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30 Netizens With Various ‘Medically Cool’ Body Traits Share Things They Are Happy (Or Not) To Have
Many years ago, when I was still a teen, I learned that my dental canal had a unique structure. This was discovered by a respected professor of dentistry, who immediately wanted to take an X-ray of my tooth to show to his students. The case was complicated by the fact that, at that time, I had a metal needle in my dental canal, which they used to pull out the nerve, and I was not given anesthesia...
Brrr—I still shudder when I remember this experience... By the way, as it turns out, many people have various features in their bodies that give them an advantage in some way, or cause discomfort in others, and some of them can simply be bragged about in company. So, this selection of body features made for you by Bored Panda is dedicated to exactly those.
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#1
I used to donate plasma and was told I have some sort of super measles immunity. Apparently, this is usually only found in people who had measles as a child. They tested my plasma a bunch of times, and then asked for my consent to turn it into medication for people whose immune systems are too compromised for a traditional measles vaccine. It made me feel like a mini super hero.
*Edit: I just returned to Reddit and saw this! Wow, thank you guys for all of your kind words. That means the world to me. And thank you random stranger for the gold!
Alexia 8 months ago
Kudos to you! I know how it feels like. I have a rare blood type, and I donated regularly for several years (currently in a pause due to some minor health issues). I even got text messages from the transfusion center a few times, asking me if I could come to donate earlier for urgent cases (I did, every time 😊)
Kit Black 8 months ago
Sadly, I have the opposite problem - no matter how many times I've been immunized for Rubella, my body refuses to produce antibodies. If it ever makes a comeback in the U.S .I'm totally screwed
Krd 8 months ago
Ouch, guessing you are not an RFK fan? I hear he's trying to make eradicated diseases make a comeback!
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#2
I have little calcified spots all over the inside of my lungs from when I had chicken pox as a kid. They're harmless, but they show up on x-rays and most doctors don't have a clue what they are. The pulmonary specialist that diagnosed them asked if she could keep the x-ray films to show med students because it was so rare.
CP 8 months ago
I was just telling my kids how we used to get chicken pox. Showed them some fun pictures. Another vaccine win!
Serena Myers 8 months ago
Chicken pox as a kid? Amateur, I didn't get chicken pox till I was 55!
Michelle C 8 months ago
You’re actually better off having severe chickenpox as a kid so you’re less likely to get it as an adult, as well as shingles. Either of them could actually k**l you if left untreated or they’re severe enough, especially the latter. Shingles can also lead to chronic pain.
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#3
I have a twin sister and we are mirror twins (I'm right handed, she's left handed, etc). We both have scoliosis and hers curves to the left while mine curves to the right.
Big Chungus 8 months ago
My sister and I are mirror twins and genetically identical, we could literally commit crimes and no one could tell which one of us did it
Shelli Aderman 8 months ago
It makes sense in identical twins, what with the egg splitting in half and all. 👍🏻
The selection we present to you today is based on this viral, albeit, quite old thread from the AskReddit community, where the user u/Legendary888 once asked: "What's something medically cool/unique about your body?" In full accordance with the username of the thread starter, it turned out to be legendary, eventually gaining over 19K upvotes and 22K different comments.
I didn't even know people could have so many different body features, and also—that literally every "unique" feature in the comments immediately found people who said that they have the same thing. Or, that they know someone with something similar. So, just let's read on.
#4
If I clench my buttcheeks hard enough, I can crack my lower back.
Edit: I like to think I made 1000's of people clinch their Cheeks today.
Thanks for the gold whoever you are.
MsPlants 8 months ago
I just figured I was a freak for being able to do it lol. didnt bother to think others could but more in the way that others just didnt accidently find out they could like i did.
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Deta Rossiter 8 months ago
my lower back needs a crack, and my butt cheeks do not have this function. Where do i download the .exe file?
#5
Hearing loss. I was diagnosed when I was 4. Turns out aids cost a lot more than glasses. My current ones actually have a Bluetooth connection to my phone so I can listen to music while it's in my pocket.
Edit: 8 hours later and exactly 4000 upvotes. Finally my disability does some good.
Cheryl Ramsay 8 months ago
I was born with an infection in my Eustation tubes. The OB/GYN told my Mom I would have hearing problems when I became an adult. Sure enough, I needed hearing aids before I was 40.
