What kind of disease do you have that a bath or penicillin won't cure?

[Tucker]

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applegrove (57,271 posts)

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What long term physical ailment do you have that you wish would just go away?
I have eczema on my ears of all places. The women in the maternal side of my family have all had it. It is annoying and vexing. And nothing will make it go away.

Gross.

Scuba (24,725 posts)
1. Tinnitus. In my ears, of all places.

Where else would it be? DUmbass.

kurtzapril4 (1,100 posts)
2. Multiple Sclerosis.

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Just go away, please!

zanana1 (1,724 posts)
3. Heart disease.

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I'm living on borrowed time.

Anything that we can do to shorted you misery?

graywarrior (56,543 posts)
4. Allergies

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Ones that knock the crap out of me. Going thru an attack now that's lasted 3 weeks.

Allergic to Ducks, no doubt.

RILib (236 posts)
5. atrial fibrillation

MrsBrady (3,946 posts)
12. i have a male cousin

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that had it...I say had it, because he just passed away....
although A-fib didn't get him...but the emphysema did.

 

GoneOffShore (10,921 posts)
6. Gout - but under control with meds

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And diverticulosis which can cause attacks of diverticulitis.

And Kidney stones.

Neoma (8,454 posts)
8. They don't know what it is yet...

You're not alone. Many DUmmies share that affliction.

trof (43,289 posts)
10. Wish I had all my teeth.

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Periodontal disease.
Have to wear a partial denture to eat.
Bummer.

RebelOne (26,158 posts)
108. Don't feel bad.

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I have battled periodontal disease for years. I have had operations and permanent bridges where I have lost teeth. And it has cost me many thousands of dollars throughout 30 years. I have finally given up. I am facing the prospect of having all my teeth yanked out real soon. I do not want to wear dentures, but I cannot afford implants.

I'd bet you make a small fortune on the street corner though.

sweetNsassy (25 posts)
11. I don't know where to begin

Nice safe post.

applegrove (57,271 posts)
14. PTSD, depression and now hemrrhoids

El Supremo (12,713 posts)
19. You can fix the hemorrhoids. I did.

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With this:

DearHeart (571 posts)
15. Bulging disk and plantar fasciitis

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If my backs not killing me, then my foot is. Always in pain and no real relief.

My mother, sister and niece all have eczema. My mother's is kicked off by eating too much wheat, also by perfumes in lotions, shampoos, soaps. She uses Cetaphil, and lotions without lanolin and she uses only ivory soap or dial yellow. Could be the detergent you use to wash your sheets/pillowcases. If you're wearing earrings, you could be allergic to nickel; mom had that problem too. She had to get a special creme from the dermatologist to get it cleared up and then she stays away from the rest as mentioned above.

Has it been diagnosed as eczema? My father had skin cancer on his ear. Don't want to scare you, but wanted to mention, just in case.

Hope something clicks and you get some relief!

union_maid (3,149 posts)
17. Pick one

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There's a new one every year. Eczema, varicose veins, arthritis, achilles tendonitis. My worst one, which is cutaneous t-cell lymphoma, responded to treatment several years ago and hasn't been seen since, even though technically there's not a cure for it, so that's very nice anyway.

yellerpup (10,730 posts)
18. Arthritis.

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Very tiring and at times, extremely painful.

 femmocrat (13,285 posts)
49. Yes, me too.

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I was wondering today how it felt to walk without pain. I used to have long strides and walk over a half-mile every morning. I miss that so much.

A 1/2 a mile!!! WTF good did that do?

kwassa (15,133 posts)
21. Myocaridal ischemia and psoriasis

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and benignly-enlarged prostate.

The only serious one is the ischemia, and I had a heart attack three years ago, though I feel great now. Of course, I felt great before the heart attack, too. I have no risk factors for heart disease, not even family history, so it is a medical mystery.

LiberalEsto (15,898 posts)
23. Depression

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I'm sick of being constantly depressed. It's depressing.

I wouldn't mind getting rid of my allergies and multiple chemical sensitivity either. I'm very sensitive to soaps, most shampoos and conditioners, mascara, almost all lipsticks, almost all fragrances, most deodorants, laundry detergent, many cleaning products and especially those horrible air fresheners.

There is a cure for depression. Cut longways.

Loryn (114 posts)
27. Fibromyalgia

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Arthritis, anxiety disorder, PTSD - today had the first of several crowns (is installed the right word?)


We all seem to suffer something don't we?

You make other people suffer as well.

distantearlywarning (4,129 posts)
35. Hypothyroidism

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Makes it very hard to lose weight even when medicated, and fat is perceived as a moral failing in today's society. I am very tired of my character being partially defined by a medical issue. And it's just a pain in the ass in a variety of other ways as well.

Oh, also IBS, which is mostly under control via diet but still has a tendency to "surprise" me a few times a year, usually at the most inconvenient time and place possible, so I can't ever really stop being paranoid about it.

Lardass.

Star Member NightWatcher (19,838 posts)
36. Lupus (in kidney and liver), Rheumatoid Arthritis, Dermatomyositis, and possibly Fibromyalgia (Dr??

