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in high school, i got a deep cut from slipping on ice. i treated it with a medical disinfectant a few times too many. after a week or so, there was this yellow liquid spewing from my cut. for weeks, the cut wouldn't heal and the liquid kept coming out, so i went to the doctor and he told me my cut was infected because of the disinfectant. he prescribed me an antiobiotic which i was allergic to -.- luckily my allergy lasted a week or so? but it gave me one eczema spot

TS: hope your treatment went well. my story's nothing compared to yours.

I fractured my ankle during 8th grade and didn't go to the hospital for treatment; it took 2 months for me to fully recover.

I also have 3 sets of front teeth (1 set of baby, 2 sets of adult) for some reason.

fell out of bed; brown liquid leaking from nose; continues to leak; crazy sinus infection; antibiotics don't work; take new antibiotics; finally works; aww man it's been a month; also the antibiotics were $5 a pill and I had to take 20

hmm... medical stories...Ohh!
According to my parents, they encouraged me to walk at a VERY young stage. While i was learning i bumped my nose into my dad's knee and blood just kept dripping out. Went to the doctors and apparently i had screwed something up in my nose. Basically, now i just have blood noses very very often.

There was also this one time in grade 2 where i was SUPER sick but i still insisted on going to school (yes school was fun back then). Went to school, did whatever a grade 2 would and the day was going normally. Just before lunchtime i felt an urge to vomit but i didn't know how to tell the teacher (i was fob back then). So i asked the teacher if i could go to the toilet. She of course, said no and told me to wait till lunchtime. I couldn't wait so i puked all over her shoes. =P And that's the story of how i learnt the word vomit

Another story!~ During transition camp for year 9 to 10, we had these activities where we all had to participate. There was one activity involving ropes. Basically, i tripped over a rope and broke my elbow ^_^ I went to the GP and the doctor said it was slightly fractured. The doctor then directs me to the nearest hospital, where i could get plates put in. I go in and expect a tiny operation. Wake up, get told my elbows broken into 3 different pieces and that the operation has not been complete and will be a lot more complicated. My parents being over-protective and all request that i get sent to a better hospital. So then i was flown by helicopter to the royal children's hospital, where my operation took place. The operation apparently lasted for 5 hours and it took ~4days to recover. Now i have this massive scar on my left arm So moral of the story, don't trip over ropes!

I was at singapore and got food poisoning the day before my sister's wedding. I was so sick, I couldnt eat anything and kept vomiting. Had to stay in bed all day just doing nothing besides sleeping and playing DS. This happened for a week. I lost like 8 pounds -__-

Nothing amazing on my end.
Apparently when I was berry young I walked weird. And my mom brought me to lots of appointments to see what was wrong.
Doctors said nothing was wrong. Still walk a bit weird. But I'm to used to It to see It as anything much.
All else I really have Is allergies. And uh. That's all I can think of. Since I never like go to the doctors.

Got surgery on my left thumb cause I fell on my thumb and pretty much dislocated and fractured it.
I had to get a cast, then surgery, they put needles, after another surgery to remove needles, then another cast, then therapy, now I'm here now with a stronger thumb

I fractured my ankle but was still able to play/walk on it.
superhuman ftw.

@BlueStrawbry: In my experience, not going through with an operation saved some lives and going through with it did not save some (vice-versa). It's a life and death situation, you need to view the results of how many people actually survive these operations v.s how many don't. From what I've seen and heard, some hospitals and doctors may have just learned about new treatments and may not have implemented it yet in any ways and you could be one of their test subject without even knowing; if the treatment works then it was your decision, if the treatment fails then it was your decision.

sometimes going with your instincts is better because you have an idea of how many days you have left to live v.s going blind sighted into an operation and not knowing what could happen.

@teresa I don't really know about this treatment thingy and perhaps it does work well but I wouldn't tell someone they're over-hyped when you need to be, especially when its an operation dealing with the brain. Learning about it v.s going through it, can you guarantee that it's going to work? I think i'd like to look at the statistics before going in tyvm.

@XxSparkehxX I haven't done any of the studies yet so i wouldn't know but i know who would know. If you're going to be fine then kudos sir, but anyone whom doesn't know about it would be in my state.

@XxSparkehxX: Oh early stage cancer is pretty good success rate etc. You're pretty much fine + have a rivetting tale to tell your children.

[quote=CrayonScribble]Lov da medical field, takes three specialists to diagnose cancer...[/quote]

It's actually incredibly lucky. It's at an early enough stage that on it's own that it wouldn't cause any specific illnesses on it's own. It just so happened that some of it broke off and caused my pituitary gland to fail, which itself brought a large amount of symptoms.

