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Stuff you think must happen to other people - but can't risk asking?

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IMissFrance · 03/02/2021 11:21

Anyone else have stuff happen to you that must happen to others.

But you can't really ask because what if they say "NO! How weird!" And then you can never talk to that person again. Wink

So I'm bringing it to the anonymity of Mumsnet.

I'd love to hear other peoples. And will start off.

  • whenever I wash my hair in the shower (I have long hair) loose hairs wash down my back and end up in my bum crack. End of my shower I have to check there's no hair left.

I can't be alone in this grossness! (Or can I)

OP posts:
BalloonSlayer · 05/02/2021 07:28

Another one surprised at people needing a bowel movement when nervous thinking they are unusual. There are a number of phrases for being nervous which directly reference this;

Shitting yourself (as pp has said)
Bricking it (short for shitting a brick)
Brown trousers time
Squeaky bum time
Brown trouser ride (eg at theme park)
Butterflies in the tummy

And so on! Grin

Olderfatherofthree · 05/02/2021 07:32

I suggest you check out "proctalgia fugax".

It is not at all uncommon and there's really nothing you can do about it as onset is so unpredictable.

CaperGrrl · 05/02/2021 07:42

@corpuscallosum I rinse my hair after conditioning bent over with my hair in front of me, because I only do the length rather than my scalp or it gets greasy quickly.

But it is starting to hurt my sides and back to do it.

My Mom always washed and conditioned her hair at the kitchen sink.

CaperGrrl · 05/02/2021 07:54

@Bopahula I can sort of do it on command, within my mouth. I do it when the dental hygienist is poking around in my mouth. Lots of saliva is good, they tell me.

KitchenDancefloor · 05/02/2021 07:58

Yes, yes to empathy pains in the pelvis.

I'm really squeamish but thought I did a good job of pretending not to be in important situations. Now my kids tell me to look away if something painful is going to happen to someone on the TV because I physically cringe. I have tried not to because I didn't want to pass my weirdness on to them but they know me better.

I've also supported friends and family at medical appointments and have been asked to sit down or look away by the medical professionals before I have said or done anything. I think I must have the look of a squeamish person about me even when I'm doing my best to be stoical.

Exhausteddog · 05/02/2021 08:21

Am I a freak or am I the only person who really struggles to push a supermarket trolley when its more than a third full, especially outside when taking back to the car to unload ? (I am quite short if that makes a difference?Blush) I have to sort of push diagonally and stand to one side of the handle rather than walk in a civilised manner behind it! It was even worse when I was pregnant.

Laiste · 05/02/2021 08:22

@Dislocatedeyeballs
I guess everyone is different, but for me (4 kids) the urge to push in labour is not quite the same as the urge to push a poo out. The involuntary part is the same - in that the body has taken over for a time - but for a poo it's only for a very very short time! and shouldn't be agony

Contractions (for me) are more of a whole lower body experience. The slow gathering (which is weird and mostly painless) and then the big wave of cramping/pressure pulsing through and up from your pelvis. Pain increases over time and number of contractions. You start to dread them but you must relax into them (All 4 of my labours were 'back to back' labours so i felt 90% of the pain in my lower back - hellish frankly).

The urge to actually push the baby out (once you are fully dilated, which is what the contraction's job is) is completely involuntary. It is literally a completely irresistible need to 'bare down' very hard. More like baring down on your whole lower region. Your body does it and you go along with it and 'help', consciously pushing. The poo urge sensation is restricted to your rectum area. The urge to push out a baby is whole pelvis front and back and the act blots out EVERYTHING in the room. Honestly in the later stages of labour i could have been in the middle of a shopping centre doing it and i wouldn't notice or care. Totally mentally and physically overwhelming.

The relief when it's all over is like nothing else i can tell you! :)

Laiste · 05/02/2021 08:25

While i'm here again - does anyone else get upper arm/shoulder pain if they drink red wine?

willow2220 · 05/02/2021 08:29

To the ladies who said about leg pain during their periods ... I get front of thigh pain (both thighs) and also right leg shin pain (at the front) during my period / it's only during my period, rest of the time nothing. It's quite significant. Recent pelvic MRI said endometriosis and the gynae specialist said she'd not had anyone else present with shin pain before - my body is so strange.

Mrsmummy90 · 05/02/2021 08:31

@MisiSam

Sometimes I will get a pain like someone has stabbed me up the bum, only lasts a second and it's really sharp!
Yep! I get bum javelin as well. I asked DH if he'd ever had this and he looked at me like I was mental! Haha
Mrsmummy90 · 05/02/2021 08:35

I don't have the hairy shower crack 😂 never heard of that haha

corkernewyorker · 05/02/2021 08:35

@Laiste

While i'm here again - does anyone else get upper arm/shoulder pain if they drink red wine?
Not pain, but hen I drink alcohol within literally 5 minutes the tops of my arms from shoulder to elbow feel warm and fuzzy, like when you've been doing heavy weights. My friends think I'm a nut.
OlympicProcrastinator · 05/02/2021 08:35

@supercee I’m so happy to hear I’m not alone 😁 it definitely had me questioning myself too!