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But I'm feeling pretty good, considering.

Oh, I've got flat feet too. What a bummer.

timdog44 (281 posts)
50. I'll send you to wikipedia Nadin.

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Scoliosis - 65 degree.
Club foot.
Stocking effect of left leg.
Diplomyelia
Tethered cord.
Spina bifida.
Syrinx. (several)
Spinal fusion from T-10 to sacrum and from there to the pelvis.

riderinthestorm (12,517 posts)
51. Severe asthma. Haven't been able to take a deep breath in years. Sucks. nt

No bong for you.

Kali (32,298 posts)
52. the fat

 patricia92243 (7,330 posts)
80. Yep! Middle age spread that no amount of dieting seems to help.


 RebelOne (26,158 posts)
128. I know. I am 74 years old and have been dieting all my life to keep my weight down.

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But after a certain age, there is no way to keep that middle age spread from spreading. I really don't want nor can I afford to go to the gym every day.

fizzgig (17,033 posts)
74. i'm in pretty good shape

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yeah, i'm busted up in places, my face looks like high school sometimes and my brain can scream along at a million miles an hour with the most self-hateful shit imaginable, but it's all pretty well under control. i'm a lot better off than many others.

Actually you husband is better off.

sigmasix (203 posts)
78. cancer for 10 years

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10 years fighting rare intestinal cancer that has destroyed my ability to work, drained my body and- at times- exhausted my will.
We are getting ready for radiation therapy and a new experimetal chemotherapy. I fight every moment to stay here in this life with the ones I love. I can't wait to get a break- hopefully the new chemo will work! My wife and I remain forever optomistic.

Chemo for 10 years!!! Mrs Dawson has a long way to go to catch up to you.

a la izquierda (7,161 posts)
88. Exhaustion...

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And I'm only 35. There is nothing really wrong with me according to my doctor (my current doctor blows, but I'm moving in two months and will find a better one). Another doc that I went to before moving to my current place said that the fatigue could be from a really terrible case of giardiasis that went untreated for months. This basically stripped me of all nutrients. I caught it in Mexico and was violently I'll for two weeks. Then I could get around, but could not really process food.
On the other hand, it could be an undiagnosed dietary ailment like celiacs. It runs in my family.

FROM WHAT?

MnFats (5,991 posts)
119. Parkinson's ... four years since diagnosis..

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...but surely it had been at work on my brain for years previous.
sucks pretty bad. meds help a lot but they're not efficient forever.........anybody got good ieas?

What was it that Rush said?

steve2470 (14,072 posts)
129. Depression

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Had it off and on since age 6. Would be nice to find the "permanent cure".

How in the hell can a 6 YO be depressed?

GoCubsGo (12,356 posts)
132. Republicans.

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They cost me my job, and are making it impossible for me to find another one. Consequently, I have all sorts of stress-related issues, such as weight gain, insomnia, and probably heart disease.

We do the best that we can.

progressivejazzredux (7 posts)
160. Inoperable cancer.

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It'll eventually kill me, but for now I'm just fine--no pain, no nothing.

I know it's long, but there are many, many more.

[thundley4]

Those ObamaCare death panels can't get here fast enough.

[franksolich]

Aha!

I was right!

I was right!

GoneOffShore (10,921 posts)

6. Gout - but under control with meds

Based upon the photograph of the rich old guy with his trophy wife, I'd guessed gout as being one of his major afflictions.

I was right!  I was right!  I was right!

 

[Airwolf]

They didn't state the obvious to everyone else they have. Stupidity.

[USA4ME]

Of all the ailments the primitives suffer from most, their always inaccurate political viewpoints, coupled with their inability to see how stupid they are by continuing to hold onto their always inaccurate political viewpoints, is the worst.

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[Vagabond]

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FROM WHAT?

Giardia is a naturally occuring bacteria in Mexico and regions of the US, like Appalachia, that gives you explosive diarhea and harms your intestines ability to digest food.  I've heard people saying it took them seven years to get over it completely.  It's the reason that every time I get out on the trail I carry expensive water filters with me. 

In Mexico, it's part of Montezuma's revenge.  Just like most any other country with a thoroughly corrupted government, Mexico doesn't bother with things like public water filtration.

[Dori]

Wow....I've never seen so many depressed sick people in one place. Maybe it's all the hate they carry around inside. 

[catsmtrods]

Sick ****s! I got most of that and limp off to work every day!!

[Tucker]

Giardia is a naturally occuring bacteria in Mexico and regions of the US, like Appalachia, that gives you explosive diarhea and harms your intestines ability to digest food.  I've heard people saying it took them seven years to get over it completely.  It's the reason that every time I get out on the trail I carry expensive water filters with me. 

In Mexico, it's part of Montezuma's revenge.  Just like most any other country with a thoroughly corrupted government, Mexico doesn't bother with things like public water filtration.

Those of us in the Appalachian region have pretty good water now, not the rotten eggs of years past. We even have indoor plumbing and houses heated by natural gas.

