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What ails you?

SFG75

SFG75

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Just call this thread the BAR sick bay.:)

As for me, I have allergies in the summer, nothing non-natural, typical wild plants and that kind of thing. Upon seeing my affliction at work, people cringe, say things like ,"Ooooh, that looks like it hurts!" and then a discussion ensues where I talk about every blasted allergy medication that exists and that I've tried. I have done a test where they made some type of shot that can cure it, though it requires me to get poked once every week. Needless to say, I have yet to take the first shot as I'd rather suffer.

My other ailment is my back, which gives me trouble due to subluxation and supposedly degernative disc disease. I'm currently trying to find one of these on eBay to solve my problem.

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If you find one, please PM me.

How about you?:cool:
 
Oh, SFG, sorry to hear of your back affliction. I'm sure the rack will help.


I have Editorial Stigmata. When I am under stress and writing, the tips of my fingers bleed. I'm not kidding. It's not related to deadlines, but to how emotionally intense the piece I'm working on is.

I have to figure out ways to get the stress out of my system as I work, like walking down the mountain and up. Sometimes logging onto TBF and having a discussion helps. But it only goes away entirely if I don't write for a week or so.
 
Hm. Well, if we're talking about physical problems, I guess my biggest one is I realized just how addicted to caffiene I am. I literally cannot go more than twelve hours without some form of caffiene in my system without getting a crushing headache and becoming irritable. Yesterday, I accidentally went 36 hours without, and I was almost too weak to walk. And this realization came in the middle of a shopping mall, halfway through finding everything I needed. After buying a Mountain Dew, I felt a little better, but my head didn't stop hurting until I drank a coffee this morning.

But novella, your problem is very interesting. I have never heard of such a thing. Well, stigmata I've heard of, but not due to stress. Is it painful when it happens? Do you have open wounds or does the blood just come through your skin or something?
 
The tips of my fingers where they hit the keyboard split, like a small paper cut, but it happens to be where a lot of surface nerves are. It will start with one on a bad week and in a few days it will be two or three. It hurts like hell, but nobody notices it until I point it out, which is why I think of it as a personal and mysterious anguish. It started about 10 years ago. The rest of my skin is fine. Maybe I'm allergic to working.
 
Novella,
The tips of my fingers where they hit the keyboard split, like a small paper cut, but it happens to be where a lot of surface nerves are. It will start with one on a bad week and in a few days it will be two or three. It hurts like hell, but nobody notices it until I point it out, which is why I think of it as a personal and mysterious anguish. It started about 10 years ago. The rest of my skin is fine.
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Someone I knew had a very similar thing, because he ignored it for so long it simply kept getting worse to the extent where the splits started happening even if he was doing something relatively simple like flicking through a magazine or doing up buttons. I think he was given some kind of an Ultravate(?) ointment which helped.
 
novella said:
The tips of my fingers where they hit the keyboard split, like a small paper cut, but it happens to be where a lot of surface nerves are. It will start with one on a bad week and in a few days it will be two or three. It hurts like hell, but nobody notices it until I point it out, which is why I think of it as a personal and mysterious anguish. It started about 10 years ago. The rest of my skin is fine. Maybe I'm allergic to working.
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Is it possible that you are somehow allergic to the keyboard itself. The plastic, or whatever its made out of? A coating that is applied to it at the time of manufacture?
Although awkward, perhaps some sort of covering on just your fingers would help. There is a product I've seen in the store, a liquid bandage that is simply "painted" on.
 
SFG Love the pic! :D

Me...just arthrititic knees.

Oh and btw SFG, do you eat honey? Its thought that if you eat the local honey it'll help allergies. It does me. Of course mine are not as bad as what yours sound like.
 
Thanks for the suggestions. The truth is I've tried a lot of stuff. Apparently it's a stress-related eczema-type problem. It's very localized, probably because I type so much and use my hands so much for cooking, etc. But it does abate if I am very very careful and calm and sensible and keep my work in perspective--which all of you who know me at all can probably guess is not my most natural state.
 
I suffer from occasional shortness of breath. Not related to exercize ;). I went to the doctor because I thought it might be allergy-related, but she just asked me if I was sure I wasn't hysterical. Very helpful.
 
Bl**dy hypochondriacs! They do my head in.

Who the f**k wants to hear about your ailments?

The only time I see a doctor is when I'm taken horizontally, feet first into casualty.

Wingeing gits.

Most of my friends and family have now died of it. :(
 
Oh I know that's what they've done Kenny. Good riddance to them, but there's always another moaning git turning up.
 
I agree with you totally, jaybe. Illness is a self-fulfulling prophesy for a lot of people. Going to the doc sucks. I avoid it at all costs.

Sorry I posted to this thread. But mine is a mysterious, nay, religious experience that falls outside the purview of normal medicine.

I once watched a reasonably healthy 35 year old sit down next to a charming couple in their 80s and proceed to tell them his aches and pains. Wince!
 
novella said:
Sorry I posted to this thread. But mine is a mysterious, nay, religious experience that falls outside the purview of normal medicine.
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Have you tried voice recognition software?
 
Totally blanking on what you meant there, Kenny. The words flow through my fingers, not my mouth. It would be like cooking without a knife.
 
Flowerdk4 said:
SFG,
How about one of these yoga poses? ;)

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I've actually done the middle one from time to time and it helps. I can hold that position for what seems like hours. The others?......:eek:
 
Two extremely painful words----

Kidney Stones :mad: I hate them, I'm exhausted from them, and there's nothing anyone can do to stop them from happening.
 
SFG75 said:
I've actually done the middle one from time to time and it helps. I can hold that position for what seems like hours. The others?......:eek:
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The last one, called the wheel, is the best one. If you try then its not so hard after all. And if you do it often then you can do it for longer periods of time.
The one in the middle, Bow pose, you are actually meant to rock back and forth in that one, to massage your stomock.

I find the first one, Camel pose, the hardest. As you have to be able to streetch the front part of your body a lot.
 
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