Do you have anything weird on/with your body?

[carmenere]

Most of my nail beds are crooked, or my fingers/toes are lopsided, or something. When I do my own nails I shape them so they look straight, but when I get a professional mani/pedi they never do it right. Manicurists always give me a weird look when I tell them not to shape my nails.

[usm]

Jul 25, 2019 20:05:05 GMT -5 W.T.Faulkner said:

There is quite a gap between my big toe and the rest of my toes on both feet. The second my son was born, my husband pointed out that my son has this too. I believe what my husband said was, “Look! He has your freak feet!” Thank you, H.

I have this too! It’s called sandal foot. When we were at MFM they noted it on and ultrasound and that with some other signs they thought my son had trisomy 18.

When the doctor left the room and I was crying and looked down and said “I have sandal foot too!”

[kath16]

Jul 26, 2019 8:12:17 GMT -5 msmerymac said:

Jul 26, 2019 5:49:33 GMT -5 kath16 said:

i have very tiny mouth and ears. like, so small that dentists often have to use child-sized tools for things like X-rays or molds.

i am.... not a tiny person.

also, i had tubes put in when i was a toddler and they never came out. i had to have them removed when i was in college.

Wait, so did you just not swim a lot? Or did you always wear earplugs? I remember when I (and my brother, and my cousin) had tubes as kids we always had to have earplugs in when we were in the pool so water wouldn't get... into our brains or something.

I always had to wear the wax kind of ear plugs or get swimmer's ear.

[kath16]

also i have one finger nail, my pointer actually, on one hand that like... curls in as it grows. i don't mean like when they get to be six inches long. whenever it gets longer than just past the bed of the nail. 

[Bernadine]

My knees bend backwards a decent bit.

[felicity]

I have a dilated pore in the middle of my forehead that I hate. Google brings up kind of extreme pictures of what some can look like, but mine just looks like a little hollow hole in my skin. I am very self conscious about making sure I fill it in with cosmetics as part of my morning routine because I feel like it looks gross to other people if it's just sitting there all open. I had an ex comment on it once in a negative way which has stuck with me.

I also see floaters that look like TV static across my entire field of vision. I've had it forever and usually only notice it if I think about it or if I'm trying to focus on something in a dark room, but when I do notice it, it's really bothersome and takes a while for me to tune it out again.

[msmerymac]

The second of my right-hand ring finger above the top knuckle curves to the left slightly. My left ring finger used to have the same thing but curved to the right, but I slammed it in a car door when I was 10 or 11 and it straightened it out.

[TamiTaylor]

Jul 25, 2019 21:16:11 GMT -5 pandora89 said:

I have a sacral dimple, aka a second butt hole basically that doesn’t go all the way through.

Fun fact, I thought everyone had one of these until I had DS and doctors got all freaked out in the hospital because DS has one too and it could be a sign or spina bifida or not being able to use your legs. The doctor came in and made a note about it, that we’d have to go to the children’s hospital for a follow up and ultrasound and left and I turned to H and was like “oh... not everyone has one?” And he looked at me all confused. I then had to chase the doctor out of the room to let her know that I had one too and it was likely genetical. We both have perfect use of our legs.

This scenario happened to my son. I don’t have one and we had to go through the whole process. I was a mess and Eric was already back at work so I was doing this with just me and my mom. After the ultrasound where everything was fine I was talking to him and said that basically it is a butt dimple. He proceeded to tell me how he thinks he has one. He does that apparently I never noticed. I wanted to kill him.

[gaudi]

Jul 25, 2019 20:47:27 GMT -5 simpsongal said:

I get fissures on my tongue. They basically feel/look like open wounds. I get them randomly and I have no idea why. They can be painful.

I started getting this in last few years. Dentist thinks it is geographic tongue and recommended the purple listerine. Mine flares up when I eat skittles, hummus or diet coke w/McD's fries.

[simpsongal]

Jul 26, 2019 9:46:28 GMT -5 gaudi said:

Jul 25, 2019 20:47:27 GMT -5 simpsongal said:

I get fissures on my tongue. They basically feel/look like open wounds. I get them randomly and I have no idea why. They can be painful.

I started getting this in last few years. Dentist thinks it is geographic tongue and recommended the purple listerine. Mine flares up when I eat skittles, hummus or diet coke w/McD's fries.

It might be that - I recall looking that up.  Good to know re: your triggers.  I always figured it was a vitamin deficiency or too many acidic/salty food or something.

[BeagleMama]

I was born without wisdom teeth or my back bottom molars. My top molars have grown down longer than usual because there are no teeth below to stop them. Essentially, reverse chipmunk? Dentist and hygienists think it's interesting.   I could get them pulled but they don't really bother me at this point.

[shauni27]

Jul 26, 2019 8:37:43 GMT -5 kath16 said:

also i have one finger nail, my pointer actually, on one hand that like... curls in as it grows. i don't mean like when they get to be six inches long. whenever it gets longer than just past the bed of the nail. 

I have a nail that won't grow. It is so annoying. I don't know if something damaged it, but it has not grown in more than 2 years. Even when I put gel polish on it, you can see that it does not grow.

