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Ugh. I've been accused of faking more than once. Newsflash, I wasn't. I would end up getting diagnosed at a later date. One that bugs me is when I had seizures after a TBI. I don't remember seizing and would be out of it afterwards. I came around one time with a broken nose that no one could account for. I suspect that someone performed the hand drop mentioned in the video, but I will never know. Anyhow, I ended up on antiseizure medications for a while, which did a great job of managing the seizures. They slowed down and eventually stopped. I haven't had one in a couple of years.
The stories I could tell. 😢🤬
Are you saying you woke up in medical care with a broken nose you didn't have before? If so that absolutely needs to be reported immediately.
@@TakecenterStage Yes. This was years ago. I absolutely should have reported it to someone.
I completely understand I will not go back to the ER ever again. I don't care if I crack my skull open having a seizure.
Almost died last year twice and both times my doctor and hospital ignored the issue. I had to wait out SERATONIN SYNDROME at home and then when that led to hypokalemia and dehydration and I went to the er unable to hold down fluids, they gave me Ativan and nausea meds that don't work ORALLY. 2days later went to my doctor and he prescribed me oral nausea meds, not even the ones that disolve in your mouth. Went to the ER before i even got home with my meds because i felt like i was going to die. IV fluids, IV potassium, and 4 giant horse pills of potassium later i went from barely able to stand to feeling better than I had since i had Seratonin Syndrome
As a young person with several disabilities, I understand and I'm so sorry
I liked the thumbnail on this one. House is one of my favorite shows. And it’s appropriate because one of House’s favorite things to say on the show is, “Everyone lies.”
Favorite line in House. Go.
@°EmoRat° Dad: I don't think we should do that
Forman: I think she should have a say about what happens to her body
@°EmoRat° House: *closes shades and looks at everyone* what? Mommy and daddy are having a little fight right now doesn't mean we love you less
@@taninalevin4139"you know why you're black?"
I understand the frustration of patients who say they don’t need an Rx refill when it’s clearly time for them to get one if they’d been taking their Rx correctly. However, the first thing a doctor’s mind should go to shouldn’t be that the patient is being willfully noncompliant. Check your patients insurance carrier before making any assumptions. It may be that they simply cannot afford their medication(s) and are trying their best to squirrel them away by only taking them every other or every third day.
The mention of someone having a high BAC saying they don't drink isn't unfounded. There are (admittedly an extremely low number) cases where certain peoples bodies create alcohol from specific foods.
Considering in some cases it's just runaway diabetes with a bad UTI involving yeast I'm surprised it's not showing up more. I honestly wonder how many people are just dealing with it and hiding it.
Yeah. It’s called “Auto-Brewery Syndrome”.
My husband's body does it with cane sugar
I was finally diagnosed with gastroparesis after many, many years. The thing that I hated the most, and still hate, is how many people think I'm faking even though I'm dry heaving uncontrollably. I also had a gastroenterologist decide I was faking and told me to go away. If I didn't have the gastroenterologist I have today I wouldn't be here today. Yes, a lot of people fake. But that just makes life difficult for those of us with odd symptoms that *aren't* faking.
I have a number of medical allergies, among them: Novocain. Throughout the 80's, I had doctors tell me "No one's allergic to Novocain." When I coded on the table and had to be jump started with the paddles, the doctor took me seriously. Unfortunately, I was in the military and couldn't sue the daylights out of him.
Why not?
@@thegayestgoth You cannot sue military doctors while in the military. Rules forbid this.
I get that. Doctors can be so presumptuous and arrogant. I had a doctor tell me that "chronic appendicitis wasn't real". Then he performed my appendectomy and admitted, "apparently that's a real thing".
You’re allergic to Novocain? But that’s the stuff that dentists inject into your gums when you’re having a cavity filling. So what happens when you get cavities?
@@sophthetoast1997 I actually had to talk with a specialist. My last novocain shot was in 1987. In 2016 I was in a real bad car accident that broke several bones and several teeth. So, novocain is an "esther" but lidocain (which my dentist ended up using) isn't.
