I didnt know I had it!

[FarrIL]

So, post stories here about sicknesses you didnt know you had at the time.

For example, back in 2005, Spook treated me to a night in Windor, Canada for my 19th birthday. Not long after that, my throat started feeling insanely sore. Worst sore throat I'd ever had, actually. It'd hurt to swallow, yet felt good at the same time. hurt to breath at all (any rush of air make my throat sting). Cold fluids hurt, warm fluids hurt. Sleeping was my only way to somehow bypass this annoyance and even still, it'd take me a while to fall asleep because all I could concentrate one was how nasty this sore throat was!

During this time; me, my mom and stepdad were driving down to Memphis, Tennessee to see my sister Jeri and nephew Spencer. Had to share a room with the poor kid, him saying the next morning "Auntie Tara SNORES, momma!"

After a few days, we drive back home and my mom sets up a doctor's appointment. My throat is still killing me but that is the only symptom. I get tested for Bartonella ("cat scratch fever" as my sister had a young cat and we were surrounded by felines). Negative. So, they test me for MONO. I jokingly said "Yeah right, you guys just want more of my blood."

Sure enough, I return two days later. I'm sitting on the bed and the doctor walks in. She sits down and says "Well, kid, ya got Mono."

She explains to me that my white blood count was really high but said count was declining now, showing signs of recovery. I told her that the only symptom I had was the sore throat (which I did eventually take an Ibuprofen for, the day prior to the news). I told her I never felt weak or lethargic, I just had that sore throat. She explained that not everybody is bed-ridden when they have Mono.

Well alright then!

So I had Mono and didnt find out until I was already getting better, so no medicine for myself!

Now, your turn!

[Simon Bar Sinister]

this should be an STD parade...

[FarrIL]

Or reminiscent of "I didnt know I was pregnant".... which, that show makes no sense to me. o.0

[n0Mad]

Myocarditus. Or whatever it's called and however you spell it. I'll have to find my LJ writeup from years ago and repost here.

[Eevee]

My anxiety.

There was so many other possibilities we went through before figuring out that I had an anxiety disorder. And this was after a year of panic attacks, getting sick, and being a hermit.

[n0Mad]

Here's something I posted on LiveJournal (remember LiveJournal? yeah, neither do I) on 3/29/05:

So That's What it Feels Like

It's Monday (yesterday) and I'm lying in the emergency room at the hospital after being admitted with severe chest pains. The symptoms show a heart attack. They run an EKG. It looks like a heart attack. They do an echo somethingrather. It indicates a heart attack. They run some blood work. Definitely a heart attack. I'm 28 years old, in great shape, and normally the epitome of health. I'm scared.

They wheel me into an operating room where a team has gathered after responding to various pages. They pop a hole in my femoral (or whatever) artery and run a catheter from my groin and up into my heart. The micro video camera looks around and sees a perfectly healthy heart with great arteries and no clogging whatsoever. They're confused. I'm scared.

Later, the cardiologist talks to me. I caught a virus. It went after my heart. Normally it just plays with the lining which causes a fluid build up which they didn't find in me. Instead, the virus decided to bypass the lining and go straight after the muscle itself. It damaged my muscle tissue which caused excruciating pain and gave me all the symptoms of a heart attack. Soon, it will heal itself, but until then I'm prone to feeling occasional pain. Sometimes mild, sometimes severe like I'm having a heart attack all over again. I have Motrin to make me feel better but only time will heal me.

I'm 28 years old and I know what it feels like to have a heart attack.

Myocarditis can be pretty scary. My cardiologist said it would probably take me two years to heal and then I'd only ever have 80% recovery. After six months I was at 100% and the cardiologist couldn't believe how quickly and fully I healed. I guess that's good for me. What doesn't kill you makes you stronger.

[candyman]

I thought that I just always had a cold or allergies because my nose was always plugged up. Turns out it was a deviated septum that needed to be surgically repaired. Not technically a sickness but when you are breathing through nothing but two pinholes for nostrils it still sucks...and having it fixed with a hammer and a chisel is not cool either.

[FarrIL]

Here's something I posted on LiveJournal (remember LiveJournal? yeah, neither do I) on 3/29/05:

Myocarditis can be pretty scary. My cardiologist said it would probably take me two years to heal and then I'd only ever have 80% recovery. After six months I was at 100% and the cardiologist couldn't believe how quickly and fully I healed. I guess that's good for me. What doesn't kill you makes you stronger.

Yeah I remember reading that post. Freaky stuff, and right thereafter was your birthday, if I remember. I think you were not necessarily joking about it, but you had said something like "Yeah, survived a heart attack. What next?" Something like that.

I thought that I just always had a cold or allergies because my nose was always plugged up. Turns out it was a deviated septum that needed to be surgically repaired. Not technically a sickness but when you are breathing through nothing but two pinholes for nostrils it still sucks...and having it fixed with a hammer and a chisel is not cool either.

I'm familiar with that, my grandfather needed surgery years ago because of a deviated septum. I'd imagine he's doing much better this far down the road.

[kat (1)]

I went like 28 years before I found out I had ankyloglossia, which means I am literally tongue tied. I went to the ENT one day for a biopsy of something unrelated and he kept saying stick out your tongue further, and I could not do it. He took a look under my tongue and diagnosed me right there. He was shocked that I went so many years and it was never a problem, nor did another doctor notice it before. (although I do remember many times in my past when Doc's found it amusing because I had problems doing the whole "ahhh" thing:)

The ENT said the problem is usually caught and corrected in infancy. He insisted that he fix it for me, which would have involved him taking a pair of scissors and simply cutting the extra tissue or whatever. Needless to say, I said no thanks.

Edited May 7, 2010 by kat

[phee]

I caught infant death syndrome in my teens... but because I was older, it just made me kind of tired out.