23:07 - What those parents did should allow them to be charged for gross negligence and child endangerment. Imagine the scenario took a turn for the worst: your child goes in for one of the most routine procedures only for the doctor to come and say they died on the operating table because you as a parent were stupid enough to disregard a simple instruction.
Coin flips both ways tbh. I have chronic pain, and I've struggled to have it taken seriously. I've even had to tell a couple urgent care doctors, through tears, "I don't want pain meds. I want answers. Please help me."
The kicker is that on the off chance a doctor has offered anything stronger than NSAIDs, I've said no every time. Every SINGLE time, and they still treat me like I'm drug seeking. Painkillers aren't gonna make my reproductive organs better. Granted, they might make me feel better short term, but I want a long term solution more.
Worst fake seizure I’ve seen was the lady making a snow angel on the floor of a train, clearly trying to convince the person she was with that she was epileptic. I looked at her and said, seriously? Then I looked up and utterly embarrassed her with this is clearly a fake seizure. During a real seizure, one tends to swallow their tongue. Cue attempts to swallow tongue. Then I add, you can’t actually swallow your tongue. Lady stopped her theatrics and returned to her seat, totally beat red.
The fact that she wasn't at all embarrassed by getting on the floor and making an ass of herself by faking a medical emergency but was when she was called out really shows how terrible some people are.
I worked with a mentally ill woman who loved to fake seizures on the busses. She was banned by many drivers. We'd just walk past her when she'd do it at the group home. She was just attention seeking. Pretty sad she was an old lady.
Right? it’s impossible to swallow your tongue, even during a seizure. People that say they’ve swallowed their tongue during a seizure is an easy way to tell they’re lying 🤥
@@hhlech2852 I know. That’s why I use the swallow tongue line. It’s a very common misconception, and people used to put things in the seizing person’s mouth thinking this.
I remember being told by the nurse I was “faking” a leg injury. My mother looked at my knee and decided to take me home anyway. Turned out it was injured, and I still have complications from it to this day
Now they treat everyone as faking and even if you are in undeniable pain with something that can’t be faked, you are lucky to get Tylenol. *Maybe* a 5 mg Percocet. I had a gallstone blocking my bile duct, severe pain and infection. Got a tiny bit of morphine in the ER one time at the beginning and during surgery. Second I got out the nurse told me (as I’m in tears) that I could have a single Tylenol and a single Advil 4 hours after that and “stop overreacting”. After being cut open. Honestly, you have a better opportunity of pain relief from drugs on the streets. My mom is a case manager for a large healthcare system and last week had a zoom meeting with a pain management specialist who said all patients are getting some non narcotic patch and being weans off opioids (regardless of diagnosis).
Can they sue for malpractice since the doctors refused to treat properly even though it was actually something severe. A few years ago this happened where i woke up with an awful abdominal pain on the right side where it was was painful to breathe. I went to an ER and was told it was a stomach ache and take pepto. I lingered at home for 3 days with my side hurting and I went back to the hospital and told them something didn’t feel right and to please be seen. After begging and crying from the pain they finally got me admitted and ran tests. Afterwards they got a CT scan and 30 minutes later they discovered I had appendicitis. I was so pissed off that they brushed me off 3 days ago for a stomach ache and it turned out it was something extremely serious. I hate hospitals because of that.
I can feel when I'm being "tested" by ER doctors and/or pain management doctors when I report an above-5 on the pain scale and they ask me what they can give me to feel relief, and I know it's because they get a revolving door of people who come in where the first word out of their mouth is "dilaudid." There's definitely a difference in the vibe of the room when I *don't* name-drop a high-risk med---like it gets way less awkward and things move along much faster.
Pain pill seeker.... I have had chronic in the spine, both knees and right hip for nearly 16 years.... They have done every painful test and did everything the doctors asked... for awhile they had me on morph, I didn't like it, too many headaches so I asked to change to a hydro code the headaches stopped and though I was hurting more it was what I could handle.... that is until newbie pharmacist f'd it all up... Labeled me a pill seeker and cannot get any pain meds.... however my cousin is on high doses of opio ds has been in rehab numerous times and had her teeth removed to get more pain meds... nope my cousin is not labeled a pill seeker and is given what my cousin wants.... Many times it is like my cousin is so out of it like falling asleep while eating
I went to the doctor when i was 20 was having weird nerve pain etc. My father and aunt both have MS so i said is it possible that i may have that as well? He then asked me if i drank milk i said no I'm lactose intolerant. He said then you dont have MS. Went for a second opinion when DR no.1 sent my records to DR no.2 had marked me down as drug seeking behavior. So that one treated me like garbage as well. Went 10yrs just dealing with it until i eventually lost all function in my right arm all at once one morning when i woke up. Went to the ER they did an MRI fearing i had a stroke. They found legions on my brain and a wk later after spinal tap etc. I was diagnosed with MS. With all that said DR's can be real short sited and think everyone is trying to get drugs from them.
