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 08/13/2006 01:26:03 AM · #76
Migraines from the age 10 (still get them and they SUCK!) Only been hospitalized 3 times for them tho.

The absolute worst pain would have to be the pulmonary embolism I had 5 years ago. Woke up in the middle of the night with a pain that can only be described as excruitating. I would take childbirth any day over that pain. Couldnt breathe and couldnt move. Very scary. Apparently the clot stopped at my lung, next stop was my brain where I would either be dead or have a stroke.
My advice to all who have surgery is to keep mobile, if you noticed any pain that is not part of the surgery get it looked at immediately. I very nearly didnt and who knows what would of happened.
 08/13/2006 01:36:10 AM · #77
I've been relatively healthy during my 32 years. I've had to deal with "minor" depression since I was a teenager, and I have some social anxiety issues which I inadvertantly made worse through my 20s by the ease of internet socializing.

I blew out my left knee in a snowboarding accident about 9 years ago. Took nearly 2 years to fully heal, and I can no longer engage in activities that put jarring stress on the knee. I'm still an avid hiker, but there are days when the pain is so intense I wonder if I'll make it down the mountain.

Message edited by author 2006-08-13 02:44:52.
 08/13/2006 02:32:47 AM · #78
(aside from the CFS mentioned above)

I spent a week in the hospital when I was in my early twenties because I cought a racket ball with my eye - straight of the racket (a serve no less). It broke my iris and my eye filled with blood instantly. I was hospitalized to make sure the pressure from the bleed didn't build up so much as to render me permanently blind. It was weird because when the blood had drained just a little past half way mt eye acted like a snow globe. I'd wake up in the morning and be able to see because the blood had pooled in the bottom of my eye. As soon as I moved around the the blood would mix up and coat my eye so I was blind again. I can see fine now though.

Then there was the usual kid stuff. Second degree burns on my nose, arm and butt (don't ask, and yes they were separate incidents). Dislocated both my knees tearing all the ligaments. Tore the upper and lower heads of my right bicept, the muscle in my left bicept and my left deltoid. Sprained my ankle bad enough to merit a cast, but I didn't like the cast so I cut it off with a pair of lopers. Hit in the head with a rock - 5 stitches. Had a nail driven through my ear when I was 3. That's all I can remember of the "big" stuff.

The CFS is by far the worst though.
 08/13/2006 03:43:18 AM · #79
I have been a chronic insomniac for years. The side effects of not sleeping properly as you can imagine are awful. Constantly feeling tired and sleepy. Apparently, my brain doesn't produce enough serotonin and due to that I tend to get mildly depressed. Not a biggy - that can be controlled with medication, but my sleep never gets better. I can go for days without any sleep, but then I usually collapse.

But the worst pain of all in my life has been a "broken heart". Loosing someone dear to me, that has been the hardest pain to live through. We usually don't think of emotional hurt as serious illness, but it sure can hurt as hell! It's hard to breathe sometimes how upset I've been - crying for hours until I have no tears... It just sucks.
 08/13/2006 03:51:56 AM · #80
add me to the Fibromyalgia/CFS group...along with a side order of rheumatoid arthritis and the first stages of MS. then throw in an extra helping of migraines. ugh.

also blew out my knee a few years ago. the doc said he's seen pro football players with blown knees that didn't have as much damage as mine. i tore/broke everything...ACL, MCL, broken kneecap, plateau tibia fracture and all the cartilage. had 3 surgeries to fix everything except the MCL...that still gives me problems from time to time.

suffering with a bit of depression lately (ok, more that a bit) and currently have a fever of 102.4 with a sinus infection.

but, i have it better than a lot of folks and i thank God every day for the blessings in my life. :)
 08/13/2006 05:05:07 AM · #81
Nearly two years ago I was diagnosed with Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy , I'd never heard of it before I was diagnosed but its quite a common thing! It affects my nervous system with swelling, unable to move certain limbs and chronic pain..When I was first diagnosed it was just my left hand/arm now I get it in both arms and legs/feet.. The pain is always there and Im limited to what I do, hence all the home studio shots as I dont really drive and I am very much a homebody!

