I would love to hear exactly what happened from that doctor but i can imagine it went something like yea so medical school said i should probably go to a hospital for a possible (insert here) doctor hears this MF GET IN THE GOD DAMN AMBULANCE NOW person nah ill be fine doc BITCH YOU WILL GO tbh medical school is probably the best place to get told something and if you deny it then yeah any doctor or nurse will drag you to a actual hospital as fast as posible depending on what it is since if med school says it then they know it's gonna be close or spot on even better then what the hospitals can do because all the learning material is right there
I was on the weight loss program from hell(aka VIOLENTLY puking my guts up to stomach acid, throwing THAT up, then for shits and gigs dry heaving for hours on end!) dad took me to hospital I walked into the ER (dad had to park the car) the security guard and every nurse that saw me went WHITE! They IMMEDIATELY took me to get my vitals which were I was 85.7 lbs [~39 kg] SUPER LOW heart rate and super high blood pressure. Long story short, it was stage four brain cancer. I am almost NINE YEARS in remission (my remission date is November 24)
Critical care nurse here. Admitted a 33 year female to ICU with severe sepsis. BP low, has two IVs and a vasopressor to increase her BP. Temp 105. I told the hospitalist to not give her the prescribed antibiotic until a malaria test was done. Now, we’re in Chicago. He said that’s stupid, why would he order that? I said gut feeling because she’s just returned home after a month in India and I happened to know it was the rainy season when malaria goes up because of mosquitoes in droves. We made a bet. I’d pay him $20 if I was wrong and he’d make a public apology and buy pizza if I was right. Couple hours later he comes up and asks for everyone. He then makes a grudging apology and orders pizza. The reason I was so adamant is the particular antibiotic will kill the patient if given during a malarial flair. We started her on hydroxychloroquine and she was much better within 24 hours. Malaria is a parasite that uses blood cells to reproduce. When they burst to let the larvae out, the person gets very ill. Giving a drug to kill the parasite is the only treatment, along with fluids because the fever is high. Me, this time I’m the patient and not smart. Halloween night, developed sudden very severe epigastric pain, right under my sternum, going to the middle of my back. Instead of going to the ER right away, I waited 24 hours and almost couldn’t move to get downstairs. Pain still the worst I’ve had. Lab work shows severe sepsis, which is systemic infection. They slam IVs in, give me pain medicine, then I go to CT. Couldn’t unbend my legs because the pain was so bad. Turns out belly full of pus. I go to have stents put in my bile duct to drain some pus and a drain put in. More fluids and antibiotics. 24 hours later, back to surgery to remove gallbladder, which was also inflamed and pus filled. No stones. Best guess from the doctors is gut bacteria somehow migrated where it normally isn’t present and caused this. I had been having severe back pain in the middle of my back for 6 months and just thought it was part of a degenerative condition that I have. Once the infection cleared, that pain was gone. Doctor told me that I was the worst sepsis case he’d seen in his career that wasn’t dead. God was definitely watching out for me. I got royally chewed out because the doctors knew that I knew I should have come much sooner. But medical people make awful patients.
I am a retired nurse and had similar symptoms for nearly a week before finally going to ER. I had suffered a heart attack and got a Stent. They always say medical PROS are always the most stubborn, lol.
I’m so glad you saved that patient and that you’re also okay! Have never heard of the gallbladder becoming septic, yikes. Just got mine out, thought it was Sickle Cell pain becoming chronic. Surgeon guesstimated it’d been trying to pass a huge stone for ~2 years
My mom hurt her leg playing softball whenever she was around 15 or 16. Because there was no blood it wasn't like a huge deal so she just kept on ignoring the pain. It was until she was in her late 20s that she figured out that she had actually broken her leg.
I broke my nose badly at age 4. No blood, no doctor. Found out at age 16 when I needed sinus surgery. Doc looked at CT and said, "Wow. So when did you break your nose? And when do you want to schedule surgery?" Cue my mom and I looking at each other questioningly and going, "Uhhhhh...never? Wait...surgery?" I'm not sure if the look he gave was checking to see if I was an abuse victim, or that he was just flabbergasted that one could break their nose to that extent and just...not know? My septum (the center divider) up towards the bridge of my nose is accordion folded up in there! 😂 It still creeps me out every time I see it on CT or MRI scans. I get those every few yrs because of chronic migraines. My nose leans to one side a bit and the end of my nose points up more than those of my family members, but otherwise you wouldn't know if I didn't point it out. My dad broke a few bones that either weren't set, or weren't found until after they had started to set. My grandma was a very tough lady who raised tough kids, but with so many kids (5) on only grandpa's truck driver's income, and eventually grandma's bus company wages, money was tight and if bones weren't sticking out or a kid was near death, they were fine. Thankfully, aside from the nose, and one broken toe in my early 20s, I haven't really broken anything else. Injuries galore, and tbh, those hurt way worse than the breaks. The toe thing was so weird because it was only fractured, +90% through, but as soon as I stood up I somehow knew it was broken. I can't explain it, but it just felt...different. When an 80 lb tv fell on my foot it looked BAD. Thankfully it was only a soft tissue crush injury. Hurt like heck, but different from the toe. 🤷🏼♀️
I've had a l2 compression fracture for almost a decade now. It happens, still work 50 hours a week doing construction. Doctors didn't notice on the cts but a chiropractor found it. After I made a fuss about how my primary has been ignoring my back pain for a decade they looked at some old and current cts and saw it.
The guy who lost the use of his legs from cancer reminds me of my friend. She had been having pain and wasn’t taken seriously. Woke up one morning paralyzed. Found out right before Christmas she had cancer. Stage IV Ewing Sarcoma. She died in 2022. I have commented on videos like this one before about her story. Miss her so much.
Apparently I am medical magic: -developed type 1 diabetes -vision went bad (got diagnosed cuz of it) -got to hospital, never go into DKA coma -get eye scans -no diabetic retinopathy -fast growing cataracts (how?) -get double cataract surgery (apparently fixing both eyes at once isn’t usually done) -single distance lens put in one eye -fancy near-to-intermediate distance lens put in other eye -recover, get reading glasses, a-okay I have a check up this month so my surgeon can submit this fiasco to a medical journal
So glad you didn’t get retinopathy. Keep your sugars good and you will hopefully be able to see for a good long time. My advice is keep your sugars in range and watch your blood pressure! My husband wasn’t dx with diabetes until he was around 39 yrs old. Lots of damage to his eyes. Quadruple heart bipass and kidney transplant. You are incredibly lucky and I wish you a long and happy life!
@@UniqueornBacon That survival rate is only if/when it bursts... A Minor Aneurysm is one that has only just started to form and thus is very small and less likely to pop... Picture it this way, the Aorta is like a garden hose. A Minor Aneurysm would be a bulge the size of a pea on the side... A Major Aneurysm would be a bulge the size of a potato on the side... Both are bad, but one is far, Far, FAR worse than the other...
When I was around 8 I went in for medicine because I had severe "spring allergies". The doc opened my puffy eyes and I was immediately sent to the ER. Turns out my eyes looked like clear jelly and I had cat scratch fever. My eyes were in the beginning process of basically "digesting" themselves.
I have one. It was my dad. He was going in for an routine outpatient procedure, I can't remember exactly what it was, but I do remember that they accidentally left a tiny cut on his heart, nothing dangerous, but it meant that they had to do an MRI. They found a huge tumor on the inside of his heart. Normally these tumors wouldn't be found until autopsy because nobody knows to look for them, there are no symptoms other than random strokes. So he had a triple bypass, got the tumor removed, was in the hospital for three weeks and came home. It was the year 2000, the year I graduated high school. Because of that mistake, I got to keep my daddy for another 24 years. He passed away three days after Thanksgiving last year.
19:16 You pronounced “cannula” correctly! I’m only halfway through the video but the only mistake I’ve noticed is that “triage” is pronounced like “tree-age”. You got the second part of the word right :)
It tree-ahdge. More precisely: /tri.aʒ/. Some do pronounce try-ahdge (/trai/), but it's rare in my (uninformed) experience. Hasn't made the transition from "common mistake" to "new pronunciation" yet, I think.
or gets an air bubble injected into them, or the wrong meds, or something equally disastrous, it sounds like she either hadn't paid attention at all, panicked and didn't want to admit it, or maybe is a psychopath? sociopath? astropath? something ending in "path"
It sounded like a freeze response rather than incompetence. Can be a reaction to seeing the blood. That can sometimes mean a change of careers but can sometimes be worked through
@@zoelawrence568 Yup, what I was thinking too. I had went to a trade school for electronics, the same school did nursing school. The students for nursing would have to take blood draws, other students from the school could volunteer. I volunteered a lot, every new nurse class that went through I volunteered. Anytime they needed volunteers one of the nurse teachers would come and ask if I wanted to. Anyway, one student did pretty much the same but it was those small butterfly needles that connected to a short tube and then vacutainer on it (the blood vial thing nurses push the tube into to draw blood). This one student nurse, it was their first time doing it on a real person, stuck it properly into the vein, blood pumped out and she hit the floor, passed out. I'm sitting there holding the needle in my arm while it's still slowly pumping blood out. I'm shocked by what happened and didn't think of pulling the needle out. The teachers were more worried about the student that passed out. After a moment I look down and the table is covered in my blood. I pull the needle out, use a gauze pad and wrap it with that weird tape that doesn't stick to skin. It was an interesting blood draw for me that time. I heard a week later that the student decided it would be good to change careers. She never could handle the sight of blood, not even her own. I volunteered so much that the nurse teachers always invited me to their end of semester pot-luck parties. I was one out of three students in over 15 years not in nursing studies to get invited to their parties. They're not really supposed to allow other studies mix in with parties like that for whatever weird reason.
The way my eyes widened in fear and anger when the 8 cm blood clot OP didn’t go to urgent care until AFTER a climbing day with husband and friends Dx Why AFTER when they’re visibly in pain and absolutely not okay. How did their friends and husband not drag them into urgent care themselves.
I don't think that op was climbing at least, but as a chronically ill person, I get it. I'm personally used to writing off small stuff until my body hits me with the "pay attention dammit!" hammer. 😅
i had something similar happen. the blood clots moved from my leg to my chest. i thought i'd just pulled a muscle in my leg. after a few weeks they were in my lungs and it was hard to breathe but i thought i had a cold or covid (this was 2021). it wasn't until one night i got up to go to the bathroom and when i sat on my bed i couldn't catch my breath. i thought, i have covid or i have a chest cold but after 30 mins of siting there not being able to breathe right i told my hubby, i need to go to the ER. it was like 2 weeks of leg pain but it wasn't constant it came and went so i ignored it, some pains go away so i didn't think it was an issue. I didn't complain much about it so my hubby didn't realize how bad it was, the day before we'd spend the day walking around a town square that was all decorated for xmas and my leg didn't hurt it only hurt when i was siting on the floor with our son, so i didn't do that. people can over look when you're in pain or think it's not that bad and you'll be fine after rest.
@@Just1Nora I have chronic pain too and I realize OP didn’t climb, but that’s the extremely weird part for me to begin with. Most of them should know what a sprain feels and looks like. Her pain was next level and should’ve been very visible. It’s just bizarre no one made her go to urgent care before the get together ended. Especially because she’s not known to have chronic pain.
@@WomanRoaring Us women really need to get better at complaining about pain Dx Maybe I just grew up in a medical environment so I think about these things a lot but if my friend told me about any of your symptoms I would’ve dragged you to urgent care/ER ASAP. Even more so for OP, who was in even more visible pain.
You have an extremely... Nice... Word view. I'm Canadian, I haven't seen a doctor in over ten years. I have a laundry list of health issues. I need multiple surgeries. I just can't afford it. If I feel like crap, I go to bed. Last time I got taken into urgent care I had spent 9 hours throwing up unable to move with kidney stones. Took over 12 hours to get seen. And I was kicked out the same day high as hell on morphine. Put simply, health care is for the top 10% of the world population. That's it.
I'm mad because of story 53, I had a similar experience with having a rock stuck in my ear as little kid. But my experience at the hospital left me so traumatized that I would become hysterical and would scream bloody murder at the sight of the hospital. I was 3 or 4 at the time and the doctor had the nurses put me in a Mummy Restraint and held me down while he went at my ear with a pair of forceps. He didn't have me sedated or anything, I still remember screaming and crying for my mommy and the terrible pain in my ear. We found out shortly afterwards that he accidentally scratch my eardrum while extracting the rock. And we found out years later that I wasn't thee only one who was left traumatized by this doctor. Oh and if you ever have a small child traumatized by a doctor(or just scared in general), my mother highly recommend buying a toy doctor kit and playing doctor with them.
I also got a story, but not about me (even though I do work in a hospital as an assistant nurse). So I got a friend who's a mechanical engineer who specialised in biomechanics (makes stuff for medical use) who got a special request from the hospital I work at for an internal fixation for a compound shin fracture just below the knee. They gave him the x-ray in order to make the fixation, and he took ONE look at it and he saw that they were wrong, it wasn't a compound fracture below the knee, it was a comminuted compound fracture in the middle of the shin!! They thought that the bone splinters were the patient's knee! So he went to the hospital directly to the orthopaedics department in order to talk to the doc who ordered the fixation, and it was a resident who just graduated med school (no offence to any resident, you guys make life in a hospital much easier), they've argued about the x-ray for like 10 minutes, until they decided to go to the head doctor who took one look at the x-ray and sent the patient into surgery, and now doesn't have to worry about losing their leg because of a stupid mistake. TLDR: new doctor misdiagnosed a patient and nearly cost them their leg. Doctors, please trust the opinion of other medical professionals
My great aunt had a painful bump on her back since she was 4. This was a few years after the second world war, so she didn't complain and didn't get it looked at. There was already enough going on, living in a war torn country with not enough food and too many kids. When she was 48 the pain got worse, and her husband made her go see a doctor. Turned out she had cancer. That bump was a tumor, just sitting there for all these years. After 40 years of doing nothing, it turned into cancer. Finding out this bump is cancer the doctor sceduled a few scans for 3 days later. That is when we learned she had cancer in almost her whole body at this point. She got live prolonging treatment and lived for 1,5 years after this. Her family still misses her every day!
A few years ago, I had severe pain between my shoulder blades and dizziness. I called 911, they got BP of 70/30. As they took me to the ambulance, the older EMT said "I think you have a dissecting aortic aneurysm." He was right and after a quick CT scan, I had emergency surgery, now doing well.