A possible answer to 8:48 is, "Auto-Brewery Syndrome". That's an unfortunate condition where the food in your stomach doesn't digest properly and instead ferments into alcohol which then enters your bloodstream. In some cases, it can be controlled by changing your diet. I'm not sure how rare it is or how easily it can be treated.
I've seen a few mini-documentaries on that condition. It's really scary!
Druggies like the ones in these stories are the reason I had such a hard time getting the doctors to believe me when I said there was something wrong with my back. Ended up needing emergency back surgery or loose feeling in my legs forever.
As someone who worked in dental, I understand eventually getting a bias but I've also experienced extreme medical gaslighting and almost died due to it, so even if I suspect I still believe them. I'd rather be right and them be drug seeking and the dentist give then drugs in a safe environment than be wrong and a person who actually needs it doesnt get help because of my input. It sucks. It can be put aside but a lot don't choose to
I'm allergic to Penicillin. Thankfully there are other effective antibiotics today.
I remember reading about someone who had bowel surgery and was complaining of terrible pain in the days following it. They were told they were either over-exaggerating it or just plain lying.
They then started vomiting up nasty-smelling black gunk.
Turns out that that gunk was FAECES and that during their operation, the surgeons had sealed up their bowel.
They were a lass, btw. Gotta say, I've read/heard alot of these horror stories and -like- 80% of the time, it's happened because Docs take the bitches be crazy attitude.
Yeah. It's horribly sexist.
this happened to my grandfather with a colonoscopy in 2009
Nurses/doctors of this comment section....do you ever do the "fake seizure tests" on someone that's not faking? Do you feel like a jerk for doubting?
My gallbladder tried to kill me last year, so I sympathize. Apparently, once it was taken out, it was so far gone that, like, every specialist on my case felt the need to visit me and tell me how "gross" my gallbladder was upon removal, full of stones and covered with them as well. LOL
Sounds like a nightmare you poor soul.
Why would you fake a seizure seriously if you ever had one in your life you would not want to replicate the feeling. I know this from experience and they still don't know what's going on and it's been good five years. In the doctors have no clue
Drug seeking
I actually have alice in wonderland syndrome(I hate the name bc it makes me feel like ppl think im lying bc it juat sounds cool, so i call it Todd's syndrome instead) and i can confirm it can be extremely distressing, frustrating, and existential.
My dad was the one whoa ccused me of faking, I pleaded for him to bring me to a doctor and after 4 months of extensive medical tests we finally got an answer. I have Adrenoleukodystrophy just like my dad and now 2 months later I'm a part time wheelchair user but I'm on pain meds and physical Therapy to keep my strength. if I hadn't pleaded with him I would still be stuck in bed.
So the window wiper handle I can almost believe.
While working in south America 20 years ago many of the hotels had a squeegee in the showers to clean up the water. I once had one tip over and rest against my leg. I had this vision of slipping and having that thing impale me. It never happened but I always put them outside the bathroom while I showered after that.
Well, unexplained weightloss is a very bad sign - when you have Crohn's Disease it usually means you have a flare up.
I can guarantee that person who lost 40lbs and was in great pain was a woman and the doctor was a man. _Guarantee._ Same for the poor person with gall stones.
Doctor asked my father, "Are you saying yes because you're going to do what I told you or are you saying yes just to shut me up?"
Smart doctor.😉
When I was a kid I was playing with some handicraft supplies that involve tiny little metal beads. At one point I had the bright idea to stick one of the beads into my ear and listen to it roll down the ear canal and thump against the eardrum. I did this a few times until one got stuck it would not roll back out.
Panicking at my own predicament as well as feeling shame I decided to lie to my mother in hopes of getting medical treatment. I didn't want to say I knew what it was so I told her I feel something "blue" in my ear.
I was five years old
It's all these people faking stuff that's gets everyone else treated by the doctors and staff like their faking conditions.
How does someone get treated like a faking condition?
@@uuouuo5480 Because of all these people faking, physicans refuse to believe patients under the false belief that they're lying and only start believing it when it's already too late and the issue has progressed to a more serious state, or after a very severe episode which causes lasting damage for the patient.
