What do you have?

[Gaara]

This is a topic for people to discuss illnesses/ conditions or diseases they may have. You are not obligated to post if you have but it is to try and connect people using things they have in common.


I have A.D.H.D (Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder), Insomnia. Depression and sort of kidney enzyme deficiency.

[Argus]

I have autism. Because of my autism I rock and flap my hands involuntarily. I flap my hands for extreme emotion. Except stress under that I rock. Sometimes I will get teased for it when I don't even know I am doing it. I also bounce my leg a lot. I also have insomnia and have stayed up for 3 days strait without even feeling tired. Though 4-5 days I start to see weird things. I can't be touched lightly. The shock make me shutdown. Though deep presure (squeezeing, wrestling, and just intense weight) is something I need. I some times lay under the couch our something. I can't tolerate loud noises either. In school I wear noise cancelling headphones. People call me a retardeven though I have an iq in the 180s. So yeah. Who else here has a form of autism

[Luggz]

I have Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy (HOCM). It's a heart problem where the muscle is thicker than it should be which restricts the flow of blood from the heart making it work harder. I also have a heart murmur. I have been in hospital earlier this year after collapsing where one of  Accident and Emergency doctors took great joy in listening to my heart because she had never heard one with HOCM before 

[Gaara]

Glad you can make a joke about it best way to be honest to get your head away from it. I also have not slept now for 100+ hours. I also sometimes just see stupid things and zone out of reality for no reason. I dont know why but I can not hear anything sometimes without trying. and I also sometimes can hear my heart beating and inside body functions -_-

[Ornlu]

Hereditary disease in one eye "Hemorragia retinal de alas de mariposa" (Retinal hemorrhage butterfly wings) crap traslation....,  I can not write that in English xD

[Otebon Albrecht]

Wow Ornlu. Any idea what causes it or why the hemorrhagic patterns are "butterfly-shaped?"

Also, to keep with the idea of this thread, I have an auto immune disease called Sjögren’s Syndrome. I would list and describe the symptoms and such, but to be fair, it's pretty much a grab-bag. For one thing, the vast majority (~90%) of patients are female (note my gender...) and only present the "dry skin and mucousal membrane" symptom, meaning they have dry lips, eyes, mouth, nose, and other soft tissues. I personally present that symptom as well as others like a lessening of the ability to "sense" (my sense of touch, taste, smell, hearing, and sight are all impaired due to Sjögren’s) as well as a natural ability to not feel pain, temperature, or pleasure.

Feel free to ask any and all questions that you think of.

[Argus]

I personally present that symptom as well as others like a lessening of the ability to "sense" (my sense of touch, taste, smell, hearing, and sight are all impaired due to Sjögren’s) as well as a natural ability to not feel pain, temperature, pleasure

Does that mean you can't feel pain at all

[Ornlu]

I do not know why has this pattern, But I know that, the doctor inject a fluid in my eye    And the prick hurt much ......... is a traumatic memory xDDD

[Otebon Albrecht]

To Argus:

It's a long explanation, but the short answer is no. I can still feel pain.

The longer answer is this: I have put my hand in pots of boiling water by accident and not felt it on bad days. On better days, I can feel ~50% (based on what others have said) of the pain response. It is by no means a constant thing.

To Ornlu:

I'm sorry to hear that. I can't imagine what it would be like to have to have fluids injected into the eye.

[NJMike]

I have Asperger's Syndrome and eczema (skin disease).

Wiki: The term eczema is broadly applied to a range of persistent skin conditions. These include dryness and recurring skin rashes that are characterized by one or more of these symptoms: redness, skin edema (swelling), itching and dryness, crusting, flaking, blistering, cracking, oozing, or bleeding. Areas of temporary skin discoloration may appear and are sometimes due to healed injuries. Scratching open a healing lesion may result in scarring and may enlarge the rash.

[ST-84 Sahelanthropus]

Get out! I got a bomb!
 
I was diagnosed with ADHD and OCPD several years ago, but I don't seem to exibit many of the symptoms anymore. I think I was just a dumb crazy kid like we all were. I'm still perfectionist though, more so than I ever was in some areas. I don't throw game controllers when I lose anymore, but I tear apart papers in extreme anger, or worse, when I mess up my drawings. I absolutely hate art now, but I know it's necessary in my life because of my ideas and role-playing. I used to love it and do it whenever I wanted and had paper to draw on, but now I typically avoid it, I don't want to hurt myself because of my incredibly stupid and ceaseless mistakes. Even when I manage to keep myself from destroying my work, the overall quality of it is elementary at best. I'm still as good as I was when I was in second or third grade.

[Gaara]

It's weird to see all these different conditions already. A couple similar to me but well its nicer to know what goes on a bit in your personal lifes. Feel really sorry for some of you :O