Strange ailments - what are yours?
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I have a severe allergic reaction to Chromates. Since these chemicals are far more wide spread than most people realise.. used in the cleaning and manufacturing process of everything from paper to leather to car engines.. I pretty much can never escape it.
Even when I'm not directly exposed to a potent source, I am essentially allergic to the modern world to a low degree, and constantly need to treat minor rashes all over my body.
Unbeknownst to me until after I'd left the area I grew up in, it was saturated with these chemicals as a result of the early mining industry that took up most of the county. Housing estates were built on waste tips, just like the one I grew up in.
I was essentially allergic to the ground and water in the place I lived for twenty four years.
Even when I'm not directly exposed to a potent source, I am essentially allergic to the modern world to a low degree, and constantly need to treat minor rashes all over my body.
Unbeknownst to me until after I'd left the area I grew up in, it was saturated with these chemicals as a result of the early mining industry that took up most of the county. Housing estates were built on waste tips, just like the one I grew up in.
I was essentially allergic to the ground and water in the place I lived for twenty four years.
One of my eyes has an extremely weak muscle as to where I was going to go legally blind at age 10 if not for the two surgeries I had them. I still need glasses and if one eye is covered even with glasses, my vision goes to 20/1000 and I become violently ill.
My nose was broken when I was little so I have a deviated septum. This means I suffer chronic sinusitis (stuff nose) and my whole life I sound like I am sick. I can't sleep for more than a few hours in a row without waking up due to not being able to breath. So my entire life I have been sleep deprived despite allotting for 10 possible hours for sleep every night. So imagine how you feel with little sleep.... my exhaustion, irritability, and chronic depression all stem from not having one good night's sleep. I'm finally looking into getting surgery for it, because I'm teaching outside of the US so going to the doctor doesn't cost a fortune.
I also suffer horrible migraines whenever the air pressure shifts ie it goes from sunny to rainy quickly (again due to the nose)These migraines are so bad that I have a hard time seeing and they will not go away for over a day. Extra strength antihistamine migraine pills help. Normal headache medicine didn't. When all the stores were closed for a special Korean holiday, I spent the weekend curled up in a ball crying on the floor due to a headache that lasted 38 hours.
Add in the fact that I didn't talk till I was 6 (was being taught sign language which I wish I kept up) and I'm transgender (tried to end my life at age 7 by drowning, and again throughout my childhood even coming close with hanging) and my life is quite the challenge. Though both of those problems are fixed (I'm an English teacher who just got her book picked up by a literary agent and I transitioned to female some years ago and pass perfectly). In a year I will get my nose fixed and everything will be perfect =).
My nose was broken when I was little so I have a deviated septum. This means I suffer chronic sinusitis (stuff nose) and my whole life I sound like I am sick. I can't sleep for more than a few hours in a row without waking up due to not being able to breath. So my entire life I have been sleep deprived despite allotting for 10 possible hours for sleep every night. So imagine how you feel with little sleep.... my exhaustion, irritability, and chronic depression all stem from not having one good night's sleep. I'm finally looking into getting surgery for it, because I'm teaching outside of the US so going to the doctor doesn't cost a fortune.
I also suffer horrible migraines whenever the air pressure shifts ie it goes from sunny to rainy quickly (again due to the nose)These migraines are so bad that I have a hard time seeing and they will not go away for over a day. Extra strength antihistamine migraine pills help. Normal headache medicine didn't. When all the stores were closed for a special Korean holiday, I spent the weekend curled up in a ball crying on the floor due to a headache that lasted 38 hours.
Add in the fact that I didn't talk till I was 6 (was being taught sign language which I wish I kept up) and I'm transgender (tried to end my life at age 7 by drowning, and again throughout my childhood even coming close with hanging) and my life is quite the challenge. Though both of those problems are fixed (I'm an English teacher who just got her book picked up by a literary agent and I transitioned to female some years ago and pass perfectly). In a year I will get my nose fixed and everything will be perfect =).
I suffer from pretty severe Dyspraxia which has made quite a lot of my younger life a ***** to handle. Sports were difficult, my handwriting at 21 is barely legible and I still have trouble tying my shoelaces properly. But things like sports and typing have gotten much much as I've gotten older.
Didn't know that there was a psychological condition of lycanthropy, I was just being clever.him over there said:
I have some kind of nerve damage that affects my fingers making me unable to hold a pencil properly and that makes my hand writing really terrible, it also affects my wrists back and feet so I am unable to run fast without getting pains in both my back and my feet. Most likely from my mother since she and both my sisters got variations of the same.
my teeth may as well be glass. seriously, if i bite down on something, i can feel them buckling. one of these days my whole mouth is gonna shatter
edit: at random intervals, the lymph nodes under my arms feel like they're on fire. hurts like hell, but only lasts a few seconds.
edit: at random intervals, the lymph nodes under my arms feel like they're on fire. hurts like hell, but only lasts a few seconds.
I Swear to god i just spent about 5 mins re-reading this...octafish said:
And then my rather slow brain CLICKED!
+10 internets for that refrence.
And for me...
I Guess i seem to get random issues with muscle spazms, more so that normally.
Can be a bit awkward, sometimes it's so sharp i keel over - Somebody thought i was having a heart attack once
(Collapsed in the street XD)