@@ettinakitten5047 it wasn't that i was lactose intolerant it was that i didn't drink milk. To him i guess milk is the leading cause of MS. Ya dude was a total idiot.
I'm not a doctor, but as a fellow patient I wanna tell you (and anyone else who reads this novel of a reply) that there are absolutely compassionate doctors out there who approach patients in a very neutral and attentive way. Some of the doctors (maybe not all, but it's hard to judge from just reddit comments) even in this video could be coming from a place of concern. Like in the case of the dilaudid lady: no one wants to subject a person to a hardcore medication and the potential for substance dependency if they don't absolutely need it and the benefits outweigh the risks. That doctor could absolutely have saved her life from the possibility of ODing (which would cause seizures!) or even from the possibility of actually escalating to genuinely hurting herself so she would actually need the opiates. The fact that, according to them, they're the first person to stand up and tell that lady "No" and also to go above and beyond to confirm that giving her those meds would be harm instead of life-saving care took a lot of guts. Circling back to your biggest concern: when you're trying to find a doctor, read the reviews and really see what the patients are saying. Look for patient testimonials that emphasize that the doctor took their time in the appointment and really listened to them. You want a doctor who is going to treat your provider/patient relationship like a team effort and who is going to use your reported history as a guideline for their knowledge. Those doctors are absolutely out there---and there are absolutely more of them then there are jaded people or just flat-out bad eggs who don't take their patients' complaints seriously. You just don't hear about them nearly as much because most people don't speak out about good experiences like they do about bad ones. tl;dr, doctors who come across as dicks might be dicks, but they might also be trying to protect patients from harm; also good doctors are out there and are eager to help, but you have to look for the diamonds in the rough to find the right fit for you. You got this! I hope that you are able to be seen and to be treated the way that you need to be soon so that you can start your healing journey (or even just your journey to maintaining a happy quality of life with an illness).
Don't worry. The worst they can do is not believe you and you go to another doctor then. If you aren't faking being unconscious, you can argue, they can run tests etc. No one will risk saying "goodbye you are faking" to a patient who is at an actual risk. No one will throw an unconscious person on the pavement and close the door. "Tests" like the hand above face tests are quick and easy, but it's almost zero chance for a false negative. An unconscious person will slap themselves on the face. A dedicated conscious one will too,from what I just checked. My nose just hurt quite a lot more than I thought it would. But if I was unconcious, I wouldn't get hurt or anything from this at all, my face was fine after like a minute. Being mean to patients is only to check if they feel bad enough to accept umcomfortable treatment, cause if they aren't, they probably aren't as hurt as they say they are.
I know this is an older comment, but know that you can always ask a doctor for names of doctors they personally recommend for a second opinion if they don't believe you. If you come in and you are as honest as possible, you try to explain things to the best of your abilities, most doctors absolutely will believe you. They may not jump the shark and give you the medicine you might need right at the start, but they'll see if there's other options or maybe ask you see a specialist or do some tests to figure things out. Lots of doctors don't believe me, but if they talk to my therapists or they allow me to explain myself (I do too much research into what's wrong with me lol), then they tend to start believing me. There are some shitty doctors out there, but don't let that stop you from getting the help you need. You're the most important person in your own life, so good luck and I wish you well!
My mom is literally the reason they stopped keeping medication in er rooms. She used to take me to the hospital with her and have me watch while she stole all the morphine and needles from unlocked drawers/cabinets. We then had bonding time while she taught me how to inject her back. She complemented me for only a small bead of blood after doing so. Turns out she’s been off and on meth my whole life
People like that are why people who need it can't get medication. I have no sympathy for them and wouldn't give them the steam of my urine in the winter time. Jerks.
