Post your current illnesses here

[Ginger Tosser]

Been back into the office for 3 days and caught a pissing cold. Lovely air conditioning.

[Rossco]

I have broken my ankle, (clean break at the femur just above where it joins the foot) and also got a hairline fracture of the metatarsal. Did it December 23rd.

I managed to slip on recently refrozen meltwater (must have been about 1-2mm thick and invisible). Having a great Christmas/New Year... but at least I haven't needed a op (which seems common with ankles).



Hey-ho. Happy New Year. Commiserations for all you with serious or virulent illnesses, mental and physical. Peace.

So jealous!! Why couldn't I have broke my ankle and not got stupid torn ligaments. Think yourself lucky, all going well you'll be fighting fit in no time.

[chopemon]

For a few years I've had a smallish cyst on the side of my neck. The doctor told me it wasn't worth removing so I ignored it until I saw a video on youtube called 2 girls 1 cyst where a dude gets his cyst opened up and emptied.

I was FASCINATED and the thing has been a little bit of an obsession for a few months. The thought of all that puss being inside me and waiting to burst out of me like a xenomorph has intrigued me.

The cyst started occasionally leaking and a light squeeze would produce some puss but nothing major. At some point a couple of weeks ago I got it in my mind to give it a good hard goddamn squeeze and try and empty it but got very little out of it.

Turns out this was the DUMBEST THING IN THE WORLD TO DO and it got infected and swelled up to half the size of a golf ball. I have had a course of anti biotics to clear the infection and some anadin extra has got some of the swelling down but now I need to get a doctor's appointment to get a private referral to get it removed.

So, if you have a cyst, let me offer you this advice: never, ever squeeze it. If you watch videos of cyst removals and decide you want it out of you, go get it seen to. Do not squeeze it!

[Neil]

Bronchitis.

Coughing up horrible crap and totally knackered 24/7 will be off work all week, good chance to catch up on some blu's.

[Soundwave]

Double whammy for me

Had a bad cold for about a week but last night I started to get a really bad earache which kept me awake most of the night & this morning I was pretty much deaf in my right ear & it started weeping

Trip to the Drs today & I've got an ear infection caused by the cold

now I'm on antibiotics for the cold & a spray antibiotic for my ear it's properly uncomfortable and I don't recomend anyone getting the complaint it's horrible

Neil

[dvdx2]

really stinking cold - Woke up on Saturday morning with a sore throat and on Saturday night it broke into a really bad head cold - got about 3 hours sleep.

Sunday- all day, felt rough and last night, got again about 3 hours kip

phoned in sick today and feeling pretty shattered-head has cleared abit but still sniffling and now have a cough :-(

[Solar]

Yay, my second illness/problem within 6 months.
After 4 years of back pains (which I thought might have been my weight), sharp empty bladder pains, the constant need to pee and topping it off by peeing blood the other night, my Dr thinks I now have kidney stones, off for a dye injection and full body x-ray in 2 weeks.

Seems like 30 is the average age where men start to decline in health

[EDDIE M0NS00N]

Seems like 30 is the average age where men start to decline in health

My back went when I was about 31. Pains in leg to start with, followed by no feeling in my thighs, which I was told by friends & family was sciatica. Lived with it for 2 yrs, then suddenly 1 day I couldnt get my right leg out of bed cos I couldnt even feel it.
Found out that a disc in my back had slipped out & had been touching the nerves in my back that run to my leg for 2 yrs.

I'm 35 now, & I still get jip with it every day. May have to go back & get a scan on it to see what is really happening in there, cos my breastbone gives me pain too, which I think is from me lifting differently in work to avoid damaging my back.


My current illness (apart from my knackered back) is a cold. Sore throat, coughs, sneezes, headaches, tight chest etc. Really irritating me tbh. I dont know how much kippage I got last night cos I felt like I was on another planet most of the time. Wasnt much cos I was fooooked when I got up for work at 5.


....oh, & I crushed my heel from skating on Saturday.

[nakamura]

Seems like 30 is the average age where men start to decline in health

Bugger. My health is pretty bad and I am turning 30 next month!