Message edited by author 2006-08-13 05:09:14.
 08/13/2006 09:32:39 AM · #82
Originally posted by Joey Lawrence:
Originally posted by karmabreeze:
Originally posted by Joey Lawrence:
I had a speech problem and couldn't talk until I was around 7 years old, then it got a little better. Everything would come out in a stutter and people would give up on talking to me. I had to take speaking lessons for a few years and now you can't even notice.


Hah, I started speech therapy when I was two and I think that continued up until around the second or third grade. I was never traumatized by it or anything.

Kids picked on me and I had no friends. :-)


my observation from school, growing up ect. is that those that fit in the least in their youth end up being the most interesting/and or/successful people later on.
 08/13/2006 09:44:28 AM · #83
SHeesh, some of you guys are wa-ay worse off then me. I admire everyones tenacity.

I wanted to thank you guys who have also had dislocated bits...I thought I was a wimp, all I have ever heard is "Oh ya, just pop it back in and off you go"
Hardly...4 shots of morphine, almost 3 weeks in a splint and now physio. I never even broke any bones before, I am amazed at how tought it was!

The rest of ya..Hang in there!!

Message edited by author 2006-08-13 09:45:10.
 08/13/2006 11:13:14 AM · #84
Originally posted by saintaugust:


my observation from school, growing up ect. is that those that fit in the least in their youth end up being the most interesting/and or/successful people later on.


Very true. Quite often the "popular" kids from high school are still there in the home town, and have never quite gotten past that stage.

I'm betting Bill Gates got picked on in school....
 08/13/2006 12:15:08 PM · #85
Originally posted by Melethia:
I'm betting Bill Gates got picked on in school....

Yeah, what a geek :P
 08/13/2006 11:27:39 PM · #86
...right now i'm so sunburnt from being at a beer festival all day.

i've drank plenty of water since i got home, feeling a bit better.

my face is the shade of a side of beef. raw.
08/13/2006 11:38:07 PM · #87
Originally posted by saintaugust:
...right now i'm so sunburnt from being at a beer festival all day.

i've drank plenty of water since i got home, feeling a bit better.

my face is the shade of a side of beef. raw.


I once burnt so bad under my eyes and on my nose that I actually got sunpoisoning. It blistered and scabbed over, just in time for my high school graduation. I have some scary looking scabs under my eyes in the yearbook. Heh...
 08/13/2006 11:39:14 PM · #88
Originally posted by Melethia:
Originally posted by saintaugust:


my observation from school, growing up ect. is that those that fit in the least in their youth end up being the most interesting/and or/successful people later on.


Very true. Quite often the "popular" kids from high school are still there in the home town, and have never quite gotten past that stage.

I'm betting Bill Gates got picked on in school....


Bill Gates is still getting picked on
 08/13/2006 11:39:18 PM · #89
Originally posted by karmabreeze:
Originally posted by saintaugust:
...right now i'm so sunburnt from being at a beer festival all day.

i've drank plenty of water since i got home, feeling a bit better.

my face is the shade of a side of beef. raw.


I once burnt so bad under my eyes and on my nose that I actually got sunpoisoning. It blistered and scabbed over, just in time for my high school graduation. I have some scary looking scabs under my eyes in the yearbook. Heh...


gotta love timing...

never heard of sunpoisoning>?
08/13/2006 11:40:11 PM · #90
Originally posted by photoheathen:
Originally posted by Melethia:
Originally posted by saintaugust:


my observation from school, growing up ect. is that those that fit in the least in their youth end up being the most interesting/and or/successful people later on.


Very true. Quite often the "popular" kids from high school are still there in the home town, and have never quite gotten past that stage.

I'm betting Bill Gates got picked on in school....


Bill Gates is still getting picked on


yeah but now he has $50 billion, i don't think he cares...
08/13/2006 11:42:44 PM · #91
Originally posted by saintaugust:
Originally posted by karmabreeze:
Originally posted by saintaugust:
...right now i'm so sunburnt from being at a beer festival all day.

i've drank plenty of water since i got home, feeling a bit better.

my face is the shade of a side of beef. raw.


