So I've been having some wonky health stuff lately and it would be a while before I could see a doctor (I've since seen a doctor, all my tests came back fine, nothing seems to be wrong, and the thing I went in for has actually since resolved itself) so I asked a friend who I thought might know something because they have a health problem impacting the same region of the body I figured may be vaguely related or at least they'd be able to point in the right direction. I'm not comfortable explaining exactly what was up, but it's like if you're having issues with weird leg and foot pain that feels like pins and needles and you know your friend has diabetic neuropathy, even if you're not diabetic, you may ask them about neuropathy because neuropathy is nerve damage often in the hands and feet so it's vaguely related. So I asked my friend and they said my issue sounds like the beginnings of them being diagnosed with a certain condition, and I replied along the lines of "Thank you for your help, but I hope it's not that" because it's an incurable condition that from what I understand will continue to get worse and is also supposed to be pretty painful. My friend got super offended and started saying stuff like "You don't want to be like me? Is it that bad to be like me you'd say that to my face?"

I don't get it. 

To use another example but a real one this time, I have [trigeminal neuralgia]. If a friend described symptoms to me that sounded like TN, I'd not at all be offended if they said they don't want to have TN like I do, even if they said it to my face. It's totally normal to not want to have TN. In fact, if you want to have TN, there's probably something very very wrong with you. I totally understand not wanting to be like me in that I have TN. I don't want to have it either. 

This could just be an issue of two people thinking very differently, but if it's not meant with any sort of "I think people with X condition are lesser or inherently have a worse quality of life without me knowing what it's like to have X," I don't see the issue of stating in a conversation where it's relevant that you hope whatever you're experiencing isn't X. It's different to out of the blue say to someone you know has cancer or something that you're glad you don't currently have cancer like they do, for example. But this was relevant to our conversation, relevant to something I was experiencing related to my health, and I think it wasn't said in a rude way. 

They've not really spoken to me since the issue resolved and I got the news all my labs were fine.

AITA for how I responded to my friend? 