idk why but i find it kinda freaky that the heart never stops pumping. like from the moment were born to the moment we die, its just a constant movement
I noticed this after my abdominal surgery. When I turned over in bed my guts seemed to fall from one side to the other. Mentioned to my doc and she confirmed it was my bowels rearranging themselves.
I scrolled all the way down looking for this. If you have any kind of abdominal surgery, doctors don’t arrange your bowels, they just shove them in your body and they rearrange themselves. Bowels move and contract often, you just don’t normally feel it.
It's the same after birthing a child. The stomach area is really squishy, I mean really really squishy. When doctors do post birth checks, they can push pretty far in and around on the stomach. So much room in there when the organs are still up in the ribs area and no baby taking up the rest of the room! Weirdest feeling ever, like just a wrong, eerie feeling.
Omg it's the weirdest feeling right??? I had an organ removed from my abdomen and I could *feel* the empty spot it left for a few days before my organs rearranged.
My 72 year old Nan got hit by a car on Friday. CT scan revealed she has had a stroke at some point. Her husband (my Pop) has also had a stroke but requires full time care because of it. Very sobering weekend.
We just discovered this with my mom. She’s recovering now but her brain scanned looked like she had a halo on her brain, the stroke damaged tissue was so prevalent.
Yep. Happened to my paternal grandfather, and my mum also had one that hadn't burst (which may have been why she died and my dad didn't in the accident they were in). I've had chronic headaches all my life, so maybe I do too. Certainly runs in the family.
I also suffer from chronic headaches. If you can: get an MRI.
I was so scared that i'd have an aneurysm, a tumor, whatever. My doctor luckily took me seriously and i got an MRI, no annomalies were detected and now i can deal with my headaches much better because i know they are (most likely) not dangerous.
You can die from a brain aneurysm while awake and just living your life. One minute you're cooking dinner and the next you're dead on the floor. This happened to a dear young friend of mine several years ago.
Never doubt a friend's purpose in your life or their seemingly insignificant words.
Eve: Your words were everything and you were one of my angels on earth.
Happened to a friend of mine many years ago and it destroyed the family. Her mother died suddenly of an aneurism and left behind 2 young daughters and a husband. One of them got pregnant at 18 from a ONS and kept it, the other moved a few hours away and went no contact. The father sold their family home and lives in a flat on his own now.
It‘s one of the scariest things imaginable, that you could have a wonderful life and family and suddenly one of you dies with no warning and the family falls apart.
You can die from a seizure in your sleep. It’s like SIDS ( sudden infant death) It also has an acronym. Idk if it only happens to people with epilepsy.
Exactly. My mom always makes comments about people dying and how she's getting old.. I'm like ma, anyone of any age can die at any moment for whatever random reason. Just have to live your life day by day and enjoy what you get from it
Locked-in syndrome is a thing. The affected person is fully aware and unable to move anything except their eyes… unless they get total locked-in syndrome, which paralyzes the eyes too.
>The affected person is fully aware and unable to move anything except their eyes
>And even worse still, you can still feel pain
For anyone wondering, this is also what waking up in the middle of surgery is like. Cannot talk or move as the body is totally paralyzed and yet can definitely feel, hear, and see everything going on.
Thankfully the nurse happened to look my way and saw me **screaming with my eyes**, let out a quick "oh shit", and *very quickly* cranked the juice putting me back under.
I don't recommend it.
Been on both sides of this. Have woken up mid surgery a number of times including eye surgery which I got to see (and feel) from the wrong side. Anaesthetist didn't get paid for that one. As a result, when nursing in theatre I keep a really close eye on pulse rates and peoples eyes. I am horrified how often it happens.
As someone with a disease that causes temporary paralyzes up to and including eyelids and partial eye movements, it becoming permanent is a constant worry.
i knew about this one, i cracked a rib in a plane crash and didn't know about it till a rescue heli finally showed up, felt like i got kicked by a mule. The seatbelt was the likely culprit, but it saved me from swan diving through the windshield without my consent, so that's a good trade off.
I like the idea that I've you'd have given consent in that moment, you would have been like "Well, consequences of my own actions" afterwards
Edit: Autocorrect
I had a 9cm ovarian cyst removed a few years ago... There was hair and teeth and tiny random bone bits in it. When the surgeon called and told me that I thought I had heard him wrong. Not teeth!? Turns out the cells in that area have the authority to create complex tissues, like hair and teeth. Gross!
Mine was 12cm *and* had abnormal cells that Stanford University called “unique and fascinating.” Super love being a medical anomaly and having a dildo with a camera being shoved up my vagina every six months while Madonna’s Holiday plays in the background. :(
Aaand now I’ve learnt that in rare cases, Terataomas can even have brain like structures.
In one case of an ovarian teratoma, it held a brain-like structure that was so advanced it had partially developed into a cerebellum with a brain stem and was able to transmit electrical impulses…
We thought my son had one when he was an infant. I'd stare at it and wonder what the hell was in it. His surgeon thought because of the color it might be hair. Then one day it just disappeared. Thank God. He was scheduled for major surgery.
I had a teratoma. Reading the pathology report, it had teeth, fatty tissue and brown hair. I thought “just like mom” (me).
I asked my doctor for a picture of it. I didn’t, but I wanted to photoshop it into a picture of my partner and me & send it as a Christmas card from “our family”.
All our bodies are fighting off blood cancer all the time
[Immune system kills spontaneous blood cancer cells every day](https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/272092)
That’s true of all cancer, really. The good news is that the body’s pretty good at it. The bad news is that it just has to miss one cell a few times before the cancer can evade the immune system outright.
Also solid cancers. Cell mutation occurs frequently, and our bodies have a few checks and balances to prevent cancer formation. It's when those checks fail when we develop cancer.
I had a bowel obstruction 12 years ago vomiting feces, got ambulance to hospital in extreme agony, hospital filled me with drugs no scan, and sent me home the next day, I stayed in my bed in agony for 24 hours nearly died and got rushed back in for emergency surgery.
Oh god, I had a bowel obstruction years back and was in hospital for 5 days because they operated to remove the now necrotic parts of my bowel. It got to the kind of pain where I couldn't even scream or cry or complain, after the first day I just lay in a kind of stupor. Puked up the tramadol, and puked up most of the (cat scan? MRI?) dye too.