Another story: I was accused by a nurse of faking a shoulder dislocation because it "didnt look dislocated". I pushed my finger through my shoulder all the way to my clavicle and was like oh yeah? Cuz this doesnt seem normal to me
Oh! I have Alice in Wonderland Syndrome! Not nearly as severe as that poor girl, though. It just means sometimes my leg is the size of a toothpick and my toe is bigger than my head
Have you learned to just ignore it or are there medication that you take to lesson the hallucinations?
I have PNES psychogenic non-epileptic seizures due to severe PTSD and I've been told a zillion times in the ER that know I'm faking it and that's bulshit I'm on meds for it so unless you know somebody's personal trauma history don't judge F this.
Thats bs people who fake it for their dumb reasons ruin it and make it difficult for the people with real issues to get the help they need and get helped with an attitude
@@Rogu666. I had 30 seizures back-to-back and I was put into a room and ignored nobody cared nobody came to check on my blood pressure nobody even sent in a doctor I know my fiance and mother-in-law were there I was simply put on ignore because pnes does not exist except for I was diagnosed with it in the Emu epilepsy monitoring unit so don't prejudge patients get a psychiatrist.
@@FallenMuse81 Unfortunately, the vast majority of medical "professionals" in the ER don't have a real understanding of PNES. They either see it as outright faking or...as a psychiatric issue. In the former, they don't think the person belongs in the ER. I can explain further, but I don't know that it would be helpful. As you stated, most MPs don't recognize PNES as a legitimate medical diagnosis. Frankly, I don't know if there's an ICD for it.
Best wishes to you. I'm glad you were finally diagnosed and offered supportive treatment. Did they recommend going to your local ER if you seized? I'm sure they would tell you to go if your seizures changed or increased. I think it would be good to come up with a strategy.
I complained to a patients' rights advocate about two situations. In one, they ended up admitting wrongdoing, and we agreed on a mandated staff education. I refused to get weighed. This is at the recommendations of other MPs. They can't refuse to EVALUATE a patient for refusing a weight. Patients have a right to refuse!!! My reasons made sense to them, and I reminded them that their "gurneys" and other medical equipment could get a weight if needed. For that matter, I offered to tell her my last, monitored weight from days before or to weigh if needed for a med dosing, which would include anesthesia.
Same, you don't get believed, told you're faking seizures. Left by yourself to have multiple seizures, scared & feeling all alone. I had one very abusive doctor in ED one day who totally humiliated me while I was seizing. I was inconsolable. By the way I'm a registered nurse & I work in ICU. I will never go back to ED again for seizures. I will stay home! I have learnt how to manage them by myself. They hurt like hell!
@@charmoz292 I used to be a nurse until the seizures got so bad that I'm on disability.
Better off buying heroin than going to the hospital for opiates; if you're in the US at least lol
Omg the ammonia salts for fake seizures is an amazing idea
I was the patient. Sunday started off normal lied down with my toddler boys for afternoon nap. Become uncomfortable and sore all over and developed intense chills. After taking DayQuil and then an hour later exorcist level vomiting I called 911. I was unable to focus for very long and didn’t feel safe to drive. I am also a single mom with no one to watch my boys at times. The EMTs came and after asking me to answer a few questions worked real hard to convince me to stay home it will pass. That night after getting my boys to sleep I tried taking a hot bath to help with the chills, it made them worse I was shaking and chattering my teeth so bad it hurt and then my hands swelled a bit and turned purple grey. I still went to bed and couldn’t sleep as the fever and chills kicked my a$$ all night so after I got my boys to school I went back to bed getting worse. Finally after they got home I was able to get my parents to watch them, we all figured it was a kidney stone and a virus. Figured they help me with the pain and either say flu or Covid. Oh boy were the EMTs and I so wrong. What had started out as a mild UTI that I was going to schedule an appointment for very quickly turned into a bacterial infection so bad I would have lost all kidney function if I hadn’t gone in. I was hospitalized 3 nights and 2 days they tried to convince me to stay one more but I needed to be with my boys. Doctors in the ER were flabbergasted by the EMTs handling of the situation because the one of the attendings came in and said my blood labs were incredible and not in a good way. So glad I trusted my self or my boys could have lost me.