Obligatory not me, but my grandma. She was visiting family in Iowa and Minnesota. On her first night there she fell and hit her head on the wall. She was able to get up and had some neck pain but didn't think much of it. My great aunt got her a soft neck brace and she drove her way to Minnesota. She was there for about a week and a half and the pain just wasn't getting better so she cut her trip short and drove the 12 hours back to Colorado. The next day she made a doctor's appointment, and drove herself there. They took some X-rays but weren't too concerned, prescribed her some pain meds and muscle relaxers and sent her on her way. While she was standing in line to pick up her meds a nurse rushed out and said "Mrs. Olson do not move your head and please sit down in this wheelchair." Turns out she broke c2 c3 (the same break the paralyzed Christopher Reeves) and walked around for 10 days. They rushed her to the hospital and she ended up with 6 titanium rods in her neck. 6 years later I ended with the same break, but mine was from a car accident.
I actually have one. A few days after my period I was suffering from abdominal pain, I figured I was post-period bloated. The pain would go away and come back. 48 hrs before leaving for vacation I finally decided to go to the ER. 4 I get in the back and one urine test done. I'm pretty sure had my liver enzymes not been elevated I may have been diagnosed with post-periond bloating or something. After another 4 hours and 1 ultrasound later, a blocked bowl by a gallstone. The hospital I was at didn't have the needed doctor available, so I went home for a couple hours and had my dad take me back to a different ER. Was admitted to the back immediately, a couple more tests, MRI, and surgery consult later I was set to have the stone removed. A couple hours post op, I was on my way to enjoy my vacation. No issues, got scheduled for surgery to remove my gallbladder a few weeks later as all the tests had shown 0 infection. 10 days later, I'm back in the ER scheduled for surgery the next morning to remove my gallbladder. Within 10 days my non-infected gallbladder was gangrenous and the morning of the surgery I ended up going into sepsis. Truthfully, I should have figured it should have been my gallbladder, my mom needed hers removed at 21, my sister had hers removed in her 20s-30s, and I was around 27 to have mine removed.
i was diagnosed at 3 years old with scoliosis... yes, it can cause chronic pain... but growing up i lived under constant threat that if i fell wrong, it would be enough to land me in a wheelchair.... i didnt even have the option of having the doctors operate to straighten it out as they can do in most cases... it was deemed to risky to do because they would have to straighten out two bends with each surgery... and yes it would have taken multiple surgeries... the scoliosis has also caused other health issues to develop
The retinoblastoma story hit home. I survived bilateral retinoblastoma. Lost my right eye to it. But just the same, my mother was told that if she had waited any longer, I wouldn't be here. I have fun with my prosthetic and a picture of the calcified tumor that's still in my left eye.
Two incidents that happened to me: When I was 7, I went to the optometrist for something. I can't remember exactly what but I barely saw anything out of my left eye unless I closed my right eye. So my doctor told me to sit still while she checked the back of my eyes and realized, even without getting close enough to check my eyes, that my left eye never faced forwards, only to the left and upwards. I always blinked a lot to hide it so it wasn't noticeable. Lo and behold I had a very obvious external strabismus. I had to go into sugrery a few weeks later. It's currently not obvious especially when I wear my glasses. When I was 15, I went in for an eye check to review my glasses after my family and I moved states. The optometrist checked the back of my eyes and immediately recommended me for a few tests and lo and behold, I have glaucoma. The reason I went in for this particular check up was the fact that despite me wearing my glasses consistently, my vision was still deteriorating. Luckily I didn't need surgery for that.
We were very lucky to have a good pediatrician. I believe the way it was told to me was; he heard a murmur during a checkup listening to my oldest sister's heart. She was apparently born with a hole in her heart (i think it was between the two sides so the blood was circling in there). Other doctors were shocked he even noticed it (I suppose tiny baby/tottler hearts are hard to hear). The best heart surgeon in either the country or the region (i forget which) used some of the protective heart sack to patch it. I bet operating on 1-5 year olds is extra nerve wracking/heartbreaking.
I love u narrator, but the way u pronounce “triage” has me rolling. And the way u thought cannula was probably meant to be pronounced?! Hilarious, made my night
I was diagnosed with Deep Vein Thrombosis a few years ago. A huge blood clot in my left leg and many in both lungs.The only symptom was pain in my left ankle. Very strange. After genetic testing, it is found that I have Lupus Anticoagulant Syndrome. Blood thinners for life for me. What fun.😊
Welcome to the club, my friend, due to my prosthetic heart valve. I am also on anticoagulant for the rest of my life, warfarin/Cuban to be precise, although occasional Lovenox and heparin, depending on what procedure needs to be performed or has just been performed The reason I have an issue with needles, you will never see me get a tattoo. 59:03
I’m too young to remember the vast majority of this, but apparently I would cry from pain at night. I was diagnosed with bilateral retinoblastoma at 21 months. I had my left eye removed at 3 1/2 (March 2007) and my right eye in September 2007 when I was four. I’ve gone from doing an MRI every six months to getting one once annually, about midway through the year. September 24 is my anniversary. Mom prayed that I would not remember the pain, and God seems to have answered that prayer. God will provide.
I bet you get a lot of dumb questions... Like how/why you're using UA-cam with no eyes. People are apparently too stupid to consider that screen readers exist.
I was once working as an assistant in an urgent care. This guy came in complaining of feeling light-headed, I'm pretty sure. All his vitals were within normal range and he was coherent and talking normally. The provider came in and talked to him for a bit, and then got me to see him out. He stood up and started walking from the room, she glanced back at him and immediately went "No, you go sit back down now." and he did. Everyone was confused, and we got alarmed when she told us to contact 911. Basically, it was very subtle but once she told me I could see/hear it too. When the guy stood up his breath became just a little wheezy, and he was also standing with his torso at a slightly weird angle. In the end an ambulance came for him, and he's basically punctured a lung and just didn't realize it. The guy was pretty young, too, I think in his mid-20s.
So as far as I know, scoliosis itself isn’t life-threatening, but can cause conditions that might be. Depending on how severe it is, it can reduce lung and cardiac function by causing your ribs to compress your lungs and heart. Other organs like your digestive system can be effected as well, and scoliosis is just generally physically stressful.
A way to reduce risk of infections like the one from the mosquito bite is to make sure if you scratch it open wash it with clean water or wound wash or rubbing alcohol if you can stand the sting and apply a clean bandage and antibiotic ointment. Cleaning and keeping nasty stuff from your hands and clothes out of scratches and cuts goes a long way to preventing infection. And if it becomes red and warm or tracks red streaks go see a doctor.
I've had red streaks ONCE, and I got damned lucky. My then-husband wasn't exactly good to me, and refused to let me see a doctor in case it came back on him. Anyhow, I locked myself in the bathroom, squeezed the wound like a horrifying zit, and scrubbed the hole in my thigh with Q-tips and rubbing alcohol. Do not recommend, but between that and a ton of Neosporin, the red streaks went away.
Scoliosis requires surgery if the spinal curve is 40 degrees or more. It can be life-threatening if not treated. It also definitely causes chronic pain!
It can result in big quality of life complications depending on the specific degree of curvature and location because it compresses your organs in different ways. But my ENT (ear, nose, & throat) specialist had such severe curvature that he was short, hunched over, and his pants sat at a strange angle because of hip tilt. He was a good doctor and even operated on my septum and sinuses when I was a teenager. I'm sure his breathing and gi system at the very least had serious impact. But the takeaway is that even with serious deformity one can go on to be a successful doctor and surgeon.
i have scoliosis but it's a C curve not an S curve so it causes pain but i wasn't diagnosed until i was 23 when i was in a bad car accident. my gram noticed my hips weren't even when i was in high school and she hemmed my uniform skirt, she hemmed it crooked so it looked straight but no one thought, wow thats odd lets get her checked out at the doc. so when i got in the accident and had xrays done they noticed.
So 35m I do triathlons and iron mans so great shape. Was working 18hr days 7 days a week as a contractor. Started feeling bad and just felt like crap for a week. One day working with my son I decided to go home to eat which I never do. Thank God my wife (a nurse) was home with a migraine. I sat in my easy chair as pain in my arm spread to my jaw. Wife came in, called 911 and I was shipped. At ER while talking with nurse I passed out, so I thought but actually had coded. Took 5min to get me back and straight to cath lab. I had a widow maker of the LAD, not from bad habits but it actually collapsed. Learned I'm one of the small percentage than can push myself literally to death. I learned my lesson the hard way.
I've had similar "School nurse" situations! I once slightly "twisted" my ankle while walking, went to the nurse because I couldn't put pressure on my foot, and they made me continue through the rest of the day. One of the bones in my foot shattered and I tore muscles in my arm from falling.
Story 21, in regard to the ovarian cyst. Had a very similar experience, was chilling at home when I felt this sudden horrible pain that had me hunched over for a few minutes unable to move. Chalked it up to gas and ibs bc ibs is freaking painful. Went about the rest of my day until I started feeling faint. I laid down in bed with my then boyfriend when my mom came into my room and said my brother was worried that maybe I had Covid bc I looked really pale and clammy. This was mid 2020 so it was definitely something that could’ve been a concern. I felt silly going to the ER but agreed to go. My bf drove us over and I arrived around 11:30pm and feeling overall kind of cruddy with mild pain and tenderness on my right side. Long story short, they ran some tests and some ultrasounds and told me that my abdomen was full of blood and still filling from a ruptured ovarian cyst that started hemorrhaging. Had to have emergency surgery to remove the blood and stop the bleeding. Thankfully my ovary was good and didn’t need to be removed!
So glad you survived!! I had a ruptured cyst. It didn’t cause and big issues but it hurt like hell. The only time I’ve ever had morphine and I only remember that it helped some and I took nap. Later the dr who checked my scan told me that I had a ruptured cyst but they don’t understand why I was in so much pain cuz that happens all the time. When I hear about ppl who have this happen regularly I really feel for them. I can’t believe that drs don’t think it could hurt that bad just because it’s common. I hope some day they have a safe but common ruptured cyst or similar. Just some good old karma for all the times they’ve said that’s “normal”, “it’s not that bad”
My father started taking ibuprophen for the ache in his abdomen. He goes to the doctor and is expecting to be told he is constipated. He is told that he has stage four pancreatic cancer. More or less...they gave him morphine and sent him home. Six weeks later he passed. So...I guess one can say there is a grey area between overacting and responding in an appropriate period of time. Pancreatic cancer is particularly....fast acting. My aunt died of untreated breast cancer, still telling everyone she was "fine." It has eaten through to the outside of her body. THAT is absolutely waiting too long.
Im not a doctor, but this did happen. My dad had been having a bit of trouble swallowing, not too bad, just sometimes had to swallow twice. He thought it might just be allergies so he went to our allergist (he’s an awesome allergist by the way he knows a lot and is super sweet) anyways they found a tumor in his throat and stomach. After studying it, they found out it was cancerous and very rare. He almost died multiple times due to low bloodcell count or something like that, along with blood clots and he had covid while on chemo. Not fun, but he’s about 4 years out of it and no more cancer has been found. He’s very lucky.
@@Dillkeyz A lot of these kinds of reading videos are, but this guy adds his own commentary and emotional reactions to it n stuff. I would be surprised if it was though, that would really show AI voices have taken it to the next level haha.
Clinic assistant here!! I remember a middle age patient went in because of his blurred vision and found out it was due to his high blood sugar, doctor advice him to have an eye injection. After the procedure I was called to assist again our doctor with the same patient (which is not usual, because after the procedure the patient usually okey to go home as it was just a minor procedure). When I went in, the doctor said to her daughter that during the procedure he discovered that the patient has more serious disease than his previous diagnosis. Then he let the daughter come near them and told the patient to look down while holding the patient upperlid and I was shocked to see a big black circle in his conjunctiva (which he did not see during the check up because it was not visible and was not easy to spot, even the patient was surprised to see it). The doctor broke the news that the patient has cancer😢😢😢 The look on the face of the patient when doctor said it. Tears flowing in his cheeks when he said "I don't want to die doctor, but not because I fear death but because I fear that my family suffer after I leave" 😭😭😭
I have been in the veterinary field with a BS as a veterinary nurse (or technician) for around 4 years now, working in several states. The saddest case I saw was with an elderly woman. She brought in her very sweet, fluffy cat because she was getting a bit older at age 11 and didn't want to eat anymore along with being really lethargic. Her owner thought it was a simple infection. The veterinarian did a physical exam and felt something weird and hard in her abdomen. We x-rays and it turned out to be a solid, possibly cancerous mass in her abdomen. The vet told the owner that even with aggressive treatment, she may only live for 3 months. I watched her break down immediately. Her cat continued going downhill quickly. She was euthanized less than a week later sadly
Heres a story of mine (husbands is below). Id been complaining of a sore shoulder for about 3 weeks one summer about 8ish years ago. It was SO sore & constantly aching n really hurt holding it in certain positions. One xmas wed been away camping with the kids & pulling down the tent n packing up was so hard going, it was aching so bad but i carried on. Go to my doc the following week & had an xray & turned out id broken my collarbone! Id snapped the tip off! No wonder it bloody ached like a mofo lol
My roommate was having shoulder pain for a week, she also had a dermal piercing in her back that she wanted to get removed. She decided to go to the ER on a Sunday evening to get the piercing taken out because the piercing place was closed. She off handedly said she was having shoulder pain, the ER nurse took her for an X-ray thinking she might have pulled a muscle at the gym. She ended up in the ER for 3 weeks, turns out she had a collapsed lung from vaping.
@@Roadent1241vaping is causing this in tons of young ppl. Some ppl are even dying. It is not just scent and water. right before Covid and at the beginning of COVID there was an overlap of patients needing oxygen or breathing machines because vaping was getting so bad. I know a lot of kids that either quit or cut down on vaping immensely because they realized how sick others were getting. Speaking of the overlap, I know someone who had a collapsed lung from covid and the hospital didn’t believe them. Kept saying she wasn’t covered for treatment there because they decided she must have been vaping. she had to wait till restrictions were ended so she could travel to a better hospital for treatment. So if a hospital can’t tell the difference between someone almost dying from Covid, from someone dying from vaping. I’d say vaping is pretty bad. Anyway I assume you don’t vape because you didn’t know this but now that you do I hope you don’t start and if you have friends that think it’s just scented water let them know as well.
54:50 first doctor said he had a virus, but gave him antibiotics? Obviously they do work on bacteria from the appendix but antibiotics have 0 effect on viruses. What was the first doctor thinking??