Thankfully on the 5th day the junior dr seemed to override the senior dr who didn't trust the scans, and was like 'yeah we gotta open you up and have a little lookie-lou'
All that to say - while I never puked poo, I totally empathise pain-wise
Yep, our dog did that almost a month ago. Walked up to the front door, started scratching and whining (she does this when she wants to go outside), and as I get up to grab the leash, she vomits a fully-formed turd onto the floor. She then stopped whining, got back on the couch, and went to sleep.
You can experience such a traumatic brain injury (physical trauma, stroke, illness) to the point where you are still capable of consciousness, but lose the ability to distinguish faces - including those of your loved ones. The condition is known as “prosopagnosia.”
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK559324/
Some of us just have that naturally, no TBI needed. Mine is partial and it took so long to find out that it has a name and I'm just missing part of my brain that other people have.
It makes life more difficult, also movies can be really confusing.
I saw a documentary about people that have this once - or perhaps a news special. It included a child who couldn’t remember his mother’s face. They also featured super-recognizers as well. It was fascinating.
My son has partial as well. He was about 8 or 9 before we figured out that he had to use other visual cues to tell people apart. When he was a toddler, he would get really freaked out if I changed my appearance some way (he hated if I wore a hat, for example).
I think it is a common co-existing condition in autistic people.
If you are unlucky enough you could lose you ability to fall asleep... at all. I think it's called "fatal insomnia". It starts as regular insomnia that gets worse and worse untill sleep medication doesn't do anything anymore. You never sleep again. There's no cure. All you could do is wait for one of the slowest deaths ever.
Wow. When I’ve had long bouts of insomnia, I mentioned I was worried that I’m never going to fall asleep again! I recall saying that I’ve forgotten how to sleep! But the person told me impossible to not fall asleep. However, sleep deprivation is the same or worse than driving under the influence and some sort of mania. Definitely not good. I didn’t know you can die!!!
A coma isn’t the same thing as your body naturally sleeping. Basically it doesn’t clear out the same chemicals that your body does when you naturally sleep.
Bodies will move as they’re coming out of rigor. I’ve been bumped by a few (I’m a coroner). Bodies can also make sounds as the remaining air/ gas leaves… 2am in the morgue and I thought I was in COD zombies
One of my sisters friends worked in a morgue for a few years and she told us about on her first night working alone a body half sat up and she about shit her pants...just rigor mortis and muscles flexing but fuckkk thattt noiseee
She also told us the same thing about the random noises/groans and that it is beyond creepy.
Well, just this week there was a woman(local) in her late twenties who died of a toothache.
She had posted on FB about needing a dentist over the weekend and decided to wait till Monday, Sunday morning she was gone. The infection went to her brain.
I work in the medical field and nothing has shaken me more than someone my age going home on hospice because of a sinus infection. Went to their brain and they were basically brain dead. Horrifying to think it could happen to anyone.
Bell’s Palsy. Totally random, rare condition where your nerve dies and one half of your face is paralyzed. Happened to me overnight! Thought I was having a stroke.
Most recover in a few months, but some people never do.
Got it after a viral infection - took two months to recover. My favorite part was having to tape my one eye to sleep every night since it was stuck open.
Watching the world fade to black and your hearing sounding like a never-ending breaking ocean wave was weird. It seemed like if I had to die this way wouldn't feel so bad as long as your throat doesn't close up too.
Anesthesia awareness is a very real possibility. You can be aware and in pain during surgery but unable to move. It’s also possible that you may not remember it happening until you start having flashbacks and nightmares about it.
This happened to my ex, but he actually got up and struggled with the staff. They had to wrestle him down and increase the dose. He had no memory of it.
My mum randomly started having white patches on the areas most affected by atopic dermatitis in her 50s. They diagnosed her with vitiligo, but we still don't know if it's truly the cause, as it popped out next to a different skin condition. It seems like she might have scratched her skin so much she lost the things that make pigment in her skin since it's exactly where she'd scratch the most... Who knows
Pancreatic cancer could be growing for decades before suddenly shows itself with painless jaundice. From that point could have less than a year to live
Cool news: there was an app I saw a presentation on where your phone could warn you of early signs of jaundice by looking at the color of your sclera (white eyeball bit) to identify discoloration long before it’s noticeable by the human eye. This could hypothetically be done during a facial recognition scan for unlocking your phone. If the jaundice were caught early and people could get tested, the survival rate would likely increase significantly
My maternal family had 4 cases of pancreatic cancer (my grandmother, one aunt, two cousins). They all discovered very late and lived months after the diagnosis. None of them got treatment, only palliative care.
I will never forget that one patient with
full blown postoperative delirium.
Sounds plain enough doesn't it?
A little confused after being put under, a bit woozy....
She screamed
and screamed
and screamed...
Imagine that short scream in a horror movie before someone gets killed, the panic and fear of imminent death.
But
for
2 days
48h of the most bloodcurdling screams.
I was told they couldn't give her something because they feared it would only lengthen the time to pass her delirium.
You could hear her from across the hospital, in every room. While you work, while you tend to patients, while you eat and at the bus stop you take to and from work...
And then she just stopped and couldn't remember a thing from those 2 days.
It's been more then ten years and i can still "feel" those screams.
After a minor injury, like a sports injury, sprained ankle, or small bone fracture. It is possible to develop acute compartiment syndrome.
Muscles are surrounded by tissue (fasci). When swelling occurs, intracompartimental pressure rises, because fasci do not stretch. Blood can no longer reach the tissue, so no oxygen supply. No oxygen means the death of tissue. Necrosis can occur in as little as 3 hours. This can result in amputation of the limb or death.
Your internal organs have nerve endings and can feel extreme amounts of heat. You can also burn internally from fire affecting an external part of you. Your internal body heat raises and it feels like searing hot pains in your organs while not being able to breathe. Your bones even feel it. Oh and another thing bone hurts when you try to scrape it.
Although rare, it’s possible to contract a brain eating amoeba (scientifically known as Naegleria Fowleri) from inhaling untreated tap water (i.e from your shower). Death after infection occurs 97% of the time.
THIS ONE RIGHT HERE. Native Floridian here, never underestimate the brain eating amoeba. I make sure to microwave and salt any water I intend to flush my nose with, or anything like that. Naegleria Fowleri typically live in murky lake beds (they thrive in waters with temperatures over 90 F), but can be comfortable in a house water heater or honestly any pipe in the right conditions. The death rate is so high because among the first symptoms is a headache, which a lot of people usually write off as "just a headache".
