For the purposes of this question cancer is excluded. So is HIV (even though it is a virus).
I have been out to the world, but never really in danger.
2006-09-22 08:05:05 · 17 answers · asked by Perseus 3 in Health ➔ Diseases & Conditions ➔ Infectious Diseases
Inlfuenza. Had it last year at age 34, i couldn't even stand up some days, had trouble beathing to the point that when i could get to sleep i would wake up unable to breath at all until i got on all fours and relxed, being unable to breath is utterly terrifying because you can't even speak or move to tell someone.
My chest felt like it had a huge weight on it most of the time, literally it felt like I had a huge person sitting on me, add to that constant running nose, no appetite etc. Get your flu jabs before winter starts!
One of my friends had dysentry in India several years ago, it started when he was in a rural area on a bus and the passengers forced him off the bus and left him there. He found a nearby village and they made him live in a hut just outside the main houses and fed him everyday but woouldn't go near him. They also gave him " brown and white lumps to eat" which stopped the diahorrea and pain but unfortunatly they turned out to be opium.
When he got back to civilisation his insurance company flew him home, when he got back he was around 7stone (100lbs/50kgish), he is over 6 foot tall so he looked like a famine victim and was also messed up from the opium withdrawal. Bad holiday really.
2006-09-22 08:25:24 · answer #1 · answered by The Pirate Captain 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I had chicken pox in my mid thirties and have never been so ill. At one point I thought I was dying - all my extremities went through a strange feeling of violent shaking then went numb and I collapsed. The funny thing was that I played in one of the UK's top brass bands at the time (Cory) and were just a couple of weeks away from a major competition in Munich, and since the doctor told me to take 5 weeks to recover, I phoned the conductor to deliver the bad news that they would have to find another solo horn. I was told they wouldn't be able to get someone else so I had to play - which I did!! Feeling ill and covered in very unattractive marks! That's dedication for you - or rank stupidity! Looking back I'm definitley sure it was the latter! Sorry for the rambling!
2006-09-22 08:24:14 · answer #2 · answered by Michael T 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Food poisoning! Never eat a sandwich with mayonaise that has been sitting out for too long... biggest mistake of my life! I was so dizzy that I couldn't even stand up! I was sick for 3 days! Not to mention how long it took for me to throw up. I had a terrible stomach ache for 3 hours, but everytime I bent over the toilet, nothing came out. And when it did come out, it wasn't pretty. I sounded like I was being murdered.
2006-09-22 08:07:24 · answer #3 · answered by Caribbean Blue 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Reiter's syndrome a virus, which can result from infection from dirty water or sexual transmission. It affects men rather than women the pain in the joints is horrendeous a bit like rhuematoid arthritis and there can be added complications
2006-09-22 08:23:47 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Haven't got a clue what it was but i caught it in Morocco
very sick for a couple of days, went from roasting hot, not knowing who i was, what i was doing etc and sweating like nobody's business to freezing cold in a moment. Would stumble over the numerous cockroaches to the picturesque, stained hole in the floor and empty my liquid bowels, back to bed (sleeping bag on a concrete floor), pass out for what seemed like a couple of hours but went through this cycle in pure delerium about 50 times in what seemed like a never ending night.
Okay that was bad- watch out for the lamb dinners in Morocco but the wierdest part about it was that each year it came back - around about the same time of year but a little bit less bad each year. Haven't had it for few years now but will never forget that night- it was like i was in another dimension lol
2006-09-22 08:20:01 · answer #5 · answered by Icarus 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
a million.) Mononucleosis is seen a viral ailment simply by fact it extremely is led to by a pandemic. That virus may be the Epstein-Barr virus, a sort of herpesvirus. 2.) Aseptic meningitis is precisely what the words point out: meningitis without sepsis simply by fact the prefix "a-" ability "lacking or without".
2016-10-17 11:16:31 · answer #6 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Just the comon cold virus can make you feel like crap, bacterial sinus infections can also lay you low.
2006-09-22 08:08:14 · answer #7 · answered by bramblerock 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Influenza. Utter hell.
I puked my guts out, ached all over, felt really dizzy, and just basically wanted to die for 8 days.
2006-09-22 08:13:09 · answer #8 · answered by dolphinluver22000 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Cocci Meningitis!
It damn near killed me, some doctors were of the opinion that I was way too far gone. But he I'm still here (I was nine at the time).
2006-09-22 08:14:36 · answer #9 · answered by Alzebub 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Mono sucks
2006-09-22 08:07:28 · answer #10 · answered by ? 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