getting sick 

"being sick has made me think about a lot of things, like what its like to breathe" probably the truest words i have ever heard

feel better lil stinker man :)

I love hearing him talk about not knowing why he’s so restless after the watching his video on ADHD, which he uploaded directly after this one.

The way you illustrate coughing is art. Art that reflects reality.

*Despite your sickness, the cough every couple minutes reminding us that your sick makes it more funny*

"Thousands of thousands upon dollars" We all hope you feel better soon Mr. Sandwich

I watched this video INTENSLY once your symptoms started matching up with mine. Then all the doctor visits matched to a T. Your MRI came back the same as mine (I also remarked to my doctor how I thought my brain was a little more than "unremarkable") and I got a little excited. I thought you were finally going to reveal a why I had the tingling (and how you found out) that I also spent thousands of dollars on doctors, tests, and physical therapy. NOPE, you never found out, I never did either, and you probably sometimes wonder if it'll ever come back and you have to start the process again. I like your videos tho, you're rad. Edit: It's June now, about 5 months since I originally saw this video, and about 4 months since I had onset of tachycardia and upper extremity paresthesia, along with the return of the symptoms I originally commented about. After more thousands of dollars for cardiologists, nerve conduction studies, ect... again no idea. I did go to a sports doc who recommended me trying physical therapy again, and it turns out I have thoracic outlet syndrome affecting my left arm. So when I get into certain positions the blood flow is completely cut off to my left arm. This test was super easy, physical therapist took my left wrist pulse, had me look to the right, pulse stopped. So all in all, my fight continues, but I have at least one answer for some of the numbness and tingling. Thanks to everyone else for their support and suggestions.

I'm also an artist and I too experienced tingling sensations in my arms at one point in my career. It might not be yours but in my case it was because since I would draw so much, my posture would suffer from it, especially my cervical, which connects a lot of nerves through your arms. The cervical stress was therefore stressing and pinching my arm nerves! I actually got rid of it through a chiropractor and exercising pilates!

i have a REALLY similar story! I was in the hospital for a week with morphine shots twice/day to ease the constant CHRONIC pain that no doctor could figure out. They eventually just sent me home because they had no idea what was wrong. Then one day it just stopped??

Even when sick, he manages to make the most Q U A L I T Y videos, get better soon buddy!

Watching this while being sick myself is comforting. I also think about what it’s like to breathe

3:12 I don't know why, I haven't looked into why I'm so restless The next video: I HAVE ADHD Ah yes that makes sense

Being sick as an adult really makes me constantly ask “Holy shit am I dying? I’m not ready to die!!!” And then a few days later I’m perfectly fine.

I love how he animates the persistent coughs. Great animation, though I hope you've long since recovered!

I literally went through the same thing 2 years ago. They never figured out what was wrong with me either.

This sounds like the experience of most chronically ill people I've known (including myself) except the symptoms don't go away and we are left to suffer for years. Your frustrations with insurance companies are spot-on and this video was painfully relatable for me in many ways. Trying to get proper treatment is such a struggle.

I had something very similar to this, but I didn't have to go through nearly that many hurdles before one doctor was like, "when was the last time you drank water?" and then I learned that drinking water is a really good way of keeping your appendages from vibrating

"I remember when getting sick was awesome" Why does that quote make so much sense

I'm so happy, despite the fact he's sick he still has such a cheerful kind voice still, a wholesome being :)

I love how despite his sickness, the emotion in this video still gives off the same energy. Stay strong buddy :D

one of the few youtubers who actually sound sick when they say they are sick

As an 11 year old, i both like and hate getting sick. i Am homeschooled, so sick=no school. I get to stay tucked in bed all day, (sometimes) watch tv, its fun. But the cons are plugged nostrils, coughing, etc.

4:14 The animation here feels so delightfully weird, it's too smooth after the jitteriness of the previous two bits, and the stillness of the head, I love it

as someone with several chronic issues this literally spoke to my soul

The sickest I ever was when I got covid a year and a half ago. I didn't get the more common symptoms, like I didn't lose smell/taste. But I was really feverish, and tired. I spent most of the week just sleeping.