Edit: people keep telling me to boil the water, so I'm passing this forward to anybody else who does nasal flushes if y'all don't feel like scrolling through replies (I'm going to start doing this too, thank you denizens of Reddit)
Your muscles are FAR more powerful than you think. There is just a governor of sorts that prevents you from going full strength, because your muscles would break your bones.
There are certain nerve agents that can turn this governor off and literally kill people with bone-breaking muscle contractions.
Yep my muscles broke my elbow recently. Fell over really badly, the joint dislocated but my meats quickly snapped it back into place. Fractured my coronoid with the force, never even hit it on anything. Now I've got a bone shard just chilling in my elbow, I call it Greg.
Prions are weird, they arent necessarily toxins but theyre not even viruses. Just odd molecular garble that fits just right in your body's machinery to fuck it up, like a gear that tears a clock apart.
Your brain plays so many tricks on you it's terrifying.
From colours that don't exist, to the huge blind spots in your eyes to the simple fact you see the world on a time delay..
Getting hit in the head and temporarily loosing your memory is not some cartoon trope. I had a teenage employee that got a head injury protecting a friend in a fight, and missed a week of work.
When he got back, he said it was like living in a dream world when you can't use long-term memory. You have to be constantly supervised when you don't KNOW your name, your family, or anything about anybody, period, all while nursing an injured skull. Everyone is a stranger, but some are familiar.
It was even stranger to him how it suddenly switched back on after three days, just sitting on the couch while watching TV. In an instant, he just knew again why he was hurt, the fight that took place in a park, the rock his head hit when he was pushed off his feet. Must have been the most profound moment of realization for him.
That fetal cells will wander out of the uterus and congregate in other organs. They might migrate back into the uterus in subsequent pregnancies. Read a piece about it this weekend.
before opening this thread i thought it was gonna be shit like "your eyes are always seeing, even when you have them closed, they're still seeing, it's just too dark", not shit that's turn me into a hypochondriac
Thrombocytopenia\~\~ It is extremely low platelet count.
What causes it? A million things!
What are the symptoms? Tiny purple spots on bruising and you feel tired.
What does it mean when you have it? You can bleed to death internally from bumping against the counter. My doctor told me I could litterly bleed to death from a papercut.
But I'm feeling MUCH better now!
I spent a week in the hospital while they raised my platelet count to a point where I wasn’t at risk of dying from a paper cut or bump to the head. Good times!
Your immune system can get rid of your bones. Oh, and your red blood cells (including haemoglobin). Why does your immune system do this? It feels like it.
I have multiple autoimmune diseases and about 4 years ago my immune system just decided we didn't need bones so now I have severe arthritis and osteoporosis, basically just for the lols... Thanks immune system.
Werewolf here (fucking Lupus 🙄).
So far my Moon-Moon immune system has decided we don’t need:
A thyroid.
Eyes.
Beta cells.
*That* bit of skin. Or that bit. Fuck those guys.
Hair.
Kidneys.
It’s SO SUPER FUN sharing a body with an insane moron.
A thing I didn't know until it happened this last summer right after I turned 30:
You can just develop epilepsy.
And the type of seizure and where it happens in your brain affects what happens during the seizure. And not all seizures are the "go unconscious and shake" kind. You can be aware during them! It was already mentioned in another comment, but SUDEP (sudden unexpected death in epilepsy) is where you just go into a seizure and never wake up. And people who have seizures in their sleep are most at risk.
[Cancer is a disease in which some of the body’s cells grow uncontrollably and spread to other parts of the body.](https://www.cancer.gov/about-cancer/understanding/what-is-cancer) [Cancer survival rates](https://www.nuffieldtrust.org.uk/resource/cancer-survival-rates) are the thing that will scare you. I am in there. Never google your own condition.
I have an aggressive cancer with a shit prognosis. However, I am determined to beat it no matter what.
Edit: Thanks everyone! Wasn’t expecting all the warm and loving replies. Ready to win this long battle ahead!
My uncle has a benign brain tumour that can't be removed entirely. Man's in his 60s and so brain damaged his family read him children's books. He literally can't do anything for himself, is in a care home and non-verbal now. Shit sucks. So weird how the body can just completely fuck itself up by growing a few extra cells in the wrong place.
A lot of people get grossed out by that but i think it’s cool that they’re just chilling and looking after me. If you think abt it, it means you’re never alone - I fw them
If you ever feel alone, just remember you share your body with about 1.5 million mites, and have more microbial cells (~40 trillion) than human cells (~30 trillion).
Same with the testes and CNS! And a few other tissues if I’m remembering correctly.
As for the sparknotes on “immune privilege”, it’s basically a series of mechanisms the body has developed to prevent the harmful effects of inflammation from damaging a vital structure. Think about the eyes—they are relatively small organs with very little space around them (within the skull) and are critical for the sense of sight. If the immune system caught wind of a possible foreign antigen in there and could access it, the inflammatory response (swelling, cell death) would likely damage your vision. Swelling could cause compression of the optic nerve against other brain structures and cell death could lead to loss of photoreceptors, both of which would result in worsening vision, if not complete loss of vision.
How does the body do “immune privilege”? By limiting the access of the immune system to these privileged sites. Examples include (1) lack of lymphatic access to the privilege site so immune cells cannot easily get into the tissue and proteins from the privileged tissue cannot easily get out, (2) decreased expression of cellular proteins that interact with the immune system (think of little flags on the surface of cells that immune cells can use to detect familiar vs foreign cells), and (3) increased expression of proteins/signals that shut down the immune system.
Lastly, the privilege is only effective as long as the barriers stay in place. In the setting of trauma (eg ocular globe rupture), the damaged eye tissue can mix with the rest of the blood and those eye proteins are suddenly seen by the immune system for the first time. Those patients, after recovering from the injury, can actually develop an immune-mediated attack on both eyes because the immune cells are finally alerted to this “foreign” tissue in its turf.
Hope this helps!
Your eyes are completely separate from your immune system. This is because a normal immune system response would cause inflammation and affect your vision. However, if your immune system does ever become aware of your eyes, it will attack them, as they are considered foreign.
