What's the sickest you have ever felt?

rp-chicago-mom · October 2013

For me it was mastitis, hands down the first bout. The second wasn't as bad because we caught it right away.

In second place was when I had the flu when I was 27. That was brutal.

For something noncommunicable it was my anemia. I couldn't walk up one flight of stairs without thinking I was dying.

ks3pink · October 2013

Having the flu in the first trimester of my twin pregnancy. I thought I was going to die.

alrighthamilton · October 2013

h1n1 a few years ago. I could barely drive myself home from the doctor or get in my front door. And it took me more than a month before I felt 100%. I can see how it could be fatal to the young/elderly/immuno-suppressed.

cedenton · October 2013

The flu a few years ago. I missed nearly a week of work. It was horrible and everyone in my groups of friends came down with it.

Rhomonk · October 2013

Food poisoning a few years back. I couldn't even sit up straight.

emu0013 · October 2013

Kidney stones......had to have surgery to remove them, I had so many.

NeneCakies · October 2013

I got mono during the first year of my first job out of college. I went home from work one day and slept for 36 hours. I took a few days off, saw a doctor who recommended a short term disability leave.

As if I didn't feel bad enough, my boss was not sympathetic and told me to come in anyway. I did but my boss's boss saw me, told me I looked like hell and sent me home, but not before talking to HR to help mediate the expectations of my boss (who was promoted to another store while I was gone so thankfully there was no awkwardness when I came back). Oh and the illness jacked up my period so I also had my one and only pregnancy scare. Joy.

ccam · October 2013

Kidney stones. I have a high tolerance for pain and usually can hide it, but I was doubled over, crying in the ER waiting room. People thought I was crazy.

TechieGirl1 · October 2013

When I had pneumonia for a month, or when I had the stomach flu and sinus infection at the same time.

SJandVA · October 2013

Kidney stones while pregnant. It felt like a bad contraction but didn't stop. On the way to the hospital the highway closed for a few minutes for rolling thunder to pass. DD1 still remembers the motorcycle parade and that mommy was not happy with them.
Second was a gall bladder attack.

fastcarsandfreedom3319 · October 2013

I had food poisoning in January of this year. I was up sick literally all night. I have never been that sick before. I couldn't even walk the next day, I felt like I had been hit by a truck. Last time I'll ever eat Chinese food..

SJandVA · October 2013

@BPaws Oh my goodness that sounds so horrible. How old were you?

alake · October 2013

I was really sick in grade six. I think it was the flu, but not really sure. I just remember barely moving for almost a week.
My first scuba dive. I suffer severe motion sickness and lost my lunch off the back of the dive boat, it was a really rough water day and I couldn't keep anything down.
I used to get stomach aches so bad that I couldn't stand up or lay down. I was working retail at the time and my boss didn't believe me. She was on maternity leave when they realized that these stomach aches were caused by two large cysts. One was the size of a large watermelon and the other one roughly the size of a honey dew.

LindsayDesigner · October 2013

When I was 15 I got food poisoning. I threw up a dozen times in 8 hours and I almost passed out. It was rough.

Second place was the flu, Christmas 2011. It was compounded by the fact that I was newly pregnant and throwing up a lot anyway. It was terrible.

SpruceGrouse · October 2013

The night of my stroke, I can't even describe the nausea I felt having half my body numb, I threw up and dry heaved for 15 hours non stop. I could not open my eyes because of the dizziness or even turn my head slightly to the right. What is worse is I was shaking so bad from shivering because the nurse wouldn't give me a blanket, and I had her yelling at me all night for getting sick on the floor, that didn't help my headache. The nausea lasted a week, I couldn't eat, then the second week I couldn't eat because of all the testing I needed done. Luckily I was semiconscious and my sense of time was bad.

CrazyDaisy8 · October 2013

Probably my morning sickness through the 1st half of pregnancy. I know that isn't an illness but I was to the point of not functioning. I lost about 20 lbs in the 1st tri. I as getting sick at least once an hour. The doctor tried getting me on meds and they didn't work as well as they should have. I finally went from crazy morning sickness to normal morning sickness throughout the rest of my 9 months.

Cheerilee · October 2013

I had mono, bronchitis, and the flu all at once in 8th grade. Went from 85 to 70lbs in 4 days and ended up hospitalized for a week then out of school for a month. I also almost lost my spleen.

AmySmolos · October 2013

It's a toss up between mono when I was 26 or a bad stomach virus when I was 21. The virus had been throwing up and having the squirts at the same time twice an hour for 12 hours straight. Actually now that I remembered that definitely the virus. I was laying on the bathroom floor wishing for death. Mono was more exhaustion and having my glands so swollen the doctor told me to go to the ER I had any problems breathing. She said my throat was the worst she had ever seen.

rp-chicago-mom · October 2013

SpruceGrouse said:
The night of my stroke, I can't even describe the nausea I felt having half my body numb, I threw up and dry heaved for 15 hours non stop. I could not open my eyes because of the dizziness or even turn my head slightly to the right. What is worse is I was shaking so bad from shivering because the nurse wouldn't give me a blanket, and I had her yelling at me all night for getting sick on the floor, that didn't help my headache. The nausea lasted a week, I couldn't eat, then the second week I
couldn't eat because of all the testing I
needed done. Luckily I was
semiconscious and my sense of time
was bad.

That's horrible you had such an unsupportive nurse.

