The last health ailment you suffered from

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What was it and when?

I had a mild case of food poisoning a couple of months ago - I ate a ham and tomato sandwich and five minutes later I felt really sick to my stomach. But a single session of my bowing down to the white porcelain god helped me instantly and an hour later I was in the best health again. No idea which food was bad to me then - the tomato or ham?

Now I'm having an abscess on my gum, I had another one in there some weeks ago as well. And how about you?

Garden variety cold.

ruveyn

Emotional overload on Friday.

My throat hurts a bit as well - I do hope it isn't going to develop into an actual ilness and that the pain will just go away.

Anxiety (chronic) and a boring, mild cold virus

The last health ailment I suffered from that is worth mentioning is when I got dehydrated in the fourth grade. It was in the middle of Winter Break and I had gotten a flu of some sort, so I kept vomiting until eventually I became dehydrated and had to go to the emergency room.

I had a really drastic head rush from standing up and nearly blacked out.

Btw, does anyone know why you get dyspraxialike symptoms for a while after those??

I always seem to have kinks in my back, at all times.

Swine Flu on Christmas.

I was coughing Christmas Eve, sleeping Christmas Day, throwing up the day after, and aching the day after that.

IBS flare-up. Started 2 days ago.

First degree burns (sunburn) to back of neck and shoulders six days ago.

Canker sore on front lower gum which seems to be gone now.

Trichotillomania (chronic and ongoing)

Had some nasty chronic headaches last semester, always around noon each day. I would take a Tylenol generic for it, it would go away after a few hours and return in full force the same time next day. After a few visits to Student Health (they're not real doctors, just nurse practitioners, but checkups are free and the pharmacy is dirt cheap) I was able to stop the headaches by gradually taking less and less of the Tylenol generic. Apparently the main ingredient in Tylenol can actually CAUSE headaches when the drug is leaving your system. Whatever had originally caused the headaches had disappeared, but the withdrawal from the pain meds perpetuated the condition until I was able to gradually wean myself off of them.

Also took sick last semester with a small bug; had a high fever for 24 hours but then it went away. Onee-chan caught the swine flu, but we quarantined her off from the rest of the family and avoided catching it ourselves, and she bounced back pretty quick.

As of one second ago (or thereabouts), that would be autism.