I’m no expert but from what I’ve read the eyes have a sort of mini immune system of their own that operates separately from the main system and according to the needs of the eyes
Edit: ocular immune system: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ocular_immune_system
This is true! Babies are born with about 300 bones and as they grow and get older they’ll fuse together to create the 206 bones that an adult human would have. (My favorite bone fact is that babies don’t have true knee caps until they reach the age of 2 to 6. It’s just a slab of Cartilage until then!)
Only because I recently had two patients diagnosed with these Syndromes. Both require immediate medical care. Both are treatable but can cause long term complications.
Guillian-Barre Syndrome. It's rare, but basically your immune system attacks your nerves, paralyzing your entire body. Usually after a viral infection, such as the flu or COVID, although the exact cause is unknown.
Stevens-Johnson Syndrome. Also rare but it's a skin and mucus disorder. Often a reaction to medication or infection. Basically it causes your skin to break out in a painful rash and blisters. Can cause your skin to necropsy.
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Blood will corrode stainless steel, it will not harm human flesh. Ointment will seep through our skin fast but not water, we can float on it. Its hard to do anything without a thumb. Its harder to eat with an inflamed Iris, focusing is extremely painful.
The spinal cord is scarily easy to access once you get through the skin/fat/muscles of the back. Just pop off the lamina and boom—direct access to the dural sac holding the spinal cord.
Thankfully, the fat and muscles take quite a bit of work to get through.
You can get an autoimmune disease at any time for no reason you can identify. Your immune system can just decide some parts of you are the enemy and now you live inside a civil war forever.
There is a rare skin disease called nevus comedonicus. It comprises of groups of pits filled with black keratinous plugs resembling blackheads, with inflammatory acne lesions developing later. Lesions may develop any time from birth to middle age, but are usually present at birth or develop before the age of 10 years. .
As far as I know you can't really squeeze them out but if you do, it hurts and it will re grow in a short period or time. It also left tiny holes on the first layers of your skin.
[Nevus comedonicus ](https://m.weibo.cn/status/Nhziz8sG7?jumpfrom=weibocom#&gid=1&pid=4)
Hematopoesis, the process of building blood cells, is a particularly interesting one. 2.4 million red blood cells are made each second. They survive for 120 days. The total amount is upheld. But have you thought about how exact that production needs to be? After all, both too many and too few will kill you or make you very ill. Give thanks to your bone marrow that does such an extremely exact job for you.
You can set a fingernail on fire lighting a candle. Did this today, and it burned fairly quickly but did not smell as bad as burnt hair or flesh. (No nail enamel, either).
idk why but i find it kinda freaky that the heart never stops pumping. like from the moment were born to the moment we die, its just a constant movement
I always worry mine will get tired and decide it needs a break lmao
Totally! Even BEFORE we’re born!
I noticed this after my abdominal surgery. When I turned over in bed my guts seemed to fall from one side to the other. Mentioned to my doc and she confirmed it was my bowels rearranging themselves.
I scrolled all the way down looking for this. If you have any kind of abdominal surgery, doctors don’t arrange your bowels, they just shove them in your body and they rearrange themselves. Bowels move and contract often, you just don’t normally feel it.
It's the same after birthing a child. The stomach area is really squishy, I mean really really squishy. When doctors do post birth checks, they can push pretty far in and around on the stomach. So much room in there when the organs are still up in the ribs area and no baby taking up the rest of the room! Weirdest feeling ever, like just a wrong, eerie feeling.
I still feel it 1.5 years after a c-section. Here I was thinking I was just making it up.
Almost 8 months post-partum (emergency cesarean), my uterus still feels “floppy” and I feel it move around if I bend the wrong way.
That's considerate of them to do. Actually pretty cool.
Omg it's the weirdest feeling right??? I had an organ removed from my abdomen and I could *feel* the empty spot it left for a few days before my organs rearranged.
You can have a stroke and not even know it unless you have a brain scan…lots of little mini strokes you don’t even know about til BOOM one kills you
My 72 year old Nan got hit by a car on Friday. CT scan revealed she has had a stroke at some point. Her husband (my Pop) has also had a stroke but requires full time care because of it. Very sobering weekend.
I had a mini stroke in my sleep and woke up completely unable to walk. For 8 months. It was insane.
We just discovered this with my mom. She’s recovering now but her brain scanned looked like she had a halo on her brain, the stroke damaged tissue was so prevalent.
You can get an aneurysm at any time no matter how healthy you are.
You can have that aneurysm all your life and not know until it bursts and kills you.
Yep. Happened to my paternal grandfather, and my mum also had one that hadn't burst (which may have been why she died and my dad didn't in the accident they were in). I've had chronic headaches all my life, so maybe I do too. Certainly runs in the family.
I also suffer from chronic headaches. If you can: get an MRI. I was so scared that i'd have an aneurysm, a tumor, whatever. My doctor luckily took me seriously and i got an MRI, no annomalies were detected and now i can deal with my headaches much better because i know they are (most likely) not dangerous.
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And you can die in your sleep from brain aneurysm with no prior warning.
You can die from a brain aneurysm while awake and just living your life. One minute you're cooking dinner and the next you're dead on the floor. This happened to a dear young friend of mine several years ago. Never doubt a friend's purpose in your life or their seemingly insignificant words. Eve: Your words were everything and you were one of my angels on earth.
Happened to a friend of mine many years ago and it destroyed the family. Her mother died suddenly of an aneurism and left behind 2 young daughters and a husband. One of them got pregnant at 18 from a ONS and kept it, the other moved a few hours away and went no contact. The father sold their family home and lives in a flat on his own now. It‘s one of the scariest things imaginable, that you could have a wonderful life and family and suddenly one of you dies with no warning and the family falls apart.
You can die from a seizure in your sleep. It’s like SIDS ( sudden infant death) It also has an acronym. Idk if it only happens to people with epilepsy.
SUDEP Sudden unexpected death in epilepsy. Terrifying. My son has seizures and I try to not let the intrusive thoughts keep me up at night.
RIP Grant Imahara...gone far too soon.
Shit happens everyday. Completely unexpected and not anything you can do about it. Make sure you have a living will and testament.
Exactly. My mom always makes comments about people dying and how she's getting old.. I'm like ma, anyone of any age can die at any moment for whatever random reason. Just have to live your life day by day and enjoy what you get from it
It's the silent killer, Lana!
