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who here has ongoing health problems?

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By that I don't mean a flu or whatever, I mean something more serious or ongoing. I'll start...

I've been having frequent back spasms for a couple years now, and I've been going to a chiropractor semi-regularly for it. At his recommendation, I also have ice packs at home that I often use on my back. Also my knees, especially my right knee, are weaker than they should be. Often getting up from a crouch or climbing stairs is hard on them. I'm supposed to be strengthening them with weight exercises.
 
I get extremely bad headaches like monthly, and they last for like a week. It's really annoying.
 
I have Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome, if that counts. Basically my ovaries have hundreds of benign cysts in them and I suffer from irregular and very painful periods.

My doctor put me on birth control pills to help ease the PCO symptoms. xD But the bad thing is, that right now it looks like I'm going to be taking birth control pills for the rest of my life. o_O
 
I was injured in a car wreck years ago and the injury to my shoulder is permenent, I went to physical therapy for it for a while and it never helped. Basically it gets sore a lot and gives me headaches and always pops when I move it. I have totalled three cars and been in more wrecks than I can even count.
 
Well, I have a faster heart beat than normal people.

I basically had the symptoms of a heart attack back in...October and spent three days at the hospital. It wasn't a true heart attack but just a spasm, but damn, now I know what a heart attack feels like.
 
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I basically had the symptoms of a heart attack back in...October and spent three days at the hospital. It wasn't a true heart attack but just a spasm, but damn, now I know what a heart attack feels like.
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Scott! You need too stop getting so excited over that May hentai!

But actually, my heart started too ache one time and I almost passed out in the shower (get that out of your mind, now!). It was VERY scary....
 
I have [wp]general anxiety disorder[/wp] and am taking [wp]paroxetine[/wp] for it, but I've noticed I am still anxious (I just don't have panic attacks anymore) in general about various things, and I go through depressed phases usually once a month (maybe hormone-related?).

My left eardrum is abnormally thin because it ruptured twice in my childhood (I had chronic ear infections.). Up until a few years ago I could often hear it annoyingly moving in tune with my breathing.

I don't think I've been diagnosed with anything but those, though. I think I am slightly obsessive-compulsive in terms of trying to make everything clean or perfect. I also get headaches a few times a month.
 
I've never been diagnosed with anything myself.

Personally though, I think I might have ADHD because of how hyper I am every day. XD


But I don't think I need medication for it or anything, because I can control my hyper-ness pretty well.

Also, I like my hyper-ness, because it keeps me very happy. And it also prevents me from becoming depressed. In fact, I hardly ever become depressed about anything.



Now, on the other hand, my dad has depression. He isn't on any medicine for it at the moment though. He had to stop taking his pills a while back, because they apparently made him drowsy at work. Since then, he's never been on medication again.

Things are worse for my sister though. She has bipolar, or, it's sometimes known as Manic-Depression. She's on like, 20 pills a day. But, she still has a lot of symptoms. I often feel sorry for her, and wish things weren't so bad for her.
 
I can understand Lisa, I get VERY hyper as well (you couldn't tell on the Forums though, I'm like totally different in real life).

I do get depressed alot though...
 
Pretty bad (and currently untreated) depression and the occassional migraine. I'm bipolar (might have been misdiagnosed though, which is why I'm not taking anything), insomnia, ADD to the max. ADD is the worst thing in the world. Don't ever brag about being ADD. It has just about all but ruined my life. Also, I'm trying to eat more because I seriously thisclose to becoming anorexic...
 
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I have mild Asperger Syndrome
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You too, huh?

My main physical problem is my leg joints. I've got an abnormally-shaped kneecap and have thrown it out before, and I used to be prone to twisting my ankle quite frequently. I also have tendonitis in both knees.

And lately I've been biting my tongue a lot, but that's not so much an ongoing condition.
 