Anytime I go to the doctor and tell the what the problem is they give me this reaction. Doctors suck. I’m never lying, but I bet they’ll go their whole lives believing I was. It must be nice to be privileged enough to get believed by any doctor.
Are you feeling like this doesn’t make sense to you?? Well, that’s because you’re one of the privileged ones who just gets believed and helped every time. I hope you never have to know what it’s like to be refused help that you need. But in the meantime, feel free to act superior
Geez, no wonder when The doctors wouldn’t take me seriously after I had my first seizure since I was four. Even though the signs were all there and clearly different from those of psycho genic seizures they still tried. Then one day after an appointment with a neurologist got outside and freaking started having a seizure just as I was getting into my friends car. They didn’t question it after that. Usually if I have to go in to the ER for one for hitting my head or whatever they give me Ativan so I don’t startle so easy. For some reason when I wake up for about four or five hours usually everything startles me. Considering all the crap that I had to go through to be taken seriously people faking seizures pisses me off.
Also, two in October 20 20 I was walking across some mud in our driveway. Lost my balance, and could not correct it. Told them my ankle was broken into places. My aid actually heard the bones crack, but I just felt it. It was a very odd sensation. It was really weird because because unless it was chard or anything really hurt in the bones. The EMT basically told the doctor that I didn’t know what I was talking about and I had probably just hyperextended my ankle. And luckily the doctor on call happened to be a friend of the family. Only time I’ve ever went in there was for seizures, or ear infection. But the dudes at there right in front of the doctor and the nurse and me and basically said he didn’t believe I had broken it. They got me to x-ray about four hours after I got there, they kept shooting me full of pain meds because it was obvious something was very wrong. But I didn’t ask for them lol because of the reasons stated in this video. They did the x-ray, broke two bones one on each side and then was given crutches that I cannot use. I almost fell three or four times trying. . And ended up having surgery two days later. Oh and did I mention the nurse told me to alternate sort of
Between sort of walking on it and not. The orthopedist was livid.
Doctors now think every patient is lying or exaggerating, thanks to the opioid crisis. I almost died because docs though I was a drug seeker. In truth, I had a rare GI disease that is typically fatal if left untreated for too long.
Now docs who do you believe the patient or there medical records that are wrong and 2 seconds of biology 101 for dummies would tell you that can't be right. Meaning this is one of my fave that they refuse to take out just note I'm a guy so why did I have that female birth control inserted into my female hoohaa. When the doc asked when i had it inserted i woukd say. Last time I checked any medical diagrams I don't have a hoohaa. To them looking at me looking at chart looking at me looking at chart for way to long then 5 min later fired as a patient without them looking at the reason I went in the first place
I SPENT 19 YEARS FEELING PAIN DURING PROCEDURES BECAUSE MY DENTIST ONCE TOLD ME I WAS JUST BEING DRAMATIC
When i was under the age of nine i didn't take care of my teeth enough. Wouldn't floss, wouldn't brush my teeth more than once a day etc. Because of that I had to go to the dentist kind of frequently. So one day the situation is a little worse than usual, and my dendtist needs to aplly local anesthesia,. I kept feeling everything, though, so when she started working on my tooth, 7 year old my would scream and cry in pain. She got mad, called me a spoiled brat and i left without treating it. I started going to another dentist after that and she was super nice, so obviously i would just put up with the pain whenever the anesthesia wouldn't work because i liked her and didn't want her to think i was spoiled.
But last year i was planning to get my wisdom teeth removed, and i knew i didn't like going to the dentist but i hadn't figure it out the reason for thatyet. I was trying to undesrtand why i was so scared of this surgery so i decided to not be sedated at all during the whole thing, just the local anesthesia. I had to take TWICE the amount of this crap for my mouth to go numb, and i spent my WHOLE LIFE thinking it was normal feeling pain, but i was too dramatic to take it. I almost cry while this man that i just met was HOLDING MY HEAD DOWN because he was having trouble removing one of my teeth and i wasn't' feeling ANY PAIN, it was weird but i was so happy.
