Re: medical or mental? To the best of my knowledge: yes.
It’s called vasovagal syncope and it’s a stress response, so it is psychological, but it can be an unconscious trigger – I didn’t know I had a needle phobia until I’d had dozens of vaccines and blood draws and connected the unpleasant responses to the cause. As in, I thought I kinda enjoyed injections and didn’t mind needles, so had no idea why I was passing out and convulsing after vaccines until it suddenly “clicked” a couple years ago.
Furthermore, it seems at least partly genetic. Your mind and body aren’t really separate, after all – mental *is* physical. But vasovagal syncope tends to run in families. My dad used to get experience it whenever he saw blood. Blood doesn’t bother me, even my own – it’s just the needles and the sensation of having things added to or removed from my body.
basically vasovagal syncope is you seeing that you’re getting an injection and your lizard brain going “actually no, I think our whole goddamn limb is off, we need to force a shut down to prevent bleeding out, probably”
okay putting aside the fact that you are blatantly transphobic despite how much you say “i’m not transphobic” and also putting aside the fact that while peter parker does develop muscle definition he is still known for being very small and lean even after being bitten by the spider, let’s just take a look at some trans guys who will never be able to have the physique of superheroes or of strong men in general:
and that’s just a few of the many trans guys in this world, some of which are fat, or skinny, or curvy, or muscular as fuck – you know, like any other human being. can cis people stop acting like they know shit about what trans people look like.
Anon apparently has never googled what trans men look like before god damn.
Surprise, anon. Hormones make people’s bodies change.
so basically when you have your period and your lower back hurts it is because your hips are contracting and spreading apart, only slightly, to make room for the release of the blood and linings of your uterus. so basically your body is going through a small and mild labor to push out the dead insides of your uterus. so basically I have gone through labor and basically I don’t want children.
why aren’t we taught this shit
…..this wasn’t obvious to anyone? What did you think your body was doing? Did you think the lining of your uterus just fell out of your vagina? And the cramps were what, for fun?
Considering how practically non-existent sexual education is and the fact some people with uteruses have so little knowledge available and actively shared about their body they don’t know where they pee from or that having large labias is normal, it’s probably safe to say, no, it wasn’t obvious. Nobody thinks you’re hot shit for pissing on people for not knowing something we’re rarely taught in-depth.
I hate it when people get all ‘wow wasn’t this obvious to you guys, you’re pretty dumb’ about shit like this. Shut the fuck up you’re not helping.
Damn son our uterus stretches like 5x the size and then contracts and pushes a 7 pound baby out of a small tube into life if you think that isn’t metal as fuck get out of my face
YOUR ORGANS THOUGH IM SO SORRY LADIES
damn selfish babies taking up all the space
NAW MAN, LET ME FUCKING TELL YOU ABOUT PREGNANCY AND BABIES, ALRIGHT?
FIRST OF ALL, IT SUCKS DICK. FIRST OFF LET ME GIVE YOU A MOTHERFUCKING RUNDOWN ON WHAT YOU SHOULDN’T EAT OR DRINK WHEN YOU’RE PREGNANT.
SUSHI
EGGS
NO UNCOOKED ANYTHING IN FUCKING GENERAL ACTUALLY. AND ESPECIALLY NOT FISH.
ANYTHING WITH CAFFEINE IN IT, WHICH INCLUDES COFFEE, SODA, CHOCOLATE (THAT’S RIGHT, NO CHOCOLATE), SEVERAL TYPES OF COOKIES AND CANDIES, AND ENERGY DRINKS.
VEGETABLES AND MEATS THAT ARE RICH IN NITRATES LIKE HOTDOGS, SAUSAGE, LETTUCE, SPINACH AND CELERY.
SO BASICALLY IF YOU’RE USED TO EATING OR DRINKING ANY OF THOSE THINGS YOU BETTER BE PREPARED TO QUIT COLD TURKEY THE SECOND YOU GET PREGNANT.
NOW I’M NOT EVEN DONE. YOU SEE THAT PINK UPSIDE-DOWN TRIANGLE BELOW THE BABY’S HEAD? YEAH? THAT’S YOUR BLADDER. BABIES SQUEEZE DOWN ON THAT LIKE THERE’S NO TOMORROW AND ONCE YOU HIT THE THIRD TRIMESTER, YOU BASICALLY HAVE AN ELDERLY PERSON’S BLADDER. MY MOTHER TELLS ME SHE HAD TO GO TO THE BATHROOM AT LEAST 6 TIMES A DAY JUST SO SHE WOULDN’T WET HERSELF. ALSO WITH A BABY SQUEEZING’ UP AGAINST YOUR FUCKING INTESTINES LIKE THAT SAY HELLO TO CONSTIPATION NATION, EVERYONE.
SO NOT ONLY DO YOU HAVE THE BLADDER AND BOWELS OF AN OLD PERSON, BUT THAT GROWING HUMAN BEING GROWING OUT OF YOUR GULLET ALSO PUTS A HUUUUGE STRAIN ON YOUR BACK. NOT TO MENTION IT’S A PAIN IN THE FUCKING ASS TO MOVE ANYWHERE, SINCE YOU NEED TO START WALKING LIKE SOMEONE OUT OF A MONTY PYTHON SKIT JUST TO GET AROUND EFFICIENTLY. ALSO THAT ADDED WEIGHT MAKES YOUR FEET ACHE SOMETHING AWFUL. SO WHAT CAN YOU DO?
WELL GUESS WHAT. YOU CAN’T TAKE ASPRIN. ABSOLUTELY NO ASPRIN. NO IBUPROFEN, NO NAPROXEN NO NOTHING.
