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Hootad Binky

I've been healthy all my life, however I've just been diagnosed with arthritis! I'm only 42!! F*ck!

Just got back from the hospital where I was injected with something radioactive and then had to come back for a bone scan in a "gamma machine" that rotates around you like a hypochondriac's nightmare.

The diagnosis explains my back going out so badly I couldn't walk 6 months ago and major stiffness and pain in the knees and feet every morning, alleviated by ibuprofen and a little tylenol.

But I'm not very worried as it's treatable and I'm otherwise feeling fine.

How about you? Any chronic diseases? How do you cope?

jizzybloke

At the grand old age of 33 i spend way too much time on my Osteopaths table getting my back put right, my knees and ankles make some funny clicking popping and grinding noises.
A couple of years ago i was diagnosed with gout and that flares up about twice a year( fvcking painfull).
Apart from that i seem ok apart from a terrible memory, i have C.R.A.F.T syndrome..

On a positive note the not smoking is going ok though.

Marmite the Dog

Only lazyitis and workaphobia, but I manage to get by.

buad hai

Right now I'm bloody sore from hauling big laterite stones all yesterday afternoon, but for an old geezer I'm in pretty good shape. I made a conscious decision to stop doing distance events (run, bike, swim) about ten years ago to preserve my joints from the ravages of degenerative arthritis.

I do have some flexor tendon adhesion in my right hand which makes it hard for me to type extensively and which limits the mobility of my right hand in other ways. I can't flatten it out to do pushups any more (darn!), for example.

Of course, my skin is shot from decades of overexposure to the sun, but that seems to be manageable with regular doses of Retin-A and frequent visits to the skin doc to have a few bits frozen off now and then.

I'm grateful to be in such good health and relatively ailment free after so many years of over-using and abusing my body.

durianfan

Baldness. I'm losing my hair on top. I just started taking rogaine --- we'll see if it fixes the problem.

And about once a year hemhoroids flare up -- first started getting them at the grand old age of 20 if you can believe it.

buad hai

Do you use a squat toilet? I had 'roids at an early age, but am never bothered now that I gave up the throne for a proper squat pot.

Dalton

I dont even know where to start....

mrsquirrel

Losing hair - not much of a problem other than it's only the front part which is going. I will endup with a 10in forehead soon.

I have a genetic disorder where my liver produces to much biliruben or bile and can't use it all up. When I am sick or under -the-weather I get yellow eyes. Only found out about this when i went to a doctors on Ko Chang because I had an infected right testicle (fuck knows how that happened but I had brown cum, she claims possibly walking into the weights bar at the gym may have caused it) he saw my eyes and thought I was suffering from liver failure. one expensive test later and it appears that I have actually got a genetic disorder. NOt life threatening just there.
Didn't pay for the expensive test since he forgot to bill me for it.

My jaw clicks and cracks - it pops like a popping thing. Sometimes it pops out of place.

My left big toe is seized solid since I broke it in AUstralia - it gets a little sore in cold weather now. I broke another toe on the other foot the same night I broke the big toe. Completely separate incident as well.

I've put on 3kgs in the last sx months yet I exercise fairly hard and don't eat crap.

Other than that I am fine.

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AntRobertson

Most of my joints are always causing me some form of grief, a legacy from rugby.

I'm in constant pain from my workouts at the gym, ironically enough.

My biggest problems currently are a chronic lack of sleep and smoking. Oh, and it has been about 4 days since my last solid bowel movement although I remain positive that I'll beat this terrible affliction.*

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*Although not today apparently. Just had a poo and it was like a frigging garden sprinkler.

Lily

I am perfectly healthy despite drinking like a fish and smoking like a chimney.

durianfan

Nope - have a proper western toilet (although i really miss the bum hose). I've never used a squat pot and never will; I enjoy reading whilst on the porcelain throne and a squat pot doesn't allow me that pleasure.

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buad hai

I had hemorrhoids as a teenager. I went to the doctor. His first piece of advice: "Don't read in there." Sitting on the throne with your ass hanging down is one of the causes of hemorrhoids. Get in and out as quickly as possible and do your reading elsewhere....

sledge

I get these spots on my cock every few months that the doc burns off, not warts he tells me or contagious.

Ivor Biggun

Sorry to get serious but for me it's depression. Okay I can take pain because I can understand that, but depession has to be the most debilitating condition known to man. With a physical disability you can relate to the healing process because we are educated and understand the injuries process but depression is something else. If you've never had it, on a clinical basis, then you'll never really understand what it means to have it. I had it for about 5 years after suffering an unprovoked assault where my head was used as a football. Given the choice then, to have my leg ripped off or have depression I'd have said "the leg". Before that episode in my life I would have been the first to call someone acting strangely mental, but now I look for a reason for their behaviour. To finish on I'd just like to say that depression is not a mental condition and is caused by a chemical inbalance in the brain caused by a physical or emotional shock. There's no magic bullet but there is light at the end of the tunnel even though it seems far away at times. For anyone suffering from it, my heart goes out to you.

Ivor Biggun

I had Haemeroids once and the doctor gave me some long white tablets and for all the good they did I may as well stuck them up my arse.

Frankenstein

Not-so-large haemorrhoids and a boil on my right buttock so I sort of have to lean to the left while typing this, otherwise it hurts.

sledge

Did you read the instructions, they were proberly meant to go up the back passage.

Frankenstein

That was a joke, sledge...

Ivor Biggun

Bless him.

sledge

OkOKOk ,the brain cells still haven't rejuvinated yet after last weekend and the next is approaching. oh shit!!