Well diseases can be cured.
Having high alchemy and restoration magic (but almost none of the other magics, as I use those for support only)
I find it somewhat dull, if I hardly ever use those other than for healing my normal health.

As said : in morrowind there were multiple types of illness. (blight based one's, normal one's, and some special once's) so you always kept a couple of healing pots for illness on you.
However in Oblivion... it is near impossible to get any illness. I have litterly tried to stand in the mids of a den of vampires, only healing myself over and over, having 5 of them bashing in on me... no illness.
Nor does any other monster give me any illness.. no skeleton, no troll, no bear no nothing.

In Morrowind one would get a normal disease as a highelve 1 in 80 fights (each of about 5 hits, so say 1 in 400 hits, ofcourse in that game you could SEE if a being was infected.. it would list "diseased whatever" in oblivion.. not so clear)
nevertheless it also made sence, for normal chars without this highelve boost, indeed 1 in 20 fights gave an illness, or 1 in 100 hits.

I must have been hit like 30000 times now (not counting the hits that were ranged, only the normal close combat ones)
but I still have not distracted even ONE disease..

How can this be?

For all clearety I do not want to become a vampire, all I want is to get sick now and than as it should be and as I'm used from morrowind.

Yup, that glitch makes female characters (and males I think too, but i'm not sure) into the default male character for whatever race is being played, aged to the max.

It's explained better on http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Oblivion:Vampirism#Bugs. Scroll down to the Bug section.



I have not a clue. Are you playing on console or PC? IF PC, do you have any mods? That could be a factor somehow.

No idea. Four of the races have 75% disease resistance but that would not explain the numbers you are talking about regarding normal diseases. The vampire disease does not even consider disease resistance so that can't be a factor. Nope, something about your game isn't working right.

I play on a PC (actually often on a laptop.. but thats a pc never the less)
as such I do often when playing do not close the game, but just close shut the laptop, (putting it on hybernation) only to open it the next day continueing my game.

I have noticed that some potions do not work all the time (wine and such when drank will not give the effect they should
this will ONLY reset when I shut down the game (completely) and restart it.. and load the last savegame..

could it be that same bug bugges up the illness part?
-> oh and should I get a message leftop of screen "you have distracted "name disease" or does it happen in silence.. without noticing?

the only 2 mods I use so far (first run of the game..) are the mod that upgrades quest award when you level. (so they will not be crappy only because you did that quest early on)
and recently the unofficial bug fix mod.

One of my characters got the disease and I guess I forgot or didn't see that I got it. When I turned it was in the middle of Anvil in the middle of the day. Was quite the surprise.

God, I just got the disease the other day in Crowhaven for the Arena quest and completely forgot about it... I remember waiting in Choroll when suddenly I got the message and was like NOOOOoooOOoOOOO!!! But so far I don't mind it, sure makes the RPing interesting.

Never even contracted the disease on my Breton Mage, my best character. I always kill them before they can even reach me.

Here's how my typical encounter with vampires goes:
1.Cast Detect Life.
2.Select AoF Fire Damage spell.
3.Cast the above mentioned spell.
4.Collect Vampire Dust.
5.???
6.Profit!

FIVE [censored] GRAND SOUL GEMS? WTF IS THIS?