What's the sickest you've been?

One eyed Jack · 21-01-2016 10:50PM

Never had anything really serious, had that noro-virus thing when it was going around a few years back too, had what I figured had to be food poisoning once, didn't know which way was up, but the bathroom sink was one way and the toilet was the other, and I dared not confuse one for the other!! :pac:

Azalea · 21-01-2016 10:52PM

nacho libre wrote: »

16 years ago i ended up in hospital because of the flu.i started to suffer shortness of breath and my temperature was dangerously high. i was confined to bed for two weeks, even getting up to go the toilet was a struggle.

Yup, you hold on as long as you can, and then when you cannot anymore, you have to crawl to the loo, which is a struggle. Your legs feel like lead.
It's not surprising that it's so dangerous for old people - I can definitely see how the life of a person with a weakened immune system would be in danger if they got the 'flu.

Gael23 · 21-01-2016 10:56PM

Sickest I can remember was an impacted Bowel 2 years ago. The most crippling pain that I hope I ever have to experience. Added the the incredible nausea I really thought I was heading for hospital.
As a small child I had something more serious but I was too young to know what was going on.

osarusan · 21-01-2016 10:59PM

Swine Flu.

Azalea · 21-01-2016 11:02PM

One eyed Jack wrote: »

the bathroom sink was one way and the toilet was the other, and I dared not confuse one for the other!! :pac:

The "both ends" thing must be appalling. I've never known the "joy".

How the fuq do people negotiate the logistics of that one - it's not like they haven't got enough on their minds! :pac:

Nomis21 · 21-01-2016 11:12PM

About 4 years ago I looked in the mirror and I noticed the whites of my eyes had turned yellow. Went off straight to the doc and said get over to the hospital ASAP. I wasn't feeling that sick but took his advice. The hospital kept me in for tests. Next day I started to feel very unwell, nausea, vomiting and my poo had turned white.

Often jaundice means liver or pancreas cancer but turns out I had contracted Hepatitis B. My gf at the time came to visit me in hospital and admitted to me that she had Hep B fifteen years ago and when also tested by the hospital , it turns out she was a carrier of the virus. She also admitted to the doctor in front of me that she was a former intravenous drug user.

I'm not a drinker and my liver was in good shape so I recovered relatively quickly. I was given an HIV test and passed, but the waiting for results is nerve-racking The worse part of the whole business is that I have to inform any doctors or dentists whenever I am treated for anything that I have had the disease, they then sometimes ask if I am a heroin or other drug user and give me disparaging disbelieving looks.

Azalea · 21-01-2016 11:23PM

Nomis21 wrote: »

My gf at the time came to visit me in hospital and admitted to me that she had Hep B fifteen years ago and when also tested by the hospital , it turns out she was a carrier of the virus. She also admitted to the doctor in front of me that she was a former intravenous drug user.

:eek:

Glad to read you're ok.

Canterelle · 21-01-2016 11:30PM

Ok so tell me what I've had the last week; shivering, temp, worst of all poss aches in every last bone in my bod, along with bad cough. It's not a 'cold' , I thought that was flu virus?

o1s1n · 21-01-2016 11:30PM

Severe Crohn's Disease when I was 21. Couldn't eat anything and could only drink those Ensure Plus drinks for about two years. Must have lost nearly three stone in weight. The daily pain was unbelievable. Spent more time in and out of hospital than I can really remember.

In the end I'd to have a foot of intestine removed. Turns out I'd a really large obstruction in the form of an abscess. The surgeon apologized after he removed it for making me wait so long, didn't realize how bad it was.

Thankfully the surgery instantly cured me and it's been fine now for 10 years. (fingers crossed! :eek:)

Medusa22 · 21-01-2016 11:32PM

I got the flu a few years ago, I have Cystic Fibrosis so I ended up in hospital for six weeks altogether with pneumonia after it. The flu was very unpleasant but I was actually sitting up and showering and getting dressed within a couple of days. A nurse actually told me it couldn't be the flu because I could move around a bit but the swab came back as influenza A so I definitely had it. To be honest the flu wasn't nearly as bad as the pneumonia that hit my chest the week after, I was breathless getting out of bed, brushing my teeth. My oxygen saturations dropped every time I walked but I still had to walk every day with the physios and my lung function was less than 50%.

