Worst medical condition you've experienced

[Raddra]

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.

 

[Josh Horton]

I had a knife in my neck once, approximately 1 cm from my windpipe

 

[Nikolaz72]

Soreasis. Or whatever its called in English, its not that bad but Chronic shit sucks.

 

[Twilight_guy]

Death. twice.

Actually I'm a light-weight here as I haven't experienced much. I did get Shingles in high school though so that's pretty special.

 

[Sudenak]

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

This. Oddly enough same quantity. More oddly, same timespan (15-21).

...

...-looks at avatar-...

...I'm keeping my eye on you.

 

[Des Carson]

Diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis at 26. Have many scars in my brain/spinal cord, which impedes nerve impulse transmission and messes with them too, leading to right sided numbness, loss of balance, urinary retention, twitching, shaking hands and excruciating pain on my right side.

Good times!

 

[Xixikal]

I currently have gastroenteritis, which is fairly unpleasant. I've vomited a record 12 times today...

 

[Dags90]

Soreasis. Or whatever its called in English, its not that bad but Chronic shit sucks.

Psoriasis?

So far the worst has probably been an infected joint when I was five. They had to open me up to clean out my hip joint and it was a big meningitis scare.

I've also had heart trouble my entire life so vigorous activity leaves me clutching my chest in pain for breath.

 

[phoenixbeast]

Everything really bad has happened since I got to college...Freshman year was pneumonia and a double ear infection at the same time...Sophomore year was almost breaking my ankle and a mild case of swine flu...And this Junior year was the worse with Costochondritis my first semester (rendering me unable to breathe if I SNEEZED!!!) and now the second semester has really screwed with my life...

I'm playing harmless game of Humans vs Zombies when I take a small leap off a curb...I was only like a foot in the air and came down on my left leg as normal...Except for the PAIN that accompanied it and me staggering then collapsing to the ground...Get rushed to the hospital where they take X-Rays and realized I snapped my FEMUR IN HALF...Have to wait hours to have surgery because I ate 3 hours before hand...Then I get pneumonia AGAIN after the surgery along with being anemic and having multiple deficiencies with stuff like vitamin C, Calcium (No idea how that came about), and protein...I got a bone scan weeks later and it turns out my readings were at -.23 so its classified as Osteopenia...-.25 is Osteoperosis...I'm only 21 and I practically have Osteoperosis...Needless to say and recreational sports basically got removed from my life...

Edit...Wow Sorry about that guys...Its not nearly as bad as what others have posted, but it came out of nowhere and I'm still recovering...Hope I don't come off as some sort of person asking for pity...I just really needed to vent...Which I hadn't been able to do to stress from making up work for school building up...

 

[StellarViking]

I have ulcerative colitis, and the muscle around the base of my spine is replacing itself with scar tissue. I also have some pretty bad knee pain and carpal tunnel in my right hand due to playing cello. I've had asthma and I may have been born with a heart defect but the doctors don't know, all I know is that from time to time a sharp, stabbing pain shoots through the left side of my chest. All in all, I don't think it's as bad as some of the other things people have posted here, though.

 

[BFEL]

When I was two I had a "unknown virus" that messed up my electrolytes, my blood pressure, had me vomiting blood that looked like coffee grounds and generally just f***ed me up. Afterwords my mother thought I acted different and lo and behold I have autism. Oh and alpha one anti-tripsin which means that im especially suseptable to anything that messes with my lungs.

 

[Slaanax]

Fractured Ankle or a Sinus Infection.

 

[Custard_Angel]

I once stepped hard on an abalone shell while fishing and came down with an acute case of "cut the living fuck out of my right foot".

The cut was 6cm long and 1cm deep into the soft fleshy part of the bottom of my foot.

My dad did the following:

- Washed the wound.
- Smothered it in iodine.
- Bandaged it.
- Put a thick sock over the bandage to keep it dry.
- Set up a "hook" on the side of the boat to keep my leg elevated.
- Took me fishing.

We did pretty well that day all things considered... Caught around 50 40cm+ King George Whiting if I remember correctly. Wound healed up nicely without a trip to the doctor and I got a nice scar out of it.

 

[alandavidson]

Eosinophilic Esophagitis Try saying that 3 times fast

Hey, me too! (For those of you don't know, our esophagus's are ribbed like a cat's)

On top of that I have:
A totally inflamed stomach lining
Chronic Insomnia
Little to no feeling in my left side (Due to back injury)
Hips drastically misaligned
Broken one vertebrae
Broken my nose
Five calcium deposits in my skull

So... yeah. Most of it results of my own stupid choices so I really can't complain.

 

[InsanelyZanter]

Broke my leg. In the process of healing the doctors called attention to a gigantic bump on my leg. Turned out to be a extra bone. Had it removed. My leg was on fire for weeks.

 

[PwnSt0nes]

Two broken ankles from motocross..didn't walk for 6 months, i now have 6 pins in my left ankle, this happened only a few months after my back surgery ( had spinal disc problems for 3 years)

 

[Soviet Steve]

Well there's my aspergers syndrome from birth, second would be last year where I broke my right ankle in three places, third would be a flu back in my childhood where I spent 2 weeks feeling very dead.

 

[Wintermoot]

stomach flu ANY MOVEMENT HURTS! also you are constantly puking and even drinking water hurts!

 

[FalloutJack]

The broken leg at age 9, of course. Terrible thing to happen to a child, and I'd been in a fight shortly before then.