Beth Wheeler 8 months ago
That's a cochlear implant. I have a niece that was born with hearing damage and was deaf at 18 mos. She was taken to Duke ENT for testing and got hearing aids. She got her cochlear implants when she was in her early 20's. The day they were activated when my SIL pulled out of the parking deck it was raining. My niece said she could hear the wipers moving. I cried when my SIL told me that. The deaf community does NOT want people to get them and will discriminate against people that do get them or marry a person with normal hearing. When she had her kids the hospital tested them when they were born. Now they test all newborns hearing.
CatD 7 months ago
I've heard some deaf people who've regained their hearing say they were surprised that the sun doesn't make noise.
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Ipetmykitteh 8 months ago
Amateur! I was born missing my left auditory nerve. Deaf in the left with zero aid available. It was diagnosed when I was 6.
Child of the Stars 8 months ago
Bluetooth capable hearing aids are freaking awesome technology! My best friend has them and absolutely LOVES it!
Upstaged75 8 months ago
Yeah my mom can answer her cell phone through her hearing aids. :)
Load More Replies... Shelli Aderman 8 months ago
My hearing aids are also Bluetooth, and it’s pretty great, especially for answering calls, which was one of my hardest things to hear!
Richienotsorich 6 months ago
Long live the NHS. Free hearing aids, however no Bluetooth...yet.
#6
I had 6 wisdom teeth. I joked to my dentist about how wise I must be, and he said "you're just really unevolved."
LakotaWolf (she/her) 8 months ago
6? Amateur. I had 8. I had them removed when I was 18 because my dentist said, "dude, you'll be dead by the time you're 25 if you don't" XD He also said "you'd be sooo dead if you'd been born before modern dentistry!" Thanks, bro? XD But yeah, apparently I am so unevolved that I'm just an Australopithecus XD
Meaghan Stewart 8 months ago
My dad had two sets of wisdom teeth and two sets of tonsils. He’s a twin. There’s some medical supposition that my dad absorbed what would have been a triplet. Yikessss.
WubiDubi 8 months ago
I was born with zero. And also some missing molars. This means I had mobile teeth and had to have extractions. Two teeth ended up at 45 degrees cutting cheeks. Don't be in a hurry to evolve.
marianne eliza 8 months ago
I only had 1, and was also missing 4 other teeth due to narrow upper palate.
Apatheist Account2 8 months ago
I had none at all. Bow down to me, plebs!
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In general, all the features of the body can be divided into four main groups: small genetic changes, rudiments, atavisms, as well as some acquired features. With the first, everything is quite clear—due to some change in the human genome, a person receives (sometimes inherits from parents) certain features.
For example, polydactyly—when a person has extra fingers on their hands or feet. In the future, by the way, these changes can either be inherited or not—if, for example, the spouse's genome contains a special gene that blocks these changes.
#7
I have beaded hair. Everyone's hair is coated in a layer of protein, but in my hair that protein is constricted in certain places, making each stand look like it's covered in little beads. You don't notice it when you look at me, but if you're really examining my hair closely you will. Hairdressers often comment on it and will call other hairdressers over to look at it because it's rare.
General Anaesthesia 8 months ago
Article in Wikipedia on "Monilethrix": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monilethrix
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SKaye 8 months ago
This is fascinating. I've never heard of such a thing. Can you feel the beading?
Kit Black 8 months ago
It's really more like an unevenly rolled playdough rope - some parts are thinner and some parts are thicker
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I've posted before on askreddit :
I have JME: Juvenile Myoclonic Epilepsy and my seizures are synced up with my period. Yupp. So growing up it took us like 2 years to figure out why my period symptoms were so bad and included bed wetting whenever I started my period. Turns out it wasn't bed wetting, it was grand mal seizures in my deep sleep. But only the 1st and 2nd day of my period.
Ah the wonders of the human body.
CatD 7 months ago
I heard about a kid who used to wake up several nights a week, throw up and be fine after. It turned out to be seizures.
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Deta Rossiter 8 months ago
just when you think women have it bad, you say women could have it even worse
Emilu 8 months ago
Do the seizures happen because of the periods or is it just awful luck? Eg: Would taking the pill and skipping the period make a difference? Sounds horrible though. Periods and period pain by themselves are bad enough but this sounds torturous.