Yeah, the antibiotics had me scratching my head, especially as antivirals exist. You'd think an antiviral would be prescribed for a thought-to-be-viral infection, not antibiotics.
Called my doctor for a same day appointment when my teenager was a young baby (for time). I thought I had strep as I'd had a larger than average number of strep cases in my life. During the wait for the doctor (about an hour), the coughing I had got worse. In the doctor's office, my ability to talk was almost non existent. I use ASL and they grab a less than lingual lady that knows a few words and basically get a hold of my husband at work. We only had one cell phone, so his buddy James (hey James, miss you bud), grabs his phone and essentially jams it into husband's hand. I flag down doctor in the hall as I've been waiting in the room for over an hour at this point. He tells husband, not me -- for reasons, that I need to be brought to the hospital across the street RIGHT AWAY! My tonsils and adenoids were swelling up so much, I couldn't eat or drink. My brother was in from the military in Germany for the first time in years and we were due THAT DAY to take family photos. Hubs asks if we'll be able to make pictures later on, thinking it would be like an ER or a few hours. Doctor tells him "your wife is having a life threatening issue with her throat. I'm worried that if she falls asleep without supervision, she may not wake up." I stayed in the hospital for a WEEK! I was on fluids for 5.5 days before I finally sipped my first thing of water without choking. Finally got released. Oh, and my IV blew about day 4, so the nurse comes in. Can't get a vein. She grabs her friend that's "really good" and she can't either. Head nurse on the floor (oncology) gonna get it in? Nope! The charge nurse comes in at 8 am (about 4 hours away, but 6 to 7 after the IV fell out)n and that she will FOR SURE get it in. She for sure did not! After a brief time in the hallway, she flips me over (without a word) and gets the IV in, FINALLY, behind my left kneecap. And that's AFTER 4 days on solid fluids. After discharge, told to go to an EMT. EMT doesn't wanna take out tonsils and it's obvious. Tell him "does it matter that about 2 years or so ago I had a sore throat from about November to February?" I was scheduled for tonsillectomy and possibly adenoidectomy about 2 weeks later. Haven't had strep since. *I WANT THIS KNOWN, I TYPED THIS BEFORE I SAW THE TONSIL SURGERY STORY*
recently i was waiting in the ER after my boyfriends mom had a small heart attack… about an hour into us waiting for more news a dude walks in with a small garbage can quite literally full of blood, blood all around his mouth… that scared the shit out of me. hope he’s okay.
One thing I noticed is a lot of people get told they're not in that much pain or just trying to get out of work/school which is so dumb and annoying especially for jobs the world will still go around if this person has to be excused for the day it's better to be safe than sorry if that person is in danger imagine the guilt if they get very sick or even worse lose their lives because you assumed their pain was an attempt at playing hookie smh
I know a woman that was in a lot of pain, but she figured it was periodpains. She wanted to stay away from work, but was told to take painkillers. She worked on, for a few days, since in comparison to other periods, the pain was bearable but different. She kept quiet about it, because periods are a taboo where she was from, she just went on. Then, one day, she woke up in the hospital, turns out she fainted when her appendix burst and they spend ages cleaning up all the stuff inside her insides.
@Widdekuu91 omg 😲 I saw the story of a woman who died working at a jail because they "wouldn't let her leave early" I can't remember what health issue caused her death but it's crazy how no laws have Ben placed to prevent this from happening
Gallbladder attacks suck. I started having them last November, had to wait till January to get in to the doctor. Was diagnosed with gallstones in April. My gallbladder was removed a week ago
I remember when that story with the photo of the kid/baby with eye cancer. I’m so glad the parents listened and brought their kid in for treatment. I’ve always remembered this.
Not a medical person, but I work in a nursing office (this fact will be important in a moment). Was rolling on the mats doing BJJ one Sunday when one of my legs got twisted underneath me. Popping sound and a lot of pain in my right ankle, which I put down to a sprain. Elevated and iced it for awhile, then the coach helped me to my car. Drove to a nearby CVS and bought an ankle brace and a cane, then went home, followed by more elevation and ice. Drove the 20 miles to work the next day on surface streets because shifting from gas pedal to brake was difficult and I didn't want to risk it at freeway speeds. Explained what had happened and limped around all day, glad my desk was only a few steps from the printer. When it was time to go home, the head nurse asked if she could take a look, so I took off the brace, revealing a LOT of swelling and some bruising. She low-keyed it, saying I might have a hairline fracture and suggesting I go to urgent care on my way home. Drove to urgent care and limped in, then limped over to x-ray, then back to urgent care, where I got good news and bad news. Good news, wasn't a hairline fracture. Bad news, was a spiral fracture of my right fibula. No fun. And no mats for the next 2 months.
Rutine doc appt. grandpa, said he fell in the barn about a month ago and his leg had been brothering him since. Got sent for x ray and went home His doc got chewed out by the ER for sending an 88 year old home with a broken hip.
CMA who didn't finish college but, I've called my own severe life threatening diagnoses before. Most recently a severe and life threatening allergic reaction that has only been documented happening around twenty times. Hydrochlorothiazide or a simple diuretic in an ACE-1 Inhibitor for lowering blood pressure most commonly used inside other blood pressure medications as a combo pill. Anyway, Angioedema of the Small Bowel or Intestine. No medical code or diagnostic name because it's so rare. It presents EXACTLY like Acute Pancreatitis or Gallbladder issues. I have no gallbladder and do in fact suffer from acute pancreatitis from time to time. HOWEVER, this felt different. My usual drink a gallon of milk & magnesia trick did NOTHING. Actually hurt to drink anything. Decided that I should look into side effects of this new medication I was on. Fell into a rabbit hole of reading case studies where I found the Angioedema allergic reaction. I was able to avoid a LOT of trouble and unnecessary imaging and suffering due to my little Google search and diligence. Within 24 hours of discontinuing the medication I was able to drink and eat again. Pain subsided but the water diarrhea took weeks to stop. Lost almost 20 lbs.
One heart attack symptom that's not often talked about is "a feeling of impending doom", which basically is the medical term for feeling like something is wrong to an extreme (it's super distinct yet hard to describe). I really wonder if some of these where someone just felt like it was something more and got checked on were getting a mild form of that.
13:26 Story 10 just sounds like unreasonable misdiagnoses. Like, I know diagnosis is hard, but even I as a lay person know that those symptoms - on both occasions - sound more serious than what they were diagnosed as, and it's medical professionals' JOBS to rule out the serious stuff. I thought heart attack for the first one, DVT for the second. Like how does acid reflux stop you from lifting your arms?! And how doesn't a DOCTOR know to check for DVT with severe calf pain?! These people did not do their jobs and this person easily could have died as a result! 24:47 EXACTLY! This person is a good doctor. Story 10 person's doctor's on the other hand, again, WTF was wrong with them?!
A friend of mine has broken her spine at least 3 or 4 times. The last time it happened (and hopefully LAST time it will happen) she was able to recognize that her spine was broken because of previous experience with it, but she drove herself to the ER and WALKED IN. Because of this, the ER nurses didnt believe her when she explained why she was there and made her wait a long time in the waiting room. Then, when they finally took her back, they just fucked with her for a while, making her keep getting on and off the table to "prove" that her spine couldn’t possibly be broken. Well the xray comes back and sure enough, broken spine. Not only that but they saw that a jagged fragment of her broken spine was pressing against her spinal cord threatening to lacerate it! She said she heard the doctor screaming at the nurses after that and she was sent to OR. I get why they didnt believe her but to fuck with her like that was beyond unprofessional not to mention almost caused her to be paralyzed from the thorax down and would have cost the hospital a fuck ton in the ensuing lawsuit.
I had a whole different situation, with an autism-coach. Basically, I happened to have an auto-immuunsystem problem, but I didn't know yet. I had a fear of needles, but the blooddrawing had been planned for a bit, we knew something was up. I was cooking with a autism-coach and I told her I was tired. More than usual. She told me to push through. She handed me a knife and told me to cut apples. I started cutting apples, but was swaying on my feet. Shortly said, I very quickly noticed musclespasms in my hand, my arm, I dropped the knife, I sank through my knees and slowly crawled through the room, to my bed. But I could not climb on it and I couldn't properly breathe. It was a really quiet sortof 'haah.... haaah...' and I just closed my eyes and tried to rest. Next thing I know, she is telling me to get up, then angrily finishes the food herself and brings it to the table, while saying; 'You are probably just tired because you did not eat." Now..I ate that day, that was fine, but she walked back to me and had a spoonfull of bacon, rice and apple that she shoved into my open mouth, while I tried to breathe. I coughed and spat it on my bedsheets. She put it back on the spoon and whispered I had to try again. At this point, I cried out and told her to stop. I told her to call my dad. She called my dad, but whispers into the phone; 'Do I get permission to feed Emma, if she is incapable of eating by herself?' My dad, confused by this, says; 'Well, yeah, if she needs to eat.." I hear this from the phone and scream; I don't want to eat, I want to talk to you!' She reluctantly gives me the phone and I cry about what is happening. She suddenly shows her caring side and puts the food in the fridge, washes the dishes, makes my bed and puts me to bed. She leaves and I finally feel safe. I later tried to confront her, but she had zero recollection of her weird behaviour. I refused to have her over as a coach. She left the company and is now a doctor's assistant for children.
If scoliosis is very bad/untreated it can cause the spine to curve forward and pressure the lungs inside the rib cage, that can cause suffocation. But this modern age scoliosis usually is treated before it gets that bad.
I remember when i was a kid, I went to the ER for sudden chest pain, on the left side of my chest radiating to my arm. I got in *fast.* After a couple tests the doctor comes in looking quite happy. Turns out it was a mitral valve prolapse, a heart condition that is a bit uncomfortable at times, but not dangerous. Im guessign he was happy because he got to send me home that night, instead of operating on me. The pain wasn't actually caused by the prolapse, but my suddenly becoming aware of it and freaking out. Which is understandable, because it makes your heart click.
as someone with scoliosis, albeit balanced and not severe: Yes! Scoliosis CAN become life threatening if the curve is extraordinarily bad, as it will risk your ribcage possibly collapsing The higher the degree of the curve, the more likely you are to have posture issues and deformations. My curve was moderate when I got diagnosed with it around 4 and a half years ago. Im going to be going to a back doctor here soon due to the fact my back will start hurting within 30 minutes of standing if im not wearing anything for support and we need eomething better than an Amazon corset
Honestly this is why it took me so long to be diagnosed with conditions I was born with. Smh. I’m also lucky to be diagnosed with the conditions I developed later on because I lived near the top hospitals in the country. Now whenever I get a new dr they don’t believe me and say who told you that. Like I’m making it up. Until they check my medical records. I’m scared for everyone out there that’s undiagnosed. Good luck and god speed.
@@fishyfungus5026 sure, no KNOWN prior health issues. it's an important thing for a doctor to note when there aren't any known conditions, but writing off a young patient purely on such a notion is ridiculous. that's the real problem in this circumstance.
My birth was basically such a story. My mum got into regular check-up and the doctor noticed that I needed to get out _immediately_ because I had started poisoning her. Because I write this comment you know that it turned out well in the end.
My mom was told that she should not push, so she tried not to. Then the doctors left and didn't do anything. And then they came back from a looon looong lunch and decided that she should've already started pushing. Everything happened, she got an IV with stuff that makes the contractions worse, they pricked a rod in my head to measure my heartbeat, they put tongs (like..pliers, but broad? I'm not English) in her and tried to yank me out. I was stuck and they cut her open with scissors, I was still stuck, etc.etc. Then they took me out, unceremoniously cut the umbillical cord and ran away with me, because I was not breathing and very blue. They deepthroated me with a vaccuum-pipe and sucked my lungs clean, until I cried and then showed their most empathic side... Because they could've given me back to mom, but obviously mom would want to hold me and not give me back for measurements. And they'd have to come back for measuring. But if they simply measured me now... and weighed me...etc. Then they could hand me over, after the administration was done. So I was put on an icecold scale with my newborn babybottoms and measured until I layed still and they could write it down. And then sortof rubbed clean, put on a bracelet, youknow..make up, style, the works. And THEN I was allowed to be held by my mother, something that I now realise after working in Pedagogic Work is a MAJOR important thing to do ríght after birth, to make a child stable and strong. So, yeah, I wás given back to my mom after that. But I do wonder how much my welcome-to-the-world-here's-some-cold-metal had to do with my mental issues xD
at 15 in 2020, i had increasing back pain from september to november. my legs got tingly and heavy, we thought it was a pinched nerve. it got to the point in november where i couldn’t walk and then couldn’t wiggle my toes. we went to the ER and got an mri. they found a tumor in my spine. i was life flighted to a pediatric hospital where they removed the mass and sent it off to get it tested. a week later they took the rest of the tumor out and put in titanium hardware. It was a giant cell tumor of the bone, a rare benign but aggressive tumor. It would normally be found in adult joints but was in a teenagers spine. it damaged T1-T4, completely destroying T2. i had a full corpectomy and now have a titanium cage w cadaver bones there, plus hooks, rods, and screws. a tumor the size of the tip of my finger did so much damage i have a pic from an MRI showing the damage and it’s a miracle my injury is only incomplete. I can feel almost everything except temperature but have no voluntary movement. I’m now a 19 year old T4 incomplete paraplegic
Story about that woman that had 16 years of broken back and then when told her about it. I did my 10-year wedding anniversary with three fractured discs I wanted to die but I was not going to stop. And when I switched doctors that's when I was told that I had been walking on a dislocated pelvis for 4 years no one told me about it. I was also diagnosed with arthritis in 2007 and I didn't find out until I read my own MRI report in 2018 it didn't get any treatment or therapy or medication until then and had become severely worse due to this
Story 19: I also had constant ear infections when I was around that age, I got my adenoids taken out and tubes put in my ears. I also almost died because they gave me too much anesthesia and they couldn’t wake me up 😳. The parallels between my story and OP’s story are crazy
I went into the ER not feeling well on Christmas Eve. I was in heart and kidney failure from sepsis. I somehow got e.coli when I was in Maui helping friends after the fires in Lahaina. My family Dr hugged me in my follow up and said “I thought we were going to lose you” ❤
yo, story 34 probs could have written that one a little clearer. Experts in a field generally overestimate how much the average person knows about their field. XKCD has a good/funny example of this.
