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What's the most ill you've ever been?
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Got some virus, first week vomiting second week could eat due to throat so swollen that drinking and breathing was difficult. Got Quaranteed for a month, confined to bed for a week, put on a double course of "military grade" penicillin for 2 weeks, had urine tests to see if it had gone one to break down heart and liver tissue (it didn't) and got banned from sport for a few months (although I went skiing gently for a few half days after a few weeks - it was christmas and I was in a place full of snow goddamit)
Caught listeria on my Duke of Edingburgh Gold Award trek, then in my weakened state contracted salmonela pretty much straight afterwards... shat and puked myself for about 2 weeks all in all. Couldnt eat anything to starve the bugs... weak squash was my best friend... NOT
Lost about 3 1/2 stone...
But recovered now and fit, healthy and thankfully got my muscles back!
I can see all you women that get this all the time sniggering... it's worse when bloke gets it ... so the doctor told me... :mad:
Owch! :eek: I used to get it really badly too! I sympathise!
*Septicemia
*Salmonella
Thats the worst i think
I am completely fine now though.
*shudders at memory*
I also had glandular fever last year, set me back a year in college
But I would say I have been pretty lucky with my health
There were voices in my head telling me I had to take all of my bedroom furniture downstairs in the middle of the night. Weird and pretty scary.
And my parents still made me go to school!!!!! :mad: :mad: :mad:
I didn't miss one day of school the whole five months!!!! :mad:
I've been comparatively lucky - worst thing I've had was detached retinas, which led to a five-hour op on both of them and 10 weeks off work in pain with shit vision. Better than the alternative of going blind though.
Although they did say there's always a chance that detached retinas can detach again - joy.
I wasn't even able to describe the doctor what's wrong with me because my voice didn't work anymore - I wasn't able to speak for about one week
I had a terrible sore throat and was nearly not able to breathe, eat or drink. And my circulation way nearly out of order - I was swooning at the doctor's practice
Luckily it got better after about 5 days with the medicaments.
im also aware iv misspelled more or less every long word in the above paragraph. i dont care.
But i've broke my leg and my arm before, and impetigo but thats about it.
I'm kinda prone to tonsilitis, which is an utter bitch, but one time I was up at uni, and I thought it would be a sensible thing to not go to the doctors til I got home at the weekend. Well, lets just say, when my mum saw the state of my throat she called the emergency saturday type thing. The doctor bollocked at me (in that polite fashion :rolleyes: ) and I had to go to hospital to get my throat/tonsils drained. He stuck a needle in my throat, several times, and my fear of needles didn't help me at the time (my hand squirms everytime I hear someone talk about those needles they put in your hands when you have a drip, or whatever it is that they do). Anyway, my eyes were streaming and I was clenching the chair I was sitting in! So theres a lesson for ya!
:rolleyes:
And I've had cystitis too, thats also a bitch! I woke up in so much pain. I was at my boyfriends house, and he was already away to work. It was that sore I actually went and asked his mum for help! I don't know why I didn't actually just phone my mum! 'Cause I'm a silly moo obviously!:D Anyway, she was great about it, as expected 'cause she's nice!
Ok, I've gone on enough now!
Here we go then..
My knee caps kept on disclocating since the age of 8 (whichis sorta common realy). So i had an operation on both of my knees, however one of them didn't work out as planned. So i had an another operation, which ab KILLED coz it wasn't exactly small the second time!
At the age of 13, i had my appendix out... ouuucchhhhh... fricking killed it did!
When i was also 13 i started having strokes/fits. They didn't find out the reason for them and still haven't, but i went in wheelchair loads of times, lost my speech, couldn't walk for a while coz one side of me would go lop sided so to say! And to top it all off i had amnesia.. didn't know my family, friends, house NOTHING. That was the most scary thing ive ever been through and it still affects me now coz i tend to forget things easily. Kinda like Susan on Neighbours - but im not back in the 60's!
There's loads of other stuff as well, but ill be here all night if start lol. However i count myself very lucky, my best friend died of a heart attack at he age of 16 Made me realise that im lucky to still be here and to live the life id planned for. Unlike she could do.
So for everyone whose ill, keep on smiling for the world, you'll be better soon and there's a whole life ahead of you to look forward to. It will only last for a while. Not forever
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I was in the hospital for a week with a tube up my you-know-what so that I could pee, and then had to return for a month for the chemo. I looked like Kojack when I went for holiday in Australia.
Worst part was after the RPLND, because they moved all my innards around, I couldn't take a dump for at least 2 1/2 weeks! :eek2:
then there was this one time last summer and i got my period and literally collapsed in Boots Chemist, hitting my head on the counter as i went down and then knocking myself out when i hit the ground!! i came to and thought i was fine but all of a sudden i was having the worst period cramps ever...like i couldnt move...and i was really hot, although i was sweating a cold sweat. it was the scariest experience of my life and i really thought i was dying. i still get really bad periods, which sucks but thats the joy of being a woman!
other than that, im so healthy! anytime my family or friends have the flu its like im immune i never ever get sick! the only time i vomit is if i drink too much and make myself be sick to clear myself out, and i've never had the chickenpox even tho everyone else in my family has had it!
Careful scarlettcloud! Chickenpox tends to be much worse if you get it as an adult. Have you been vaccinated?
Chicken Pox Info
The worst thing ive had (and still have) Is crohn's disease. most people haven't heard of it, even though 1 in 1000 or so people get it. It's an inflammatory bowel disease, and is not nice. At all. Lol. Well actually it's not funny, but you can go to this site and find out more if you want: National Association For Crohn's and Colitis It took the doctors about a year to diagnose it, 6 months of which I was having high temperatures, feeling very tired, pain in my bowel etc. and not knowing what was wrong. Very annoying. They should really try to diagnose it quicker so there's not all that feeling unwell.
I had it when I was four in mouth, then it seemed to go away untll last year (I'm 15 now) And it's come back again. It's one of those annoying things that decides to come back when it wants and you have to get treated. I'm on steroids (not anabolic :rolleyes: ) and have an enteral feed (with a tube in my nose, going into my stomach) But, I should be better now, and stopping the feed next week and be back on full food (I hadn't eaten in 8 weeks until wednesday). It seems like I'm not properly better, although I should be...Oh well, I don't think anyone is reading this so I'll stop now.
Nice to meet u all
Where are you? UK?