 so before camera phones.

I had a huge spot on my chin, it was rock solid and protruding through the skin like a big yellowy white ball.
It wouldn't squeeze out, it was too tough.
I got a sterile needle and poked it, it pierced right through like stabbing into piece of fruit and when i removed the needle the content started pouring out of its own free will.
When I gave it a squeeze a big hard yellow ball dropped out and left a big empty hole on my chin

Another one!

I'd had an awful virus, full of a cold, blocked up nose etc.

For days I couldn't breathe through my nose, nothing helped unblock it.

One morning I got in the shower and turned the water really hot. I could feel the steam loosening up whatever was in there.

I pressed down on one nostril and blew really hard out of the other one. All of a sudden this huge lump of jelly like snot flew out and hit the shower screen. It was about the size of a small tangerine and really thick and wobbly.

I spent ages in the shower that morning blowing allsorts out of my nose and never felt better