I’ve had uterine cancer in the past, which makes a hysterectomy a matter of when, not if. I had some minor surgery for this issue in the past and had a bad reaction to it, so I’m not really looking forward to what recovery of the removal of an entire organ will be like
That I’ve inherited the dementia that my father and his father passed away with. I’m really hoping it’s attached to the Y chromosome, which would mean I’m safe.
I was having regular treatments that needed anesthesia and muscle relaxant (in that order). One of the times the muscle relaxant kicked in before the anesthesia and I was unable to breathe and also tell them I couldn’t breathe. I’m am terrified that could happen again
I already have bpd and bi polar. I’ve been clean from anything harmful to myself for over 2 years. I haven’t had an “episode” in a year and some months. I fear my next episode could be my last.
Lack of control while still being aware of what’s going on, followed by lack of control and not knowing what’s going on and being a burden to my family.
Having to be intubated/put on a ventilator. I watched a loved one have to do it twice within a few weeks and I watched them put a feeding tube in too. Traumatized, it looked torturous. I’d rather just check out
Cancer. Lost 3/4 grand parents in the last decade and an uncle who was in his 40s. I’m constantly worried I’ll find out I have terminal cancer before I see my sons grow up.
Dying from a painful cancer while mfs in the hospital are trying to save up on painkillers on those poor people. Oh yeah and postnatal care in my country, there is no way I’m going through that again
Getting something like cancer or dementia, not something quick that my family could recover financially from, something long and slow, that would drain us dry over years, lose the cars, the house, everything and then die in agony to leave my family in abject poverty.
Having a debilitating, life-threatening condition and having to choose between seeking whatever treatment might or might not be available resulting in my bankruptcy due to medical debt, or not treating it and dying in pain without basic patient care due to living in an end-stage, capitalistic, uncaring system that regards profit over people
My IUD failing and getting pregnant while living in Texas. Then having awful complications and dying because the doctors can’t save me because of the abortion laws
That I’ll get cancer. I smoked cigarettes for 45 years before I quit in 2021. Cancer runs in my family. My mother had a mastectomy for breast cancer . And my father died from stomach cancer. His father died from cancer too. And his brother had prostate cancer . I’m next in line. I’m really praying that it skips a generation
Brain aneurysm… just walking around my house and suddenly dead. Especially if my bf isn’t home at the time and I’m just left here for god knows how long with my kids.
Super common fear, but dying in surgery while under general anesthesia.
Some people probably think it would be a peaceful death, but the shit they inject you with that shuts off your brain in certain ways I fear would deprive me of a proper, meaningful dying experience, as weird as that sounds.
Idk if this counts or not but it’s what if I have some kind of mental condition that internally I’m completely unaware of but had my whole life, in my own mind I’m fully functional and think I’m living a normal life but in reality I’m a babbling idiot and I’ll never even know
Everytime something is wrong the doctors just say, it’s your autoimmune problems. I am afraid they will miss cancer or something bad because they just trivialize everything wrong as just my autoimmune problems.
Getting my father’s half of the genes when it comes to medical history. My mother and her family all grow to 90 and get simple medical problems, and my father and his brother and his mother all had retinal detachments, cataracts, basal cell carcinomas and various stage 3 cancers before the age of 60. I’m 43, so I guess we’ll know in 10-15 years or so.
Cancer. Ironically, stressing about it will contribute to it. I am trying to embrace that I will likely get it, and my goal is to hold off my initial diagnosis as long as I can.
Losing mobility/mental ability and being forced to rely on others to care for me. Im a highly independent person which was a result of trauma, and I was recently diagnosed with Lupus. I refuse to come to terms with the fact that my life will change, but honestly the exhaustion and brain fog is so bad some days I can barely understand how to cook a meal or do a basic chore, or remember the routines at my job, much less have the energy to do such things. Im only 28 and I’m so scared of how life will be for me when I get older.
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Needles
Somehow waking up during Surgery.
From what i’ve heard, it’s so painful and bad that it led to someone committing suicide 2 weeks after the surgery was performed.
