The best/worst thing your body has done

Mister Vain · 01-02-2015 10:38am

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.

Grayson · 01-02-2015 11:44am

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.

Grayson · 01-02-2015 11:48am

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.

Sir Osis of Liver. · 01-02-2015 11:57am

madmaggie wrote: »

It's gotten me to the half ton without too much bother, very appreciative!

Is that weight or age?

Idjit · 01-02-2015 1:36pm

Worst: Ongoing kidney stones

Best: Remaining healthy and mostly injury-free otherwise!

DoozerT6 · 01-02-2015 3:01pm

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.

Ginny · 01-02-2015 3:16pm

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.

The Strawman Argument · 01-02-2015 3:23pm

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.

sadie06 · 01-02-2015 3:28pm

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.

Mister Vain · 01-02-2015 8:06pm

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.

heldel00 · 01-02-2015 9:33pm

beks101 wrote: »

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.

Fantastic post. You nailed it right on the head there. Have already done one course of roacc and had a year of fabulous spot free skin but need a second dose :mad:

Saralee4 · 01-02-2015 9:41pm

Best: orgasm
Worst: I bruise like a peach

lazza14 · 01-02-2015 11:48pm

Links234 wrote: »

My body is a bit.. weird. especially when it comes to sleep. I suffer from insomnia, had sleep paralysis as a child, but perhaps the weirdest is that I got the Jimmy legs! :eek: Serious, nasty Jimmy legs. Once I hit the bed, it just keeps going. I can be asleep, and have a spasm in a leg that wakes me right up. it's kinda ****ed up

Sounds like the Karl Pilkington "restless legs syndrome"

Filmer Paradise · 02-02-2015 12:53am

Worst. Messy drinker, it brings out the worst in me. Can be very intense sometimes.

Best. Bombproof constitution. Can't remember the last time I was sick. Also, good hair. 46 & hardly any 'snow on the roof'.

02-02-2015 1:01am

I have made it something of a fetish to see what my body can do. I run and cycle every day with the hound. I do BJJ and capoeira to really push it though. Swimming. Sex in weird positions. I tried Yoga but got bored with it - but I try to incorporate some of yoga into the things I listed above.

Recently I have been trying to push the borders on the control I have on my body. This involves a kind of "dance" you do in the garden with paper hanging from thread around you - where you hold these wet marker things in your hands - and the goal is to execute bodily movements - usually involving some kind of spin - where you leave a marker mark on a piece of paper - but without touching the paper enough that it noticeably moves. It is _in_fur_i_ating. Like you would not believe. But when you execute a move where you leave 3 or 4 dots on paper without barely touching them - it feels incredible.

As for the worst thing my body has done - I have had two weird infections that almost literally crippled me - but the worst was during training once a muscle gave out on me during a complex move - and then while trying to land peacefully on the mat a series of muscles that tried to take me down gently all gave out in a cascade too.

Longest I ever spent in bed ever getting over that one. But what an experience.

Normally if you get a sharp pain - like saying being kicked in the balls - your body folds itself naturally to accommodate the pain - but imagine a body that contorts itself to balance a pain - but causes more pain as it does so by pulling something else - your whole body ends up kicking around the place trying to find that one spot that it wants to be in - but causing pain the whole way down and exacerbating the other problems each time. It was hell. Probably only took 30 seconds over all - but it was the longest 30 seconds of my life.

Sheep Lover · 02-02-2015 1:18am

Converting both the 5 euro snackbox meal from the local chipper and the most exquisite cuisine available into equally soild brown logs.

It's like the essence of life, doesn't matter what you are before you die. Because afterwards we're all gonna be little cylinders of brown poop

mushu · 02-02-2015 2:17am

Best: Growing giving birth to and nursing two beautiful children.

Worst: Failing to grow three other children. Also, my oesophagus doesn't work properly.

Links234 · 02-02-2015 2:21am

lazza14 wrote: »

Sounds like the Karl Pilkington "restless legs syndrome"

that's exactly what it is, also known as jimmy legs

zcorpian88 · 02-02-2015 2:39am

Worst: Almost choked in my sleep after an extremely heavy night on the beer 4 years ago, only for I awoke in mid vomit, scared the hell out of me. Have never gotten in that kind of a state since.