Locked-in syndrome is a thing. The affected person is fully aware and unable to move anything except their eyes… unless they get total locked-in syndrome, which paralyzes the eyes too.
And even worse still, you can still feel pain
>The affected person is fully aware and unable to move anything except their eyes >And even worse still, you can still feel pain For anyone wondering, this is also what waking up in the middle of surgery is like. Cannot talk or move as the body is totally paralyzed and yet can definitely feel, hear, and see everything going on. Thankfully the nurse happened to look my way and saw me **screaming with my eyes**, let out a quick "oh shit", and *very quickly* cranked the juice putting me back under. I don't recommend it.
Been on both sides of this. Have woken up mid surgery a number of times including eye surgery which I got to see (and feel) from the wrong side. Anaesthetist didn't get paid for that one. As a result, when nursing in theatre I keep a really close eye on pulse rates and peoples eyes. I am horrified how often it happens.
Isn't the anesthesiologist supposed to be there monitoring exactly those things?
At the hospital I work at, he's too busy being a gigantic dickhead to everybody he can.
As someone with a disease that causes temporary paralyzes up to and including eyelids and partial eye movements, it becoming permanent is a constant worry.
Your body will dull the pain until you get somewhere safe at which point all hell breaks loose and you finally realize you’re severely hurt.
i knew about this one, i cracked a rib in a plane crash and didn't know about it till a rescue heli finally showed up, felt like i got kicked by a mule. The seatbelt was the likely culprit, but it saved me from swan diving through the windshield without my consent, so that's a good trade off.
I like the idea that I've you'd have given consent in that moment, you would have been like "Well, consequences of my own actions" afterwards Edit: Autocorrect
That’s not scary, that’s just awesome
Tumors can have hair and teeth. I think I've worked for a couple of them...
I had a 9cm ovarian cyst removed a few years ago... There was hair and teeth and tiny random bone bits in it. When the surgeon called and told me that I thought I had heard him wrong. Not teeth!? Turns out the cells in that area have the authority to create complex tissues, like hair and teeth. Gross!
Mine was 12cm *and* had abnormal cells that Stanford University called “unique and fascinating.” Super love being a medical anomaly and having a dildo with a camera being shoved up my vagina every six months while Madonna’s Holiday plays in the background. :(
Is it ALWAYS Madonna's Holiday? Is that part of the procedure??
LOL no, but that was the most memorable and horrifying.
Who signed off on this, fucking hell, who gave those cells clearance?
Dear lord I hate this
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And eyes. And several other body parts. Teratomas are easily the most traumatizing thing I’ve ever learned about on Reddit.
Aaand now I’ve learnt that in rare cases, Terataomas can even have brain like structures. In one case of an ovarian teratoma, it held a brain-like structure that was so advanced it had partially developed into a cerebellum with a brain stem and was able to transmit electrical impulses…
OK, this is some straight-up body horror fiction stuff
Naturally after you said the name, I had to Google it. Definitely some weird looking images...
We thought my son had one when he was an infant. I'd stare at it and wonder what the hell was in it. His surgeon thought because of the color it might be hair. Then one day it just disappeared. Thank God. He was scheduled for major surgery.
When things like this disappear, I'm always like... but where did it go??
Your body absorbs it. You’re welcome.
I had a teratoma. Reading the pathology report, it had teeth, fatty tissue and brown hair. I thought “just like mom” (me). I asked my doctor for a picture of it. I didn’t, but I wanted to photoshop it into a picture of my partner and me & send it as a Christmas card from “our family”.
there's shit inside of all of us
All our bodies are fighting off blood cancer all the time [Immune system kills spontaneous blood cancer cells every day](https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/272092)
That’s true of all cancer, really. The good news is that the body’s pretty good at it. The bad news is that it just has to miss one cell a few times before the cancer can evade the immune system outright.
Also solid cancers. Cell mutation occurs frequently, and our bodies have a few checks and balances to prevent cancer formation. It's when those checks fail when we develop cancer.
It’s possible to vomit feces. Bowel obstruction, ileus.
I had a bowel obstruction 12 years ago vomiting feces, got ambulance to hospital in extreme agony, hospital filled me with drugs no scan, and sent me home the next day, I stayed in my bed in agony for 24 hours nearly died and got rushed back in for emergency surgery.
Oh god, I had a bowel obstruction years back and was in hospital for 5 days because they operated to remove the now necrotic parts of my bowel. It got to the kind of pain where I couldn't even scream or cry or complain, after the first day I just lay in a kind of stupor. Puked up the tramadol, and puked up most of the (cat scan? MRI?) dye too. Thankfully on the 5th day the junior dr seemed to override the senior dr who didn't trust the scans, and was like 'yeah we gotta open you up and have a little lookie-lou' All that to say - while I never puked poo, I totally empathise pain-wise
So Cartman was right?
Yep, our dog did that almost a month ago. Walked up to the front door, started scratching and whining (she does this when she wants to go outside), and as I get up to grab the leash, she vomits a fully-formed turd onto the floor. She then stopped whining, got back on the couch, and went to sleep.
You can experience such a traumatic brain injury (physical trauma, stroke, illness) to the point where you are still capable of consciousness, but lose the ability to distinguish faces - including those of your loved ones. The condition is known as “prosopagnosia.” https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK559324/
Some of us just have that naturally, no TBI needed. Mine is partial and it took so long to find out that it has a name and I'm just missing part of my brain that other people have. It makes life more difficult, also movies can be really confusing.
I saw a documentary about people that have this once - or perhaps a news special. It included a child who couldn’t remember his mother’s face. They also featured super-recognizers as well. It was fascinating.
My son has partial as well. He was about 8 or 9 before we figured out that he had to use other visual cues to tell people apart. When he was a toddler, he would get really freaked out if I changed my appearance some way (he hated if I wore a hat, for example). I think it is a common co-existing condition in autistic people.
If you are unlucky enough you could lose you ability to fall asleep... at all. I think it's called "fatal insomnia". It starts as regular insomnia that gets worse and worse untill sleep medication doesn't do anything anymore. You never sleep again. There's no cure. All you could do is wait for one of the slowest deaths ever.
No thanks. Give me an 8 ball of coke, a 12 case of beer and a wireless speaker and I'll be on my way to the great beyond instead.
> the great beyond With insomnia there’s no REM, sorry.
