Housemaid's knee and other ailments that should have died out

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Today I woke up with my knee all weirdy and stiff. It was totally fine yesterday and I haven't knocked it or anything. But it was too sore for the gym.

Dr Google informs me that I have housemaid's knee.

I mean, really?! Wtf? I am not an apple cheeked Edwardian scullery girl.

What other ailments sound ridiculously old fashioned to you? And will someone please make me feel better by telling me that they have the King's Evil?

I still get chillblains no matter what I do. One memorable winter they were all over my toes and up the backs of me legs to behind my knees. Agony.

My. Mum had scarlet fever she missed starting school because she was in an isolation for months My DD had it when she was 10 off school a week antibiotics for 10 days and she was fine

Croup and scarlet fever are straight out of Anne of Green Gables for me. When Dc1 got croup I was gobsmacked, thought I'd woken up in 1850! Didn't realise it's still quite common

I used to get chilblains all the time in my last house. Inadequate heating in most of the house and no heating in the kitchen plus a tiled floor was a perfect recipe.

I had pigeon fanciers lung when I was 16, it was awful, the drs though it was meningitis at first.
I caught it from a pet cockatiel.

Believe it or not I got the chilblains in Australia!

It actually gets pretty cold in the southern part of the country and the house only had a gas hearer in the living room. We’d close the doors to keep the heat in but of course that meant the rest of the house was freezing.

I seem to have grown out of them as an adult.

When I hear Scarlet Fever I always think of the Little House on the Prairie books. The family got Scarlet Fever, had their hair cut short and one sister went blind (although it’s now thought it was a different disease altogether.)

DM had whooping cough which didn't get diagnosed for weeks as the GP didn't recognise it. DH gets gout (although currently officially undiagnosed as he won't go the the GP when it flares up to get the blood test, as he thinks we'll all take the piss (which we will, but he really needs to get it sorted out).

I've had pleurisy (also asthma as an allergic reaction to pleurisy ) twice which wasn't fun, also had bunions removed, which is such an old lady thing to have had done, I was only 38 at the time.

Pleurisy and quinsy both sound like something from the middle ages. But my mum had pleurisy last year and DS had quinsy this year!

I had housemaid's knee as a child, fell on a lacrosse stick. Think it's called bursitis or something now but I guess easy names stick.

DM had whooping cough which didn't get diagnosed for weeks as the GP didn't recognise it.

I got whooping cough FROM the gp!

True story, when I was little my parents went away and I went to stay with a family friend who was also the family GP. When I came back I had whooping cough which turned into pneumonia!

I’ve had scarlet fever, Bells Palsy, pleurisy and the doctors once thought I had Pigeon Fanciers lung! (Though that turned out to be psittacosis)

I’m like a sickly Victorian urchin trapped in a 21st century woman’s body.

My DH has a carbuncle! Very interesting.

DH has pseudo-gout and varicose veins (the latter is definitely related to standing around in hard safety boots at work). He's also had shin splints. I joke that he sounds like a Tudor rather than a man in his late 30s.

I had whooping cough a few months ago, I actually thought it was something that only affected babies or young children as I'd never heard of anyone older having it until then!

I've had scarlet fever and several whitlows.

Beware Bagpipe Lung.

Shut up! bagpipe lung

Oh it's a really horrible condition now l feel rotten well bagpipers beware clean ya pipes!

I have pleurisy right now

Luckily for me I already have a very old velvet and lace dressing gown. DH obligingly rearranged our (modular type) sofa so I could recline on a chaise longue, whilst clutching my bottle of laudanum (I think that was the equivalent of morphine?). Apparently I am convalescing, which sounds suitably Chalet School. I am definitely wan.

(Fuck me though, how painful is pleurisy? I wish it would fuck off back to the past)

Oh get well soon MyCat!

Keep taking the Slippery Elm Bark drink, and a daily dose of Scott's Emulsion, as well as lashings of beef tea.

Sending love and a hot poltis mycat

It is poultice apparently

I had pleurisy whilst at university, it was very painful! I've also had Housemaid's Knee (a.k.a. bursitis) and shingles. DH has had gout once. DS had impetigo as a baby.

All very Victorian!

Oh, goodness me, God bless you every one. I’ve had shingles and I’ve had frozen shoulder in both shoulders and I wouldn’t wish the latter on my worst enemy, stupidly painful condition that sounds as if it’s just about catching a chill on your arms or something (it’s not).😩

DP has a spur on his elbow. And a couple of ganglions (sp), he sounds like a cowboy when I say it like that.

I've only seen a goiter in a biology textbook

• Every time I heard that awful "Somebody I Used to Know song (Gotye) I think of Goiters!

And a couple of years I thought I had gout but in the end I think I had an completely inexplicable minor toe fracture. Absolute agony!

DH has had ganglions removed no spurs though so not full cowboy

I had a ganglion on my wrist. The GP cheerfully suggested hitting it with a Bible. I chose the alternative, letting it go away on its own.

DS got trench foot from a particularly sodden gold D of E expedition.