Watching this while sick is truly an experience. Thank you for this wonderful vid

I hope his wallet recovered. Oh and him too. This channel is the definition of the perfect vibe

A sick friend just broke my year long streak of wellness. If anyone else here is under the weather, I hope you feel better soon! And you too Andy

This is what almost always happens when I go to doctors and vets. "What's the problem?" "I'm/my cat's having these symptoms." "We don't know. Wanna try the diagnostic thing?" "Okay. Here's hundreds of dollars." "It didn't tell us anything. We don't know." I still don't know anything.

I’ve had something a little similar happen, at least in terms of doctors watching me suffer and not really knowing how to help. It was the first day of 2022, and I woke up at 4 am violently throwing up, fell asleep, 6 am again, 8 am, and every so often throughout the day for a week straight. I couldn’t eat anything without throwing up, and I basically lived on Gatorade. The doctors squished my stomach but didn’t find anything weird, I didn’t have a fever, and I just didn’t have any other symptoms so they were just like “🤷‍♀️”

Man you got really lucky ngl. My gf had the same symptoms but they quickly got worse. It was something called GB syndrome, in which your immune system attacks your nerves and paralyse you. Hopefully, we got to know it in time and she was able to safely come out of it and make a full recovery!

As someone that works in a hospital I can tell you right now that it's like crossing the entire Pacific Ocean to get preauthorization numbers from insurance companies, and the facility that ordered it, for MRIs and CT scans. I stg we go through like 20 different people just for them to tell us a quick little 8 digit (tbh idk how long it is. they vary haha..) "code." Besides that, I hope you're doing well and get better soon! Your videos make my year! I love them! ❤

A fitting time to watch this while I'm going through a cold lol. Practically everyone at my job's been getting sick tho. 😔

OMG! He looked so cute when he was melting. 3:55-4:04 I lol'd at his reaction and his facial expression, plus I loved the little dance that his brain did.

Man, I hope you get better soon

I can't stress enough how in love with your art style I am. It's so simple and charismatic. All the faces are so expressive and -terryfyin- adorable. I could stare at this little funky man for hours. Anyway, thanks for a great video as always, hope you will feel better soon)

My dad said that when he was in college he took part in this "tuck in" service. It's basically where he and some other people are hired to just come to your dorm and tuck you in :)

0:53 we have that here, its called "home care" or something, you pay a doctor or a random person to come over and check on you. Its mostly for old people or people living alone, but there's nothing stopping anyone doing it.

Being too stressed can have otherwise unexplainable physical symptoms. I truly hope no one has to go through what I did, it totally sucked.

It’s sucks to be sick. Ever since I got to college I have been constantly sick. I hate everything right now. But I hope you get to that sunny pasture of feeling great.

Rubbing the feet as a cricket hits home 😂

I have experienced the same thing, usually it’s from lack of movement cause not moving enough causes less blood to flow to your limbs causing that tingling feeling.

I sit and watch this as I'm also currently sick and forgetting what it's like to be able to breathe normally. Get better soon!

3:54 "unremarkable" just means everything is normal and there's nothing worrying or unusual to report 👍

watching this while having volcanic burning 💩 makes me feel *seen and heard.*

I am glad you were not found to have something seriously wrong. We love you, Little Icecreamsandwich. Great video, as always. Thanks for the happiness you spread.

The fact that this experience is so common in American health care is genuinely terrifying like why are you a doctor if you can't diagnose people, and why are you an insurance company if you aren't going to cover health issues

I had similar symptoms, it turned out to be like... the super early start to nerve death. I was just Vitamin B deficient XD on supplements the tingling went away!

"Unremarkable" is the equivalent of saying "Well, this is different, but everybody is different so its more than likely fine. After all, there are no new or anomalous things here. It'll be fiiiiine."

I’ve been sick and this was the exact thing I needed. Thank you

3:03 pov: the adhd

Same story here. Uncontrollable muscle spasms for months, brain MRIs and then finally the symptoms just went away on their own with no diagnosis.

