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The best/worst thing your body has done

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    #32
    Tonyandthewhale
    Registered Users Posts: 1,867 ✭✭✭Tonyandthewhale


    Worst: I get woeful bad hiccups on a far too regular basis. Always terrified that they won't stop and I'll be hiccuping for life.

    Best: I like how my body can just keep going and going. Cycling from Preston in the North of England down to Falmouth in the far Southwest over the course of one winter's day and night was pretty good. I was pretty surprised that it didn't just pack-in at any point. Arrived at my destination the morning after I set off, took a nap for about an hour in the afternoon and was out dancing in a club til all hours that night.


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    #33
    waffleman
    Registered Users Posts: 580 ✭✭✭waffleman


    ShowMeTheCash wrote: »
    Best: An orgasm so intense I fainted.
    Worst: Waking up from orgasm to find I lost control of my bowels.

    You never told me this! Who did ye **** the bed beside? lolz


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    #34
    Lau2976
    Registered Users Posts: 1,030 ✭✭✭Lau2976


    Worst: Periods and food poisoning so bad I passed out on my bathroom floor from lack of fluids and woke up hours later in the e.r. Also Randomly stripping in my sleep when I'm stressed.

    Best: Not dying yet.


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    #35
    Grayson
    Registered Users Posts: 16,158 ✭✭✭✭Grayson


    Worst was a lung collapse

    best was meningitis, whooping cough & pneumonia at once when i was a kid. Any physical body which gets through that with no major side effects is fecking awesome.

    Also, I don't get altitude sickness and for some reason insects never bite me. they're little things but you really appreciate them at the time.


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    #36
    Pumpkinseeds
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,635 ✭✭✭Pumpkinseeds


    Worst: Soul destroyingly painful chronic hideous disease that involves my glands eating me from the inside, gradually tearing it's way out through my skin and totally destroying my life and career.

    Best: Nothing.


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    #37
    Penny Tration
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,687 ✭✭✭✭Penny Tration


    Best thing my body has ever done - not gotten pregnant.

    Worst - that time I went on the drink and woke up in hospital.


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    #38
    kowloon
    Registered Users Posts: 13,364 ✭✭✭✭kowloon


    Schwiiing wrote: »
    I've had a tilted pelvis for a few years without realising it. It has ****ed my back up probably for life. Anyone know a fix for it?

    I thought what Gongoozler said.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=szkgylvDYA4


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    #39
    Sam Hain
    Registered Users Posts: 1,315 ✭✭✭Sam Hain


    Worst: Getting my balls caught in a mouse trap
    Best: Releasing my balls from the mouse trap


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    #40
    zyanya
    Registered Users Posts: 208 ✭✭zyanya


    Best - REALLY bad blows and never a broken bone. I sometimes think my bones are made of rubber

    Worst - I have keratoconus... other than that... I'm super allergic to peach and when I eat even an accidental bit, I swell up and ennd up feeling like the Olmeca head:

    20130612-cabeza-Olmeca.jpg


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    #41
    Gael23
    Registered Users Posts: 12,091 ✭✭✭✭Gael23


    Worst: Bowels decided to stop working properly and resulting constipation was so bad it took nearly 3 months to clear fully.


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    #42
    lazygal
    Registered Users Posts: 12,644 ✭✭✭✭lazygal


    Best-gestated and birthed two children, and breastfed them afterwards
    Worst-gestated and birthed two children, and breastfed them afterwards


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    #43
    heldel00
    Registered Users Posts: 1,832 ✭✭✭heldel00


    Worst: adult acne. (It gets me so down I just can't think of a best :mad:)


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    #44
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 26,052 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Worst: Nearly died from the very worst strain of meningitis B, I went from a slight headache to critically ill in less than hours and am only still here thanks to the prompt actions of my brother. I remember thinking I was slipping away and wanting to so the pain would stop. A year later I unluckily got another strain of meningitis and was quite ill, but not life threateningly so.

    Best: Apart from surviving meningitis, the physical euphoria the human body is capable of is amazing.


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    #45
    heldel00
    Registered Users Posts: 1,832 ✭✭✭heldel00


    ^^^ was the second strain related to the first?


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    #46
    Mister Vain
    Registered Users Posts: 6,042 ✭✭✭Mister Vain


    Worst: My lung decided to collapse for no apparent reason - spontaneous pneumothorax. It happened to me twice in 6 months. It was awful.

    Best: I managed to climax twice with a woman in the space of an hour.


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    #47
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 26,052 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    heldel00 wrote: »
    ^^^ was the second strain related to the first?

    No, I was just extremely unlucky. :(


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    #48
    heldel00
    Registered Users Posts: 1,832 ✭✭✭heldel00


    Candie wrote: »
    No, I was just extremely unlucky. :(

    Unbelievable! You would prob have better odds of winning lotto! Were doctors dumbfounded?


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    #49
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 26,052 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    heldel00 wrote: »
    Unbelievable! You would prob have better odds of winning lotto! Were doctors dumbfounded?

    The second strain was quite common, but having it after the meng B is unusual but not unheard of.


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    #50
    bop1977
    Registered Users Posts: 1,061 ✭✭✭bop1977


    Best: being a man
    Worst: Man flu.


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    #51
    beks101
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,802 ✭✭✭beks101


    heldel00 wrote: »
    Worst: adult acne. (It gets me so down I just can't think of a best :mad:)

    I think this is a classic case of the body just being a big giant cnut for no apparent reason. Just because it can.

    I suffered with terrible skin for years, despite having a perfectly clean diet and healthy lifestyle and using soap-free oil-free products etc and not doing the things that my peers around me did (who had beautifully clear skin) such as binge drinking and smoking and eating shyte and never exercising.

