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Small health moments that make oyu feel like an ubermensch

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FluffyMummy123 · 18/04/2008 10:01

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FluffyMummy123 · 18/04/2008 10:02

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geekgirl · 18/04/2008 10:04

get the teeth one too. always makes me feel so virtuous. I love going to the dentist just for my 6 monthly pat on the head.
and the blood pressure. Even though I do almost black out when getting out of bed

Ledodgy · 18/04/2008 10:04

I have good bp too and I do feel smug about it.

When I had glandular fever my throat nearly closed up and I had to go to hospital the dr x-rayed me and then got his students in telling them I had the biggest swollen glands he'd ever seen in his entire 30 year medical career and that he was going to use my x rays for his lectures.

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FluffyMummy123 · 18/04/2008 10:04

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taipo · 18/04/2008 10:05

lol

I'm usually told my blood pressure is good.

Can't think of anything else. I have crap eyesight and bad teeth so I can't feel superior about these.

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FluffyMummy123 · 18/04/2008 10:05

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FYIAD · 18/04/2008 10:06

ditto me and blood pressure

ridiculously proud of it

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FluffyMummy123 · 18/04/2008 10:07

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fishie · 18/04/2008 10:07

oh yes i have lovely teeth too. sadly a bit yellow but that is the calcium they tell me.

i am good at pumping blood out when donating, always finish before they expect me to. (expect this means i have some weirdy condition and will explode)

Ledodgy · 18/04/2008 10:08

I had it when I was seventeen. I got it in the October was really ill for about 6 weeks then just had the unbelievable tiredness for around 6 months and if I ever got run down my glands would pop up again and the tiredness would start. It isn't nice and you have my sympathy getting it now. I was ok I could laze about in bed all day watching Anne and Nick.

CeilingCat · 18/04/2008 10:08

Not really health, but hairdressers are forever commenting on my impossibly thick hair (usually through gritted teeth as there arm gets cramp from drying it).

I was also told that I have an unusually large liver (not swollen/unhealthy...just laaaaarge).

CeilingCat · 18/04/2008 10:09

*their

taipo · 18/04/2008 10:09

I get that too with my hair but I hate it so doesn't make me feel smug

cocolepew · 18/04/2008 10:10

Young school boy gynae dr on monday, told me I had the largest womb he had ever seen.
I was so proud.

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FluffyMummy123 · 18/04/2008 10:11

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FluffyMummy123 · 18/04/2008 10:12

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fishie · 18/04/2008 10:13

gp once told me i had an enormous pelvis and would just drop babies out. one cs later....

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FluffyMummy123 · 18/04/2008 10:14

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ClairePO · 18/04/2008 10:14

My blood pressure is same as it was at 19 when first started taking the pill, so the fpc told me anyway. Which I think is a quite good when I have gone from a size 10 to a size 18.

Ledodgy · 18/04/2008 10:14

I was in my a. level year too and had to leave sixth form I went to college in the September to study them instead it does knock you for six.

Ledodgy · 18/04/2008 10:15

I had the same with my liver and spleen I remember my stomach wa srock hard you find glands where you aren't aware you hand them!

Ledodgy · 18/04/2008 10:15

*had

MrsBadger · 18/04/2008 10:16

went to docs post-cold with earache
looked in left ear 'oh that is very red, that looks quite inflamed' and gave me antibs
right ear 'Lovely and pale!'

I was smug at my lovely pale ear

NaughtyNigel · 18/04/2008 10:19

I have fabulous veins. so easy to get blood out of they get comments every time i go to give blood.