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What causes vertigo sensations when looking towards my genital area?
« on: 09/03/2005 04:12:17 »
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Re: What causes vertigo sensations when looking towards my genital area?
« Reply #1 on: 09/03/2005 09:09:40 »
Can't say I've noticed volts going through my family jewels when I'm high up and looking down, however, I can imagine how it could happen when the vertigo hits you it probably sends like a shiver down your spine which manifests in eletric balls !!....it's gotta be a nerve thing......lets hope a passing altitude testicle expert wil pass by and confirm.

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Re: What causes vertigo sensations when looking towards my genital area?
« Reply #2 on: 10/03/2005 10:24:16 »
Has anyone experienced that rather strange sensation in the nether regions ellicited by driving rapidly over a humpback bridge ?

What's that all about ?!

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Re: What causes vertigo sensations when looking towards my genital area?
« Reply #3 on: 10/03/2005 20:21:45 »
I was actually referring to the physical sensation experienced in the pelvis and groin area which coincides with the car going over the humpback bridge very fast. Nothing to do with the view, purely the motion of the vehicle !

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Re: What causes vertigo sensations when looking towards my genital area?
« Reply #4 on: 11/03/2005 00:33:30 »
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Originally posted by chris

I was actually referring to the physical sensation experienced in the pelvis and groin area which coincides with the car going over the humpback bridge very fast. Nothing to do with the view, purely the motion of the vehicle !

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....Yep...I have Chris.....most disconcerting !!....sometimes I've even noticed it going up and down stairs coinciding with each step !!.....Could it be akin to acupressure ?.....

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Re: What causes vertigo sensations when looking towards my genital area?
« Reply #5 on: 11/03/2005 14:39:14 »
I think it is a part of the fear reaction. The genitals are pulled upwards into the body cavity. You may be feeling that.
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Re: What causes vertigo sensations when looking towards my genital area?
« Reply #6 on: 14/03/2005 23:13:39 »
AAAAARRRRRGH!

Please write in proper English, not as if you were sending a text to a friend!

It makes you look an illiterate idiot!




OK - rant over.





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Re: What causes vertigo sensations when looking towards my genital area?
« Reply #7 on: 15/03/2005 00:38:14 »
Maybe they use those Mini Macs? [:)]

http://www.apple.com/macmini/

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Re: What causes vertigo sensations when looking towards my genital area?
« Reply #8 on: 15/03/2005 14:19:16 »
Geez guys, chill, I thought we were all friends here.

Santi2c, I'm not an expert on this subject. Flight-or-fright reactions involve a number of physiological changes to the body. Blood pressure rises, heartbeat increases. Eye pupils constrict. Skin becomes flush, and sweaty. Breathing deepens. This is all so that the body is prepared to defend it's life. The family jewels need safe keeping at this time, so pulling them up into the body cavity seems like a good plan.
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Re: What causes vertigo sensations when looking towards my genital area?
« Reply #9 on: 16/03/2005 01:43:09 »
Yeah could be a way to get them out of harms way. Then again the body might be saying, "mate, if we're going to be running for our life those things are just going to get in the way so how bout we tuck 'em up in preparation eh?"

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Re: What causes vertigo sensations when looking towards my genital area?
« Reply #10 on: 16/03/2005 14:06:21 »
Getting them out of harms way makes a lot of sense.

Another possible contributing factor could be that during the fight-or-flight stress reaction blood flow is diverted to the muscles and away from the genitalia. The decreased blood flow may cause the testicles to move up closer to the body in order to stay warm.
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Re: What causes vertigo sensations when looking towards my genital area?
« Reply #11 on: 01/06/2005 17:46:54 »
My brother's baby, age 1+, can actually reflexly pull 'em up!
However, I don't remember what the doctor called the reflex.
What a wise kid. It would also be interesting to know how
common this reflex is, or do everybody have it when they're
born.

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Re: What causes vertigo sensations when looking towards my genital area?
« Reply #12 on: 01/06/2005 19:05:59 »
It's the cremasteric reflex :

http://www.gpnotebook.co.uk/cache/-731185075.htm

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Re: What causes vertigo sensations when looking towards my genital area?
« Reply #13 on: 01/06/2005 19:33:46 »
Over bridges and steep hills I get this sensation of my stomach dropping and then rising again fast.  When I was a child I used to beg my mom to drive fast over hills near our home so they would "get my belly", but it's also a sensation that extends further down to my groin.  It also triggers an intense and sudden thirst.  I've felt this sensation on looking down from great heights, riding or driving over bridges, hills, roller coasters, elevators, and once or twice while swimming.  I'm female.
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Re: What causes vertigo sensations when looking towards my genital area?
« Reply #14 on: 01/06/2005 22:00:25 »
chris said:

 
quote:
"It's the cremasteric reflex..."


Now that I think of it I have feeling the doctor called it the
scrotal reflex, but the cremasteric reflex sounds just as rea-
sonable.

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Re: What causes vertigo sensations when looking towards my genital area?
« Reply #15 on: 01/06/2005 22:45:13 »
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"...The involuntary scrotal reflex is based on temperature: warmth causes relaxation of the dartos muscle, whereas cold causes contration."
Source: http://www.rashaduniversity.com/mrashad/answers1.html


Dartos

"A smooth muscle in the scrotum that causes the surface to wrinkle when it contracts."

Source: http://www.babeland.com/sexinfo/glossary/dartos
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Re: What causes vertigo sensations when looking towards my genital area?
« Reply #16 on: 01/08/2005 01:53:50 »
Why does my willy tingle when I drink alcohol? Also my balls ache as well.  Is this the alcohol or an underlying problem I need to get checked?

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Re: What causes vertigo sensations when looking towards my genital area?
« Reply #17 on: 01/08/2005 02:48:30 »
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Originally posted by drkev

Why does my willy tingle when I drink alcohol? Also my balls ache as well.  Is this the alcohol or an underlying problem I need to get checked?

Live long and Love life

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....Are you dipping the end of your willy in sparkling water when consuming alcohol ?....perhaps as a mixer ?[:D]....

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Re: What causes vertigo sensations when looking towards my genital area?
« Reply #18 on: 01/08/2005 04:18:06 »
Why didnt i think of that. Maybe its because i've never tried it.
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Re: What causes vertigo sensations when looking towards my genital area?
« Reply #19 on: 02/08/2005 12:42:03 »
I can't write for laughing Neil

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