Obviously, to keep the topic "sexy", conditions that really fuck people up are of interest. But above all we are interested in extremely rare-yet-identifiable conditions, which might not even negatively impact a patient's life to a significant degree.
The type of thing for which there are fewer than 1,000 patients in the world at any given time.
In these hyper-rare cases, how can science and/or medicine be legitimately performed? You're dealing with a small sample size, which makes things harder.
I don't remember the name of it, but there was some condition that caused your whole body to become bone over time.
Thomas Wright
bonitis?
Jaxon Lee
Fibrodysplasia Ossificans Progressiva
In terms of rare conditions this has to be up there. Progeria, Epidermodysplasia Verruciformis, Cotards Delusion, Alstrom syndrome and Harlequin ichthyosis are to name just a few.
Joseph Merrick (OP pic) is a bit of a weird case since there is no consensus on what he suffered from, most likely Proteus syndrome and perhaps a form of neurofibromatosis: two very rare diseases in themselves, making him possibly the least lucky person in medical history.
Camden Long
Myostatin-Related Muscle Hypertrophy results in kids with super-huge muscles.
John Gutierrez
Fatal familial insomnia has been diagnosed in something like 100 people in history, and the gene is only even in between 20-40 families.
Basically one day in your 40s you wake up and are physically incapable of sleeping again until you die from exhaustion.
Scary shit.
Brody Walker
>tfw insomniatic and have problems sleeping daily
I am now scared.
James Richardson
>What are some of the rarest medical conditions?
I bet Google has the answer!
>...
>In these hyper-rare cases, how can science and/or medicine be legitimately performed? You're dealing with a small sample size, which makes things harder.
Too broad of a question without first knowing what ailments in particular the 'patient' may be suffering from. Usually you'd observe, take into account molecular arrangements, then apply things which might reverse the mutations and the mutations' effects. I'm a personal advocate of the possibility that there might be electromagnetic wavelengths capable of destroying certain defects.
Levi Smith
If you were at an actually significant risk you'd have known about it long ago.
Dominic Thompson
If neither of your parents has it then you're safe. But you should seek help for your insomnia anyway.
Julian Jones
>What are some of the rarest medical conditions? You should watch House MD. That's the main pull of the show, diagnosing rare medical conditions.
CIPA - congenital insensitivity to pain with anhidrosis Split-Brain Syndrome
Sebastian Perez
Reminder that it's never lupus.
Lucas Smith
>yfw chemical sedation actually speeds up the degeneration of the brain and makes you die faster
Levi Watson
delete this
Carson James
Diphalia
Nicholas Peterson
Why do humans have the most number or most painful diseases?
Is it because our bodies are weaker than a wild animal's?
Is it because our nervous system is incredibly complex making it more prone to these diseases?
Daniel Roberts
probably just several biases
if an animal is sick in the wild it's very unlikely that we'll notice; we don't give physicals to every wild animal
animals in the wild are also very likely to quickly die if they're handicapped, so there's not a big window of time to see them in the first place not so with 21st century humans
Aiden Long
I have an odd condition that I gotten 2 years ago and have no idea what it is anyone want to hear it ?
Angel Lopez
Progressive incurable rectal ulcer, isn't it?
Nathaniel Adams
Intersex is pretty interesting desu
You can literally have two gonads that are half testicle half ovary each
Aiden Barnes
Most interesting rare conditions for me are Progeria and Split-Brain, as a few people highlighted.
This is something I wasn't aware of, and it's definitely scary af but very interesting too.
Brandon Thomas
>I bet Google has the answer! Maybe he wants to have a conversation about it?
Henry Parker
There's a disease that either one person or two sisters have. I think it's sisters, perhaps in Wales, but I can't can't find anything.
holy fug that is the worst luck i think i've ever seen
>objectively living in the future >hundreds of years of recorded history >about 150 years of recorded medical history >out of almost 8 billion people, only you and your sister get a completely new disease that will probably kill both of you >doctors have no fucking clue what to do
i'm scared
Luis Sullivan
There's a genetic condition in which all of your internal organs are mirrored. Like, your heart is on your right side, your liver on the left, and so on.
Trying to think if the trachial deviation makes it so an EMT might treat pericardial tamponade/collapsed lung wrong
Kevin Gray
Situs Inversus isn't that rare, I even personally got to treat such a person.
Aaron Thomas
Can confirm. I went to highschool with a girl who found out she was mirrored during a routine chest x-ray.
William Bailey
I was gonna post this one you fuck.
Adrian Lewis
Glycogen storage disease type 15 , only one patient to date. Not interesting but rare.
Elijah Foster
Double penis.
Owen Perez
Triple penis.
Christopher Rivera
was it ever sarcoidosis?
Carson Morris
Kuru present in Papa New Guinea is pretty interesting. You start to laugh incontrollably as you lose muscle control and then die. Don't eat your dead.
Another rare disease is cyclopia. It's a mutation in the sonic hedgehog gene that yields only one center eye in the fetus. This mutation leads to abortion of the fetus.