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1 · 21-01-2016 11:33PM

Where are all the hypochondriacs on boards?

I worked with a guy who was never well. Always a complaint. Chronic asthma when someone in the team was diagnosed. Aches and pains any time you asked how he was. If you were tired he thought he might have ME. The ladies in the group were waiting for him to say he needed a hysterectomy after one of them had one.

He's now over 90 and fit as a flea but just don't ask him how he's feeling because he'll tell you he should be in bed.........

WhiteWalls · 21-01-2016 11:37PM

Reading some of those posts about being sick it proves that your health really is your wealth

21-01-2016 11:39PM

Azalea wrote: »

The "both ends" thing must be appalling. I've never known the "joy".

How the fuq do people negotiate the logistics of that one - it's not like they haven't got enough on their minds! :pac:

I distinctly remember being glad the bathroom bin was solid plastic during one particularly distressing dual event. Stomach bugs are dreadful things to endure. Your muscles ache from the retching too.

I've had flu once, couldn't have told you my own name and was out cold for a week. Lost 5kg in seven days. I've had pneumonia twice, the last time just before Christmas and I thought I was drowning with every breath and got admitted. Awful stuff.

Was (I'm told) 30 minutes from death from meningococcal meningitis a few years ago, I can only remember sharp instances of headache and a face asking me what day it was, like I cared at that stage. Only my brothers decisive actions saved my life, it progressed so quickly. It's mostly a blur of nightmares and agonising pain when I opened my eyes, and the sound of someone crying.

A year later I had a mild dose of viral meningitis, it was a walk in the park compared to the flu.

I fainted from period pain in my kitchen last Friday, I'm black and blue from the impact on the tile floor.

At the moment I've a runny nose and a sore throat, but I'm getting on with things like a boss.

Lisha · 21-01-2016 11:41PM

Azalea wrote: »

Crikey. The feeling of guilt is awful - easy for me to say but you shouldn't feel that way, it's not your fault. Friends of mine who get bad migraines describe actually experiencing short stints of blindness, and having to grip the walls to walk anywhere. Must be terrifying.

I got two migraines ever, and they were very mild compared to what you have experienced, but they were still awful - you just have to go to bed, nothing else for it.

Yeah I've gotten the aura/vision thing too. In my case it's like I'm looking ahead but certain zones are not there. It's like what I'm seeing is a jigsaw but certain pieces are missing. It can be severe but thankfully might not last longer than 15mins. I was walking up a long corridor in work and it was like walking on a boat. Sense of perception is totally off. Very weird experience. Sometimes that might be it no headache will follow. Which is amazing.

It's been so great to have had so few migraines the last few years. I can't fully pinpoint what changed but here's hoping they don't return so often. I had a very bad one last November, was severe. My husband was so freaked out. He really wouldn't like to see them back again .

Thanks for all the sympathy it's much appreciated. But I used to think of those who were sick with a disease that was terminal. At least I always knew that there was nothing seriously wrong with me that the symptoms would ease eventually.

On the guilt thing, it's not logical I know but what can you do. Thanks .
Onwards and upwards.

sdanseo · 21-01-2016 11:42PM

Just got over a horrible dose of full-blown flu which followed on from a 10-day cold. I can only imagine my immune system was ballsed up from Christmas.

Left the bed once after four days to visit the GP when the cough didn't stop, to be told I'd a bad chest infection as well and got an antibiotic (must have been a form of pneumonia as most of the rest are viral).

Deeply unpleasant. Not 100% still, a week later, less energy than I should have and still coughing.

PaddyWilliams · 21-01-2016 11:43PM

The sickest I have been was when I was born with pneumonia. Baptized a few hours after in the hospital and parents were told to expect the worst as I wouldn't last the night. Thankfully made it through and spent the 1st 2 months of my life in hospital. Got a dose of it again at 5 months old.. I was born Friday the 13th so that probably didn't help.

Other than that, I got a viral infection about 12 years ago and couldn't move for a week. Had to be lifted to the jacks and could just about barely feed myself. Fun times!

suicide_circus · 21-01-2016 11:44PM

I ollied my skateboard down 15 feet of railing. That was pretty sick.

