Bronchiectasis. Like that, but always and forever.ShasOMiKael said:
Slime and various colours of goo everywhere in your lungs and throat, really really loud bouts of coughing and (apparently) bad reactions to common illnesses.
Worst/Most irritating medical condition you've ever had?
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Slime and various colours of goo everywhere in your lungs and throat, really really loud bouts of coughing and (apparently) bad reactions to common illnesses.
Glandular Fever (aka Mono) was pretty freaking rough. 2.5 weeks of basically constant 40-41c temperatures, incredibly sore throat, tonsils so covered with infection they were completely white, my neck looked like a frog/toad when they puff up their necks to croak (basically peanut sized glands that were swollen up larger than my fists on both sides of my neck), they were so large they were impeding my oxygen and blood flow, horrible hepatitis and then followed by a month of chronic fatigue where I barely had the energy to move. All because I hooked up with some girl I didn't even know at a bar, NEVER AGAIN!
I had pneumonia and a fever at the same time, an appendectomy and some other fun stuff, but by far the worst was the bacterial meningitis. If my parents were half an hour later I would have been deaf/mute and if they had been an hour later I would have been dead.
When I was 14 I had a Shingles. It's basically a rash that started in the middle of my back and worked its way right to cover most of my stomach. It lasted for about a week and hurt like hell the whole time, anything from laying in bed to leaning back in a chair even just having my shirt touch it would hurt. Whats extra fun about it is that it is chickenpox V2 basically in that when you are healed of chickenpox it will just hang around and in about a 1 in a 1000 chance break out into shingles years later.
No idea what I had but last year I could only eat or drink about a thimble of anything at a time without vomiting. Had that for a week and a half.
Styes. They love me. I must have had about at least five now. Everytime I have an important event or gathering, a stye decides to pop up. The constant pain isn't the worst. It's how distorted and ugly it makes your eye look.
About a year ago I got mononucleosis infectiosa. Aka, the kissing disease. Not that bad. Had a fever for a few days and it past.
The most annoying part was that the doctor didn't recognize it at first and gave me antibiotics based on penicillin for the fever.
Needles to say, the result were... itchy.
My entire skin got covered in a rash... Not that bad if I could stay still. But no.. I had tickets for a Muse concert. And those concerts are crowded.
The most annoying part was that the doctor didn't recognize it at first and gave me antibiotics based on penicillin for the fever.
Needles to say, the result were... itchy.
My entire skin got covered in a rash... Not that bad if I could stay still. But no.. I had tickets for a Muse concert. And those concerts are crowded.
I had ingrowing toe nails on both my feet. I went to the GP they prescribed antibiotics and come back in a month or two. Came back, still no change, they said see the Podiatrist in a month. Podiatrists said see me again if it gets worse.
This went on for about a year before they finally threw up their arms and decided to do something about it. I?d been waiting for over a year; the entire operation took one Podiatrist and a nurse an hour to pump me full of painkillers, rip the nails out by the root and then cover it in a burning chemical to kill the nail bed?
(As a side note the day they decided to do the operation was the same week I received my A-level results and found out whether I managed to get into Uni. Made it to my first choice, though I think I would rather face the nail rippers again than waiting for those results)
This went on for about a year before they finally threw up their arms and decided to do something about it. I?d been waiting for over a year; the entire operation took one Podiatrist and a nurse an hour to pump me full of painkillers, rip the nails out by the root and then cover it in a burning chemical to kill the nail bed?
(As a side note the day they decided to do the operation was the same week I received my A-level results and found out whether I managed to get into Uni. Made it to my first choice, though I think I would rather face the nail rippers again than waiting for those results)
tough call between torticollis and fungus in the inner ear
torticollis is freaking painful serously one day when i was in frist grade I just woke up couldnt move my head ended up falling out bed and screaming bloody murder till my dad came up to check on me he had to carry me to the car becuse it couldnt move from the pain (ended up wearing a soft neck brace for several weeks)
then a few years ago my ear was driving me nuts was really painful and I could not hear anything on that side expt a crackling sound like it was full of rice crispys i went to the doctor several times over the course of a month they kept thinking it was a damaged eardrum finally after the 4th visit they referred me to a ear specialist and he was baffled to find that somehow fungus had grown in my ear?!
torticollis is freaking painful serously one day when i was in frist grade I just woke up couldnt move my head ended up falling out bed and screaming bloody murder till my dad came up to check on me he had to carry me to the car becuse it couldnt move from the pain (ended up wearing a soft neck brace for several weeks)
then a few years ago my ear was driving me nuts was really painful and I could not hear anything on that side expt a crackling sound like it was full of rice crispys i went to the doctor several times over the course of a month they kept thinking it was a damaged eardrum finally after the 4th visit they referred me to a ear specialist and he was baffled to find that somehow fungus had grown in my ear?!
When I was on holiday in Egypt, I cut my back open on the underside of one of those plastic floating jetties. My body then became covered with terribly itchy boils for a few days. I think, but I'm not sure, that it was a mild case of septicaemia.
It's doable. Just in moderation, that's all.Kanatatsu said:
Funny story though-- I discovered the only way I can work out on an aerobic machine is to stick my feet in ice water until they get really close to freezing and then step into a pair of shoes that I keep in the freezer. I've got about 60 minutes from that point to work out before I start blistering.
Thrush.
It itches like hell and the girl who works at my local pharmacy is really hot so it was a pain in the ass to ask her where they kept the thrush cream. I got it off of my ex girlfriend and it lasted well over a week, I couldn't do anything, even peeing was a (literal) pain in the dick.
I know I should've worn a condom, but she was on her period and I knew for a fact that we were both clean, nothing would've happened that would've ended our lives (like pregnancy, ugh) but that damn fungus had to show up and ruin everything.
It itches like hell and the girl who works at my local pharmacy is really hot so it was a pain in the ass to ask her where they kept the thrush cream. I got it off of my ex girlfriend and it lasted well over a week, I couldn't do anything, even peeing was a (literal) pain in the dick.
I know I should've worn a condom, but she was on her period and I knew for a fact that we were both clean, nothing would've happened that would've ended our lives (like pregnancy, ugh) but that damn fungus had to show up and ruin everything.
"Had"? I suppose Pneumonia is the worst thing I've had, that passed.
Currently "Have"? Asthma, -oh! And a congenital heart defect, that has left me with lessened stamina throughout my life (But since I'm supposed to be dead, wheelchair bound, severley reduced stamina, and/or on more medications that I could count, then I'm pretty happy with an almost unnoticeably reduced stamina in normal circumstances, and only one medicine).
Currently "Have"? Asthma, -oh! And a congenital heart defect, that has left me with lessened stamina throughout my life (But since I'm supposed to be dead, wheelchair bound, severley reduced stamina, and/or on more medications that I could count, then I'm pretty happy with an almost unnoticeably reduced stamina in normal circumstances, and only one medicine).
I cannot remember what the illness was called but I did have something that basically made it feel like I had a hangover for about 2 months. Yeah, that wasn't fun.
Also had jaundice for a bit and doctors couldn't figure out why. Every test they ran came back clean. Eventually they admitted "We still don't quite know what it is. But it seems to be going away. Just don't drink for another month."
Also had jaundice for a bit and doctors couldn't figure out why. Every test they ran came back clean. Eventually they admitted "We still don't quite know what it is. But it seems to be going away. Just don't drink for another month."