The endocrinologist was expecting to find something a bit wrong with my pituitary in the sense of swelling, but in fact found the tumor and referred me to the neurosurgeon to see if it was relevant. If it hadn't gotten to my pituitary the chances are it could of just grown out of sight until it was too late!

[quote=XxSparkehxX]Incredible thirst, lethargy / feeling weak and a lack of appetite were initial symptoms

I went to the doctor to talk about how i was having trouble breathing through my nose, so he ordered a CT suspecting a blockage or damage. Later when going to check up on my nose i mentioned the above symptoms and had a few blood tests, which showed up weird and had many more. I was then referred to an endocrinologist who told me something seemed to be wrong with my pituitary and he wanted an MRI done to check the gland. They found the entity but the endocrynologist said it looked like a cyst and said it doesn't seem like it was relevant or dangerous.

Upon being refered to the Neurosurgeon just a few days ago, he told me it was a cancerous tumor. I was shocked, i've never been so shocked in my life and i still cant believe it.

Planning to go up and stay in hospital i think in the next week to run further tests![/quote]

Lov da medical field, takes three specialists to diagnose cancer...

[quote=Foom]what were your initial symptoms? what made you go to the doctor for an MRI and CT scan?
were you surprised when you found out it was a brain tumor? or what is sort of expected?[/quote]

Incredible thirst, lethargy / feeling weak and a lack of appetite were initial symptoms

I went to the doctor to talk about how i was having trouble breathing through my nose, so he ordered a CT suspecting a blockage or damage. Later when going to check up on my nose i mentioned the above symptoms and had a few blood tests, which showed up weird and had many more. I was then referred to an endocrinologist who told me something seemed to be wrong with my pituitary and he wanted an MRI done to check the gland. They found the entity but the endocrynologist said it looked like a cyst and said it doesn't seem like it was relevant or dangerous.

Upon being refered to the Neurosurgeon just a few days ago, he told me it was a cancerous tumor. I was shocked, i've never been so shocked in my life and i still cant believe it.

Planning to go up and stay in hospital i think in the next week to run further tests!

[quote=AzureFade] Wtf? treating a tumor with radiation? No, just no, just think of the freakin side effects? You took an mri scan, that itself already increases your chances of cancer. More exposure to these high technology scan things and your body is going to be weakened. I mean, doctors are good people but I've seen some crooked ones. I'm not telling you, you should not go with it but as a person you need to trust in you're own body sometimes. There are just too many risks here, i've been to the hospital visiting many others too many times to realize this X_X.

This radiation thing may or may not work but... do your research.[/quote]

I've studied both physics and biology, I'm under the best medical staff available and i couldn't be happier with what's going on. I don't mean to offend you, but you obviously can't know much about radiation or the nature of cancer.

1) Radiation at a high enough level kills the cells of the human body, (which in the case of a malignant cancer) it's exactly what i need to save my life.
2) "You took an mri scan, that itself already increases your chances of cancer" Insignificant increase, and i already have cancer.
3) The body isn't weakened by scans, the radiotherapy may weaken me because it's literally killing the cancer but to do that it has to hit the normal cells. It's either that or death.
4) I trusted my body, but then it decided to give me cancer, diabetes, sinus disease, impotence, lethargy and constant pain. That's why ive decided modern medicine needs to step in. Please understand that cancer isn't some foreign illness that comes from else where, it's the own body failing to complete programmed cell death.
5) If it's the tumor they think it is (they are going to run tests) the radiation should work.

I appreciate your concern, but i have more faith in a professor of endocrinology, one of the best neurosurgeons in Australia and my faithful GP of 17 years then what i can gather on the internet.

@Azith: Thank you I'm aware not to follow medical advice here, I have the utmost confidence in the doctors looking after me.

@Dorks: Theyre confident they can treat it, the cancer itself has a 90% survival rate in the first five years.

@BlueStrawbry: I'd just like to say that at this stage i might not be having chemotherapy, rather just radiation

[quote=AzureFade]Wtf? treating a tumor with radiation? No, just no, just think of the freakin side effects? You took an mri scan, that itself already increases your chances of cancer. More exposure to these high technology scan things and your body is going to be weakened. I mean, doctors are good people but I've seen some crooked ones. I'm not telling you, you should not go with it but as a person you need to trust in you're own body sometimes. There are just too many risks here, i've been to the hospital visiting many others too many times to realize this X_X.