I once burnt so bad under my eyes and on my nose that I actually got sunpoisoning. It blistered and scabbed over, just in time for my high school graduation. I have some scary looking scabs under my eyes in the yearbook. Heh...


gotta love timing...

never heard of sunpoisoning>?


If you look it up it's just another term for sunburn, but it's generally used to refer to allergic reactions to sunlight and to really really really bad sunburns, like the ones that blister.
 08/13/2006 11:44:51 PM · #92
Let's see. I have delayed dyslexia. It didn't show up until my mid to late teens. I've been living with it since and it's hard. Many dislocated shoulders and busted up ankles. I've been sunburned so bad that it had 1 blister, the size of my entire back. I've had poison ivy in my throat and eyes. And not too long ago, I was diagnosed with minor depression.

But on the subject of this and what we go through, it's that we keep going that makes us all strong. I think those who never have to go through any really tough times in their lives really don't know how to live.
 08/13/2006 11:45:51 PM · #93
Originally posted by karmabreeze:
Originally posted by saintaugust:
Originally posted by karmabreeze:
Originally posted by saintaugust:
...right now i'm so sunburnt from being at a beer festival all day.

i've drank plenty of water since i got home, feeling a bit better.

my face is the shade of a side of beef. raw.


I once burnt so bad under my eyes and on my nose that I actually got sunpoisoning. It blistered and scabbed over, just in time for my high school graduation. I have some scary looking scabs under my eyes in the yearbook. Heh...


gotta love timing...

never heard of sunpoisoning>?


If you look it up it's just another term for sunburn, but it's generally used to refer to allergic reactions to sunlight and to really really really bad sunburns, like the ones that blister.


I got sunpoisoning on my legs earlier this summer. I couldn't walk for a week because my feet had swollen to the size of melons. Not fun...

Message edited by author 2006-08-13 23:46:35.
 08/13/2006 11:46:40 PM · #94
Originally posted by cryingdragon:
Let's see. I have delayed dyslexia. It didn't show up until my mid to late teens. I've been living with it since and it's hard. Many dislocated shoulders and busted up ankles. I've been sunburned so bad that it had 1 blister, the size of my entire back. I've had poison ivy in my throat and eyes. And not too long ago, I was diagnosed with minor depression.

But on the subject of this and what we go through, it's that we keep going that makes us all strong. I think those who never have to go through any really tough times in their lives really don't know how to live.


i gotta ask: how'd you get poison ivy in your throat?
08/13/2006 11:48:26 PM · #95
Originally posted by saintaugust:
Originally posted by cryingdragon:
Let's see. I have delayed dyslexia. It didn't show up until my mid to late teens. I've been living with it since and it's hard. Many dislocated shoulders and busted up ankles. I've been sunburned so bad that it had 1 blister, the size of my entire back. I've had poison ivy in my throat and eyes. And not too long ago, I was diagnosed with minor depression.

But on the subject of this and what we go through, it's that we keep going that makes us all strong. I think those who never have to go through any really tough times in their lives really don't know how to live.


i gotta ask: how'd you get poison ivy in your throat?


It was as a kid, but I'm so allergic to poison ivy that if I get within 10 feet of the plant, I got it. At the time, I think I got it from scratching the blisters on my face and arms and then I ate some food. Wash your hands wash your hands wash your hands!!!!
 08/13/2006 11:51:30 PM · #96
Originally posted by saintaugust:
Originally posted by cryingdragon:
Let's see. I have delayed dyslexia. It didn't show up until my mid to late teens. I've been living with it since and it's hard. Many dislocated shoulders and busted up ankles. I've been sunburned so bad that it had 1 blister, the size of my entire back. I've had poison ivy in my throat and eyes. And not too long ago, I was diagnosed with minor depression.

But on the subject of this and what we go through, it's that we keep going that makes us all strong. I think those who never have to go through any really tough times in their lives really don't know how to live.


i gotta ask: how'd you get poison ivy in your throat?


