Comments on: The Quick 10: 10 Bizarre Medical Conditions

By: Southern Buddhist

Southern Buddhist — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 21:42:00 +0000

Yep, I’ve got Exploding Head Syndrome, too. It must be more common than thought. It’s not really distressing in any way. I’ll just be drifting off to sleep and suddenly hear a loud bang. We live on a corner with bad visibility, so I usually think it’s a car crash or maybe a gun being fired. I ask my husband if he heard that, and turns out there’s never anything for him to hear. A lot of people have sudden whole-body jerks when they’re falling asleep — I guess this is just the brain’s version of the same thing.

By: PT

PT — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 20:55:00 +0000

A woman fell on a structure in our hamlet and hit her head. Now she has an “English” accent. We are in South Texas…
EHS is a conditon? I thought it was the Overlords!

By: heather

heather — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 18:47:00 +0000

I hate ‘exploding head’. It always happens right before I need to be up early for something. I’m almost off and then ‘BAM’ I’m awake. The one upside is being able to say I had exploding head syndrome last night and get weird looks :D

By: Tricia

Tricia — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 18:02:00 +0000

I think it’s funny how losing your sense of smell is called aNOSmia, you know, like SCHNOZmia. (Scrubs);o)

By: Mandragora

Mandragora — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 16:59:00 +0000

# 10,

I saw an interesting bbc documentary about this a bit ago on Veoh. Apparently a doctor had actually preformed amputations on several men with the disorder because they were so distressed about having the leg that they were contemplating suicide.

By: Peterg

Peterg — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 15:55:00 +0000

Yup, I have had “exploding head” as well a number of times. Most often as I fall asleep, sometimes much later.

By: Jim

Jim — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 15:20:00 +0000

re: #3

I can’t be the only one wondering what the joke was. I’ll be really disappointed if it turns out to be something really dumb.

By: al gore

al gore — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 06:22:00 +0000

> 7. Paris Syndrome

also happens quite a bit in Israel when tourist come and suddenly decide they are a reincarnated biblical figure.

By: Merinda

Merinda — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 04:14:00 +0000

It’s not the same thing at all, but when my brother was a kid he had a major problem with speaking his ‘R’s…

So everyone assumed he was from Boston when he’d never been there in his life.

By: Candace

Candace — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 01:40:00 +0000

Yes, my mother had the Foreign Accent Syndrome for about 2 years. She would just lapse in & out of it. This was about 20 years ago & eventually went away. She had MRIs & all kinds of tests but they were never able to figure out why she spoke with a foreign accent. The funny thing was that if you gave her a pencil & paper, she would write in correct English just not speak it. It’s only in the last few years that I have heard that others have had this problem too.