What is the scariest medical symptom you ever had?

[BrickPoet]

pain in my throat for 10 days

Is this meant to be satire? You’re doing a very bad job of it if so.

When I had eclampsia and my kidneys went into failure

Going into septic shock

I fell through a glass door (very old door I'm assuming not safety glass) had a shard of glass stuck in my neck. Unhelpful passer by pulled it out. There was so much blood I was convinced I was going to die, I didnt obviously.

My limbs were to curling up and I started having trouble moving and speaking. Went from feeling a bit odd to incapacitated in under 2 hours.

When I was diagnosed with pre eclampsia at 30 weeks and when I found a lump in my breast.

Profuse dark purple watery discharge and sudden stopping of terrible pelvic pain. Ruptured ectopic pregnancy. Fortunately I was in A and E at the time.

Excruciating pain that developed very suddenly.

Turned out to be severe kidney infection.

Having a huge bleed when 34 weeks pregnant. Thought I had lost the baby. I still remember the blood all over the house.

constant headache for 8 weeks. Just went away. No recurrence and no cause ever found.

Oh and suspected stroke

😱

When my heart went crazy and it went black and another time when I had a fever over 40, massive confusion, and excruciating stomach pains.

Both times I was 100% certain something dreadful was happening.

Coming round from an anaesthetic with staff flapping about as they began to realise an artery had been cut during surgery.

Realising the sciatica pain had gone and my saddle area was totally numb and I couldn't feel anything

Vomiting that wouldn't stop. Ended up on a dialysis machine.

Massive weight loss and vomiting that went on for weeks. I was convinced I was dying. It was coeliac disease and now I am fat and happy :)

When I choked on a piece of chicken in a restaurant

Note: if you do the heimlich manoevre on someone, you need to do it hard enough to break their ribs.

What is the point of these threads misery farming

AMEN!

A full blown panic attack. My hands feet and lips started tingling like pins and needles then went completely numb. I was paralysed in those areas for 40 minutes and scared to death. I had no idea what was happening and thought I might be having a stroke or something.

An arterial haemorrhage.

Inguinal hernia that wouldn’t go back ‘in’ and vomiting from the pain

I fainted, and when I came round was totally blind for about 30 minutes.

No idea why it happened, but I was really scared for those 30 mins!

I'm not sure why the OP is asking but sometimes it's good to acknowledge fear we've felt and our near misses - I personally find it reassuring that others have survived similar or worse.