2nd half of 2020 I started losing weight pretty quickly and by November I had dropped from 15 stone to 11 and a quarter? Them I started spewing and shitting while sleeping, luckily it woke me up and I ran too the toilet although not without leaving a trail, brrrrr, yuk, this happened a few times and left me as weak as a baby, then one morning I looked in the mirror and my eyes and skin were a ghastly shade of yellow? So I thought time for a check up? Long story short, I was jaundiced(obviously) and a scan showed stones in my gall bladder and my bile duct, plus some sort of blockage in my stomach? Week later I went in and got stones and blockage removed, within a week I was no longer homer simsons skin double, lol? Couldn't stop being constantly hungry for the next 3or4 months. Few weeks ago I got called back to hospital and now my liver is scarred up again and I have a swollen spleen? So here we go again with scans blood +other tests? Lol, I'm so glad we have the NHS or I'd be swimming in medical debt!! Last year was I think the 4th time I've been in hospital in the last 10 yrs and went through a year of hell getting rid of hep c (type 1)5 years before that, lol, stays in icu(8)days 5or6 on ventilator, and two weeks In high dependancy ward for botulism poisoning 7 years ago, a huge swollen bright red and steaming hot left arm due to cellulitis, left arm being bad as close to heart, couldn't see out of 1 eye due to something called eyeritis? Week's treatment then last year's shit show? That's ignoring the sciatica, no padding left in kness, dodgy r/ankle, lar dislocation of right shoulder, low blood pressure(blackouts) depression and anxiety /panic attacks? Now I know people have worse but it's not been great, lol. I shudder to think the debt I'd be in with a country with no NHS? Why do Americans hate the very idea of this? What the feck??
I've almost died TWICE because a doctor thought I was pain med seeking or attention seeking, got a second opinion and was hospitalized both times. Like dude I fucking have a phobia of IV's I'm avoiding it at all cost. As someone who worked in dental understand you eventually get some bias but it does need to be put aside. Rather be wrong than right. Now I have debilitating symptoms but wont go to the doctor because the symptoms are pretty out there and I def have trauma from those experiences. The amount of medical gaslighting I've had. I cant even get out of bed most days and cant work a normal job but I know if I go I won't be taken seriously.
That is so fucked up. You would think a professional could tell by just looking at the pained face of a patient..that is hard to fake
New vet took my cat off his epilepsy meds because he didn't trust that I was right about the symptoms. One week later he changed his tune when I showed him a video of little Elliot having a grand mal :/
It's called Alice in Wonderland syndrome?
God, who would've thought there was a word for it
I almost died because the doctor thought I was "med seeking"
I had a laparoscopy done because of endometriosis. Well they tell you at discharge that if you experience worsening pain, fever, discharge to call. Well 2 days after I was experiencing super bad pain and my lower abdomen was redding. I call and explain what's going on. She says " we gave you meds you're not getting anymore." I replied that's not what I'm calling about. I'm concerned about the growing pain and reddening skin. (I had no temperature tho). After a madding conversation they scheduled me to come in a few days. The very next day I couldn't handle the pain it was constant throbbing with intermittent stabbing. My husband took me to the ER (same place I had the lapro) I had to sit in the waiting room for 2 1/2 hrs. before they called me back. I was almost delirious with pain by then.
When the doctor lifted my shirt I was shocked my tummy had turned bright red and distended. I remember thinking well this isn't good. I was sick for months, I had 2 different emergency surgeries and 2 different extended hospital stays on IV antibiotics. After all that I spent 3 mo. with a wound vac attached to me. I WILL NEVER BE PUT IN THAT POSITION AGAIN. I don't care if the doctor doesn't like me or thinks I'm a B. They are going to listen to what I have to say. I learned a very valuable lesson about being my own advocate.
