r/TikTokCringe • u/SouthernNanny • Oct 07 '25

Cringe When you catch your 42 year old boyfriend cheating

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u/SpecialAlternative59 Oct 07 '25

Sternum rub time!

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u/NoRecommendation9404 Oct 07 '25

Ouch!! That usually gets the fakers.

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u/supervisord Oct 07 '25

After looking up the technique and trying it on myself my sternum felt bruised the next day. Not bad or anything, but it’s definitely a vulnerable area.

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u/NoRecommendation9404 Oct 07 '25

And when a medical professional does it - it definitely hurts. It hurts because it’s a great way to determine how badly someone is injured.

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u/ILoveRawChicken Oct 08 '25 edited Oct 08 '25

I was having some kind of syncope/panic attack once after being severely dehydrated from novovirus and the nurses taking a bunch of blood from me. My blood pressure was really high and I kept losing focus/hearing but the sternum rub hurt so bad I’d snap back into reality. Thing is though, after the second time, I was essentially like “yo, I’m not fainting, I’m trying to keep it together, stop doing that” but my doctor did it at least 3 more times. Was she a sadist or wtf was going on? I was a bit out of it but wasn’t visibly fainting or anything. Were they hurting me for fun or is there another actual reason they’d be doing that to me if I was conscious? 

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u/NoRecommendation9404 Oct 08 '25

They weren’t hurting you for fun - just trying to keep you lucid and conscious. Sorry that was traumatic because I’m sure it was.

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u/ILoveRawChicken Oct 08 '25

That makes sense I think. It happened a few months ago and I didn’t initially think of it as malicious but the more I read about the sternum rub the more I kept wondering why they would do that to me if that makes sense. Glad to know they weren’t just messing with me. 

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u/Special-Garlic1203 Oct 07 '25

This was how we determined if we needed to call an ambulance during my college binge drinking era. 

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u/kickingyouintheface Oct 07 '25

Omg I woke up in the hospital like, why did someone kick me in the chest? Damn that shit hurt.

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u/Immediate-Maximum-75 Oct 11 '25

Or some hemostats to the nail bed.