Worst moment for you during illness.

[Aloran]

When I had pneumonia and I had to be physically held down whilst the doctor had to draw fluid off my lungs.

The reason I had to be held down? I was 10/11, when the doctor tells you that "now I'm going to take some fluid off your lungs now. Tell my when you feel it touch your lung." That sentence alone made me freak out majorly. 6 nurses could barely hold me down.

But having pneumonia just sucks. You sleep for 21 hours a day, vomit for the other 2, and then just can't breathe for the other hour.

Actually having your mum look at you crying saying "it's going to be ok, it's going to be ok." That was the worst point. I had visions of me dying for a few moments...before I fell asleep again.

 

[jubosu]

Instead I'm sitting here on my computer having watched Pitch Black and V for Vendetta

I dont think watching Pitch Black is going to help.

I was once sick with the flu and I didnt eat or tell anyone for a week.
not a good plan

 

[rhyno435]

Wow, your stories sound horrible. I'm so glad I've never been seriously sick. Besides throwing up when I was a baby (everyone does that) I think I've only thrown up twice in my 16 year life.

 

[The Heik]

Well Escapist, I'm ill.

You'd think I'd be getting some rest, taking some painkillers or eating healthy. Instead I'm sitting here on my computer having watched Pitch Black and V for Vendetta and now simply searching for something to do, the idea being to try to help me ignore the fact that I'm ill. Unfortunately my illness means that it hurts a lot every time I swallow. So I got thinking about how unpleasant my current situation is but more importantly - ever the optimist - I started thinking about worse times I've been ill.

The worst I can remember is when I had have had flu. I always get a fever, but if I don't control it, I end up hallucinating and I always picture a giant boot treading on my windpipe. I feel unable to breathe and it is always the greatest fear I ever experience. I mean "literally burst into tears and start screaming like somebody in a horror film" kind of fear. Irrational I know, but that's how I respond. Although I've certainly been more ill than that, it's my worst.

Anyway, I'm interested in what your worst experience when ill is, if you would care to recount it...

Just the general "heavy" feeling I get when I'm sick. It's very depressing....

 

[MorsePacific]

I had food poisoning for about three days a few years back. I couldn't stop vomiting and couldn't sleep for more than an hour without being very rudely awakened by either vomiting or other unpleasantness.

 

[Daveman]

I dont think watching Pitch Black is going to help.

You say that but I have been very amused just simply from, after getting over an extreme period of sickness, saying "didn't know who he was fucking with"

I'm going through it right now. I'm undergoing chemotherapy for blood cancer and it is the toughest thing I have ever done. Combine that with a lowered immune system causing a near-fatal C-Dif infection and its taking everything I have to make it through this.

Wow, well I hope you get well soon. My great aunt had breast cancer. It was so severe they had to amputate one breast, then the other, and then it STILL came back. Some people just aren't lucky. But yeah, all the best.

I think I've only thrown up twice in my 16 year life.

you'll catch up in college...

Ha, yeah. I've been sick so many times from drinking it doesn't even phase me. Probably not a good thing...

 

[CrashTestZombie]

I had Gastroenteritis for the first two weeks of my sophomore high school year. I could hardly keep medicine down without vomiting along with diarrhea.

It wasn't very enjoyable.

 

[Marmalade]

When i had lyme disease i was just walking around the house and BAM so much pain in the neck that i have to freeze my movement for like half a minute.

 

[Vet2501]

When I got Tick Borne Fever after getting bitten in South Africa. I had a blinding headache, fever, no appetite, and worst of all a hugely swollen inguinal lymph node (that's in your crotch) so I couldn't move my leg without being in extreme pain.

 

[MetaKnight19]

With epilepsy, the worst part about it is that you never know when you're going to have a seizure until it's too late. The worst one I had, I almost bit through my tongue so I couldn't talk properly for days.

For things like flu, the worst case I had was not being able to feel my legs at all and couldn't eat properly for nearly two weeks (two weeks on Cup-A-Soup is not fun).

