Have you ever had a health scare?

[Janice]

I have. About three years ago, my mammogram report came back abnormal. I had to have additional, more invasive, tests -- which were scheduled about 10 days apart. They didn't care that I was having a nervous breakdown.

Turned out to be a false alarm. It was the longest three weeks of my life.

[Brian Damage]

No thank God, but of course you know my youngest daughter Ashlyn had one. We thought for a few weeks she had Leukemia and it was an agonizing wait. Thank God everything came back ok.

[Jonathan]

Not yet. Several family members have though.

[gilligan fanatic]

Glad to hear everything is fine with your daughter Brian, and yourself Janice.

[Hollow]

not for myself. it is a real bitch when you're stressing over a hopeless terminally ill loved one though.

[swedeace]

Not for myself, but I do know three women who have gone through therapy/chemo for Breast Cancer. One of them is going through it now. It's scary...

[GARFIELDKOOL]

A little over two years ago, I wnet for a check up. The doctor drew some blood, and he told me my blood sugar was too high. He then labeled me as a diabetic and put me on pills. I froze. So for the next few months, a took the pills and watched what I ate, especially sweets and carbs. I stopped taking the pills, because they gave me headaches. I went back for a follow up, and my blood sugar was normal. There was a different doctor, and he didn't label me as a diabetic. So I consider myself as a borderline diabetic, I just have to watch my sugar intake.

[Brad]

Sigh...

[Janice]

Sigh...
I'm sorry Brad. :(

[TJL]

I haven't been feeling well for months. At first it was bronchitus, then that was "cured" but I was still congested and the coughing wouldn't stop.
Now the Doctor says I have "seasonal allergies." I've tried both Singulair and Allegra D each for a week, and I still feel no change. I'm back on Sungulair tomorrow. I am starting to worry that it might be something else. I am getting sick of waking up in the middle of the night coughing my head off.

[Brad]

I'm sorry Brad. :(

Thanks, but don't be. After I posted that "sigh," I limped outside to check the mail and saw a guy on a wheelchair. I think he had cerebral palsy, and he seemed to be happy as hell.

Kind of makes me say "What am I bitching about?" You know?

[Brad]

I haven't been feeling well for months. At first it was bronchitus, then that was "cured" but I was still congested and the coughing wouldn't stop.
Now the Doctor says I have "seasonal allergies." I've tried both Singulair and Allegra D each for a week, and I still feel no change. I'm back on Sungulair tomorrow. I am starting to worry that it might be something else. I am getting sick of waking up in the middle of the night coughing my head off.

Go see another doctor.

[Janice]

I haven't been feeling well for months. At first it was bronchitus, then that was "cured" but I was still congested and the coughing wouldn't stop.
Now the Doctor says I have "seasonal allergies." I've tried both Singulair and Allegra D each for a week, and I still feel no change. I'm back on Sungulair tomorrow. I am starting to worry that it might be something else. I am getting sick of waking up in the middle of the night coughing my head off.
Have you had a chest x-ray?

[Brieannas21]

I thought I was having a stroke about 2 1/2 years ago when I was pregnant. The right side of my body went numb, and my baby stopped moving. So my husband rushed me to the hospital and it just turned that my Iron was dangerously low. So I just stayed in the hospital for a week, they gave me some blood and sent me home.

[Stuck In The '70's]

Two years ago I had sever pain in my left arm. It was underneith where my veins were and it would sometimes shoot to my chest. I would sweat a lot and this started in the winter time. and my arm would go numb. I had a hard time sleeping too. I went to the doctors and had X-rays done and they couldn't figure out what was wrong. It lasted for about 6 months until it slowly went away and to this day I don't know what caused it. A few times I thought I was having a heart attack.

[Brent88]

Back in January 2005 we went to Gatlinburg for 3 days. As we were leaving(it had snowed 2 days earlier and had been bitterly cold the entire time, so the parking lot was icy), I was headed to the car and slipped and fell on the ice. I put my hands in front of my face and hurt my right wrist badly. We went to a doctor there and after waiting for HOURS, he said it was broke. Got a cast on and then came home. 2 days later I went to a doctor here and he said it was not broke and took off the cast. So far, that's been my biggest scare.

[jacktripper1]

In May 2002 I was at work in a mill in the Dyehouse Dept. & fell into an open-air dye vat up to my chest. I pulled myself out, but had burned 80% of my body in the process. I was in the Burn Unit in Winston-Salem for 2 1/2 months. I am now disabled with constant leg & feet problems. I can't sit or stand for long periods of time in various positions. I have irrepairable nerve damage, blood vessel damage & arthritis from the hips down.

[sara]

I have. About three years ago, my mammogram report came back abnormal. I had to have additional, more invasive, tests -- which were scheduled about 10 days apart. They didn't care that I was having a nervous breakdown.

