Weird stuff your body does

Sounds like a vagus nerve, visual stimulus response to something you are seeing. There's been studies about this. You could be sensitive to it.

[quote]Overall, the behavioural evidence presented herein supports the hypothesis that viewing the rotating, tilted landscape video evokes VIMS, of which nausea is the predominant sensation. A VIMS stimulus provides a unique setting for the study of nausea, particularly in healthy subjects (Koch, 1999), and can be utilized in neuroimaging studies using MRI-compatible goggles.

That makes sr1, I have had vagus nerve issues pop up before. It's just a bizarre feeling when it happens and even more bizarre when it goes away!

Hot flashes?

1. Hot flashes

2. Pregnancy

3. Diabetus

4. Thyroid something

I'll add sleep paralysis to the mix. It's terrifying when it happens to you.

I have this. I read it was a symptom of reflux.

Mine is not visually induced. And I don’t really have reflux. I am pre-diabetic, Graves’ disease, menopausal. I’ve never really read a definitive diagnosis on this. It’s weird. Like Repugs.

I guessed it was a reflux related issue as previous vagus nerve issues were digestive but the sneeze portion is bizarre. I am also perimenopausal, I wonder if it's related.

Sleep paralysis and night terrors are terrifying to me, I am so grateful not to have either and am empathic with those who do.

Perimenopause can definitely be a factor. Do you have a hot flash before, during or after the nausea?

Vertigo. Comes and goes, never completely disappears. Have had it for years but didn't realize it until it got quite bad and included nausea, headache.

Vertigo is pretty much one of the worst ongoing non lethal things, just awful.

r9, I don't have a hot flash per say (I get plenty of those otherwise) but a sort of skin crawling, pickling flush. with goosebumps.

flatulence. a LOT as I've aged

A sneezing bout heralds my need to defecagte in the morning.

This is a known thing:

I get another weird one and let me first say, a vagina is just a body part and no ine is asking any of you to fuck one.

A couple of days a month (no rhyme or reason) I will feel like someone is scraping a metal wire down the inside of my vaginal canal. It'll happen repeatedly for anywhere from a minute to a few hours and then be gone.

I used to call it 'wire hanger abortion feeling' when describing it to friends but the agreed upon name for it by the internet is much more fun, 'lighting crotch'.

It's very common for pregnant women and women with endometriosis yet I had years and years of doctors not having ever heard of it.

A funny thing my body does, and has been doing for about a decade:

I occasionally have panic attacks, that manifest themselves in particular physical tics and mannerisms.

I also have orgasms that usually last between 60 and 90 seconds, and include the same physical tics and mannerisms that I have when having a panic attack. This only happens when I’m with somebody else - never when I bring myself to climax through masturbation.

For my own sanity, I prefer to keep this as a sexy quirk that guys find impressive (‘Wow - I must be great if I’m giving you such long and intense orgasms!’) rather than interrogate this strange psychophysical overlap with a therapist which I probably should do.

Rescue-chick, you're one of my favorite DLers, and your symptoms scare me. I'm not going to make any jokes about Can I have your stuff? I think the combination vision + nausea symptoms is concerning. Not a medical professional but a check-in with your PCP sounds warranted. 🙏

Rescue chick you post a lot of gross body topics I’ve noticed.

Re vertigo it coukd be a specific kind- BBPV

When I lean over really far, it makes my stomach and abdomen hurt and makes me feel nauseated for about an hour afterwards.

r17, I do! I find bodies to be endlessly fascinating and combining that with the fact that my body is in a new stage of its life and voilà, here we are. I also feel like many people feel shame or fear over things that are if not perfectly normal at least not freakish or limited to just them and wouldn't if we just talked about things. I have frequently felt better reading someone else has something similar to whatever is worrying me.

r16, I have only thought of it as some weird thing my body does without any harm but I will mention it at my next dr appointment if it continues. you're sweet and you could certainly have my stuff but let's be honest, you don't want it 😊

r15, I am super curious what the tiks are.

My bladder and ass behave like toddlers.

I want to leave the house, but must pee.

Now that I’m peeing, I feel the intense need to poop with lots of gas. Are we done? NO.

I can pee again. I’ve peed twice and I have another turd coming.

