So Escapist, What Ails You?

[MelasZepheos_v1legacy]

Simple enough. Do you have any medical conditions you want to share with the class? They can be long term, short term, recurring or one time only. Tell us your pains.

Personally I'm fit as a fiddle right now, but through High School and University I had a very strange condition where during times of high stress I would get a spot on my forehead that eventually swelled up enough that it pushed my eye shut. I went to the doctors/the hospital every time but no one was ever able to tell me what it was for sure.

EDIT: I didn't realise people would also count allergies and mental problems.

So yeah I have hayfever and was diagnosed bipolar as well. Mostly non-severe depression but every so often (like last year for three months) I have occasional bouts of suicidal feelings.

And OCPD runs I my family as well. I show signs of both it and autism (my mother was a primary teacher, so she knew a lot of child psychologists who apparently told her I showed signs of it) but I've never been formally diagnosed so I like to ignore it and not be hypochondriac about it.

 

[Marter]

I have Crohn's Disease for which I need to get treatment every 8 weeks. No longer actually troubles me, as the medicine has been doing its job.

I also have asthma that comes and goes but is mostly taken care of.

 

[Guffe]

Nothing really... the occassional flue maybe ones a year but nothing else.
I eat healthy, work out a lot, go to school.

 

[Sean Hollyman]

I have small athsma, and a bit of this hing called Dysprachsia

 

[Phasmal]

I have excema to the point of being hospitalised repeatedly.
Yep. Excema.
When people find out I was put in hospital for it they're always shocked, they think it's just a minor thing, but it can be flippin life-ruining.
At the moment I have a skin infection so I'm very unwell, but it's been under control recently.

I also have asthma, hayfever, many allergies and a dodgy knee.
Yeah, my health is pretty terrible.

 

[Broady Brio]

Alrighty:

Hayfaver. That's summer sports gone.
Asthma, so that's long sessions of sports gone. *Wheezes.
Short Achilles' tendons, so that's sports involving running gone.
A deformed hip. The world just doesn't want me to do sport in my life. And I'm fine with this. I would also be terrible if I ever was conscripted for the army.

 

[Padwolf]

Not a lot really. I have:

Hayfever
Temporomandibular jaw disorder, but that doesn't really affect me much, just some mornings when I can't open my mouth properly and have to click it back to place, and that hurts a hell of a lot.
Flat feet, but that doesn't really cause issues much.
I get migraines on a very very rare occasion. Otherwise I normally have headaches that feel like stabbing pains on the right side of my head every week, sometimes twice a week.
Apparently I'm also more likely to catch colds and flus and god knows what else due to having a hole in my heart when I was born, it closed up on it's own though after a very long while, I think a year, I can't confirm that since I don't know that much about it. It freaks me out to research it. It was a close call, I would have had to have surgery done to it. But apparently due to that I can't get tattoo's done, can't have any piercings and can't have some injections. I had an injection in secondary school, I can't remember what it was for and it knocked me out for a day when it shouldn't have.

Other than that, I'm fit as a fiddle!

 

[Eclipse Dragon]

You already know my story OP but here it is for the topic...

I have a condition with a very long complicated name,
but in a nut shell, my adrenal glands don't function the way they're supposed to.

The whole thing is pretty much corrected by daily use of annoying medication,
(and more medication to counteract the side effects of the annoying medication),

I need to take annual blood test to make sure the meds are doing their job.
When I was first diagnosed, I had to get my blood taken much more often,
to the point where the vein in my left arm collapsed; they can only take blood from my right arm now.

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I also get "ice pick headaches" They're these sudden debilitating pains in the back of my head,
like somebody just hit me with a hammer.
They only last a couple seconds, but I pretty much can't move for the time they're happening.

 

[Twyce]

I suffer from a transformed migraine. What that is basically, is a chronic migraine that isn't accompanied by the usual migraine symptoms (dizziness, vomiting, etc).

However, it still sucks horribly and I wouldn't wish it on my worst enemy.

 

[Ruedyn]

Allergies. I might be the healthiest here <_<

 

[DoPo]

I have a condition with a very long complicated name,
but in a nut shell, my adrenal glands don't function the way they're supposed to.

The whole thing is pretty much corrected by daily use of annoying medication,
(and more medication to counteract the side effects of the annoying medication),

I need to take annual blood test to make sure the meds are doing their job.
When I was first diagnosed, I had to get my blood taken much more often,
to the point where the vein in my left arm collapsed; they can only take blood from my right arm now.

