Worst medical condition you've experienced

[Hookman]

I had a near-fatal C-Dif infection when I was having chemotherapy. It basically rots your internal organs. I couldn't eat or drink anything for two weeks and couldn't even walk for months afterwards.

About a month after that I had a stomach hemmorage (No idea how its spelt) and started vomiting blood and my nose was bleeding so much it had to be burnt.

I'm often known as the cheery one of the group, BTW.

 

[0_Insomnis_0]

Chronic Insomnia. I've tried everything to sleep, but it never works.

As someone that just got up after lying down for 5 hours with no sleep, I agree it sucks. My insomnia is linked to my anxiety.

As for me.

The last few years (beginning signs 10 years ago that slowly developed over time) I've come down with a chronic anxiety neurosis linked to a developed social phobia. It just came out of nowhere about a year or so ago and has increased to the point I literally collapse with no control with tingling shaking numb hands, feet and jaw in public half the time with dizziness, weakness and blurred vision. Its terrifying and has f-ed up my life. I've been forbidden to work by my GP after seeing 2 doctors and 2 specialists and have been placed on disability. Before this developed I never even knew anxiety/phobia could do this to you. Its crippling. I can't even sleep sometimes.

That's terrible. I hope you find some relief somewhere. I haven't got anxiety, just a chemical imbalance in my brain, I imagine. I'm not depressed or anything of the sort, just tired all the time. All I can think about is sleep. Have you considered having an FMRI done? PET scan? Even just an EEG might help. They could find what's going wrong, and perhaps fix it. I've got a sleep study EEG coming up soon.

 

[pyramid head grape]

Inner ear thing - was super dizzy for a week completely unable to keep my balance so I fall over alot. Didn't eat much too so I starved. oh and there was sick lots of it, with my head constantly spinning sleep was imposable. All in all just hated it.

 

[Nieroshai]

Well if mental conditions count I have gone into severe paranoid panic attacks from lack of food and sleep.

 

[Lord Mountbatten Reborn]

Heh, I practically have nothing on you guys, with your conditions. Minor little niggling things that are easy enough to get rid of.

Asthma - gone.
Eczema - gone.
Tonsil stones - annoying, but not that much.
Peyronie's - Mild. I'm going to blame this one on surgeons, which is why I distrust them. However, fixable.

I don't really get major conditions, though, being a wally, I do get a host of scares (hooray for symptom checking/self-diagnosing).

 

[Matt-Sama]

4 years ago I had glandular fever and for two weeks I could only eat soup and yoghurt and drink luke warm water. Then 2 and a half years after I had chronic colds. I would have a cold for two weeks and then stop having a cold for about a week. Worst years of my life considering I only could breath 2/3 of the year.