Oh, my bladders jealous. I’m peeing again.

Years ago I woke up to an extreme spinning sensation in my head when rolling over in bed. The spinning would last about 45 seconds and slowly wind down. There was no nausea or dizziness, but an intense sensation of spinning. It's the sensation when you were a kid and you spun around in place and how your vision continued to spin when you stopped.

I eventually ended up in the office of an ENT specialist with the diagnosis of Benign paroxysmal positional vertigo (BPPV) which is an inner ear disorder. The doctor had me lay on my back and would twist my head in several directions to get the ear fluid settled. The condition went away spontaneously.

I still have BPPV pop up about 2-3 times a year but only for a day or two.

[quote]I'll add sleep paralysis to the mix. It's terrifying when it happens to you.

I had this as a kid and it recurred two or three times as an adult.

What I was told was try to focus your mind on something very familiar like slowly repeating the alphabet.

This is easy. OP has intreated syphilis.

haha, the only thing I have caught from sex is pregnancy.

I posted this in another thread. About twice a month, it’s like someone hits a switch and my entire lower intestine evacuates COMPLETELY. It’s a good feeling but a little unnerving not knowing what is causing it. I thought it might have been bad food or an allergy, but there is no rhyme or reason. It feels like every last bit has been flushed right out.

I literally have to notch my belt four more holes tighter, and feel thin and gorgeous for the rest of the afternoon.

if you figure out what causes that r26, you'll uh, pass it along here right?

Best wishes, Rescue.

R22 that's exactly what.my.vertigp was like except I would also get the spins and wierd eye flutters when loading the dishwasher, in the shower turning around and moving up and down and especially when crossing busy streets and looking both ways several times and looking down and up again for curbs, etc. Oh. And the grocery store. All the aisles of multicolored packaging the muzak and people zooming around with carts. Oy. Dizzy and nauseous.

I have always been a big shooter--far ropes with lots of jizz. I turned 69 and sadly became a dribbler. Very disappointing.

r30, is that an age related thing or a health related issue?

I don’t go to the bathroom every day and it’s normal for me.

you mean take a shit r32, not pee right? My friend craps maybe once a week and as a daily, very regular crapper that blew my mind.

R31. It's not a health-related thing. I'm perfectly healthy. My strong-shooting jizz just seems to have lost its mo-jo this year when I turned 69.

I would also not be happy with that if it were me r34

R5, I started experiencing sleep paralysis a few years ago. It really is terrifying.

There was blood coming out of my eyes, blood coming out of my wherever.

Yikes! Could be a symptom of menopause. I'm at the begging of peri menopause and it's not fun. The hot flashes will sometimes bring on nausea. I've tried the natural herbs, but didn't notice a difference. Dr. started me on low dose of estrogen and it helps. Go see your gyno first! Take care and hope things turn out well.

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39 responses without a "Can I have your stuff?"

Revoke your DL cards!

Apparently, "old people smell" is a real thing.

""Old people smell," also known as nonenal odor or aging body odor, is a harmless, musty, grassy, or greasy scent that's common in the elderly and can start as early as age 40."

A-queefin’ and a-squirtin’; a-tootin’ an’ a-shartin’

When I cut my toenails, I have to do a downward clip on each side and RIIIIIP the nail sides down to completely remove the sides of my toenails or I get terrible terrible ingrown toenails. Once in a while I get the side cut a bit wrong and know it's going to hurt like a motherfucker but you have to commit to it.

Vertigo is a big one for me but I know why. I have always been wary of heights and I am quite tall. Too tall to feel safe on most balconies. Have a severe form of rheumatoid arthritis and a high center of gravity .

I’ve had vertigo several times out of nowhere. Strangest feeling.

Optical migraines. Common and annoying

TMI, rescue-chick. You're grody.

I can't burp. At all. Never have been able to. If I'm at a dinner party and everyone is laughing a lot and I'm drinking anything fizzy (or even if I'm not) the gas will get stuck somewhere around my diaphragm and make me gradually start to feel desperately ill. The cure is to lie down. The second I lie down I feel relief and it's entirely better within a minute, but I have to stay down a while before I can go upright again without it recurring. (I understand this is the opposite of a hiatus hernia, which is made worse by lying down.)