RNbock2 · October 2013

Food poisoning a couple of months ago. I threw up violently from 10 pm-4 am, and then had to wake up at 530am and watch the kids...

alrighthamilton · October 2013

Baker_Bride said:

The night of my stroke, I can't even describe the nausea I felt having half my body numb, I threw up and dry heaved for 15 hours non stop. I could not open my eyes because of the dizziness or even turn my head slightly to the right. What is worse is I was shaking so bad from shivering because the nurse wouldn't give me a blanket, and I had her yelling at me all night for getting sick on the floor, that didn't help my headache. The nausea lasted a week, I couldn't eat, then the second week I couldn't eat because of all the testing I needed done. Luckily I was semiconscious and my sense of time was bad.
That's horrible you had such an unsupportive nurse.

That's what I was thinking. Why would someone so uncompassionate choose nursing as a profession?

Cheerilee · October 2013

Becc77 said:

Baker_Bride said:

SpruceGrouse said:
The night of my stroke, I can't even describe the nausea I felt having half my body numb, I threw up and dry heaved for 15 hours non stop. I could not open my eyes because of the dizziness or even turn my head slightly to the right. What is worse is I was shaking so bad from shivering because the nurse wouldn't give me a blanket, and I had her yelling at me all night for getting sick on the floor, that didn't help my headache. The nausea lasted a week, I couldn't eat, then the second week I
couldn't eat because of all the testing I
needed done. Luckily I was
semiconscious and my sense of time
was bad.

That's horrible you had such an unsupportive nurse.

That's what I was thinking. Why would someone so uncompassionate choose nursing as a profession?

OMG, WTAF, this!! That lady should be fired.

SpruceGrouse · October 2013

Becc77 said:

Baker_Bride said:

The night of my stroke, I can't even describe the nausea I felt having half my body numb, I threw up and dry heaved for 15 hours non stop. I could not open my eyes because of the dizziness or even turn my head slightly to the right. What is worse is I was shaking so bad from shivering because the nurse wouldn't give me a blanket, and I had her yelling at me all night for getting sick on the floor, that didn't help my headache. The nausea lasted a week, I couldn't eat, then the second week I couldn't eat because of all the testing I needed done. Luckily I was semiconscious and my sense of time was bad.
That's horrible you had such an unsupportive nurse.

That's what I was thinking. Why would someone so uncompassionate choose nursing as a profession?

At that hospital they all thought I was on drugs and seeking attention. They discharged me the next day when I still wasn't conscious and couldn't walk. I think it started with the paramedics who thought I was attention seeking. My sister has seen before where paramedics influence how the nurses treat a patient. The second hospital I went to 3 days later figured it out and all the nurses and everyone were amazing. Nurses are my heros, you are all amazing, I won't let my experience with a few bad nurses to skew my view. I saw how hard you nurses work, thank you.

rp-chicago-mom · October 2013

SpruceGrouse said:

Becc77 said:

Baker_Bride said:

The night of my stroke, I can't even describe the nausea I felt having half my body numb, I threw up and dry heaved for 15 hours non stop. I could not open my eyes because of the dizziness or even turn my head slightly to the right. What is worse is I was shaking so bad from shivering because the nurse wouldn't give me a blanket, and I had her yelling at me all night for getting sick on the floor, that didn't help my headache. The nausea lasted a week, I couldn't eat, then the second week I couldn't eat because of all the testing I needed done. Luckily I was semiconscious and my sense of time was bad.
That's horrible you had such an unsupportive nurse.

That's what I was thinking. Why would someone so uncompassionate choose nursing as a profession?

At that hospital they all thought I was on drugs and seeking attention. They discharged me the next day when I still wasn't conscious and couldn't walk. I think it started with the paramedics who thought I was attention seeking. My sister has seen before where paramedics influence how the nurses treat a patient. The second hospital I went to 3 days later figured it out and all the nurses and everyone were amazing. Nurses are my heros, you are all amazing, I won't let my experience with a few bad nurses to skew my view. I saw how hard you nurses work, thank you.

I totally agree with you. H used to interview nurses all the time and he said that anyone who felt overworked should talk to a couple nurses to learn what overworked looks like.

It makes such a difference having good nurses. My nurses while I was getting transfused (which is small potatoes compared to what you went through) were amazing. I sent them flowers because I was such a spazz.

PaisleyRuth · October 2013

Baker_Bride said:

For me it was mastitis, hands down the first bout. The second wasn't as bad because we caught it right away. In second place was when I had the flu when I was 27. That was brutal. For something noncommunicable it was my anemia. I couldn't walk up one flight of stairs without thinking I was dying.

Yes, mastitis. I seriously felt like I was going to die. Same with the first time being the worst.

tumblefluff · October 2013

It's a tie between having mastitis last year and the flu when I was 17.

My high school teacher took us to Canada during Feb. vacation and I got sick with the flu. I had a horrible fever and nothing to take to help bring it down. My best friend (still is to this day) had a bucket of ice and kept putting cool face cloths on me to help bring my temp down. Luckily the day I started with the fever was our last day there. The bus ride home sucked.

The mastitis sucked too because the first round of antibiotics didn't work. After 3 days of taking them and my fever/pain not going away at all they gave me something else. Luckily my MIL had the week off and helped out with the baby.

brandyleighxx · October 2013

I had a really high fever with strep when I was about 16, I was almost delusional and couldn't get out of bed until the fever broke.

The other thing that come to mind is when I had an abscess on my uterus! I didn't feel sick but it was so painful and it went undiagnosed for 10 days before the abscess ruptured in the bathroom of the ER. 800mg of ibprofen wasn't touching the pain. The c-section was more painful but the pain didn't last 10 days so that was my worst experience dealing with pain. I think I got a bacterial infection when we took DS to the beach for the first time and sat with him in a tidal pool then left my wet swimsuit on all day.

Manda-Kay · October 2013

I had an ulcer during finals week my senior year of college. I was in so much pain I had to miss a final. Thank goodness that professor dropped our lowest test score.