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muscle twicthing when touched

everytime someone touches my stomach and lower stomach my muscles begin to twitch but they only do that when touched. is there a reason why this happens??
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Hi there. Some individuals are extremely sensitive touch. Your reaction to a foreign touch, even when your girl friend touches your abdomen is a withdrawal flexor reflex I feel. Your abdominal wall muscles contract and spasm in response to the superficial tactile stimuli. It could be due to anxiety and even stress, exposure to environment during extremely cold climate. You can however take a physician’s appointment and discuss this issue with him. Take care.
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So far, that is what it seems like. You can test it. First have your girlfriend go towards your stomach while you watch, see if it makes any movement, then cover your eyes so you can't see and do it again, have her tell you if it made any movement when she went towards your stomach, and how close she had to actually get (how much she had to touch it) before it did it.
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so because i know when my stomach is going to get touched thats why it twitches/jumps?
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For right now, I have nothing, but I am adding this to my list for research. In the mean time, and this could or could not have anything to do with it. Did you know you cannot tickle yourself? Knowing that someone else other than yourself is going to tickle you will make the tickle "work", if you do it, you know you are doing it, and it won't work.

That's all I have for right now. If I can get anything, I will.
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no if i touch my stomach nothin happens. it started this bout a year and half ago
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I understand, but does it happen if you touch your stomach?

Has your stomach been like this for a long time?
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like for example i'll be laying down with the girlfriend and she will lay her hand on my stomach and jumps/twithces but its not like im nervous or anything
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no not when i do just if someone else does
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Do your get the twitch when you touch those areas?
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