What's the worst illness you've ever had?

Embarrassed to say, but a yeast infection as a male. Caused by essentially being covered in fruit shit for a few days, it was even on my legs. A yeast rash, officially, but the same thing. It was awful. The doctor’s visit was embarrassing but at that point I didn’t care. The swelling looked horrible and the itch was unbearable. Absolutely unbearable. Nothing helped. Anti-histamines did next to nothing, epsom salt baths did very little, the only thing that really helped was time. I would experience a sort of “itching fit” where something triggered it and the urge to breath while holding my breath was less intense than the urge to scratch.

It happened in public once while buying some Epsom salts for a bath, and I literally had to run. I ran as fast as I could home because the urge to itch was so intense I couldn’t stop. It was 3 weeks of hell and eventually it spread to the top of my penis so then peeing burned for a few days. Once the cream I was prescribed did it’s job, I was fine. My legs itched for a while longer but nothing like what I was experiencing before.

One day after my treatment had ended I woke up and it was completely cleared. Skin is weird, you would never know it how bad it looked before if you saw it afterwards. Just completely back to normal. Anyway, yeah. I’ve had an abdominal pain so bad it rendered me unconscious and in the hospital and I’d take that any day over a yeast rash down there.

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