Not Quite A Brain Freeze

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I've mentioned this before, but I don't get brain freezes. When I eat something really cold, I get a stabbing pain between my shoulder blades. Like a pre-chilled knife in my back.

Scientists have discovered that when something cold touches the roof of your mouth, nerve endings shoot up warnings to other nerves that are in charge of protecting your brain. These other nerves work instantly to get your brain back to a normal temperature of 98.6ºF by stretching the blood vessels in your head, eventually causing the headache after 30 to 60 seconds of eating or drinking.

Tadeusz F. Poplawski, M.D.
Child & Adult Neurology and Durham Regional Hospital
http://www.durhamregional.org/healthlibrary/kids/brainfreeze


I knew it! You know what this means? This means the nerves that are supposed to be sending warnings to my brain are sending them to my spinal cord. Or back muscles, or something. But the main point? I'm wired wrong. I always suspected this (indeed the kids in grade school warned me of as much, the little buggers.)

Every doctor I've ever asked has shrugged me off, probably on account of it happening for years and not having any adverse effect except weirdness. I figure I'm either an alien (nobody but me likes that theory, them folk of little imaginations!), or just wired a bit differently. Either way, people look at you oddly if you go "GAAH!" and arch your back like a seizure when you drink a smoothie.

Comments

[buyo105.livejournal.com]

hey, fellow member of the 10th kingdom group here just browsing thru other members' spaces. i noticed you write fan fic, and while i dont know just how into t10k you are, i thought id mention anyway that i just created a drabble comm. http://community.livejournal.com/10th_drabbles is the link if you are interested, and if you know anyone else, feel free to let them know :) btw, i get a sharp pain in the middle of my spine whenever i eat ice cream, so you're not the only alien.

[rashaka.livejournal.com]

I'll check out your comm; I love to read 10k fic but haven't written any.


No kidding? I'm almost disinclined to believe you because you'd be the first person I've met who even knows what I'm talking about. Still, if that's the case, yay.