AsylumWalker 8 months ago
It would likely be cahsed by the hormonal fluctuations or something
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I once managed to break my jaw in such a unique way that I became a case study at the local medical university. I fell off my bike and landed square on my chin. Instead of breaking somewhere in the middle, my jaw broke at the hinges. As a kid it was awesome though. Lots of ice cream and pudding for a month or so. Even though I was wearing a helmet I almost died.
Edit: I'm glad this has turned into a giant talk on safety. Saying the helmet did me no good is not an invitation to try and see what happens without one. Also, to clarify I was riding a bicycle, nothing motorized.
Atom Bohr 8 months ago (edited)
I did something similar, but only on one side of my jaw. I got lots of lectures about how I should have been wearing a helmet. I was
Child of the Stars 8 months ago
It's stupid to say the helmet did no good. No safety mechanism will protect 100%. The helmet protects what's most likely to happen, not any and all contingencies. It's a bike helmet, not a g.oddamn spacesuit.
Brian Droste 8 months ago (edited)
He was wearing a helmet. A helmet is to protect a childs head. A helmet isn't going to do any good if you hit your chin on cemet.
Krd 8 months ago (edited)
Horrible "fun" fact, wearing a helmet makes you more likely to be hit by a car (apparently it dehumanizes you to drivers). Of course if you get hit by car, you want to be wearing one. Sort of a terrible catch-22.
Richienotsorich 6 months ago
A helmet against a car probably won't do you any good. It's to protect the bash against a brick wall or a kerb when you go down. I've seen a varying experienced club rider fall off her bike at a very slow, almost stationary speed and hit her head on a kerb. Fortunately, she had the sense to be wearing a helmet.
Load More Replies...Rudiments are the remains of some organs that were vital for our very distant ancestors, but in the process of evolution, they lost their significance for humans. For example, we have ear muscles—which were actively developed thousands of years ago, but are now almost completely reduced.
And yet, some of us can move our ears—this means that these muscles are simply slightly more developed than they are for other people. Or, the so-called "goose bumps"—our skin's reaction to cold or stress. The thing is, we were once almost completely covered in fur—and reacted to strong irritants in much the same way as cats do now.
Only, there is almost no fur left on us today—only the goose bumps remind us of the "glorious" prehistoric times... So, for some people, rudiments may simply be more developed than they are for others.
#10
My sweat is corrosive. I can rot the back off a cheap watch in 4 months. My watch and jewelry are titanium. Two of my three children are likewise afflicted, but not as bad as me.
A girl 8 months ago
During peri menopause, my sweat made colors bleed. I had a human size white spot on my green sheets. I'm better now
LakotaWolf (she/her) 8 months ago
Huh, the armpit areas of my t-shirts tend to get "bleached" after a while of me owning them. I wonder if I have the same kind of issue XD
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Lumen Papulus 8 months ago
What's special about it? Sweat contains salts and is therefore corrosive.
#11
I have a bifid uvula. Which means my uvula, the hangy thing at the back of your throat, isn't completely formed and is split in two ends instead of one. Basically it looks like I have throat balls.
LakotaWolf (she/her) 8 months ago
So instead of a Ballchinian, OP is a Ballthroatian? (Men In Black reference)
PawCamp 8 months ago
I have a friend who has this, and I have an issue where if two words sound close to each other I will, without fail, mix them up. So, every time I would tell someone about it, I say vulva instead of uvula. I've stopped telling people LOL.
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Jeremy James 8 months ago
Oh no. Is the new body mod going to be replacing your uvula with Truck Nutz? I can think of a few guys who would get that done.
Katie The Bug 8 months ago
And the picture is of a... (drumroll please) ...perfectly normal uvula! Nice job BP.
#12
I dont have depth perception.
This means I see the world kind of like a TV screen. Everything is in 2D. Its kinda hard to explain because Ive never seen normally and I dont even know how you regular people see the world.
Its not super debilitating. I can drive if I leave a huge following distance between my car and the car in front of me. Under good conditions, I can even catch things thrown at me although Ive never been good enough to do things like actually play basketball. I can still kinda gauge distance the same way you would in a video game I guess, just not super quickly.
