Diseases I've Legitimately Thought I Have (Or Just Really Wanted)

  • Any number of brain tumors
  • Achalasia
     (a degeneration of the nerves in the smooth muscle of the esophagus which leads to defective swallowing in the lower third of the esophagus)
  • Wandering spleen*
     (spleen has a really long ligament so it's not kept in place very well so it just chills wherever it feels like in the abdominal cavity)
  • Situs Inversus*
    (when all your internal organs are flipped to the other side)
  • AAA - Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm
    a ballooning of the aorta in the abdomen -if it gets big enough it will burst and you're gonna die if they don't fix it within a few minutes. Symptom is a pulsatile mass in the abdomen. I have a pulsatile mass in my abdomen. 
  • Pleural adhesion - when the membrane around your lungs that is supposed to slide along the chest wall gets stuck to the chest wall. -->random sharp chest pains when I exhale



*I didn't actually think I had this, I just wanted it.