14. Ebola Virus

With the largest outbreak to date just having ended in March of 2016 after nearly three years of people panicking anytime they came down with a cold, the Ebola Virus is still around, and if a person catches it, they had better pray a doctor identifies it as such, or they can look forward to a couple weeks of complete agony before finally dying. The onset is flu-like, with a fever and general weakness. Within just a few days of the appearance of symptoms, however, one can expect to experience grievous muscle, abdominal, and joint pain, followed by vomiting, diarrhea, and internal bleeding. If death hasn’t already occurred as a result of massive dehydration, next comes the chest pain, shortness of breath, rashes, swelling, and confusion. If left untreated, almost 100% of victims perish, and a person’s best odds for survival are in the virus being identified in its earliest stages due to there not currently being any FDA- or DEA-approved treatments available. Managing the symptoms is the only thing that can be done.

13. Dercum’s Disease

Try to imagine that within any and all of the extra fat you have on your body, exists hundreds of differently-sized fatty tumors, each of which not only presses against nerve endings but are extremely painful to the touch. Dercum’s Disease is essentially a condition where more tumors appear over time, gradually causing more and more pain, and more still, the larger they grow. Yet another with no definitive cause, theories include trauma, mechanical pressure on the nerves, and nervous system malfunction. Managing the symptoms is the only way to get through it, and while surgery and pain medication often provide temporary relief, regrowth of tumors and tolerance to pain medication usually develops. Because each tumor is so sensitive to the touch, patients typically suffer day in and day out, struggling simply to wear clothing, bathe themselves, and even sleep.

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