Monday, 28 September 2009
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What Was Your Biggest Health Scare?
- Are you someone who has had the swine flu this season?
- Did you have an STD scare?
- Have you been newly diagnosed with a disease?
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Comments (51)
I've been ill for six months and no one has any idea why, and it gets progressively worse and progressively more debilitating every day.
Scary enough for me.
When I was in my late 20s, I thought I felt a lump in my breast. I even went to have an ultrasound done. THAT was scary.
When I was 20, I made mysterious stomach pains for MONTHS & no one found out why until I had 2 ultrasounds & an MRI. They found one cyst & thought something else was wrong so they did exploratory surgery & I had them EVERYWHERE. They were what they called chocolate cysts & they were all over the place & they hurt when they moved. I thank God everyday they were benign & havent bothered me since. I would wish that pain & frustration on my worst enemy.
I got MRSA a couple of months ago and I freaked out. It was painful to walk for a couple of days, I had to limp at my high school graduation :[
biggest health scare i think was when i got a UTI after unprotected sex.... and i had no idea it was a UTI at first (and my mom doesn't know i'm sexually active soo...) so i thought it was an STD. terrifying..
Eh...no real big health scare. But I had breast reduction surgery and it was twice as long as the usual surgery with 10lbs of fat/tissue removed. :P
Well...I had bronchitis once? But it was only a big deal because I played bass clarinet and I needed air.
Yeah, I've been blessed with a healthy life. :)
@Shinbi_Belldandy@xanga - Wow, that sounds somewhat similar to what's going on with me. If you don't mind, would you message me about it? Any other symptoms, etc.? If you're not comfortable I totally understand, but I am at rock bottom and desperate for any sort of hope. I've been miserable for months and no one knows why.
I have asthma, and this one time I had a really bad attack... I actually thought I was going to die.
I had a really bad combination of fever/sneezing/coughing/headache/stomach aches earlier this year and it was UNBEARABLE. I tried to sleep through it but it was so painful I felt like there was a fire raging inside me everywhere and I felt like my head was going to explode.
i have suffered from haemorrhoids since i was about 15.... kept geeting the same response from Drs...fibre and water blah blah!!
At 21 gave natural birth to twins after which they got worse...given the same response till one Dr decided a colonscopy and remove them wouldn't be a bad idea. I ended up having a polpectomy as i had polyps in my bowels that were are stage away from cancer!!!! I am glad he decided to ere on the side of caution
So much for needing fibre hey!
Back in my college years, I got a really bad case of pneumonia at the exact same time that my boyfriend (now husband) got mono. We got engaged two days after we were diagnosed, and were told not to kiss each other (seriously, not kissing your new fiance?!?!) or we would probably both wind up in the hospital. We both got better and never spread our illnesses to each other.
I've had swine flu this season--really not serious or life-threatening in my case.
@Lil_Firefly_25@xanga - whoa those are some giant boobies.
Over the past few years (effectively since 2006), I have spent countless hours with doctors. I had gallstones, but my stomach never felt better after my gallbladder was removed. I was told I had IBS, which is still probably true. However, as my general well-being declined, I felt seriously fatigued, had low blood pressure, dizzy spells, high blood sugar (still weird), and really bad bruising... I was determined to have Postural Orthostatic Tachychardia Syndrome (dysautonomia). Then, when I found out how anemic I was, I was tested for all sorts of leukemia, only to finally find out that I have SLE, or lupus.
A heck of a lot to deal with while I was finishing college and have been subsequently job-searching. 23 is young to have felt so generally ill, you know? But such is life.
HPV :( Scariest thing I've ever had.
@ShimmerBodyCream@xanga - Yeah I had like a G cup I think? Or maybe H I really don't know. I had to wear whatever fit. Now I'm a D cup and very happy. :)
In spring of my junior year of high school, I started having bizarre symptoms that seemed to point to a tumor or something else causing pressure on my brain. I had to go in for a CT scan with contrast medium as well as an EEG. I was so scared I was shaking--so when we got home and there was already a message from the doctor's office saying to call them back, I collapsed to the floor and started hysterically crying, thinking they had found something (I immediately went to the worst-case scenario: brain cancer). As it turned out, the CT was normal, but the EEG was 'a little off' and they couldn't agree what it was. To this day, depending on which neurologist you talk to, it is thought that I was either having petit mal seizures or a migraine variant. I still get the 'spells' from time to time, but that was 8 years ago and I ain't dead yet, so I'm very very grateful! I just hope someday I can find out what this is. And the look on my mom's face when we got that message from the doctor's office is something I hope to never, ever see again.
I had gotten a voicemail from my Gynocologist that my pap smear was abnormal. I immediately started bawling and my boyfriend was there a was scared too (neither of us had cheated on the other so what could be wrong?). Well when I called the clinic back after I collected myself they let me know the sample wasn't a good enough size/didn't have enough cells and would need to have me come back in to collect another one. I was SO relieved and naturally it came back normal lol. I felt like an idiot for panicing afterwards. :P
I have had a couple of pregnancy scares, at times when my parents did not know I was sexually active and when I was completely unable to (financially) care for a child.
But my biggest health scare was when my heart started behaving oddly due to me being underweight (which was thanks to anorexia).
Getting diagnosed with cancer was bad, being able to beat it was good. Having a heart attack was bad, living to tell about it is good. Life is short. Live everyday as if it is your last. I have gone to two funerals in the last two days. One was a classmate, 2 packs a day for 20 years. Emphysema got him. You may have no idea how much you mean to others, even if you don't like yourself...
chronic lyme disease. it sucks & theres no cure.
hmm well ive had quite a few. when i was about 5 i went deaf and had to have a operation i had gromets in my ears and my adnoids taken out my nose and they wasnt sure if i would be deaf for the rest of my life (thankfully im not). when i was 13 i was diagnosed with depression and was put on prozac when i was 14 after being in hospital several times for self inflicted and suicde attempts. I think the scariest one was when i drank bleach and burned my throat and stoamach, i was sick alot and after an hour i was took to hospital cos my uncle came round (my mum was too drunk to notice). at the hospital they said i will hjave blisters in my mouth and stoamch,my throat now hurts everyday and i get regular stoamch pain.
I've had a swine flu "scare", but it was kind of lame, because I already got over it when my dad told me I probably had it. :P
My heart has stopped twice. I've been shocked back to life twice.
Let's see someone top that.
@abilene_piper_lg@xanga - ha ha, ok then I will:
kidney failure aged 8 ended up having to have a transplant and almost died on the table
chronic arthritis diagnosis aged 13, bed bound for 3 months and still suffering
heart attack aged 14 due to bulimia
bacterial meningitus aged 16 spent nearly a month on itu and was told on 3 seperate days that I wouldn't survive the night, went blind for two weeks as a result and it took me a good few months before I was able to walk properly again
second heart attack still aged 16 still related to electrolyte imbalance due to bulimia.
I am only 17 years old, god knows what else is waiting to get me
I have lived through a hell of illness,and I am pretty proud to be alive.
abilene_piper_lg did I top you? :P
@chaotic_imperfection@xanga - You've actually had heart attacks? Yeah, you pretty well topped me there.
Then again, my first cluster headache was pretty scary shit too. I thought I had a ruptured aneurysm or something (the pain of a CH is intense, described as more painful than labor by female patients [not that I'd know being a male]. This is just a chronic pain syndrome and I'm stuck with it for life.).
More about CH.
Nothing really besides finding out that I had PCOS, multiple cysts on both ovaries and possibly infertile. But i know there's people out there worst than me so can't complain. Just cope.