The most annoying thing though is sometimes Ill be reaching for a door handle for a car or my house and Ill just jam my hand super hard into the door. Ive even broken super thin doors just because I missed the handle.
Edit: 3D movies just give me migranes. Cograts to that one guy, but it does not work for me.
Serena Myers 8 months ago
I don't think OP should be driving if they have no depth perception. Not at all.
Ace 8 months ago
It's perfectly legal for people with only one eye to be able to drive without problems, and they by definition don't have any depth perception.
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Lee Gilliland 8 months ago
I had the same problem until, at age 50, I was watching shark week with 3d glasses and suddenly could see in depth. This happens to about one in a million people, literally. This occurs when a small child has strabismus or lazy eye and it goes undiagnosed. This is the eye problem Marty Feldman has.
Zaach 8 months ago
In the '30s there was a pilot who lost one of his eyes - he continued to fly b/c he had learned (with 2 eyes) what to look for when landing.
Felecia_1986 8 months ago
There was a commercial pilot for TACA in the 80's that had lost an eye in a war. He became famous for landing a plane with both engines out on a levee somewhere near New Orleans. He had a very long and distinguished career as a pilot and only had one eye.
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T'Mar of Vulcan 8 months ago
I have the same problem (right eye doesn't work properly) and CAN'T drive because I cannot judge distance at all. I'm always getting bruises on the right-hand side because of this. Could never play ball games because I'd miss the ball. Can't see 'magic eye' pictures. CAN see 3D films although all the glasses do is make the picture less blurry. The only film I watched that looked even vaguely 3D to me was Avatar.
As for atavisms—this is a manifestation in the human body of some features that were also inherent in our ancient ancestors. The thing is, the genes "responsible" for these features can still remain in our genome, but their action is usually blocked. However, for some reason, this block can be removed.
This is how people develop, for example, excess hair, a tail-like appendage, additional pairs of mammary glands, and so on. By the way, one should not perceive atavisms as something simply harmless or even funny. For example, a congenital heart defect in humans is also a kind of atavism. So one should always consult a doctor, just in case.
#13
I can dislocate my left shoulder at will. I don't though because when I was a child the Orthopaedic Consultant said that it was bad for the joint and I shouldn't do it even if the Queen asked me to. So far this eventuality has never arisen.
Ace 8 months ago (edited)
I can move both of mine out of their sockets without even moving my arms. One of those things you don't realise is not the same for everybody until later in life. Never caused any problems.
CatD 7 months ago
I can do it too .The doctor said I had loose ligaments because of a collagen problem. I also get keloids easily and my skin heals very slowly.
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Piwakawaka 8 months ago
Connective tissue disorder of some kind maybe. My D20 can do numerous joints. She has ehlers danlos syndrome.
Melanie Filmer 8 months ago
My thinking too, I have EDS and my joints dislocate for fun
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Blaze Onyx 8 months ago (edited)
Both of my shoulders do this going both forward and backwards- I can post pictures if anyone wants!
#14
In the womb my 13th and 7th chromosomes switched places. Doctors say I should've had Down syndrome, but I ended up just being your run-of-the-mill awkward boy. Take that, DNA.
Feathered Dinosaur 8 months ago (edited)
This shouldn't have given you Down syndrome. I guess it doesn't really matter in everyday life but it could make you infertile (offspring being non-viable)
Lazy Panda 2 8 months ago
Yeah, I had to double check. Down Syndrome is triplacy on a specific chromosome, not the misplacing. (Other triplacy types exist.)
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Brian Droste 8 months ago
Isn't downs syndrome cause by someone having a extra chromosome? That is what I tnought.
#15
Apparently, I was born with extra tendons in my knees. Found this out when I had surgery on my knee. Watched the surgery video with my doctor.
Me: what's that?
Doctor: oh, a tendon.
* video shows him snipping it and sucking it up *
Me: um... What?
Doctor: it was an extra one, you didn't need it.
Edit: d**n, who would think my weird body would cause my top rated comment?
Sylvia Baker 8 months ago
Maybe an extra tendon would strengthen your knee? Should've left it in doc
Finally, as a result of some changes that have happened to us during our lifetime, our body can acquire certain features, too. For example, as a consequence of illnesses, physical injuries, or even surgeries. In any case, this also requires a consultation with medical specialists—so as not to cause a threat to life or even discomfort in the future.
