What is the worst illness you've ever had?

[Sharon]

I've never actually been REALLY ill, most is like a cold lol... maybe chicken pox?

TOUCH WOOD

[lemons]

use to get ear aches a lot when i was younger

[geo]

ummm worst thing was when i got a lot of illnesses/problems at once so:

chest infection, pulled back muscle, bad hayfever and a cough

it just meant when i sneezed / coughed, it'd hurt my back, and my chest was in constant pain

had to get taken to hospital because my mum made me have a laughing fit and i ended up crying because my body hurt too much lmao

[Bloop]

lung infection

[Evanora]

i had really mild skin cancer x

[Martin]

Had a really bad case of HSP (Henock-Shonlein-Purpura) when I was 6/7. All my joints swelled up so had to go in a wheelchair for a while, was covered in rashes for ages and there was something wrong with my kidneys. Was in and out of hospital for quite a while and missed a lot of school. I still have this memory of waking up in hospital to watch the teletubbies haha! At one point it was really serious kidney wise.

Since then I've suffered with really bad migraines every 3 months, in which I can barely walk, can't see or hear for the first day, constantly vomiting and it takes a good 4-5 days for me to get my balance back properly and for the pain in my head to go away.


Also had spells of IBS (yummy!), regular nosebleeds, asthma when I was younger.

Had chicken pox quite bad and missed my dads wedding too.



Think that's it luckily

[Absently]

err probably my re-occurring one that pretty much sucks or tonsillitis

[Drewar]

I had food poisoning once and it was absolutely awful. I was sick every 15 minutes for two days straight. I couldn't keep any food down. Spent so much time dry heaving. I was dehydrated from all of the vomiting which caused my leg muscles to spasm.

Closely behind that would be the time I had pneumonia. All I got last year for Valentine's day was pneumonia. LOL

[dbgtz]

I had a horrible infection after an operation. I was stuck on antibiotics for weeks.

[Empired]

Can't choose: having to have a knee operation a few years ago and having to go round in a wheelchair for ages after. I was embarrassed cos I was just starting secondary school and I had to turn up in a wheelchair! Or all this wrist trouble I've had recently. It's been terrible for 11 - 12 months now (after a fracture) and it just hasn't been fixed. GP, physio at hospital, osteopath, etc all don't know what's wrong with it.

Those two aren't really "illnesses" though. Worst illness was probably flu I had two years ago. It knocked me out for somewhere between two and three weeks. I barely remember anything except sitting in my mum's armchair once listening to the Archers. Wasn't able to read, watch TV, go on the internet or anything. After 10 days or so, my mum called a doctor round to the house because she was worried and he came every day until I showed signs of improving. I didn't like him because sometimes he made me get up and move around