Had been in the doctors constantly for months for these migraines that were lasting as long as a month at a time. I have a chronic illness and chronic migraines are super common in that group so honestly I would've just been happy with some migraine meds. Just got fobbed off time and time again over and over, even when i had been turning up at A&E desperate for any kind of relief. Anyway eventually one GP says it's probably nothing but just in case let me refer you for an MRI scan. I go and get it done expecting nothing to come back but get a call back the next day. The GP says she needs me to go to the GP surgery urgently so i do and find an ambulance waiting for me there. The GP thought I was showing a brain aneurysm on the scan. Thankfully it wasn't, it was 'just' a large brain tumour.
Kinda relating to one of the stories (the one about the kid coughing for a few weeks and turned out to be a tumor) - I coughed for three and a half months straight in eighth grade, for seemingly no apparent reason. Turns out, because the middle school I went to was mostly in the basement of the local high school, there was an abundance of black mold the school administrators knew about but kept secret so they wouldn’t have to pay a team to clean it up. This basement also housed most of the special ed and special needs classrooms. Thank god it wasn’t a tumor, but damn.
My great uncle, in his 80s, tripped while building a fire and hit his head on the hearth. Gave himself a big bruise and wound up with neck pain that wouldn't go away, so after a few weeks, my great aunt made him go to the doctor. One X-ray later and he's told to not move, they're summoning a helicopter to transfer him to another hospital for immediate surgery. Turned out he had the exact same kind of break that paralyzed Christopher Reeve, and they had no idea how in the hell it hadn't paralyzed him, too. He had surgery and then spent the next six months in a neck brace.
I wonder if the localised swelling around the injury held the bones in place and protected the spinal cord from being damaged. However, a wrong move and they would have been paralysed.
I was moving a pretty light box one day and got the worst pain I’ve ever felt in my abdomen- I crab walked to my backyard- closest chair- and sat for about ten minutes trying to figure out what was trying to kill me. I called my Dad and had him drop me off at the ER. Three hours later I found myself discussing oncologists with the ER nurse. I had a rare fast growing ovarian cancer. Surgery scheduled three days later- postponed by a hurricane- a week and a half after it was found it had tripled in size when it was removed. Everything happened so fast. This was in 2018. Five years later the same cancer killed my mom, she went the chemo and radiation route.
Not a doctor, but an RN. I worked in a small hospital in a nowehere town with nothing around so I've got tons of stories that I could tell but one thing someone said stood out to me, CHECK YOUR NUTS. Listen to me fellas, I know its your balls and its embarrassing but you know what it's like down there. You know the topography and the landscape - if something is off, see a doctor. Please don't wait until its a big problem. You dont want that. Just as an example, a guy frequently shaved that entire area and got an ingrown hair. Then he noticed it just started growing and getting worse. Somehow he ended up getting staph in that area, maybe from touching it, or something on his razor, its a super common skin infection that can usually be cleared up quickly with antibiotics. By the time he came in, his scrotum on the side was the size of a grapefruit. He had to go to surgery ro get it cut open and the infection drained. He had to stay in the hospital for IV antibiotics and because he had a wound drain attached to his right testicle. It left a hole the size of a plum and when we changed the drain, which was very painful, I could see his exposed testicular sac. I could see his nut guys. Thats something nobody should ever have to see. So check your nuts. I also recommend avoiding shaving in that area, the hair is there to guard your skin from friction and wetness and that delicate area can become an irritated breeding ground for germs easily.
If I was the parent of the girl who was made to wait for SIX HOURS for a burst ovarian cyst, I would be raising holy fucking hell with those nurses. Burst ovarian cysts can be life-threatening. They can, depending on the size of the cyst, cause severe bleeding and can lead to ovarian torsion where an ovary twists on itself and the surrounding structures. This can lead to even more bleeding, infection, and death of the ovary. It's absolute bullcrap they made her wait that long. When I had mine, I was very quickly brought back into a room and was not allowed to go home until they made sure there was no torsion.
Scoliosis can be life altering to the extreme. I had it until I was 12 and had correction surgery. I had 3 tethered spinal cord releases as a result. When your spinal cord gets tethered, it causes neurological issues thar range from mild to severe. I was losing motor function. It ended up leaving me permanent nerve issues. Most of the major nerve issues were luckily temporary
I was the patient. Irregular heartrate issues on and off for a month or so. I have a litany of health issues so I blew it off. I saw a dr on a Friday who did an EKG which was fine and sent me home. Monday I woke up with some chest pain, but that's not totally unusual for me and it was gone by noon. After blowing off these symps a couple of friends demanded I go to the ER. I went, my EKG was fine, I told them I periodically feel like I'm going to pass out with the heartrate thing. They're ready to send me home with a clean bill of health when the dr notices something in my history. I have Ehler's-Danlos Syndrome which can cause structural abnormalities in the heart in some types. Just to CYA he ordered a CT scan of my chest. My heart was fine, my lungs however, were littered with blood clots, everywhere. Doctor came back in, pale af. "So, I was going to send you home but I ordered the CT to check on heart and you have numerous pulmonary emboli". I laughed and he was like "No, seriously. I was about to send a patient whose lungs are full of blood clots home". Clots were unrelated to EDS or anything else I had, just decided to show up, but like I said, my body just doesn't work. I was just chilling with those bad boys for a month before getting them noted, lol. A week in the hospital and lots of blood thinners later I was sent home on oxygen. That was 8 years ago, fast forward to this past Feb, I have been back on oxygen for a few years but just let my PCP handle it. I needed bladder surgery and anesthesia wouldn't approve me without seeing a pulmonologist. So I go back to my same doc who runs a bunch of stuff. Turns out, the reason I have had to be back on oxygen for 3 years is because one of the clots never went away and led to a condition called chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension. The blood pressure in my lungs is too high to compensate for the clot and it will eventually lead to heart failure. I even have a nifty "man I wish I had a med student here right now" heart sound to accompany it, lol. The only cure is a 8hr long surgery where you're cooled to 64F, put on bypass, then they stop the bypass and scrape the clot out. That or a lung transplant. I don't intend to do either, we don't live near a facility that offers them and couldn't afford to travel anyway.
Not me, but my grandpa (as the patient). He was having some severe pain. It's been a while, and I don't remember the specifics of it, but he was insisting that he was fine and didn't need to go to the hospital (he's a stubborn man and I believe in his 70s at the time) but my uncle, who fortunately lived only about a block away, had a bad feeling and basically forced him to go to the doctor. Good thing, too, because it turns out his appendix had either ruptured or nearly done so, and he probably wouldn't have made it another day if he hadn't been seen.
I’ve got one of these! It’s about a friend of mine that I work with. We work at a burger place, and he was on the grill when he splashed some of the grease in his eye. He went to the bathroom to take care of it, but for about a week after his eye never stopped being blurry. He went to urgent care and after many many tests and referrals and ophthalmologists, he was diagnosed with uveitis. It’s basically where your body decided that your eye is foreign and slowly start attacking it. It’s treatable but not curable. If he had waited just another month or so, he would have lost his eye (or both). This was over a year ago, and it’s finally starting to look better. Been a long process of eye drops and appointments dealing with his eye pressure and everything else. Was one of the craziest things I’ve seen
Didn't need surgery, but had a guy come for a routine yearly ECG and just happened to show signs of heart attack on it. The nurse came and asked me like "Is this real? He says he's fine.". So I asked him and no, no chest pain, no shortness of breath, no nothing. Asked how he came here, he had walked the 400 meters or so (a quarter of a mile) and had to stop a few times to catch his breath. So I keep asking because there's no way this isn't a heart attack at this point but he keeps being adamant that he's feeling fine. When I asked "What if you walk a little?", he said "Well then I would get chest pains and shortness of breath, but laying here and not moving at all, I'm pretty much fine, the chest pain isn't that bad when I stay still". God damn it people, tell the doctor your symptoms!
My mom had bladder cancer and they didn’t find it until it had progressed to stage 4 and it eventually spread into the lymph nodes and to the brain and she died from it. I always wonder what would have happened if they found it earlier. I wish they’d check bladder cancer in women. Due to her age and sex they never suspected it. She was having lots of bleeding but they thought it was a gynecological issue. They checked for ovarian and everything and found nothing. They said it was just changing hormones in premenopause…yeah didn’t check the bladder until it blocked her ability to urinate
Scoliosis can differ a lot. I have minor scoliosis myself, it shows mostly that I'm veering a little to one side more around my "body axis" so to speak. It can get bad, it does cause me general pain, and I know a child with multiple problems (weak muscle genetic issue, autism, epilepsy etc.) who has insane scoliosis. For a 10 year old, it's so excessive she cannot fit into a corset now (thanks to the parents not using corset properly because the child seemed uncomfortable in it... now the back of the kid turns to the side in a horrid angle) I can't imagine the pain that will be brought with that if it keeps being left untreated...
My sister has always had really painful periods. At first we all, mom included, thought she was just being a crybaby because her screams where only almost as loud as when she put on ear rings. Turns out that she is a mutant and had a second uterus that is not connected to any exit or anything, meaning that it got flooded with blood every period until the pressure forced it through the tissue into the normal uterus. This was only discovered because she was being examined for a completely seperate birth defect that they were working on fixing.
My moms friend lost her husband a few years ago from cancer. He went in for a checkup because of back pain thinking he pulled a muscle and was dead 2 weeks later. He never went home after that appointment and spent the rest of his life in the hospital. It was horrifying and so sad
Little person with severe scolosis - yes, it can be deadly. The curvature of the spine can press into your internal organs and compromise your breathing or cardiac functions. Plus, it's really painful. Like a stabbing, pulling pain. My back is fused from my neck down to my butt and while I still have a pretty significant curve, it's not pressing into internal organs and I have no pain whatsover.
This happened to me about two months ago now. One Sunday, I woke up with a headache behind my right eye. No problem. Just take it easy, take an Advil, and I’ll be fine in the morning. Wednesday comes around, and the headache got worse and spread to the right half of my skull. I was rolling around and in agony. My mum sees this and says “well, this ain’t normal. We’re going to the hospital.” Mum drives me to the ER and I go through triage. They take my blood, blood pressure, temperature, vitals, and come up with nothing. I’m basically told this is just cluster headaches and while it sucks they’ll go away in a day or so. I’m sent home and told to take a Tylenol before bed. Thursday morning, the skin of my forehead is all dry and bumpy and vision in my right eye is blurry. Trusting the doctors, I figure it was just because I kept rubbing my face from the pain. It isn’t until Thursday evening I realize each of those little bumps is filled with pus. Friday morning, my dad wakes me up because he saw my face. Forehead, cheek, eye, jowl, and neck are swollen and leaking blood and pus. I am in incredible pain. Dad fucking floors it to the hospital. Doctors see me and immediately recognize that I have shingles in my face. Doctor from two days previous apologizes for misdiagnosing me and says if I wasn’t brought in that day I would have gone completely blind in my right eye. They never thought of shingles as a diagnosis because I am 24 and shingles in someone as young as me is a rarity. I was given a gauntlet of meds including painkillers, crazy antivirals, and anti-inflammation eye drops. I am mostly recovered now, but my eyes are super sensitive to light and all the nerves on the right half of my face are shot and completely numb. I have lost some sharpness in my vision, but if we had waited one more day before going to the ER I would have been blind. For the rest of the summer, I can’t go outside without a hat and sunglasses, no matter how mild the weather is. The doctors are hopeful I will have 100% of my vision back by August. For bow, my forehead is all scars and scabs.
My scoliosis is the result of legs with different lengths. The imbalance actually causes more injuries on my short side then my long side. People with more severe scoliosis can develop respiratory issues due to compression
The sight of someone being dragged into an ambulance by a doctor must be rather interesting.
By the ear no less! 😂🤣😂
I would love to hear exactly what happened from that doctor but i can imagine it went something like yea so medical school said i should probably go to a hospital for a possible (insert here) doctor hears this MF GET IN THE GOD DAMN AMBULANCE NOW person nah ill be fine doc BITCH YOU WILL GO tbh medical school is probably the best place to get told something and if you deny it then yeah any doctor or nurse will drag you to a actual hospital as fast as posible depending on what it is since if med school says it then they know it's gonna be close or spot on even better then what the hospitals can do because all the learning material is right there
Yeah, it is.
It seems like she just kept believing she was just weird for some other reason
I was on the weight loss program from hell(aka VIOLENTLY puking my guts up to stomach acid, throwing THAT up, then for shits and gigs dry heaving for hours on end!) dad took me to hospital I walked into the ER (dad had to park the car) the security guard and every nurse that saw me went WHITE! They IMMEDIATELY took me to get my vitals which were I was 85.7 lbs [~39 kg] SUPER LOW heart rate and super high blood pressure. Long story short, it was stage four brain cancer. I am almost NINE YEARS in remission (my remission date is November 24)
Wow. So glad you survived that. How scary.
Yeah I thought I was dying…turns out it was all in my head!
Here. Take my angry up vote. But fr. I'm so glad you're better! 💙💙
@@DrivestyneBa dum tss 😂😂😂😂
@@jessicapalmer3455lol Reddit much?
Critical care nurse here. Admitted a 33 year female to ICU with severe sepsis. BP low, has two IVs and a vasopressor to increase her BP. Temp 105. I told the hospitalist to not give her the prescribed antibiotic until a malaria test was done. Now, we’re in Chicago. He said that’s stupid, why would he order that? I said gut feeling because she’s just returned home after a month in India and I happened to know it was the rainy season when malaria goes up because of mosquitoes in droves. We made a bet. I’d pay him $20 if I was wrong and he’d make a public apology and buy pizza if I was right. Couple hours later he comes up and asks for everyone. He then makes a grudging apology and orders pizza. The reason I was so adamant is the particular antibiotic will kill the patient if given during a malarial flair. We started her on hydroxychloroquine and she was much better within 24 hours. Malaria is a parasite that uses blood cells to reproduce. When they burst to let the larvae out, the person gets very ill. Giving a drug to kill the parasite is the only treatment, along with fluids because the fever is high.
Me, this time I’m the patient and not smart. Halloween night, developed sudden very severe epigastric pain, right under my sternum, going to the middle of my back. Instead of going to the ER right away, I waited 24 hours and almost couldn’t move to get downstairs. Pain still the worst I’ve had. Lab work shows severe sepsis, which is systemic infection. They slam IVs in, give me pain medicine, then I go to CT. Couldn’t unbend my legs because the pain was so bad. Turns out belly full of pus. I go to have stents put in my bile duct to drain some pus and a drain put in. More fluids and antibiotics. 24 hours later, back to surgery to remove gallbladder, which was also inflamed and pus filled. No stones. Best guess from the doctors is gut bacteria somehow migrated where it normally isn’t present and caused this. I had been having severe back pain in the middle of my back for 6 months and just thought it was part of a degenerative condition that I have. Once the infection cleared, that pain was gone. Doctor told me that I was the worst sepsis case he’d seen in his career that wasn’t dead. God was definitely watching out for me. I got royally chewed out because the doctors knew that I knew I should have come much sooner. But medical people make awful patients.