This radiation thing may or may not work but... do your research.[/quote]

Ya you gotta weigh the risks - imminent death/paralysis/brain damage/immunological crapstorm vs increased risk of cancer. Go figure buddy.

[quote=Dorks]I can't imagine how terrible that must be x_x Did the doctors say you have a high chance to get rid of the tumor?

Mine isn't as serious, but I developed astigmatism at a young age. I honestly didn't notice I had bad eyesight until the doctors from a nearby clinic came to school for their yearly checkup (they also had dentists and people to test your hearing come during that time. Sadly though I'm sure the funding for that has been cut off.) I failed the exam so I had to get glasses before 4th grade. It never improved my eyesight. Now I get to wear soft toric contacts at a very high diopter (I don't know if I used that right). :v I'm just hoping that I still qualify for LASIK or something by the time I hit 25 or so.[/quote]

You did say it right, and since you have a high degree of astigmatism you better hope that you have the thickest corneas in the world otherwise no-go.

-Optom student.

So you're a real boo boo healer then . I see a lot of our seizure patients on phenytoin, depakote, and keppra more than anything. I also notice selection depends on how good the doctor is (specialist attending vs internist resident).

[quote=BooBooHealer]How is it controlled now? What medications?[/quote]

Can't speak for her but there are a ton of medications used to control seizure, mostly tailored on the kind of seizure you have, how well it works, and how well you tolerate it. There are the fast acting ones used during active seizure such as: lorazepam, midazolam, diazepam, dilantin, and so on. Usually these are injection form (either in the vein or into the muscle). Then you have your long acting maintenance seizure medication such as lamotrigine, carbamezapine, topiramate, and so on (usually oral tablet or liquid form).

Crooked ribs, extremely obvious large birthmark on my left hand(could possibly increase chance of cancer there), Bone mass in one of my toes, also spine could probably use straigtening, but I'd be like 6'1 then. Also a weak heart due to me being unfit.

Edit: No real medical stories though.. I had bronchitis for 3 weeks ending last week though.

Edit2: Oh wait I just remembered, when I was like 5-6 I had a.. shopping trolley related incident which caused me to split my head open and I still have a scar for it although it isn't that visible anymore, 20+ stitches for it. All I remember is shirts hurting a LOT to get them on, and my mum threw up in the hospital I was at.

Oh and some asthma attacks when I was younger.

I can't imagine how terrible that must be x_x Did the doctors say you have a high chance to get rid of the tumor?

Mine isn't as serious, but I developed astigmatism at a young age. I honestly didn't notice I had bad eyesight until the doctors from a nearby clinic came to school for their yearly checkup (they also had dentists and people to test your hearing come during that time. Sadly though I'm sure the funding for that has been cut off.) I failed the exam so I had to get glasses before 4th grade. It never improved my eyesight. Now I get to wear soft toric contacts at a very high diopter (I don't know if I used that right). :v I'm just hoping that I still qualify for LASIK or something by the time I hit 25 or so.

I was constipated once, and then I wasn't

@XxSparkehxX I wish you the best of luck, keep strong. PS don't take medical advice from these posts, a lot of these people don't know what they're talking about. Make sure you keep in close touch with your endocrinologist (doctor specializing in hormones), neurologist, and oncologist (cancer doctor).

@myrdrex Man that was quite a story o.o, glad that your wife is better now. Sad to hear that the methotrexate didn't work as intended. We had a similar incident in a woman in our labor and delivery unit, but she wasn't as lucky. After she gave birth, there was a complication during the procedure which caused her to lose a lot of blood and acquire sepsis or blood infection. She was sent to our ICU immediately and put under high dose broad spectrum antibiotics, vasopressors such as norepinephrine and dopamine, hydrocortisone injection, albumin and fluid resuscitation. Her condition grew more and more unstable, and we were about to use Xigris as a last resort. Unfortunately she went into total multi organ failure and didn't make it. Just shows you how precious life is, it can be gone any moment.

Wtf? treating a tumor with radiation? No, just no, just think of the freakin side effects? You took an mri scan, that itself already increases your chances of cancer. More exposure to these high technology scan things and your body is going to be weakened. I mean, doctors are good people but I've seen some crooked ones. I'm not telling you, you should not go with it but as a person you need to trust in you're own body sometimes. There are just too many risks here, i've been to the hospital visiting many others too many times to realize this X_X.

This radiation thing may or may not work but... do your research.

Shattered my pelvis and left forearm

I haven't gone to the doctor's for myself since the 2nd grade or so. I was having some kind of pain, I hardly remember it, I was there til' like 4am. In reality I think I was just being an 8 year old kid complaining about some small pain.

