When, it comes to feeling sick we are not all equal in our abilities
to cope with distress and discomfort, however there are certain types
of pains that tend to reduce this natural discrepancy and are just
utterly horrible for everyone no matter if the person is a delicate
ballet dancer or a tough soldier and the worst part of it is that there
is no need to travel abroad and get some type of rare exotic fever to
experience them. Here is a list of those ailments that no one wants to
get.
Endometriosis
Endometriosis is a common condition that affects as many as 10
percent of women. It occurs when endometrial cells that are normally
found only inside the uterus start to develop outside of it – reaching
the ovaries, fallopian tubes and even intestines. Patients with
endometriosis experience severe menstrual pains which are enough to
make a sporty strong girl double over in pain and cease any daily
activity.
Gastroenteritis
Stomach flu
The symptoms of this common ailment are nausea and vomiting,
diarrhea leading to dehydration, fever, chills and severe lower
abdominal cramps. This is one of the entries on the list that is most
likely to have experienced by a number of readers. It is brought on by
bacteria or parasites. Despite its common name, it has no relation to
influenza.
Tooth Abscess
No one likes to go to the dentist, but sometimes he can appear as
your angel of mercy when the alternative treatment for a tooth abscess
is removing your own tooth with a pair of pliers or inflicting yourself
a suicidal shotgun wound. When you suffer a tooth abscess antibiotics
are required before further treatment can take place as the infection
can eat any anesthetics administered by the dentist.
Otitis
Ear infection
Anyone who ever had the misfortune to get an ear infection will tell
you how painful this condition can be. Furthermore, depending on the
type of otitis you can experience severe vertigo – making standing up
very difficult.
Peritonitis
This is a serious albeit common complication of a variety of
abdominal etiologies involving an inflammatory process such as
appendicitis, cholecystitis (inflamed gallbladder), diverticulitis or
even the infection of the liquid coming from a ruptured cyst. Basically
it is the infection of the peritoneum which is a large membrane running
all the way through the abdominal cavity. The strong abdominal pain
associated with this infection is one of the strongest on earth, it is
a life-threatening event that requires emergency surgery. Usually the
patient is in so much pain that he will ask (or beg) to be operated on
right away.
Twisted Ovary or Testicle
It is normal to wince at the description of this painful event
because it touches the most intimate part of a human body. Ovarian or
testicular torsion is when one of these precious body parts gets
twisted on its own ligaments. It can happen spontaneously which
basically means that in a matter of seconds a perfectly healthy person
is on the floor in extreme agony. This horrendous conditions requires
emergency surgery to save the affected organ and prevent relative
sterility. The lower abdominal pain associated with ovarian torsion in
thought to be equally painful as labor contractions in the transition
stage.
Shingles
Shingles is a form or particularly painful skin rash in which red
blisters can get inflamed and infected causing a great deal of pain and
discomfort. Any person who has had chickenpox can develop shingles – at
any point in the future. This is because the chickenpox virus remains
in the body – never completely vanishing – and when it flares up for a
second (or more) time it becomes agonizingly painful shingles. Stress
can be sufficient to bring on an attack which is basically untreatable
– though some depression tablets seem to strangely alleviate some of
the discomfort.
Gallbladder lithiasis
Gallstones
Gallstones are small hard concretions mostly made of cholesterol
that form in the gallbladder when the bile becomes saturated with fat.
Obese people are more prone to them than people with a healthy weight
and most sufferers are women. When the gallbladder contracts after a
high fat meal, a stone can be expelled from it and travel through the
common bile duct: that is the painful part. The pain is strong enough
not to allow the patient to move and is said to bring tears in the eyes
of adult patients. So watch you diet.
Cluster Headache
A cluster headache, is a type of migraine but one which is at least
ten times stronger in intensity. Unlike simple migraines which commonly
affect female patients, cluster headaches happen more often in men and
especially young men of Caucasian race. Th pain is so strong during an
attack that it is compared to lightning strikes behind the eye.
Patients come in the E.R. thinking that they are dying. The worst thing
is that those attacks are recurrent in nature and that no treatment
exists.
Nephrolithiasis
Kidney stones
Kidney stone pain is thought to be the strongest pain that a human
can feel without dying of a shock reaction. That being said we
understand that many medical care providers compare the suffering to a
complicated childbirth and don’t hesitate to prescribe I.V. narcotics
to relieve a patient with a major attack. There is not a definite
explanation for the cause of the stones but dehydration, hypernatremia
(high sodium in blood), hypercalcemia (high calcium in blood), genetic
and racial factors are often incriminated, so drink your water, avoid
salty junk food and pray for these little crystals never to happen to
you.