If you are tall, skinny, have long fingers, your spine curves a bit, one side of your chest sticks out or is indented, have had weird sensations or pain/stress near or around your heart, you just might have Marfan. Even if you're just tall, skinny and have long fingers.

This is no joke. I myself exhibit each and every physical symptom. Thanks to having CNN on the tube in the background, and Paula Zahn's show being on, I now know this exists.

Needless to say, I will be seeing a doctor VERY soon.
(as soon as I can afford it. )

Visit [url]www.marfan.org[/url] for more info. And see a doctor.

Vague description, generic symptoms. Doesn't really sound like a real "disease" to me.

OMG! TEH WORLDZ BASS PLAYARZ ARE DOOMED!

hmm.. that fits me pretty well.

Am I gonna die?

Yes. Bye Sarn.

How much does it cost to get a check-up?

Salad Fingers?

Kirby, I'm afraid you don't have Marfan..but you do have Nafram. You're going to die in seven days.

OH NOES, WHAT ABOUT GEB

Kirby has kickyourass syndrome

Whoo!

[QUOTE=Glyde Bane]Kirby has kickyourass syndrome :([/QUOTE]
Thank God this counters Nafram.

I've had all of those and I see a doctor regularly. Obviously since he's told me nothing he's a quack and I should call up GenericExpensiveMedicineCorp, manufacturer of ExpensiveMarfanRemedy, to find me a doctor that will perscribe me ExpensiveMarfanRemedy!

Seriously though. Don't diagnose yourself, let your doctor do his/her job.

If you can't afford a doctor*, then you should consider reworking your budget, or making one altogether. Prioritize your spending. My parents have a bit of money always set aside in the event of an emergency if they need it.

* - Not that I have any clue at all how much a visit costs.

Or at least a disease that's vague enough to perscribe all tall, skinny, long fingered people expensive medication for a disease they probably don't have.

I'm tall, skinny, and have small hands. (Woman sized, no joke.)

I used to constantly experience chest pains, for no reason.

We never did figure that one out.

But this sounds like a bunch of BS.

Kind of like telling a 4 year old they have a hyperactivity disorder and need to be medicated.

BS.

seems like a standard to me. quit freaking out.

They get more specific on their website. The more specific descriptions don't apply to me (certainly not as much as the vague and broad ones do).

Shush, you.

When I saw the topic, I thought this was going to be pictures of Voldemort from the next Harry Potter movie.

-:(

Nope, sorry, this is a real and not cool disease. I am tall, skinny, and have long fingers, and I've had a couple doctors do a few tests to check....I don't have it, apparently, which is very good!

I'm glad Marfan's Disease has gotten some recognition over the past few years.

Gee, I hope I don't have this disease. Tourette's Syndrome is bad enough.

beware of hypochondria. A sickness I am afraid you are afflicted with.

God, some of you take things out of context. I haven't seen a single person say "OMGZ, I HAV0RZ THIS!!1!111", but merely wondering if they do.

Marfan is serious stuff. Just because pharmaceutical companies have a stranglehold on just about everything medical, doesn't mean a disease is fake.

Marfan is real, but HR *did* post about it like a hypochondriac would.

Should like a load of BS personally.

Oh, and the fact that claim it's hereditary I'm sure is design just to freak people out who have a generally talk and skinny family.

That or it's there to make short fatties feel better.

We all will, if we wait long enough.

Speak for yourself. I plan to live forever!

Muhahahahahahaha!

Oh...hello...

well uhh, good luck with that.

Living off magnetic rings and driving magnet powered cars?

No, a hypochondriac would have said "Holy crap, I know I have Marfan, I'm going to tell my Dr right now!" :p

(Not directed towards Emon, but for everyone)
Let's say you exhibit the symptoms of AIDS, but never heard of it before. You suddenly got wind of it, so naturally you're going to wonder whether or not you have it, and would want to get tested. Being arrogant in the face of possibly having something life threatening doesn't make you cool. I don't think anyone in this thread wants to believe Marfan is affecting their body, I sure don't. If anything, I'd be denying to myself that I have it, if I did. I merely designed my original post to try and grab some attention to the subject at hand.

And I have to correct myself, Marfan is not a disease, rather, it is a syndrome. (A group of symptoms that collectively indicate or characterize a disease, psychological disorder, or other abnormal condition.)

And wtf is with some of you people thinking Marfan is some sort of ****ing conspiracy or made up to get money out of people? There's many effects on the body that Marfan can have without someone knowing it. I'm surprised I haven't heard a comment like "It's probably caused by all the hormones they put in milk to make us grow taller."

My father suffers from that. He's always get worried about his blood pressure and gives me constant updates about it, along with other illnesses. It gets very annoying after a while.

HR, I always suspected you were a freak. :p

I've always expected he's Voldemort.

-My family is so close, yet so far from fiting the description. Tall, yeah. Long fingers? Yep. Skinny? Heh heh, no.

Because he believes in Magic?

And he killed my parents.

-and because he's voldemort

No, because I'm evil, duh.

I have a friend with it, and his sister has it much worse then he does. Marfan's isn't just a little skinny and tall, we're talking about very very skinny guys often over 6½ feet, with amazingly slender long fingers and limbs and being strangely flexy/double-jointed. He doesn't have particularly big parents but last time I saw him a few years ago he was over 6'6. His sister must have been around my own height at 6'4.