Doctors, what's the BIGGEST case of "FAKING IT" You've ever Seen? - Reddit Podcast
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@@GeorgeIsRandom I believe I was listening to yt riding my bike. This was definitely a pocket placed comment. I think I will leave it for posterity. It's hilarious.
I work with dementia residents in an assisted living community. One resident considered a high risk for elopement (i.e. escaping) still had a cell phone. He called 911 himself and told EMS he was having chest pain. They had responded to his call of course and we couldn't refuse him care so he was taken by ambulance to the ER. As the staff were waiting for his labs to come back, he just got up, got dressed and walked out of the ER. Cops found him 3 miles away. He forgot we put a GPS tracker on his ankle. Yes, he's still here and no, he doesn't have a phone. Just because someone can't remember how to do SOME things don't assume they don't know how to do EVERYTHING! 😂😂😂😂😂
I have a similar story where I was the patient. Basically for the first 5 years of my life I was constantly throwing up, always having abdominal pain. Mom takes me to countless doctors over the years who can’t find anything. Some accuse her of lying for attention or purposely harming me so she can bring me to the hospital. Finally we see the right doctor who finds out the problem and figures out what’s causing the pain. So I had an emergency surgery and survived, although with slight everyday pain but not anything some medication can’t fix. While some people fake it, remember that sometimes the doctors, especially at some hospitals, are just idiots who don’t do the job right. It happens more than you think.
My son hurt his ankle took him to A&E(UK), they wrapped his leg up saying it was sprained ankle. He’s hobbling all the way home. Before we had a car. Then later saw him running around with his friends. Said guess your ok for school. Next day school nurse called to say his leg was hurting. I told her straight to tell him I knew his game. She called 5 minutes later to say he would just stay at school. 😂
I've never faked an illness (besides maybe once or twice pretending to have a cold to get out of school when I was a child; didn't work, my mom's a school nurse), but I do sometimes slightly exaggerate my symptoms. I've had doctors in the past that downplay my pain and discomfort, especially if it's any kind of stomach, abdominal, or headaches. I'm a woman, so those tend to get blamed on my cycle.
I used to get nasty migraines when I was a teenager that doctors kept attributing to puberty. It turns out, I was actually hypoglycemic, had low blood sugar, and wasn't eating enough protein.
I had doctors blame my pains from kidney stones on periods despite the fact that I repeatedly told them that I'm transfem and I can't have periods at all, then I was just screaming in pain all night without any painkillers as the night shift thought that im just faking it.
Morning shift found an 8 mm kidney stones that stuck in my left ureter and with the help of very strong medicines it got out of it in the end and was fractured with ultrasound in my bladder.
I live in a first world country
0/10 won't recommend
Imagine trying to pull something out of a woman, and a baby head just pops out! I’d probably faint too 😂
Kind of a twist. I was the patient. When I was 17, back when you had to take PE in school to graduate, we were playing flag football outside, early fall, first period/hour, so the grass was wet with dew and I planted my left foot to grab someone's flag and my right slipped and I ended up twisting somehow and felt and heard an audible pop, the whole class heard it. Couldn't apply any pressure for days. Finally went to an ortho who did like 1 test and promptly proclaimed I was faking it to get out of PE. FF several doctors telling me all kinds of different diagnosis over 14yrs. Finally moved to OKC and found out I had dislocated my hip and torn my labrum. I'm now 52 and in constant pain everyday, even after 2 surgeries.
this is why 2nd opinions areso important
These stories make me feel sentimental for my 24 years in the ER.
I had the polar opposite happen in the ER as a patient. Took a nose dive down a flight of stairs and was taken to the ER by ambulance. Idiot dr misdiagnosed me after several hours as having a sprained ankle. I had to insist on a second opinion because my leg and foot were 3 times their size and completley black. He came back in, punched my leg, snarled its broken! And stormed out. The radiologist had to come in and wrap my foot and leg . He used gauze. Yup. On a broken leg. Gauze. 2 days later, gauze had (naturally) fallen off so i was back in the ER where the head of the ER happened to be on duty. He looked at my leg and previous x-rays then got really quiet and said he had to call the city hospital. Came back 10 min later, ambulance had been called to take me to the city for emerg surgery. I had a maisoneuve fracture and for pittys sake DONT MOVE! 😂 2 MONTHS later i was released from the hospital.
