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

[NotQuiteCockney]

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?

Dotty - when my mum was having chemotherapy they dropped into the conversation very casually "oh did you know you have a heart murmur?" Oh great (we thought) just what she needs - heart trouble. So off to the cardiologoist and after marching on a treadmill and getting scarily out of breath she anxiously said to the doctor "Is the breathlessness due to the heart trouble" "No Mrsjonez, something else will kill you way before the heart murmur, I'm afraid what you have is a bad case of ... being terribly unfit "

Sue - I'm pretty sure that could apply to me too!!

Can't believe the eye thing's being discounted - that's so unfair!! If it gets me back in it's not life threatening - just nose threatening..!

dotty - her arthritis in her hip was so bad that she was considering applying for a disabled driver permit... since running around afetr DS one day a week her arthritis has mysteriously almost disappeared. Hallelulah a miracle cure for arthritis!

(am trying to ignore the pulling your eyeball out through your nose thing)

Believe me so am I - nearly fainted when he told me... Will be demanded soooooo many treats if I ever have to have it done!

IBS - hell, hell, hell.
SI joint probs when PMT or pg
SPD in pg (still aches a bit)
carpal tunnel in pg (gone now)
Eczema (only when v stressed)
Dry scalp (hormone related again)
Neck ache from job/reading/whiplash
Insomnia
very grumpy disposition in the morning

is there going to be a permanent hole? Would be a neat party trick - sneezing your eyeball out into a hankie

One option he said was to let the lump carry on growing but out via my nose, so the hole in my nose would allow it to expand that way, not disturbing my eye.

It's all too ewwwwwwwww for words, frankly. So yes, permanent hole and possibly permanent growing lump!

(Dottydot takes deep breath and checks vision is not currently black and white!)

but wouldn't snot back up behind your eye lump? Sorry this is abit of a hijack but am fascinated by Dotty eye/nose predicament.

Sue, when I have to go back for my next appointment can I take you with me to ask all the gory but crucial questions?!

I'd be delighted I love the gory questions - have a rep for grilling surgeons before I will let them operate on me!

surgeon - so we're just going to remove your gall bladder
SJ - why not just remove the stone
surgeon - because you don't need your gall bladder
SJ (huffily) - well have YOU still got YOUR's?

(The answer was yes and a deep sigh from surgeon and a further 10 minute explanation, properly this time, of why I didn't need a gall bladder)

When I hold my nose and "blow", air escapes from my EYE!! (tear duct I think!)

Not sure if that's rare.. but doubt it's serious.. at least I hope not.

Sue I turn into a bizarre flimsy person when I'm with doctors as a patient, which is ridiculous when my day job is bossing them all about...

sorry but thats really freaky

Dotty I could (but wont) bore you with my run ins with doctors but just one little one in the run up to my gall stones

Doctor - I think you have gallstones
SJ - oh, well I think I have an ulcer
Doctor - (sighs as this irritating woman keeps insisting I explain things to her)
Doctor - well I'm thedoctor so we're going to test my theory first

It was gallstones

Top thread, definitely a freak clique.

My credentials to join:

Excema
Endometriosis
Wierd patches of skin that often feel like they're severely burnt but don't show anything
A neck that goes 'out' at the slightest thing, just yawning while looking in the wrong direction can do it
Millions of allergies
Mild IBS
and I always faint dead away if I vomit.

Does frequent and booming burping count? It doesn't bother me, but it bugs the hell out of DH.

No, it's not just you, I have:

a blocked ear

some sort of strange digestive problem, veering between constipation and diarrhoea all the time

some sort of strange fungal thing on my hands

heart arrhythmia

I am a right crock.

Message withdrawn

You're all giant freaks.

I have the burping thing. Actually, I can burp at will. And air from my nose used to escape out of one eye, but I don't think it does any more. It made a faint whistling sound.

my joints hurt in the morning and they feel hot.
I have mild asthma
i have ptergium in both eyes (not bad enough to operate...but bad enough to iritate)
i can't hear as well has i used to
i have mild eczema
i have slight anaemia

on a positive note though...i have 'excellent oral health and the gums and teeth of someone much younger' (so the dentist told me last week). So while everything else slowly rots away i shall always have a lovely pair of pearly gnashers

NQC...i rarely fart...Dh says it's not normal
Can Burp for England though

oh great a thread for semi hypochondriacs like me

Several skins conditions
react to sun blistery type hive leisons
psoriasis
sinus problems,
achey feet ,low arch or something like that
IBS
weird aches in back
visual tracking problem (similar to dyslexia)
tooth ache (wisdom teeth issue)
mole on my back which IS itchy but doctor says is nothing
heartburn /indigestion