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Subject is pretty simple: What's the sickest you've ever been? Everyone gets sick every so often but sometimes you get really sick. I don't just mean missing a day of work sick, I mean you were laid up for a week or more and barely did more than leave the bed or maybe even had to stay overnight in a hospital. Did you ever find out what you had? Tell us a story!


I'll start since I'm asking:

It happened back when I was like in 7th grade. I felt pretty ill at school all day and made the mistake off eating the celebration pizza our teacher had bought for us in class. Welp while I was walking home I felt woozy and nauseous and stop on the railroad track near home and actually said: "I can't do this." and vomited what still looked like pizza onto the railroad tracks.

By the time I got home I was delirious and went to use the bathroom and didn't even have the strength to pee standing up and passed out on the floor when I finished. My mom took me to the doctor and after running tests he said I had pneumonia and put me on bed rest with some meds. I couldn't keep anything heavier than soup down, vomited so much it hurt, headaches, fever/chills and had trouble breathing. Hell sometimes the crap I'd cough up had blood in it. Talk about feeling fucking awful. As a kid who never got sick I always thought feeling this bad was stuff you only saw on tv. I didn't leave that bed except to use the bathroom and barely had the energy for that.

After a two more days of this my doctor checked me out again and didn't like what he saw and prescribed me some antibiotics and said if this doesn't work he was going to admit me in because a lot of fluid had built up in my lungs. Thankfully the antibiotics worked and after missing school for two weeks and I back to myself again.
But man I'd never wish that on anyone.
 
Whooping cough. My parents thought I was vaccinated, but the Belgian doctor who gave me my immunizations apparently left it out.

Close second is having a blood infection when I was in college. I was actually certain I was going to die at one point.
 
One time I couldn't eat or drink for several days due to food poisoning. I had to force down water and immediately throw it up just to get little dabs of hydration. Didn't poop for over a week :P

Overall, haven't gotten too seriously sick.
 
Not very.

The time I got Swine Flu in the middle of that epidemic was probably it, but honestly it was not worse than any other flu.
 
Probably when i was 6 and went through the flu, strep throat, and scarlet fever in one sitting. I remember being out of school for like two weeks.
 
Nearly died from Lyme Disease when I was in college; it was hell and I wouldn't wish it on anyone. Put me in the ER 7 times and I had over 50 symptoms.
 
Strep throat that I waited until I was throwing up blood and skin before I went to the doctor, to which I was given amphicillin, and I had no idea I am way way allergic to it. So I was like Balloon Mario and itchy for days, when I went back to the doctor he was all, "oh, good thing you quit taking it, you could've asphyxiated and died." Then I got a shot in the butt and I was good like 2 days later. But this was over a month total.
 
When I did a 900 at the town skate park. My buddy Timmy and I were the only ones there but you can ask him, I totally did it.
 
I don't remember anything about it but my mother told me that I was hospitalized for like 4 days in one of those plastic isolation tent things because of some kind of illness when I was 4 years old. Apparently it was life threatening, don't know what I had. That would have been in like 1982 so they probably have some over the counter treatment now for whatever it was that made me so sick.
 
Over the course of I think two years I:

1. Had a virus settle in my bones which pretty much kept me bedridden for a month. Could barely walk and was in constant pain.
2. The antibiotics they provided for the virus was too high a dose, which destroyed my immune system and also caused major problems in my intestines, leading to IBS, a not serious but super annoying auto-immune disease.
3. About six months after that problem I suffered a major concussion that dented my skull slightly, caused constant headaches and chronic migraines, somehow slowed my digestive track which they found out by making me eat radioactive eggs and watching them move through my system, and pretty much all I did was attend high school for half days and play video games for the following year, while still dealing with the stomach problems, which as a result had me put on a lot of weight.

So yeah. Freshman and sophomore year of high school fucking sucked. The migraines actually just stopped being chronic about a year ago.
 
Ignoring chronic conditions (POTS) it would either be strep throat from a few years back or the shared bout of norovirus that our entire family had over Christmas this past year.

Nearly two weeks of lethargy and a good 5-6 days in the middle of everyone firing liquids out pretty much every orifice. Unlike the strep I wasn't hospitalized but I could barely move for days.
 
Tonsillitis a year ago. Totally knocked down for two weeks straight, had parents bring me food at one point. The worst part apart from not being able to swallow without immense pain was that my lymph nodes swelled up so bad that there was no position I could hold my head in without putting pressure on either of them, also leading to pain. Had some really nasty sleeping problems due to that. It was also the virus version of tonsillitis (as opposed to the bacterial one), which can't be treated. Just toughed it out, but man that sucked.
 
