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jamie4duke
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What's the worst medical issue you have ever had?
jamie4duke
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Re: What's the worst medical issue you have ever had?
Infertility...not life threatening, although it felt like it sometimes
was my oldest was 1, she climbed onto her grandmother's counter, and opened her blood pressure med., and took 2 pills, I was in the middle of a aerobics class, they called me as they rushed her to the hospital, I got there, and they had to feed her a tube of liquid charcoal, to absorb the med., and wait 2 hours, and then she was fine. But it scared the hell out of me!
Stupid c-section. I'm pretty sure. can't think of anything else.
OH WAIT - I had pneumonia (ha! spelled it right!) at 6 months.
ummmmm. nothing really serious. never in the hospital, never had surgery, etc etc etc but the time i felt the sickets was when i had mono and tonsilitis. i prettty much wanted to die.
*knocking on wood. hard*
HIPAA blows.
PCOS/infertility
Incompetent Cervix (resulting in my son being born 14 weeks early)
The "impressive" postpartum hemorrhaging I had due to my ute's unwillingness to contract immediately following Baby D's delivery. After several days flat on my back, I still didn't bounce back from the loss of blood. I eventually earned 2 units of blood after passing out on the nurses a few times. I had a long, slow recovery from all that.
PS - the fundal massage necessary to stop the bleeding was the.worst.pain of my life (think fist up crotch after delivering a 10 lber w/o pain meds).
i'm sorry.. my mom had the same, and has to do the same-- so i know how scary it can be. but she is almost 4 years out with no issues if it's any consolation!.
Aside from being ripped open from stem to stern in an attempt to have a bebe? Kidding...
I broke every.single.bone in my right wrist and forearm. I have to have a complete wrist replacement and have a completely artificial bone structure from my mid arm through the middle of my hand. It was my dominant hand. I was NOT told by the doctor, though my mother was, that I would never, ever be able to use my wrist, hand, or arm in any normal fashion ever again. I am a belligerent SOB (in case you hadn't noticed) and taught myself to be ambidextrous, not take any painkillers (because drinking was more important and it was my freshman year of college), and within 6 months of doing physical therapy I asked to stop because it was boring and useless. I went to the doctor, who examined me, and, when I showed him I had complete and full use of my wrist he stepped back 2 steps, welled up in tears, and openly showed his shock, which, again, I didn't know was possible because I didn't know I was supposed to be a cripple. And you can ask any of the girls at the GTG we had, no one knows I have a prosthetic.
TA DA!
I also mangled my face in that accident but that isn't visible either.
And I had lasik without pain killers in my eyes. Major oops on the doctors part. It was a pain worse that a hundred labors and what I meditated on during med free labor...
Good luck tomorrow-thoughts and prayers headed your way.
that I remember? Infertility
But I OD'd on a bunch of pills when I was little and had to have my stomach pumped...I have no memory of that, but my mother assures me she is scared for life.
I also had lazy eye surgery and wore patches until I was 4. But that wasn't that big of a deal to me, as I remember.
Thanks, your story did help me to feel a little better.
wait a minute. what accident caused this? and you have a prothetic what? the bone in your arm? or something else? How did the dr continue with your eyes if you were in such pain? TELL ME MORE INFO!
Fibromyalgia - which has involved stomach issues (first ulcer at age 11, 5 or 6 endoscopes since then, colonoscopy at age 22, surgically removed hemmrhoids a month later), sleep issues (sleep aids for 5 years), chronic pains (including a nerve test last year that involved electric shocks sent through my body, medications, full body hurts), heart issues (I have to eat a high sodium diet or I get very light headed).
It's a mess, but I have to learn to deal with it. It's not life threatening.
Natalie Kate - October 4, 2011
Blighted ovum, d&c at 9w, July 2012
Blighted ovum, d&c at 10w, September 2013
BFP May 28, EDD February 4, 2015
The scariest was when I found a lump in my breast. It ended up beinga cyst, but the waiting to find out after the mammogram and doppler was the worst.
The worst pain (besides un-medicated childbirth) was when I had a kidney infection while I was pregnant. I couldn't take anything for pain. I had to suck it up and deal with it. My doctor told me I was 24 hours away from being put in the hospital because I waited too long before going to be checked out. I had chalked up the initial pain to being pregnancy related. It got so much worse after that.
I'm incrediably thankful that I have had very few and minor medical issues.
This happens to me too. It is worse when I stand up from sitting on the ground or bending over. So far, I've never fallen to the ground, but I've fallen into furniture or the wall.
Natalie Kate - October 4, 2011
Blighted ovum, d&c at 9w, July 2012
Blighted ovum, d&c at 10w, September 2013
BFP May 28, EDD February 4, 2015
Hmmm . . . I'm not sure what I'd classify as the worst.
When I was five, I busted my head open very badly very close to my eye and now have a really cool scar. I don't remember too much about it, except that people brought me presents afterwards.
While pregnant, I got gall bladder disease. I was sick to the point of needing to be on Zofran every day during my pregnancy just to keep from throwing up. They didn't know I had gall bladder disease until I was fairly far into my pregnancy (just thought it was severe m/s) so I couldn't have my gall bladder removed until after I had DD.
Oh, and I had gestational diabetes too. And despite all that, I felt like pregnancy wasn't too bad!
I had a really weird "mystery illness" when I was a freshman in high school. All my internal organs became swollen, my white blood cell count completely dropped, I developed a horrible rash all over my face and my immune system shut down. It happened 3 different times that year, each time longer than the last. In addition to the horrible stomach pains from the swollen organs and the rash, because I had no immune system I got a whole bunch of random illnesses - bladder infection, flu, etc.
I was in and out of the hospital, saw some of the top specialists in Seattle, had a ton of tests done (Upper GI, endoscopy, allergy tests, cat scan, ultrasound, numerous blood, urine & stool tests) and no one ever figured it out. It just went away and never came back. They thought I might have an auto immune disease, or even leukemia but all the tests came back to show I was fine. I missed about 6-7 weeks of school and lost a ton of weight and my immune system has never been the same - I still get sick very, very easily.
One of the doctors who ran a bunch of tests on me even called for the few years following to check-up on me and see if any of the symptoms came back because my condition totally baffled him and he'd been in practice for 20+ years.
Pregnancy related - I was induced for pre-e and I had extreme swelling in my hands, legs & feet. When I developed a headache that vicodin, demerol and even morphine wouldn't kick my OB was worried that the swelling had gone to my brain. I had that headache pretty much until I delivered DD.
I had Scarlet Fever in college. WTF?! I've never known anyone else to have it.
My c-section sucked b/c it took 5 months to heal. The c-section itself wasn't that bad though.
Probably the most painful thing I've ever had was ovarian cysts. Appendicitis is a close second.
I've had some random medical thing every spring for the last few years.
In 2006 it was my appendix. 2007 I broke my foot. 2008 I had multiple periodontal surgeries to correct receding gums. And 2009 I had P.
Since then I've fallen down the stairs and hurt my back real bad and I've fallen in the lobby of my building and fractured my patella. I'm hoping those two things keep my from having another medical thing this spring.
I have had scarlet fever too! You are the first person I ever "met" that had it.
Ugh, I had acute kidney failure in September, a few days in the hospital, blood transfusions, and a month of steroids and I'm better- they think too much Advil caused it!?!? So be careful with the ibuprofen, ladies, I had never had a kidney issue in my life.
And I have Crohn's Disease which majorly sucks, but my bi-weekly injection of Humira has me in remission (serious knock on wood).
So not fun!