#16
I have pectoral aplasia, or Poland Syndrome as some may know it. This means I was born without a pectoral muscle on the right side of my chest. A quick google image search should give you a good idea of what it looks like.
Tried surgery that took tissue from elsewhere and put it in my chest but the minimal gains were not worth more, painful surgeries and recovery times. I'm happy to be as Nature intended and the right person will come to me!
#17
I have leaky blood vessels in my legs. The tiny drops of blood that leak out kind of make it look like I have a mild sunburn on my legs. It's called Shamberg's disease. Sometimes I like to tell people that I have a "rare, incurable disease." They automatically think it's something tragic, but nope! It's just leaky blood vessels!
#18
I have no large intestine! Got it taken out about 4 years ago because it was being a d**k.
LakotaWolf (she/her) 8 months ago
Found you a nice diagram for how the digestive system works ;) The large intestine doesn't do much "digesting". Digestive-...nsored.jpg 
Well, if one of us also has something similar, then we can only perceive it as an annoying misunderstanding in life—or a superpower. Or, just so we share our own medically unique features in the comments below this post. And then, perhaps, you could find new friends who have similar features—why not? After all, curiosity and friendship are also our features—but very common.
#19
/r/earrumblersassemble I am an ear rumbler.
To clarify, when a regular person yawns they can probably hear a rumble. I can use the muscles in my ear to make that rumbling sound on command without flexing any other muscles.
Daune Tullina 8 months ago
Fellow ear rumbler checking in! we even have our own sub on reddit
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#20
Had 3 sets of front teeth.
Auntriarch 8 months ago
One of my bosses still has only her baby teeth, she's in her 40s, she had a couple of implants, so she doesn't look odd, her teeth are just shorter than most people's
#21
I'm 31 and on my third pacemaker. First one was placed in 2003 when I was 18. I've got a cool scar, and you can feel the battery under my skin. Also, I travel a lot, so I have to carry this handy card with me so TSA/foreign equivalent won't make me go through the metal detectors.
EDIT:
Thank you for all the questions and comments, you guys are all awesome.
Ange Marsden 8 months ago
Kiwi airports now have an option to skip the scanner and go straight to a manual pat down for device wearers and it's so much easier and faster than telling your medical history to all the staff!
Helena 8 months ago
you say kiwi airports and now I have the mental image of cartoon flightless birds taxiing on runways sad they can't actually take off. But daring to dream
Load More Replies... Big Chungus 8 months ago
My mom had 3 total before her heart transplant. Regular pacemaker, biventicular pace maker, then a biventicular with dfib pacemaker
Upstaged75 8 months ago
My brother has a pacemaker and he's always trying to get people to feel it under his skin. Creeps me out. He also has an artificial heart valve.
#22
I have Nocturnal Epilepsy.
I will be on the onset of sleep when my brain decides to go all out and convulse.
Huddo's sister 8 months ago
A friend of a friend of mine used to only have this, but now can have seizures anytime, no definite triggers except stress. It was late onset too. She wasn't allowed to get a car licence, even when it was just nocturnal epilepsy which she was annoyed about.
Earonn - 8 months ago
Most of us have "almost seizures" when we're about to fall asleep: you know when you're almost asleep and suddenly your whole body twitches once? My neurologist explained that this is basically the same as an epileptic seizure, just that the healthy brain can stop it. When the brain can't do it - that's when it becomes a real seizure and the person is epileptic. And, of course, in epileptics it happens at all possible times (and even related to one's period, as I've learned here....)
AsylumWalker 8 months ago
Yeah no. Thats not true. Hypnic jerks can be mistake for seizure style jerks, but they are not seizures that your brain stops
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I had several organ transplants so none of my organs are in the correct spot, I also don't have a gallbladder because they just didn't put it back while operating near it.
RedMarbles 8 months ago
OP is probably on immunosuppressant d***s, which apparently can increase the risk of gallstone formation.
Beth Wheeler 8 months ago
Same for me and my son, we both had to have cholecystectomy about a year after bariatric surgery. Neither of us miss our gallbladder. As much as gallstones hurt kidney stones hurt a hell of a lot more! Had a BIG kidney stone in Jan with bad infection that I had to have surgery for.