Agonizing stomach pain, usually at night, I just put up with it because it stopped after like 8 hours. Until one day it didn't stop. Up all night pacing the garden bringing up bile until it was light out, parents took me to the hospital in the morning. Remained in agonizing pain for the entire day until the drugs kicked in. After getting a camera down my throat, they found I had some kind of infection or something (I still don't know exactly what it was to this day). Few weeks of Omeprazole fixed me up.
 
I don't actually know what it was. For one day, I was vomiting like crazy and spent most of it in bed and in agony.
It was gone the next day. Just like that.
 
About five years ago, I came down with a horrific flu (or so I thought). It got worse when the cascading fevers started. They'd ramp me up to 101.something, the fever would break, I'd feel fine for half a day, and then it'd be back the next morning. After dealing with this for a week, I went to the ER, and found out that I had what was referred to as "a serious respiratory infection." This is what they tell you, because "mono" doesn't quite sell it. It fucking SUCKS, it's serious, and you can't just take DayQuil and let it be. I had to be put on steroids for the next few days to get back on track, and even then, I was told to stay away from people for the next two weeks afterwards to make sure I wasn't still contagious.

That really sucked because I didn't have much of a support network at the time, so I had to look after myself. Getting your groceries and medicine when you're barely well enough to leave the house blows.
 
Probably mono earlier this year.

Aside from that I had an insanely bad type of flu around 2010, although I have no idea what it was exactly.
 
Stomach flu. Didn't last long but I was projectile vomiting for a couple days, had the shit coming so hard it came out the nose. Everyone in the house could hear it.
 
Got sick in grad school and my body basically shut down. Vomited all over the bathroom and when I tried to clean it up almost passed out. Made it to the bed and was out for nearly 36 hours straight. Woke up super weak and could barely stand. Luckily I had emailed everyone that I was sick before all that happened or the school would have been very pissed.
 
Pneumothorax, twice. More of a "condition" or something, not necessarily a "sickness" I don't think? -- I'm not doctor.

Flu/Pneumonia combo after lung surgery was brutal, to say the least.

I also hate "the common cold" with every bone in my fucking body.

chest tubes are the worst.
 
I caught a infection in my stomach wall lining, which made it so my wall lining wasn't immune to my stomach acid. I was puking up every 5 mins and had to be rushed to hospital.
 
Had shingles and the flu in a 2 week period. Shingles is brutal and then slap a fever on top of that and there were moments where I would just crumple down to the floor. Mono in college was pretty brutal, coughed so much I bruised my ribs and my throat felt like a pin hole most mornings. Shingles was still worse.
 
after coming back from a spring break trip with my ex-girlfriend we stopped at a local chinese place and grabbed some food. We had left early in the week before, and it was still the tail end of the spring break week, so my ex headed to her home and I went back to the dorms where I lived and worked.

The food poisoned me. Big time. It damn near killed me. If i was laying down, I had to shit. If I was shitting, I had to throw up. I literally spent 30hrs either shitting, vomiting or being passed out. To make matters worse, I was in the dorms with a shared bathroom, so every 30 minutes I was fumbling with keys and trying not to die. I had no food in my room, and just 2 powerade drinks that probably saved my life.

Literally no one else was in the dorms and I kept passing out in the hall way and lounge, even passed out while I was taking a shit. I couldn't stop throwing up, even without eating and I ended up throwing up blood because I was just vomiting nothing.

I was so fucked up I couldnt even call 911 because I couldn't remember the number, and when I finally stopped hallucinating and was getting better I found the search results on my PC were 'how to kill yourself painlessly'.

Never went back to that fucking place. Godamn. Just thinking about it makes me anxious.
 
Flu or wicked cold when I was a kid. Literally puked anything I tried to put in my stomach. Coughing/fever, etc. I remember my dad was working from home and he was watching over me. And on my like 6th time puking that day I felt a sharp pain, grabbed myself, passed out for about one second. My dad caught me from hitting my head on the corner of the sink (I was puking in the toilet).

Chick Pocks literally on christmas and my birthday (day after).

And then I had walking pneumonia, which I came extremely close to going to the hospital for. I remember taking a bath one night to help break my fever and I just started going into a coughing fit where I couldn't breath, and I was like, I'm dying.
 
Pneumonia.

Escalated so fast. I had this hacking cough for a few weeks but nothing too worrying. Was flying around Europe to shoot a developer testimonial video. Last shoot on Friday in London, then pub. Suddenly I'm super tired and out of breathe. Limping home, I measure 40C fever.

The following week I'm so weak I can only stand up once a day to go to the loo and fridge. I go to the doctors in Soho, and I am so ill that any food smell makes me vomit. Going up the stairs to bed is a major undertaking, I just didn't have the oxygen in me.

