# It happened to me:  medical oddities

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-happened-to-me-medical-oddities/810311>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [March 9, 2018, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-happened-to-me-medical-oddities/810311 "2018-03-09T23:56:02Z")\
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**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\
**Post date:** [March 19, 2018, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-happened-to-me-medical-oddities/810311/81 "2018-03-19T18:06:37Z")

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Right, what else would you expect when you’re slightly askew?

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**Author:** ![Melbourne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b5e925/32.png) [@Melbourne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Melbourne)\
**Post date:** [March 20, 2018, 6:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-happened-to-me-medical-oddities/810311/82 "2018-03-20T06:20:44Z")

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> [@Ambivalid](#):
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> Once every ten years, eh? You lucky boy you. Welcome to my life 24/7 for the past year. And it’s worse than what you describe, because not only do I get bone-chillingly cold to the point that I cannot warm up, I _simultaneously_ feel overheated and break out in freezing cold sweats (I know that sounds literally impossible but it’s not, I promise you). It is seriously the worst thing ever. Hell on earth. And the doctors cannot figure out what the problem is. I’ve had everything checked out, blood tests, biopsies, ultrasounds, you name it. It’s not my liver, it’s not my thyroid, it’s not my pancreas, it’s not gallstones. I’ve been seen by multiple specialist and none of them can find anything wrong with me. It’s hopless.

Did you ever have polio? (damaged hypothalamus)

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