I've Got A Buzz

[Zuljin]

And not from drinking.

You know how you keep your phone on vibrate when you're in meetings or running from the police, and you can feel it vibrate the part of your body it's against when you get a message? I get that even when I don't have my phone. And it's not during a time when I would normally get a message. It's totally random, but usually happened when I'm moving. This has been happening for about three months.

The only other times I felt this was when I had wasps in my shirt, was getting electrocuted by a fish tank pump, and once when I drank six tallboys of Redbull over a short time. Don't do that.

Any ideas?

 

[DrunkleJon]

Ah yes phantom vibration syndrome. Its a thing. Google it.

http://www.wired.com/2014/09/whats-phantom-cellphone-vibrations/
Wored is more reputable than wikipedia after all.

 

[Homercidal]

I get that all the time. Usually when driving, but sometimes just randomly. Not only with the phone in my pocket, but when it's out of the pocket, or nowhere near me.

 

[SnakeRidge]

I want to hear more about the wasps in your shirt.

 

[unionrdr]

I had yellow jackets in my jeans once when they invaded the MB at the old house on mass.

 

[Zuljin]

Ah. See, I was writing it off from being a phantom thing since it wasn't happening at times I would normally get a message, but the article says it happens mostly when moving. I've got that, and it makes sense. Damn brain.

Wasps like me, or hate me. They'll fly from all around just to land on me. They'll fly up in my shirt, and I can feel their little feet and wings against me. It's a vibrating like feeling. Thankfully, dragon flies also flock to me. Is it me or for the wasps? I dunno, but if there's dragon flies around, they're around me.

I also used to like spraying wasp nests with a hose, and then running. Sometimes not far enough.

I was once stung 27 times, that's the number they stopped counting at, by wasps. We were playing hide and seek, and I hid in a dark lean-to for old lawn equipment. I heard the buzzing. So loud it was vibrating the tin. The wasps were bouncing off the metal. Bzzt. Thunk. Bzzt. Thunk. I could feel the wasps getting in my hair and clothes. Then, WOW-WEE! The stinging. So much stinging. I had to climb out over the equipment to get out, while being stung. I went running toward the grown-ups, my own family, screaming murder, being chased by a swarm of wasps, and they all ran away! Bastards! I had to run all the way to the road before the wasps quit chasing me.

When my dad's girlfriend came to get me, I was on fire! It stung so bad. She took me to an Illinois Central railway station up the road. They had cases of those green snap vials for wasp stings. Seems wasps like to shack up in box cars. I was covered in whelps and wasp parts. Stingers stuck in me, undulating. Pulsing and pumping venom into my body. They were plucking the little sacks off me and snapping vials as fast as they could. Painting me with that green liquid.

I was hot the whole rest of the day, and itched like crazy that night. And my skin was still kind of hot. My grandma spackled me in a homemade poultice of thin oatmeal and meat tenderizer. I laid in bed with a fan on me. The whole thing really sucked. Do not recommend.

 

[unionrdr]

Reminds me of the time my older son & I were putting a new roof on the old house. I drove a roofing nail into a shingle, & out came a swarm of mud daubers. And here I am standing on the back section of the roof with nothing but a hammer. CARP DEIM, MUTHU****As! hit them with the hammer swing like an agitated puppet on the roof. Older neighbor watching all this while lol'ing at the shenanigans. Then, as if that wasn't bad enough, I worked my way down to the small add-on roof over my little workshop. Spang went the hammer on another nail. Bumble bees started crawling out! Ohhhh shnikies! Good thing I had some of that black silicone roofing caulk stuff handy. I caulked his a$$ to the edge of the roofing where they were crawling out.

 

[hunter_le five]

Any ideas?

It's probably a spinal tumor. That's what Web MD told me.

That, or the phantom phone thing. I get that all the time. But in your case, it's probably a tumor. Occam's Razor and all that.

and once when I drank six tallboys of Redbull over a short time. Don't do that.

In my ******* teenager days I thought it would be a neat idea to take a big handful of NoDoz pills and see how long I could stay up. Within a few hours, I thought I was going to die. Erratic pounding heartbeat, cold sweats, nausea, uncontrollable jitters, irritability, itchiness, inability to sit still, impending sense of doom, etc etc. Never doing that again.

Do not recommend.

Huh, up until that last part it sounded like a pretty good time. Care to expand on that last comment?

They always seemed to like to fly into my hair and get tangled up. Scary as hell. Now I keep it super short so its not a problem, except they still try to kamikaze my head.

 

[Homercidal]

The worst part is that the vibrations aren't strong enough to be useful.

 

[Zuljin]

I can always get you some wasps, if you'd like to try for yourself. I'm real good at finding ground nests, too.

The Redbull vibrations may have been useful. Seriously. My junk was like a C cell toy. I was worried for a little bit.

 

[unionrdr]

I used to get that from my cell phone on vibrate in these deep-pocketed jeans I used to wear to work as a foreman. Got a tingle!

 

[drainbamage]

I get that too, although it comes in waves. It'll show up for a couple days and then go away for weeks.

It's probably a spinal tumor. That's what Web MD told me.