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What is the sickest you have ever been and what did you have?

Locut0s

Locut0s

Lifer
When I was a young kid my parents took me travelling everywhere and I never really got sick. My mother is Chinese from Malaysia and my father Caucasian from Canada, we all spent 4 years or so in China, Taiwan and Malaysia when I was really young. Some fantastic memories I wouldn't give up for anything but looking back on it it's lucky I never came down with anything more serious than a cold or flu. Never got Hep A for example. Nor dengue fever despite both being very prevalent in the countries at the time. Maybe it's my mixed heritage genetics that has conferred on me a good immune system or maybe not but I've never been really sick so far in my life (knock on wood). Worst that I can remember is when I had a flu that progressed into a very low grade pneumonia about 15 years back. Doctor didn't think it was that serious. When I was really really young I had a horrible ear infection that required really painful injections to cure but I don't remember much of that.

When we went back to China about 10 years ago my father came down with an unbelievably bad case of food poisoning and had to be rehydrated at hospital. We all feared for his life during that ordeal. He was lucky he didn't contract anything in the hospital when there given the poor conditions of the place. Though the IV rehydration worked wonders for him.

Anyone here ever had Hep A, Malaria, Dengue, anything else interesting?
 
Tooth abcess, the side of my lower jaw swelled up so much it looked like I had a golf ball stuffed in my cheek.
 
I had a very severe stomach virus in December of 2006. I couldn't keep anything down, threw everything I had in my stomach up for 12+ hours. Went to the hospital, they didn't give me anything, didn't even see me, and as I sat in the waiting room for 5 hours, they gave me some phenigren which helped calm my stomach. I was dehydrated and weak for about 5-6 days after that. Worst I have been sick in the past 6 years. Before that, I had a car accident at the age of 18 that caused my pancreas to become inflamed, talk about some horrible, HORRIBLE pain.
 
Norovirus is short and self limiting, but makes you pray for death for 12 hours. Here's the story:


I was on a clinical rotation for physical therapy in grad school when I caught this. I was working at an outpatient clinic that was adjunct to a hospital and caught it on the front end of what turned out to be a run through the whole staff.

I had watched Super Bowl XLI (Bears/Colts) and downed wings, copious chips and dip, a whole package of Oreos, and copious beer. That night, around 2AM, the virus hit. All that wonderful superbowl food came back.

The symptoms in the wikipedia article gloss over exactly how bad this thing is. You vomit and shit your brains out (doing your best not to do so simultaneously, although it doesn't always work) for about 12 hours, spending this time as a dehydrated, shivering pile of human misery on the bathroom floor. You never leave the bathroom, because any movement will immediately cause liquid evil to attempt to exit some orifice or another. Even better, sometimes the body sends mixed signals. You have approximately 5 seconds to decide which hole to aim at the toilet, and if you guess wrong, it's a rough cleanup.

Occasionally you drag the husk you call your body into the shower for short periods, because the warm water feels nice.

After about 12-24 hours, you will experience a miraculous recovery. Within the span of an hour, you'll feel fine. You'll be hungry as all hell, but otherwise back to normal. You can go to work the next day.

However, for those 12-24 hours, you deny God's existence completely. It is, I imagine, what one of the levels of hell is like.
 
I had an infection in my leg a couple years ago... I woke up one morning and the pain was so bad I could barely stand up.

ended up being laid up in the hospital for a week on IV antibiotics (and another 2 weeks after that with a visiting nurse to give me IV antibiotics once/day)
 
The sickest I have ever been was when I got chicken pox at 18. My kids sure had it easier when they got it as toddlers.
 
When I was only a few years old, I had some intestinal infection, to the point where I'd throw up from drinking water. My parents called the pediatrician to see if they could bring me in the next day. She said that I might die of dehydration before then, so in short order I was in the hospital with an IV in my hand. As someone who's always hated needles, I was quite displeased with that aspect of it.
 
I was in Army Basic training. You didn't complain in BT unless you wanted to be singled out and harassed to no end.

I got a cold and my tonsils started swelling up. At first, it was just uncomfortable for a day or two. Then I couldn't swallow solids for a couple of day. So I wasn't eating, only drinking coffee and juice. We ran at least 4 miles a day and I was getting pretty weak and had a fever. On Sunday morning when we went down for breakfast, I couldn't even swallow liquids any more.
I was weak and burning up. I told the Drill Sargent what was happening and he was pissed because he had to take me to the hospital emergency room because the Troop Medical Center (TMC) was closed on Sundays.

When we got there, the doctors went off on the Drill Sargent. I had pneumonia and a temp of 104. After the Doctor left the Drill Sargent went off on me. He asked me why I didn't speak up sooner. I told him I didn't want to get yelled at.
I ended up in the hospital and missed the first 5 days of Basic Rifle Marksmanship (BRM).

