r/AskReddit 12h ago

What's the sickest you've ever been in your life?

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u/noodle-face 11h ago

Same for me. It was so bad when I went to the doctor complaining about a sinus infection they said my entire face was swollen from it.

I literally felt like my head was going to explode. 10/10 pain

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u/somePig_buckeye 10h ago

My mom was prone to sinus infections until a third surgery mostly corrected the problem. Once she woke up and the entire right side of her face was swollen. A trip to her gp, then the ent, the dentist next door (to make sure it wasn’t a tooth infection), and finally to the hospital for a ct. She ended up being admitted and on IV antibiotics for 5 days. She had the surgery to widen her sinuses after she had healed from the exploratory one.

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u/Chateaudelait 10h ago

I lived in Germany and had an unbearable sinus infection. Visited an ENT and he could see my misery- he had a look on his face like, I know what to do. I sat down and there was a large machine hooked to a cannula that he stuck up my sinus cavity and injected a dose of pharma grade cocaine in each nostril. It cleared immediately and I wept with relief. He said - sometimes the old cures are the best. Can't argue with that.

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u/thisisnotmyname17 9h ago

Oh man. If only. I have had sinus problems for many many years. I’m 60.

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u/throwawaymagafam 9h ago

Funny, I've gotten a more than a few sinus infections from the cocaine.

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u/somePig_buckeye 9h ago

She probably would have become addicted had that option been available. She had her first surgery when she was a senior in hs in 1964.The last one was about 1995. She has had less than 5 since then.

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u/phoontender 9h ago

Hospital pharmacy tech, the cocaine is only applied after certain surgeries topically to numb everything up and help shrink the blood vessels down. They don't just keep giving you cocaine 🤣

It's always very weird to remember it's on the shelf when doing narco room counts hahaha

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u/Estrellathestarfish 8h ago

I had an ear/sinus infection that caused cerebral venous sinus thrombosis and a resulting brain injury. It also caused the head exploding fun.