Foo - The disease thread...

Everyone post your favorite disease:

Mine is Rocky Mountain Spotted fever. I got bit by a tick at a dirtbike race in TN about 5 or 6 years ago and had to spend alot of time in the hospital. It was the most intense pain Ive ever felt. Even my fingernails hurt.

How bout you guys? Lupus? Shingles? Whatcha got?

My favorites so far have been whooping cough and tracheitis.

I had chicken pox

bacterial menegitis sucked pretty hard.

-mark

Oh yeah - I once managed to get a strep infection in my eyes. Ever had blood blisters on your eyeballs? Talk about evil eye...

Being an agoraphobic cyclist is fun. Actually I'm not agoraphobic, but I had some real nasty panic attacks there for awhile that crimped my social life a bit.

I had shingles. It looked gross, with the pustules(sp) and all.

"Ed Zachary" disease by far, and no, I dont have it :)

Um, diabetes. I have it, and it may have saved my life! Now if I can just keep the doctors from cutting parts off me off, or from going blind. Nevermind that I can't eat sugar. :rolleyes:

When I was an infant I had something called Hong Kong Flu. As an older child I had chicken pox. Nothing more serious then that. Of course I've had the occasional cold or a slight case of a flu bug, but nothing more serious then taking a day or so off of work.

Intestinal Diseases

Got one a few years ago from tainted food...worst 4 days of my life...

day 1...i nearly fell down at work...managed to get myself amped up on enough caffeine and found the right back roads to get myself home....slept nearly 18 hours

day2...hunger kickes in, im going into fevers and chill cycling every 20 mins or so...I can't eat, it makes me sick...I also have this raging diahreea and vomiting...the vomit was some kind of nasty yellow bile. I had to do this purging about every hour..my fluid consumption was insane...by the end of the day i found out i couldnt sleep

day 3 still no sleep..now im having toruble holding down water...still ahvent eaten..but i'm a stubborn cuss so i wait it out...by evening muscle cramps start

day 4 .....still no sleep, cnat eat or drink anyhting...i'm no longer sweating despite feeling incredibly hot...i cna barely move, and my muscles are burning when i do...I call for some poeple to get me to the ER...I sit there for nearly 8 hours...it's just into day 5 when I get called in.

day 5....i finally get in there...semi consious...doctors told me right off the bat I looked like I was dehydrated, so they started IVs...they never got a smaple though...but told me they have seen lots of folks with this exact smae symptoms lately. So they treated me for that as well. I got let out about 6 hours later...over a liter of saline had to be IVed into me...the doctor was amazed I was consious.

Took a week after that before I could go back to work....it was horrible. Couldnt eat solid food for about a week, then only unseasoned no-fat diet for the next month...sucked something awful. I refuse to go back to the store I bought that food from... bad part was they couldnt take a sample at the hospital since i didnt eat in so long..so I didn't have lawsuit material...

i've never had it, but we always joke about calling into work sick with lyme disease. or disentary. i'd say those are my faves.

Well, I can't say I'm very attached to it and I certainly haven't had it, but Ebola is rather fascinating.

For what I've had, I don't know what it was. I felt like crap, had no energy, had a really really sore throat, couldn't sleep, and everything tasted bland for two days. I thought I caught mono. Then it went away but came back a 3 days later for two more days. I think all the doctors I've seen in the last 3 years would probably call it mid-terminal tired-itis, but this was an unusually severe strain.

Hangovers are an interesting illness. Too bad they're not like chickenpox...you catch it once and you're done.

I think i had SIDS once.

Mononeucleoisis with secondary hepatic infection.
Felt like I was gonna die, and wished that I would.

Marty

I think i had SIDS once.

I didn't know you could recover from that.

Iliotibial Band Syndrome is pretty painful. Finding out you're allergic to penicillin is no fun either.

I didn't know you could recover from that.

It was a mild case. I also caught spinabifida once too.

i used to have Zachary's disease once.


that's when your face looks Zachary like your ass

I had scarlet fever twice, both times I nearly died.

cystic acne

It was a mild case. I also caught spinabifida once too.

You caught spinabifida huh?