Azalea · 21-01-2016 11:46PM

Lisha wrote: »

Yeah I've gotten the aura/vision thing too. In my case it's like I'm looking ahead but certain zones are not there. It's like what I'm seeing is a jigsaw but certain pieces are missing. It can be severe but thankfully might not last longer than 15mins. I was walking up a long corridor in work and it was like walking on a boat. Sense of perception is totally off. Very weird experience. Sometimes that might be it no headache will follow. Which is amazing.

It's been so great to have had so few migraines the last few years. I can't fully pinpoint what changed but here's hoping they don't return so often. I had a very bad one last November, was severe. My husband was so freaked out. He really wouldn't like to see them back again .

Thanks for all the sympathy it's much appreciated. But I used to think of those who were sick with a disease that was terminal. At least I always knew that there was nothing seriously wrong with me that the symptoms would ease eventually.

And at least you're not alone too - quite a lot of people suffer from severe migraine and it seems shyte for ruining things like social events, which I know isn't a massive deal in the wider scheme of things, but it's disappointing no doubt.
Yeah the visual thing is because of blind blobs in front of your eyes isn't it, so you only see things partially?

Great to read it's improving for you anyway!

Joeseph Balls · 21-01-2016 11:48PM

beks101 wrote: »

So like many people I am currently suffering with a January flu to end all January flues.

My ears are ringing, my throat is full of razorblades, I haven't eaten any solids for about four days, my voice has gone MIA, my temperature varies from 500 to -500 C every five minutes and I've been coughing up all sorts of sh1t night and day. This post is a bloody struggle and is about all the energy I have right now. In fact i might die any second.

So needless to say the self-pity is at an all time high. I need some stories to put me in my place. The more gruesome and disturbing and TMI the better.

What's the sickest you've been AH?

Sounds like a mild dose of Man flu

Wesser · 21-01-2016 11:50PM

When you say your temperature is varying from -500 to +500. , it makes me think you are ever so slightly exaggerating,.... Therefore makes one think all the symptoms you describe are exaggerated, and therefore the diagnosis of man flu.

Dan Jaman · 21-01-2016 11:52PM

beks101 wrote: »

I need some stories to put me in my place. The more gruesome and disturbing and TMI the better.

What's the sickest you've been AH?

In '92 I was struck by a mystery infection that had me squitting and vomiting for about three / four weeks. The weight dropped off me, I was actually hallucinating zig-zaggy stripes, weak as a kitten, running a fever all the time, shivering fit to bust and having attacks of rigors left, right and centre.
After a straight talk with my doc, he told me that if the test results continued the way they were going, I had about a fortnight left before this mortal coil was fecked off good an proper.
My GP arranged for me to be admitted to an isolation ward at the local hospital, where more tests were done (isolation was a joke, with dirty sheets, nurses coming and going with not a proper precaution in sight anywhere), and the downhill trend continued.
I was actually fairly sanguine about it, believe it or not - as far as I was concerned at that point, I'd done all I could, and so had all the medics.
Anyway, after about four days of feeling utterly crap, I woke up on the Thursday morning feeling full of beans and on top of the world. Somehow, my system had won the fight and I was on the mend. I was still as weak as dishwater and had no real energy but from that point on, I just continued to build my strength back up.

Oh yes; you know what the infection was? E-Coli - a totally foreign strain.

Bonzo Delaney · 21-01-2016 11:53PM

About 8 years ago I was on my stags
I wouldn't of been a great consumer of large quantities of alcohol at the best of times but the gods gave me a free pass for the two days ( the only way I can explain it)
A lot of the lads who would of generally left me passed out at the bar of a night out I left them for dead couldn't get enough of the booze in to me.
The Sunday morning got up got breakfast grand enough considering.
Felt like a legend. 48 hrs of solid drinking last man standing an all. Then on the train back from Cork to Kildare. Bang Jesus H Christ headaches stomach pains dry reach couldn't vomit but green goo for a man of 30 I cried half the way home with the pain. I've had bad hangovers but this was a different beast altogether.
Was left home and put to the bed in a feverish state it was about 3 days after before I was anyway right at all after that. I know self inflicted and not an illness as such never really sick bar the odd cold luckily. But that was the closest to death I've ever felt. Haven't done a session since. 5 pints is my max.