I am a retired nurse and had similar symptoms for nearly a week before finally going to ER. I had suffered a heart attack and got a Stent. They always say medical PROS are always the most stubborn, lol.
I’m glad you all made it out okay.
So glad you are okay. That’s crazy. Please don’t do that again.
I’m so glad you saved that patient and that you’re also okay! Have never heard of the gallbladder becoming septic, yikes. Just got mine out, thought it was Sickle Cell pain becoming chronic. Surgeon guesstimated it’d been trying to pass a huge stone for ~2 years
whats sepsis
My mom hurt her leg playing softball whenever she was around 15 or 16. Because there was no blood it wasn't like a huge deal so she just kept on ignoring the pain. It was until she was in her late 20s that she figured out that she had actually broken her leg.
I broke my nose badly at age 4. No blood, no doctor. Found out at age 16 when I needed sinus surgery. Doc looked at CT and said, "Wow. So when did you break your nose? And when do you want to schedule surgery?" Cue my mom and I looking at each other questioningly and going, "Uhhhhh...never? Wait...surgery?" I'm not sure if the look he gave was checking to see if I was an abuse victim, or that he was just flabbergasted that one could break their nose to that extent and just...not know? My septum (the center divider) up towards the bridge of my nose is accordion folded up in there! 😂 It still creeps me out every time I see it on CT or MRI scans. I get those every few yrs because of chronic migraines. My nose leans to one side a bit and the end of my nose points up more than those of my family members, but otherwise you wouldn't know if I didn't point it out.
My dad broke a few bones that either weren't set, or weren't found until after they had started to set. My grandma was a very tough lady who raised tough kids, but with so many kids (5) on only grandpa's truck driver's income, and eventually grandma's bus company wages, money was tight and if bones weren't sticking out or a kid was near death, they were fine.
Thankfully, aside from the nose, and one broken toe in my early 20s, I haven't really broken anything else. Injuries galore, and tbh, those hurt way worse than the breaks. The toe thing was so weird because it was only fractured, +90% through, but as soon as I stood up I somehow knew it was broken. I can't explain it, but it just felt...different. When an 80 lb tv fell on my foot it looked BAD. Thankfully it was only a soft tissue crush injury. Hurt like heck, but different from the toe. 🤷🏼♀️
I've had a l2 compression fracture for almost a decade now. It happens, still work 50 hours a week doing construction. Doctors didn't notice on the cts but a chiropractor found it. After I made a fuss about how my primary has been ignoring my back pain for a decade they looked at some old and current cts and saw it.
The guy who lost the use of his legs from cancer reminds me of my friend. She had been having pain and wasn’t taken seriously. Woke up one morning paralyzed. Found out right before Christmas she had cancer. Stage IV Ewing Sarcoma. She died in 2022. I have commented on videos like this one before about her story. Miss her so much.
Apparently I am medical magic:
-developed type 1 diabetes
-vision went bad (got diagnosed cuz of it)
-got to hospital, never go into DKA coma
-get eye scans
-no diabetic retinopathy
-fast growing cataracts (how?)
-get double cataract surgery (apparently fixing both eyes at once isn’t usually done)
-single distance lens put in one eye
-fancy near-to-intermediate distance lens put in other eye
-recover, get reading glasses, a-okay
I have a check up this month so my surgeon can submit this fiasco to a medical journal
So glad you didn’t get retinopathy. Keep your sugars good and you will hopefully be able to see for a good long time.
My advice is keep your sugars in range and watch your blood pressure! My husband wasn’t dx with diabetes until he was around 39 yrs old. Lots of damage to his eyes. Quadruple heart bipass and kidney transplant. You are incredibly lucky and I wish you a long and happy life!
6:11 thanks for showing us the pictures really glad that i can see it
I was just about to bring this up. Like post the pictures or don’t include that part of the narrative
"Minor aneurysm" sounds along the lines of "little bit pregnant".
My wife is a little bit pregnant right now.
Especially an aortic aneurysm. Especially after just explaining how low chances of survival are.
@@UniqueornBacon That survival rate is only if/when it bursts...
A Minor Aneurysm is one that has only just started to form and thus is very small and less likely to pop...
Picture it this way, the Aorta is like a garden hose.
A Minor Aneurysm would be a bulge the size of a pea on the side...
A Major Aneurysm would be a bulge the size of a potato on the side...
Both are bad, but one is far, Far, FAR worse than the other...
@@King-Maelstrom-the-Esoteric good luck
That's how you know it's fake
When I was around 8 I went in for medicine because I had severe "spring allergies". The doc opened my puffy eyes and I was immediately sent to the ER. Turns out my eyes looked like clear jelly and I had cat scratch fever. My eyes were in the beginning process of basically "digesting" themselves.
My god. Were they still able to save your eyes?
@@ZerodeSmit0306 with heavy antibiotics and steroids yes, but now I wear thick glasses
I have one. It was my dad. He was going in for an routine outpatient procedure, I can't remember exactly what it was, but I do remember that they accidentally left a tiny cut on his heart, nothing dangerous, but it meant that they had to do an MRI. They found a huge tumor on the inside of his heart. Normally these tumors wouldn't be found until autopsy because nobody knows to look for them, there are no symptoms other than random strokes. So he had a triple bypass, got the tumor removed, was in the hospital for three weeks and came home. It was the year 2000, the year I graduated high school. Because of that mistake, I got to keep my daddy for another 24 years. He passed away three days after Thanksgiving last year.
19:16 You pronounced “cannula” correctly! I’m only halfway through the video but the only mistake I’ve noticed is that “triage” is pronounced like “tree-age”. You got the second part of the word right :)
Think Julius Caesar for cesarean
It’s so small but the try-age driving me crazy 😂
Also mispronounced esophageal and varices.
It tree-ahdge. More precisely: /tri.aʒ/. Some do pronounce try-ahdge (/trai/), but it's rare in my (uninformed) experience. Hasn't made the transition from "common mistake" to "new pronunciation" yet, I think.
I laughed when he was worried about cannula because he had that one right after at least three other mispronounced words
Story 12 I think the student needs to either restart their training from the beginning or stop all together before their next patient bleeds out 😬
or gets an air bubble injected into them, or the wrong meds, or something equally disastrous, it sounds like she either hadn't paid attention at all, panicked and didn't want to admit it, or maybe is a psychopath? sociopath? astropath? something ending in "path"
It sounded like a freeze response rather than incompetence. Can be a reaction to seeing the blood. That can sometimes mean a change of careers but can sometimes be worked through
@@zoelawrence568Yeah I was literally thinking something like option 2 that you said. Maybe she didn’t realize she has a blood phobia or something?
@@zoelawrence568 Yup, what I was thinking too. I had went to a trade school for electronics, the same school did nursing school. The students for nursing would have to take blood draws, other students from the school could volunteer. I volunteered a lot, every new nurse class that went through I volunteered. Anytime they needed volunteers one of the nurse teachers would come and ask if I wanted to. Anyway, one student did pretty much the same but it was those small butterfly needles that connected to a short tube and then vacutainer on it (the blood vial thing nurses push the tube into to draw blood). This one student nurse, it was their first time doing it on a real person, stuck it properly into the vein, blood pumped out and she hit the floor, passed out. I'm sitting there holding the needle in my arm while it's still slowly pumping blood out. I'm shocked by what happened and didn't think of pulling the needle out. The teachers were more worried about the student that passed out. After a moment I look down and the table is covered in my blood. I pull the needle out, use a gauze pad and wrap it with that weird tape that doesn't stick to skin. It was an interesting blood draw for me that time.
I heard a week later that the student decided it would be good to change careers. She never could handle the sight of blood, not even her own.
I volunteered so much that the nurse teachers always invited me to their end of semester pot-luck parties. I was one out of three students in over 15 years not in nursing studies to get invited to their parties. They're not really supposed to allow other studies mix in with parties like that for whatever weird reason.
I thought the story was gonna go that the student was having a seizure or a stroke. Guess not.
The way my eyes widened in fear and anger when the 8 cm blood clot OP didn’t go to urgent care until AFTER a climbing day with husband and friends Dx Why AFTER when they’re visibly in pain and absolutely not okay. How did their friends and husband not drag them into urgent care themselves.
I don't think that op was climbing at least, but as a chronically ill person, I get it. I'm personally used to writing off small stuff until my body hits me with the "pay attention dammit!" hammer. 😅
i had something similar happen. the blood clots moved from my leg to my chest. i thought i'd just pulled a muscle in my leg. after a few weeks they were in my lungs and it was hard to breathe but i thought i had a cold or covid (this was 2021). it wasn't until one night i got up to go to the bathroom and when i sat on my bed i couldn't catch my breath. i thought, i have covid or i have a chest cold but after 30 mins of siting there not being able to breathe right i told my hubby, i need to go to the ER. it was like 2 weeks of leg pain but it wasn't constant it came and went so i ignored it, some pains go away so i didn't think it was an issue. I didn't complain much about it so my hubby didn't realize how bad it was, the day before we'd spend the day walking around a town square that was all decorated for xmas and my leg didn't hurt it only hurt when i was siting on the floor with our son, so i didn't do that. people can over look when you're in pain or think it's not that bad and you'll be fine after rest.
@@Just1Nora I have chronic pain too and I realize OP didn’t climb, but that’s the extremely weird part for me to begin with. Most of them should know what a sprain feels and looks like. Her pain was next level and should’ve been very visible. It’s just bizarre no one made her go to urgent care before the get together ended. Especially because she’s not known to have chronic pain.
@@WomanRoaring Us women really need to get better at complaining about pain Dx Maybe I just grew up in a medical environment so I think about these things a lot but if my friend told me about any of your symptoms I would’ve dragged you to urgent care/ER ASAP. Even more so for OP, who was in even more visible pain.
You have an extremely... Nice... Word view.
I'm Canadian, I haven't seen a doctor in over ten years.
I have a laundry list of health issues. I need multiple surgeries.
I just can't afford it. If I feel like crap, I go to bed.
Last time I got taken into urgent care I had spent 9 hours throwing up unable to move with kidney stones.
Took over 12 hours to get seen.
And I was kicked out the same day high as hell on morphine.
Put simply, health care is for the top 10% of the world population. That's it.
That first dude must have felt so cool diagnosing it right off the top of their head like that
I'm mad because of story 53, I had a similar experience with having a rock stuck in my ear as little kid. But my experience at the hospital left me so traumatized that I would become hysterical and would scream bloody murder at the sight of the hospital. I was 3 or 4 at the time and the doctor had the nurses put me in a Mummy Restraint and held me down while he went at my ear with a pair of forceps. He didn't have me sedated or anything, I still remember screaming and crying for my mommy and the terrible pain in my ear. We found out shortly afterwards that he accidentally scratch my eardrum while extracting the rock. And we found out years later that I wasn't thee only one who was left traumatized by this doctor.
Oh and if you ever have a small child traumatized by a doctor(or just scared in general), my mother highly recommend buying a toy doctor kit and playing doctor with them.
I also got a story, but not about me (even though I do work in a hospital as an assistant nurse).
So I got a friend who's a mechanical engineer who specialised in biomechanics (makes stuff for medical use) who got a special request from the hospital I work at for an internal fixation for a compound shin fracture just below the knee. They gave him the x-ray in order to make the fixation, and he took ONE look at it and he saw that they were wrong, it wasn't a compound fracture below the knee, it was a comminuted compound fracture in the middle of the shin!! They thought that the bone splinters were the patient's knee! So he went to the hospital directly to the orthopaedics department in order to talk to the doc who ordered the fixation, and it was a resident who just graduated med school (no offence to any resident, you guys make life in a hospital much easier), they've argued about the x-ray for like 10 minutes, until they decided to go to the head doctor who took one look at the x-ray and sent the patient into surgery, and now doesn't have to worry about losing their leg because of a stupid mistake.
TLDR: new doctor misdiagnosed a patient and nearly cost them their leg.
Doctors, please trust the opinion of other medical professionals
My great aunt had a painful bump on her back since she was 4. This was a few years after the second world war, so she didn't complain and didn't get it looked at. There was already enough going on, living in a war torn country with not enough food and too many kids.
When she was 48 the pain got worse, and her husband made her go see a doctor. Turned out she had cancer. That bump was a tumor, just sitting there for all these years. After 40 years of doing nothing, it turned into cancer. Finding out this bump is cancer the doctor sceduled a few scans for 3 days later. That is when we learned she had cancer in almost her whole body at this point. She got live prolonging treatment and lived for 1,5 years after this. Her family still misses her every day!
I too enjoy smoking potatoes 😂
stoned? nah, spud
A few years ago, I had severe pain between my shoulder blades and dizziness. I called 911, they got BP of 70/30. As they took me to the ambulance, the older EMT said "I think you have a dissecting aortic aneurysm."
He was right and after a quick CT scan, I had emergency surgery, now doing well.
Obligatory not me, but my grandma. She was visiting family in Iowa and Minnesota. On her first night there she fell and hit her head on the wall. She was able to get up and had some neck pain but didn't think much of it. My great aunt got her a soft neck brace and she drove her way to Minnesota. She was there for about a week and a half and the pain just wasn't getting better so she cut her trip short and drove the 12 hours back to Colorado. The next day she made a doctor's appointment, and drove herself there. They took some X-rays but weren't too concerned, prescribed her some pain meds and muscle relaxers and sent her on her way. While she was standing in line to pick up her meds a nurse rushed out and said "Mrs. Olson do not move your head and please sit down in this wheelchair."
Turns out she broke c2 c3 (the same break the paralyzed Christopher Reeves) and walked around for 10 days. They rushed her to the hospital and she ended up with 6 titanium rods in her neck. 6 years later I ended with the same break, but mine was from a car accident.