I've also had the occasional optical migraine, R46. Very scary the first time you have one, because you don't get pain, you just gradually go blind over a period of maybe 10 minutes. You don't know then that in half an hour it'll all come back and you'll just feel a bit drained.

I had night terrors only once. I was on Effexor when it first came out.

I've had extreme chronic recurring pain in my shins ever since I was 9. It was chalked up to growing pains back then but it has remained the same my entire life. X-rays have revealed nothing. The last time I was able to afford seeing a doctor was about 8 years ago and he speculated it could be bone ulcers but when I looked those up they should be visible on x-ray if they have been present for over a few weeks. I can freely dislocate my left thumb with no pain. I generate an enormous amount of spit and have to swallow it like every two seconds or it interferes with my speech. I get a pinching sharp pain on my head behind my earlobes, sort of where the neck skull and ears all meet, and expect to die of a brain aneurysm every time.

Sometimes when a particularly nuisance-making OP shares something of a physical malady, I thrill a little to know that it's just a matter of time and the noise from that source will go away forever.

R51

I’ve had a headache for 24 years.

Gain weight - wtf is that about!?

I've suffered waves of nausea all my life. Just randomly, a wave will flow over me and for about 5 to 10 seconds, I'm ready to barf. Never have barfed, but if I'm standing I must sit or I'll lose my balance and fall. Sometimes it happens frequently like once a week, and sometimes I can go a year without an attack. My doctors are mystified. I've did tests up the wazoo going back 40 years, and the answer is always the same: it happens. Be sure to sit even if it's just on the ground.

odors and smells

R27 sugar free candy will clean you out like that.

Well I’m in my forties but still manage to have some incredible morning wood routinely. Things could be worse.

Years ago I went to Europe with a lady friend of mine who was all of 5'2 and probably 90 pounds...and she ate like a horse. Five days into our trip she confides that she finally had a bowel movement. I couldn't imagine such...a cup of tea and some toast and I'm ready to go.

[quote]I used to call it 'wire hanger abortion feeling' when describing it to friends but the agreed upon name for it by the internet is much more fun, 'lighting crotch'.

FIRECROTCH!

I have a hiccup every time I cough a bit harder. Started happening about a decade ago out of nowhere.

My mom had her middle toenail grow out and down, doubling over. I had to take her to a podiatrist to clip it as it had thickened and he pulled out what looked like gardening shears to trim it.

Now I’m finding MY middle toenail, same foot is thickening as well!

Toe nail fungus r62, it's all over the place.

[quote]Toe nail fungus [R62], it's all over the place.

And virtually incurable.

Perimenopause is a bitch.

RC please do see a doctor. Heart trouble can also cause nausea and dizziness. It’s probably not that, but rule it out.

I had night terrors multiple times every night as a very young child. I barely remember it, but I think my poor parents are still traumatized.

I woke up this morning with a huge lump on the underside of wrist, I am hoping it is cyst but the hypochondriac in me thinks it might be a tumor. Wasn't there yesterday and then today boom, big lump, it is stretching the skin enough that it itches. Thought maybe a bug bite but there is no redness just an itchy lump.

Geesh I googled cysts and this picture came up, not mine but looks just like it.

I haven’t dyed my hair or been in the sun more than usual this summer, but it’s gone from light brown to a near bleached blonde. Haven’t changed shampoos or conditioners, no blow drying, just this goofy almost frosted color. My hairdresser even said something. I thought it was a shade of gray and she said, yeah, your gray is gray, but this is a little different.

I also have sesamoiditis, which isn’t terribly out of the ordinary, but on days it flares it looks like a bunion.

As I've aged, I find that I need to have 4 or 5 bowel movements in the morning before I feel I can go out. They're not unhealthy BMs, there are just several instead of it all coming out in one or two movements. And I eat pretty healthy food, lots of roughage. My usual breakfast is a banana and a couple of Metamucil wafers (which make the BMs very "clean") and 2 cups of coffee.

I'm retired so at least I usually don't have to get anywhere early in the morning.

Anyone else have this issue?

I once stood up too fast. Had a head rush, and fell hard to my knees. For about a second I had no idea where I was or who I was. It was wild and scary.

