List Your Health Problems & Disablements

On a lighter note I have a scar under my left eyebrow from playing street baseball........the batter swings back and smack........hits me (the catcher) right above the eye!

I have type 2 diabetes, but I have that under control right now. My vision is the same as it was ten years ago. I'm lucky, as I have survived many maladies without a single scar. I think the reason lies in the fact that I rarely take medicine and that has allowed my immune system to grow strong.

Chumly, sounds like you have Chrone's Desease, or Ulcerative Colitis--or some other kind of inflammatory bowel condition. I have the just developed the second, something rather rare at my age. The symptoms are light, but I have to have a colonoscopy every three years, I think.
I'm also very myopic, but almost never cranky.

unemployed and consequently uninsured. health is good, exercise regularly by bike riding (50 to 100 miles per week) but because of my lack of a job my health plan is to be hit by a new mercedes.

rap

I am blind in my right eye.

Cycloptichorn

Jeez, rap, you're one of my favorite people here. Please maintain...

I couldn't do this - let's put it this way - if I take my contacts out before I've located my glasses - I either have to put my contacts back in or get my daughter to come and help me locate my glasses. I can't see the freaking glasses- much less a small, scurrying cockroach what - five feet below my eyes -on the floor.

It's really pretty bad - I'm helpless without implements to correct my vision - I'd be stuck if I were ever in a plane crash on a desert island or whatever.

And that somewhat explains your username, cyclo. Gotcha.

You'd think so, but all the best gastro's and related specialists (time & again) think not, and at best assert it's idiopathic.

"Idiopathic" is an adjective used primarily in medicine meaning arising spontaneously or from an obscure or unknown cause.

IOW they forking don't have a clue!

Chum, this is probably past boring, but have you been to a biggie major med center? SF, LA? I could elaborate on places, just wondering.

I live on the West Coast of Canada (south-west British Columbia) and the claim (you decide however) is that we have some of the best universities and hospitals world-wide.....if you accept that claim then I've been poked and prodded at by the best these elite institutions have to offer on a regular basis for over 30 years to no net avail

I should add ossobuco that you are most kind in asking after me and your suggestions are welcome!

I'll believe you about the university hospitals up there. I also suppose you've ransacked the internet for useful websites. One or two places you might not have looked, that I follow out of interest, are the BBC international website and the NYTimes website - for medical/science/health news.

I used to have dandruff but baldness cured that. Now I just have dry skin.

Not to worry, Brooke, so does Edward.

I'm intolerant of people who are intolerant of lactose, to which I'm not intolerant.

You want all my health problems and disablements?

From the top down:

Meningioma (tumor in my head), currently on hold for surgery.

Worse than 20/500 vision in both eyes, plus astigmatism.

Larygeal cancer treated with radiation. As a result of the radiation, I now have no voice. My taste buds are slowly returning. Some foods make me choke. Chronic dry mouth.

Asthma and emphysema. And lots of allergies.

Acid reflux disease.

Endometrial cancer treated with radiation. As a result of the radiation, I have chronic stomach problems.

Both knees are creaky (not diagnosed).

Corn on my right pinky toe.

Clinical depression (I'm being treated for this.)

No health insurance. Oy.

There's probably more, but who can remember everything. If I think of something else, I'll be back.

Oh dear, I wish you only the best.

I wish you the best too. Didn't mean to end this thread. But you asked; I answered.

I read up about corns on the Internet. The one on my pinky toe is almost gone! It's nice to have a little control over stuff.

You might as well enjoy what victories you can!

And on that note, despite my 30 plus years of idiopathic-mysterious-digestive-afflictions I am outwardly very zippy looking much younger than my age of 53 (so I'm often told).

Since I've known many close to me die (a number at much earlier ages) I guess my complaints should be few.....but what the hell here's another scarring scenario.

When I was very you my father kept a highly aggressive German Sheppard. One day I was plying with the dog and it bit me right on the top of my head,

I was rushed to the hospital with blood leaching out everywhere from my scalp.....I had to have 32 stitches in my head.......if I was to go bald (does not seem likely) I would show a big horseshoe shaped scar in the proportions of a large dog's jaw!