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Does Everyone Have a Long List of Weirdo Minor Problems? Or is it just me?

237 replies

NotQuiteCockney · 03/04/2007 21:11

I get:

  • labyrinthitis, after a head cold
  • tracheitis, sometimes, no idea why
  • knee problems
  • foot problems
  • chronic excema, on hands and feet, very minor but itchy
  • minor asthma
  • very weird skin and mouth thrush, but only when pg

Is this just what getting older is like, you have a long list of strange larely untreatable illnesses that annoy you all the time?

OP posts:
hunkermunker · 03/04/2007 22:10

(Everyone else has gone to another thread now, haven't they, to talk about the weirdo?)

margo1974 · 03/04/2007 22:11

Hunker - I did get rid of it for a while...

Had steroid cream for treatment of acne but it bleaches my bedcovers and nightwear.

I just don't think that they have researched enough into it as it's an inconvenience rather than a real problem

Mhamai · 03/04/2007 22:11

cali sorry for the dumb question but is that for the rest of your life?

Saggarmakersbottomknocker · 03/04/2007 22:12

They've all gone to bed hunker, to rest various aching bones.

Off myself in a minute. Need my beauty sleep.

Mhamai · 03/04/2007 22:12

What weirdo?

margo1974 · 03/04/2007 22:13

You see Hunker, no-one wants to hang around with chicken skin women

Miaou · 03/04/2007 22:16

I have just one weird one, and I've had it since I was in my late teens. Every so often I get a pain in my left shoulder that is so severe that I almost pass out (when it first started happening I did pass out but I think my pain threshold has improved since then!! ). It hits totally at random, can not occur for months then twice in a week. I guess it happens about once every couple of months on average. I did go to the docs about it about 12 years ago but they were baffled and I've never pursued it. I'm working on the principle that if it was serious then it would have killed me by now

Califrau · 03/04/2007 22:16

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tinkerbellhadpiles · 03/04/2007 22:20

I also have hypermobility and all my joints bend backwards and frequently dislocate.

SOOOOO not funny when you are walking down the aisle and your hear a crack and your hip pops out and you land spreadeagled on top of the smallest bridesmaid with the photographer merrily capturing it all for posterity

Mhamai · 03/04/2007 22:20

That's terrible cali.

Boco · 03/04/2007 22:20

Aaahh, at last, i feel at home here.

I have an unexplained itchy rash - been to the doctor so many times, and each time he says with conviction what it is, and it turns out not to be, so stopped going as i'm just working my way through various lotions that sting and don't help. Last guess was scabies, - glad it wasn't that.

Asthma

Unexplained pelvic pain

Sun allergy - only on my hands

Sinusitis

Ear problems - tinitus.

I hardly ever go to the doctor as i'm a bit worried that i'm a hypochondriac and he'll think i've got munchausens or something, so i suffer, loudly and dramatically, at home instead, and rely on the family medical encyclopeadia to diagnose fatal illnesses every 2-3 weeks.

elasticbandstand · 03/04/2007 22:20

well,,,,,,,,,, i have got a head ache and a sore throat, must be getting something interesting.. other than that. shrugs shoulders

tinkerbellhadpiles · 03/04/2007 22:20

Califrau - you should see my osteopath, he cured my SPD and I was in a wheelchair. Umm hang on a second let me find a link to the news story....

Miaou · 03/04/2007 22:21

tinkerbell NO!!!!

(was it you the other day who said it is v. embarrassing dislocating your hips during sex too?)

Molesworth · 03/04/2007 22:23

oh what a wonderful thread

i thought i was a freak with all my minor ailments but i'm not - hoorah

  • eczema on hands and feet (definitely stress-related and can get quite bad)
  • also patches of pigmentation/dry skin on torso
  • irritable scalp (not nits)
  • seeming allergy to water (ffs) causing itchy skin patches in addition to above
  • receding gums
  • shooting chest pains
  • insomnia

and in the last two years bingo wings have turned crepey

and i'm not even 40 yet ffs

hunkermunker · 03/04/2007 22:23

Oh, Tinkerbell, I'm so sorry, but your post about landing on your smallest bridesmaid made me LOL I hope you weren't in pain (you must have been, your HIP had popped out of joint ) Sorry!

Mhamai · 03/04/2007 22:23

Ooh can anyone tell me what this is. It doesen't happen that often but sometimes when I breathe in, it feels like
'm going to have a heart attack, I have to slow my breathing right down and take very small gulps of air till it passes, usually within ten seconds or so.

SaintGeorge · 03/04/2007 22:27

Loads of stuff:

iritis (both eyes)
blepharitis
migraine
endometriosis (on the way back after kids)
viral rashes - unknown causes
tendonitis (both ankles, one wrist)
upper abdo pain - unknown cause despite numerous tests

Most of which can have auto-immune implications, but the GP still says 'probably coincidental'

tinkerbellhadpiles · 03/04/2007 22:28

Miaou - sadly no, my DH is too scared of breaking me to have sex with me ever again. It was REALLY funny at the end of pregnancy too - enough relaxin to make sure at least once a day something would pop out (although sadly not DD who had to be dragged arse first out the emergency exit)

tinkerbellhadpiles · 03/04/2007 22:29

Sorry Califrau, can't find the link at the minute - but his name is Hector Wells and he is based in Oxfordshire. Very very good chap. Sorted my DHs frozen shoulder out too!

Miaou · 03/04/2007 22:30

Oh lordy, I don't think that comes under the list of minor complaints then, that's fairly major!! [sad}

hunkermunker · 03/04/2007 22:31

SG, I think you're right re autoimmune system and endometriosis - it was why I had arthritis too - was postviral. My body basically attacked its own joints, stupid bloody thing.

SaintGeorge · 03/04/2007 22:42

Oh yeah, forgot that one:

arthritis - knees

I had ligament problems during pregnancy (back brace last 5 months) and the physio told me that my stretch marks were also connected . She reckoned she knew my diagnosis before she looked at my chart just by seeing my stretch marks first.

MrsWho · 03/04/2007 22:45

-Asthma don't have many attacks just crap lungs
-Minor Excema
-Dodgy hand (hopefully only atm) lunp and shooting pains in it also having loadsof pins and needles
-scolosis & hypermobility (don't dislocate llike Tinker though )
-sciatica (much better since I started Yoga!)
-Migraines (much better since I started Yoga!)
-Sinus infections regularly
-very sensitive skin

VeniVidiVickiQV · 03/04/2007 22:47

Tinkerbell - have you been investigated for Marfans syndrome?

Cali - the prolongued SPD was how it was discovered I had a malformed sacro-iliac joint (despite having had several x-rays in the past ). Worth checking out, definitely. I still get that twinge/twang when i push something heavy with my foot - especially sideways OUCH!

forgot the PMT and PND but PND is recent.

I strongly suspect I may have suffered 'mild' depression since my teens, but have only really realised that since I developed PND.

Hormones have A LOT to answer for.