Worst medical condition you've experienced

[Aetera]

A month or so ago, a routine cavity filling turned into, "oh, sorry for not asking if you're taking any medication/looking at your medical records and realizing that laughing gas and the large dosage of Seroquel(and according to the ER, but not confirmed by my Psychiatrist, the Lamictal) that you've been taking every day for years react really horribly with each other! Our bad!"

Yeah. For five-ish six-ish days I had extreme double vision, total loss of anything resembling balance/coordination(it was a struggle to even stand up), and really bad tremors in my limbs. When it was at its worst, my legs wouldn't even support me at all. Even after I recovered from everything else, the tremors still kept up for about a week. They weren't nearly as bad as they used to be, though. My hands just wouldn't stop shaking.

However, when I was in the ER there was a page for a Dr. Pepper. Totally worth it.

 

[samaugsch]

Being alive. Ugh, what a mess.

Wow. -_-

I was born with horribly flat feet that had to be surgically corrected when I was 13. Which meant walking with flat feet that caused serious pain in my right foot if I walked more than a quarter of a mile. What sucked most was that I was stuck in a wheelchair for three months and then three months in crutches after that. What also sucks is that I have a metal plate in my leg that doesn't set off metal detectors.

Why would you want a metal plate in your leg that sets off metal detectors?

 

[YepGeddon]

11 stitches in my left hand from some drunken accident. Bled like a ***** but y'know being drunk it just looked like a badass waterfall of red. Housemates ever so nicely bandaged it up (when I say bandaged, they pretty much suffocated my hand), then fell asleep, woke up 4 hours later in complete agony and made a lovely trip to the hospital. When the bandage came off I was KO'd from all the blood merrilly rushing to my hand. The surgeon was a badass aswell.. Took before and after pictures on his iPhone.

 

[JourneyMan88]

I really don't have enough room here so I'll give you the bullet points:
age 6 kidney disease (nephrotic syndrome)
age 10 rare virus (pseudomona) had me near death and starting causing renal failure
age 11 renal failure, dialysis and eventual kidney transplant
smooth sailing until adulthood...
age 31 renal transplant from age 11 nearing end of its life causing seizure and three day coma placing me back at death's door and back on dialysis
age 40 second kidney transplant
so far so good, I turn 44 this month.

 

[Cazza]

hydrocephalus (water on the brain). My head was huge. I have a shunt that drains that fluid.

age 6 kidney disease (nephrotic syndrome)

I too had nephroptic syndrome.

 

[Safaia]

Gallstones. They didn't know what was wrong so I was constantly in pain and puking every single day.

The last vertebrae on my spine is fused to my tail bone and one leg is longer than the other. I can also hyper extend my knees and lock them when I stand. My back pain ranges from 'annoying' to 'oh god I want to die' at any given moment.

Depression.

 

[iblis666]

im very over weight
have a major thyroid problem
had my apendix taken out that the doctor says was the size of a grape fruit and that apparently had been inflamed several times before
had my wisdom teeth out
had my worst of my legs surgically broken and a metal frame work of bars driven through them to fix bow leg
have no cartilage in my knees

 

[Roganwilson]

I feel lucky. It's just depression for me, albeit moderately severe depression.

 

[saphirekosmos]

Probably being born with a disease that caused my intestines to not form properly. This made me lose most of my large intestine withing a week or two of being born. Subsequent doctor fuck ups caused the rest of my large intestine a a good portion of my small intestine to have to be removed (gangrene sucks folks). Luckily we found a doc who knew what the frack he was doing, though the procedure used up some of my small intestine again. >__> So after 8-11 surgeries, a couple colostomies, and illiostome over the first 3-4 years of my life I was finally hooked up and as "normal" as I could be after that.

 

[Tautology]

Rertograde Amnesia; I can only remember small amounts of my life from before I was about 14. Not sure of the cause.

I'm told I suffered severe migraines for several years that largely stopped after the amnesia. Still get some occasionally.

Photophobia, my eyes are so sensitive I need to wear sunglasses on a very cloudy day. I blame the migraines.

For as long as I could remember, about 6 years, every month I had at least two canker sores. Within a week of one healing, a new one appeared and no doctor could explain exactly why I kept getting them. They hurt like all hell, especially when I got them on my tongue. Couldn't eat, couldn't speak. About 3 months ago they finally stopped coming. Fingers crossed.

Loneliness.

I also had 5 wisdom teeth removed.

 

[Tallim]

I have trigeminal neuralgia. Agonizingly painful but ultimately not dangerous. Other than they call it Suicide Disease, fun times

 

[WouldYouKindly]

Being alive. Ugh, what a mess.

Wow. -_-

I was born with horribly flat feet that had to be surgically corrected when I was 13. Which meant walking with flat feet that caused serious pain in my right foot if I walked more than a quarter of a mile. What sucked most was that I was stuck in a wheelchair for three months and then three months in crutches after that. What also sucks is that I have a metal plate in my leg that doesn't set off metal detectors.

Why would you want a metal plate in your leg that sets off metal detectors?

I just thought it'd be kinda funny the first few times, it might get annoying though.

 

[ace_of_something]

Does getting stabbed with a hunting knife count as a medical condition?

Holy shit that hurt.

 

[Saulkar]

I developed a pilonidal cyst that had to be removed then go back to the hospital every day for a month and a half to have the bandages and packing changed.

 

[Rossmallo]

I had my Wisdoms out.

On the plus side, I did figure out how to take pills properly once Id been through that.

 

[Mr. Fancy Pants]

Skin cancer kind of sucked, it's all good now though.

I've also had my chest slashed in a knife fight, though I won't say why I was in that fight. Some friendly advice: knife fights are neither fun nor cool, despite what you may think.

 

[Mr. Fancy Pants]

and I broke my dick about a year ago during a particularly rough one night stand.

Holy shitfuck! That can really happen?!

 

[Rossmallo]

and I broke my dick about a year ago during a particularly rough one night stand.

Holy shitfuck! That can really happen?!

Think about it.

And yes. Its as horrendous as it sounds.

 

[trollnystan]

I had some weird reactionary arthritis a year and a half ago. My joints swelled up and my feet were almost round. It felt like I was walking on glass shards.

Still not sure exactly what it was, but the doctor I saw 2 months after my recovery said it sounded like aforementioned arthritis.

Maybe not the worst thing that's happen to me, but I was sick for a month and a half so it FELT like the worst.

 

[Pyrosomniac]

I have crohn's disease so yeah its sucks really really bad

First time poster, long time lurker, and I have a feeling this guy is me.

I was diagnosed with Crohn's Disease when I was 11, but I suffered since I was 10 due to medical experts not knowing what was wrong with me. Before I was diagnosed, my joints would swell up, including my elbows, knees, and ankles, and left me housebound and missing a lot of school. I couldn't eat or drink anything without needing a toilet nearby (that's still true today), as well as my appetite being non-existant. I could barely drink water without wanting to hurl or feeling my bowels cramp. Due to the medication I've been on, It's caused my bone age to suffer a lot, so I've also been diagnosed with Osteoporosis.

Since then (basically, my entire teen years), it has psychologically affected me to the point that I feel that I will always be rejected by my peers, by potential girlfriends, as well as other social circles as I don't think they want to have to babysit a guy who can't (literally) hold his shit, and it's caused me to develop no social life. On the plus side it does give me a few guidelines to live, as I can't drink much as it would massacre my liver, and it lets me know my limits.