I get diagnosed with pretty severe pneumonia in chest x-ray. Barely managed to avoid hospitalisation, and got 3 weeks sick leave. 100%'d Fallout 3, with some 80h game time a week.

It was really eye opening to see how quickly you can go from young and healthy to a complete invalid.
 
Mild pneumonia when I was like 26 back in 2008.

That was probably the closest I ever came to dying. I remember having a fever of like 103 or 104 and alternating Tylenol and ibuprofen kinda rapidly to keep the fever down. I'd cough so hard that a bit of blood would come up so I just kept a bucket next to the couch to spit into.

It's weird how your brain kinda turns into a slurry when your fever is that high. I remember playing Dynasty Warriors 6 a bunch during that and subsequently closing my eyes and seeing nothing but health bars. I also remember watching "the last samurai" and then having very vivid dreams about the movie when I passed out on watching it. It was like the images in my mind became "louder" and more vibrant - almost like dreaming while awake. I could still distinguish reality from not reality but things were a big mental mess.

The chest rattle was fun and lasted for a couple weeks, even after when I was on the mend. What was also fun was feeling the strain on my heart because of my weakened condition. Kinda spooky.
 
One of the times I had the stomach flu back in elementary school was the worst, I was out of commission for at least two weeks straight. Couldn't keep food down most of that time, and I was on the couch so long from weakness that I couldn't walk after a certain point.

Then one day I woke up and felt like a million bucks. It just cleared up and I felt great.
 
Whenever I get my cyclical vomiting syndrome it's pretty bad. The first year I got it I threw up every half hour for a couple days straight not even an exaggeration. I was forcing myself to drink fluids just so I wouldn't be dry heaving. I lost a lot of weight in a very short period of time. When I finally went to the hosp they put an IV in each arm just to get fluids in my quicker.
 
My appendix burst.

By an absolute mile the most pain I've ever been in. If you literally do nothing, don't seek treatment etc it can be dangerous but obviously I went to the hospital and they removed it. Was back to myself again in about 2 weeks.
 
The sickest i've ever been is from chemo-theraphy. Of course it was to cure me from the sickest i really was. But i never felt sicker than after my rounds of chemo. 5 days of full throttle throwing up. Horrible. Later on i got some extra medicine to fight the urge to throw up. I still have a pavlov reaction to the colour red. The last bag of fluid of the day was some red substance and whenever i see red fluids, i get nauseous.

The worst pain was a kick in my liver during sparring. I think my liver wrapped itself around the foot of the other guy. At first i didn't feel much but then came the pain. Oh my fucking god. I was screaming like a pig, aside from not being able to really scream anymore. So it was a horrible sound of someone trying to scream.
 
Severe pneumonia in my early 20s.

I had this really shitty flu I couldn't shake so I went the doctor and the guy pushed on my fingernail, got kind of wide-eyed, and said he was admitting to the hospital immediately. Apparently my O2 levels were pretty dangerously low and I ended up staying in the hospital for 5 days til my lungs weren't drowning anymore. I was legit worried about permanent damage or something.
 
I had some sort of viral infection. I didn't eat for about a week and lost a lot of weight. Fever was about 107. Terrible.
 
2009.

Got H1N1 then pneumonia. I went to the ER and ended up being admitted and eventually intubated and placed in a medically induced coma for about a week. I almost died.
 
HawksWinStanley said:
Severe pneumonia in my early 20s.

I had this really shitty flu I couldn't shake so I went the doctor and the guy pushed on my fingernail, got kind of wide-eyed, and said he was admitting to the hospital immediately. Apparently my O2 levels were pretty dangerously low and I ended up staying in the hospital for 5 days til my lungs weren't drowning anymore. I was legit worried about permanent damage or something.
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sheesh, did he see you had cyanosis or something? i dunno what the fingernail test is, i assume you were like turning blue from low O2
 
Appendix surgery followed immediately by pneumonia. My side was burning and breathing was difficult. All I did was lay down and tried to sleep for a week straight. Took a long while to get back from that one.

The weirdest feeling though has to be blood poisoning. Got a small scratch in my hand in a game and next day I had a lovely line going from my arm towards my chest. Felt really weird; cold one second and super hot the next.
 
Staph infection in my bloodstream from infected poison ivy.

I was 13 and over the course of a school day I went from normal to a 104F fever.

I went to the hospital and lost consciousness a dozen or so times. Each time I woke up to people holding me down as I was violently convulsing. After a shot of antibiotics I was fine within a day. But damn, looking back I was quite lucky.

Don't scratch your poison ivy.
 
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