I actually have one. A few days after my period I was suffering from abdominal pain, I figured I was post-period bloated. The pain would go away and come back. 48 hrs before leaving for vacation I finally decided to go to the ER. 4 I get in the back and one urine test done. I'm pretty sure had my liver enzymes not been elevated I may have been diagnosed with post-periond bloating or something. After another 4 hours and 1 ultrasound later, a blocked bowl by a gallstone. The hospital I was at didn't have the needed doctor available, so I went home for a couple hours and had my dad take me back to a different ER. Was admitted to the back immediately, a couple more tests, MRI, and surgery consult later I was set to have the stone removed. A couple hours post op, I was on my way to enjoy my vacation. No issues, got scheduled for surgery to remove my gallbladder a few weeks later as all the tests had shown 0 infection. 10 days later, I'm back in the ER scheduled for surgery the next morning to remove my gallbladder. Within 10 days my non-infected gallbladder was gangrenous and the morning of the surgery I ended up going into sepsis. Truthfully, I should have figured it should have been my gallbladder, my mom needed hers removed at 21, my sister had hers removed in her 20s-30s, and I was around 27 to have mine removed.
i was diagnosed at 3 years old with scoliosis... yes, it can cause chronic pain... but growing up i lived under constant threat that if i fell wrong, it would be enough to land me in a wheelchair.... i didnt even have the option of having the doctors operate to straighten it out as they can do in most cases... it was deemed to risky to do because they would have to straighten out two bends with each surgery... and yes it would have taken multiple surgeries... the scoliosis has also caused other health issues to develop
The retinoblastoma story hit home. I survived bilateral retinoblastoma. Lost my right eye to it. But just the same, my mother was told that if she had waited any longer, I wouldn't be here. I have fun with my prosthetic and a picture of the calcified tumor that's still in my left eye.
Two incidents that happened to me:
When I was 7, I went to the optometrist for something. I can't remember exactly what but I barely saw anything out of my left eye unless I closed my right eye. So my doctor told me to sit still while she checked the back of my eyes and realized, even without getting close enough to check my eyes, that my left eye never faced forwards, only to the left and upwards. I always blinked a lot to hide it so it wasn't noticeable. Lo and behold I had a very obvious external strabismus. I had to go into sugrery a few weeks later. It's currently not obvious especially when I wear my glasses.
When I was 15, I went in for an eye check to review my glasses after my family and I moved states. The optometrist checked the back of my eyes and immediately recommended me for a few tests and lo and behold, I have glaucoma. The reason I went in for this particular check up was the fact that despite me wearing my glasses consistently, my vision was still deteriorating. Luckily I didn't need surgery for that.
We were very lucky to have a good pediatrician. I believe the way it was told to me was; he heard a murmur during a checkup listening to my oldest sister's heart. She was apparently born with a hole in her heart (i think it was between the two sides so the blood was circling in there). Other doctors were shocked he even noticed it (I suppose tiny baby/tottler hearts are hard to hear). The best heart surgeon in either the country or the region (i forget which) used some of the protective heart sack to patch it.
I bet operating on 1-5 year olds is extra nerve wracking/heartbreaking.
I love u narrator, but the way u pronounce “triage” has me rolling. And the way u thought cannula was probably meant to be pronounced?! Hilarious, made my night
I was diagnosed with Deep Vein Thrombosis a few years ago. A huge blood clot in my left leg and many in both lungs.The only symptom was pain in my left ankle. Very strange. After genetic testing, it is found that I have Lupus Anticoagulant Syndrome. Blood thinners for life for me. What fun.😊
Welcome to the club, my friend, due to my prosthetic heart valve. I am also on anticoagulant for the rest of my life, warfarin/Cuban to be precise, although occasional Lovenox and heparin, depending on what procedure needs to be performed or has just been performed The reason I have an issue with needles, you will never see me get a tattoo. 59:03
I’m too young to remember the vast majority of this, but apparently I would cry from pain at night. I was diagnosed with bilateral retinoblastoma at 21 months. I had my left eye removed at 3 1/2 (March 2007) and my right eye in September 2007 when I was four. I’ve gone from doing an MRI every six months to getting one once annually, about midway through the year. September 24 is my anniversary. Mom prayed that I would not remember the pain, and God seems to have answered that prayer. God will provide.
I bet you get a lot of dumb questions...
Like how/why you're using UA-cam with no eyes.
People are apparently too stupid to consider that screen readers exist.
I was once working as an assistant in an urgent care. This guy came in complaining of feeling light-headed, I'm pretty sure. All his vitals were within normal range and he was coherent and talking normally. The provider came in and talked to him for a bit, and then got me to see him out. He stood up and started walking from the room, she glanced back at him and immediately went "No, you go sit back down now." and he did. Everyone was confused, and we got alarmed when she told us to contact 911. Basically, it was very subtle but once she told me I could see/hear it too. When the guy stood up his breath became just a little wheezy, and he was also standing with his torso at a slightly weird angle. In the end an ambulance came for him, and he's basically punctured a lung and just didn't realize it. The guy was pretty young, too, I think in his mid-20s.
So as far as I know, scoliosis itself isn’t life-threatening, but can cause conditions that might be. Depending on how severe it is, it can reduce lung and cardiac function by causing your ribs to compress your lungs and heart. Other organs like your digestive system can be effected as well, and scoliosis is just generally physically stressful.
A way to reduce risk of infections like the one from the mosquito bite is to make sure if you scratch it open wash it with clean water or wound wash or rubbing alcohol if you can stand the sting and apply a clean bandage and antibiotic ointment. Cleaning and keeping nasty stuff from your hands and clothes out of scratches and cuts goes a long way to preventing infection. And if it becomes red and warm or tracks red streaks go see a doctor.
I've had red streaks ONCE, and I got damned lucky. My then-husband wasn't exactly good to me, and refused to let me see a doctor in case it came back on him. Anyhow, I locked myself in the bathroom, squeezed the wound like a horrifying zit, and scrubbed the hole in my thigh with Q-tips and rubbing alcohol. Do not recommend, but between that and a ton of Neosporin, the red streaks went away.
Just no.
Scoliosis is not particularly dangerous condition, but is able to cause chronic pain.
Truth! Usually, the only life threatening danger that scoliosis causes is situational.
My son needed corrective surgery because the degree and direction of the curve was going to affect his heart if it kept progressing.
Scoliosis requires surgery if the spinal curve is 40 degrees or more. It can be life-threatening if not treated. It also definitely causes chronic pain!
It can result in big quality of life complications depending on the specific degree of curvature and location because it compresses your organs in different ways. But my ENT (ear, nose, & throat) specialist had such severe curvature that he was short, hunched over, and his pants sat at a strange angle because of hip tilt. He was a good doctor and even operated on my septum and sinuses when I was a teenager. I'm sure his breathing and gi system at the very least had serious impact.
But the takeaway is that even with serious deformity one can go on to be a successful doctor and surgeon.
i have scoliosis but it's a C curve not an S curve so it causes pain but i wasn't diagnosed until i was 23 when i was in a bad car accident. my gram noticed my hips weren't even when i was in high school and she hemmed my uniform skirt, she hemmed it crooked so it looked straight but no one thought, wow thats odd lets get her checked out at the doc. so when i got in the accident and had xrays done they noticed.
So 35m I do triathlons and iron mans so great shape. Was working 18hr days 7 days a week as a contractor. Started feeling bad and just felt like crap for a week. One day working with my son I decided to go home to eat which I never do. Thank God my wife (a nurse) was home with a migraine. I sat in my easy chair as pain in my arm spread to my jaw. Wife came in, called 911 and I was shipped. At ER while talking with nurse I passed out, so I thought but actually had coded. Took 5min to get me back and straight to cath lab. I had a widow maker of the LAD, not from bad habits but it actually collapsed. Learned I'm one of the small percentage than can push myself literally to death. I learned my lesson the hard way.
Yeah, when they say good diet and an active lifestyle prevents heart attacks, they mean *most* heart attacks. Glad your wife was on the ball!
@katiel7166 thank you, I absolutely agree tho. A collapsed LAD is extremely rare but thank God everything fell in place correctly.
I've had similar "School nurse" situations! I once slightly "twisted" my ankle while walking, went to the nurse because I couldn't put pressure on my foot, and they made me continue through the rest of the day. One of the bones in my foot shattered and I tore muscles in my arm from falling.
Story 21, in regard to the ovarian cyst. Had a very similar experience, was chilling at home when I felt this sudden horrible pain that had me hunched over for a few minutes unable to move. Chalked it up to gas and ibs bc ibs is freaking painful. Went about the rest of my day until I started feeling faint. I laid down in bed with my then boyfriend when my mom came into my room and said my brother was worried that maybe I had Covid bc I looked really pale and clammy. This was mid 2020 so it was definitely something that could’ve been a concern. I felt silly going to the ER but agreed to go. My bf drove us over and I arrived around 11:30pm and feeling overall kind of cruddy with mild pain and tenderness on my right side. Long story short, they ran some tests and some ultrasounds and told me that my abdomen was full of blood and still filling from a ruptured ovarian cyst that started hemorrhaging. Had to have emergency surgery to remove the blood and stop the bleeding. Thankfully my ovary was good and didn’t need to be removed!
So glad you survived!! I had a ruptured cyst. It didn’t cause and big issues but it hurt like hell. The only time I’ve ever had morphine and I only remember that it helped some and I took nap. Later the dr who checked my scan told me that I had a ruptured cyst but they don’t understand why I was in so much pain cuz that happens all the time. When I hear about ppl who have this happen regularly I really feel for them. I can’t believe that drs don’t think it could hurt that bad just because it’s common. I hope some day they have a safe but common ruptured cyst or similar. Just some good old karma for all the times they’ve said that’s “normal”, “it’s not that bad”
My father started taking ibuprophen for the ache in his abdomen. He goes to the doctor and is expecting to be told he is constipated. He is told that he has stage four pancreatic cancer. More or less...they gave him morphine and sent him home. Six weeks later he passed. So...I guess one can say there is a grey area between overacting and responding in an appropriate period of time. Pancreatic cancer is particularly....fast acting. My aunt died of untreated breast cancer, still telling everyone she was "fine." It has eaten through to the outside of her body. THAT is absolutely waiting too long.
Pancreatic cancer is one of those cancers that even when you get diagnosed, you're still screwed. It rarely shows its symptoms
Im not a doctor, but this did happen. My dad had been having a bit of trouble swallowing, not too bad, just sometimes had to swallow twice. He thought it might just be allergies so he went to our allergist (he’s an awesome allergist by the way he knows a lot and is super sweet) anyways they found a tumor in his throat and stomach. After studying it, they found out it was cancerous and very rare. He almost died multiple times due to low bloodcell count or something like that, along with blood clots and he had covid while on chemo. Not fun, but he’s about 4 years out of it and no more cancer has been found. He’s very lucky.
Story 16 escalated so quickly it didn’t even sound real for a second. Just the escalation from "hurt while at work" to "he died" almost made no sense.
Dear Mr. Narrator, should sound like tree-auge(triage). Can-u-la(canula). Sea-sar-ean(cesarean).
I'm pretty sure they do it to generate comments like yours
@@theignitionmagician1376
Well, it works. I was about to make a similar one.
Rule #1 of the internet should be "Don't feed the trolls"
@@theignitionmagician1376 I might be wrong but it could be made with ai.
@@Dillkeyz A lot of these kinds of reading videos are, but this guy adds his own commentary and emotional reactions to it n stuff. I would be surprised if it was though, that would really show AI voices have taken it to the next level haha.
Clinic assistant here!!
I remember a middle age patient went in because of his blurred vision and found out it was due to his high blood sugar, doctor advice him to have an eye injection. After the procedure I was called to assist again our doctor with the same patient (which is not usual, because after the procedure the patient usually okey to go home as it was just a minor procedure). When I went in, the doctor said to her daughter that during the procedure he discovered that the patient has more serious disease than his previous diagnosis. Then he let the daughter come near them and told the patient to look down while holding the patient upperlid and I was shocked to see a big black circle in his conjunctiva (which he did not see during the check up because it was not visible and was not easy to spot, even the patient was surprised to see it). The doctor broke the news that the patient has cancer😢😢😢 The look on the face of the patient when doctor said it. Tears flowing in his cheeks when he said
"I don't want to die doctor, but not because I fear death but because I fear that my family suffer after I leave" 😭😭😭
I have been in the veterinary field with a BS as a veterinary nurse (or technician) for around 4 years now, working in several states. The saddest case I saw was with an elderly woman. She brought in her very sweet, fluffy cat because she was getting a bit older at age 11 and didn't want to eat anymore along with being really lethargic. Her owner thought it was a simple infection. The veterinarian did a physical exam and felt something weird and hard in her abdomen. We x-rays and it turned out to be a solid, possibly cancerous mass in her abdomen. The vet told the owner that even with aggressive treatment, she may only live for 3 months. I watched her break down immediately. Her cat continued going downhill quickly. She was euthanized less than a week later sadly
Heres a story of mine (husbands is below). Id been complaining of a sore shoulder for about 3 weeks one summer about 8ish years ago. It was SO sore & constantly aching n really hurt holding it in certain positions. One xmas wed been away camping with the kids & pulling down the tent n packing up was so hard going, it was aching so bad but i carried on.
Go to my doc the following week & had an xray & turned out id broken my collarbone! Id snapped the tip off! No wonder it bloody ached like a mofo lol
My roommate was having shoulder pain for a week, she also had a dermal piercing in her back that she wanted to get removed. She decided to go to the ER on a Sunday evening to get the piercing taken out because the piercing place was closed. She off handedly said she was having shoulder pain, the ER nurse took her for an X-ray thinking she might have pulled a muscle at the gym. She ended up in the ER for 3 weeks, turns out she had a collapsed lung from vaping.
From vaping?
I thought vaping was just like scented water? What in vaping caused that? Was she sucking air in through the pipe too hard?
@@Roadent1241vaping is causing this in tons of young ppl. Some ppl are even dying. It is not just scent and water. right before Covid and at the beginning of COVID there was an overlap of patients needing oxygen or breathing machines because vaping was getting so bad. I know a lot of kids that either quit or cut down on vaping immensely because they realized how sick others were getting.
Speaking of the overlap, I know someone who had a collapsed lung from covid and the hospital didn’t believe them. Kept saying she wasn’t covered for treatment there because they decided she must have been vaping. she had to wait till restrictions were ended so she could travel to a better hospital for treatment. So if a hospital can’t tell the difference between someone almost dying from Covid, from someone dying from vaping. I’d say vaping is pretty bad.
Anyway I assume you don’t vape because you didn’t know this but now that you do I hope you don’t start and if you have friends that think it’s just scented water let them know as well.