3:03 foreshadowing ADHD video

When I was eighteen I got super sick and nobody could really figure out what it was. I had to get a colonoscopy and an MRI (those suck so much. I'm glad you got through it), and I just barely got over a cold, so I feel this video so much. Hope you (and all who are also under the weather) feel better!!

The guy still manages to make a video even when he’s sick, you’re so awesome dude

This is the only animation content creator that actually makes me laugh

Yeah I'm cosy.. *Explosive cough* Literally so relatable

this isn’t a sickness, this is a blessing from Papa Nurgle!

the whole hospital experience and the emotions even down to the results - i felt the EXACT same way because I i also had to get MRIs and a bunch of shit done (and spent 12 days in hospital) and did they find out what was wrong with me? NO. so i left without answers but a whole bunch of health related anxiety that will follow me for the years to come :D

i love the sound effect when someone pats someone else

"Rubbing my feet together like a little cricket," that one got me. Because i do that same. But the pictures he paints are perfect lmfao

The intense feeling of 'oh shit you do that too?!' when you explained your stimming/fidgeting was mind melting. Anytime I tell someone I rub my feet like a cricket in bed they look at me like I am a madwoman! I chatted with both a therapist and a doctor about it and it seems its just a way to let out excess energy or anxiety in a less interruptive way - think leg bouncing or such. A lot of people I have talked to who have either ADHD or ASD have similar fidgety movements that help them.

Looks like I'm not the only one watching this while sick. Hope y'all get feeling better!

This may be months late, but oftentimes GBS is a condition that can cause tingling in the arms, legs, and upper body. It can go away on its own, though some cases can become extreme and result in paralysis. Just a note from a bio student (:

I agree with this service. I needed this service the past 2 weeks

Man, we totally understand. Being sick is always a rough trip, well we're here to comfort you. Get well soon, friend! ❤

This will definitely get buried but this has been one of the most difficult years of my life. Ive lost 4 people this year, 2 to suicide and 2 to health issues and my mental health has been the worst its ever been and watching your videos has been helping me so so so so much it makes everyday just a bit more bearable and i am just so thankful. So incredibly thankful. I hope you recovered well from being sick :c

i had appendicitis, THE DAY AFTER I WATCH THAT HOSPITAL VIDEO, but if i didn’t watch it, i would’ve known about it, so you basically saved my life, thank you ics💚

As soon as I heard you mention limbs tingling, I. thought of my boyfriend. It happened to him and he was totally paralyzed in three days. Couldn't move anything but his eyes, couldn't talk. He was eventually unconscious for a couple weeks. Turned out it was Guillain-Barre Syndrome. I'm posting it here, just to spread awareness, because even though we took him to one of the best neurological hospitals in the US, it still took them forever to diagnose it, and we were unsure the entire time. He made a full recovery (more than 90% of people who get it do) and is doing awesome now. Ps subscribed, loved your videos on adhd, on point. Lol.

kinda freaked out by the fact that the exact same thing happened to me a few months ago (minus the living hell that is american health insurance) weird tingling in arm, doctor doesn't know why, neurologist doesn't know why, brain and spine MRI come back normal, and then it got better for a while

I literally had a cold when this came out and I feel like this video was made for me. Edit: Turns out there are a lot of people who were coincidentally sick when this video came out, so here's some tea and biscuits! ☕🍪

Doctors are amazing man. The human body (and living things in general) are so chronically noncompliant with the methods we use to try to diagnose and treat problems. We do countless studies that involve multiple disciplines running countless tests to figure out why something is happening and how we can treat it, and then some random person's body can just go "Not feeling like it today" and just not respond to a treatment that works for the vast majority of people.

The adhd video make so much sense now

3:33 Gotta love the U.S Healthcare System: Where profit > actually saving and helping people.

Yeah I’m sick right now too. It absolutely sucks. To anyone sick right now, hoping you get better very very soon!

Haha, the ''green thumb'' mistake at 2:22 was comedy gold and a cute slip up-

I have decided that I shall watch this every time I am sick. Green thumb is now my new favorite phrase.

