21 People Share Their Medical Condition They Thought Was Normal

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Eric Lund
Feb 10, 2019 5:00 PM EST

Laughter is the best medicine, and these folks were in for a shock when they realized not everyone had constant discomfort, unexplained pain, the inability to sleep and uncontrollable sneezing. We are not talking about medical memes, but real life ailments that people got so used to living with, that they forgot normal people don't suffer from the same. 

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    medical meme - Text - edited 20 hours ago BanjosAndBoredom 7.5k points 23 hours ago I have a Schatzki Ring (a narrowing of the lower esophagus) which means I have to drink a LOT of water with anything I eat to get it down (especially dry foods like bread). Otherwise food gets stuck in my esophagus and I end up in a lot of pain. Once when I was maybe 11 or 12, I watched a man eat an entire bagel without drinking anything and I was SHOCKED
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    medical meme - Text - Merry_Dankmas 7.6k points 1 day ago edited 46 minutes ago Idiopathic insomnia. It used to be called childhood onset insomnia and it's exactly what it sounds like. Trouble falling asleep even from a young age. It's basically a lifelong thing with no real cure which makes it super annoying to deal with My parents told me I would never take naps as an infant and would cry whenever being put down to sleep. Was never tired as a kid and never had the urge to sleep
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    medical meme - Text - bigeyescheesefries 15.9k points1 day ago S IBS, I thought everybody had diarrhea every day.
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    medical meme - Text - lohac 14.6k points 1 day ago edited 19 hours ago x5x5 I can flex my tympanic membrane voluntarily. When I little I used to call it "making thunder in my brain."
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    medical meme - Text - : edited 16 hours ago x2 lukan2 14.0k points 1 day ago Feeling like a stranger in my body, like I was pushed waaayyyy back within my own head and perceiving the world as if I was looking through a cinema screen, with the deep conviction that the world around me was fictional. Happened quite a lot, but i figured it was normal. It wasn't. T'was schizophrenia.
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    medical meme - Text - charlottedhouse 7.1k points 22 hours ago I thought every woman had searing, stabbing pains in their pelvis all the time due to "women problems" and I was just being a little punk. No, I have endometriosis. My organs were fused together.
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    medical meme - Text - ConfidentMarionBerry 5.8k points 1 day ago Photic Sneeze Reflex, or ACHOO! When I growing up I thought everyone also sneezed when they looked at the sun.
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    medical meme - Text - HorseMeatSandwich 13.1k points 1 day ago edited 19 hours ago I have ventricular tachycardia. Basically, my heart has an extra "spark plug," and without medication it beats about twice as fast as it should. I first noticed it in high school and thought "Hm I'm not sure if my heart should be beating this fast," but I was an idiot and did nothing about it.
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    medical meme - Text - thewrathofkahwn 10.8k points 1 day ago I'm not sure if it's a medical condition per se, but my second and third toes are fused together on both feet. My brother has this as well and my mom too (just a little bit) I grew up thinking everyone had connected toes until one Spring in Middle School when everyone was wearing sandals. I literally shouted out in class, "you guys don't have connected toes!?" And everyone looked at me like I was insane.
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    medical meme - Text - KE 1930 9.8k points 1 day ago edited 13 hours ago x3 Precordial catch syndrome random stabbing chest pains and an inability to breathe for about 20 seconds then just disappears. I thought it happened to everyone! Apparently the membrane around your heart gets caught on your lung? Then it has to detach itself. Totally harmless, I think I'm dying every time.
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    medical meme - Text - chain_reactions 9.1k points 1 day ago edited 10 minutes ago have OCD and did not get diagnosed until I was well into adulthood. My understanding of OCD was based on pop culture, so I had no idea that that's what my intrusive thoughts and compulsions were. I am learning that things are abnormal all the time now.
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    medical meme - Text - TooncesThe TypingCat 32.2k points 1 day ago x3 Eosinophilic Esophagitis. I would get stuff stuck in my throat all the time and I just figured "throats are narrow, take smaller bites". Turns out no, my esophagus is much, much narrower than normal and most people don't choke every time they eat.
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    medical meme - Text - riceburner22 17.1k points 1 day ago Tinnitus ringing in the ears. When i was retiring from the military the VA doc asked me if i had ringing in my ears. I said all the time but I don't think it's more than anybody else. He gave me a weird look and said ringing in the ears is not normal. I thought it was because most of the people I know have ringing in their ears.
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    medical meme - Text - silentreese 7.7k points 23 hours ago edited 4 hours ago Daytime idiopathic hypersomnia. Basically during the day I'm sleepy regardless of how much I sleep and they don't know why. I also fell asleep and entered REM sleep in 7 seconds during the daytime sleep study which I'm told you aren't supposed to do
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    medical meme - Text - Megas911 30.6k points 1 day ago I thought your throat, mouth, and lips were supposed to hurt after eating fruits like apples and pears. Nope, just allergic.
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    medical meme - Text - darkest_hour1428 28.5k points 1 day ago My sense of smell is rated 1 out of 5, 5 being normal. I always thought everyone was exaggerating smells of flowers or stinky messes
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    medical meme - Text - brendenfraser 26.3k points edited 17 hours ago 1 day ago Cataplexy. It's the hallmark symptom of narcolepsy, but most people don't know it actually has a large range of presentation I
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    medical meme - Text - 1 day ago Penya23 21.3k points I have always felt cold. Not normal "oh it's cold out" cold but "holy shit I am FREEZING" cold I thought some people just handled the cold better than others... .turns out it is one of the symptoms for severe anemia Thanks to iron infusions every 3 months, I still feel cold, but not the "I think I may br freezing to death" cold.
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    medical meme - Text - ItsActuallyLupus 19.2k points 1 day ago Lupus. My doctor always told me that the constant pain and fatigue was just part of growing up.
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    medical meme - Text - 23 hours ago edited 20 hours ago S SUZQP 18.1k points I have prosopagnosia. I don't easily recognize people by looking at faces. I figure out who you are by your profile hairstyle, voice, walk, and sometimes just guessing from context or what you're talking about. For half my life I had no idea I wasn't normal
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    medical meme - Text - 23 hours ago edited 15 hours ago CALJUMAI 8.0k points I have hyperhidrosis. I didn't realize how much I sweat was abnormal enough to be a medical condition. It was miserable growing up and having sweat literally drip from your hands while you tried to write and not understanding why.
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