Worst medical condition you've experienced

[monstersquad]

Worst I've had is kidney stones, but I've had 5 of them since I was 15 (21 now).

ME too!! I had one when I was 17, passed it without going to the hospital or anything. I actually have one right now. I had to send everyone home from D&D sunday night when I couldnt take the pain anymore. I still haven't passed it.

 

[Omega500]

endocarditis basicly a virus inside my hart. had to have a op to replace one of my hart valves with a metal (aortic) one adn repair another one (mitril)
Also had a stroke only mild
Pinched my kidney between my ribs and hip had to have it removed
load of broken bones

 

[SuperSuperSuperGuy]

I'm extremely lucky health-wise. The worst condition I've had would probably be strep throat or acute laryngitis.

 

[thegrimfandango]

Touch wood I have no chronic illnesses, I was born with a stomach problem that meant I had to have an operation to cut a muscle, because I couldn't eat and threw up everything, and a nasty allergic reaction to an antibiotic in my childhood, but I don't really remember those.

The sickest I can last remember being was last year - I got a chest infection and some kind of gastric flu/food poisoning at the same time. I couldn't eat, drink properly or take my antibiotics for almost a week because my body appeared to be trying to eject all it's liquid via any orifice possible, and couldn't breathe properly as I couldn't fight off the chest infection. Doc sent me to A&E to get checked out for appendicitis as a precaution (apparently I was in the right age bracket), which it totally wasn't but it was just as well as they put 2L of fluid in me for dehydration since I was there and I actually felt human again.

A week after recovering from that, I woke up with a mysteriously paralysed arm, all the muscles were continuously spasming to the extent I couldn't move it and my hand went purple a lot. Sent off to A&E again as the doc was concerned it might affect circulation. A&E did some blood tests,basically said 'We dunno, here's some Diazepam to relax the muscles, come back in a week if you're still broken' Took over a month for my arm to be right and my chest/shoulder muscles to stop spasming if I moved quickly.
This was all in the middle of exam time.
It sucked, but people here have had worse, I see.

 

[nothingspringstomind]

Epileptic seizure when i was 15 (25 now) that was wierd and it runs in the family. Major depression during college made me drop out. Stomach ulcer in high school. Chronic Migraines since my seizure. Cracked my forehead on a brick wall in high school. Broke my wrist punching a guy in the face when he pulled a knife on me, the wrist still aches every now and then. Obesity (even though my blood tests all came back with no cholesterol and all vital organs fine even though i smoke and eat things like cheese and bacon.)
And, most recently i had to have a medical circumcision due to some bizzare skin condition.
Which means me and the missus haven't been able to do anything in the bedroom for nearly a year now.

The more i think about it the more i think i've got my money's worth out of the NHS
i probably shouldn't even be alive right now. Woot! Go me!

 

[OldGus]

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

After a botched appendectomy with a serious post-surgical infection (woo NHS) I developed some weird thing where my stomach kept trying to dissolve itself whenever I got stressed, or ate anything not ultra-low fat (neurologist said it was the same pain intensity as being shot in the gut). Lost 3 stone in 2 weeks (wasn't heavy to begin with), was on morphine constantly for a year, and had to pull out of uni. Still dealing with the stigma of not having a degree (therefore never employable) so I'm borderline suicidal.

Yep, definitely my worst condition.

ok, you guys definitely have me beat.

OT: It's really hard to pick, but at least all of the contestants for me are reactions to antibiotics or antivirals. Anyway, while typical anaphylactic shock, what with the ballooning and the not breathing, is kind of scary, the worst for me would be a different reaction that I'm not entirely sure what the short name for it would be, but the closest would probably be neurological shock.

Basically, for three days, all the important but often neglected neurological processes that people take for granted started to turn off one by one. These included:
my biological clock (the one that makes it so I can sleep because my brain thinks its night. This one caused me to stay awake for all three days.)
hunger and thirst
balance
sensory limits (for an example, every room with a light on anywhere was too bright, and TVs at any volume louder than "Mute" were too loud.)
sense of touch and pain in many of my limbs
others that I don't remember.

So when I got to the hospital, the doctors were convinced my simple flu (which is what I did have when I went in in the first place) was in fact one of 4 different nervous system infections (they ruled out neuro-syphillis on account of me being 12.) When they ruled those out, they looked at the medication I was taking, looked at my medical history of reacting to 4 other different medications before that, came up with an idea just crazy enough to work, and took me off the medicine.

 

[chiggerwood]

Well I have suffered three brain injuries in my life, and because of that I have

Tourettes (Muscle spasm's even my larynx)

Insomnia that almost nothing can help

Demyelination of my neurons

Small vessel disease in my brain

Dysgraphia (Brain, and hands don't communicate well)

Speech problems. my writing ability is good though

Long, and short term memory problems (Seriously I can't remember a good 70% of my entire life)

cognitive problems

depression

Strange emotional issues. Once my brother nearly had a heart attack, and I was worried, angry, and Something was hilarious. Another time for no reason I was catastrophically depressed, and insanely happy AT THE EXACT SAME TIME.

