My fucking problem is anxiety attacks. Yes, I have Xanax to take if it gets TOO bad. I hate drugs, but I’ll take it if I have too. But the people who seem to think it’s YOU’RE short-comings if you have them, Ooyyy. I’m sorry that you’re so fearful of your own mind betraying you that you regect the possibility. But even the strongest, most stable, minds have flaws. Stop trying to psychoanalize me and accept me for what I try to be (or not be.)
OCD. For the learned souls on this board, I probably don’t have to spell that out but just in case you want to know more:
However, no scrupulosity or hoarding components to my OCD.
In fact, I had an opposite component - compulsion to throw things out for fear of dirt, disorganization and clutter. I threw out things I needed at the height of my symptoms.
Have had it since I was a pre-teen and treatment as an adult has worked very well.
Type II diabetes - since 1999. Oral meds, steady, regular exercise and severe diet control have not held it in check, and I’ve tried most of the oral meds. I’m now on Lantus, a once/day injected insulin. That was dandy for most of a year, but now I’m sliding up again. Ick.
ADD - I sound like Anastasaeon, I swear I was reading my life story there. I’m taking Strattera, and yeah - it “levels” me. I’d say one very positive effect it’s had has been to limit my somewhat explosive temper. Bus Kid said just the other day how it’s been quite a while since I’ve tossed any food at the wall, so there’s that.
Glaucoma runs in my family, and the diabetes doesn’t help. I’m just waiting for my semi-annual opthamologist exam to show my pressure is in the zone where I start taking drops. Rah.
I put one orthopedic surgeon’s kids through college with my knees.
And my last birthday made me realize that now I’m closer to 50 than to 40.
Alcoholism and drug addiction. I’m sober now (almost 15 years) but my body will never process alcohol “like normal people’s,” nor will I ever be able to use any drug “recreationally.” For me, it’s always a full-time job with mandatory overtime! 
Luckily, I came out the other side with no other problems, like AIDS, HIV, hep C, liver problems, brain-function problems, etc.
I have a congenital spinal anomaly that caused me to be missing one rib. (Has little to no effect on my daily life, but…missing a rib!)
I’m also severely myopic, hypoglycemic, and my TMJ is truly well and fucked. And I have a little elf point thing on my left ear called a helium nodularis.
These are actually all minor/easily correctable ailments. I’m healthy.
I’m so myopic it isn’t funny.
At one point I was told that if my right eye was any more myopic, they wouldn’t be able to make a wearable eyeglass for it, because glass would be too heavy.
Fortunately, they came out with high-refractive-index plastics, and I also learned how to use contact lenses.
It would be kinda neat to have diamond eyeglasses, though…
[myopia contest]I wear gas permeable contacts because I was always told my vision couldn’t be corrected to 20/20 with soft contacts. When I last saw the eye doctor in 2004, he told me they now have fancy schmancy soft lenses that were strong enough, and I could switch if I wanted. I didn’t, though, because I’m used to gas permeable.[/mc]
Lower back pain. Borderline high blood pressure. Morbid obesity. Chronic kidney stones.
I’m seeking surgery to deal with the obesity, which would probably do a lot to help with the back pain and blood pressure. Unfortunately, I don’t think there’s anything to be done about the kidney stones.
I have lupus (systemic lupus erythematosus). It’s been in remission and I’ve been off medication since I was 19 (almost 15 years ago). The only major problem I’ve had as an adult is with pregnancy. I had two miscarriages, they figured out to have me take baby aspirin while pregnant, and I now have a really cool kid and another on the way. My doctors just keep a really close eye on me and the baby to make sure there aren’t any problems (low birth weight, heart problems in the fetus, premature labor, pre-eclampsia, etc.). No big deal except that I have to go to the really sucky high risk prenatal clinic.
Good old run-of-the-mill chronic sinusitis. It’s not much, but it sure can be a pain in the ass sometimes. And mild to moderate depression. I’m not refusing to leave the house, but I’m rarely all that happy, either.
Oh, and Hal? You may struggle with Grave’s disease, but you have a beautiful smile!
Myofascial Pain Syndrome. It’s one of those “made-up” diseases. :rolleyes:
It’s the reason I can’t have caffeine on a regular basis…and damn I miss Dr. Pepper. Sniff.
Mild to moderate depression. I’m on 10 mg of Lexapro once a day. I may switch meds after I am no longer the host to a temporary human parasite. Oh, and some myopia - which is nowhere near the worst on these boards. Other than that, I’m good to go!
Chronic pancreatitis. Last year I went for six months without eating anything and living off a feeding tube.
Gout.
I’m damned glad there’s Indomethacin. I haven’t had any of the advertised side effects with it, either.
Without it, I couldn’t even put on socks–much less walk. With it, absolutlely no symptoms at all.
I wish all conditions were as easily remedied.
Irritable bowel syndrome, hemmoroids, angina, high blood pressure, arthritis in my knees and next week I am seeing a doctor about anger and depression issues. I also have a pimple from hell on the side of my neck that won’t go away.
Let’s see; anxiety disorder that I am now in recovery from (thank you, cognitive therapy), calcified tendonitis in both hips, partially torn Achilles tendon which refuses to completely heal, hypoglycemia, myopia, acid reflux, recurring ulcer, and mild hay fever. And my eye twitches when I’m under a lot of stress. 
Fibromyalgia, fifteen years and counting. I usually tell people “adolescent-onset arthritis”, to save on debate and to keep myself from misspelling my own disorder.
I forget the medical term, but I have a valve in my heart that doesn’t seal properly, so there’s “backwash” and a murmur. I didn’t know about it until about 8 or 9 years ago. The doctor said eventually they’ll need to replace it, but as long as I can lead a basically active and normal lifestyle, they’re not going to touch it. The minute I get winded doing something that never got me winded before, though, they want to know about it. No meds, no restrictions, although they’d like to see me quit smoking.
I also have an umbilical hernia. It looks like my innie has an outie, and it tickles like a sonofabitch.
Sarcoidosis
Asthma
Acid reflux
Nystagmus(plus nearsighted in one eye, and far sighted in the other)