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About once a year I get the full force of it, without the rashes, and skin peeling in my genital areas bits. My skin discolors to purple, yellow, green and blue blotches. My chest pains get way worse than normal, and I cough up blood more often as well. The problem is, when it does come back like that, I have to isolate myself from everyone and stay in my room until it goes away. I can't even be upstairs near other people. It's not contagious and they can't get it, but my immune system practically dies, and if I were to catch a cold during that time it would mean that I'd have to go to the hospital. It's really bad and I can get any sickness while in that state, whereas regularly, I don't get sick at all, other than maybe a cold from time to time of something like that.

Another problem with it is that my platelet count jumps up about 5 - 10 times it's normal number, which for me is saying something, because at any given time while healthy I have 3 - 5 times the amount of platelets in my blood that a normal person should have. It's what makes my blood so thick and puts me at such a high risk for heart attack.


@Tae - Ack... I HATE stomach flus... It's the worst feeling you can have. I can understand how Shram feels right now too. Whereas I've never had what he's got, I've had a really bad one which made it so I couldn't keep anything down for more than 10 minutes for about 6 days once... I lost so much weight, but felt like s**t during and after, so it sucked hardcore.

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@Moo - Ehhh, I just play it off as a heart problem. Though really it's more of a full body one. It affected my liver, my kidneys, my heart, my lungs, and worst of all my bone marrow (That's why the platelet count in my body is so messed up. My bone marrow went into overdrive mode and churns them out and never stops producing them, and it produces at an increased rate. Seriously, I can get cut and it'll stop bleeding and start scabbing within 1 - 2 minutes... I'm Wolverine here or something >_>)

Then again, with the skin discoloration, I'm sure that my liver wouldn't be in as BAD as condition that it's in now if it wasn't for me pouring bottle after bottle of alcohol down my throat for years... ( For those who don't know, skin discoloration is generally caused by liver failure. It means it's unable to filter out all the toxins to go to the right means of waste management in your body, so instead it tries to get it out of your system through your skin, or something like that)

I don't need claws, I need a giant bubble =D I'd love one of those.

Also, how're you feeling now? Still got the Norovirus?

...I think the worst disease I've ever actually had was a heart murmur as a child. I also have progressively worsening scoliosis. Sometimes when I wake up in the morning, I have to stretch and crack my back into place, because it kind of floats around and gets stiff.

Eh, well. I guess I had something else that made my heart do that, then. I don't have it anymore, so I guess it's not a birth defect. sweatdrop