Worst medical condition you've experienced

[samaugsch]

Coming of the anesthetic from having my wisdom teeth pulled. I was so loud and obnoxious they made my mom take me out the back door of the clinic.

Seriously though the one that sucked the most was getting treatment for my food and environmental allergies. Every two weeks getting needles stuck into both my arms so my body would learn to tolerate the substances. It itched like crazy, but it did get me over my fear of needles.

I've had my wisdom teeth taken out, too, but I just had some trouble getting up and walking and had to write down words on sticky notes just to communicate for the time being. I don't think I was loud and obnoxious though. The whole time, I took painkillers every 6 hrs or so. In the last few weeks that it bothered me, I found out that Advil worked just as well if not better (and it was easier to keep stocked, too). Explain to me why some people get addicted to painkillers.

Oh, and I'm not sure if this counts, but the worst pain I felt was having my appendix ruptured. At least with my wisdom teeth pulled, I could take painkillers.

 

[samaugsch]

Eosinophilic Esophagitis Try saying that 3 times fast

I'd have trouble saying that once normally...

 

[crudus]

I think I got a hairline fracture on one of my ribs. That was interesting and annoying. Below that is a runny nose.

 

[samaugsch]

I have fell flat on my jaw on the asphalt and lost 15 teeth (shooting through my skin)
I have crashed on a bike and landed balls-on-bar
I have broken the same ankle three times, sideways, once with the bone pipe sticking out
I have had multiple toothache for three months straight
I have had trench foot

But nothing

[HEADING=1]NOTHING[/HEADING]
Beats the Migraine.

Piercing eye pain, one half of the brain feels like it's below freezing, blurred vision, extreme nausea, shortness of breath and a piercing imagined noise nobody else can hear.

Fucking respect the migraine. I'm have an extremely high pain threshold, but migraine gets to me. And to think people who don't have it laugh it off as some normal headache.

Once, I told someone I had the migraine. He said "quit your belly-aching" or something to that effect, I can't remember, because everything went black with rage and I had beat him up when I snapped back to it.

Wow. That sounds more like demonic possession than a migraine. X_X

 

[Brutal Peanut]

I haven't had a terrible medical emergency or near-death experience. But I am allergic to certain types of ants. We get some pretty big ants out here. Big ants, that bite. They are jerks. If I am bitten by one, the area will swell, tighten, itch uncontrollably, and will look raw and shiny and if I don't seek a medical professional and prescribed antibiotics, it can become infected relatively quickly. Happened to my second toe.

Very uncomfortable.

 

[8bitlove2a03]

When I was in sixth grade I got a semi-rare disease called rheumatic fever. It attacked my heart, joints, and brain. As the disease progressed, I lost control over my fine motor functions, the left side of my body was basically unresponsive, the right side of my body was mostly beyond my control, I couldn't walk, write, or speak clearly, and if I had gone another few weeks undiagnosed my the damage to my heart would have been severe enough to require replacement of several valves if not my whole heart. It took quite some time for me to fully recover. Since I was sick I've had chronic sleep-onset insomnia, though it's possible that it was unrelated to the disease itself.

 

[Aetera]

A month or so ago, a routine cavity filling turned into, "oh, sorry for not asking if you're taking any medication/looking at your medical records and realizing that laughing gas and the large dosage of Seroquel(and according to the ER, but not confirmed by my Psychiatrist, the Lamictal) that you've been taking every day for years react really horribly with each other! Our bad!"

Yeah. For five-ish six-ish days I had extreme double vision, total loss of anything resembling balance/coordination(it was a struggle to even stand up), and really bad tremors in my limbs. When it was at its worst, my legs wouldn't even support me at all. Even after I recovered from everything else, the tremors still kept up for about a week. They weren't nearly as bad as they used to be, though. My hands just wouldn't stop shaking.

However, when I was in the ER there was a page for a Dr. Pepper. Totally worth it.

 

[samaugsch]

Being alive. Ugh, what a mess.

Wow. -_-

I was born with horribly flat feet that had to be surgically corrected when I was 13. Which meant walking with flat feet that caused serious pain in my right foot if I walked more than a quarter of a mile. What sucked most was that I was stuck in a wheelchair for three months and then three months in crutches after that. What also sucks is that I have a metal plate in my leg that doesn't set off metal detectors.