Turned out to be a false alarm. It was the longest three weeks of my life.
Mine's sort of like that. When I was 13 or 14 I found a lump. Luckly it turned out to be a cyst or something.

[Janice]

In May 2002 I was at work in a mill in the Dyehouse Dept. & fell into an open-air dye vat up to my chest. I pulled myself out, but had burned 80% of my body in the process. I was in the Burn Unit in Winston-Salem for 2 1/2 months. I am now disabled with constant leg & feet problems. I can't sit or stand for long periods of time in various positions. I have irrepairable nerve damage, blood vessel damage & arthritis from the hips down.
That's a terrible accident. I'm sorry to hear that.

[Fleet]

No health scares for me. Chocolate keeps me healthy. ;)
My cholesterol at its last reading was 168 (200 and lower is good). Anyone else know theirs?

[Bobby F.]

After a car wreck that fracture my skull( a small one) the doctors saw a dark spot on my brain and told me they thought it was a form of mellanomic(?) cancer. Turns out that it was just a clot caused from the accident that ended up desolving on it's own.

[Chocoholic]

I was rushed to the hospital with various ailments at least a dozen times before I finished first grade. I was also born with congenital eye defects and I was later diagonsed as hearing impaired. I also have chronic bronchitis that tends to flare up once or twice a year. You just have to deal with what God gives you.

My mom also had a breat cancer scare last lear.

[Ags2000]

A few years back, they thought I had a brain tumor. I started having problems seeing, my vision was getting blurry, and I was VERY sensitive to lights. They ran a bunch of tests and found that the pressure in both my eyes were extremely high. They wanted me to have a CAT scan and MRI of my head b/c they really thought I had a brain tumor.

Needless to say, I was a nervous wreck and literally sick all week long waiting for the test results. Friday, I went to the doctor and they said it was not a brain tumor, they believed I was the youngest case they had ever seen for glaucoma. I ended up going to my sister's that weekend to tell her what all the doctor said and to just relax.

Recently they have decided that I have VERY early onset of glaucoma and that at this time I just have ocular hypertension. I go to a specialist once a year just to check everything out. Went back yesteray as a matter of fact, and they said I have had no additional loss of sight. My eyes are staedy this year. Woo Hoo!!!

That was a very hectic time for me. Especially since the following week I lost my job. I gotta tell ya, it was a bad few weeks.

But losing my job ended up being good for me b/c I had several health problems come up that I was able to get under control and concentrate on college.



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[dawsongirl]

Mental Health episodes are scary enough. I'd have a breakdown with physiological scares.

[AllIWantIsYourClutch]

My mom's had a few. I think the worst was when all of her doctors were convinced that she had TB...She tested negative for everything, but they made her take all the medicine for it anyway because, for some reason, they thought she had it..

[Janice]

Six months ago, I woke up, and the room started spinning like a top. I focused on a clock on the wall, and everything was spinning around it.

Once that slowed down, I tried to get out of bed. My mind was fine, but it felt like my body was drunk. I had to hold onto the walls for balance. I was walking like I was drunk.

The episode lasted about an hour. I googled and learned it could be the warning signs of a stroke. So my husband took me to the emergency room. I was there all day with test after test...even a brain cat scan.

It turned out that I had a viral infection. There really wasn't much they could do. I was out of sorts for about a week, but it finally passed. It was a scary feeling.

[Im a big deal]

i almost died twice...but it wasnt because of my health

[PZelda]

Back in the summer of 1999. I was sick (as a dog) for five weeks. I had a very high temp., threw up, could not eat and was terribly weak for the entire month of July till the first week of August; mean while, during this illness, I had lost nearly 25 pounds (it was horrible); turned out to be a terrible flu bug!
I had something like that happen too.

My mom had just battled a nasty case of the flu... she was sick for 6 weeks, and it was really hard on her. When she started feeling better, that was when I came down with the flu. It hit REALLY hard, too. I remember the date, too... December 1, 2002. It was LOUSY... I was never that sick before I had the flu, and I've not been that sick since then. I had ABSOLUTELY zero energy, had really bad hot flashes/chills, and serious nausea for two weeks straight. I was bedridden for two weeks straight and could barely keep anything down... It was really one of the worst times in my life. I ended up losing more than 10 pounds in two weeks, due to the nausea. It's really awful being too sick to be able to do anything. :( I missed two weeks of school, and finally went to the hospital the weekend of December 14 & 15 to get a prescription for antibiotics to fight off the flu for once and for all.

You don't know what the flu REALLY is like until you've had it. You can die from having the flu. Most people come down with a mild case of the flu. This was one of the severe cases. Ugh.