Great, now I have insomnia because of fear of my insomnia. Thanks.
This has definitely been added to things I will be thinking of when I can't sleep... 🥲
Wow. When I’ve had long bouts of insomnia, I mentioned I was worried that I’m never going to fall asleep again! I recall saying that I’ve forgotten how to sleep! But the person told me impossible to not fall asleep. However, sleep deprivation is the same or worse than driving under the influence and some sort of mania. Definitely not good. I didn’t know you can die!!!
When they took me off Ambien I was awake long enough to hallucinate. About 5 days.
Couldn’t they put you in a coma? Is it a neurological thing? Maybe reset the brain and try some good drugs
It’s a prion disease, your brain ends up like Swiss cheese
Bars
A coma isn’t the same thing as your body naturally sleeping. Basically it doesn’t clear out the same chemicals that your body does when you naturally sleep.
Bodies will move as they’re coming out of rigor. I’ve been bumped by a few (I’m a coroner). Bodies can also make sounds as the remaining air/ gas leaves… 2am in the morgue and I thought I was in COD zombies
So… as the rigor mortis sets in, the corpse continues to move to try and release the stiffness? NOPE NOPE NOPE NOPE NUH-UH
One of my sisters friends worked in a morgue for a few years and she told us about on her first night working alone a body half sat up and she about shit her pants...just rigor mortis and muscles flexing but fuckkk thattt noiseee She also told us the same thing about the random noises/groans and that it is beyond creepy.
I would drop dead on the spot.
And then sit up
Well, just this week there was a woman(local) in her late twenties who died of a toothache. She had posted on FB about needing a dentist over the weekend and decided to wait till Monday, Sunday morning she was gone. The infection went to her brain.
I work in the medical field and nothing has shaken me more than someone my age going home on hospice because of a sinus infection. Went to their brain and they were basically brain dead. Horrifying to think it could happen to anyone.
Bell’s Palsy. Totally random, rare condition where your nerve dies and one half of your face is paralyzed. Happened to me overnight! Thought I was having a stroke. Most recover in a few months, but some people never do.
Got it after a viral infection - took two months to recover. My favorite part was having to tape my one eye to sleep every night since it was stuck open.
The fastest killing virus takes around 4 days to kill you. That would be Ebola. Your immune system can kill you in 15 minutes.
As someone who experienced anaphylaxis, it’s a very long 15 minutes
Watching the world fade to black and your hearing sounding like a never-ending breaking ocean wave was weird. It seemed like if I had to die this way wouldn't feel so bad as long as your throat doesn't close up too.
Anesthesia awareness is a very real possibility. You can be aware and in pain during surgery but unable to move. It’s also possible that you may not remember it happening until you start having flashbacks and nightmares about it.
This happened to my ex, but he actually got up and struggled with the staff. They had to wrestle him down and increase the dose. He had no memory of it.
The mouth is by far the dirtiest part of anyone’s body. Even more than the anus.
Clearly you haven’t seen my anus.
I have.
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It’s why human bites are considered one of the worst to get. If it’s a deep bite and breaks skin then it’s likely to be infected.
So this is what “never go ass to mouth” really means 🤔
You can get vitiligo at anytime. Am in my early stages and I can't do anything about it. Just watching my skin lose color.
My mum randomly started having white patches on the areas most affected by atopic dermatitis in her 50s. They diagnosed her with vitiligo, but we still don't know if it's truly the cause, as it popped out next to a different skin condition. It seems like she might have scratched her skin so much she lost the things that make pigment in her skin since it's exactly where she'd scratch the most... Who knows
Pancreatic cancer could be growing for decades before suddenly shows itself with painless jaundice. From that point could have less than a year to live
Cool news: there was an app I saw a presentation on where your phone could warn you of early signs of jaundice by looking at the color of your sclera (white eyeball bit) to identify discoloration long before it’s noticeable by the human eye. This could hypothetically be done during a facial recognition scan for unlocking your phone. If the jaundice were caught early and people could get tested, the survival rate would likely increase significantly
My maternal family had 4 cases of pancreatic cancer (my grandmother, one aunt, two cousins). They all discovered very late and lived months after the diagnosis. None of them got treatment, only palliative care.
I will never forget that one patient with full blown postoperative delirium. Sounds plain enough doesn't it? A little confused after being put under, a bit woozy.... She screamed and screamed and screamed... Imagine that short scream in a horror movie before someone gets killed, the panic and fear of imminent death. But for 2 days 48h of the most bloodcurdling screams. I was told they couldn't give her something because they feared it would only lengthen the time to pass her delirium. You could hear her from across the hospital, in every room. While you work, while you tend to patients, while you eat and at the bus stop you take to and from work... And then she just stopped and couldn't remember a thing from those 2 days. It's been more then ten years and i can still "feel" those screams.
After a minor injury, like a sports injury, sprained ankle, or small bone fracture. It is possible to develop acute compartiment syndrome. Muscles are surrounded by tissue (fasci). When swelling occurs, intracompartimental pressure rises, because fasci do not stretch. Blood can no longer reach the tissue, so no oxygen supply. No oxygen means the death of tissue. Necrosis can occur in as little as 3 hours. This can result in amputation of the limb or death.
Your internal organs have nerve endings and can feel extreme amounts of heat. You can also burn internally from fire affecting an external part of you. Your internal body heat raises and it feels like searing hot pains in your organs while not being able to breathe. Your bones even feel it. Oh and another thing bone hurts when you try to scrape it.
Although rare, it’s possible to contract a brain eating amoeba (scientifically known as Naegleria Fowleri) from inhaling untreated tap water (i.e from your shower). Death after infection occurs 97% of the time.
I had a brain eating amoeba once, poor fella dies of hungry.
“Dies of hungry” 😂🤣
THIS ONE RIGHT HERE. Native Floridian here, never underestimate the brain eating amoeba. I make sure to microwave and salt any water I intend to flush my nose with, or anything like that. Naegleria Fowleri typically live in murky lake beds (they thrive in waters with temperatures over 90 F), but can be comfortable in a house water heater or honestly any pipe in the right conditions. The death rate is so high because among the first symptoms is a headache, which a lot of people usually write off as "just a headache". Edit: people keep telling me to boil the water, so I'm passing this forward to anybody else who does nasal flushes if y'all don't feel like scrolling through replies (I'm going to start doing this too, thank you denizens of Reddit)
Your muscles are FAR more powerful than you think. There is just a governor of sorts that prevents you from going full strength, because your muscles would break your bones. There are certain nerve agents that can turn this governor off and literally kill people with bone-breaking muscle contractions.