Lisha · 21-01-2016 11:55PM

Azalea wrote: »

And at least you're not alone too - quite a lot of people suffer from severe migraine and it seems shyte for ruining things like social events, which I know isn't a massive deal in the wider scheme of things, but it's disappointing no doubt.
Yeah the visual thing is because of blind blobs in front of your eyes isn't it, so you only see things partially?

Great to read it's improving for you anyway!

Thanks.
On the visual thing it's like my perifieral vision is affected. A very yeuch experience

21-01-2016 11:58PM

Lisha wrote: »

Thanks.
On the visual thing it's like my perifieral vision is affected. A very yeuch experience

I get that too with a migraine. I sometimes go blind from the outside half of my right eye, sometimes both. It's a very disturbing thing, even when you know what it is.

Glad you're improving.

Azalea · 22-01-2016 12:01AM

Canterelle wrote: »

Ok so tell me what I've had the last week; shivering, temp, worst of all poss aches in every last bone in my bod, along with bad cough. It's not a 'cold' , I thought that was flu virus?

I dunno. A doctor told me once that it's not influenza until the patient cannot get out of bed/can barely walk if they really have to. Has that been the case for you?

Some colds can be absolutely miserable too in fairness. I got one last year that was so bad I thought I was getting the 'flu, but it cleared quickly thanks to lots of bed-rest. Still needed to take two days off work though.

Would it be a chest infection maybe? Those can be vicious things. As can bad sinusitis.

Azalea · 22-01-2016 12:03AM

Dan Jaman wrote: »

In '92 I was struck by a mystery infection that had me squitting and vomiting for about three / four weeks. The weight dropped off me, I was actually hallucinating zig-zaggy stripes, weak as a kitten, running a fever all the time, shivering fit to bust and having attacks of rigors left, right and centre.
After a straight talk with my doc, he told me that if the test results continued the way they were going, I had about a fortnight left before this mortal coil was fecked off good an proper.
My GP arranged for me to be admitted to an isolation ward at the local hospital, where more tests were done (isolation was a joke, with dirty sheets, nurses coming and going with not a proper precaution in sight anywhere), and the downhill trend continued.
I was actually fairly sanguine about it, believe it or not - as far as I was concerned at that point, I'd done all I could, and so had all the medics.
Anyway, after about four days of feeling utterly crap, I woke up on the Thursday morning feeling full of beans and on top of the world. Somehow, my system had won the fight and I was on the mend. I was still as weak as dishwater and had no real energy but from that point on, I just continued to build my strength back up.

Oh yes; you know what the infection was? E-Coli - a totally foreign strain.

Fuq! :eek:

DJ90 · 22-01-2016 12:03AM

Ted_YNWA wrote: »

That's nothing.

I was sick as a small hospital last year.

I'll go one further. I was once as sick as a small African village.

LETHAL LADY · 22-01-2016 12:10AM

Nothing exotic, but a chicken royale from burger king nearly finished me off once. I've had food poisoning before but this was something else. Over a week of vomiting and the rest left me as weak as a kitten. What made things worse was it started on what was meant to be a romantic night away with my husband for my birthday (that plan went down the drain quickly :pac:) and the following week was my last week in a job so I couldn't even phone in sick on the Monday. I did lose over half a stone so I suppose every cloud and all that.

Other than that, I've had two major operations and a blood clot nearly killed me once, but they were a walk in the park compared to the eruptions suffered from a dodgy bit of grub.

Azalea · 22-01-2016 12:21AM

It's both hilarious and a bit of a pity that some women (me included) are delighted about the weight-loss despite such misery. :pac:

I remember the norovirus just for a few days dropped lbs off me - but it was Christmas so it piled right back on.

Pretzill · 22-01-2016 12:23AM

Migraine is a f*cker! Had many but one was so bad I was hallucinating from the pain - Doctor gave me morphine the relief was so good even though the drugs made me throw up - I went through a period of bad migraines, which meant I lost sight, feelings in my limbs as well, scarier than the headache - eventually I discovered coffee was my trigger haven't had a coffee in over a decade haven't had a scary migraine since - (virtually touches wood)

Asthma got scary too at one point during an attack and trying to get to the doc in the early hours of the morning I couldn't tie my shoelaces I was so short of breath - I would rank breathlessness, and bad headache as two of the worst parts of any illness - well I suppose any bad pain is the worst but struggling for breath is cruel.

What's the sickest you've been?

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