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.

Same. I had my wisdom teeth removed when I was early twenties and the ‘stuck crisp’ appeared a few weeks later.

For the most part, I ignored it but my tongue would be drawn to it now and again. Didn’t bother me generally but sometimes I’d wonder what the hell it was. Obviously not enough to get it checked because who has time for that in their invincible early 20s?

10 years later, it randomly worked its way free one afternoon - a thin piece of bone - and I had no idea how much pressure it had created on the rest of my teeth until it wasn’t there any more. My teeth eased back in to place and my jaw almost felt like it went back in to alignment.

i think I stood and looked at the piece of bone for about an hour in sheer amazement.

I had the implant, and out of nowhere started developing Bartholin's cysts.

It was HUGE with a big yellow 'head' (puss). It was so painful and I could barely walk.

I know frowned upon, but I popped it whilst looking in the mirror. Wow, the amount of puss and whatnot that came out of it. It absolutely oozed and it reeked, but that relief. I've never felt anything like it. Beyond satisfying.

I had 2 more before I got the implant removed, and never had them again!

I vividly remember having a spot like that in my teens. I remember where I was, what it felt like, the feeling of triumph when I finally managed to squeeze it out after an epic struggle. I was quite a spotty teenager but that one was probably my most memorable and that was over 40 years ago.

When I saw the title of the thread, I was going to post (boast?) about the time I walked the Pennine Way... These epic poo/spot/ingrown hair stories are far more interesting - and hilarious!

When I was 17, I was walking home after a day out, and developed a terrible stomach ache. So bad I could barely walk. I went to the loo, on the way to bed due to the pain, and without warning, did the longest fart of my life. It went on and on. No idea why I'd built up so much gas. Pain went instantly.

My body grew an ovarian cyst the size of a grapefruit holding 2L of fluid . Following removal , the relief of no longer looking pregnant and discovering it was benign was so overwhelming that losing my ovaries at the same time ( thankfully no longer needed ) was no issue at all !

I once had sinusitis. I blew my nose one day and it was like a tap was turned on - this thick, putrid yellow liquid poured out of my nose for ages - INSTANT relief and cure. That was about 10 years ago now 😂 never happened since but man do I long for it to happen when I’m congested!!

I'm so surprised at responses. I expected everyone to say an orgasm 😂

But there's no more satisfying relief than having a
DIY orgasm especially if I'm tired and my body is sore from from something (housework, exercise, not enough rest).

I opened this thread to share my joy at finally being able to do a Dolphin pose properly where your nose touches the mat and feet are flat on the ground and found it was not that kind of thread. I'm going to back away slowly now.

Me too! Hoorah for us! This is where the sisterhood lives.

Everyone is about the poos after their babies,when I tell you the poo I did whilst in labour with baby 1 was the most magnificent thing I've ever done,my partner was with me & he was sure I was pushing out the baby 😂😂 I knew I wasn't as I wasn't even close to that,waters still intact (induction),the relief was amazing as I had the urge for it for ages & I was decidedly delighted as I now felt i wouldn't poop while pushing 🤣

I was on a train back home from London one day. I had a blind zit on my chin. It was right in the middle and sooo sore but nothing really visible on the surface. Desperately wanted to squeeze it because it was so sore. Got home and went straight up to the magnifying mirror in the bathroom. It exploded with an audible snap when I squeezed it. It was years ago but I've never forgotten it

When I was pregnant, I developed a weird lump under my right armpit. Probably should have done something about it, but I assumed it was something to do with hormones and ignored it.

It got even bigger after my baby arrived, and quite painful, so at about one week post-partum, I pressed it in the shower to see if I could feel what was going on under the skin. Only to find that my right nipple was suddenly leaking milk. So I pressed harder, and milk began squirting out so hard it hit the shower wall.

After about a minute, the armpit lump had totally disappeared. The feeling of relief was glorious.

Washed feet then Put on comfy socks slippers after a long days work!!! Ahhhhh!!!

Fucking hell the human body is amazing.