I have a horrible anxiety disorder, which I take meds for. I used to get panic attacks very frequently, especially when I was much younger. Now, when I get them, I can most of the time talk myself out of them. I once had a horrible one at school, I was shaking and it was very embarrassing. I also suffer from severe depression spells (the Prozac really helps me a lot with that) which are a lot of times caused by my anxiety. And, I too, have ADD. And like JulayAM, it is nothing to brag about, it really is a horrible thing to have. I take medicine for it, but I spiral down on most of them (Focalin is currently the one I'm on, and it's the best for me so far), making me much more prone to anxiety spells and bouts of severe depression. Also, because of my anxiety, that leads to other symptoms of it, like OCD, and not being able to sleep (I take Lunesta for that).

Aside form me being a basket case, my sinuses are malformed. I have had two surgeries, one when I was in kindergarten and one in the sixth grade. My sinuses literally had NO openings. They punctured through straight bone to let that stuff drain. My sinus problems are almost crippling, because I've been on so many meds for it, not very many of them work, and I miss a lot of school. Also due to the surgeries and meds, the cilia (the little microscopic hair-like things that move the mucus from your sinuses so it can drain; cilia also does other transportation-related stuff in other parts of the body) in my nasal cavity is gone, so I actually have to blast salt water into my sinuses via a strong squirt-bottle-like thing to keep stuff moving.

My allergies are also horrible. I am severely allergic to grass and weeds, mold, dust and dust mites, pollen, birds, cats, dogs, fungi, and a bunch of other things probably. Almost everything on my allergy test, I was very allergic to. I have to take two separate allergy medicines and two kinds of nose-sprays. We have a bird and a dog (who I both love to death), and I do very well with my meds, but I can't mow the grass (just the thought of the smell of fresh-cut grass makes my head hurt) even with the meds, because my head starts hurting so bad I get really sick. My allergies do nothing to help with my constant sinus infections. They have gotten much better at I've gotten older, though (and I hope it will stay like that).

Just a disclaimer, I'm really not crazy or horribly ill, I just went into a lot of detail. When I re-read this post, it sounded like I needed to be hospitalized. ^^;
 
Depression, check.

I have chronic back pain as well. It's likely due to the unfavorable circumstances I've endured during some of my jobs (heavy lifting).

I was diagnosed with Asperger's Syndrome about a year ago, however since two doctors examined me, one agreeing with the initial diagnosis, the other saying it's bull donkey. So... yeah. I don't particularly care either way.
 
Anyone else here have trichotillomania? Comuplsive hair/eyelash/eyebrow pulling.... I have it reaaaaaally badly, and have had it for almost 9 years. x_x Self-loathing to the max, anyone?

Other than that, I have mild Asperger's syndrome, depression, and severe OCD (related to trichotillomania). I have a severe anxiety disorder, and panic disorder as well. Like pkmn trainer Zach, I have frequent panic attacks as well, mostly at school (because of tornado drills when I was younger, and now everyone goes "look, a tornado!" and like to see me twitch and cry and pass out/have a panic attack). I suppose it's interesting to see a nearly 15 year old cry and twitch in a corner. Yay. ....But it's so scary. The feeling is terrible. Now that I think about it, I have so many medications.... crap.

Other than that, I have scoliosis in my back and kyphosis in my neck. And I'm a legal midget, full grown at 4'11 (only got there with the help of height medicarion, I used to be 4'7), if that counts for anything. Yay for looking and sounding like an 8 year old.

Last thing is that I've had strep throat over 40 times, the worst being 8 times in one winter. My tonsils are as big as golf balls, and used to touch eachother but have shrunken ever so slightly with age. I'm too scared to get them taken out....

....I'm so messed up. *thwacked* No wonder nobody likes me. x_x
 
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Hooray, TMI thread.

The only thing I can think of is slight dyscalculia. And I'm missing both my upper first premolars from birth. Otherwise, I'm perfectly healthy.
 
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