I hope I never have to go to the ER with a really painful condition again, I worry that as soon as I tell them I'm resistant to morphine and dilaudid works better they'll think I'm drug seeking. It's actually an inherited problem in my family. My Dad and I have both been on enough morphine that we should have been out, but in his case he was awake, lucid, and still complaining of pain. (He'd just had a hip replaced so being active wasn't an option for him. They actually told him he shouldn't have been able to be conscious.) I was actually pacing in my hospital room- I was having emergency surgery in the morning but was in too much pain to sleep. I didn't complain though, I don't know why, it just hadn't occurred to me, the nurse who went to check on me in the middle of the night found me like that and told me I shouldn't have been able to be awake with the dosage of morphine I was on. It did take the edge off enough that I passed out for a couple of hours, at least, which was awesome because I'd been in too much pain to sleep for 3 days. But once I'd gotten a couple to a few hours of sleep the pain once again outweighed the exhaustion. (I think I slept from sometime around or just after 8:30pm to around 11pm, but I'm not sure because looking at the clock wasn't a high priority at the time.) He suggested dilaudid, and it worked well enough that I slept until they woke me for the pre-surgery stuff. Hydrocodone/Oxycontin also don't work. One of them just makes me a little out of it, the other is like ibuprofen that gives me horribly emotionally-intense dreams. Seriously, once I got out of the hospital I only took one dose of the prescribed pain med before switching to ibuprofen so i could sleep in peace. Benzos and sleep meds don't work well on me either, I'm not sure but I suspect it could be related. My best friend is on the same anti-anxiety medication as me but half the dose, and it makes her too tired to drive so if she has to take it she has to stay home. For me, the larger dose gives me about 20-40 mins of being a bit more relaxed, similar to the effects of an alcoholic drink, which is generally enough time to get whatever my errand was done and get out of there, though if I'm having a bad day and I have more than one errand it basically means one pill per errand until I can get home. I've never met a sleep aid yet I couldn't just power through, no matter how much I wished I could sleep normally. My sister and I both have issues with the injections for dental work wearing off too quickly. She seems to have a worse time with that though. And all three of us have anxiety and insomnia. I'm sure they're all related somehow, but I'm not aware of a scientific study that would cover all of those.
Oh, that poor OP in the last story. That pain in the back and being unable to be comfortable, and throwing up were so familiar. That was the emergency surgery I had to have, I needed my gallbladder removed. Mine wasn't gangrenous though, just f*ing massive. I'm glad OP survived!
I get bad migraines, like passing out if i try to stand, throwing up if I roll over. One time Dr used dilauded. It was such a relief I cried. Naive to drug seekers at the time. Couldn't figure out why next Dr wouldn't do the same when it actually worked. It truly was the only time I ever had relief!
Hi, epileptic here, I totally understand the frustration of people faking seizures. I suffer from clonic tonic/grand mal seizures, so I go completely unconscious and seize up. I lose my memory from about 5-10 minutes before the seizure and it takes my parents multiple tries to tell me I had a seizure before I can retain memories enough to go back to sleep and wake up knowing why I'm tired. Nowadays I'm on medication, which surely helps, but I'm not totally seizure free, sadly. I will sometimes have seizures during work and school and I need my dad to bring me home. One of my more recent seizures, I fell funny and dislocated my shoulder. I would yelp in pain if I had to move, though my pain tolerance was high enough that I could at least manage going to the bathroom. Both my parents and myself just shook it off as sore, until my mom saw me trying to sleep it off, clearly in agony even when I was unconscious. I was brought to the ER to have it popped back in place, which I actually had to be put under for.
Moral? Don't fake seizures. Its a very serious thing that we epileptics need to learn to live around and its extremely debilitating for some of us. When you fake a seizure, you mock those who actually need to live with them.
technically the baby sitter could of had auto-brewery syndrome. (if you eat some breads, along with other foods, you body converts it into alcohol) but it is very rare, and sufferers tend to have a very high alcohol tolerance.
8:10 ... Who brings a window wiper into the shower with them? 🤨 (If it was one of those small boxy ones that has a door and both it and that whole wall is glass, I'd understand. I keep one of those in mine because I have the same type of shower, but I use it to clean the wet glass, not as a sex toy.)
I just dropped my hand on my face. It hurts about, as much as you would expect.