Best: My quick thinking/reflexes have gotten other people out of injury/death. Was working one time in a supermarket, doing a stocktake and I was up on a ladder counting a load of jam jars, a manager (who I didn't like by the way, he was always a prick to me) was counting stuff on his knees on a much lower shelf, he shook the shelf and there just happened to be a giant glass jar of Nutella one of those jars with like 50% extra in it was on the top shelf above his head and it fell off, and if I didn't grab the jar like Superman, he'd have been in Casualty pulling glass out his forehead for the night.

Another day about 3 years ago, a little boy, must have been like 4 years old, mother nowhere to be found, young lad suddenly runs out in front of van on a really busy road, a Pat the Baker van heading right for him, I didn't even have a chance to think and darted for him, picked him up and ran to the other side of the road while the van blew me out of it, put the young lad down at the other side of the road, I was massively out of breath due to fright, his mother was in a shop buying a litre of milk and he got away on her. The mother bought me a cup of coffee and apologised prefusely. I seem to be there at the right time for folks!

csallmighty · 02-02-2015 4:59am

Projectile vomit during junior cert mocks. Didn't make much of a mess but its the slagging you get afterwards.

Dodgy left ankle that I keep going over on, celulitus infection and dislocated sholders. Damn my body can be a pain in the arse sometimes.

chrisb1 · 02-02-2015 7:34am

Worst: Going bald in twenties

Best: Saving a life

Asarlai · 02-02-2015 8:27am

I was on a six week meditation course in 1979. During one meditation, my body felt completely weightless, and I lifted up into the air and down again several time, like a bouncing beach ball, and moved back and forth across the meditation room while doing so.

I have been meditating for almost 40 years and have been on many similar (and longer) meditation courses, but I've never had the experience since.

Over the years, I've read people debating whether it is possible for the body to lift off the ground effortlessly. Of course, most people don't agree that it can (which makes sense, of course), but I've had one experience of it and I know it that it can happen.

Unlikely to happen again in my lifetime, but who knows?

Littlekittylou · 03-02-2015 1:11am

It had a seizure about three weeks ago.

Was in hospital for a week.

MRI and EEG came back normal. It was my first so I am hoping it is a one off. 10 % of the population have one and of those half never have another. So 5% of the population have one seizure in their lifetime.

I just found out my godmother had a few at my age and then they stopped.

Felt horrific after can't describe it. Also I bashed myself to bits and bit the **** out of my tongue.

I feel very lucky though. My neighbour died a few days after I got out. He left a wife and three kids. Makes you think!

Also my family were amazing. My mother was the one to find me I terrified her. My brother called the ambulance and the hospital were very kind etc. There was an overly long gap between lunch and tea but the nurses made sure there was an endless supply of orange juice and roses.

The best thing.

It's still here.

ShowMeTheCash · 06-02-2015 12:56pm

waffleman wrote: »

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

It was a joke you nonce! But if you really have to know, I call her Aphrodite a woman of impeccable taste, class, technique, endurance and skill you call her Mammy :P

Ush1 · 06-02-2015 1:01pm

Worst is defo my second colonoscopy. Dehydrated to the point where I was close to organ failure, vomiting bile, etc... I think it permanently damaged my kidneys.

waffleman · 06-02-2015 1:06pm

ShowMeTheCash wrote: »

It was a joke you nonce! But if you really have to know, I call her Aphrodite a woman of impeccable taste, class, technique, endurance and skill you call her Mammy :P

does sound like somethin you would do for a joke olrite you sicko - ye coulda just told her how you feel

InTheTrees · 01-05-2015 1:08pm

Links234 wrote: »

but perhaps the weirdest is that I got the Jimmy legs! :eek: Serious, nasty Jimmy legs. Once I hit the bed, it just keeps going. I can be asleep, and have a spasm in a leg that wakes me right up. it's kinda ****ed up

Its not that weird. Its an extremely common sleep disorder.

It wakes me up an average of twice a night. Sleeping pills have no effect, you just wake up in the night in a haze.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Restless_legs_syndrome

Lollipops23 · 21-05-2015 7:48pm

Grayson wrote: »

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

As do I- spent quite a bit of time there as a 4-5 year old. Massive asthma attacks landed me in the ICU at one point. Don't ever remember feeling scared though as the nurses were living saints who truly cared about every kid that came through the doors.

Best thing my body ever did was recover from those incidents, give blood 11 times (rare blood, so I feel obliged), and never broken any bones in 27 years despite all manner of rough housing as a kid.

silverfeather · 21-05-2015 7:53pm

I have had kidney issues. And a seizure earlier this year. As a baby I had whooping cough.

It's still here. It's still doing it's hotness.:)

The best/worst thing your body has done

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