They haven't kept morphine unsecured in ERs since the 1969...and it was The Controlled Substance Act of 1970 that caused it but most hospitals had been doing it since they opened
You poor soul. No one deserves to have an addict parent. I'm on and off meth too in the moment, but it's only been a few weeks and I'm gonna be off for a long time. I know because it's more than my will that I will be off. I'm also really struggling to get off opiates completely, I'm down to a dose that just keeps me going for the moment, planning to go lower and lower. Anyway, these are just teeny tiny doses of codeine compared to multiple lethal doses of oxy every day as I used to do. But I would never let a child watch this hell. I will no longer let anyone. Stay strong out there you brave soul. You've suffered more than enough.
@@cadenward8577 well, I recently went no contact with my mother. She’s never been nice to me in any way, I always blamed her bipolar but I’m done making excuses for someone who couldn’t care less about me. Her way of trying to get me back is insulting me, pushing me harder into my choice. I’m in therapy weekly for the foreseeable future, pregnant, a homeowner, but unfortunately too mentally ill to be working. Every day I’m pushing forward and I think that’s good for now. Thank you for asking
When I was last in the hospital, the nurses INSISTED that I get a dose of pain meds when they put in an IV. I said no to the insistence. I had a multi-night stay, and this would happen every-other time a nurse would pop in to check on me. I didn't need it any time they offered. Eventually, the doctor came around, saw that I was fit to discharge, and straight up offered to send me home with a prescription for the good shit. I said no again, lmao. To this day, I still don't understand why everyone was so hot and bothered to say I should get on pain meds. I had vague discomfort (that I never personally mentioned in the first place, my mother did off-handedly when I was being scooted into a room) and not life-ending agony. They refused to believe I had _maybe_ a level two pain at the worst of it. Think, like, the beginning of a dehydration headache most the time. That's what they were basically begging to medicate away. This is literally the opposite of most people's reality, and I don't know what it is about me that made them flip the script.
Speaking of seizures and pain meds, I have to deal with something that is pretty frustrating no matter what I do. Thankfully I don’t have seizures very often, but I do have them. I’ve told just about everybody I know not to call 911, because I’m going to be fine. it may look really bad, but I’m not gonna die or anything. But there have been a couple of times when I have ceased in public or around a bunch of people who I didn’t know very well. So of course, they called the paramedics, and I end up in the hospital. a lot of the times after I come out of a seizure, I have what I can only describe as the migraine from hell. The bitch of it is though, I don’t dare ask for anything for the pain. There’s just no way to do that without it sounding like, I’m drug seeking when I swear that’s not the case. i’m guessing assholes like the ones in this video are the reason why.
I drive a Porsche, and one day I was trying to find a parking spot when i see an old lady walking ahead of me. I stop to let her cross, she proceeds to do the whole bump into your car and fall on the ground thing. This lady was probably in her 60s rolling around on the concrete moaning "this man just hit me". While she was playing possum someone asked what happened and i said "this lady is saying I hit her" without missing a beat she sits up and screamed "You did hit me!" Then goes back to laying on the floor. The Cops, the fire department, and an ambulance all came for this one woman and none of them were falling for her BS. She told them that I was recklessly driving though the parking lot and struck her. When they reviewed the security camera it literally showed me going through the lot at at most 5mph, me stop for her, and her purposefully bump into my car and flop on the ground. They sent me on my way. I have no idea what happened to the lady afterwards lol.
Pneumothorax is a particular type of pain, after several bouts you learn to recognize it ec before it shows well on an x-ray. Me in ER: my left lung is collapsing. ER doc, looks at x-ray: nope, looks fine. Actual Radiologist: 5% collapse, you're getting too good at this, Kitty. Come here dr.x, let me show you what you missed. Teaching moment 😂
Remember the saying _“When you hear hoof beats, think horses, not zebras”_ is not accurate, first think where you are and which 'hoof bets' are common on your location, those hoof beats could be giraffes or camels too depending on your location.
This has me worried a doctor didn’t believe me when I said my favorite food was broccoli. I ate wayyyy to much of it when I was little but being overweight it didn’t look it.
I will definitely tell you that migraine with Aura is absolutely HORRIBLE. I honestly don't wish it on my worst enemy. For those that suffer with them, the effects are debilitating. 😢
It's literally insane, I can't even count how many foods I now can't eat because when I'd get migraine and had eaten something before it would come back up and after all that puking and insane headaches I just can't even look at certain foods without getting nauseous. Not to talk about how any light and smells or even warm air make me wanna actually kill myself
Vet tech here. That one about just telling us what your pet ate…PLEASE DO! Like it says we don’t give a FLIP if you have illegal substances and you won’t get in trouble. We just want to help your animal! Please don’t risk your pets life!