That wrist lump could be a lipoma.

It's not a lipoma.

It's a giant blowfly larva.

My farts can cause sonic distortions and wall imprints

For many years, I've had the following experience at least a few times a year. It only lasts a second, and has two variations:

-I suddenly feel like my physical body has fallen an inch or two, like the floor suddenly is two inches lower, and gravity takes me with it. Usually happens when I'm standing, but has happened while seated. There is a brief effect like when you're on a roller coaster that starts falling.

- Same phenomenon except sideways. I will be standing at thee kitchen counter and it feels like the universe "scoots" me sideways.

I tried googling this a few years ago but couldn't find a definitive answer. Medical? Universe👽? 🤷‍♂️

^^vertigo

R74 I have that! I call it "the elevator." It feels like when an elevator sort of bounces or drops a bit.

Occasionally and always at home, I'll have sneezing jags that seem to go on forever. I can't figure out what causes them. I went to an allergist, but he didn't find I had any particular allergies other than light hay fever at times of the spring and summer. This only started as I entered my 60s.

And no, our house is not dusty.

r74 and r76, reddit says that's vertigo caused by anxiety.

Well, that tracks. Thanks, RC!

I can't believe I missed this thread. Back during peri-menopause, I used to get early morning nausea. Sometimes it was slight, but occasionally it caused me to throw up some of the water I gulped when I woke up. A variation of a hotflash I used to have started with nausea and a little dizziness before I got hot, then the sweating, and finally the bowels went. It could be any time of day.

Something that's surprised me about aging is I've started to get car sick. It happened within a span of about two years between two drives in the country as a passenger. Fine looking at all the vistas and animals in early 2020. Horrible nausea on a trip to Vegas if my eyes wandered too far off the road. I had to look over the rim of Hoover Dam; I couldn't resist, but damn! 🤢 Even seeing heights on a small TV does it now.

FASCINATING

New Information for Me:

As a vacuous gay man, I keep a strict diet to balance out the drugs. I have been eating a Mediterranean diet with plenty of raw vegetables and insoluble fiber.

This is Bad!!!!

People like me, with pancreatic insufficiency, are supposed to cook all vegetables for full absorption and avoid heavy fiber as it flushes everything out before it can be digested.

Holding you in my heart, R82.

My body literally recoils when faced with cheap manufactured goods

I threw up big time two nights ago and I haven't vomited in years. My dog was very concerned but I feel fine now. No idea what brought that on.

R85 listening to CardinB?

For you, R57

I get ocular migraines too and they always last exactly 20 minutes.

Esophagus tightening. Sometimes when I'm eating, my esophagus tightens and the food has trouble going down. And then I'll start with hiccups.

Shannon Beador posts here r89?

Lightening sensation i— I’ve had that periodically . I’ve self diagnosed it as fuck I haven’t had sex in a long fucking time.

Vertigo - lay on your bed with your head hanging gently over the side . Slowly move your head side to side holding for whatever feels comfortable . Then gently scoot up so you are flat on your back in bed. This generally works . My doctor explained it’s some shit about crystals in your inner ear moving around

OP, maybe you’re pregnant?

The list is much too long ever since I made the mistake of taking Cipro. My body as I knew it ceased to exist.

Heart issues sometimes present as nausea. I’m thinking I need to get checked out for the same reason. I’m in the middle of moving and have had a couple of nausea attacks as well recently after lots of activity.

R90, I love you more and more all the time, Rescue Chick!

As woman "of a certain age", I'm just here to say that struggle with chin-whiskers is real.

And as a man "of a certain age", I find in the summer sun (which I do honestly try and avoid as much as possible) my face is constantly breaking out into pre-cancerous benign red spots and blisters. I go to my dermatologist regularly, but it never seems to end.

I feel like a teenager dealing with acne (which, fortunately, I never really suffered through back then).

My scalp is super itchy and dry lately. There's no rash or flaking or anything so it's not dandruff or psoriasis. Don't know what it is.

Same, r98!

Old age, after all.

Six years on high dose Cipro R93. Terrible - I felt like all my joints were dying.

Anal leaking post-fistula operation.

My asshole is delicious

r102, How positively lovely for you...

You can taste it