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31 Women Just Shared The Unusual And Unexplainable Body Quirks They’ve Learned To Live With, And Hold Up, I Have A Few Of These…
Reddit user Conscious_Can3226 recently asked the r/AskWomenOver30 community, “What’s a weird thing your body does that you’ve never heard of anyone else experiencing?” Some of the responses were super shocking! But others…well…my body does them too! Wild. Check it out:
1.“I always know my period is coming because my right upper leg feels extremely nauseous. That makes zero sense, but I can’t find a better way to describe the feeling than severe nausea in my leg.”
—bubble-tea-mouse
2.“I hear music when I’m falling asleep every single night. Sometimes it’s rock, sometimes country, sometimes classical. No, there aren’t any radios playing anywhere in our home or our neighbors’ homes. It happens literally wherever I am and am falling asleep.”
—Cootieface123
3.“My cheeks sweat when I eat apples.”
—sqqueen2
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4.“I cry when I pee. It’s completely involuntary/not emotion-driven. Tears just start streaming down my face as soon as I start. Mainly, if I hold my bladder too long.”
—Froggy_froggy_
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5.“Every time I was pregnant, my nipples would behave like they had Raynaud’s disease. They would turn black and then start turning white at the tip. I would have to take all my clothes off and just have them in warm water. I would be walking around and feel a chill, and my nipples would get hard and start this reaction that felt like someone was holding a hot iron to the tips. Went away immediately at birth. It was once the first symptom I felt. I knew I was pregnant because my nipples burned.”
—TryingKindness
6.“I get incredibly nauseous right before I sneeze. Like I think I’m gonna puke, and right when I get to the point where I’m heading to the bathroom, I sneeze and it’s like I’m fine. I didn’t develop this until after I gave birth.”
—ValiumKnight
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7.“My right elbow hurts if I eat McDonald’s. Never my left elbow or any other fast food.”
—Next_Firefighter7605
8.“Instead of brain freeze, I get spine freeze. The location is about two inches down from the top of my sternum, only on the inner side of my spine.”
—coocooforcoconut
9.“I get nauseous if the inside of my belly button is touched. People interpret that to mean I’m ticklish, but I get a full-body reaction!”
—OnCloud1989
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10.“My eyes squeak when I rub them.”
—letmebeyourmummy
11.“I have to crap every time I go shopping.”
—orthodoxyma
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12.“Some people have a gene that makes cilantro taste like soap. I have a gene that makes cucumbers taste rancid, like bad fish.”
—HeckThattt
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13.“Since having COVID, I can taste metal when I hold some in my hand, like a fork or a metal cup. I hate it!”
—sherbertmelipnos
14.“If you tickle my left elbow, I can feel it in my inner ear.”
—jane-be-jane
15.“My throat always gets sore for a couple of days before my period, like clockwork.”
—celestialism
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16.“The base of my skull makes fizzy popping noises when I’m super hungry. I’ve looked it up and apparently it’s a thing, but it doesn’t happen to anybody I’ve ever mentioned it to.”
—mirrorherb
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17.“If I have a moment of genuine connection with another person, I get tingly over the entirety of my scalp. It’s pretty cool. This can also happen when I see a particularly poignant video or hear a song that evokes a lot of emotion.”
—sittinginthesunshine
18.“My teeth hurt when I hear sounds I don’t like. One of my biggest triggers is someone running their finger along paper.”
—Selfeffacingbarbie
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19.“Sometimes when I pinch my skin in one place, I can feel it in a different place too. For example, I pinched my skin above my right knee, and I’ve felt it above my right elbow. It’s more prominent before my period.”
—mrsduckie
20.“When my throat is itchy, I get an itch in my lower abdomen too, with the exact same sensation and intensity of the itch.”
—randombubble8272
21.“My eyes start watering whenever anyone describes something supernatural (ghosts, alien encounters, or unexplained goings on). It’s like I’m crying, but without the emotion or the lump in the throat. I just start tearing up.”
—batterscraps
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22.“I have one tooth that randomly ‘itches.’ There’s nothing wrong with the tooth or gum there. Itching is the best way I can describe it. It’s super weird and annoying. I don’t know what causes it. I brush, floss, and use mouthwash. Just got good remarks from my dentist last month, so I don’t get it. When I tell my husband or friends about it, they have no idea what I mean or what I’m describing.”
—DismalPrint5951
23.“When I go to other people’s houses, if I’m not 100% comfortable with them, I get really gassy after being there for longer than an hour or two. It used to happen a lot when I visited my in-laws, and once it happened when I drove to Arizona to visit a friend I hadn’t seen in a few years. It’s funny because when I told my friend I was gassy, her husband laughed and said it happens to her too.”
—DazzlingAd7021
24.“My left thumbnail grows at twice the rate of the rest of my fingernails. I get manicures every three weeks like clockwork, and my nail tech noticed.”
—NoWordsJustDogs
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25.“The left side of my body sucks. I get kidney stones, migraines, shoulder pain, itching, toothaches, ovarian cysts, all on my left side.”
—kogeliz
26.“The inside of my ears hurts in the cold weather, wind, or when I have to run. It stings, and no one else ever seems to have it when my ears are killing me.”
—vctrlzzr420
27.“When I feel deep emotional pain or anguish, I get this aching sensation in my right wrist and hand. I’ve found very little online about it. It’s so odd, but I lowkey love it when it happens while reading a novel or watching a movie. It shows me I’m really connecting with the plot!”
—cica4
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28.“My left thumbnail has a defect that causes it to split in the same spot, so I always have a notch in my nail that gets caught on everything. My mother and my grandmother had the same thing on the same finger, and all three of us developed it at around 35. It must be a genetic quirk. I haven’t heard of other people/families that have this.”
—DragonflyWing
29.“Sometimes, my feet get warm when I pee. I remember telling my dad about it years ago, and in typical dad fashion, he told me to quit pissing on my feet. Still no answers.”
—DefinitelyARealLady
30.“When I get scared, my legs itch and tingle, and it’s purely psychological. Never noticed until I started riding a motorcycle.”
—ronniesfedora
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31.And: “I get shoulder pain when I have to poop really badly. It’s only in my right shoulder.”
—MissMamaMam
Women, do you have any body quirks you literally can’t explain? Tell us in the comments or share anonymously using this form.
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