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#24
I can breath out of my ear. Tried this my putting my entire head underwater other than the ear, while it's not a lot of oxygen, it's enough to make me live I guess.
I had holes in them as a baby and had tubes put in there, which didn't work apparently.
It's not really an issue, so eh, just a mutant power I guess.
Lene 8 months ago
It doesn't sound very good, though? It sounds, to me as a person with very little knowledge about the anatomy of inner ears, like there's a greater risk than normal of bacteria getting into the inner ear via that hole OP can breathe through? I must be wrong about this. I think?
Beth Wheeler 8 months ago
I'm gonna take a guess and say there were ear infections that ate through the ear structures to cause this.
Dirk Daring 8 months ago
"I can breathe through my ears." is a pick-up line sleazy guys like to use with women.
#25
A small sliver of my iris runs across my pupil! My doctor said it was the only time he had seen it and that it's so smalll that it doesn't affect my vision.
#26
I have a bunch of titanium plates in my face. Luckily the surgeon was great. People who've know me for years can't even notice any difference in my appearance.
Kelly H. Wilder 8 months ago
My son has several metal plates in his face. He was hurt very badly in 2016 and required reconstructive surgery. The team was excellent--the surgeon went in through the roof of his mouth for for most of the repairs. He has a barely visible scar at the edge of his left eyebrow. It is amazing how they are able to conceal things. As a side note, it is imperative that my son never have an MRI because of these plates.
Ace 8 months ago
It's fair to assume medical necessity, either a result of severe trauma or a degenerative bone disease, now cured (i.e. enough to anchor the metalwork) but unable to regenerate lost bone.
Load More Replies... LakotaWolf (she/her) 8 months ago (edited)
I looked at the Reddit thread. OP's account is deleted, so it's hard to know if any of the replies are theirs or not, but some other commenters said they had similar plates implanted when they had various jaw/face surgeries such as "Maxillary Osteotomy", "LeFort procedure", or "orthognathic surgery, where the upper and lower jaws are moved into their proper positions". Someone else also mentioned that titanium plates can be placed in during certain cosmetic surgery procedures.
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I have a cornea from somebody else stitched onto my eye.
Bec 8 months ago
My mom had a retina detachment and started describing her surgery to me, and LA LA LA LA LA, NO NO NO! Please don't share anything eye related with me
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Kenny Kulbiski 8 months ago
The doctor that did my cataract surgery gave me a CD of the operation. It went straight to the trash. Glad he wasn't a proctologist.
#28
When I was 2 years old, I tripped and a nail pushed my left incisor tooth up into my gums. It sat there until I was 11 years old which then it came down over about 3 weeks and popped out. My adult tooth is just fine. In fact, I never needed braces.
#29
I have a dip in my chest. Kind of like a dent. Makes my chest look bigger.
Apatheist Account2 8 months ago
I actually have arched ribs, which confused a consultant until he checked with a colleague. They're arched upwards (ie towards my head) more than it normal. No effect on anything though (yet).
Brian Droste 8 months ago
The bottom two,or three of my ribs stick out but I have a little bit of stomach plus I wear clothes most of times so most people don't notice them. Plus I have club thumbs. I inherited my thumbs from my dad. He had them too.
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Pandaodboredem22 8 months ago
My wife has a hole in her chest where part of her sternum just never grew
#30
Uneven number of ribs. Extra is on the left. Actually forgot about it until I lost 40 pounds.
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Eri J 8 months ago
I was five years old and had develop a heart aneurysm. Became paralized some how. Doctors thinks the infection shot back to my spine. But the meds I was on should have killed anything. They also thought I was going to die. I didn't. Survived unable to walk but have feelings in my legs, can move them, can crawl, and twitch my right little toe. Just can't stand up and walk. So I'm definitely a "God only knows" type situation.
Mabelbabel 8 months ago
I'm normal (as far as I know) but my sister had catamenial endometriosis. Endometriosis is when endometrial tissue (which should be just in the uterus) is found elsewhere in the body. Mostly it's around the abdominal cavity, but she has some in her lungs. The endometrial tissue bleeds during your period same as it does in the uterus, and when her lung endo did that, it made her lung collapse. She had to have surgery to keep her lung inflated-they made the pleural surface around the lung stick to the pleural surface lining the inside of the chest cavity.