 

[KdS_22]

I've never been seriously sick, even when I supposedly had the flu during my senior year of high school I only missed one day of school, and that was because the doc made me stay home. The worst I have ever felt actually came after I had broken my arm. The doctor came in to take the drainage tube out from inside my arm, and for some reason I decided to watch him do it. The pain coupled with seeing the six inches of plastic tube being extricated from my arm almost made me puke. I couldn't eat for a while after that

 

[Daveman]

Actually having your mum look at you crying saying "it's going to be ok, it's going to be ok." That was the worst point. I had visions of me dying for a few moments...before I fell asleep again.

Exactly
That's just what I wanted from this thread, the worst moments ever. Must have been terrifying. I'm lucky, all my near-death experience happened before I can remember.

How'd you get pneumonia incidentally?

 

[Gitty101]

I'm just recovering from food poisoning myself... stupid cafeteria...

Maybe it's just because it's the most recent, but this is by far the worst experience I've had being ill. Day 1 of food poisoning is not a pleasant thing.

 

[Abedeus]

Few weeks ago, I spiked a huge fever, from 37.8ºC at 6PM to a whooping 39.8ºC at 10PM. For you non-standard-temperature people, 39.8ºC is about 102.2 ºF.

Oh, and after my tonsillectomy (finally I've learned this word... not as cool as "spleen", though) that lasted 2.5 hours instead of 20 minutes, I was hospitalized for a week, in bed for 2 weeks and even then I had about a month of crappy appetite due to stitches in my throat. I lost about 20-25 pounds in a month ;d

 

[Duck Sandwich]

This is a story that I posted on Facebook about a year ago, when I got a massive case of food poisoning. Fortunately, Swiss Chalet (where I got the food poisoning) was generous enough to give me a $50 gift card for my troubles.

Spoiler

It all started ... on that day. Which was yesterday. I stopped at Swiss Chalet to eat. I made the mistake of ordering what I usually eat at restaurants.... a chicken caesar salad.

Not only was the salad rather tiny for a salad that cost $10, it wasn't that good....(tharr be more) Peer into the depths

Last night, I went to sleep at around 1AM, only to wake up about half an hour later. I had some stomach pain, so I went down to the kitchen to take some good ol' Pepto Bismol. Then I went the washrooom, and took the biggest diarrhoea dump I've taken in....ever. It was like I was PISSING OUT OF MY ASS.

I drank some water then went back to sleep. Then I woke up again an hour or two later and the same thing happened. And again. And again. About 4 or 5 times.

Several water bottles and failed attempts to go to sleep later, I woke up. I still had stomach pain, and it felt worse when I was laying down, so I sat up in my bed.

All of a sudden, I violently vomited on my bed, about 5 or 6 times in rapid succession. It was DISGUSTING. I quite vividly heard the vomit splash against my bed, and among the vomit were several pieces of salad.

As I reeled back in disgust, I noticed that I was sweating. Throughout the whole ordeal, I was constantly feeling exhausted as well. A few more diarrhoea dumps and a final, successful, rest in bed later, I'm typing this disgusting story on Facebook.

Oh, and I lost 5 pounds.

 

[ultimateownage]

Probably the time I had the flu and my parents bought some diet coke, so much puke, damn my determination to finish drinking the coke!

 

[Beardon65]

4th Birthday. Stomache virus. Not fun. I had to stay home for two days with some crazy-ass virus that whenever I stand or sit up, puke up my breakfast, dinner, or lunch. My relatives and friends could only stand at my doorway while my mother broke the news and brought in the present, unable to touch them until the next day. The best part of that illness was waking up one night becuase I had felt like I was drowning. I went to go talk to my dad, whom of which was sleeping on the couch, I was this close to sharing my food with him in his sleep. At the sound of vomit splashing against tile, he woke up and carried me back to bed.

Also a few weeks ago I had a terrible migrane, couldn't stand the light, felt a dull pain all day and had the hearing sensitivity of a dog. I had to keep all of the lights off and the brightness on the TV and PC on low so I don't hurt my eyes. Worst of all I was with my sister. Who appearantly doesn't know the meaning of "Shut up!" and needs a dictionary to know the difference between yelling and talking.