Phantom pain is no joke
waking up mid surgery because the anesthesia wore off
I always have the fear my appendix is going to rupture
Bankruptcy
USA! USA! USA!
Epidural injection
Locked in syndrome
Getting diagnosed with Alzheimers/dementia. My late mother had it and it’s a horrible disease.
Getting some type of dementia.
Going blind which which I I am already
Bankruptcy
So much. My partner is a doctor so I hear grim stuff a lot
Getting seriously ill when I’m home alone with my kids.
My mom currently battling dementia, hard times for all involved
Living too long
Being diagnosed with ALS or some other disease where you die slowly and painfully
Me waking up knowing they cut of the wrong leg true story
get status epilepticus, and die alone in my room and no one notices
Pulmonary embolisms
ALS
General anesthesia (endotracheal).
Added situational fear.
Is becoming super rich and successful. And then almost immediately finding out I have terminal cancer.
Well.
Crap.
dying painfully
dying from too much radiation exposure.
Recurrence of stomach cancer
I’ve had uterine cancer in the past, which makes a hysterectomy a matter of when, not if. I had some minor surgery for this issue in the past and had a bad reaction to it, so I’m not really looking forward to what recovery of the removal of an entire organ will be like
Slow degeneration of abilities and cognition.
That I’ve inherited the dementia that my father and his father passed away with. I’m really hoping it’s attached to the Y chromosome, which would mean I’m safe.
Getting more boils. Mine always have MRSA and it is the absolute worst. I luckily haven’t gotten a bad one since a kid but still it was scarring.
Kidney failure, cancer, dementia. All of it.
After watching my dad go through it, cancer.
Being kept alive by machines in a hospital bed but having zero quality of life
My living will says that I’f I’m ever in this sitaution, treat it as a DNR and remove me from all life support.
Dying slowly. Rather die quickly
The bill.
Zombie Apocalypse
Severe dementia
I was having regular treatments that needed anesthesia and muscle relaxant (in that order). One of the times the muscle relaxant kicked in before the anesthesia and I was unable to breathe and also tell them I couldn’t breathe. I’m am terrified that could happen again
I already have bpd and bi polar. I’ve been clean from anything harmful to myself for over 2 years. I haven’t had an “episode” in a year and some months. I fear my next episode could be my last.
getting hit by a car while cycling
Lack of control while still being aware of what’s going on, followed by lack of control and not knowing what’s going on and being a burden to my family.
Having to be intubated/put on a ventilator. I watched a loved one have to do it twice within a few weeks and I watched them put a feeding tube in too. Traumatized, it looked torturous. I’d rather just check out
That I have cancer but don’t know it and won’t until it’s way too late to do anything about it.
SUDEP
Maha
Everything. I’m a hypochondriac, and I constantly think every little symptom I have is some horrible disease.
Cancer or dementia, for numerous reasons
Cancer. Lost 3/4 grand parents in the last decade and an uncle who was in his 40s. I’m constantly worried I’ll find out I have terminal cancer before I see my sons grow up.
Being pregnant and not having access to a safe and legal abortion.
Dying from a painful cancer while mfs in the hospital are trying to save up on painkillers on those poor people. Oh yeah and postnatal care in my country, there is no way I’m going through that again
Aneurism
Dreading dementia, early onset especially terrible; you might be physically quite healthy for years but in a real sense ‘you’ are gone,
Dying in a hospital
Getting something like cancer or dementia, not something quick that my family could recover financially from, something long and slow, that would drain us dry over years, lose the cars, the house, everything and then die in agony to leave my family in abject poverty.
locked in syndrome
Rabies
Right now. That I have breast cancer. I can’t afford the biopsy, let alone surgery. But good to know the mass is there, I guess.
Choking while alone somewhere with nobody to help.
Having broken bones again
Finding out I have some death sentence cancer that would have been prevented if our medical system supported more preventative care.