SO NOT ONLY ARE YOU IN PROBABLY THE MOST UNCOMFORTABLE YOU WILL EVER BE, BUT YOUR MEDICINE CHOICES ARE EXTREMELY FUCKING LIMITED. (AND NO, I MENTIONED NO CHOCOLATE EITHER.)
DO YOU GUYS NOT REALIZE THAT THE FATE OF SOCIETY AND THE HUMAN RACE IN GENERAL IS BASED ON THE FACT THAT WOMEN MOSTLY CHOOSE TO GET PREGNANT? FOR LITTLE TO NO REWARD?! THE UNITED STATES ONLY GIVES 12 UNPAID WEEKS OF MATERNITY LEAVE ON AVERAGE.
YOU WOULD THINK THAT THE FUCKING PROCESS BY WHICH OUR POPULATION CONTINUES TO GROW WOULD BE FUCKING REWARDED AND CELEBRATED, NOT SWEPT UNDER THE FUCKING RUG LIKE A PIECE OF FUCKING DUST.
Confused, I blinked at my monitor. Lazarus? Like the guy from the Bible?
Pretty much exactly like that. Okay, the three (four?) days thing is a bit hyperbolic, but this does seem to happen.
This is an extremely rare, extremely WTF syndrome in which someone suffers a cardiac arrest, people attempt to resuscitate them, and that resuscitation fails. The person has no pulse, has no electrical activity, is just…. stone cold dead. So, like sensible persons, the team stops, and pronounces the patient dead.
For some reason that is completely unexplained, the person then gets a pulse back a few daysminutes later. (Thanks to those who pointed out the typo!!) Some of these people die in the next few days; some go on to live healthy normal lives. There have been 38 cases reported in the literature.
The return of circulation seems to happen within 10 minutes in most cases.
Hey there nonny! Sorry to say, this isn’t a realistic scenario with modern medicine. At least in the ER, patients aren’t declared dead without an EKG (electrical activity), multiple pulse checks, rounds of medication, and a cardiac ultrasound which will let doctors see the heart move, or not.
ERs don’t pronounce people dead unless they’re well and truly dead.
In the hospital, rapid response teams will do everything except the ultrasound, but it’s still just… not going to happen. And in the field, EMS use clinical signs of death: rigor mortis, dependent lividity (blood pooling).
The only way this is going to happen is possibly in a nursing home, on a patient with a DNR order, and even then it’s almost impossible.
Sorry about the lack of drama, nonny, but I’m not sorry that we don’t have people wake up in morgues on the regular.
ROSC [Return of Spontaneous Circulation – Scripty] occurred within 10 minutes of stopping CPR in 82% of cases (23 out of 28 patients), with a mean delay of 7-8 minutes. The time taken for ROSC is unknown in 10 patients. Three of these patients were only found to be alive (one in the mortuary) after being left unattended for several minutes, and in seven the data was unavailable from the case reports.2,5,9,12,18,28 However, the time interval could only be an approximation because patients were not always closely monitored following termination of CPR, with a few exceptions.16 …
Seventeen patients (45%) achieved good neurological recovery following ROSC. Three of these patients subsequently died during their hospital stay due to sepsis and pulmonary embolism and 14 (35%) were eventually discharged home with no significant neurological sequelae.
Seventeen patients (45%) did not achieve neurological recovery following ROSC and died soon after. The outcome is not known in four patients (10%). There was no significant correlation between the outcome and duration of CPR, time interval for ROSC or the diagnosis.
You guys, I am literally now questioning every cardiac arrest I’ve ever pronounced. While there are only 38 cases reported, it’s very likely that this is under-reported.
The mechanism by which this works is unclear; one proposed method is that because we blow a lot of air into the chest during an arrest, pressure rises, the increased pressure stops venous return, and the person can’t fill their heart. They enter asystole, we call it, and we leave them alone. The air leaks out, and blood flow returns to the heart – and the heart starts again.
This is especially supported by the fact that the average time to ROSC after cessation of CPR is less than 10 minutes.
I will legitimately be checking my corpses much much better in the future. I had literally no idea the human body could do this, and it has never-not-once been mentioned in my education. I thought this was a holdover from the old tropes of vampires and grave bells, because we used to be really bad at telling when death had happened. Apparently we (me?) still are.
I’m going to go sit in a corner now and contemplate what even is death.
Hummingbirds are incredible acrobatic fliers, capable of hovering for more than 30 seconds at a time, even in windy conditions. Their feeding habits are equally impressive. Many species of hummingbirds have a forked tongue, each half of which curls over like a partial straw. As the bird extends its tongue, its beak compresses the space inside the tongue’s curls. Once in the nectar, both halves of the tongue re-expand, pulling liquid in along the full length of the tongue. For the birds, this is a much faster technique than simply sucking the nectar up like a straw. Hummingbirds can lick nectar more than ten times a second this way. For more gorgeous imagery of hummingbirds, be sure to check out National Geographic’s full feature. (Image credit: A. Varma, source; via Aarthi S.)
When you hit your elbow against something, but that specific point of your elbow
it’s…called your funny bone…
that gif tho
It’s not a bone actually- it’s a nerve that is exposed, specifically the ulnar nerve. The reason it feels so weird to hit it is that it’s not designed to deliver pain signals, so when you hit it it just wiggs out and sends Garbage signals to the brain, and the brain is just like “uh, dude- Ulnar, what the hell is this garbage?? You’re supposed to curl a finger and a half, and move some muscles in the forearm, why are you sending me this crap? How am I supposed to make this into sensory output?” And the Ulnar nerve is just like “dude dude dude, brain- what the hell is going on?!?” And the brain goes- “idiot. Fine. You’re on fire, freezing and being electrocuted. Happy?” And the Ulnar goes “holy crap brain!! I’m on fire, freezing and being electrocuted! What am I going to do!!??!” And the brain says “you’re an idiot ulnar. A damn idiot.”
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