The only thing that saved me there was that I already knew how to shoot. They day I got out I had to qualify on the M16.
 
I was circumsised when I was 11.

That's right, you fvckers don't remember a thing since it was done on you as a baby. I still vividly remember every graphic details of the surgery and the sheer agony for the next 4 weeks inclunding:

*You are 100% up and conscious while this is performed on you.

*The doctor examining your 11 yr old penis and drawing surgical lines on it with a pen.

*Needles.. that's right NEEDLES being injected straight into your PENIS for anesthesia. Do you have a memory of a syringe entering your manhood right before your eyes? I do.

*Then the doctor laid you down and put on some kind of a fvcked up metallic contraception on your penis. He spun tightening knob which I guess carved off the foreskin.

*MORE NEEDLES because above still hurt like a fuck.

*Now my head is exposed without the foreskin and its sensitive skin makes the sky turn yellow everytime the head touches ANYTHING. I have a huge bandage wrapped around my penis except for the head, making it look like a bacon-wrapped scallop. You piss, it burns like a fvcking motherfvcker. If the head touches against the clothing, you pretty much pass out.

*I still remember not being able to sleep for next few weeks because the night time throbbing was so great and every time I tossed and turned, I would wake right up in AGONIZING pain.

This was Korea back in probably 1991. I'm sure the procedure has gotten much better now. The surgery was a success and it works VERY well (ask my gf). But it still shivers me whenever I think about the procedure...
 
It's between mono and food poisoning.

Food poisoning was from some General Tso's chicken at a local Chinese place. I was throwing up violently for a few days, it was absolutely awful.

Mono I had on my 16th birthday for a few weeks. It wasn't just the typical mono where you get tired and that's it. I got the viral infection in my throat where my tonsils were covered in white and I couldn't eat anything. My head was stuffed up, my nose ran constantly which made sleep impossible (and you know with mono all you want to do is sleep!). I would run fevers of about 104, where I felt like I couldn't even move. It was TERRIBLE. I lost 15 pounds from not eating. I think that one wins.
 
some kind of food poisoning from hardee's and I was on the can and ralphing into the tub at the same time. about 3 hours. Main the pain felt like someone twisting my intestines..

that or appendicitis. hard to say which.
 
Vaccine to fight biological warfare.
Was in the Navy in 1989 .
They were fearing the start of the gulf war and so started giving some of us vaccinations to fight biological warfare.
About 6 hours after the shot, I doubled over in pain in my stomach.
It hurt so bad I couldn't talk.
They called rescue, took me to the naval hospital.
Took blood and about an hour later 3 doctors showed up wearing mask.
I was still in pain and they wouldn't give me anything for it, so I laid there suffering for almost 7 hours.
Pain so bad I thought I would pass out, but didn't , wish I had.

They moved me to a room with a large red door, that looked about 1 foot thick.
Started iv and everyone that came in was wearing yellow clothing and mask.
I laid there hurting for almost two days before they got it under control.
I remember the base commander coming to see me, telling me how they wanted to see me well soon, your a good soldier, all that crap.
Took almost three weeks for me to recover.
I still don't know exactly what I had.
All that I was told is that sometimes vaccines can develop into the disease in some people.

I'm guessing it was the early versions of the anthrax vaccine.
 
Some crazy bug that basically turned my entire mouth and under my tongue into a giant canker sore in addition to fever, aches, and other flu symptoms. The worst part was the mouth though, I literally could not eat for almost a week except for smoothies. I lost like 20 pounds in a week. This was in my senior year of high school right before senior ball. I ended up going to the ball, but I was still sick and didn't have much fun.
 
Sepsis...nearly died. My organs were shutting down, and I literally lost my mind. I went nuts.
 
I guess I got scarlet fever when I was like 2 or 3. I don't remember it but the way my mom tells it it sounded like I almost died. I guess it was brought on after a severe sunburn I got while on a trip to the Rocky Mountains weakened my immune system. They had to drive me home sick as a dog, then they took me to a hospital when they got home because I was so bad.

Later I found out that the onset of scarlet fever "looks" like a sunburn, but it's not---to this day my mom thinks that sunburns will make you deathly ill (well, bad ones can, but it would have to be REALLY bad).
 
last year around this time, i was diagnosed with type2 diabetes. I was drinking over a gallon of water a day, pissing ten times a day for four to five minutes (single stream) and my blood sugar level was over 700 when I finally went to the doctor to tell them I wasn't feeling to great. The doctor said if i had waited 1 or 2 more days my body would have shut down and they would have had to have me stay at the hospital for over a week to filter out the sugar in my blood. needless to say both my doctor and my wife were royally pissed off at me for it. tons o' fun 🙂 i am thankful that i at least only have to take medication vs insulin shots everyday. that would suck ass.
 
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