2 months!
What a horror show!
Story 19- severe back pain, hell he doesn't know he's alive. Just had an MRI because my I had foot drop ( where the foot drops limp from the ankle). I've been in pain with my back for nearly 4 decades, but never really bothered getting it seen to, because I blamed my admittedly excess weight. Turns out I have two completely crushed disks, non-existant disks in my lower spine. I need surgery, because it's now causing causing other problems. But I've not bothered with it, because I'm my husbands carer, I help him stand, dress, lift him, all the time. I now have to look at putting him in respite care while I spend at least 6 weeks unable to lift anything heavier than a cup of tea.
I feel like because of how many people fake pain at the ER (especially teenagers) doctors nowadays don’t really take it seriously, I know because I literally almost died because doctors didn’t take my pain seriously. Here’s my story:
I get chronic migraines, a cold front happened and I felt pain in my head and summed it up as just one of those chronic migraines. I took some Tylenol and carried on, but the pain got worse and it didn’t feel the same as a migraine. It felt like something inside my skull was pushing into it, and it hurt like crazy. It ended up getting to the point where I couldn’t eat or drink anything because I would just puke it up. I was taken to an ER nearby and they just told me it was a migraine. But I remember describing it to them that it didn’t feel like one and it felt like there was something inside of my head. They ignored me and said it was a migraine and gave me the migraine cocktail. The pain medication gave me some relief and I was finally able to sleep for a night, but when I woke up, the pain was back. It wasn’t until the next week that I suddenly had a seizure. They did a brain scan on me and turns out there was something inside my head, a huge blood clot, AND, that clot also caused a fucking stroke. This happened back in march btw, I am still on blood thinners to help dissolve the clot, and on lots of huge pills that make me want to vomit every time I swallow one.
By the way, I’m 17, I had a stroke at 17.
Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy is no joke! One of the most insidious of mental illnesses! Most often the mother. And most often a small child is the innocent victim.
I think my stepmother had that. My father was her victim.
I was home health as well, had a patient who referred to a specialist appt the way an 8yr old refers to Disney World
you know UA-cam is drunk when it says 0 Comments and it has comments
Is it safe to say, UA-cam is “faking it?”
And when it says 1 replay but it has none
Or 2 replies when theres about 900
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The downside of the distributed server architecture that UA-cam must rely on.
(The upside is that it makes a platform like UA-cam possible.)
Ah yes. Having vertigo spells, sometimes passing out, optic migraines, daily nausea, and frequent episodes of involuntary shaking only to be told it's anxiety. Or "all in my head". Actually, its an autoimmune disorder and I need hormone therapy and I knew this because I am thriving and legit living my best life ever so why would I have anything to be anxious about? Second, third, forth opinions. Seek them. You know your body best.
for 18 there are different levels of blindness: total, some only see shadows and light, some have blank spots or have tunnel vision, some on;y thing that like a foot or so from their eye. so hen they say blind it could mean anything
Nice fantasy game, with people using their turn signals
That woman didn’t like her 5 kids but still had a 6th one? Are you serious? She needs to be sterilized to solve the problem.
Oh look, another person with no information about the wider situation that person found themselves in, who feels justified in passing judgement and making fun of a person who was clearly suffering. You're a disgusting excuse for a human with a complete lack of empathy.
Story 17 - The pregnant woman hurting herself, to give herself a break from the kids should try out a new prescription called CONTRACEPTIVES.
And you should enquire with your GP about getting a referral for a cranialrectalectomy.
It’s not larascopic surgery. It’s laparoscopic.
...how expensive and rare are popsicles in that area, that someone would go to an ER for them?
Eh, it's a child we're dealing with. They probably just really wanted attention as well.
