Man Allergic to His Own Orgasm Actively Avoids Sleeping With Girlfriend
A 27-year-old man dubbed the “unluckiest man alive” suffers from a rare disease that causes him to experience flu-like symptoms whenever he orgasms. The unnamed man’s case was recently reported in the medical journal Urology Case Reports by a team of doctors who successfully managed to treat the condition with antihistamine. Scientists described the man’s […]
Woman Suffering From “Face Blindness” Can’t Even Recognize Her Own Face
Can you imagine looking in the mirror and not recognizing the person staring back at you. That’s what Lena, a 29-year-old Russian woman suffering from prosopagnosia, a rare condition that makes it impossible to recognize faces, including her own. Lena Ash only learned that she was suffering from prosopagnosia last year. Before that, she had […]
Rare Condition Causes Hair to Grow Out of Woman’s Gums
A recently-published study detailed the bizarre case of an Italian woman who grew eyelash-like hairs inside of her mouth multiple times. The unnamed woman reportedly visited doctors about her condition over a decade ago, when she was just 19-years-old. She visited doctors and complained of hair growing out of her gums, which had only been […]
Woman Fulfills Life-Long Wish of Becoming Blind, Says She’s Never Been Happier
Body Integrity Identity Disorder (BIID) is a serious psychological condition that gives able-bodied people a strong desire to be disabled. It’s what made this woman from North Carolina purposely blind herself by dropping drain cleaner into her eyes! Jewel Shuping, 30, revealed that she’s been obsessed with blindness since childhood. “My mother would find me […]
The Dominican Village Where Some Children Only Grow Penises at Puberty
Physical changes during puberty are completely normal, but in Salinas, a remote village in the southwestern Dominican Republic, they are downright extreme. For some of the boys living here puberty is the time they actually grow a penis. Many of the children are born without male genitalia and are raised as girls, but they eventually become men in […]
Strange Condition Causes 30-Year-Old Man to Look Decades Older
Although he’s only 30, Yuan Taiping from Chongqing in southwest China, looks like an 80-year-old man. He suffers from a bizarre medical condition that’s caused his skin to age prematurely. He’s visited numerous doctors, but no one has been able to find him a cure so far. Yuan, who works as a manager at a construction […]
This Woman Has Been Crying White “Crystals” for 20 Years and Nobody Can Explain Why
Laura Ponce, a nursery school teacher in Lins, Brazil, suffers from a strange condition that causes her to cry ‘crystal’ tears. The white plaques start off as soft blobs inside her eyes, but they harden when she blinks in an attempt to expel them, finally emerging as solid white crystals. This happens to her for […]
Doctor Claims Rare Condition Allows Him to Feel Patient’s’ Physical Pain
People often use the phrase “I feel you pain” when trying to comfort somebody, but usually it has a figurative meaning. That’s not the case with Joel Salinas, a doctor suffering from a rare condition called mirror-touch synesthesia which actually allows him to feel the physical pain of his patients. Salinas, a neurologist at Massachusetts General Hospital, […]
Bizarre Condition Causes Woman to Grow Fingernails instead of Hair
Since 2009, 32-year-old Shanyna Isom has been suffering from a mysterious skin condition that causes fingernails to grow out of the hair follicles all over her body. The mystery illness is so inconceivably strange that even after five years, doctors have no idea what is wrong with her. According to physicians treating her at the Johns […]
Dead Men Walking – The Bizarre Condition Known as Cotard’s Syndrome
One of the world’s strangest and rarest mental disorders is Cotard’s Syndrome. Also known as the Cotard Delusion, the Nihilistic Delusion, and the Walking Corpse Syndrome, CS causes sufferers to believe that they are dead (figuratively or literally) and do not exist. I always thought the walking dead only existed in movies and video games. Until I […]
Bojana Danilovic – The Woman Who Sees Everything Upside Down
Bojana Danilovic, a young woman from Serbia, suffers from a strange condition that has left both doctors and scientists baffled. The 28-year economics graduate sees everything upside down. Experts from Harvard University and at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology who examined Bojana Danilovic say she suffers from a rare brain condition called ‘spatial orientation phenomenon’. In layman’s terms […]
3 People Who Allegedly Cry Tears of Blood
Haemolacria is a real physical condition that causes people to actually cry tears of blood. The tears of people suffering from this condition may range from being just tinged red, to entirely made of blood. While the exact cause or cure for this condition is not clear, it is known to be a symptom of […]
Man Is Helplessly Addicted to Sausages
I suppose it could be worse, but 47-year-old David Harding has become the first man in Britain (and probably the world) who has undergone therapy to cure his addiction to sausages. David has had at least one sausage a day ever since he was five years old – either in sandwiches, as fry-ups or main […]
Chinese Woman Performs Surgery on Herself
Wu Yuanbi, a 53-year-old woman, from Chongqing, China, has recently performed surgery on herself, with a common kitchen knife. Wu, who works as a migrant worker, has been suffering from a chronic condition known as Budd-Chiari syndrome, for the last 13 years. This causes her stomach to gradually fill up with large quantities of fluid, […]
Twinkle Dwivedi – The Girl Who Cries Blood
For the last three years, doctors have been trying to figure out what makes Twinkle Dwivedi‘s body ooze blood through her eyes, feet and even her head, but she remains a medical mystery. When Twinkle’s case first appeared in the international media, many hurried to call her a fake, but after countless tests and procedures, […]