    Took me several years of antibiotics, two courses of accutane and thousands of pounds worth of products and treatments before there was any give with my skin, and even at that - time of the month or forgetting to take my makeup off before bed and BAM, breakouts everywhere.

    Adult acne is a fcuking dickhead.
    If it were a person it would be Katie Hopkins.
    Arsehole for the sake of being an arsehole.


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    #52
    Mister Vain
    Registered Users Posts: 6,042 ✭✭✭Mister Vain


    Acne is a terror alright. Thankfully I never had it really bad, but it didn't clear up until I was in my late 20's. As a guy you can't exactly hide it with makeup. Shaving was a nightmare.


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    #53
    Grayson
    Registered Users Posts: 16,158 ✭✭✭✭Grayson


    Candie wrote: »
    Worst: Nearly died from the very worst strain of meningitis B, I went from a slight headache to critically ill in less than hours and am only still here thanks to the prompt actions of my brother. I remember thinking I was slipping away and wanting to so the pain would stop. A year later I unluckily got another strain of meningitis and was quite ill, but not life threateningly so.

    Best: Apart from surviving meningitis, the physical euphoria the human body is capable of is amazing.

    I was 4 when I had it. I had whooping cough which was misdiagnosed as tonsillitis. Apparently at the early stages they're similar. So I was taken to the mater where my tonsils were removed.
    Then I developed the meningitis and pneumonia as secondary infections. I was back at home and apparently my mum found me under the bed in a coma. I was rushed to Temple street and the paramedics had to resuscitate me. I spent three months in hospital where I refused to eat anything so I was on IV drips the whole time.

    It left me with a little bit of deafness. I needed a few months of speech therapy as a kid. It also means I never lost the accent I had as a kid. We moved to Mullingar when I was 5 and I was the only kid in school without a culchie accent. Even today you'd never guess I grew up in westmeath.

    Now whenever I see someone collecting for Temple St I empty my entire pockets into the buckets.


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    #54
    Grayson
    Registered Users Posts: 16,158 ✭✭✭✭Grayson


    Mister Vain wrote: »
    Worst: My lung decided to collapse for no apparent reason - spontaneous pneumothorax. It happened to me twice in 6 months. It was awful.

    Best: I managed to climax twice with a woman in the space of an hour.

    Tall skinny guy? It's most common with tall skinny guys or people with Marfans syndrome.

    When mine collapsed I thought I had really bad indigestion. I have something called a hiatus hernia (my entire family except my mum has one) and I'd been drinking the night before. I'd also eaten left over chinese for breakfast. So I thought I had really, really bad indigestion at first.
    Oh did those doctors laugh at me. :)


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    #55
    Sir Osis of Liver.
    Registered Users Posts: 2,793 ✭✭✭Sir Osis of Liver.


    madmaggie wrote: »
    It's gotten me to the half ton without too much bother, very appreciative!
    Is that weight or age?


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    #56
    Idjit
    Registered Users Posts: 853 ✭✭✭Idjit


    Worst: Ongoing kidney stones

    Best: Remaining healthy and mostly injury-free otherwise!

    :D


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    #57
    DoozerT6
    Registered Users Posts: 2,589 ✭✭✭DoozerT6


    Best: bounced back from a damaging foot injury when I was a child with only an impressive scar to show for it.

    Worst: I get some whacking great doses of tonsillitis. Also managed to get myself a back injury as a teen which still acts up occasionally.


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    Ginny
    Hosted Moderators Posts: 13,425 ✭✭✭✭Ginny


    Best, growing 2 minions, I can't get over how I've made a full little person. :) never mind the miracle:rolleyes: of birth. Oh and having a stable fracture in my neck forever.
    Worst: pneumonia 2 years in a row, and my intestines/bowels not having the required amount of perstaltic movement that the next person would have.


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    #59
    The Strawman Argument
    Closed Accounts Posts: 477 ✭✭The Strawman Argument


    Best: Decided to not bother telling me how f*cked one of my molars was for the last fortnight, would've been in agony otherwise

    Worst: I've had some really bad salmonella, tonsils so swollen I was choking on them, coughed up blood on numerous occasions and male pattern baldness, but the winner's probably constant stomach gas; I've felt like I'm on the verges of throwing up for years now.


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    #60
    sadie06
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,706 ✭✭✭sadie06


    Best: Sailing through two pregnancies (apart from morning sickness) and getting me through 3 years of college as a mature-mother of two-burning the candle at both ends- student, and earning great results in the process.

    Worst: Being really crap at childbirth! Despite being a very tall woman with 'fine child-bearing hips' my pelvis is apparently not equipped for birthing, so I needed intervention both times. Worse than that was the massive neurological curve ball my body dealt me right after my three years in college, which change everything forever. I have adjusted, but I miss being a 'healthy' person.


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    #61
    Mister Vain
    Registered Users Posts: 6,042 ✭✭✭Mister Vain


    Grayson wrote: »
    Tall skinny guy? It's most common with tall skinny guys or people with Marfans syndrome.

    When mine collapsed I thought I had really bad indigestion. I have something called a hiatus hernia (my entire family except my mum has one) and I'd been drinking the night before. I'd also eaten left over chinese for breakfast. So I thought I had really, really bad indigestion at first.
    Oh did those doctors laugh at me. :)

    Not tall no. Mine was caused by sarcoidosis, or more specifically granulomas (clumps of cells) on the lung.

    A guy I used to work with is tall and skinny and the same thing happened to him about the same time as me.


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