My family's medical stories are very different.

My ex-boyfriend was constantly sick. Every few days he'd throw up after a meal, have a tummy ache, or complain about feeling nauseated. Maybe this is why it took a little while to figure out when something was seriously wrong. He started having intense pain in his groin area and after a day or two, he found it unbearable to walk. Went to the doctor... found out he had testicular cancer. He had surgery and went through chemo. It was a traumatic period for him and a bit for me too but I was glad he made it out just fine.

Personally... one week in high school I noticed that I was getting these little bumps on my arms and they itched/hurt/peeled. I had no clue what it was. My mom thought it might be a rash or something. I went to my Pediatrician and he couldn't identify what it was either. He called two of the other doctors in his practice to come look at my arms. After close examination and a few minutes of anxiety one of the other docs asked if I have any pets. I had recently rescued and adopted a kitty. Turns out he had fleas. The first doc didn't recognize my "bumps" as bites because I was having an allergic reaction to them.

My other somewhat significant brush with medical assistance was during my most serious overdose. Long story short, I overdosed on a variety of meds. I didn't accurately name which pills I'd taken... While they were pumping my stomach I started having a seizure and I very nearly went into cardiac arrest. Woke up days later in the ICU on a heart monitor. Then transferred to a psychiatric hospital...

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1cm and five years of healing. NSFL.

I went in to go get my blood drawn, I hadnt eaten that day, and I go in, and the guy takes two vials of blood instead of just one, and I get extremely light headed and I passed out, while passed out I had like, a convulsion, kind of like a mini-seizure, and I turn extremely pale, I wake up like 10 minutes, and when I wake up, I was temperately blind, it was so scary... Not being able to see is so scary, I was told if I was out for much longer I could have fallen into a coma, and knowing that is terrifying...
(this is a true story)

Ganja

I had a random cyst on the front of my neck that was taken out. Battle scars.

I had undescended testicles which meant I couldn't have kids unless I got the surgery for it. Also I have bursitis which is commonly found in adults yet I'm still a teen (it's pretty much a fluid-filled sac and looks disgusting when it's inflammed it turns green) it only hurts if I use the computer for the whole or bang it really hard. My issue isn't as serious as a couple above me but it was annoying having to go to the doctor a lot. Oh and I had to get surgery pretty much a circumcision but only a part of it :$

@myrdrex: Don't worry your child will be in heaven all grown up I promise you!<333

First off let me start by wishing you the best. I'm very glad you're getting the right treatment now.

If a story about my wife counts, here goes...

About 18 months ago my wife had an "ectopic pregnancy" (�"Ectopic pregnancy” means our baby was growing in the tube instead of the uterus. It's the most common cause of death in women in their first trimester). Normally they are treatable, but hers ruptured and she almost bled out to death.

When we first got the positive pregnancy test we were so thrilled. Then we learned it was not growing in the uterus, but rather her fallopian tube. We went from the joys of knowing we're going to be parents, to the heartbreak of knowing that the baby would eventually kill my wife if not removed. We weren’t even given a choice of her life or the child’s- our baby could never be born.

After many ultrasounds and blood test to confirm it was ectopic, I had to drive my wife to the hospital to get a methotraxate injection. That medicine should have, in theory, stopped the baby from developing, thus saving my wife's life. It works by stopping the baby from growing.

I had to be strong and hold back my tears as I held my wife's hands as the nurse injected her with the amber liquid that was going to kill our baby. The little 6 week old baby that we already loved so much. I had to watch the amber colored liquid enter my wife's bloodstream from two simultaneous shots as she cried out in pain and emotional agony, knowing that at that very moment I was watching my own son or daughter being killed. I'll never forget that moment- the moment when I witnessed my unborn child be killed- it will haunt me until the day I die.

The worst part was the shot didn't work all the way- my wife’s tube still ruptured. Picture a small tube deep inside you rupturing and pouring blood into your abdomen, unable to be stopped- that’s what happened to my poor wife. She called me at work in intense pain, and then called 911. The paramedics came to find her lying on the floor. I drove home from work, a 25 mile commute, in about 15 minutes, and arrived just in time to say goodbye to my wife in the ambulance before they sped away to the hospital. They got her to the hospital in time for an emergency surgery to remove the ruptured tube. My wife had so much blood in her abdomen that they had to literally tip her over to drain her.

