Worst medical condition you've experienced

[Des Carson]

Diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis at 26. Have many scars in my brain/spinal cord, which impedes nerve impulse transmission and messes with them too, leading to right sided numbness, loss of balance, urinary retention, twitching, shaking hands and excruciating pain on my right side.

Good times!

 

[Xixikal]

I currently have gastroenteritis, which is fairly unpleasant. I've vomited a record 12 times today...

 

[Dags90]

Soreasis. Or whatever its called in English, its not that bad but Chronic shit sucks.

Psoriasis?

So far the worst has probably been an infected joint when I was five. They had to open me up to clean out my hip joint and it was a big meningitis scare.

I've also had heart trouble my entire life so vigorous activity leaves me clutching my chest in pain for breath.

 

[phoenixbeast]

Everything really bad has happened since I got to college...Freshman year was pneumonia and a double ear infection at the same time...Sophomore year was almost breaking my ankle and a mild case of swine flu...And this Junior year was the worse with Costochondritis my first semester (rendering me unable to breathe if I SNEEZED!!!) and now the second semester has really screwed with my life...

I'm playing harmless game of Humans vs Zombies when I take a small leap off a curb...I was only like a foot in the air and came down on my left leg as normal...Except for the PAIN that accompanied it and me staggering then collapsing to the ground...Get rushed to the hospital where they take X-Rays and realized I snapped my FEMUR IN HALF...Have to wait hours to have surgery because I ate 3 hours before hand...Then I get pneumonia AGAIN after the surgery along with being anemic and having multiple deficiencies with stuff like vitamin C, Calcium (No idea how that came about), and protein...I got a bone scan weeks later and it turns out my readings were at -.23 so its classified as Osteopenia...-.25 is Osteoperosis...I'm only 21 and I practically have Osteoperosis...Needless to say and recreational sports basically got removed from my life...

Edit...Wow Sorry about that guys...Its not nearly as bad as what others have posted, but it came out of nowhere and I'm still recovering...Hope I don't come off as some sort of person asking for pity...I just really needed to vent...Which I hadn't been able to do to stress from making up work for school building up...

 

[StellarViking]

I have ulcerative colitis, and the muscle around the base of my spine is replacing itself with scar tissue. I also have some pretty bad knee pain and carpal tunnel in my right hand due to playing cello. I've had asthma and I may have been born with a heart defect but the doctors don't know, all I know is that from time to time a sharp, stabbing pain shoots through the left side of my chest. All in all, I don't think it's as bad as some of the other things people have posted here, though.

 

[BFEL]

When I was two I had a "unknown virus" that messed up my electrolytes, my blood pressure, had me vomiting blood that looked like coffee grounds and generally just f***ed me up. Afterwords my mother thought I acted different and lo and behold I have autism. Oh and alpha one anti-tripsin which means that im especially suseptable to anything that messes with my lungs.

 

[Slaanax]

Fractured Ankle or a Sinus Infection.

 

[Custard_Angel]

I once stepped hard on an abalone shell while fishing and came down with an acute case of "cut the living fuck out of my right foot".

The cut was 6cm long and 1cm deep into the soft fleshy part of the bottom of my foot.

My dad did the following:

- Washed the wound.
- Smothered it in iodine.
- Bandaged it.
- Put a thick sock over the bandage to keep it dry.
- Set up a "hook" on the side of the boat to keep my leg elevated.
- Took me fishing.

We did pretty well that day all things considered... Caught around 50 40cm+ King George Whiting if I remember correctly. Wound healed up nicely without a trip to the doctor and I got a nice scar out of it.

 

[alandavidson]

Eosinophilic Esophagitis Try saying that 3 times fast

Hey, me too! (For those of you don't know, our esophagus's are ribbed like a cat's)

On top of that I have:
A totally inflamed stomach lining
Chronic Insomnia
Little to no feeling in my left side (Due to back injury)
Hips drastically misaligned
Broken one vertebrae
Broken my nose
Five calcium deposits in my skull

So... yeah. Most of it results of my own stupid choices so I really can't complain.

