Medical Issues thread

Noticed there was a mental health thread for psych issues, and a health & fitness thread for working out, but there isn't really a thread for people to complain about their physical health problems.

Got a tummy ache? Get headaches? Got a surgery coming up? Got a specific condition you wanna share? Do it here.

 

I sometimes get really painful stomach aches in the morning soon after waking up, but they usually go away after I drink water. If I let it sit there though and don't drink water as soon as it flares up it can get to a point where water doesn't help and I am stuck with a horrible stomach ache for days and sometimes for weeks.

 

Headaches here. Usually tension-related, especially after long workdays at the screen.

 

I've had mono for nearly 3 months. I truly don't think I'll ever feel normal again

 

Hurt my back last Saturday worse than I ever had before and also dealing with a kidney stone. It sucks and they both play into each other so I don't really know which is particularly bothering me at the time, but it's really put into perspective for me how chronic pain can really mess up your whole life. My mood has been terrible and I've been very short-tempered and on edge. I'll be fine, the back is already feeling better but it has not been a fun ride

 

Four years ago, around the time the pandemic was “ending” and stuff was loosening up, I developed this weird allergy(?) to bananas. I ate them perfectly fine for years without issue. But out of nowhere, I started getting intense nausea if I ate a banana.

This also wasn’t a case of normal food poisoning like I ate a bad one. If I ate a good, perfectly ripe banana, I’d get nauseous and it wouldn’t go away for about an hour or so. Because of this, I just gave them up completely.

A few months ago my wife and I shared some banana pudding from a local bakery and I had no issues. It didn’t occur to me until a few weeks ago that I ate banana and didn’t feel sick after eating it.

I had a big craving for a peanut butter banana sandwich today so I decided to bite the bullet and make one. I ate it and had no issues at all whatsoever.

So, I have no idea what the fuck that was about four years ago. But my body can process bananas totally fine now…