Gross/bizarre medical ailments you've had

[lights]

I just got back from going to the doctor, hopefully, for the last time to deal with this cyst that I developed.

Apparently it's called a pilonidal cyst, that develops basically right around the base of the spine. I think it started when I was sleeping on a shitty air mattress and I'd essentially wake up lie \/ every day. It was around for 6 months but was never a bother but then it got infected so I went on in to see a doctor.

The thing was basically the size of a cadbury egg, and was big enough that the doc called in the nurses to look at it because "I've never seen one of these get this big, this is fascinating". It was amusing. Apparently they pulled 30 ccs of pus/blood/whatever else outta there, and then stuffed 4.5 feet of gauze in there to pack the wound. 4.5 feet! Amazes me. Then went in every day so they could pull all of that gauze out and then stuff more back in. Finally got done with it today.

I mean nothing will match that spinning tube of death that that one boarder went through, but surely there are other bizarre ailments floating out there.

[radtothemaxx]

oh man a buddy of mine had a really bad one of these

did the gauze shit for a while to no avail, ended up having some operation that involved like sanding down his tailbone or something insane like that

[Erik Joy]

i sometimes get ingrown hairs in my face

rarely notice them but sometimes they turn into zits

one time I decided to pop it and all of the bunched up hairs came out and I thought I had some horrible insect in my skin

[darger]

do ingrown hairs eventually stop growing?

[chimp_]

i sometimes get ingrown hairs in my face

rarely notice them but sometimes they turn into zits

one time I decided to pop it and all of the bunched up hairs came out and I thought I had some horrible insect in my skin

holy god

[darger]

i sometimes get them from shaving and picture one wrapping my carotid artery and squeezing.

[Merciel]

My dad once told me that those cysts are one of the worst-smelling things he has ever dealt with in the ER*, even worse than the time this homeless drug addict came into the ER when he was working in San Francisco and unwrapped his many, many layers of socks (which had been undisturbed for weeks) to reveal that his legs were riddled with sores, infested with maggots, and eaten halfway down to the bone. Although he said that one was pretty close.

Anyway I don't have anything of my own to add to this thread but I have lots more secondhand stories like that one!

(* -- bonus edit: these are known among doctors as "trucker ass" cysts because that is apparently the most common context in which they are encountered.)

[nautical hyperblast]

someone else posted about this happening to them on here i remember, but i get sex headaches like once every couple years. it's the worst shit ever and i imagine that dying can't be much worse.


http://www.estronaut.com/a/sex_headache ... halgia.htm

[I PUSH MIRACLE WHIPS]

i had like a growth or something on my lower lip that kept getting gradually bigger and bigger in like 4th grade.

it would start bleeding 2 or 3 times a day and it was the most painful thing ever.

[I PUSH MIRACLE WHIPS]

i also had the craccer disorder until i was about 16 or so.

[wheeljack]

i sometimes get ingrown hairs in my face

rarely notice them but sometimes they turn into zits

one time I decided to pop it and all of the bunched up hairs came out and I thought I had some horrible insect in my skin

i wish someone saved my ingrown hair story

[You're a jerk.]

For males, cysts and benign growths at the base of the spine are a very common occurrence. It's something to do with our method of extracting dead cells isn't efficient on our lower backs, hence the common greasy build-up. Usually they occur if you've ever had a spot down there and you've picked/popped at it for a period of time. Totally fucking savage

I knew someone who had a line of cysts going all the way down his spinal chord, he looked like a stegosaurus. Poor dude, he was tortured in school for it.

[wheeljack]

my feet are a goddamn mess, one is slightly bigger than the other, i have no real toenails on my little toes, i had four botched ops on my big toe to remove an infected toenail.

[ho bag brown]

I had Tietze syndrome, an inflammation of the cartilage in the rib cage that mimics the symptoms of a heart attack, all day long. Avoid at all costs:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Costochondritis

[glosstime]

i have a pilondal cyst too, it kind of gets worse sometimes but it's not bad enough to actually do something about it

when i was a teenager i had http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fungemia, which is a fungal infection in your blood. it made me feel like shit 24/7 for several years. i had OCD, no energy, and just felt like i couldn't think straight. i didn't get my driver's license until i was 19 because until then i just couldn't concentrate enough to drive competently. i would also get bleeding sores and these weird clear pus-filled bumps on my palms.

[Locke]

one time i got an ingrown hair right above my dick and popping it was soooooo satisfying

sorry if this post is as gross as i perceive it to be

[ecto]

i popped a cyst on my armpit last weekend and now im just draining blood and oil out of the thing every day

[grammatron]

Ho bag, I've had a vague pain in my side for years that doctors have not been able to get to the bottom of. One doctor suggested it was costochondritis, but I don't know that he's right.

