What's the maddest disease or illness you've ever had? What was it like?

Answer 1

the maddest disease... pneumonia.
not very interesting i know.
it sucked big time, basically. nonstop coughing. with a fever i think.

Answer 2

Without a doubt...Lyme Disease! In the early stage it is like recurrant flu. Later stages mimic every illness you can think of. I was sick for about 12 years before finally diagnosed and by that time The symptom were, beleive it or not:
*dementia so bad I could not remember my kids. I got lost when driving and could not remember how to get home.
*Severe pain every where, every muscle, every joint, head, even the bottom of my feet, I could not walk any more.
* Loss of the ability to sleep
* unable to eat due to enlarged glands and I lived on milk shakes for months till I could not even drink.
* My back was a mass of blood red and black bruises.

These are just some. go to this web site and be sure to beware and take precautions.

The Lyme Disease Foundation
PO Box 332
Tolland, CT 06084-0332
Phone: [phone] Fax: [phone]
24 Hour Hotline: 800-886-LYME (5963)
email: [e-mail]

http://www.lyme.org/

Answer 3

this wasn't my most painful illness, just the weirdest one since it had no explanation. gradually over a period of time I got huge lumps on the front of my legs down my shins. they were painful to touch and didn't have a head on them (like from a bite). they went purple and hung around for weeks. My GP had no idea what they were and even sent me for a chest xray for TB! eventually they went away (about 2 months later) but where they had been they left bruises which stayed for over a year - i'm not kidding! the strangest thing is that my identical twin sister got exactly the same thing the very next summer! I might post this as a question to see if anyone has any ideas what it was.

My Brother had glandular fever and coughed up a thing from the back of his throat which was the size of a large marble and had black and green stringy tenticles coming off it. the GP sent it away for annalysis and apparently it came back normal!

Answer 4

Chronic Fatigue Syndrome.
My GP kept doing the range of blood tests every week. First he said I had a bad flu when my white blood cell count was 320:1.
(This was the third week of illness). I had over-the-counter meds already, so he gave me strong meds, and said I should get well in a week.
The next week the white cell reached 640:1, and he said, sorry, it was mononuculeosis, gave stronger meds and said next week I should be better in a week. At this point, between the meds and illness, I could only stay awake 5 hours a day.
The next week, when my white cell reacheed 1280:1, he said I was depressed. (Sickly for 6 weeks? Nuh!) He said it was not a medical condition, but I needed a shrink. Some tramatic event had caused my depressed brain to sicken me.
Thankfully I found a doctor who knew what Chronic Fatigue was, (he was a specialist). So I finally got over it after months of sickness. I was just so glad I got a second opinion, but for a few days, I thought I must be going crazy.

Answer 5

As funny as it may sound... I dislocated my little toe. It looked as if it was growing 45 degrees outwards and an inch below its normal place...
The impact that caused the dislocation was so strong that tre toe could have easily been torn off...

My whole foot was bruised and swollen up to the ankle (the ankle was not swollen though). The bruises lasted for a month. During that period, I couldn't walk. When I managed to get up, I had impaired balance and the toe was practically paralysed. Healing took 3months.

This happened in January 2001. I still get pain and twitches every now and then, after 5.5 years...

Answer 6

Guillain-Barre. My brother had this disease when he was 13 years old. It is usually brought on by respiratory infection, causing loss of reflexes beginning in the legs. Its very progressive and can move to all the limbs. It was 1964. Our family had taken a vacation to Houston and we were going to a Astro game at the dome. My brother had not felt good when he woke up that morning, but nothing was going to stop him from going to the game that night. And it didn't. He walked in to the dome, but when the game was over, this disease had progressed so fast that he could not walk out, he was wheeled out in a wheel chair. By the next day, he was worse. My parents took him to Texas Medical Center. He was tested for everything. They thought he might have polio. The symptoms are very close. Being as this was a unknown disease they had very little info on it. In fact if memory serves me right, he was somewhere in the first 100 cases ever diagnoised. By the next day he was much worse, the disease had moved to his torso, and he could not breathe. They put him in an iron lung, which he lived in for the next 6 months. He recovered but had to relearn do everything from walking, all the way to feeding hisself. He never recovered all the way. Franklin D. Roosevelt, it was said that he probably actually had Guillain-Barre instead of Polio. But medical researchers knew nothing of this, that far back. I have "Pituitary Adenoma". Its a tumor at the base of the brain on the pituitary gland. Which I will be having surgery for soon. Ooouuch! The procedures is done threw the right nostril in the nose. I am so not looking forward to this! My family has been dealing with weird diseases for decades. My sister had "Herpes-Gestation". The last 6 week of her preganacy the body and the babies body were not compatiable, and it acted like allergic reaction. She had blister from her neck down to her feet. She looked as though she had been burned badly. They actually took pictures of her for some medical books. The blistersy appeared 6 weeks before the baby was born, and lasted until 6 weeks after the baby was born. When it finally went away, there was no scaring on any signs that she had ever had it. My son at age 10 was diagnoised with "Legg-Perthes". His ball joint in his right leg had deteriated due to no blood circulation. The Doctors do not know how he is walking with out this ball joint. But not only does he walk, but he is very active in sports. He is a medical marvel. This disease was very painful in the beginning, and he had to wear a A frame brace for a year. The brace looked like the letter A. It was very hard for him to move in that brace but managed it, and kept his spirits pretty even. He is 30 now and will have to have a hip replacement because of this. This is about it, for madd diseases at this point in my family,....."Thank You God!"

Answer 7

I once had this weird nondescript flu/fever - no idea what it was, but I woke up about 3am that morning and I felt really paranoid and afraid. I switched my light on but that only made it worse, as I have some soft toys in my room, and I thought they were all staring at me, and this totally freaked me out!!
I then escaped downstairs and I couldn't sleep for the rest of the night. I sat there rigid on the sofa, too afraid to do anything as things looked like they were moving around or staring at me...

I've never had anything like it before or since, and have never taken drugs. I also had not been drinking. But apparently certain virus/flu types can trigger moments of "secondary psychosis," and I believe that's what I had!

Answer 8

H-Pylori
A virus that eats away the lining of the stomache. It was horrible. Lost 35 pounds in 3 weeks, couldn't eat. On very aggresive antibiotic therapy. From that i got gastropereses, thought I had lymphoma, was sick for 3 years, finaly got diagnosed 7 months ago with type 2 diabetes. Blood glucose level over 600.

Answer 9

Necrotizinfg Fasciitis almost a year ago now ..post a surgical procedure. A 6 week stay in hospital and looing alot of my hair afterwards because of the medications I had to have to save my life.

Answer 10

My retina in my right eye became detached when I fell down in a rugby game. As I can only see with my right eye, it was downright horrifiying as darkness fell upon me.

My mates carried me to the nearby university hospital and on a Christmas Day, they lasered my retina back in place!