@@Roadent1241 No, vaping is not scented water, vaping is pretty much as bad as normal smoking.
@@Widdekuu91 Why did they bother making it then? Why not just do a scented water thing?
54:50 first doctor said he had a virus, but gave him antibiotics? Obviously they do work on bacteria from the appendix but antibiotics have 0 effect on viruses. What was the first doctor thinking??
Yeah, the antibiotics had me scratching my head, especially as antivirals exist. You'd think an antiviral would be prescribed for a thought-to-be-viral infection, not antibiotics.
1:20 ah yes smoked potatoes 💀
As i'm watching this while smoking some potatoes. 😂😂
Called my doctor for a same day appointment when my teenager was a young baby (for time). I thought I had strep as I'd had a larger than average number of strep cases in my life. During the wait for the doctor (about an hour), the coughing I had got worse. In the doctor's office, my ability to talk was almost non existent. I use ASL and they grab a less than lingual lady that knows a few words and basically get a hold of my husband at work. We only had one cell phone, so his buddy James (hey James, miss you bud), grabs his phone and essentially jams it into husband's hand. I flag down doctor in the hall as I've been waiting in the room for over an hour at this point. He tells husband, not me -- for reasons, that I need to be brought to the hospital across the street RIGHT AWAY! My tonsils and adenoids were swelling up so much, I couldn't eat or drink. My brother was in from the military in Germany for the first time in years and we were due THAT DAY to take family photos. Hubs asks if we'll be able to make pictures later on, thinking it would be like an ER or a few hours. Doctor tells him "your wife is having a life threatening issue with her throat. I'm worried that if she falls asleep without supervision, she may not wake up." I stayed in the hospital for a WEEK! I was on fluids for 5.5 days before I finally sipped my first thing of water without choking. Finally got released.
Oh, and my IV blew about day 4, so the nurse comes in. Can't get a vein. She grabs her friend that's "really good" and she can't either. Head nurse on the floor (oncology) gonna get it in? Nope! The charge nurse comes in at 8 am (about 4 hours away, but 6 to 7 after the IV fell out)n and that she will FOR SURE get it in. She for sure did not! After a brief time in the hallway, she flips me over (without a word) and gets the IV in, FINALLY, behind my left kneecap. And that's AFTER 4 days on solid fluids.
After discharge, told to go to an EMT. EMT doesn't wanna take out tonsils and it's obvious. Tell him "does it matter that about 2 years or so ago I had a sore throat from about November to February?" I was scheduled for tonsillectomy and possibly adenoidectomy about 2 weeks later. Haven't had strep since.
*I WANT THIS KNOWN, I TYPED THIS BEFORE I SAW THE TONSIL SURGERY STORY*
recently i was waiting in the ER after my boyfriends mom had a small heart attack… about an hour into us waiting for more news a dude walks in with a small garbage can quite literally full of blood, blood all around his mouth… that scared the shit out of me. hope he’s okay.
One thing I noticed is a lot of people get told they're not in that much pain or just trying to get out of work/school which is so dumb and annoying especially for jobs the world will still go around if this person has to be excused for the day it's better to be safe than sorry if that person is in danger imagine the guilt if they get very sick or even worse lose their lives because you assumed their pain was an attempt at playing hookie smh
I know a woman that was in a lot of pain, but she figured it was periodpains. She wanted to stay away from work, but was told to take painkillers.
She worked on, for a few days, since in comparison to other periods, the pain was bearable but different. She kept quiet about it, because periods are a taboo where she was from, she just went on.
Then, one day, she woke up in the hospital, turns out she fainted when her appendix burst and they spend ages cleaning up all the stuff inside her insides.
@Widdekuu91 omg 😲 I saw the story of a woman who died working at a jail because they "wouldn't let her leave early" I can't remember what health issue caused her death but it's crazy how no laws have Ben placed to prevent this from happening
😅😅😅😅😅😅
Gallbladder attacks suck. I started having them last November, had to wait till January to get in to the doctor. Was diagnosed with gallstones in April. My gallbladder was removed a week ago
hope you make a quick recovery and are free from complications or any negative occurrences, in the present and future 🙏🏾
I remember when that story with the photo of the kid/baby with eye cancer. I’m so glad the parents listened and brought their kid in for treatment. I’ve always remembered this.
Not a medical person, but I work in a nursing office (this fact will be important in a moment). Was rolling on the mats doing BJJ one Sunday when one of my legs got twisted underneath me. Popping sound and a lot of pain in my right ankle, which I put down to a sprain. Elevated and iced it for awhile, then the coach helped me to my car. Drove to a nearby CVS and bought an ankle brace and a cane, then went home, followed by more elevation and ice. Drove the 20 miles to work the next day on surface streets because shifting from gas pedal to brake was difficult and I didn't want to risk it at freeway speeds. Explained what had happened and limped around all day, glad my desk was only a few steps from the printer. When it was time to go home, the head nurse asked if she could take a look, so I took off the brace, revealing a LOT of swelling and some bruising. She low-keyed it, saying I might have a hairline fracture and suggesting I go to urgent care on my way home. Drove to urgent care and limped in, then limped over to x-ray, then back to urgent care, where I got good news and bad news. Good news, wasn't a hairline fracture. Bad news, was a spiral fracture of my right fibula. No fun. And no mats for the next 2 months.
Rutine doc appt. grandpa, said he fell in the barn about a month ago and his leg had been brothering him since. Got sent for x ray and went home
His doc got chewed out by the ER for sending an 88 year old home with a broken hip.
CMA who didn't finish college but, I've called my own severe life threatening diagnoses before.
Most recently a severe and life threatening allergic reaction that has only been documented happening around twenty times.
Hydrochlorothiazide or a simple diuretic in an ACE-1 Inhibitor for lowering blood pressure most commonly used inside other blood pressure medications as a combo pill. Anyway, Angioedema of the Small Bowel or Intestine. No medical code or diagnostic name because it's so rare. It presents EXACTLY like Acute Pancreatitis or Gallbladder issues. I have no gallbladder and do in fact suffer from acute pancreatitis from time to time. HOWEVER, this felt different. My usual drink a gallon of milk & magnesia trick did NOTHING. Actually hurt to drink anything. Decided that I should look into side effects of this new medication I was on. Fell into a rabbit hole of reading case studies where I found the Angioedema allergic reaction. I was able to avoid a LOT of trouble and unnecessary imaging and suffering due to my little Google search and diligence. Within 24 hours of discontinuing the medication I was able to drink and eat again. Pain subsided but the water diarrhea took weeks to stop. Lost almost 20 lbs.
One heart attack symptom that's not often talked about is "a feeling of impending doom", which basically is the medical term for feeling like something is wrong to an extreme (it's super distinct yet hard to describe). I really wonder if some of these where someone just felt like it was something more and got checked on were getting a mild form of that.
13:26 Story 10 just sounds like unreasonable misdiagnoses. Like, I know diagnosis is hard, but even I as a lay person know that those symptoms - on both occasions - sound more serious than what they were diagnosed as, and it's medical professionals' JOBS to rule out the serious stuff. I thought heart attack for the first one, DVT for the second. Like how does acid reflux stop you from lifting your arms?! And how doesn't a DOCTOR know to check for DVT with severe calf pain?! These people did not do their jobs and this person easily could have died as a result!
24:47 EXACTLY! This person is a good doctor. Story 10 person's doctor's on the other hand, again, WTF was wrong with them?!
A friend of mine has broken her spine at least 3 or 4 times. The last time it happened (and hopefully LAST time it will happen) she was able to recognize that her spine was broken because of previous experience with it, but she drove herself to the ER and WALKED IN. Because of this, the ER nurses didnt believe her when she explained why she was there and made her wait a long time in the waiting room. Then, when they finally took her back, they just fucked with her for a while, making her keep getting on and off the table to "prove" that her spine couldn’t possibly be broken. Well the xray comes back and sure enough, broken spine. Not only that but they saw that a jagged fragment of her broken spine was pressing against her spinal cord threatening to lacerate it! She said she heard the doctor screaming at the nurses after that and she was sent to OR. I get why they didnt believe her but to fuck with her like that was beyond unprofessional not to mention almost caused her to be paralyzed from the thorax down and would have cost the hospital a fuck ton in the ensuing lawsuit.
I had a whole different situation, with an autism-coach.
Basically, I happened to have an auto-immuunsystem problem, but I didn't know yet. I had a fear of needles, but the blooddrawing had been planned for a bit, we knew something was up.
I was cooking with a autism-coach and I told her I was tired. More than usual. She told me to push through. She handed me a knife and told me to cut apples.
I started cutting apples, but was swaying on my feet. Shortly said, I very quickly noticed musclespasms in my hand, my arm, I dropped the knife, I sank through my knees and slowly crawled through the room, to my bed.
But I could not climb on it and I couldn't properly breathe. It was a really quiet sortof 'haah.... haaah...' and I just closed my eyes and tried to rest.
Next thing I know, she is telling me to get up, then angrily finishes the food herself and brings it to the table, while saying; 'You are probably just tired because you did not eat."
Now..I ate that day, that was fine, but she walked back to me and had a spoonfull of bacon, rice and apple that she shoved into my open mouth, while I tried to breathe.
I coughed and spat it on my bedsheets. She put it back on the spoon and whispered I had to try again.
At this point, I cried out and told her to stop. I told her to call my dad.
She called my dad, but whispers into the phone; 'Do I get permission to feed Emma, if she is incapable of eating by herself?' My dad, confused by this, says; 'Well, yeah, if she needs to eat.."
I hear this from the phone and scream; I don't want to eat, I want to talk to you!' She reluctantly gives me the phone and I cry about what is happening.
She suddenly shows her caring side and puts the food in the fridge, washes the dishes, makes my bed and puts me to bed. She leaves and I finally feel safe.
I later tried to confront her, but she had zero recollection of her weird behaviour. I refused to have her over as a coach.
She left the company and is now a doctor's assistant for children.
If scoliosis is very bad/untreated it can cause the spine to curve forward and pressure the lungs inside the rib cage, that can cause suffocation. But this modern age scoliosis usually is treated before it gets that bad.
Happening to a friend on mine right now. 😢
I remember when i was a kid, I went to the ER for sudden chest pain, on the left side of my chest radiating to my arm. I got in *fast.* After a couple tests the doctor comes in looking quite happy. Turns out it was a mitral valve prolapse, a heart condition that is a bit uncomfortable at times, but not dangerous. Im guessign he was happy because he got to send me home that night, instead of operating on me. The pain wasn't actually caused by the prolapse, but my suddenly becoming aware of it and freaking out. Which is understandable, because it makes your heart click.
as someone with scoliosis, albeit balanced and not severe: Yes! Scoliosis CAN become life threatening if the curve is extraordinarily bad, as it will risk your ribcage possibly collapsing
The higher the degree of the curve, the more likely you are to have posture issues and deformations.
My curve was moderate when I got diagnosed with it around 4 and a half years ago. Im going to be going to a back doctor here soon due to the fact my back will start hurting within 30 minutes of standing if im not wearing anything for support and we need eomething better than an Amazon corset
I don't get the thought process. "He's young and has nothing diagnosed." Well no duh he has nothing diagnosed. Why do you think they're there?
Honestly this is why it took me so long to be diagnosed with conditions I was born with. Smh. I’m also lucky to be diagnosed with the conditions I developed later on because I lived near the top hospitals in the country. Now whenever I get a new dr they don’t believe me and say who told you that. Like I’m making it up. Until they check my medical records.
I’m scared for everyone out there that’s undiagnosed. Good luck and god speed.
Undiagnosed means no prior health issues
@@fishyfungus5026 You missed the point.
@@fishyfungus5026 sure, no KNOWN prior health issues. it's an important thing for a doctor to note when there aren't any known conditions, but writing off a young patient purely on such a notion is ridiculous. that's the real problem in this circumstance.
Hope the guy in story 27 went back to his grandpa and said "so I did that favour you asked... Where do you want to eat, it's on me?"
Congrats on 100k!
The Dixie cup of chalky stuff is a GI cocktail: viscous lidocaine, liquid antacid, and sometimes diphenhydramine.
My birth was basically such a story. My mum got into regular check-up and the doctor noticed that I needed to get out _immediately_ because I had started poisoning her. Because I write this comment you know that it turned out well in the end.
oh my god! did you die?
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Ha-ha. Funny joke. Of course I died. And then I discovered there is internet in heaven, so I could write this comment!
My mom was told that she should not push, so she tried not to. Then the doctors left and didn't do anything.
And then they came back from a looon looong lunch and decided that she should've already started pushing.
Everything happened, she got an IV with stuff that makes the contractions worse, they pricked a rod in my head to measure my heartbeat, they put tongs (like..pliers, but broad? I'm not English) in her and tried to yank me out. I was stuck and they cut her open with scissors, I was still stuck, etc.etc.
Then they took me out, unceremoniously cut the umbillical cord and ran away with me, because I was not breathing and very blue.
They deepthroated me with a vaccuum-pipe and sucked my lungs clean, until I cried and then showed their most empathic side...
Because they could've given me back to mom, but obviously mom would want to hold me and not give me back for measurements. And they'd have to come back for measuring.
But if they simply measured me now... and weighed me...etc. Then they could hand me over, after the administration was done.
So I was put on an icecold scale with my newborn babybottoms and measured until I layed still and they could write it down.
And then sortof rubbed clean, put on a bracelet, youknow..make up, style, the works.
And THEN I was allowed to be held by my mother, something that I now realise after working in Pedagogic Work is a MAJOR important thing to do ríght after birth, to make a child stable and strong.
So, yeah, I wás given back to my mom after that. But I do wonder how much my welcome-to-the-world-here's-some-cold-metal had to do with my mental issues xD
at 15 in 2020, i had increasing back pain from september to november. my legs got tingly and heavy, we thought it was a pinched nerve. it got to the point in november where i couldn’t walk and then couldn’t wiggle my toes. we went to the ER and got an mri. they found a tumor in my spine. i was life flighted to a pediatric hospital where they removed the mass and sent it off to get it tested. a week later they took the rest of the tumor out and put in titanium hardware. It was a giant cell tumor of the bone, a rare benign but aggressive tumor. It would normally be found in adult joints but was in a teenagers spine. it damaged T1-T4, completely destroying T2. i had a full corpectomy and now have a titanium cage w cadaver bones there, plus hooks, rods, and screws. a tumor the size of the tip of my finger did so much damage i have a pic from an MRI showing the damage and it’s a miracle my injury is only incomplete. I can feel almost everything except temperature but have no voluntary movement. I’m now a 19 year old T4 incomplete paraplegic
Story about that woman that had 16 years of broken back and then when told her about it. I did my 10-year wedding anniversary with three fractured discs I wanted to die but I was not going to stop. And when I switched doctors that's when I was told that I had been walking on a dislocated pelvis for 4 years no one told me about it. I was also diagnosed with arthritis in 2007 and I didn't find out until I read my own MRI report in 2018 it didn't get any treatment or therapy or medication until then and had become severely worse due to this
Story 19: I also had constant ear infections when I was around that age, I got my adenoids taken out and tubes put in my ears. I also almost died because they gave me too much anesthesia and they couldn’t wake me up 😳. The parallels between my story and OP’s story are crazy
Last time i was this early my dad left to get milk
👨🥛 im back kiddo
@@Buttery_Smooth_brain mom?
