I Had No Idea The "Unusual" Thing My Body Did Was, In Fact, Not "Normal," And I Feel So Validated By These 32 People Who Had The Same Experience

1. "Since I was a kid, I've heard this weird, TV static-y-sounding, rainfall stick-y sound coming from the backmost of my cervix randomly. It astir feels similar thing is draining. I assumed that, benignant of similar erstwhile your tummy growls, it was conscionable a weird assemblage dependable cipher truly talked about. Well, fast-forward to this twelvemonth and during a doctor's appointment, I mentioned it offhandedly. My doc looked perfectly horrified — she'd ne'er heard of that successful her life. I told my partner, my friends, my parents...and not a psyche had immoderate thought what the hellhole I was talking about."

"After immoderate googling and speechmaking comments of chap weird-head-noise-sufferers, it's believed to beryllium the dependable of your spinal fluid, though there's admittedly not a full batch retired determination connected it. People thin to perceive it astir erstwhile they're bare and, aft immoderate idiosyncratic testing, I tin corroborate that holds up. More often than not, though, my encephalon conscionable tunes retired the sound, due to the fact that I'm truthful utilized to it."

—Angelica Martinez

4. "Since I was a kid, I would sleep-walk, drink, and eat. The sleep-drinking was the astir problematic, due to the fact that I've woken up drinking acetone, Windex, and interaction solution before. My member did these, too, and my dada was notorious for eating a sleeve of Oreos portion asleep. So, I thought it was normal. Over the past year, it's gotten WILD. One time, I made full-blown oven nachos with chopped vegetables. I fed them to my ma astatine 3 a.m. portion dormant asleep. I lone woke up erstwhile I started talking astir a schoolhouse bus, and she realized what was happening."

"The sleepwalking is worse erstwhile I'm stressed. Last week, I woke up successful the greeting to find I had fried pierogis. I enactment 4 sauces successful containers and enactment them successful the sink, and past I packed my lunch. It was feline food. Also, past week, I woke up to my backmost doorway WIDE OPEN, and a receipt for an Uber thrust to the metropolis ($124) that seemingly I ordered and didn't take.

Because the tasks are getting much analyzable and mostly fucking dangerous, my doc made maine get aged alarms similar the ones they person successful hospitals."

—acappiello1684

I'm a sleepwalker. On much than 1 occasion, I woke up eating a vessel of Honey Nut Cheerios successful my room with each the lights off. I haven't slept-eaten successful respective years to my knowledge, though. 😂"

—leannahbanana

11. "I couldn’t respire done my chemoreceptor until I was 27. My nasal valves formed truthful narrowly that immoderate clip I tried, they would illness successful connected themselves. I didn’t adjacent wholly recognize that my assemblage had conscionable learned to get the oxygen it could done my mouth. Turns out, it was each due to the fact that I had an undiagnosed tongue tie*. If your lingua doesn’t people remainder connected the extortion of your mouth, chances are you do, too."

"Check yourself, cheque your kids. Breathing is SO important and yet truthful easy missed betwixt aesculapian and dental professionals due to the fact that airway disorders aren’t mostly taught. They’re a speciality."

—xnrbx1941

*For those who mightiness not know, a lingua necktie is simply a set of insubstantial — often peculiarly heavy oregon abbreviated — that restricts however acold the lingua tin move, anchoring it towards the bottommost of the mouth. You tin work much astir it here.

23. "I thought it was mean for immoderate women to conscionable person dense periods. But I don’t mean dense successful the mean sense, I mean dense successful how, astatine its worst, I would stroke done 40-50 ace positive oregon ultra tampons successful little than 48 hours. And that was WITH afloat pads connected apical of it that I would besides stroke through. Also, my periods lasted truthful agelong they would overlap with ovulation, which is besides perfectly NOT NORMAL. Turns retired I had terrible fibroids. Or, well, successful my case, I had 1 azygous fibroid that was bigger than a shot and taking up implicit fractional of my uterus."

"Because I was fundamentally hemorrhaging each month, I was truthful severely anemic that I had to motion a peculiar waiver for my hysterectomy that said I agreed to a humor transfusion if it became necessary. Luckily, I had a fantastic doc who would lone bash a laparoscopic surgery. So adjacent erstwhile it was taking 3 times arsenic agelong arsenic they thought, she refused to unfastened maine up and enactment maine astatine hazard of bleeding out. The champion part? No much periods, and 8 years later, I tin hardly find the incision spots anymore."

—Stephanie, 45