What's the most ill you've ever been?

[djb1971]

I had an accident that caused a blood clot to get stuck under my arm which also contributed to pleurisy & bi lateral pneumonia. The wife came in from a morning out and found me collapsed on the floor with blue lips, another 10 minutes and I wouldn't be here typing this!!

I was rushed into hospital given LARGE injections into my stomach to dissolve the clot, had my lungs drained via a hole through my rib cage. A doctor then injected me with something that shut my body down and started the alarms going on the monitors and stopped my heart!!

After a few dodgy days I came around and discovered they put me in the terminal ward ( wheeled in/carried out ) nice.

To top all that I contracted c-diff from the shithole!!
you really don't want to know what that does to you.

all that from falling and damaging my foot.

Apart from that, I'm fine now

and I've just seen a ****ing spider the size of my dog run across the carpet.............

I'll shout the mrs.

 

[PK99]

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I've had it once in my life and as a healthy 32 year old at the time could easily understand how it can kill the old and sick.

I'd agree with that - I had full blown flu 3 1/2 years ago - i did not feel fully well again for at least 6 months and had recurring chest infections for a year after that

 

[Fnaar]

4 yrs old, had penicillin prescribed for summat or other... allergic reaction... apparently I was very very ill, but I don't remember it

 

[Luna Corona]

You wouldn't want to be a hypochondriac with this thread, now...

I had really bad allergies as a kid and developed asthma from the age of twelve. I used to choke up blood and would almost pass out walking up stairs, but my mum thought I was putting it on to get out of school and did nothing about it until the eve of my fifteenth birthday when I was turning blue. (Never mind that I loved school and wouldn't have dreamed of bunking). Also had a pleural infection at 17 with a bit more blood involved, but never told anyone this time. Silly me. Since then, no serious lung problems but I had the "Russian" flu 20 years ago, not nice. A type of gastro enteritis twelve years ago has given me all kinds of digestive problems since. Other than that, I've only had injuries pertaining to my first job, working with racehorses and breaking in yearlings, but never hospitalized with those. Getting three wisdom teeth out at once was bad enough more recently.

 

[peanut]

The worst pain iv ever felt....trigeminal neuralgia,which thank god iv not had for over 12 months now.

my sympathies Lisa. Until you've had that you don't know what pain is
I knocked on my Dr's door at midnight and threatened to kill myself unless she gave me some morphine would have done too i reckon

 

[tosbert]

Rubbish. That is one of the worst swing-dick posts I have seen on here.

Google is obviously your friend.

If only Unfortunately, it is absolutely true 100%.... It was a Pakistani restaurant next door to the Standard in Cleveland Street..... Which was shut down very quickly after this.
Having bowel ops, hands in rubber gloves shoved up along with tubes and cameras up and down, barium meals, AIDS tests, taking 'everything' for analysis daily to the hospital (in a hospital issue bucket), not to mention vomitting and diarrohea up to 30 times a day... Looking back, I wish Google was my friend!

 

[snapper_37]

AIDS tests

 

[Auntie Helen]

I was given Voltarol tablets for a touch of RSI in my hands about ten years ago.

Two months later, I found I was getting weaker and weaker, couldn't walk very far, was off my food (which is VERY unusual for me). A friend thought I had a urinary tract infection, as did the doc who gave me some antibiotics. I got worse and worse. I felt like I could barely walk and didn't want to eat anything.

Blood test showed that my kidneys weren't working, so I was whizzed to hospital in London, biopsied, pumped full of scary numbers of steroids and eventually let out. I was on steroids for a year and a half which did bad things to my weight but did get my kidneys working again, mostly. The cause? The Voltarol. I'm not even allowed to take Nurofen now as it could cause the same thing. Not fun.

Oh, and at 22 years old I had Osteosarcoma, a rather nasty bone tumour that at that time had a 14% survival rate. After being told my arm would be amputated, I was instead given an artificial humerus and elbow which has worked brilliantly for me. I also survived the Osteosarcoma, it's been sixteen years now!

 

[radger]

I've had proper flu three times; every time the full 10 days in bed, shivering, the duvet feels like a horrific weight and not wanting it to touch me - the months of recovery afterwards are the best.
When I was working in London, I got the vomiting/diarrhoea bug several times - I put it down to a really scuzzy office kitchen which had mice and cockroaches in it. I still have occasion to visit that office sometimes, and now I avoid having any tea or coffee they offer.
Frequent vertigo as a teenager - the sensation of spinning unless you don't move AT ALL is really unpleasant, especially when you have a bunk bed and need to go to the toilet which is right by the top of the stairs
I still get it sometimes, but at least now it doesn't last for 36 hours at a time.

 

[gbb]

After an unfortunate accident i p1ssed blood and got home with a large red patch on the front of my trousers.
Hospital pronto, and i can remember laying there with spasms going through my body and each time it happened more blood p1ssed out. Pain like nothing on earth. Morphine injections were my best friend for the next week.

6 hours surgery, 2 weeks in hospital, 2 months off work, very slow recovery for the next year (very light duties at work), and 10 years later i still hadnt got full control over my bladder.
15 years later...it occured to me i actually HAD got control of my bladder back. I still get a sore prostate, but i've got a nice parting in my pubic hair
Its a scary thought, if it had happened in days gone by...i'd have been a goner.

I asked the doc a few years ago if it was a permanent repair...'oh no, you'll probably need to have it done again...maybe after 25 years'
It was 20 years at that point.
Its now 32 years since the surgery...here's hoping



On the plus side, i've been lucky and had good health. Only ever had flu twice, and nothing else worthy of mention.

 

[4F]

Glandular fever when I was 19, I slept for almost a week - but given that I was a student at the time very few people noticed any difference.

Yep had that. I had just been over to watch the Le Mans 24 hour race and thought it was the hot weather making me tired. It felt very weird going to bed on a Sunday and only waking up Tuesday afternoon. Took several months to get over it.

 

[meenaghman]

a girl name Mel.. she broke my heart !

 

[Lisa21]

my sympathies Lisa. Until you've had that you don't know what pain is
I knocked on my Dr's door at midnight and threatened to kill myself unless she gave me some morphine would have done too i reckon

Probably I was not taken seriously by my Doc for ages...untill I was taken to A&E as id smacked my head against the wall hard enough to knock myself out, to get away from the pain. He believed me then