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ScollsJoined: 05 Aug 2005
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Mon Mar 20, 2006 4:06 pm Reply with quote
kipling wrote:
I went to hospital with Anaphylactic shock because some moronic Army Doctor prescribed a pennicillin based antibiotic - I learned the hard way that I am allergic to pennicillin!
It was an interesting experience; I recall being really concerned about the amount of drugs being stuck into me via the IVs going into each arm. This due to the drugs testing scheme in the Army - I was a senior person and I didn't want to be found positive, it would have been career ending.
I'm also supposedly allergic. I wonder if it's a "for life" thing? Is one necessarily born allergic to it?
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Mon Mar 20, 2006 9:42 pm Reply with quote
Scolls wrote:
I'm also supposedly allergic. I wonder if it's a "for life" thing? Is one necessarily born allergic to it?
Yeah, I think so unfortunately.
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amneziaJoined: 23 Mar 2006
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Fri Mar 24, 2006 12:45 am Reply with quote
i had a lot of illness as a child, measle, mumps, hooping cough, the lot..
I think i am imune to most bacteria now. 3 years in a dirty student house is a great way to strengthen your immune system
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Fri Mar 24, 2006 12:49 am Reply with quote
amnezia wrote:
I think i am imune to most bacteria now. 3 years in a dirty student house is a great way to strengthen your immune system
Doesn't make you immune to STD though ...
RizzoJoined: 17 Apr 2006
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Sat Apr 22, 2006 9:13 pm Reply with quote
Nothing exciting here, just appendicitis, so i had my appendix out. That was fine, BUT then i got an infection and was sick for 6 weeks. THAT was bad!!!
LucnetSolutionsJoined: 22 Apr 2006
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Sun Apr 23, 2006 12:18 am Reply with quote
I never really had an illness, but started getting gaingreen on my leg form a wound on my ancle and I almost lost my foot.
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Sun Apr 23, 2006 12:40 am Reply with quote
LucnetSolutions wrote:
... and I almost lost my foot.
My goodness ... How did you treat it?
ScollsJoined: 05 Aug 2005
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Sat Apr 29, 2006 1:14 pm Reply with quote
LucnetSolutions wrote:
I never really had an illness, but started getting gaingreen on my leg form a wound on my ancle and I almost lost my foot.
That's hectic! What did the doc say?
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