If I get stressed I can hardly get out of bed, I get fractious, and I'm easily agitated to the point of attacking inanimate objects.

Generalized Anxiety Disorder (Anything can make go into a panic attack)

O.C.D.

Sudden weakness in my limbs

Depth perception issues

Three different types of Epilepsy (Absentee, partial complex, and petite-mal, also I'm borderline grand-mal)

I have had a stroke, a brain infection, and I'm most likely going to develop Alzheimer's disease before I hit 50. I've had to drop out of college several times, and I still haven't finished. That's all I can (or want to) think of right at the moment.

 

[Tiger Sora]

I tore all but the last layer of skin from below my right eye to my chin. Burned for ever. I was a kid, tripped and hit asphalt.
Sprained my ankle bad once. Crutches for almost 2 weeks I think it was.
Had a rusty nail deep my foot. If I wasn't wearing my kiddy rubber boots than would of been all the way through. I was like 9-10.
Had horrible migraines from the ages of 7 till I got into high school at 14.
My hand muscles hurt alot right now. From new job at teh meat factory.
Ohh also had my right index finger crushed by a sledge hammer.
Also almost suffocated myself by getting trapped in a quilt.

Maybe more, but this is all I remember.

 

[Sacman]

Tonsillitis, they would swell up to the size of golf balls so I would start suffocating to death if I was doing anything other than stand straight up...<.<

 

[MissDK]

I was in a coma... pretty fuucking bad...

 

[teqrevisited]

Probably something like flu. Yep. Exciting, huh?

The only other thing that comes to mind is when my eye had swollen up after getting a grass seed lodged under my eyelid. Thanks to my hayfever it ended up resembling William Birkin's monstrous bloodshot arm-eye.

 

[Savvz]

Slipped Capital Femoral Epiphysis. Basically the ball on my femur popped off and had to be screwed back on. I now have a permanent limp and docs estimate I'll need an artificial hip by the time I'm 40.
Also had a stomach virus once and spent 3 days vomiting blood in a hospital.

 

[Shaz]

Ok, let's see. I won't go into all the minor details, but here's the high(low?) lights of my health life (and completely leaving out any klutzy accidents and the damage THEY caused):

We'll start with being a bubble baby. I was born missing a valve in one of my kidneys and it wrecked my immune system.

As a teen, I had the worst documented case of Mononucleosis ever seen in this sector of the country. My tonsils grew together, couldn't swallow, was in the hospital for a week, took nearly 2 months before I had the strength to be able to walk on my own again.

Late 2005, upon returning home after evacuating for Hurricane Rita, I lost all feeling in the left side of my face around my jaw, and then it spread into my mouth and up to my left eye. Thought it was stress at first, due to the evacuation and the destruction in and around my town. Months later, after CAT scans, MRIs, and a spinal tap, I was diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis.


The absolute WORST THING EVER, though, is the headache I have had for the past 6 or so years. The headache that, quite literally, NEVER GOES AWAY. It varies in intensity, but it is always there... and oh boy, have I ever tried everything to get rid of it. I have had to handle a great deal of pain in my life, but this blasted unending headache is, in all ways, the absolute worst. Right now it's about a 4 on the 1-to-10 scale of pain. That's about as good as it gets, lately.

I hope those will always be my 'worst', and I won't get any more to add to the list!

 

[chiggerwood]

SNIP

manufacturers used to put a chemical in bacon that I was allergic to, and they would give me migraines (My family didn't know what was giving me migraines for a couple of months either). one of my brothers gave me crap about it one time, and my mom beat his ass, after the migraine had passed of course. my personal opinion is that ANYBODY who laughs at someone with a migraine should have their jaw broken with a brick, but that's my personal opinion, and I'm probably wrong for thinking that, but there it is.

 

[Cain_Zeros]

A kidney infection and dehydration. Yes, at the same time.

 

[Nalgas D. Lemur]

Three different types of Epilepsy (Absentee, partial complex, and petite-mal, also I'm borderline grand-mal)

Technically absence seizures are petit mals, just like tonic-clonic is the "proper" name for grand mal. And luckily I have neither of those; my head injury only left me with simple and complex partial seizures. Yay. Or something.

 

[Tactician42]

Appendix going splodey. In the hospital for a solid month. In that respect, guess I'm gifted.

Best medical condition ever: Dentist: "I'm not sure how to tell you this but......you don't have wisdom teeth...."
Me: "Thank you random genetic mutation! Whoo!"