"I Can Smell Sickness On People": 77 People Share Their Weird Body Quirks

I have hidradentitis suppurativa. It’s embarrassing and hard to explain to people. So many people think it’s something else entirely and it’s been embarrassing to deal with. Lots of scarring and deep pitting around my arm pits, groin area and buttocks. It’s not pretty at all.

I can’t burp. My mom swears I burped as a baby, but at some point I stopped because even as a kid I would get so uncomfortable after drinking soda or eating certain foods.
I didn’t even realize it was a whole thing until I was an adult and found a name for the condition on reddit of all places. My doctors never understand it.

If I eat/drink anything sweet with alcohol, especially sweet drinks like Smirnoff Ice, I get a radiating pain that starts at my mid back and up to my neck and jaw. Can put me on the ground for an hour or two.

I can crack my fingers anytime. My knuckles ones every few hours, but my fingers I can do anytime.

Sometimes if I haven’t eaten for a full day or more, when I finally eat something the roof of my mouth aches like hell, like a really bad muscle cramp on the roof of my mouth. But it also feels sensitive to touch. It’s like my mouth is freaking out that there’s food in it lol.

Every single time I brush my teeth, my right nostril runs.
Every. Single.Time.

I couldn’t burp my entire life until I had my first child. No one believed me.

My allergist laughed at me because he was surprised I was alive.
It been 20 years and he’s still my doctor.

When I pee I cry. It’s not painful and it’s fully involuntary. Google said the nerves in my brain grew too close together so when I pee sometimes the signal gets confused and makes me cry

My daughter used to have chronic hiccups. To make them stop immediately we found out if she held non carbonated liquid in her mouth and tilted her head back, to let the liquid slide down!(avoid swallowing until you absolutely have to) it works every time.

After I chug a bunch of water if i shake my body I can hear the water sloshing around in my stomach.

I sometimes get something like an electric current go through my body, from my head down. It only seems to happened when I’m poorly.

Lipidema. No cause, no cure, no knowledge sometimes so I get shamed for not hating myself enough to make it go away. It's delightful.

My right knee feels very weird, like almost like I hurt myself

But there's no pain and I can walk and do everything normally

I don't have insurance so all is well.

My daily heart rhythm is such that when any doctor other than a Cardiologist sees my EKG, they think I’m actively having an heart attack and rush me to the ER. It is a TOTAL PITA.

Desaturates at altitude for no reason my whole life, even though I was born in a state that has higher altitudes naturally.

When I’m cold, my heart shivers. Feels like it’s rattling around in my ribcage. No idea if this is normal or not

Also about 20 min after I eat a beyond burger, my hair starts to smell like burgers. Just my hair. And it’s pretty long so idk how tf

Lastly I can’t crack my knuckles, but I can crack my toes on command.