My medical condition

Recently, I was helping a friend cut down his tree. I was about 40 feet up on the tree cutting the top branch when it fell. The branch caught one of the ropes and the rope caught my left wrist on its way down. Hanging onto my dear life as the tree tried to drag me down with it, I remembered that the saw was still in my right hand so I frantically used that to cut my left arm... just kidding. I cut the rope to free myself.What I ended up with was a cut around my wrist from the rope about 1 inch wide and a very sore arm. It completely stripped the skin off my wrist. So, I got a low level infection from it. No biggie. The recovery has been painful but manageable.Unfortunately for me, the infection retriggered a medical condition that's been dormant in me for years now. And it happens to be a very bad form of auto-immunity disorder. Last time that my immune system went haywire, my vital organs were attacked and I saw the light at the end of the tunnel several times in the emergency room.Currently, my epidermis is under attack. My life is brought to a screeching halt because of my condition. From head to toe, I look like a burnt victim. And the most uncomfortable part of this is my testicles. My scrotum has turned into a rock, cramming my poor testicles into an uncomfortable small space.Just thought I'd let you bastards know how lucky you are to not have inherited a genetic defect as bad as my case.Added by edit.And people ask me why I don't want biological children of my own. I've hesitated for years to give people a direct answer because I don't want to have to give a long explanation.People, if you have something wrong with your genes, refrain from pumping out kids. I've met people with genetic defects yet they want to pump out as many kids as they can. There was a woman I met in college who had a recessive gene for a disease that kills kids before they turn 2 yr old. She happened to marry a man with the same recessive gene. So, they went ahead and pumped out 2 kids, both died before the age of 2. At the time, she cried and cried to me that she and her husband wanted so badly a child but they keep dying on them. WTF?Edited by Taz, : No reason given.

Rub some dirt on it and drink piss: you'll be fine.

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"Why don't you call upon your God to strike me? Oh, I forgot it's because he's fake like Thor, so bite me" -Greydon Square

Just curious. What's that a reference to?

Well, in the Army, we were frequently told to suck it up when injured because most likely you're just a pussy and can tough it out some more.Bear Grylls: when in doubt, drink piss. Drinking piss is like WD-40 and Duct Tape: it fixes everything.{abe} whoops. I initially was going to say suck it up, which is why I explained suck it up. Rub some dirt on it has basically the same origin. Fellow soldiers would say this to one another in the event there was a serious injury: "just rub some dirt on it, you'll be fine".Edited by hooah212002, : No reason given.

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"Why don't you call upon your God to strike me? Oh, I forgot it's because he's fake like Thor, so bite me" -Greydon Square

I hope for your full recovery.

Well, I'm afraid literally rubbing dirt onto it would make it 10 times worse. Basically, my immune system has gone haywire. It is overreacting to everything. If I have a gash on my arm, my immune system will start attacking the entire arm. My doctors believe that's what retriggered the condition in the first place. The deep cut on my wrist resulted in a low level infection. My immune system then decided to attack my entire epidermis layer. It's like flooding the whole city because a house is on fire.Years ago during another auto-immune cycle, I had a seasonal allergy from all the pollens and started sneezing. Well, guess what my immune system decided to attack. Almost died that day.

Ah, ok. Well, like I said: duct tape and WD-40 works wonders. If that doesn't help, just do some push-ups.

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"Why don't you call upon your God to strike me? Oh, I forgot it's because he's fake like Thor, so bite me" -Greydon Square

Hahaha, that's my thought too. Unfortunately, doing physical exercises would also make it worse. There's a chance the immune system will start attacking my muscles if I exert too much force because everytime you exert force you're actually breaking down your muscle.The best thing I can do right now is absolutely nothing. They're hoping if I just sit on my ass long enough the cycle will burn itself out and I can go back to my normal life. They're hoping I won't have to go through the extensive treatments that I had to go through last time.

That's a damn shame, mate.Hope you have a speedy recovery. All the best.Edited by Larni, : No reason given.

Steroids and anti inflamatorys may help? You are seeing a physician I hope.

Wow. I was being a facetious ass, Taz. I didn't mean any of that literally.

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"Why don't you call upon your God to strike me? Oh, I forgot it's because he's fake like Thor, so bite me" -Greydon Square

Actually, those were some things they tried first. You know how my body responded? Absolutely nada. My body acted as if they weren't there.

I know.I'm just explaining everything because I've found that people have a hard time understanding what I have. When my body is in one of these cycles, it doesn't respond to drugs that would normally help other people. They finally figured this out after many months and many doctors later many years ago. I'm a special case. They said there's only been a hand full of people with my condition.I'm also hesitant to leave home because people tend to think I have aids or something. My wife's mom, a nurse, even thought I had some kind of skin disease when she first saw me in my condition. I don't look like the normal auto-immunity case. Most normal cases have hives and stuff. For me, in the span of a couple hours, I turn into someone that's been toasted in an oven. Then sores started breaking out. What it is is my immune system is treating my skin like a foreign thing and it's attacking it.Sorry, I'm just crying because I'm currently very annoyed at myself.

I can't relate to the ordeal you must be going through.
It sucks when shit's out of our hands.But I can send good wishes your way. Now redeemable for 30 cents off your next purchase!

It is a double edged sword, but the doses of steroids usually have to be high dose. Problem being they supress the immune system, however in the face of systemic infection a problem.
Also sometimes the use of infusions of Gamma globulins can help.
I do not know what autoimmune dz you have. It will get better though, day by day is all we can do. Tincture of time. Have they tried Methotrexate? Edited by 1.61803, : No reason given.