WishIWasAsGoodAsBlueysMum · 05/02/2021 08:38

@Exhausteddog

Am I a freak or am I the only person who really struggles to push a supermarket trolley when its more than a third full, especially outside when taking back to the car to unload ? (I am quite short if that makes a difference?Blush) I have to sort of push diagonally and stand to one side of the handle rather than walk in a civilised manner behind it! It was even worse when I was pregnant.
Shit trolleys and/or poor core strength. Do you have DCs? Have you ever checked your abdominal muscles for diastasis recti or any issues with SPD? I struggled immediately after DD was born but it’s much better now.
Mrsmummy90 · 05/02/2021 08:38

My weird thing, if I see a bit of fluff on the floor or pick a bogie out my toddlers nose, I'll flick it behind the sofa 😂🙈 then every so often I'll hoover behind the sofa to get rid of all the grossness haha

Crimblecrumble1990 · 05/02/2021 08:46

@corkernewyorker

I get this when I drink alcohol! My fuzzy feeling is mainly in the back of my neck, front of thighs & toes. It can start after literally 2 sips of booze. Most people look at me like I'm mad when I mention it but I have come across a couple of people who experience the same sensation.

borntohula · 05/02/2021 08:49

Does anyone else get a sore ear after sleeping on that side? Not like earache but outer ear?

wishywashywoowoo70 · 05/02/2021 08:49

@lightlypoached

When I bend over in yoga (a curved spine bend, not pivot from the hips) I get an intense almost pain pressure feeling in the centre of my chest that almost winds me. Like my sternum is folding in half. You know the cartilage bit between the ribs ?

I stand up / sit up straight and it sort of 'pops' back into place.

Weird and not very comfortable. Anyone else get that?

I get this when I'm putting my socks or shoes on sometimes. It's like you have to straighten up slowly to pop it back. I usually breath it back for some reason
Saz432 · 05/02/2021 08:54

This one is really weird but when I was a teenager i discovered that if I did enough sit ups I would have an orgasm. I have never heard of anyone else who experiences this - it’s so weird.

You’d think I would have a very toned stomach wouldn’t you? I definitely don’t 😂

Mrsmummy90 · 05/02/2021 08:54

@borntohula

Does anyone else get a sore ear after sleeping on that side? Not like earache but outer ear?
On occasion.

I get a hot, red ear every so often for no reason at all and have never met anyone else who gets it.

Thisbastardcomputer · 05/02/2021 08:57

We used to discuss subjects like this at work, large mainly female office.

One of the women was looking after her Mums dogs and walked them to the local golf course, she was intrigued by the amount of human shit and lone men wandering about (not golfers).

It was decided upon that it was a sort of pick up area for men, it was secluded, but the question then was, does the shit happen before or after sex.

She promptly jumped up and went to ask a gay man who worked in another office, god I nearly died when she went.

Came back with an answer though........... after.

Nellieee · 05/02/2021 08:57

@vivariumvivariumsvivaria

Did we get an answer to what the tiny little glass filaments poking through skin are?

Mine come out of stretch marks. Nice.

No but I need the answer!!
userxx · 05/02/2021 08:59

@borntohula

Does anyone else get a sore ear after sleeping on that side? Not like earache but outer ear?

Yep, there's no pain quite like it. Is it when your ear folds over a bit? It feels that way.

Laiste · 05/02/2021 09:03

Oh hot ear! I sometimes find i've slept with my ear top bent over and trapped under my head. It's tender for a couple of hours.

Sounds like i have pointy elf ears or something but i don't. I have very soft cartilage though and my ear tops are very 'bendy' Confused DH's ear edges are rock hard and don't bend much at all!

Lillygolightly · 05/02/2021 09:03

lightlypoached
When I bend over in yoga (a curved spine bend, not pivot from the hips) I get an intense almost pain pressure feeling in the centre of my chest that almost winds me. Like my sternum is folding in half. You know the cartilage bit between the ribs ?

I stand up / sit up straight and it sort of 'pops' back into place.

Weird and not very comfortable. Anyone else get that?

I get this when I'm putting my socks or shoes on sometimes. It's like you have to straighten up slowly to pop it back. I usually breath it back for some reason

Totally forget about this!!! Yes I get it, feel like my lowest rib has crossed under the one above it, and is an intense horrible pain/feeling. When it happens to me I have bend backwards or lie down and wait for them to uncross. I asked my physio about it once, he was quiet stumped but said that the lower ribs sort of float and are somewhat flexible so it wasn’t impossible it could happen. It always makes me feel nauseous when it happens and then my ribs are sore for a good couple of days afterwards.