Milkman couldnt just put it on the counter after?
I went into the ER not feeling well on Christmas Eve. I was in heart and kidney failure from sepsis.
I somehow got e.coli when I was in Maui helping friends after the fires in Lahaina.
My family Dr hugged me in my follow up and said “I thought we were going to lose you” ❤
yo, story 34 probs could have written that one a little clearer. Experts in a field generally overestimate how much the average person knows about their field. XKCD has a good/funny example of this.
Had been in the doctors constantly for months for these migraines that were lasting as long as a month at a time. I have a chronic illness and chronic migraines are super common in that group so honestly I would've just been happy with some migraine meds. Just got fobbed off time and time again over and over, even when i had been turning up at A&E desperate for any kind of relief. Anyway eventually one GP says it's probably nothing but just in case let me refer you for an MRI scan. I go and get it done expecting nothing to come back but get a call back the next day. The GP says she needs me to go to the GP surgery urgently so i do and find an ambulance waiting for me there. The GP thought I was showing a brain aneurysm on the scan. Thankfully it wasn't, it was 'just' a large brain tumour.
same sort of thing happened to my tonsils. I kept getting sick periodically and eventually we just had them cut out. haven't had a problem since.
Kinda relating to one of the stories (the one about the kid coughing for a few weeks and turned out to be a tumor) - I coughed for three and a half months straight in eighth grade, for seemingly no apparent reason. Turns out, because the middle school I went to was mostly in the basement of the local high school, there was an abundance of black mold the school administrators knew about but kept secret so they wouldn’t have to pay a team to clean it up. This basement also housed most of the special ed and special needs classrooms. Thank god it wasn’t a tumor, but damn.
Ah yeah as long as only the spec eds get poisoned its no big deal apparently
"Tumor Mormon Family" is not only something Id never expect to hear, but also an oxymoron
My great uncle, in his 80s, tripped while building a fire and hit his head on the hearth. Gave himself a big bruise and wound up with neck pain that wouldn't go away, so after a few weeks, my great aunt made him go to the doctor. One X-ray later and he's told to not move, they're summoning a helicopter to transfer him to another hospital for immediate surgery. Turned out he had the exact same kind of break that paralyzed Christopher Reeve, and they had no idea how in the hell it hadn't paralyzed him, too. He had surgery and then spent the next six months in a neck brace.
I wonder if the localised swelling around the injury held the bones in place and protected the spinal cord from being damaged. However, a wrong move and they would have been paralysed.
I was moving a pretty light box one day and got the worst pain I’ve ever felt in my abdomen- I crab walked to my backyard- closest chair- and sat for about ten minutes trying to figure out what was trying to kill me. I called my Dad and had him drop me off at the ER. Three hours later I found myself discussing oncologists with the ER nurse. I had a rare fast growing ovarian cancer. Surgery scheduled three days later- postponed by a hurricane- a week and a half after it was found it had tripled in size when it was removed.
Everything happened so fast. This was in 2018.
Five years later the same cancer killed my mom, she went the chemo and radiation route.
I had a student pass away of ovarian cancer last year. She was only 15. It is a silent killer. I’m sorry for your loss and your own battle.
Not a doctor, but an RN. I worked in a small hospital in a nowehere town with nothing around so I've got tons of stories that I could tell but one thing someone said stood out to me, CHECK YOUR NUTS. Listen to me fellas, I know its your balls and its embarrassing but you know what it's like down there. You know the topography and the landscape - if something is off, see a doctor. Please don't wait until its a big problem. You dont want that. Just as an example, a guy frequently shaved that entire area and got an ingrown hair. Then he noticed it just started growing and getting worse. Somehow he ended up getting staph in that area, maybe from touching it, or something on his razor, its a super common skin infection that can usually be cleared up quickly with antibiotics. By the time he came in, his scrotum on the side was the size of a grapefruit. He had to go to surgery ro get it cut open and the infection drained. He had to stay in the hospital for IV antibiotics and because he had a wound drain attached to his right testicle. It left a hole the size of a plum and when we changed the drain, which was very painful, I could see his exposed testicular sac. I could see his nut guys. Thats something nobody should ever have to see. So check your nuts. I also recommend avoiding shaving in that area, the hair is there to guard your skin from friction and wetness and that delicate area can become an irritated breeding ground for germs easily.
“I told you so” is never a celebration.
Is it not? Surely it can be for a good thing like winning a lottery or a prediction.
If I was the parent of the girl who was made to wait for SIX HOURS for a burst ovarian cyst, I would be raising holy fucking hell with those nurses. Burst ovarian cysts can be life-threatening. They can, depending on the size of the cyst, cause severe bleeding and can lead to ovarian torsion where an ovary twists on itself and the surrounding structures. This can lead to even more bleeding, infection, and death of the ovary. It's absolute bullcrap they made her wait that long. When I had mine, I was very quickly brought back into a room and was not allowed to go home until they made sure there was no torsion.
Scoliosis can be life altering to the extreme. I had it until I was 12 and had correction surgery. I had 3 tethered spinal cord releases as a result. When your spinal cord gets tethered, it causes neurological issues thar range from mild to severe. I was losing motor function. It ended up leaving me permanent nerve issues. Most of the major nerve issues were luckily temporary
I was the patient. Irregular heartrate issues on and off for a month or so. I have a litany of health issues so I blew it off. I saw a dr on a Friday who did an EKG which was fine and sent me home. Monday I woke up with some chest pain, but that's not totally unusual for me and it was gone by noon. After blowing off these symps a couple of friends demanded I go to the ER. I went, my EKG was fine, I told them I periodically feel like I'm going to pass out with the heartrate thing. They're ready to send me home with a clean bill of health when the dr notices something in my history. I have Ehler's-Danlos Syndrome which can cause structural abnormalities in the heart in some types. Just to CYA he ordered a CT scan of my chest. My heart was fine, my lungs however, were littered with blood clots, everywhere. Doctor came back in, pale af. "So, I was going to send you home but I ordered the CT to check on heart and you have numerous pulmonary emboli". I laughed and he was like "No, seriously. I was about to send a patient whose lungs are full of blood clots home". Clots were unrelated to EDS or anything else I had, just decided to show up, but like I said, my body just doesn't work. I was just chilling with those bad boys for a month before getting them noted, lol. A week in the hospital and lots of blood thinners later I was sent home on oxygen.
That was 8 years ago, fast forward to this past Feb, I have been back on oxygen for a few years but just let my PCP handle it. I needed bladder surgery and anesthesia wouldn't approve me without seeing a pulmonologist. So I go back to my same doc who runs a bunch of stuff. Turns out, the reason I have had to be back on oxygen for 3 years is because one of the clots never went away and led to a condition called chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension. The blood pressure in my lungs is too high to compensate for the clot and it will eventually lead to heart failure. I even have a nifty "man I wish I had a med student here right now" heart sound to accompany it, lol. The only cure is a 8hr long surgery where you're cooled to 64F, put on bypass, then they stop the bypass and scrape the clot out. That or a lung transplant. I don't intend to do either, we don't live near a facility that offers them and couldn't afford to travel anyway.
Not me, but my grandpa (as the patient). He was having some severe pain. It's been a while, and I don't remember the specifics of it, but he was insisting that he was fine and didn't need to go to the hospital (he's a stubborn man and I believe in his 70s at the time) but my uncle, who fortunately lived only about a block away, had a bad feeling and basically forced him to go to the doctor. Good thing, too, because it turns out his appendix had either ruptured or nearly done so, and he probably wouldn't have made it another day if he hadn't been seen.
I’ve got one of these! It’s about a friend of mine that I work with. We work at a burger place, and he was on the grill when he splashed some of the grease in his eye. He went to the bathroom to take care of it, but for about a week after his eye never stopped being blurry. He went to urgent care and after many many tests and referrals and ophthalmologists, he was diagnosed with uveitis. It’s basically where your body decided that your eye is foreign and slowly start attacking it. It’s treatable but not curable. If he had waited just another month or so, he would have lost his eye (or both). This was over a year ago, and it’s finally starting to look better. Been a long process of eye drops and appointments dealing with his eye pressure and everything else. Was one of the craziest things I’ve seen
19:15 Canooola?! WTF? No it's not, you were right the first time.
Didn't need surgery, but had a guy come for a routine yearly ECG and just happened to show signs of heart attack on it. The nurse came and asked me like "Is this real? He says he's fine.". So I asked him and no, no chest pain, no shortness of breath, no nothing. Asked how he came here, he had walked the 400 meters or so (a quarter of a mile) and had to stop a few times to catch his breath. So I keep asking because there's no way this isn't a heart attack at this point but he keeps being adamant that he's feeling fine. When I asked "What if you walk a little?", he said "Well then I would get chest pains and shortness of breath, but laying here and not moving at all, I'm pretty much fine, the chest pain isn't that bad when I stay still".
God damn it people, tell the doctor your symptoms!
The student in story 12 deserved to get sent to jail for attempted manslaughter.
“Esophageel vareecies” at 2:19 had me ROLLING
My mom had bladder cancer and they didn’t find it until it had progressed to stage 4 and it eventually spread into the lymph nodes and to the brain and she died from it. I always wonder what would have happened if they found it earlier. I wish they’d check bladder cancer in women. Due to her age and sex they never suspected it. She was having lots of bleeding but they thought it was a gynecological issue. They checked for ovarian and everything and found nothing. They said it was just changing hormones in premenopause…yeah didn’t check the bladder until it blocked her ability to urinate
I love how these AI readings are so good but still cannot say some words.
It's not ai lmao, some people just suck at pronouncing certain words.
Btw, your suit looks awesome, props to whoever you commissioned for it.
Scoliosis can differ a lot. I have minor scoliosis myself, it shows mostly that I'm veering a little to one side more around my "body axis" so to speak. It can get bad, it does cause me general pain, and I know a child with multiple problems (weak muscle genetic issue, autism, epilepsy etc.) who has insane scoliosis. For a 10 year old, it's so excessive she cannot fit into a corset now (thanks to the parents not using corset properly because the child seemed uncomfortable in it... now the back of the kid turns to the side in a horrid angle) I can't imagine the pain that will be brought with that if it keeps being left untreated...
My sister has always had really painful periods. At first we all, mom included, thought she was just being a crybaby because her screams where only almost as loud as when she put on ear rings.
Turns out that she is a mutant and had a second uterus that is not connected to any exit or anything, meaning that it got flooded with blood every period until the pressure forced it through the tissue into the normal uterus. This was only discovered because she was being examined for a completely seperate birth defect that they were working on fixing.
😮😢 poor sister. I hope they managed to help her.
@@KBirkett-l3k They did, had it removed after about a month.
My moms friend lost her husband a few years ago from cancer. He went in for a checkup because of back pain thinking he pulled a muscle and was dead 2 weeks later. He never went home after that appointment and spent the rest of his life in the hospital. It was horrifying and so sad
Little person with severe scolosis - yes, it can be deadly. The curvature of the spine can press into your internal organs and compromise your breathing or cardiac functions. Plus, it's really painful. Like a stabbing, pulling pain. My back is fused from my neck down to my butt and while I still have a pretty significant curve, it's not pressing into internal organs and I have no pain whatsover.
This happened to me about two months ago now.
One Sunday, I woke up with a headache behind my right eye. No problem. Just take it easy, take an Advil, and I’ll be fine in the morning. Wednesday comes around, and the headache got worse and spread to the right half of my skull. I was rolling around and in agony. My mum sees this and says “well, this ain’t normal. We’re going to the hospital.” Mum drives me to the ER and I go through triage. They take my blood, blood pressure, temperature, vitals, and come up with nothing. I’m basically told this is just cluster headaches and while it sucks they’ll go away in a day or so. I’m sent home and told to take a Tylenol before bed. Thursday morning, the skin of my forehead is all dry and bumpy and vision in my right eye is blurry. Trusting the doctors, I figure it was just because I kept rubbing my face from the pain. It isn’t until Thursday evening I realize each of those little bumps is filled with pus. Friday morning, my dad wakes me up because he saw my face. Forehead, cheek, eye, jowl, and neck are swollen and leaking blood and pus. I am in incredible pain. Dad fucking floors it to the hospital. Doctors see me and immediately recognize that I have shingles in my face. Doctor from two days previous apologizes for misdiagnosing me and says if I wasn’t brought in that day I would have gone completely blind in my right eye. They never thought of shingles as a diagnosis because I am 24 and shingles in someone as young as me is a rarity. I was given a gauntlet of meds including painkillers, crazy antivirals, and anti-inflammation eye drops.
I am mostly recovered now, but my eyes are super sensitive to light and all the nerves on the right half of my face are shot and completely numb. I have lost some sharpness in my vision, but if we had waited one more day before going to the ER I would have been blind. For the rest of the summer, I can’t go outside without a hat and sunglasses, no matter how mild the weather is. The doctors are hopeful I will have 100% of my vision back by August. For bow, my forehead is all scars and scabs.
It isn’t crazy that they don’t think to check for rare things. Like, just to rule them out. How can they know if this is one of those “rare” cases?
I really like this narrator, his comments are hilarious :>
“CYA Paperwork” = Cover Your @$$
So for story 21 I bet lawyers would be salivating over that due to the nurse’s negligence.
Bro, cannula is one of the only words you *did* pronounce correctly 😂. (Triage was in most of the stories and was driving me crazy 😂)
My scoliosis is the result of legs with different lengths. The imbalance actually causes more injuries on my short side then my long side.
People with more severe scoliosis can develop respiratory issues due to compression
I knew it was a PE and DVT just from someone saying they sat for 20 hours. What type of acid reflex prevents you from lifting your arms?