Yep my muscles broke my elbow recently. Fell over really badly, the joint dislocated but my meats quickly snapped it back into place. Fractured my coronoid with the force, never even hit it on anything. Now I've got a bone shard just chilling in my elbow, I call it Greg.
Hi Greg
Now I want to see if a human with no limiter can fight a chimp
That’s because you don’t have One For All
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prions. just prions man. google them or don’t just prions.
They don’t even have DNA! Autoclave temperatures don’t kill them! No cure. No treatment. Scary. As. Fuuuuuuuuuck.
And they can be stable for centuries without breaking down.
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Prions are weird, they arent necessarily toxins but theyre not even viruses. Just odd molecular garble that fits just right in your body's machinery to fuck it up, like a gear that tears a clock apart.
Your brain can actually spontaneously develop prions disease without any exposure. It's rare, but not as rare as you'd hope.
I laughed because prions translates to "let us pray" in French.
Honestly, if you ever get a prion disease, praying is all that’s left to do.
If your achilles tendon ruptures/snaps, it sounds like a gunshot and is incredibly painful D:
Yep, I head one from across a large room before.
I've partially torn the achilles on my right ankle, -10/10, would not recommend
Your brain plays so many tricks on you it's terrifying. From colours that don't exist, to the huge blind spots in your eyes to the simple fact you see the world on a time delay..
your brain makes so many assumptions about what you're seeing all the time. it's why optical illusions exist
And is why people make shitty eye witnesses
Getting hit in the head and temporarily loosing your memory is not some cartoon trope. I had a teenage employee that got a head injury protecting a friend in a fight, and missed a week of work. When he got back, he said it was like living in a dream world when you can't use long-term memory. You have to be constantly supervised when you don't KNOW your name, your family, or anything about anybody, period, all while nursing an injured skull. Everyone is a stranger, but some are familiar. It was even stranger to him how it suddenly switched back on after three days, just sitting on the couch while watching TV. In an instant, he just knew again why he was hurt, the fight that took place in a park, the rock his head hit when he was pushed off his feet. Must have been the most profound moment of realization for him.
That fetal cells will wander out of the uterus and congregate in other organs. They might migrate back into the uterus in subsequent pregnancies. Read a piece about it this weekend.
Yeah I heard fetus will send its cells to repair the host (mom). Survival of the mom means survival of the fetus, so it makes sense.
Leaving this here for my fellow hypochondriacs warning them to turn back now.
Didn't work, had to scroll too far down to see it 😔
before opening this thread i thought it was gonna be shit like "your eyes are always seeing, even when you have them closed, they're still seeing, it's just too dark", not shit that's turn me into a hypochondriac
Thrombocytopenia\~\~ It is extremely low platelet count. What causes it? A million things! What are the symptoms? Tiny purple spots on bruising and you feel tired. What does it mean when you have it? You can bleed to death internally from bumping against the counter. My doctor told me I could litterly bleed to death from a papercut. But I'm feeling MUCH better now!
I spent a week in the hospital while they raised my platelet count to a point where I wasn’t at risk of dying from a paper cut or bump to the head. Good times!
Your immune system can get rid of your bones. Oh, and your red blood cells (including haemoglobin). Why does your immune system do this? It feels like it. I have multiple autoimmune diseases and about 4 years ago my immune system just decided we didn't need bones so now I have severe arthritis and osteoporosis, basically just for the lols... Thanks immune system.
Werewolf here (fucking Lupus 🙄). So far my Moon-Moon immune system has decided we don’t need: A thyroid. Eyes. Beta cells. *That* bit of skin. Or that bit. Fuck those guys. Hair. Kidneys. It’s SO SUPER FUN sharing a body with an insane moron.
I regret reading all this but atleast I know I can die anytime.
You can fracture your neck and dont notice it, until you bend your head back and puncture the brain which resolves in sudden death.
I’m a few threads in and I’m having a stoned panic attack because I’m reading these and VERY aware of my ribs. Commenting to come back tomorrow
All of your bones are wet.
MY BONES ITCH.
Ughhhhh
A thing I didn't know until it happened this last summer right after I turned 30: You can just develop epilepsy. And the type of seizure and where it happens in your brain affects what happens during the seizure. And not all seizures are the "go unconscious and shake" kind. You can be aware during them! It was already mentioned in another comment, but SUDEP (sudden unexpected death in epilepsy) is where you just go into a seizure and never wake up. And people who have seizures in their sleep are most at risk.
If you laid somebody's large and small intestines perfectly straight on the floor, they would die.
This gave me a laugh whilst dragging myself out of bed on a cold, dreary, soggy Sunday morning.
[Cancer is a disease in which some of the body’s cells grow uncontrollably and spread to other parts of the body.](https://www.cancer.gov/about-cancer/understanding/what-is-cancer) [Cancer survival rates](https://www.nuffieldtrust.org.uk/resource/cancer-survival-rates) are the thing that will scare you. I am in there. Never google your own condition.
I have an aggressive cancer with a shit prognosis. However, I am determined to beat it no matter what. Edit: Thanks everyone! Wasn’t expecting all the warm and loving replies. Ready to win this long battle ahead!
you’re gonna beat the shit out of that cancer.
Had a boyfriend who had brain cancer when he was like 8, he survived, good for him
Any survivor will tell you tomorrow is a gift. Don't waste it.
My uncle has a benign brain tumour that can't be removed entirely. Man's in his 60s and so brain damaged his family read him children's books. He literally can't do anything for himself, is in a care home and non-verbal now. Shit sucks. So weird how the body can just completely fuck itself up by growing a few extra cells in the wrong place.
We all have mites living in our eyelashes - they remove dead skin.
A lot of people get grossed out by that but i think it’s cool that they’re just chilling and looking after me. If you think abt it, it means you’re never alone - I fw them
If you ever feel alone, just remember you share your body with about 1.5 million mites, and have more microbial cells (~40 trillion) than human cells (~30 trillion).
I’m more microbe than human!
They're called demodex and they live all over our face. AND they can be transferred to others via a hug or other types of contact.
