I think my worst ever medical experience was whenI had a kidney infection.
Feeling shit most of the week. Went to A&E on Sunday after passing out, to be told it was a urine infection and given antibiotics.

By Wed night feeling shitter, spent the whole night shivering on the bathroom floor, throwing up, not being able to stand without passing out. By 6am I felt I could wake mr b3th, who told me off and took me straight back to hospital.

Turns out it was a pretty serious kidney infection which hadn't responded to the initial dose of meds, and if I'd left it another two days I might not have got better. I spent the whole morning shivering and crying in agony - the pain was in my abdomen, strangely enough, not the kidneys themselves.
The nurses wouldn't let me have another blanket, because it seems that my shivering wasn't caused by being cold, but was something called 'rigours', and that my temperature was dangerously high. Took the bastards until 2pm before they gave me anything stronger than paracetamol as well.

mr b3th's wprst medical experience came a year later when I went in for a routine day surgery. He got called in because 'something had gone wrong' and when he got there and asked to see me, they said 'would you mind just coming to this little room here?'

As it happened, I hadn't died, but I had come relatively close after a dangerous episode of anaphylaxis. Yay me.

tl;dr - I was ill and got better.
( b3th Not shit. Not mod., Thu 24 Feb 2011, 13:00, Reply)