[Evil_Conservative]

trof (43,289 posts)
10. Wish I had all my teeth.

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Periodontal disease.
Have to wear a partial denture to eat.
Bummer.

Isn't it the DUmmies that say all "teabaggers" are missing teeth? 

[Evil_Conservative]

GoCubsGo (12,356 posts)
132. Republicans.

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They cost me my job, and are making it impossible for me to find another one. Consequently, I have all sorts of stress-related issues, such as weight gain, insomnia, and probably heart disease.

Kill yourself.

Then the Republicans will no longer be at fault for making you fat.  You stupid fat ****.

[GOBUCKS]

It's great to read about so many DUmmies suffering so much!!

The only problem is that while a few of them really are sick, most are just dreaming up scams to get on disability.

[Mr Mannn]

It's great to read about so many DUmmies suffering so much!!

The only problem is that while a few of them really are sick, most are just dreaming up scams to get on disability.

Even if they are that sick, Obamacare has no intention of treating them. Anything more expensive than a bath or penicillin will be placed on a waiting list, and the patients allowed to die.

Socialism wants to kill the weak and professional disability moochers. Its all about killing.
Here is the father of modern socialism, Bernard Shaw: in his own words.
[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=93eir00rOho[/youtube]

[whiffleball]

Good God the ScubaDiving Primitive is a true idiot!  Tinnitus only affects the ears; it's a sound.  There's no other place on the body that it can occur.

[whiffleball]

Those of us in the Appalachian region have pretty good water now, not the rotten eggs of years past. We even have indoor plumbing and houses heated by natural gas.

My Mamaw lived in the KY Appalachians all her life.  When she died in '67 she still had a well with bucket and an outhouse.  Her well water, after you fished out the newts or frogs, was the best I've ever tasted.

[Skul]

They didn't state the obvious to everyone else they have. Stupidity.

Sadly, even a bath and penicillin won't fix that. 

[Tucker]

My Mamaw lived in the KY Appalachians all her life.  When she died in '67 she still had a well with bucket and an outhouse.  Her well water, after you fished out the newts or frogs, was the best I've ever tasted.

My Mother is from Harlan County, KY and Daddy is from Erwin, TN. I'm from Jonesborough, TN.

[AprilRazz]

Kali (32,298 posts)
52. the fat

 patricia92243 (7,330 posts)
80. Yep! Middle age spread that no amount of dieting seems to help.


 RebelOne (26,158 posts)
128. I know. I am 74 years old and have been dieting all my life to keep my weight down.

But after a certain age, there is no way to keep that middle age spread from spreading. I really don't want nor can I afford to go to the gym every day.

I hear putting the fork down and getting off your fat ass helps.

[JohnnyReb]

I hear putting the fork down and getting off your fat ass helps.

Well, they used to have to at least walk to the mailbox once a month to get their government checks...not so now.

[whiffleball]

My Mother is from Harlan County, KY and Daddy is from Erwin, TN. I'm from Jonesborough, TN.

"Bloody Harlan".  I used to hear that a lot in the adult conversations around me.

My parents were both from Pike County.  Both buried in Johnson Memorial Gardens off the 4 lane going thru Pikeville .

I love Jonesborough.  I know a guy who participates in the story telling festival almost every year.

[Dori]

My Mamaw lived in the KY Appalachians all her life.  When she died in '67 she still had a well with bucket and an outhouse.  Her well water, after you fished out the newts or frogs, was the best I've ever tasted.

My grandparents had well water too.  Their's was pumped inside the house.  It was ice cold and also the best I've ever tasted.

[JohnnyReb]

My grandparents had well water too.  Their's was pumped inside the house.  It was ice cold and also the best I've ever tasted.

We had spring water but my mother thought the well water the folks up the road had made better ice tea and coffee. So, I would have to walk up the dirt road with an old enamel bucket about half full of water, prime the old hand pump, hang the bucket on the catch thingy, fill it up and bring it back.

[vesta111]

We had spring water but my mother thought the well water the folks up the road had made better ice tea and coffee. So, I would have to walk up the dirt road with an old enamel bucket about half full of water, prime the old hand pump, hang the bucket on the catch thingy, fill it up and bring it back.

Did you remember to leave a full cup of water at the pump so the next person could prime it ???

[Tucker]

"Bloody Harlan".  I used to hear that a lot in the adult conversations around me.

My parents were both from Pike County.  Both buried in Johnson Memorial Gardens off the 4 lane going thru Pikeville .

I love Jonesborough.  I know a guy who participates in the story telling festival almost every year.

My granddaddy was a coal miner then a county sheriff. He died of black lung. The rest of the clan moved down to Middlesboro.

[JohnnyReb]

Did you remember to leave a full cup of water at the pump so the next person could prime it ???

People up the road got spring water from us.....we maintained the pump and well house at the spring and they got free water from us. It was part of the deal when daddy bought the property from their daddy. I could have gotten water from their outside spigot to prime the pump but mother preferred I carried our own water up there to prime the pump....Don't question momma's way of doing things....just do it.