[circa1978]

Oh, on the topic of teeth and medical journals, I'm in one because my front tooth experienced a trauma resulting in internal tooth reabsorption and I was treated at a local university. I eventually had to have extensive surgery on my gums and a root canal. Apparently, it IS somewhat common in cats, though. LOL.

[bex1973]

Jul 25, 2019 20:05:45 GMT -5 heliocentric said:

Jul 25, 2019 19:38:25 GMT -5 circa1978 said:

Other than that, I do have really large bony growths in my mouth near my tongue - Torus mandibularis. I didn’t realize everyone didn’t have them until my 20s. I also have them in a few other places in my mouth but the ones on the bottom are most noticeable.

I have these, too. Mine are so large they get in the way when taking X-rays. Mine are only on the bottom, though.

Me too. I didn't learn until I was an adult that everyone doesn't have this!

[lissaholly]

The sacral dimple talk is cracking me up. DH always teases me that I had a tail removed. He even asked my mom and she freaking hesitated. Now I am wondering if it meant that the doctors fussed over it. I didn’t know it was anything until DH mentioned it. I also have a birthmark about an inch into my crack. Splayed our on both cheeks. My butt is sexy!

[dancelnow]

Jul 26, 2019 8:37:43 GMT -5 kath16 said:

also i have one finger nail, my pointer actually, on one hand that like... curls in as it grows. i don't mean like when they get to be six inches long. whenever it gets longer than just past the bed of the nail. 

Mine too, but I thought it was just from writing that frequent pressure affected it.

[gummy]

My friend in high school used to have a hole in her neck that occasionally would ooze greenish yellowish goo. Still don't know what that was!

[fumbalina]

I forgot earlier but I have 3 hammer toes on each foot and an duck footed. I have a hard time standing with both my legs pointed forward and perpendicular.

[peachdragon]

I have a white birthmark on my back that looks a LOT like the UK.

[sju1982]

Jul 26, 2019 9:59:41 GMT -5 shauni27 said:

Jul 26, 2019 8:37:43 GMT -5 kath16 said:

also i have one finger nail, my pointer actually, on one hand that like... curls in as it grows. i don't mean like when they get to be six inches long. whenever it gets longer than just past the bed of the nail. 

I have a nail that won't grow. It is so annoying. I don't know if something damaged it, but it has not grown in more than 2 years. Even when I put gel polish on it, you can see that it does not grow.

This happened to me, with my large toenail.  The nail eventually felt a little thinner, but aside from that, looked normal.  I eventually got the nail removed last year. It took almost a full year to grow back, but it's good now. It was some sort of infection but they couldn't determine what.  

[wambam]

My ganglion cyst is weird. It's objectively not super big, but I have very small wrists and it's like "look at this giant marble growing out of me!"

[Chiquitita]

I have dark skin (circles) on both of my knees. Whenever I wear something above the knees people always mention it or ask what happened to me. I went to a dermatologist and was given bleaching cream that didn't help. 

[TR]

Jul 26, 2019 10:24:16 GMT -5 gummy said:

My friend in high school used to have a hole in her neck that occasionally would ooze greenish yellowish goo. Still don't know what that was!

This is the first thing in the thread that made me gag a little.

[bex1973]

Jul 26, 2019 10:52:09 GMT -5 wambam said:

My ganglion cyst is weird. It's objectively not super big, but I have very small wrists and it's like "look at this giant marble growing out of me!"

I have one on my middle finger. It's on the side but just above my knuckle and it looks like I have a 2nd knuckle!

[joenali]

Jul 26, 2019 10:24:16 GMT -5 gummy said:

My friend in high school used to have a hole in her neck that occasionally would ooze greenish yellowish goo. Still don't know what that was!

Maybe a boil?? Ewwww!

[HoneySpider]

I have a bone that sticks out of the side of my foot...my mom has it too and I think my grandma did also. I have bad feet all around though.

I also have tiny white dots on the individual strands of hair on my head. Anytime I go for a haircut with someone new and they see it, they get all excited since apparently it's pretty rare. Or, if they don't know what it is, they just think I've used way too much product and have build up.

My older son has the butt dimple.

[kath16]

Jul 26, 2019 10:23:34 GMT -5 dancelnow said:

Jul 26, 2019 8:37:43 GMT -5 kath16 said:

also i have one finger nail, my pointer actually, on one hand that like... curls in as it grows. i don't mean like when they get to be six inches long. whenever it gets longer than just past the bed of the nail. 

Mine too, but I thought it was just from writing that frequent pressure affected it.

i'm a righty and this phenomenon occurs on my left hand

[kath16]

Jul 26, 2019 11:34:38 GMT -5 HoneySpider said:

I have a bone that sticks out of the side of my foot...my mom has it too and I think my grandma did also. I have bad feet all around though.

oh i have an extra one of these too!

it's like i have two ankle bones that stick out on the inside of both feet. i didn't know it was weird until later in life

[Nonny]

All this talk about weird feet is really making me want to go get a pedicure.

[nsl]

I was born with a large red birthmark (port wine stain variety) covering most of the inside of my left calf. It grew with me, and made me horribly self-conscious in shorts once I got into my early teens. I had most of it removed when I was in high school and laser surgery became possible, but there were a few very deep spots they weren't able to fix.

My right ear is also very oddly shaped. The cartilage didn't properly form around the top outer edge, so instead of being rounded it's smashed down flat.