Weird Things Our Bodies Do

Years ago, breastfeeding my children, gave me a maddening tickle in the hinge part of my jaw!

Tizliz

If I watch someone under water I can’t breathe

If I see someone standing on the edge of a height on TV my stomach churns and I feel really nervous, as if I'm standing there myself.

I’m really smiling at all this! 😂

Mr fizz only has to put a mint of any kind into his mouth and he sneezes . Our grandson loves to offer him one then wait in anticipation.

Think acupuncture. The nervous system is very complex. I had acupuncture for a fractured coccyx (tail bone). The therapist (actually an NHS physiotherapist, those were the days!), applied fine needles to the shell like part of my outer ear! It really worked! Later, she showed me how to press the same spot with the tip of a ballpoint pen to get temporary relief between the sessions with her. This also provided relief. Chinese medicine shouldn't be sniffed at. Very difficult to understand, but the Chinese know a thing or two about pain relief and referred pain. Who has ever had a toothache relieved by treating a tooth in a completely different area of the mouth? Our nerves play tricks on us all the time!

If I watch someone under water I can’t breathe

When I think about yawning, read about it, or see someone yawn - I yawn! I’m doing it now.

I can make myself sneeze by looking at the sun….rest of my siblings couldn’t….. I got many a sunny day of school with this trick!!

Oh yes... on of the captains (who DH works alongside on a cruise ship) when eating curry, starts to perspire and his face goes red! Poor chap.

I have a wee bit of alcohol and my whole body feels like it wants to sink the floor.

FannyCornforth

If I stroke my inner elbow, I can feel my temple on the same side being stroked too.

This is a brilliant thread! 🤩
Thanks Ali

Have you or anyone on the thread had reflexology?
I did a few times years ago (it's lovely) but you can feel the sensation in parts of the body other than the feet.

Very occasionally some voices can make me have a kind of warm tingle, I can't explain it but it's a lovely sensation through my head 🙂
Almost always it's a gentle female voice.

biglouis

I can tell when my blood iton is low because I get a craving to eat the froth from the top of coffee and the lumps at the bottom of the cup! Apparently some people get cravings to eat really odd things like soil or plaster! The medical term for this is called "pica".

Perhaps that's why pregnant women used to eat coal.

Orange juice gives me a cold.

GOD -same here , orange juice gives me a sore throat and occasionally a tight chest

Mention curry and my face behind to sweat - yet don't notice this if I cook or eat one.

eat it

Drinking orange juice gives me a sore throat and makes my face hot and red. Possibly an allergic reaction?

I don’t personally but as a child I remember being fascinated by my grandad being able to move his ears up and down without touching them. My mum could do the same, but only with one ear!

biglouis lumps! …in. Coffee?

I can tell when my blood iton is low because I get a craving to eat the froth from the top of coffee and the lumps at the bottom of the cup! Apparently some people get cravings to eat really odd things like soil or plaster! The medical term for this is called "pica".

Eating strong cheese makes my upper lip sweat!

gillyknits, I have the same problem with nail varnish and, as a piano player, I am sure that it makes my fingers work badly.

If I wear nail varnish on my fingers, I am aware that there is something there! Don’t like that feeling. Haven’t the same trouble with toenails.

Coco51 It’s not my shoulder but the top of my arm. But I
‘ve had it for nye on 50 years now. Doesn’t happen with any other drink. I’ve tested that !!!

One weird thing I get is when seeing spikes - on the TV particularly - my eyes feel horrible - I can’t look at anything sharp, they feel spongy and cringy and almost thickly!

HannahLoisLuke

This is rather embarrassing but I’m going to mention it in case anybody else has experienced it, or should I speak to GP?
I suffer with IBS, alternating between constipation and needing the loo several times a day. For the last three years, and it only happens occasionally I get the feeling of impending orgasm when I need the loo quickly. It started the first few days of lockdown in 2020 and is most disconcerting! I am celibate and have been for twenty years but remember what an orgasm feels like!

Ditto with IBS but mine’s purely the Diarrohea version. I get the Orgasm thing a lot of times with a full bladder anyway and like you I’ve been without since the early 1990s - not really voluntarily - just no one I fancy or vice versa possibly
Not anything to worry about just pressure in the ‘right’ area for sex!