I think i had SIDS once.

Sick, SHUTUP!

SIDS is a horror all parents face with birth of children.
If you survived this? I am very happy for you and your parents.

If you're trying to be funny-you failed. Try being a little 'aware' others may have had tragic events in their life and casual wordings may be VERY offensive.

My baby was fine.

http://www.ninds.nih.gov/health_and_medical/disorders/spina_bifida.htm

Oh, pertinent to this thread, I ate beef tainted with e-coli.
Day 1- Severe abdominal cramping.
Day 2- Cramping, profuse sweating.
Day 3- Sweating, cramping and blood in the toilet. OMG. :eek:
Day 3.5- Convulsing, am unable to walk, stool now complete blood. Am admitted to hospital and worked on.

Guess I came through O.K. Was a veggie for a while. (meaning I ate a vegitarian diet, not a coma.)

I always hate when I get Lakanookie :D

i used to have Zachary's disease once.


that's when your face looks Zachary like your ass


That's "Zackly", not "Zachary"... Sheesh!

Kidney Stone...

just a horrid amount of pain that went from my lower back to my man onions. Of course the cure was equally bad... the Doc took a scope and went up through my "privates" into my bladder and up into my Ureter toward my Kidney before he found the little bugger and removed it.

I always hate when I get Lakanookie :D

Yeah, thats what my husband got when I was nursing my first child. I got these leeetle, teeny blood blisters on the ends of my nipples. Husband got massive lakanookie till I got past the pain and toughened up, 'cuz I screamed at him evey time he tried anything--it hurt!

:D

Ugh. I had a case of shingles about 10 years ago while I was in law school. Felt like I was going to die.

It's not really health-threatening, but I occasionally get a bad case of excema when it's really stressful at work. It'll just drive you crazy.

That's "Zackly", not "Zachary"... Sheesh!

maybe not if you speak engrish.

maybe not if you speak engrish.
i was diagnosed by a japanese doctor.....

Irritable bowel syndrome

Everyone post your favorite disease:

Mine is Rocky Mountain Spotted fever. I got bit by a tick at a dirtbike race in TN about 5 or 6 years ago and had to spend alot of time in the hospital. It was the most intense pain Ive ever felt. Even my fingernails hurt.

How bout you guys? Lupus? Shingles? Whatcha got?
When I worked in Africa in '70s I contracted tick fever (they found the head of the tick inbedded in my groin) I was in a comma for 4 days ! & it took about a year for me to feel realy well again. The upside is, once you've had it & survived you're immune to getting it again ( a salted horse) unlike the malaria which still visits me on the now rare occasion.

When I worked in Africa in '70s I contracted tick fever (they found the head of the tick inbedded in my groin) I was in a comma for 4 days ! & it took about a year for me to feel realy well again. The upside is, once you've had it & survived you're immune to getting it again ( a salted horse) unlike the malaria which still visits me on the now rare occasion.


It aint no joke. There was a chance of me going down for good as well.

Had all the childhood diseases -
measles, mumps, vomiting viruses, strains of influenza
ranging from mild to please-let-me-die.

But I think the very worst physical ailment for me has been
from poison ivy. Went for twenty two years without any,
then got a small case, then a fairly bad case, then got a ton of it
off of my dog on a planned four-day backpacking trip.
Less than thirty hours after leaving the car and hitting the trail,
I was back in town at a drive-in clinic, getting a shot and prescriptions.
MAJOR MISERY. I was a fright.
Prescription-strength benadryl with cold beer chasers helped some.

But I guess that's an allergic reaction, not a disease.

Sarcoidosis in my early 20s. I was lucky,it cleared up and went away with no more effects. It didn't have a lot of symptoms. I had a sore chest, and felt tired, and had lesions on my legs- that was the worst.
I now have an autoimmune thyroid disease, Hashimotos,runs in the family. I seem to get autoimmune things. I develop allergies- penicillin, sulfas, and most recently pistachios and cashews. However, I'm not like the bubble boy. THe doctor just said I'm prone to developing allergies.

Some kind of flu. Felt freezing in summer. Cough was like choking on broken glass.

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