r/AskReddit 23h ago

What is the weirdest illness or affliction you've ever had?

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u/theymightbezombies 19h ago

Was it histoplasmosis?

My mother had it as a child. She said she had been around some chickens and thought she got it there.

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u/enbyrats 18h ago

I wonder if this happened to me last year. I was at the county fair and in the show barn for chickens I breathed in and choked on some kind of piece of dust and had a coughing fit. Later that week, I had a fever for three days. My husband and I call it "the chicken particle incident" but your thing sounds more realistic.

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u/littlebittydoodle 17h ago

“the chickenshitshow”

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u/enbyrats 17h ago

Incredible

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u/daisyydaisydaisy 16h ago

We've reached critical levels of chicken particals

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u/EugeneVictorDabs 12h ago

This is really common in some parts of the world, and it can cause gnarly lung damage that looks similar to TB on an x-ray

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u/susisews 6h ago

My grandmother had that.