I had a seizure at the dentist office didn't even know I had one woke up I was fine until they tell me you had a seizure in your peter pants I don't think you could fake something like that weird they put me on the damn meds for it
Oh come on I loved broccoli as a kid! Maybe I’m just weird lol, maybe that kid is too
Not sure if the doctor thought I was a pain med seeker or what have you, but I went in to urgent car a couple years back because a couple nights previous I had woken up due to a sudden stabbing pain in my uterine area, a bit to the right. Worst pain I have ever felt. Ovarian cysts run in my family though so I figured it was a rupture which are typically something you can’t do much for. Knowing that I wanted to wait to go to the doctor unless I felt I really needed it. The next day it still hurt but not terribly. What worries me was even the following morning after that it hurt. So I go to urgent care, explain what was going on, and get seen. The first thing they do is test for UTI. Test negative. They ask me where the pain is and what direction it is. It was side to side. When the doctor herself came in I got about ten words in before she “diagnosed” I had pulled a muscle (an up and down type pain/injury) and told me to eat yogurt and drink water (which is treatment for a UTI.)
Over the following months I have this happens few more times and turns out I had about a dozen cysts on my ovaries and several had ruptured. Thankfully there were no complications but after discussing with that doctor she said that having actual pain (versus some discomfort) was indicative of a very large one having ruptured and I’m lucky there weren’t complications 🙃
This is off-topic, but a bartender once told me that if someone looked underage trying to buy alcohol, he'd ask to look at their hands and say "nah, you're not 18". All the actual minors would be wide-eyed and incredulous and ask how he knew just from looking at their hands. All the 18+ would call him out on it.
What
Me waiting for my previous school nurse to mention the time I faked a broken arm
I feel like a lot of doctors are so convinced about younger people faking for drugs or attention that they refuse care to people who actually need it.
About a week ago, I went to the ER for heart attack symptoms. And I dont mean simple chest pain. I mean every classic symptom you could experience during a heart attack. But they didn't listen to me.
I went to an urgent care 2 days later for worsening pain. Thankfully it was not a heart attack but rather an extremely severe form of inflammation in my chest that mimicked one. One simple prescription later and its tolerable.
Look, all I'm saying is listen to your patients. Unless they have a recent history of drug seeking behavior, dony gamble someone's life for your own self satisfaction
When I was 11 my legs started hurting so bad. And then started swelling and turning blue randomly. Went to a summit ortho, where I saw this lady. She ran 2 tests and both came back negative. Told my mom it was all in my head (the pain). Fast forward 2 years, I've been in and out of 6 psych wards, and 3 treatment programs, still in pain.
Went to shriners hospital and that first day I was diagnosed with malrotation of my 2 leg bones and needed surgery.
Now I have severe chronic pain in my legs.
Oh also last year I had an ear infection that made me go deaf. Anyways they gave me an anti fungal ear drop that felt like acid. Was writhing in pain. The doctor said I wasn't in pain and was just drug seeking. At 15.
Yeah.
some of these cases would be Munchausens
The main reason I clicked was because I am currently enjoying House
"I just fell on it"
Feel so bad for people who are in genuine pain. Yes ,some poeple really need prescribed medication, believe it or not !!.i have had 4 back surgeries 3 of them fusions. Last one was 2018. The amount of pain relief I received during the last 2 was ridiculous!!.
Still have pain which limits me in many ways but living through it . I do not receive opioids.
Fun fact: back pain is the number 1 symptoms of seeking drugs in ER
...that dropping-the-arm-on-the-face is utter bull ppl heard on TV or movies...
We had a patient once.
Presented with sweaty palms,
Weakness of the knees.
Complained about arms feeling heavy.
We also noticed puke on his sweatshirt.
Conclusion.. moms spaghetti..
I like that you put dr.House in the thumbnail great show
I was getting mild geometrical visuals while on an antipsychotic in a psych ward. The psychatrist said i was lying because Im "not the kind of person to hallucinate." When I got discharged, the hallucinations became much more vivid
Fake seizures. Reminds me of the Gus Van Sant movie “Drugstore Cowboy”….
