What minor medical ailment do you wish you had the power to eradicate?

[CormoranStrike]

I am currently being plagued by a pesky cold sore, which comes back every few weeks.

It’s often accompanied by aches across my entire face.

While it’s not particularly dangerous (kissing babies aside) it’s a horrible, lingering pain in the face.

You?

Eczema. When mine flares up it can make me feel pretty miserable until I can get it back under control and I've needed a few courses of antibiotics in the past when it gets so bad its cracked and bleeding and gets infected.

Cystic acne. I think it's PCOS related, but I get it on my chin and it's often sore when I move my mouth. Sometimes they're so deep in the skin they stop hurting and become big lumps that you can still see. Then two months later they explode and leave a crater in my chin.

Piles. Definitely piles

toothache

Sore throats.

hayfever

When you’re overtired and your eye pulses, and you fear you’re winking at your manager

nits

The common cold. Miserable at the best of times, but now every cold is forcing isolation, time off school and the pain of a Covid test, they can definitely do one.

@Notmulan 😂

Definitely eczema. I have the tiniest patch of it near my ear (like 3 mm) and it drives me bonkers. I feel so sorry for people who properly struggle with it all over.

Whatever is wrong with my knees...

generic, and not something I have, eczema. Except I guess that's lots of conditions. But can be quite limiting.

Psoriasis has blighted my life since I was a child.

I'm not even sure it qualifies as 'minor' - I've had flare-ups so bad I've been hospitalised - but I'd love a cure for that low level, persistent sort of psoriasis that makes hundreds of thousands of people unhappy and feeling like they don't want to go out.

Earache. There’s just nothing you can do to make it better.

Headaches, make me utterly miserable and have them half my life

Definitely the common cold! They can make you feel so miserable, but yet you get judged (I feel) for pulling out of things because you've got a cold. There's always a bit of an eyeroll and 'it's just a cold!' but sometimes you can feel so crap with them! Plus colds always leave me with a terrible cough for weeks and weeks afterwards, have done since I was a child, no medicine helps. It gets so bad at night that I struggle to breathe!

Headaches
Eczema
Thrush

Endometriosis

Although going through it currently I'm not sure it classes as a minor inconvenience.

Also dischorric eczema. Although it appears I've discovered a cure for that the past year - hand gel

Eczema......mine is in the main fairly minor but I have had hospital treatment in the past.

Arthritis.....for me it's still minor but I know that is going to change over the years and my knees are going to be more fucked than they already are.

Bad eye sight. I really wish I didn't need to wear glasses/contacts.

Period pain and associated issues.

Restless legs

Nits
PMT
Common cold

Joint aches and headaches

@CovoidOfAllHumanity

Piles. Definitely piles

Oh yes, wholeheartedly agree with you

Tooth decay.