ITT: Talk about your medical ailments

[BiGuy]

I have Tricuspid Valve Disease (regurgitation). Basically, some blood pumps back every time my heart beats. It affects 1 in 25,000 people.


I have had it since birth according to my doctor. I didn't find out until a year ago b/c nobody told me.
Luckily, I have a minor case of it so I just need to be watched and take medication. If it gets worse (very rare) I have to get heart surgery or I die if its really bad.

Is there any indication you have it?
Like Heart Palpitations or something similar/stronger?

[blingbling111]

Every two years my kidneys produce about 4 stones that I have to pass. I've tried everything from diet to exercise and it doesn't work. I even tried cutting out soda and replacing it with water and I ended up with more stones.

My biggest fear is getting a kidney stone. I hear the pain is insane. Is it really as bad as people say? Have you tried increasing Potassium/Magnesium citrate

[squirrelmaster]

I have Tricuspid Valve Disease (regurgitation). Basically, some blood pumps back every time my heart beats. It affects 1 in 25,000 people.


I have had it since birth according to my doctor. I didn't find out until a year ago b/c nobody told me.
Luckily, I have a minor case of it so I just need to be watched and take medication. If it gets worse (very rare) I have to get heart surgery or I die if its really bad.

what medications did the doctors put you on? beta blockers or calcium channel blockers??? i was on a beta blocker years ago for about 2 months, but i had to discontinue it. i was getting really bad raynaud's phenomenon. it sucked!

i had a quadcuspid heart valve and just had open heart surgery to fix it.



i've had kidney stones every 6 months and they are painful as hell!

[Magnum Longfellow]

^That's so metal.


I have a narrow cluster of blood vessels in the back of my left eye, which overtime may build up small calcium deposits that could fuck my vision in the future. Not particularly worried about it.

I used to be flat-footed, but I don't think I am anymore.

Also my balls are too big.

[Dayvan]

I got a bad case of fever, disco fever

[SCMC]

In a football game during my senior year some cartilage in my left knee, in some freakish type of way, like moved to the side, leaving my spherical knee bone and my leg bone to smash into each other, indenting the spherical knee bone. The doctors thought it was torn cartilage which would have required surgery but once I got the MRI back he told me what it was and said that in about 20 years or so I can expect to start feeling arthritis in the knee until I'm dead.

Soooooooo....I got that to look forward to.

[Plazmo]

Is there any indication you have it?
Like Heart Palpitations or something similar/stronger?

Well, I'm always tired and that's supposed to be one symptom but I always thought it was the antihistamines I'm on (it could be) but the major indications were HBP, chest pain every once in a while and a murmur. I actually ignored the chest pains for years.

what medications did the doctors put you on? beta blockers or calcium channel blockers??? i was on a beta blocker years ago for about 2 months, but i had to discontinue it. i was getting really bad raynaud's phenomenon. it sucked!

i had a quadcuspid heart valve and just had open heart surgery to fix it.

i've had kidney stones every 6 months and they are painful as hell!

I have it really minor at the moment. The only thing they put me on is HBP medication and told me to come back every 3-6 months to check up on it. If my BP goes down then I shouldn't have any major problems.

It should go down even more now b/c I am now trying to be more healthy by exercising and losing weight but I may have to keep taking them forever. Doesn't bother me much. The only noticeable side effects are having to pee a lot for about 2 hours after taking the pill and nearly blacking out when I stand up from a chair too fast.

It's easy to prevent it from getting worse so that's what I plan on doing.

I fear the day when I pass a kidney stone.

[Chonko Monko]

This morning I went to take a shit and had diarrhea.

[Iceman]

Acne for the past 8 months. Taking meds and theyre barely working. =(

[031591k]

i have this weird condition in my ankles where it looks like i have 3 ankles on each foot. the little ball yo have on the outside of your foot? i have three on each foot

[JMac453]

i have this weird condition in my ankles where it looks like i have 3 ankles on each foot. the little ball yo have on the outside of your foot? i have three on each foot

now that is awesome

[031591k]

i might have a picture somewhere from a while ago.
EDIT: it was from the scavenger hunt. not a very clear picture but you can see the bumps

[Chonko Monko]

This morning I went to take a shit and had diarrhea.

Pics or it never happened.

[Itunis]

Used to have heart palpitations, after I started exercising they stopped. Apart from that it's all good...yeah I have trouble focusing but instead of being a bitch about it I suck it up and force myself to concentrate. Weed helps in moderation

[squirrelmaster]

It should go down even more now b/c I am now trying to be more healthy by exercising and losing weight but I may have to keep taking them forever. Doesn't bother me much. The only noticeable side effects are having to pee a lot for about 2 hours after taking the pill and nearly blacking out when I stand up from a chair too fast.

It's easy to prevent it from getting worse so that's what I plan on doing.

I fear the day when I pass a kidney stone.

is your medication hydrochlorothiazide?

i had chest pain all the time. now i have it every few days, which is really nice!!