Disgruntled Pelican 8 months ago
Out of curiosity, what kind of symptoms did she have prior to her lung collapsing? When my Endo would flare, it would often correspond with chest pain that they chalked up to be nothing important, but I've always wondered if it was something more...
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B.Nelson 8 months ago
I have the opposite problem of the person with no depth perception. Colors have different depths for me. Red is closer than other colors while blue is further away. My previous glasses fixed this but my new glasses are fixing an entirely different problem (apparently I'm cross eyes but outward).
Huddo's sister 8 months ago
I had an optic nerve pit on my retina that was picked up when I started school. Leaked brain fluid into my eye and damaged my vision. I actually became a case study because I was the first child treated with laser eye surgery, as well as the pit being rare. The first time they lasered they set it too low (didn't know tolerance on a child) so I had to have it done again. Then 15 years later I had it done again because it opened slightly again. In that surgery they also cut a hole so the fluid that had been encapsulated by the previous surgery could be drained beforehand. The surgeon had to make his own tool for this as it hadn't been done before and no blade he had was small enough. That time they also performed a vitrectomy, which is pushing the vitreous humour away from the area using a gas. It was a really trippy feeling having little gas bubbles dissipating over the next few days.
Huddo's sister 8 months ago
There are a lot of other medical things in my family but the other rare one is the disability two of my brothers had. We only got a name for it two years ago, 12 years after the second died (they had biopsies taken when they died and it was finally identified)- TBCK syndrome. It's caused by two faulty genes on a particular chromosome and is a degenerative neuro-muscular condition. When the younger one was alive, our paediatrician said he knew of only 1 other possible case, overseas. Since then the human genome project was completed, which identified it. At our genetic counselling session we were told there are only 37 other known cases world-wide but this website has a lower number. https://www.chop.edu/conditions-diseases/tbck-syndrome
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Anacan 8 months ago
When I see pictures or read stories of people being injured, I get a painful torso spasm, also I sneeze when I get really hungry.
Spannidandoolar 8 months ago
I get a sharp pain in my hands and feet when I watch/see anyone doing anything that involves heights.
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LakotaWolf (she/her) 8 months ago
I had 8 wisdom teeth, as I mentioned in another comment XD (My dentist was flabbergasted and said the most he'd ever seen in another patient of his was 6.) I can also "wiggle" (vibrate?) my eyes! I used to use it to freak out the other kids in school when they would tease/bully me XD I'll try to take a video of it and see if I can upload it somewhere to show y'all.
LakotaWolf (she/her) 8 months ago
Gods bless Imgur XD Here's the link: https://imgur.com/NboUi0j -- And for those wondering, nope, I can't see worth sh!t while I'm doing it XD
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Brian Droste 8 months ago
I have two things. One: two or three bottom ribs stick out. I have a little bit of stomach so most people don't notice them. Two: I have club thumbs. I inherited them from my dad. He had club thumbs also.
CatD 7 months ago
My mom's family had 5 generations of central heterochromia eyes. My GGrandfather, Grandfather, Mom, my 2 sisters and I, and my 2 kids. Green/grey with gold around the pupil.
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Bamamom2boys 8 months ago
I have binocular vision. I see two of everything all the time. I've lived with it all my life. I always thought it was normal for everyone. I mentioned it to my eye doctor about 10 years ago. He did some tests. They have special glasses for this. He told me I'm better with out them, because I have done so well for so long with out them.
Piwakawaka 8 months ago
When my husband was young he knocked out his two top front adult teeth in a bike accident. The orthodontist moved his second teeth to the middle to replace them (over several years).so what would be his sec8nd incisors are actually his canines. Every time he has a dental x-ray they call everyone in to have a look. Often someone guesses who did the work, even though it was 40+ years ago. Apparently the guy is a legend in that circle.
Eri J 8 months ago
I was five years old and had develop a heart aneurysm. Became paralized some how. Doctors thinks the infection shot back to my spine. But the meds I was on should have killed anything. They also thought I was going to die. I didn't. Survived unable to walk but have feelings in my legs, can move them, can crawl, and twitch my right little toe. Just can't stand up and walk. So I'm definitely a "God only knows" type situation.