Why would you want a metal plate in your leg that sets off metal detectors?

 

[YepGeddon]

11 stitches in my left hand from some drunken accident. Bled like a ***** but y'know being drunk it just looked like a badass waterfall of red. Housemates ever so nicely bandaged it up (when I say bandaged, they pretty much suffocated my hand), then fell asleep, woke up 4 hours later in complete agony and made a lovely trip to the hospital. When the bandage came off I was KO'd from all the blood merrilly rushing to my hand. The surgeon was a badass aswell.. Took before and after pictures on his iPhone.

 

[JourneyMan88]

I really don't have enough room here so I'll give you the bullet points:
age 6 kidney disease (nephrotic syndrome)
age 10 rare virus (pseudomona) had me near death and starting causing renal failure
age 11 renal failure, dialysis and eventual kidney transplant
smooth sailing until adulthood...
age 31 renal transplant from age 11 nearing end of its life causing seizure and three day coma placing me back at death's door and back on dialysis
age 40 second kidney transplant
so far so good, I turn 44 this month.

 

[Cazza]

hydrocephalus (water on the brain). My head was huge. I have a shunt that drains that fluid.

age 6 kidney disease (nephrotic syndrome)

I too had nephroptic syndrome.

 

[Safaia]

Gallstones. They didn't know what was wrong so I was constantly in pain and puking every single day.

The last vertebrae on my spine is fused to my tail bone and one leg is longer than the other. I can also hyper extend my knees and lock them when I stand. My back pain ranges from 'annoying' to 'oh god I want to die' at any given moment.

Depression.

 

[iblis666]

im very over weight
have a major thyroid problem
had my apendix taken out that the doctor says was the size of a grape fruit and that apparently had been inflamed several times before
had my wisdom teeth out
had my worst of my legs surgically broken and a metal frame work of bars driven through them to fix bow leg
have no cartilage in my knees

 

[Roganwilson]

I feel lucky. It's just depression for me, albeit moderately severe depression.

 

[saphirekosmos]

Probably being born with a disease that caused my intestines to not form properly. This made me lose most of my large intestine withing a week or two of being born. Subsequent doctor fuck ups caused the rest of my large intestine a a good portion of my small intestine to have to be removed (gangrene sucks folks). Luckily we found a doc who knew what the frack he was doing, though the procedure used up some of my small intestine again. >__> So after 8-11 surgeries, a couple colostomies, and illiostome over the first 3-4 years of my life I was finally hooked up and as "normal" as I could be after that.

 

[Tautology]

Rertograde Amnesia; I can only remember small amounts of my life from before I was about 14. Not sure of the cause.

I'm told I suffered severe migraines for several years that largely stopped after the amnesia. Still get some occasionally.

Photophobia, my eyes are so sensitive I need to wear sunglasses on a very cloudy day. I blame the migraines.

For as long as I could remember, about 6 years, every month I had at least two canker sores. Within a week of one healing, a new one appeared and no doctor could explain exactly why I kept getting them. They hurt like all hell, especially when I got them on my tongue. Couldn't eat, couldn't speak. About 3 months ago they finally stopped coming. Fingers crossed.

Loneliness.

I also had 5 wisdom teeth removed.

 

[Tallim]

I have trigeminal neuralgia. Agonizingly painful but ultimately not dangerous. Other than they call it Suicide Disease, fun times

 

[WouldYouKindly]

Being alive. Ugh, what a mess.

Wow. -_-

I was born with horribly flat feet that had to be surgically corrected when I was 13. Which meant walking with flat feet that caused serious pain in my right foot if I walked more than a quarter of a mile. What sucked most was that I was stuck in a wheelchair for three months and then three months in crutches after that. What also sucks is that I have a metal plate in my leg that doesn't set off metal detectors.

Why would you want a metal plate in your leg that sets off metal detectors?

I just thought it'd be kinda funny the first few times, it might get annoying though.

 

[ace_of_something]

Does getting stabbed with a hunting knife count as a medical condition?

Holy shit that hurt.