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What is the worst medical condition, illness or injury you have ever had? I had a heart attack at 53.

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Posted - March 2, 2018
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  • 16732
    A ruptured intervertebral disc in my lower back. Carried it for several years, with increasing pain and disability. I was hobbling on a stick (couldn't fully straighten my back or left knee), addicted to opioid painkillers, unable to hold down a job or drive a car, forced to sell my home (couldn't afford the mortgage while on a disability pension) - and I was still less than 40 when I got to that stage.
    Took me years to find a neurosurgeon who was prepared to operate - and while in recovery my BP crashed, needed an adrenaline shot and half a unit. However, a fortnight later I was off the drugs and running again.
      March 2, 2018 3:42 PM MST
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  • 44583
    You were quite fortunate. I have the same problems with my back and the surgeons are reluctant to do the surgery. I refuse to take opioids. Today was a bad day. The pain was so great I almost fell down a few times.
      March 2, 2018 3:47 PM MST
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  • 16732
    Without the painkillers I was unable to function at all. I ran out once when my doctor was on vacation - I couldn't sleep for a week, and by the end of that week I was hallucinating. Scary stuff, sleep deprivation is the pits.
    Keep hammering away at the medicos, "nothing can be done" is a cop-out. They tried everything short of surgery first - physiotherapy, ultrasonic therapy, acupuncture, epidurals, corticosteroid injections, sclerosis - maybe one of those might help. Even one of those back-stretching things where you hang upside-down at an oblique angle. That gave me temporary relief for a brief period.
      March 2, 2018 4:16 PM MST
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  • 46117
    My eye.  I had a macular hole in it. 

      March 2, 2018 3:51 PM MST
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  • 666
    I broke a rib or two when I fell on a stump.
    I hit a tree in a vehicle and my head cracked the windshield when I was 17.
    My right hand got pinned under the roll cage on a odyssey when I was 12. It ripped all the skin off of the top of my hand.
    I hit the back of my head on the corner of a dresser one night and it bled for a long time.


    This post was edited by Summer at March 3, 2018 7:18 AM MST
      March 2, 2018 4:04 PM MST
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  • 10980
    I broke both my arms at the same time and needed two surgeries, one of which was a shoulder replacement.
      March 2, 2018 5:23 PM MST
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  • 5808
    Good Health 
    may it be with you
    always
      March 2, 2018 5:46 PM MST
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  • Oh, I have an old wrist injury. :P
      March 2, 2018 6:37 PM MST
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  • 44583
    Switch hands.
      March 3, 2018 7:18 AM MST
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  • AND turn my hand around backwards, makes it feel like someone else is....never mind. :P
      March 3, 2018 7:21 AM MST
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  • 44583
    That hurts just thinking about it.
      March 3, 2018 7:23 AM MST
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  • Things do tend to get a little raw sometimes.
      March 3, 2018 7:28 AM MST
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  • 2327
    Anxiety. 
      March 2, 2018 8:06 PM MST
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  • 44583
    Anxiety relief:
      March 3, 2018 7:32 AM MST
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  • 53485


      Marriage counts, right?

    (What did I win?)

    ~
      March 2, 2018 8:27 PM MST
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  • 46117
    Derision.

      March 2, 2018 9:16 PM MST
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  • 44583
    A long agonizing death.
      March 3, 2018 7:19 AM MST
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  • 53485


      A thousand cuts, right?
      ~
      March 3, 2018 7:26 AM MST
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  • 44583
    Those are less painful.
      March 3, 2018 7:42 AM MST
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  • 7789
    Depression. Kill me now PLEASE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
      March 2, 2018 9:17 PM MST
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  • 44583
    Maybe this will help:
      March 3, 2018 7:44 AM MST
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  • 13395
    1st stage lung cancer diagnosis 2 years ago,  tumor removed by surgery -I am still in remission and having a follow up CT scan every 6 months. 

    Bout with pneumonia this January,  in hospital for 2 days then taking antibiotics for 2 weeks afterwards. 
      March 2, 2018 10:23 PM MST
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  • I was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis at 18, but honestly my bpd has had the most negative impact on my life and been the most disruptive.

    in terms of physical pain, it was probably that time I was given tapering doses of steroids when I left the hospital after a relapse. They gave me the worst pain all over my body, it was like having a Charlie horse in every single muscle. They gave me Vicodin to help but all it did was constipate me  This post was edited by Benedict Arnold at March 3, 2018 7:20 AM MST
      March 2, 2018 10:47 PM MST
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  • Head injury and a hernia that's been repaired twice.
      March 3, 2018 7:31 AM MST
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