 

[InsanelyZanter]

Broke my leg. In the process of healing the doctors called attention to a gigantic bump on my leg. Turned out to be a extra bone. Had it removed. My leg was on fire for weeks.

 

[PwnSt0nes]

Two broken ankles from motocross..didn't walk for 6 months, i now have 6 pins in my left ankle, this happened only a few months after my back surgery ( had spinal disc problems for 3 years)

 

[Soviet Steve]

Well there's my aspergers syndrome from birth, second would be last year where I broke my right ankle in three places, third would be a flu back in my childhood where I spent 2 weeks feeling very dead.

 

[Wintermoot]

stomach flu ANY MOVEMENT HURTS! also you are constantly puking and even drinking water hurts!

 

[FalloutJack]

The broken leg at age 9, of course. Terrible thing to happen to a child, and I'd been in a fight shortly before then.

 

[samaugsch]

Coming of the anesthetic from having my wisdom teeth pulled. I was so loud and obnoxious they made my mom take me out the back door of the clinic.

Seriously though the one that sucked the most was getting treatment for my food and environmental allergies. Every two weeks getting needles stuck into both my arms so my body would learn to tolerate the substances. It itched like crazy, but it did get me over my fear of needles.

I've had my wisdom teeth taken out, too, but I just had some trouble getting up and walking and had to write down words on sticky notes just to communicate for the time being. I don't think I was loud and obnoxious though. The whole time, I took painkillers every 6 hrs or so. In the last few weeks that it bothered me, I found out that Advil worked just as well if not better (and it was easier to keep stocked, too). Explain to me why some people get addicted to painkillers.

Oh, and I'm not sure if this counts, but the worst pain I felt was having my appendix ruptured. At least with my wisdom teeth pulled, I could take painkillers.

 

[samaugsch]

Eosinophilic Esophagitis Try saying that 3 times fast

I'd have trouble saying that once normally...

 

[crudus]

I think I got a hairline fracture on one of my ribs. That was interesting and annoying. Below that is a runny nose.

 

[samaugsch]

I have fell flat on my jaw on the asphalt and lost 15 teeth (shooting through my skin)
I have crashed on a bike and landed balls-on-bar
I have broken the same ankle three times, sideways, once with the bone pipe sticking out
I have had multiple toothache for three months straight
I have had trench foot

But nothing

[HEADING=1]NOTHING[/HEADING]
Beats the Migraine.

Piercing eye pain, one half of the brain feels like it's below freezing, blurred vision, extreme nausea, shortness of breath and a piercing imagined noise nobody else can hear.

Fucking respect the migraine. I'm have an extremely high pain threshold, but migraine gets to me. And to think people who don't have it laugh it off as some normal headache.

Once, I told someone I had the migraine. He said "quit your belly-aching" or something to that effect, I can't remember, because everything went black with rage and I had beat him up when I snapped back to it.

Wow. That sounds more like demonic possession than a migraine. X_X

 

[Brutal Peanut]

I haven't had a terrible medical emergency or near-death experience. But I am allergic to certain types of ants. We get some pretty big ants out here. Big ants, that bite. They are jerks. If I am bitten by one, the area will swell, tighten, itch uncontrollably, and will look raw and shiny and if I don't seek a medical professional and prescribed antibiotics, it can become infected relatively quickly. Happened to my second toe.

Very uncomfortable.

 

[8bitlove2a03]

When I was in sixth grade I got a semi-rare disease called rheumatic fever. It attacked my heart, joints, and brain. As the disease progressed, I lost control over my fine motor functions, the left side of my body was basically unresponsive, the right side of my body was mostly beyond my control, I couldn't walk, write, or speak clearly, and if I had gone another few weeks undiagnosed my the damage to my heart would have been severe enough to require replacement of several valves if not my whole heart. It took quite some time for me to fully recover. Since I was sick I've had chronic sleep-onset insomnia, though it's possible that it was unrelated to the disease itself.