Having a debilitating, life-threatening condition and having to choose between seeking whatever treatment might or might not be available resulting in my bankruptcy due to medical debt, or not treating it and dying in pain without basic patient care due to living in an end-stage, capitalistic, uncaring system that regards profit over people
Parkinson’s.
I watched two grandparents die from that. If I ever get diagnosed, I’m taking an early exit via MAID.
Fuck that noise.
That my fatigue just keeps getting worse and I become totally unable to function. That would suck.
that something terrible will happen or i’ll die suddenly because my doctor refuses to believe anything is wrong with me.
My IUD failing and getting pregnant while living in Texas. Then having awful complications and dying because the doctors can’t save me because of the abortion laws
Death under anesthesia
Losing both thumbs.
Death
General everyday medical fear? Shingles as bad as my grandfather had it. Awful. No thank you. Rare medical fear? Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease.
Debt
ALS. I’ve heard it’s pretty awful and I hope I never develop it.
That I’ll get cancer. I smoked cigarettes for 45 years before I quit in 2021. Cancer runs in my family. My mother had a mastectomy for breast cancer . And my father died from stomach cancer. His father died from cancer too. And his brother had prostate cancer . I’m next in line. I’m really praying that it skips a generation
Brain aneurysm… just walking around my house and suddenly dead. Especially if my bf isn’t home at the time and I’m just left here for god knows how long with my kids.
Aneurism or stroke while driving
As a HCP, mental illness.
Colostomy.
A teratoma
Choking and living alone.
A painful.
Burning alive, for example
Waking up mid-surgery because the anesthesia didn’t work, but you can’t move or speak. Just trapped, feeling everything.
The doctors not being able to treat my schizophrenia
As a US citizen… Going bankrupt and losing my home to medical bills.
Living it. Cancer. Now the biggest fear is mutation, resistance to treatment, relapse, secondary cancer. The list goes on.
Getting locked in syndrome.
Sepsis, or having to get any kind of central line because of the risks of sepsis
Super common fear, but dying in surgery while under general anesthesia.
Some people probably think it would be a peaceful death, but the shit they inject you with that shuts off your brain in certain ways I fear would deprive me of a proper, meaningful dying experience, as weird as that sounds.
Dying from an epileptic seizure.
Rabies
Idk if this counts or not but it’s what if I have some kind of mental condition that internally I’m completely unaware of but had my whole life, in my own mind I’m fully functional and think I’m living a normal life but in reality I’m a babbling idiot and I’ll never even know
Prions
Mystery disease. Debilitating and painful but no one can figure out what it is.
ALS/Lou Gherig’s disease. Sounds so much worse to me than Alzheimer’s, kind of the opposite
My fear is that I’ll die a slow death, being a drain on everyone that’s ever loved me.
Everytime something is wrong the doctors just say, it’s your autoimmune problems. I am afraid they will miss cancer or something bad because they just trivialize everything wrong as just my autoimmune problems.
Living too long. I’d be cool, God willing, to stay here until 80’s maybe early 90’s(ish). But longer seems too long and freaks me out a little.
Anesthesia awareness scares the hell outta me
Getting my father’s half of the genes when it comes to medical history. My mother and her family all grow to 90 and get simple medical problems, and my father and his brother and his mother all had retinal detachments, cataracts, basal cell carcinomas and various stage 3 cancers before the age of 60. I’m 43, so I guess we’ll know in 10-15 years or so.
Rabies. Absolutely rabies
Needles.
Cancer. Ironically, stressing about it will contribute to it. I am trying to embrace that I will likely get it, and my goal is to hold off my initial diagnosis as long as I can.
Losing mobility/mental ability and being forced to rely on others to care for me. Im a highly independent person which was a result of trauma, and I was recently diagnosed with Lupus. I refuse to come to terms with the fact that my life will change, but honestly the exhaustion and brain fog is so bad some days I can barely understand how to cook a meal or do a basic chore, or remember the routines at my job, much less have the energy to do such things. Im only 28 and I’m so scared of how life will be for me when I get older.
Surviving to be a burden, or have a financial one I can’t handle.