You can't reason with kids that young
@@aidenbooksmith2351 I mean, you can reason with them but it’s pretty damn hard
Not a story of faking it but its still good. A guy who was totally wasted. His buddies where mostly carrying him as he was so drunk he could not walk. The guy in his drunken state tried to do the woo-hoo with a porcupine. It took the medical staff hours to pull out all of the quills from his privates. The problem was not that the quills where hard to get to to pull out it was that the medical staff had a real hard time trying to stop laughing long enough to pull out the quills from his privates.
he did WHAT with a porcupine
4:24 what would you need a greenstorm for?
lol this comment is so good
What worries me is if the woman who self harmed to get rid of her baby even had a choice in being pregnant or had access to contraceptives
Story 7 sounds like that horrible case that inspired "The Act"
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@@Auri0318 Can’t tell if this a joke or not, but otherwise, yeah I really don’t think =) means genocidal….
Its an undertake reference I think
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To be fair about the wrong leg limper, hurting one of my legs often hurts the other knee when I favor it. Disadvantages of being fat I guess. That and repeated injuries.
How many times have doctors accused people of 'faking it', and the patient has then died? Doctors are so arrogant, and think they are gods. Doctors need to LISTEN to patients, and TAKE THEM SERIOUSLY, instead o dismissing all symptoms as irrelevant.
My poor mother-in-law. Bless her congested heart. Every sickness you had, She had it 10 times worse. Now she did have quite a few surgeries, tho. And she loved bragging about everything she was doing for the church.
The seizure ones annoy me, why fake it? Real ones are horrible. The brain needle was a funny one but one that will scare them is a rescue medicine that is stuck up your butt.
The paralyzed person was trying to get a free check up
In the ER if you fake a seizure or being unconscious they take your hand and drop it over your face, if it hits your face then they believe that you are not faking it
I worked on a psych unit/detox for a few years and some of the patients would pseudo-seizure (faking it) for attention or trying to seek meds… some of them were so obvious, lol.
There are also dissociative/psychological non epileptic seizures in which the arm wouldn't drop on the face but it's still involuntary per icd 10 and 11. They have a psychological cause but people usually still have protective reflexes why they don't need intubation and this arm test is also used to distinguish between pnes/nead/dissociation/conversion or epilepsy. Especially in a mental institution it's likely that there are people who have dissociative /psychological seizures.
It is only one of several test used to determine if someone is faking, (sternum rub, etc).
So, what is BHCG exactly?
I googled it, apparently it’s a hormone that only pregnant women have
Blood HCG. HCG is a pregnancy hormone. No or low hcg, you ain't pregnant.
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The seizures could as well have been psychological non-epileptic /dissociative (conversion, non epileptic attack disorder) which are involuntary. It is unlikely for them to snap out of it when something feels treatening as it's a protective mechanism but it can still happen depending on the exact case. It'd be very unlikely for them to pee themselves on command though but not peeing or popping themselves is also used to distinguish between epilepsy and pnes/which are still involuntary as per icd 10 and 11. Especially after a stressful and potentially traumatic situation like an accident those can occur for the first time or come back up so if I had such a reaction in that situation id probably also snap on people wrongly accusing me for faking as soon as I'd be able to again. People with pnes usually don't have a post seizures phase where they sleep and can act again rather normal after the seizure is over.
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To the guy who took off health care due to one woman: wow.
8:21 12:59
13:28 Well that had to be horrifying. Jesus Christ, I have so much empathy and pity for people in this state of mind.
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Just wait until the Americans in these stories get the bill.
As you can tell, these stories take place in Canada- not the US.
I don't understand
@@primeyoriichi Some of the stories mention things that wouldn’t take place in the US
Like using Kilometers
And the place Ontario, which is in Canada
Though you can’t really tell for sure with all of the stories
@@Tawny_frond24 as someone who lives in the US, when I read the comment, I thought it was because people used the ambulance and willingly went to the doctor, that they thought it was Canada.
It is so expensive here that I would NEVER call for an ambulance, no matter how sick I am (I was rushed to the ER more than once and I took a ride there both times because of the cost of the ambulance.)
@@SwaggerChiick1a lot of US cities have free ambulance services. Mine is completely free.
Yeah, americans won’t do this stuff. We wait until we are 5 seconds from death and contemplate if it’s still worth living on being financially destitute vs death if you went to the doctor.