[EDDIE M0NS00N]

Bugger. My health is pretty bad and I am turning 30 next month!

The only way is down down down for you my friend!

[Spatial]

Kidney stones!

Thanks to the joys of the internet I live in fear of ever developing those - in fact this has put the fear into me again and I'm off to down a shed load of water.

[dvdx2]

Seems like 30 is the average age where men start to decline in health

tis true i'm afraid....

Alcohol tolerance levels, drop big time too

[abigsmurf]

Caught some sort of stomach bug off of family. Minor stomach cramps, slight nausea and all the fun which goes with that.

Any recommend pills/potions?

[JazzFunk]

Bah, first propah illness in a mega-long time.

Started getting this 'tingle' that kind of started behind the belly button, then travelled down to the base of the prick like some weird, pissy electric shock, like hot piss that wasn't there. I paid it no heed, it was weird but very minor, thought it'd eventually pass on.

Give it a few days and I get this 'tug' in my abdomen which also seems to correspond with the 'tingle' thing, I feel I have to hunch over slightly when I walk (it's not a nice feeling, I am a mega-active, speedy type of guy). I now walk instead of dash. Had to slow down like f*ck (and that just isn't *right*, not like me at all.)

Feels like the top of my bladder is bulging into my abs, inside, plus that 'tingle' is now accompanied by a couple of involuntary piss-drops each time it occurs, and it now burns when I piss. I do not like this feeling, but let the feeling pass ("Surely, it'll get better given time?")

Day later, it starts getting slightly worse so I book myself into A&E (comfy, seeing as I work in a hospital). Docs check me over, I do two piss samples, say I've got a UTI (urinary tract infection) but no other probs detected in said urine, issue me a short course of strong antibiotics, a possible side-effect of which is that they have the potential to trigger a form of meningitis(!!!!!!!!)

Nearly at the end of those tablets, one tab left, am seeing little improvement. Plus those particular anti-Bs *REALLY* f*ck the guts, baaaaadly. The side-effects feels much worse than the actual prick-thing, but you always get that with anti-Bs, I was prepared for that, mega-****s and stomach crampage aplenty, though this is on a MUCH larger scale. Feels like WWE is going on in there!

Got a strange feeling that if it's not gone by tomoz (ie. today), I might end up on a ward. Tubes and needles and cannulas and stuff all stuck in me, drains full of sticky, horrible, mushy ****, a catheter. Possibility of some c*nt(s) prying my body open with bladed objects. 'Recovery Time'. I might turn WEAK, like when York leaves Francis Morgan. Do NOT want that!

Gah, bar a bad bout of tonsillitis, this is the first time I've ever truly felt ILL. It's a bit depressing, my 'Veil of Invincibility' does not seem to be working right now. Bastard!

(Anyway, I hope this post is just the rantings of someone in a hypochondriac moodstate!!!)

[fuse]

Sorry to hear about that Jazz - sounds nasty.

I am still a little under the weather too, and despite my love for this place it's a bit weird talking about it online like this also. About 7 weeks ago I had a week in hospital after having chest/arm tightness one night - initial ECG didn't say much, but blood tests got them worried, and after an angiogram it was confirmed that I'd actually had a heart attack. Damage was significant enough that at the same time as the angiogram I had an angioplasty where they inserted 5 stents into 3 of my coronary arteries.

I've had high blood pressure for years, am overweight, and have an awful, awful, family history for these kinds of things, but it's still baffling doctors that it came to this, and for me it's quite difficult to come to terms with something like this in my 20s. Am on a number of different medications (many of which will likely be for life) and am still being checked out by numerous doctors to try and work out what can be done, but in honesty even now I am still feeling like I've been hit by a train most days. I have actually had periods in my life where I've been living pretty healthy and losing a lot of weight, but right now I can't handle a full day at work without severe chest pains, doing serious exercise etc still feels a long way off. Doesn't help that I am getting all kinds of side effects from tablets too - one suitably eccentric doctor described my prescription as a blunderbuss.

So hey! That's me lately.