[acidity regulator]

few years ago i had a once a month toncillitis (the first time happily coupled with pneumonia). every time I went in they would shove a pair of pliers down my throat, open up a pocket of pus and suck it up into a syringe. they told me it's the most painful operation they do on the spot without anesthesia and I don't doubt it at all

[Erik Joy]

i sometimes get ingrown hairs in my face

rarely notice them but sometimes they turn into zits

one time I decided to pop it and all of the bunched up hairs came out and I thought I had some horrible insect in my skin

holy god

only happened once and I've kind of wanted it to happen again

[wheeljack]

i sometimes get ingrown hairs in my face

rarely notice them but sometimes they turn into zits

one time I decided to pop it and all of the bunched up hairs came out and I thought I had some horrible insect in my skin

holy god

only happened once and I've kind of wanted it to happen again

smell removed any satisfaction

[max]

Thought I got strep throat when I was 20, got prescribed penicillin. Week later woke up with mono rash. Went to three hospitals before a young doctor spotted me and told me from personal experience I had mono and that the unbearable rash would last two weeks. I got a shitload of sleeping pills and slept 22 hours a day for 12 days until it went away.

[You're a jerk.]

few years ago i had a once a month toncillitis (the first time happily coupled with pneumonia). every time I went in they would shove a pair of pliers down my throat, open up a pocket of pus and suck it up into a syringe. they told me it's the most painful operation they do on the spot without anesthesia and I don't doubt it at all

Jesus I regret looking up Mycetoma on youtube and watching the first video

[lights]

i have a pilondal cyst too, it kind of gets worse sometimes but it's not bad enough to actually do something about it

Mine was like that too, I had it just hanging out there for like 6 months or so until it got infected, then I couldn't sit or put on pants without it hurting like all get out. I was holding off going to the doctor cause I don't have insurance and needed to replace the starter in my car, but not being able to put on pants was going to hinder my life hard enough to just get it done.

Also Merciel, this thing stank like all get out once they got it flowing. I have a very poor sense of smell just due to smoking for too long but even I was horrified. The doctor at one point, mystified, just said "This thing just won't let up, it's like a little niagra falls of foul fluids". Good times were had.

[zellar]

I just got back from going to the doctor, hopefully, for the last time to deal with this cyst that I developed.

Apparently it's called a pilonidal cyst, that develops basically right around the base of the spine. I think it started when I was sleeping on a shitty air mattress and I'd essentially wake up lie \/ every day. It was around for 6 months but was never a bother but then it got infected so I went on in to see a doctor.

The thing was basically the size of a cadbury egg, and was big enough that the doc called in the nurses to look at it because "I've never seen one of these get this big, this is fascinating". It was amusing. Apparently they pulled 30 ccs of pus/blood/whatever else outta there, and then stuffed 4.5 feet of gauze in there to pack the wound. 4.5 feet! Amazes me. Then went in every day so they could pull all of that gauze out and then stuff more back in. Finally got done with it today.

I mean nothing will match that spinning tube of death that that one boarder went through, but surely there are other bizarre ailments floating out there.

Holy shit I just had this exact same thing two months ago. Mine was supposedly as big as a tennis ball. The wife had to pack it every morning. The doctor took a picture of it before she took it out. It's finally healed now but I have a pretty nice scar.

[hellphone]

When I was a kid I couldn't breath through my nose at all. The doctor thought it was allergies, and then asthma, and then something else, but finally I had some sort of scan where they found out that my adenoids where taking up the whole breathing passage for some reason, and I had them removed. The first thing I remember after waking up is the doctor saying, 'It was so gross! they where just like dead in there and completely fell apart when I touched them", with a big smile on his face.

[wheeljack]

When I was a kid I couldn't breath through my nose at all. The doctor thought it was allergies, and then asthma, and then something else, but finally I had some sort of scan where they found out that my adenoids where taking up the whole breathing passage for some reason, and I had them removed. The first thing I remember after waking up is the doctor saying, 'It was so gross! they where just like dead in there and completely fell apart when I touched them", with a big smile on his face.

similiar happened to me only they xrayed and found out i had boney growth in there and had to drill it down

god that hurt

[doc shivers]

i have a gnarly case of pinhole phimosis. i've been stretching for years, but i just can't get it past the head and I'm afraid I'll choke it off if I do.

[nourishment]

mouth full of ulcers, like dozens of them. came and went in 3 days. couldnt eat

[clutchcity]

i sometimes get ingrown hairs in my face

rarely notice them but sometimes they turn into zits

one time I decided to pop it and all of the bunched up hairs came out and I thought I had some horrible insect in my skin