Mabelbabel 8 months ago
I'm normal (as far as I know) but my sister had catamenial endometriosis. Endometriosis is when endometrial tissue (which should be just in the uterus) is found elsewhere in the body. Mostly it's around the abdominal cavity, but she has some in her lungs. The endometrial tissue bleeds during your period same as it does in the uterus, and when her lung endo did that, it made her lung collapse. She had to have surgery to keep her lung inflated-they made the pleural surface around the lung stick to the pleural surface lining the inside of the chest cavity.
Disgruntled Pelican 8 months ago
Out of curiosity, what kind of symptoms did she have prior to her lung collapsing? When my Endo would flare, it would often correspond with chest pain that they chalked up to be nothing important, but I've always wondered if it was something more...
Load More Replies... B.Nelson 8 months ago
I have the opposite problem of the person with no depth perception. Colors have different depths for me. Red is closer than other colors while blue is further away. My previous glasses fixed this but my new glasses are fixing an entirely different problem (apparently I'm cross eyes but outward).
Huddo's sister 8 months ago
I had an optic nerve pit on my retina that was picked up when I started school. Leaked brain fluid into my eye and damaged my vision. I actually became a case study because I was the first child treated with laser eye surgery, as well as the pit being rare. The first time they lasered they set it too low (didn't know tolerance on a child) so I had to have it done again. Then 15 years later I had it done again because it opened slightly again. In that surgery they also cut a hole so the fluid that had been encapsulated by the previous surgery could be drained beforehand. The surgeon had to make his own tool for this as it hadn't been done before and no blade he had was small enough. That time they also performed a vitrectomy, which is pushing the vitreous humour away from the area using a gas. It was a really trippy feeling having little gas bubbles dissipating over the next few days.
Huddo's sister 8 months ago
There are a lot of other medical things in my family but the other rare one is the disability two of my brothers had. We only got a name for it two years ago, 12 years after the second died (they had biopsies taken when they died and it was finally identified)- TBCK syndrome. It's caused by two faulty genes on a particular chromosome and is a degenerative neuro-muscular condition. When the younger one was alive, our paediatrician said he knew of only 1 other possible case, overseas. Since then the human genome project was completed, which identified it. At our genetic counselling session we were told there are only 37 other known cases world-wide but this website has a lower number. https://www.chop.edu/conditions-diseases/tbck-syndrome
Load More Replies... Anacan 8 months ago
When I see pictures or read stories of people being injured, I get a painful torso spasm, also I sneeze when I get really hungry.
Spannidandoolar 8 months ago
I get a sharp pain in my hands and feet when I watch/see anyone doing anything that involves heights.
Load More Replies... LakotaWolf (she/her) 8 months ago
I had 8 wisdom teeth, as I mentioned in another comment XD (My dentist was flabbergasted and said the most he'd ever seen in another patient of his was 6.) I can also "wiggle" (vibrate?) my eyes! I used to use it to freak out the other kids in school when they would tease/bully me XD I'll try to take a video of it and see if I can upload it somewhere to show y'all.
LakotaWolf (she/her) 8 months ago
Gods bless Imgur XD Here's the link: https://imgur.com/NboUi0j -- And for those wondering, nope, I can't see worth sh!t while I'm doing it XD
Load More Replies... Brian Droste 8 months ago
I have two things. One: two or three bottom ribs stick out. I have a little bit of stomach so most people don't notice them. Two: I have club thumbs. I inherited them from my dad. He had club thumbs also.
CatD 7 months ago
My mom's family had 5 generations of central heterochromia eyes. My GGrandfather, Grandfather, Mom, my 2 sisters and I, and my 2 kids. Green/grey with gold around the pupil.
Load More Replies... Bamamom2boys 8 months ago
I have binocular vision. I see two of everything all the time. I've lived with it all my life. I always thought it was normal for everyone. I mentioned it to my eye doctor about 10 years ago. He did some tests. They have special glasses for this. He told me I'm better with out them, because I have done so well for so long with out them.
Piwakawaka 8 months ago
When my husband was young he knocked out his two top front adult teeth in a bike accident. The orthodontist moved his second teeth to the middle to replace them (over several years).so what would be his sec8nd incisors are actually his canines. Every time he has a dental x-ray they call everyone in to have a look. Often someone guesses who did the work, even though it was 40+ years ago. Apparently the guy is a legend in that circle.
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