Weird things your body does, and you wonder if it happens to others too?

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I know Im not the only one.

I cant even be arsed to name change, here goes.

Nervous fanny.

You know when someone falls - hard and cracks their chin or elbow or whatever, my stomach drops, I get a shot of anxiety that shoots through the pit of my stomach down to my fanny. Right in the middle of my fanny I get a horrible feeling of anxiety.

Its only started in the last few years, its really unpleasant. Its like a bolt of aniexty, and I ONLY get it when someone hurts themselves. Wtf is that all about?

Anyway, what weird shit does your body do? Confess.

I just had a phantom baby kick so hard my stomach shook. I just had a damned good poke about but I can't feel a baby in there. I hope.

SuddenlyMadameGlamour, yes (sorry I don't want to lower the kind-of lighthearted thread) My migraines have seriously affected the quality of my life. I have never found an effective treatment ( at those for whom Migraleve works!). I get them when I am under pressure or stressed, so I have acheived far less than I should have in exams, or in challenging situations at work, for example.

I cannot believe Alice in Wonderland syndrome is an actual thing! I thought it was just my brain being weird!

I am very pleased not to suffer from javelin arse.

One weird thing I do, is that my joints feel like they build up with pressure sometimes, and I have to tense and bend them, so they pop, which releases it. Nobody else has mentioned that.

I get static shocks from everything. I hate having to press a lift button as it always shocks me.

kickinK I get the joints thing especially in my fingers also the vag bubble and patfenis I get paralyasis when I drink alcohol (do you know me!) I've had scans and tests for epilepsy etc. and saw a neurologist for a while, noone could give me an explanation

Oh good! Glad I'm not the only one Chief!

javeline arse! I have this and have always thought I'm the only one. Another question then:

did anyone else's labour basically consist of 5 hours of javeline arse? Because mine did. It was fucking awful. When I get my occasional bouts of javeline arse now I am immediately taken back to the labour room.

I get a thing where I think a drop of water/a bird shit has landed on my forehead. It's unbelievably realistic.

Sometimes it my eyes side to side, sort of vibrating for about 2 seconds. I think its the optical verson of a stuck CD.

Yes to nervous fanny and javelin arse but does anyone else get wobble womb? please say yes

It feels as if lots of small hands lift your uterus and go flubflubflub with it but really quickly?

Finally, does anyone else put their foot on the brake with their entire arse cheeks when someone else is driving and they do an emergency stop? Metaphorically.

laudinum There's no metaphorical about it - I phantom brake every time that I'm a passenger in a car; it's been 16yrs since I've been able to drive!

Yes to metaphorical arse cheeks on brakes, laudinum! I think I'd prefer to call it "bracing myself" ... though, thinking about it, I'm not entirely sure a clenched bum offers any protection in the event of impact

Arse-brake-foot it is, then.

Tapir. We had a close one today. dh was driving, turning right at a junction and looking the other direction at someone he recognised.

I swear my bum said wtf as it did an emergency brake.

Oooh I get so many of these!

GreenEggs nipple post made me think of this one... When I bf my baby, out of nowhere I get an urge to cry . I never actually have, I just feel like I am about to. Weird.

Yes, LemarchandsBox!

Picking up, say, ds's tiny pants or lego. You feel ant sized then if you go and lie down in a heap, you are fifteen feet tall and all uncomfortable with spikey flashes in your head.

So pleased to read about conditions I thought only I had!
-Gleeking
-Javelin arse
-sleep paralysis
-The nipple stimulation/feeling of immense sadness

Also, I know when I'm going to vomit for certain when I get a rush of saliva to my mouth - once I get that I have about six seconds to get to a toilet!

I've got one that hasn't been mentioned yet. When I get indigestion (which fortunately isn't very often) I get really bad, stabby ear ache in my left ear.

Lately I've been smelling basil when there is no basil - sometimes I just smell it briefly and other times I'm smelling it all day.

Also:

• javelin arse during my period
• javelin fanjo
• nervous fanny
• period pains in my pubic area, vulva and labia (this is quite a recent one)
• scratching certain bits of me and feeling it elsewhere
• twitchy eye just in my left eye - I went about 15 years between attacks and started getting it again recently
• can't burp
• I'm the tickliest person ever - I'm ticklish everywhere (even my knees for example) and can tickle myself
• I'm the freckliest person ever - I'm more freckle than not in places. I also have a freckle in between my toes, on the palm of my hand and on my eyeball.

The sadness with nipple stimulation might be related to D-MER, the intense sadness some women get along with the milk letdown reflex when BF.

When pregnant, lying on my right side made me fart, lying on my left side made me burp... Poor dh never said a word about either!

Yes yes what I get flicky eyes too.

I definitely get the sadness with nip stimulation/let down. I used to get puzzled by people going on about feel good hormones being released and the "bonding" that is supposed to happen during bfing. I persevered for 12 months and enjoyed it in the end but I really didn't like it at first.

I wonder what possible evolutionary advantage there could be from feeling sad when breastfeeding?

Feeling sad while breastfeeding could lead you to wean earlier which would mean fertility returns earlier and more offspring born which would probably pretty much balance out any detrimental effects to fitness it would have overall meaning that there is no strong selective pressure against it. There doesn't have to be a good reason for something to occur, there just has to be lack of a particularly good reason for it not to.

at laudinum's dh

Hope he realised the error of his ways!

Yeah that makes sense. Although you would have thought that if our ancestors decided to just stop feeding, this could have led to higher infant mortality which would have "killed off" that tendency. I guess though earlier weaning could have led to a higher volume of offspring to balance it out like you say... Interesting!

For me I found it more sadness enduring I the earlier days rather than near weaning, but then I was probably sadder in general in the early days with no sleep and colicky newborn.

Omg what I got the bird shit thing the other day! I was convinced a bird had shat on my head. I told dp to try and wipe it off for me, but he said there was nothing there. I didn't believe him so I went to the loo to look, but nothing! But it felt like a big wet dollop!