That sounds like it sucks. Erm, are you going to be OK, ever?

And I'm just a bit shortsighted and wear glasses. Not really comparable to you.

Personally I'm fit as a fiddle right now, but through High School and University I had a very strange condition where during times of high stress I would get a spot on my forehead that eventually swelled up enough that it pushed my eye shut. I went to the doctors/the hospital every time but no one was ever able to tell me what it was for sure.

...oh gods... No, please no. Sorry, OP, that just reminds me of an awful joke

Spoiler

A man had a swelling on his forehead but none of the doctors he went to knew what it was or how to fix it. Eventually, he was desperate enough to go to a an old woman rumoured to be a witch. She had one look at him and told him that he needed to go travel and see the world.

So the man did, he travelled from the north to the right hemisphere, saw sights and visited places few others ever did. However it didn't help at all, the swelling kept growing.

Two years later he returned to the old witch and asked her what was wrong, why didn't travel cure it. "Because" she answered "there is no cure. You have a dick growing from your forehead and I told you to go see the world, because when the balls come out, you wouldn't be able to see at all."

Yeah, sorry about that. But you can see how what you said triggered me.

 

[DugMachine]

No not really I just have awful fucking coughing fits when I wake up in the morning, sounds like i'm dying. Smoking half a pack a day isn't helping but I had the cough fits long before I started so idk.

 

[Eclipse Dragon]

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That sounds like it sucks. Erm, are you going to be OK, ever?

It's all regulated now, but it would suck if I somehow couldn't get my meds.
But thank you for your concern. I have a lesser case, it most certainly could have been worse.

 

[Esotera]

I might have anaemia from all the running I've been doing over the last few years and a diet that didn't have enough iron. I've only begun to notice these last few months as I've slowed down a lot and exercising is harder. It'd be quite unusual as I'm male, so I'm waiting on a proper diagnosis and blood test.

I also have a diagnosis of reactive psychosis, which means I don't handle stress well.

 

[Dags90]

Nothing really... the occassional flue maybe ones a year but nothing else.
I eat healthy, work out a lot, go to school.

Spoiler: You lift things up and put them down?

Oddly enough, that's from a commercial about gyms.

Nothing major as of yet. I have a valvular heart deformity, but it's mild and generally asymptomatic. Along with that I have a benign arrhythmia. So every now and then I get palpitations/chest pain and call up a cardiologist for an appointment to confirm that nothing has changed.

Apparently I freaked my parents right the fuck out when I was five and first started getting palpitations. I went up in the middle of the night and said "something's wrong with my heart."

 

[Andy Shandy]

Generally nothing, although I do tend to get headaches a lot.

 

[Redlin5_v1legacy]

SNIP

I thought you also had CBD. Compulsive Banning Disorder. Sometimes it makes you dangerous to be around.

OT: I've been blessed with a pretty damn healthy body despite my best efforts to neglect it... I think about my health every so often and I think I waste it.

 

[IndomitableSam]

Arthritis runs in my family. My hands hurt like a motherfucking ***** today for some reason. I'm 29, by the by.

Plantar faciitis also - it just means the soles of my feet hurt when I walk on them. Moreso in the mornings and after putting them up at the end of the day. It's fun. I wear insoles and cushy shoes.

Oh, also, am lactose intolerant and lactaid pills don't work, so I just have to be really careful about my food intake.

And I have receding gums. Look it up. It's a blast. Have had it since my teens, just because. Have always been good about brushing and using soft brushes. Most of my cavaties come from this. I get a cavity filled every year abouts, while my twin sister every 4-5 years has one. She does not have receding gums. I can only chew on one side of my mouth, I drink weirdly, and have to rise my mouth with warm water. Any cold water touches my teeth and I'm a basket case.

... Except this all seems perfectley normal to me as it's everyday stuff so I don't really think anything is wrong with me. I wish I didn't have all of the above, but everyone's got little things like those.

 

[Catfood220]

I haven't shaved in about a week and a half and the facial hair is driving me nuts, its so itchy but I am caught in a mood between being a real lazy arse and wanting to rip my skin off. I could shave and solve the problem but the bathroom is all the way over there, it seems like a lot of effort. Plus I quite like stroking it, though that doesn't help the itchiness.