===But that was just the beginning of the story! That was the �"Good” part!===

After the surgery (which she survived), we thought we were finally done. We thought that horrific day was done. Then the surgeon told me she was going into "DIC” (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disseminated_intravascular_coagulation) a 10-50% fatal blood complication caused by her internal bleeding. (Her body used up all it's clotting ability in the couple litres of blood in her abdomen, and was going haywire attacking her own blood). DIC can cause all sorts of terrible things, like your blood being too thin and not clotting and bleeding from your eyes and pores (like what Ebola does) while simultaneously causing blood clots in a different part of your body that can go to your heart/brain and kill you.

I watched as my wife was rushed to the ICU. The doctors told me it was serious, but I already knew that they had a nickname for her complication- DIC = �"Death is coming”. Imagine the person you know most having a disease that doctors nicknames �"Death is coming”. I have never experienced such terror in my entire life.

I spent the next 3 days being strong for her, not letting her or her parents know that I knew how serious her complication was. I had no one to talk through my fears with. All she and her family knew was that she was having complications, and they could be serious, but she didn’t know just how serious. I kept thinking about life without her, without our 2 year old daughter having a mother anymore.

Thank God she eventually pulled through ok. We’ve since managed to have another baby (just a few months old), and I’m so grateful knowing that I won’t have to raise my children as a single father.

I always felt sick in the morning when it was time to go to school. I felt nauseated, I was sneezing and sometimes coughing and I basically felt like I had the flu. Around 11 or 12 (when it was too late go to school, even late) I would start to feel better. I was absent a lot and I went to the doctor every other week for the same symptoms and he's prescribe whatever and sometimes i took it, sometimes I didn't because I realized it didn't help. I only went to the doctor because my mom would insist that if i missed school, i'd have to go. It didn't affect me much in elementary school but in middle school I didn't really learn Algebra because that was my first class. In high school I failed my first class due to missed work and absences. I failed 10th grade because I didn't go to school enough. I tried my best to go to school but until noon I was sneezing every minute and my nose was dripping so much that I couldn't manage but to wipe it with my sleeve and that grossed me out.

Along with the morning flu I had issues with eating certain foods. Namely, fruits and veggies. Now, I'm overweight and always have been so when I told my doctor hat I don't like to eat fruits and veggies because they make me feel sick, he basically called me a liar and said I just like donuts a lot and I need to loose weight.

In 10th grade I decided enough was enough and I spent hours online trying to figure out why I couldnt eat fruit and veggies. I looked up my symptoms and in minutes I found the answer: Oral Allergy Syndrom. Basically my body finds the pollen in fresh fruits and veggies and sees it as a threat. I went to my doctor and told him I think I had OAS and he laughed and said if i was allergic, just don't eat whatever makes me allergic. I got mad and found an allergist. He gave me a prick test which is where they take a lot of little needles with allergen samples and scratch at your skin and wait for a reaction. They found out I was allergic to 30/35 of the samples which included berries, dogs, cats, pollen, grass, potatoes, etc.

I also ask the allergist about the morning symptoms and we concluded that I was allergic to tobacco smoke and my father smokes. He smokes in the house before he goes to work and it takes a couple hours for the symptoms to just go away. This also explained why I didn't have the symptoms on the weekends, because on the weekends he always left hours before I woke up and didn't return till night time. He promised me he wouldn't smoke in the house anymore, and that lasted about 2 weeks before he broke his promise.

I'm 21 now and I live as an au pair while going to school because I can't stay in that house anymore. Also I finally found an allergy medicine that lets me eat most of the fruits and veggies I haven't been able to eat in years.

I hope for your operation to go without complications TS.

I recall running around a baseball field and frolicking around, and at some point I think I was chasing after a baseball and I slid across the turf (the grass was wet and this was in the morning). I cut the skin on my knee and I had a long cut. I saw my physician later that day and it was my first experience with stitches. I was genuinely freaked out at first, but I got over it as soon as the suture hook went inside my skin the first time and I thought, "it's not so bad "

@Sum1outthere:
I've had a bad dentist experience before! They started drilling after trying to numb the area and it didn't work properly. I screamed a bit and cried and my mum told them i was just scared and not too worry. :l

Happened again in later years but i just yelped and said i could feel it, so they gave me another injection and it numbed it

@SkyForest: That sounds terrible! Sorry to hear about that D:

oh...thats long and im sorry to hear that

ive had a tooth pulled out and it was horrible. first off, the needles hurt like HELL and i can always feel the pain no matter how much anethesia they give me. the took some type of tiny hammer thing and broke that molar and i felt the cold tooth pieces in my mouth. then came the gushing blood and the stitching. it was painful, including the pain once the freezyness wears off.