Worst/Most irritating medical condition you've ever had?

[Delsana]

Mononucle-fucking-osis. I couldn't eve leave my house for fear that a butterfly would lilt gently onto my nose and cause me to die violently. Good times.

Um.... I don't think that's possible.

 

[Delsana]

I had a blood hemorrhage that bled out and forced a giant mass from getting kicked rather hard in muay thai. The thing was the hemorrhage grew up into the cavity of my body that i didnt notice anything but minor swelling. They had to amputate. . .

I've been a little heavier on my left side ever since

Wait... did they cut it out or did they cut off your leg?

 

[Delsana]

Myopia. I need damn glasses just to use PC and cant read more than 6" away from my face.

Um... isn't that just nearsightedness?

I mean... that's pretty much the same for me, maybe a foot though.

Contacts work wonders, or laser surgery.

 

[Delsana]

Depression. It never ceases to provide me with opportunities for subconscious self-sabotage and general life fuck-uppery...

Fake depression or real? Not to insult but what are your symptoms?

 

[Keela]

Pneumonia complicated by empyema, 20% doctor-estimated chance of survival, and only four years old. Doc had to cut out a rib and stick a tube into my chest cavity to clear out the deadly gunk. I think it fucked up my immune system pretty bad, now my symptoms for something as trivial as allergies can leave me almost completely bedridden for days at a time, and I get pneumonia again every two or three years. Wonder how I'm gonna pull through that when I'm middle aged...

 

[ChickenZombie]

Carpal tunnel. very persistent. It's more annoying than anything else....

 

[Delsana]

Well?
I've had an ingrown toenail for years but that's sort of been gotten used to now.

My worst ever was a urinary tract infection. It was horrible, you get the feeling of needing to piss constantly, and when you do squeeze it out, it fucking hurts,.

I had an ingrown toenail too, due to my drunkenly kicked my bicycle after a big night out in Osaka. The nail had split, and a sizable splinter was being forced down and through the skin. Well, being batshit crazy I went at it with a straight razor a little every day, basically 'whittling' my big toe. After about 3 weeks I'd cut down the side of my toe quite a bit without huge amounts of pain nor blood loss / requiring stitches. Funnily, I stubbed my toe accidentally - and in between a flurry of curses that would make Cthulu flatulent, I noticed that - from my steady carvery - I had killed enough of the flesh that the nail splinter had actually punctured the end of my toe, making it a simple matter to grab the tip with tweezers and yank. I know that ingrown toenails are meant to be something you never get rid of - but my toenail has grown back perfectly, as has all the skin on my toe that I sliced off during my home surgery.

Try it at home kids!

EDIT: Oh yeah answer the question huh? Umm .. most irritating medical condition for me would be being short-sighted. Fuck I hate wearing glasses.

I had an ingrown toenail that I carved not the nail but the hard skin off and got puss in a salt bath for a few days... then I went to a toe doctor and he gave me 3 - 4 - 5 injections (couldn't really find the best spot and went right into a nerve accidentally one time) and then burned the roots of the nail off and fixed it all up... I'm not sure it will ever grow into the sides but it grows out straight every once in a while.

I do have an annoying toe nail though that's kinda slanted diagonally somehow and while it causes no pain I KNOW it's not supposed to be like that.

 

[Delsana]

Myopia. I need damn glasses just to use PC and cant read more than 6" away from my face.

Um... isn't that just nearsightedness?

I mean... that's pretty much the same for me, maybe a foot though.

Contacts work wonders, or laser surgery.

Myopia is the official term. But yeah. XD
I cant stand anything in my eyes and cant get laser surgery. Even if I could pony up the cash your vision has to be stable for at least 1 year before they will do it. Mine is constantly getting worse.

Try contacts before you knock them, I thought the same.

 

[Delsana]

I used to get Styes when I was a kid. Best way to explain them is that they are giant pimples inside your eyelid. I always got them in the bottom eyelid, and it would have to be drained from time to time.

Apparently if you used a tea bag and it absorbed it on its own it would have gone away in a few days.

 

[Delsana]

I had Phimosis and god was it annoying as hell but luckily two operations at the hospital and all is well.

The eye lid drooping?

 

[Delsana]

psoriasis, had it since I was about 9, and its incurable.

Not entirely true... some alternative medicines based on extreme nutrient reallocations (having a lot of vitamins you've never heard of) have been noted to work.

 

[Mandalore_15]

Depression. It never ceases to provide me with opportunities for subconscious self-sabotage and general life fuck-uppery...

Fake depression or real? Not to insult but what are your symptoms?

Lack of enthusiasm for anything, mood swings, inability to concentrate, social anxiety, extreme lethargy, chronic procrastination... also have been prescribed citalopram.

 

[Delsana]

psoriasis, had it since I was about 9, and its incurable.

Not entirely true... some alternative medicines based on extreme nutrient reallocations (having a lot of vitamins you've never heard of) have been noted to work.

Asthma.
20 seconds of literally almost ANY physical activity and I'm like a fish out of water.

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That's an extreme case, some means to moderate it and manage it to levels where you can participate in things do exist though.

 

[Delsana]

Depression. It never ceases to provide me with opportunities for subconscious self-sabotage and general life fuck-uppery...

Fake depression or real? Not to insult but what are your symptoms?

Lack of enthusiasm for anything, mood swings, inability to concentrate, social anxiety, extreme lethargy, chronic procrastination... also have been prescribed citalopram.

A lot of times that can just be in the mind... ways do exist to manage it, including medicine, and some alternatives...

 

[Mandalore_15]

Depression. It never ceases to provide me with opportunities for subconscious self-sabotage and general life fuck-uppery...

Fake depression or real? Not to insult but what are your symptoms?

Lack of enthusiasm for anything, mood swings, inability to concentrate, social anxiety, extreme lethargy, chronic procrastination... also have been prescribed citalopram.

A lot of times that can just be in the mind... ways do exist to manage it, including medicine, and some alternatives...

Of course it's in the mind, it's depression. I have been prescribed medicine and am seeing a counsellor. Other than that I don't know what else I could do.

 

[Lord Merik]

Does chopping two of my finger tips off with a hatchet count? If not then bronchitis breathing was a chore.

 

[Kargathia]

I'm almost starting to feel guilty here...

I had a tooth ache once... I think...

 

[Cogwheel]

So far, pneumonia.

Overall, Behchet's. I say this because it hasn't been quite as bad as the pneumonia was yet, but I've been told it'll kill me eventually (not going to take as long over it as I'd like, at that) and will probably blind and cripple me first.