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[Vallarfax]

So get this GAF. For the past 2-3 days I've had a slight cold. Now when I say slight, I really mean a slight cold. My nose was running on and off, and I was sneazing a bit. Well this afternoon I woke up and found myself choking and having a hard time breathing thru my mouth. I opened my mouth and looked in the mirror and saw that my Uvula (hangy ball thing in the back of the mouth) was 5x's the size it should have been. I freaked out and my friend drove me to the emergency room. I got in to see the doctor in less than 30mins, which is good for this place, and it turns out that my little cold turned into a throat infection over night. So they gave me steroids to lower the swelling, and vicodin to ease the pain when I swallow, because when I try to swallow saliva it tries to go down my throat too. I'm on the vicodin right now and I'm having a good time. This is some funky stuff. Trust me though when I say that I am not taking more than the prescribed dose.

Anybody else have something crazy/freaky/weird happen to them real suddenly like this?

 

[Brannon]

I've had the swollen uvula, but since our family couldn't afford the trip to the doctor at the time, I just rode it out. The worst was the constant gag reflex kicking in at inappropriate times.

 

[Vallarfax]

just out of curiosity, how long did it take for you to ride it out? I know that my time will be different because I'm on the meds, but as a musician this is really killing me.

 

[ConfusingJazz]

Well, until last summer, everytime I had a cold my tonsils had always swelled like balloons, but they usually calmed down after I went to the doctor to get some steroids and fixed it up. Then I got mono, they never went down, and the Ear nose and throat doc said I had the biggest tonsils he had ever seen in a 20 year old. It goes without saying that I then got my tonsils out. But what was really great is that my mom and I caught a stomach virus somehow, so not only did I have a throat that hurt like a bitch, I was also throwing up what I was able to eat.

That was a fun week.

 

[Brannon]

For me it was about 3-4 days before it started to shrink back. Didn't really keep track since I was about 10 at the time.

 

[GaimeGuy]

So get this GAF. For the past 2-3 days I've had a slight cold. Now when I say slight, I really mean a slight cold. My nose was running on and off, and I was sneazing a bit. Well this afternoon I woke up and found myself choking and having a hard time breathing thru my mouth. I opened my mouth and looked in the mirror and saw that my Uvula (hangy ball thing in the back of the mouth) was 5x's the size it should have been. I freaked out and my friend drove me to the emergency room. I got in to see the doctor in less than 30mins, which is good for this place, and it turns out that my little cold turned into a throat infection over night. So they gave me steroids to lower the swelling, and vicodin to ease the pain when I swallow, because when I try to swallow saliva it tries to go down my throat too. I'm on the vicodin right now and I'm having a good time. This is some funky stuff. Trust me though when I say that I am not taking more than the prescribed dose.

Anybody else have something crazy/freaky/weird happen to them real suddenly like this?

5x? damn dude.

edit: wtf @ the whatwasthatgame.com banner at the bottom of the page? :lol

 

[Dsal]

I've had both of these things before... the giant uvula and the giant tonsils. They never gave me any of that cool stuff for it before though. Just like antibiotics, no steroids or vicodin.

 

[effzee]

i woke up one day and my eye was fucking red as fuck. i mean fucking red, not just normal abnormal red.

so i was like whatever i put my contacts in and i couldnt stop tearing.....and it would hurt but no way i wear my huge as hell glasses to class so i keep em on. i go to my universitys health center...turns out i have pink eye. the fucking drops they gave me burned like a fucker.

 

[Escape Goat]

I got vicodin when I had mono in august. It was yummy. I still have 10 pills left lol.

My friends say its still good but it scurrs me.

 

[trilobyte]

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[Boomer]

I got vicodin when I had mono in august. It was yummy. I still have 10 pills left lol.

My friends say its still good but it scurrs me.

It's still good...they won't expire for at least a couple years.

 

[Escape Goat]

It's still good...they won't expire for at least a couple years.

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I wonder how much I could pawn these off for. Oh no, FBI on their way!