Easy. Inhale the smoke when someone is dumb enough to throw it on a fire. Camping lesson for everyone: NEVER BURN VINES.

Message edited by author 2006-08-13 23:52:28.
 08/13/2006 11:53:10 PM · #97
Originally posted by cryingdragon:
Originally posted by saintaugust:
Originally posted by cryingdragon:
Let's see. I have delayed dyslexia. It didn't show up until my mid to late teens. I've been living with it since and it's hard. Many dislocated shoulders and busted up ankles. I've been sunburned so bad that it had 1 blister, the size of my entire back. I've had poison ivy in my throat and eyes. And not too long ago, I was diagnosed with minor depression.

But on the subject of this and what we go through, it's that we keep going that makes us all strong. I think those who never have to go through any really tough times in their lives really don't know how to live.


i gotta ask: how'd you get poison ivy in your throat?


It was as a kid, but I'm so allergic to poison ivy that if I get within 10 feet of the plant, I got it. At the time, I think I got it from scratching the blisters on my face and arms and then I ate some food. Wash your hands wash your hands wash your hands!!!!


i got it like that one time when i was 10 or 12. it was on the inside of eyes and everything. the only thing we could figure is that there had been some road construction in our neighborhood and there was this monster pile of dirt to play in. the dr. figured either the roots where ground up in the dirt, or the leaves or something. i was highly allergic to it then, and we played in the dirt a lot. went to the emergency room, got a big ole shot of something, and have never had it since. :)
 08/14/2006 12:31:08 AM · #98
Originally posted by cryingdragon:
Let's see. I have delayed dyslexia. It didn't show up until my mid to late teens. I've been living with it since and it's hard. Many dislocated shoulders and busted up ankles. I've been sunburned so bad that it had 1 blister, the size of my entire back. I've had poison ivy in my throat and eyes. And not too long ago, I was diagnosed with minor depression.

But on the subject of this and what we go through, it's that we keep going that makes us all strong. I think those who never have to go through any really tough times in their lives really don't know how to live.


Being dyslexiate means you join a very exclusie club. David Bailey, the english photographer is one and it aint stopped him from being one of Britains Living Treasures .
 08/19/2006 06:09:49 PM · #99
Six months ago I started having constant stomach pains. After a week my mother made me see a doctor. It was the scariest time in my life because for two weeks I was rushed around to a ton of specialist and ultra-sounds. Non of the doctors would talk to me and my mom kept telling me it was nothing but I asked if I could miss an appointment for a presentation at school and she freaked out as if I was dying.

After missing almost 3 weeks of school and seeing about 5 doctors and two ultra-sound specialists they told me that I simply had two ovarian cysts. They told me they'd go away & the pain is bearable. I see the doctor once a month and I'm on crazy pain medication. I just hope that all parents, well adults realize that kids need to be informed.
 08/19/2006 06:16:01 PM · #100
Originally posted by swamlove:
Six months ago I started having constant stomach pains. After a week my mother made me see a doctor. It was the scariest time in my life because for two weeks I was rushed around to a ton of specialist and ultra-sounds. Non of the doctors would talk to me and my mom kept telling me it was nothing but I asked if I could miss an appointment for a presentation at school and she freaked out as if I was dying.

After missing almost 3 weeks of school and seeing about 5 doctors and two ultra-sound specialists they told me that I simply had two ovarian cysts. They told me they'd go away & the pain is bearable. I see the doctor once a month and I'm on crazy pain medication. I just hope that all parents, well adults realize that kids need to be informed.


Ooh, I've got one of those I'm dealing with right now, and they put me on birth control to treat it. Luckily mine is fairly mild and is little more than an annoyance, but it showed up at the same time as a mild stomach virus and a whole lot of stress, so I was pretty sick for most of July while everything got straightened out. My sister had them so terrible in college that she wound up in the ER three or four times before someone finally figured it out. Same prescription for her as mine and she's been fine ever since, but is scared of what's going to happen when she goes off the BCP to get pregnant (as she is now married).
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