As someone with Fibromyalgia and having to do this scan several times, I feel ya. Glad you got better for sure!

The service you described at 0:42 does in fact exist! It's called having good friends

it feels really awesome to watch videos with white background in classic invert mode

Being sick is like a dangerous game of "Can I avoid paying anything to avoid death by toughing this out and taking over the counter meds, or should I put myself in thousands of dollars of debt to ultimately discover it's nothing?" If we had universal healthcare, this decision of "Do I let myself potentially die because I'm poor,?" can end.

Feel better soon, dude. I've been dancing on the edge of catching a cold for like, two freakin' weeks.

I've been recovering from a flu myself. Been sick all week. Everyone's been getting sick recently. Hope you feel better.

Ice Cream Sandwich has the cutest lil animations ever. I loved the brain dancing! haha

Its kinda scary how many people have had this exact thing happen to them recently, including me around the same time as this videos release. My legs were feeling tingly and numb like I had just been sitting on them all day. Nothing painful luckily. Everything went EXACTLY the same. "I dunno what it is" "i dunno what it is" brain people "we dunno what it is". Then one day about 2 weeks later I was fine.

This cannot be any better timing. I don’t know what’s going on, but there has been a cold front coming in and everyone is getting sick. Literally half my class has been absent. Lots of love from Texas! ❤ Edit: I got sick. It’s sucks and I had to go the doctor to get a prescription. Tested negative for COVID and flu.

Moral of the story is “insurance companies are just Evil incarnate” 🥰

I hope you're better now, since it's been a month since this video was released! I relate to that but in a different way. Recently (more like for the past several months), I've had chronic back pain. I'll spare you the details of the symptoms, but the main thing is that if I sit down, bend down, or crouch for too long, it could flare up in agonizing pain (especially occurred when I was crouching). So I was told by the doctor it was probably a sprained muscle, and it has been getting a bit better, but I still have residual effects. It hasn't flared up in a while so I'm thinking it might be getting better? But I'm not sure. Some days it hurts more than others. But yeah. Sometimes time is the best care. But still, having checked the doctor is definitely better than not checking with them. For all we knew, it could've been damaged nerves or some other super bad thing like a slipped disk (for those who don't know, it's a spine thing but basically it's when your spinal bones no longer have a cushion between them and now are grinding against each other). I'm just glad that it was likely neither. Anyways, sorry for the ramble. I hope everyone stays safe and healthy!

I love when he deflates all the time

It's always a good day when Ice cream sandwich uploads.

When this was uploaded I felt completely fine, now 15 hours later finally getting a chance to watch it and I'm half dead from a quick acting cold

"Being sick has made me think about a lot of things--like what's it's like to breathe." Absolute *mood.*

I’ve been through a similar thing a few years ago. I had to do a variety of scans and procedures to find out what’s wrong with my stomach… which we couldn’t really find out, if I remember correctly? But at least the symptoms eventually went away. Also, of all the medical “tortures” I’ve been through in my life… having to drink a gallon of that pre-colonoscopy medicine was the WORST thing I ever had to go through! (I still remember the fruity seawater taste! It’s gross!)

i love when i relate to the things he does and has to go through

I hope you feel (a lot) better soon. Being sick is never fun. Your story-telling and animations are still as good and funny as ever

I love the way he says "PEASANT" 1:46

The reason why web diagnosis always says it's the worst case scenario is because there's only so many symptoms that diseases and conditions can have, so there tends to be a lot of overlap. "Oh you have a cough? That could be a million different things, here's the most severe ones"

I personally went through the exact same process, although my symptoms were mainly headaches. And I don't just mean regular headache, it was like somebody was hammering nails into my head. Or like having a really tight band around head... Haven't gotten rid of it completely, but I got pretty much used to it...

0:55 is hillarious

Bro I just got sick these past 4 days. I used to love being sick, it used to be so chill, now I still gotta do work even if I'm sick. Also I respect you a bunch for recording/animating this video while being sick!