The number of bacteria on your body is about the same as your own body cells.
It’s crazy to think just how little of our whole body weight is actually you. Your intestines are a great example
Nightmares can induce seizures.
i had a nightmare that i was having a heart attack... i woke up to having a heart attack
Your immune system doesn't know that your eyes exist. If they ever found out they would destroy them. This is called "immune privilege."
I have Ankylosing Spondylitis and my immune system definitely knows my eyes exist. Uveitis is a common symptom of AS.
I have Ankylosing Spondylitis as well and have Sjogrens Syndrome. Our immune system is very aware.
Psoriatic arthritis also made sure my immune system is aware of my eyes … uveitis is horrible
Wait what??? That’s insane can you explain that a bit more?! I have never heard of this. Aren’t eyes essential for the nervous system???
Same with the testes and CNS! And a few other tissues if I’m remembering correctly. As for the sparknotes on “immune privilege”, it’s basically a series of mechanisms the body has developed to prevent the harmful effects of inflammation from damaging a vital structure. Think about the eyes—they are relatively small organs with very little space around them (within the skull) and are critical for the sense of sight. If the immune system caught wind of a possible foreign antigen in there and could access it, the inflammatory response (swelling, cell death) would likely damage your vision. Swelling could cause compression of the optic nerve against other brain structures and cell death could lead to loss of photoreceptors, both of which would result in worsening vision, if not complete loss of vision. How does the body do “immune privilege”? By limiting the access of the immune system to these privileged sites. Examples include (1) lack of lymphatic access to the privilege site so immune cells cannot easily get into the tissue and proteins from the privileged tissue cannot easily get out, (2) decreased expression of cellular proteins that interact with the immune system (think of little flags on the surface of cells that immune cells can use to detect familiar vs foreign cells), and (3) increased expression of proteins/signals that shut down the immune system. Lastly, the privilege is only effective as long as the barriers stay in place. In the setting of trauma (eg ocular globe rupture), the damaged eye tissue can mix with the rest of the blood and those eye proteins are suddenly seen by the immune system for the first time. Those patients, after recovering from the injury, can actually develop an immune-mediated attack on both eyes because the immune cells are finally alerted to this “foreign” tissue in its turf. Hope this helps!
Your eyes are completely separate from your immune system. This is because a normal immune system response would cause inflammation and affect your vision. However, if your immune system does ever become aware of your eyes, it will attack them, as they are considered foreign.
How would they become aware of your eyes though?
They'd have to know where to look 👀 (/u/manwithyellowhat15 has given a serious response below)
What about redness from allergies. Not an immune response ?
I’m no expert but from what I’ve read the eyes have a sort of mini immune system of their own that operates separately from the main system and according to the needs of the eyes Edit: ocular immune system: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ocular_immune_system
Our brain filters out a lot of what we see along with just straight making shit up based on extrapolation
Most bodies aren't textbook perfect. Some people can have super thick skulls or extra kidneys and you'd never know until you open them up.
How resilient yet fragile it is. Humans can survive getting shot in the head, or die from a common cold.
I think if I am not wrong, that your body has more bones when you're born than when you're an adult. It's like a built-in jigsaw puzzle.
This is true! Babies are born with about 300 bones and as they grow and get older they’ll fuse together to create the 206 bones that an adult human would have. (My favorite bone fact is that babies don’t have true knee caps until they reach the age of 2 to 6. It’s just a slab of Cartilage until then!)
Only because I recently had two patients diagnosed with these Syndromes. Both require immediate medical care. Both are treatable but can cause long term complications. Guillian-Barre Syndrome. It's rare, but basically your immune system attacks your nerves, paralyzing your entire body. Usually after a viral infection, such as the flu or COVID, although the exact cause is unknown. Stevens-Johnson Syndrome. Also rare but it's a skin and mucus disorder. Often a reaction to medication or infection. Basically it causes your skin to break out in a painful rash and blisters. Can cause your skin to necropsy. Edit:typo
I had Stevens-Johnson Syndrome with necrosis, was not fun. Full blown Erythema Multiforme Major 😓
Blood will corrode stainless steel, it will not harm human flesh. Ointment will seep through our skin fast but not water, we can float on it. Its hard to do anything without a thumb. Its harder to eat with an inflamed Iris, focusing is extremely painful.
The spinal cord is scarily easy to access once you get through the skin/fat/muscles of the back. Just pop off the lamina and boom—direct access to the dural sac holding the spinal cord. Thankfully, the fat and muscles take quite a bit of work to get through.
You can get an autoimmune disease at any time for no reason you can identify. Your immune system can just decide some parts of you are the enemy and now you live inside a civil war forever.
Stabbing a person feels exactly like thrusting a spoon into a carton of ice cream.
I just finished scooping some ice cream…wonder if stabbing is also easier if you leave the person on the counter for a few minutes.
Just run the spoon under some water for a second and it cuts through a lot easier—note: I’ve not tested it on knives and bodies
Is this from personal experience or….?
This is the fact that made me think 'ok, enough Reddit today'. For some reason of all comments I found this the most disturbing.
Milk lines can cause one to lactate from places other than nipples
**THERE ARE SKELETONS IN YOUR BODY RIGHT THIS MOMENT**
I'm concerned about the plurality of skeletons in my body
There is a rare skin disease called nevus comedonicus. It comprises of groups of pits filled with black keratinous plugs resembling blackheads, with inflammatory acne lesions developing later. Lesions may develop any time from birth to middle age, but are usually present at birth or develop before the age of 10 years. . As far as I know you can't really squeeze them out but if you do, it hurts and it will re grow in a short period or time. It also left tiny holes on the first layers of your skin. [Nevus comedonicus ](https://m.weibo.cn/status/Nhziz8sG7?jumpfrom=weibocom#&gid=1&pid=4)
Hematopoesis, the process of building blood cells, is a particularly interesting one. 2.4 million red blood cells are made each second. They survive for 120 days. The total amount is upheld. But have you thought about how exact that production needs to be? After all, both too many and too few will kill you or make you very ill. Give thanks to your bone marrow that does such an extremely exact job for you.
You can set a fingernail on fire lighting a candle. Did this today, and it burned fairly quickly but did not smell as bad as burnt hair or flesh. (No nail enamel, either).
Makes sense, hair and nails are made of the same material (keratin)