Anyone else with chronic illness?

Sorry to hear that. Sound rather miserable. Does that mean copious amounts of vitamin C wouldn't help stave off the cold in the first place?

 

I have a chronic autoimmune disorder, does that count?

 

Don't worry. Didn't sound like whining. I just imagine I would be miserable if I had month-long colds.

Oh no! Don't tell me about the inefficacy of vit.C. I've taken it quite regularly since I've stopped eating red meat (for help with iron absorption) and since then haven't gotten any colds like before. Used to get one massive one per year. Evil sore throat and everything.
Even if it's all in my head, I'll take it. :}

You'll have to start wearing a surgical mask in public, now. (I don't know about where you are but my doctor's office has them out from for the taking. Which I did but it for doing art. Oops.)

 

I just have asthma, which used to mean a yearly trip to the hospital due to lung infections, that crippled me and left me too weak to even crawl.

Today my asthma is mild, though I use my inhalers because my asthma attacks leave me highly uncomfortable - though I doubt my life is in danger from them.

My mother chronically gets pneumonia, which would be helped if she stopped smoking...sigh.

 

Bah, I get migraine at irregular intervals.
It's a serious pain, but reducing stress seems to help keep it at bay somewhat.

Doctors have no idea what causes it so far.
Stress is a huge factor though, that much is certain.

 

My most aggravating chronic illness (I have a few -_- ) is irritable bowel syndrome/ possibly Crohn's disease/ maybe Celiac disease.

It's hard not to be TMI with this one, but essentially it's nausea/ vomiting/ diarrhea basically every day. Most people can handle it for like a week (think stomach flu or food poisoning). But it physically and mentally tears you down, and makes you feel hopeless. Sometimes even if I am eating right, exercising, not smoking, etc I STILL get sick. So it's easy to get this mentality of "I'm going to be sick anyway, might as well eat what I want". So it's definitely a struggle. Not to mention every doctor I go to essentially accuses me of bulimia because I have holes in my esophagus and terrible acid reflux from vomiting to often. .___.

Wow, getting that mini-bitchfest out there felt pretty good. Thanks for that! I generally tend to hide when I'm having a bad flare-up so people don't treat me like a freaking invalid.

 

Could be worse, really.

They come and go at really irregular intervals.
Sometimes I have to deal with them for weeks, then on-off for a month, then I'm fine for half a year, until it sneaks back up on me.

It's incredibly exhausting when I -do- get them, I'll admit to that.
I'm on Sumatriptan, and it has helped so far. Issue is that I can't take too many of those pills.
And the side effects vary. One time there aren't any, the other I'm sodding high.

How's the amitriptyline working out for you?

 

I've got asthma, if that counts. Fortunately, it's been controlled with an inhaled corticosteroid regimen.

 

I get hives on practically a daily basis even though I take medication for it. It's usually pretty mild (but really annoying because it itches so much) but sometimes part of my face will swell up. It's confusing though because I have severe food allergies too so I can't always tell if I'm just having regular hives or if I've eaten something bad.

I have asthma too but luckily it hasn't been pretty bad for the past few years. It flares up during weather changes though.

 

I am allergic to something airborne. It's in my room, in my bathroom, in other people's houses. Thankfully, it doesn't cause throat or skin irritation. Instead I start producing phlegm like it's saliva and start sneezing. A lot. One day I went through half a box of Kleenexs. That's 60 sheets, and I usually use one multiple times.

Apart from that, I cannot type, write, make repetitive or constant hand motions for long without feeling pain in my wrists. I cannot write a 3 page essay, I tried once and I had to be hospitalized, I was tearing at my own wrist. That's the first time I cried in 12 years. That condition also causes my handwriting to be the same as when I was 6.

 

I have problems with chronic fatigue or possible lyme's. No doctors take me seriously. I can barely wake up in the morning and I don't have enough energy to work or study.

 

I've been having this headache for about 3 years now. Every second of every day. And I think I can say it has gotten worse.
Well, how does it affect me? That's a very good question. I think my concentration is just crap now. Because of it I feel like drifting away, I can't think clear.
Ok, but it could also be mental illness that causes this so I'm not sure.
But for sure is that pain is a daily aspect of my life. I've gotten so used to it. I can't remember how it was without ache. And even greater is, that painkillers doesn't work. So well great job head. Thanks for hurting. Right now it is exploding. I'm glad I still can type.
Uh, rant against my head....sorry

 

I have classic migraine with elementary hallucinations and all the "cool" stuff that the brain can do (I.e: parasthesias, vertiginous and other). I have it no more then once a month usually.
Besides that, I use to somatize the stress so I have stomach ache and head ache oftentimes.

 

I had a terminal lung disease for 14 years until I got a lung transplant, and am recovering from lymphoma. Most of my life I've been sick, but I look forward to when I'll finally be healthy.

 

I have Tourette's pretty severely. I spend a lot of time shouting and repeated things and tapping my feet and flinging my arms up and jerking my head and its a real pain.