What I don't get is how stupid you have to be to not assume there's a darned good reason for the food/drink prohibition before a proceedure, even if you don't actually know the specifics.
one time i got so high i thought i had a seizure and stopped smoking for like 2 months
Never lie to your doctor, your lawyer or your plumber. Aint worth it.
No bullshit. The dude in the thumbnail looks like an old employer of mine
had to take a lawyer with me to a doc appointment to get treated for ovarian cancer because i was told fat women just have weird periods ...no this one had stage 3 cancer caused by a genetic condition. Listen to your patients
Every case needs to be taken seriously. What happens if you dismiss a case that you are sure is BS and they die. It doesnt look good at all
When I was in surgery as a kid my mom would just tell me to sleep if I was hungry and I did 🙃
Well, at least loud music guy won't have to lie for much longer.
Please please use a diffrent voice thing.
I hope the dialysis guy got their kidney
AW HELL YEAH HOUSE!!!
I am kind of annoyed how often they talk about "fake" seizures. Of course there are obviously some people that are in here the do it for the meds.. But there is something called "psychiatric seizures" where you are actually awake but can't control yourself 100%
You might be able tho to react to speach etc after a few min into seizing... It is a disorder tho.. Just because it isn't a "normal" neurological seizure doesn't mean it isn't a very real or terrifying experience for the patient.
Why lie? 😂
Profoundly deuche why
I have no idea why people get hooked in opiates
I was on oxycodone when my femur was broken due to a car accident and it was the worst intoxicant I have ever had, it got rid of most of the pain, but i always felt sick when I took it
The second I got out of hospital I traded my oxy script to my dealer for a couple ounces of weed, it wasn't quite as effective at dulling physical pain, but I was so ripped that I didn't care, and I actually thought it was funny as fuck for some reason
I actually have epilepsy (tonic-clonic) were you shake on the floor. You gotta piss yourself to make it realistic.
Protip: If you or your pets ever have a bad reaction to drugs, its A OK to tell medical/vet staff specifics. Phrase it like "well, we were out in international waters and we think he might've gotten into [drug]". If you need to tell EMS, either tell any nearby cops to gtfo or get the paramedic by themselves. They don't care, they need to know whether they need narcan or something else.
Sussy Baka
I'm a disabled man who trys not to complain too much. I'm also on Dilaudid after 2 back surgeries which fused 3 lower discs and still have 3 herniated discs that I don't want fused as I can barely touch my feet. I'm on a medium dose of Dilaudid. 3 years ago I have a heart attack, 2 1/2:years ago I get a pain like nothing I've ever had, back and heart didn't hurt that bad! Pain was all over my abdominal region and could pee ( those that know where I'm going are probably having sympathy pains ) I had 4 kidney stones that were big by normal standards, tell the ER nurse and Dr I'm my history, how much pain I'm in etc. For some reason they put it down I'm drug seeking, I have a pain Dr Insee every month and its strictly controlled and never had an issue. They leave me in the back for 45 minutes in major pain finally a different Dr comes in to hear my story, He says I hear you want pain meds, I tell I need something because my prescribed Dilaudid isn't touching this, he looks at me weird, gets a nurse to hook me up to a monitor and my BP is over 220/115 heart rate is over 100 He asked me if I was being treated for the back pain I say yes I'd given all the info on a printout to the other Dr. He says We need to get you calmed down before you have another heart attack, comes back with morphine, a good shot, 15 minutes later I've improved very little, comes back with fentanyl
And I feel my whole body relax, while I'm out my daughter says she hears the Last doctor just reeming the first Doctor, says I was on the verge of a heart attack and if he had done even a basic workup he would have seen I was in real distress but on top of that why would I be drug seeking when I had a pain management Doctor for over 4 years and I had given them a paper with his and my other Doctors name on it. My Daughter said when the last Doctor came back in his face was tomato red he was so mad. BTW I had to be cathed for 6 weeks because of the blood thinners I was on, had I passed any of those stones I would've most likely bled out.
Unfortunately I have other stories.
At this time is 690 is the like count nice