Do lots of us live with Medical Conditions?

AcidHell2 said:
Go to a drop in centre probably just a bad/tiered/grumpy GP.
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Must admit when I first started with my condition I visited the doctor 3 times, various things dished out, none helped, got referred to the "specialist", what they prescribed made it worse.

So in the end I paid for a private consultation, £100. Told me in five minutes what it was, that is wasn't curable, and what to use to help. I went to boots, spent £3.24 and it was 90% better in 48 hours.
 
Kobrakai said:
Irritable Bowel Syndrome, basically I have the runs all the time which makes meetings and business trips hard for me.
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This, like most people with it I have good days and bad, on the bad days getting to work is touch and go and the navigation waypoints are WCs (I'm sure anyone with a bowel condition understands :))
 
Alopesia Ariata. Lived with it for around 13 years now, although a lot of my hair's back at the mo, I've got a hairy chest and stomach, and shoulders, but no proper pubes or leg hairs. I have to shave my head and face otherwise I look like a patchy old man :p

I've also got some prevalent cartilidge injuries to my shoulder, knee and jaw that could do with surgery, but I don't want to take time off training / work.

Ant :cool:
 
rghjones said:
I went to the doctors about it a few months ago and he was the most unhelpful person I've ever spoke to. He basically said "could get it removed on the NHS, but there's a six month waiting list, or I could do it here next week but there's a 60% chance it won't work". What do you mean it won't work? You're removing a nail - what would it look like if it 'didn't work'?!

Thinking about going private but still unsure if it's better to have a weird toe nail or no toe nail at all and just a big toe stump thing.
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Agree with AH tbh, was an idiot GP.
 
Rainmaker said:
Yeah, you could say that... :) Bilateral hydronephrosis (basically my kidneys are shot), ME/CFS, fibromyalgia, asthma, partial deafness, stuff like that. LOL
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It never rains...

I'm recovering from ME and have a deviated septum that stops me breathing through one side of my nose with the slightest cold. Hopefully these won't last much longer though as my septum is getting fixed next month and I shouldn't feel like I have a permanent cold after that! So that just leaves chronic headaches and migraines :(.
 
Vixen said:
It never rains...

I'm recovering from ME and have a deviated septum that stops me breathing through one side of my nose with the slightest cold. Hopefully these won't last much longer though as my septum is getting fixed next month and I shouldn't feel like I have a permanent cold after that! So that just leaves chronic headaches and migraines :(.
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I had that op too, it might also help a bit with the headaches :)
 
Short sightedness, for those with perfect vision, dont take it for granted!!!

Irregular heartbeat, permanently. Very random, been told theres no cure and nothing that can be done to stop it happening. Its quite strange to hear it going on in its own little world!

Beat, beat, beat........beatbeatbeat. (thats as good as I could explain it on here :D)
 
lukechad said:
Short sightedness, for those with perfect vision, dont take it for granted!!!

Irregular heartbeat, permanently. Very random, been told theres no cure and nothing that can be done to stop it happening. Its quite strange to hear it going on in its own little world!

Beat, beat, beat........beatbeatbeat. (thats as good as I could explain it on here :D)
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I have an irregular heart beat that comes out of the blue, also some times it beats very fast for several hours, happened quite a few times but its still scary when it does happen especially if its coupled with an irregular beat at the same time. Had all the checks done and been told theres nothing they can see wrong with it, just one of those things.
 
Cybermyk said:
I had that op too, it might also help a bit with the headaches :)
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Did you notice a big difference afterwards? I really want to see how it affects my ice skating as at the moment I feel like a "normal" person trying to train with a cold.
 
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