To bring in a less gross example, running. When I used to be able to sprint, at full speed, felt like I didn't touch the ground.

A few month ago, I was very constipated. It had been a few days, so I took some relief stuff, spent all day faffing about thinking I needed to go so would sit on the loo, nothing happening, but I could feel the pressure building. It was so uncomfortable, I felt like I couldn't actually sit down properly.

It got to the point where I thought I may have to put on some latex gloves and literally have a poke about to help it.

When I finally passed what can only be a described as a tennis ball in disguise, I literally felt buoyant and walked around the rest of the day with a smile on my face!

I used to get a blackhead in the same spot in my ear, massive thing that would appear suddenly. One evening, after worrying at it during work, I gave it the gentlest prod and heard a BANG then this big round rock like thing fell out my ear. It was the biggest blackhead I'd ever seen. And it never returned. 20 years later I'm still disappointed it hasn't come back.

Then in labour with DC1 my body suddenly started to push her out. I had nothing to do with it apart from consciously adding a bit of effort. I just felt this squeezing and pushing (and pain as she crowned, it wasn't painless, just unstoppable) as my body took over.

And after labour with DC2, I was terrified to poo. DC1 I'd had stitches, but DC2 was back to back and i was left with piles the size of golf balls. Not an exaggeration. I decided I was never evacuating anything else out my body again.

The midwives (a different one most days for the fortnight after birth) would come in, ask my how labour had been (scary, I'd cry) then asked if I had had a poo. I had not, I said. Worrying, they replied after a couple of days.

I had to eat bowls upon bowls of bran flakes. Still no poo.

I think I got to day five or six. By now I was wondering what my body was doing with all my waste product, it couldn't all be coming out as farts and wee.

Then finally I got the urge. I told DH to standby in case it went wrong and I turned inside out.

I had an entirely normal, maybe on the large size, poo that felt like it weighed around 10kg. I thought it would break the toilet. After that, I was back to normal. I did have to phone the midwife and let her know - by this point she was threatening readmission to hospital for exploratory examinations.

(Piles subsided after a fortnight of frequent application of creams, ointments and suppositories.)

Giving birth both times the feeling when my body took over, I described it as the feeling when your being sick but the other way. I couldn’t stop pushing if I tried as it wasn’t me doing it, my body just cracked on.

Second to giving birth, I’d had a verruca on my foot for a year or two but it had turned painful. I attacked it with tweezer and squeezed the whole thing out in one, it was at least a cm long cone of verruca. So bloody satisfying I can remember it twenty years on.

My contribution is breast cysts. I cannot believe how much my body can hold. I'm a cysty person. I used to get ovarian cysts and I have 2 cysts on my scalp.

Anyway I frequently have to go and get breast cysts drained. It's now got to the stage that I warn the nurse they'll need at least 3 big syringes.

I've had 250 ml drained from one breast once. The lump was a big as a golf ball.

I know get a Doctor doing it once I had 3 in a row and she (the Doctor) went in to each cysts through the other - that was 2 x 50 ml syringes.

The relief is immense. I now ask to have the cysts drained before my mammogram (I'm still too young to have them officially but have to have the whole check up done when I get referred) and there is no pain if I have the cysts drained before the mammogram (top tip for other cysty ladies out there!)

It is wonderful isn’t it. Reminded me of this (very ladylike) bit of graffiti from way back.

There‘s nothing so overrated as a bad fuck
and nothing so underrated as a good shit

could do with an extra line about spot squeezing/bone removing/ear emptying fun though 😁

I think it’s called gleeking

I had a head cold once. I felt so bunged up but nothing coming out. I blew my nose in a cafe in Reigate and the biggest ball of snot / phlegm came out. It was bigger than the diameter of my nostril so no idea how it came out. It was a wonderful feeling of relief. This was 25+ years now and I still remember it fondly now.

Oh and I also produced a gall stone as big as a golf ball. <proud>

Held in a huge hot fart for an entire yoga class and half the drive home (I was giving a classmate a lift).