My sister had her tonsils removed when she was 18 or 19. When they were going through their checklist they asked her what she had for breakfast. She responded confidently "Froot Loops!" She is now a registered nurse.
Just think of all the patients who get unnecessary CT scans and whatnot because they're lying to the doctor. That stuff is expensive, and a waste of resources! Having said that, sad to see so many people addicted to alcohol and opiates.
I've only had a seizure once, I don't remember a thing except slowly coming to on my living room floor and gagging. My body hurt so much afterwards and I was so exhausted bc all my muscles were flipping shit... to this day, there was no discernable cause, but jfc who???? Would even WANT to fake that? It sucks ass! I felt like I'd run 50 miles while flapping my arms, my whole body was so sore! And anti-seizure meds don't make you high, so like???? Tf these morons doing???
They do! Benzos like diazepam or clonazepam for example are anti-seizure if I remember correctly and they definitely do make you high in higher doses. If the high is pleasurable or not, that's another discussion, at least to me, but it's a feeling of being high nevertheless I'm sorry for any spelling mistakes and whatnot, I'm not a native speaker and I'm not an expert in english drug names, I just hope I got my point across
I also paralyzed my arm for real and I can't feel a damn thing. It was as dead a fish. I called it my "dead fish arm" lol I got about 90percent of it usage now thanks to surgery.
i have had a history of doctors not believing anything is wrong with me due to my weight??? like anything i feel is apparently fake bc i am slightly overweight. it infuriates me so much. went to a NURSE instead of a doctor, and she actually took me seriously and my lab work came back and something actually is wrong! so yea.. moral: sometimes drs don’t really know everything🤷🏻♀️
I have epilepsy (called petite mal) I hate when people fake seizures (Note: Not a doctor). Not me, but my dad had a doctor tell him lose weight and stop smoking (I wasn’t alive yet) and supposedly the doctor was fat and smoked.
I assume many people don't know when you are having a seizure? That's what Petite Mal is, right? When you don't fall over and shake but you kind of zone out on your feet? I'm not epileptic or a doctor, so I don't really know. I have seen people have Grand Mal seizures, looks scary.
@@tomzimmerman8 I take medication actually which prevents them. Have been seizure free for years. As a kid, nobody knew. It looks like I was daydreaming. Funny thing is my brother always said (name here) has epilepsy. My brother has grand mal, his seizures were triggered by old screens. He is lucky and doesn’t take meds.
@@heartroll8719 Old screens? Like old cathode-ray tube "boob tube" televisions? How strange. I thought it was completely random. So do newer plasma screens have no effect? I'll bet your brother is glad to be living in the post-CRT era.
@@tomzimmerman8 Yeah. Or computer screens. At our old dentist, he couldn’t sit in the waiting room because of the tv. He also went to the movies with his girlfriend last year, and the projector was bothering him so they left. Mine used to be caused by stress and bad sleep.
I get told I'm "pain med seeking" if I have to go to the ER for my month long migraines. They're surprised when I say my pail level is over a 10, but show no signs of being in pain. I mean, when you have pain for over a month, you kind of ignore it to a point. Docs could never find anything wrong with my brain except my blood vessels being constricted in my scalp. Yeah, that's usually what causes migraines.
20:21 ok this is a little off topic but this story reminded me of this kid (I think he's 10ish?) at my church whose favorite food is pickles. He loves pickles more than candy, cake, cookies, etc. He would eat pickles all day, every day, for every meal if he could. Some kids are weird lol
My former coworker claimed to have seizures brought in by stress and gave explicit instruction to NOT call an ambulance should he have one as he had a bad experience one time. We tried to be understanding with it, but he spent most of shift outside because of being supposedly overwhelmed… by a single customer walking in the door. He was witnessed during a “seizure” in which he gently lowered himself to the floor. Once the shift lead suggested to another coworker calling 911, he was just fine. The second incident was with my boyfriend working. He didn’t even hesitate to just call 911 before calling the manager about what’s going on. Manager said he made the right call bringing in EMT. Turns out the Dx was pseudo seizure. Kid wasn’t epileptic.
If he has Functional Neurological Disorder (Conversion Disorder) his pseudo seizures are very real and are anxiety related. I have them and I absolutely make sure noone mistakes them for epilepsy because how they are treated is very different and being given epilepsy meds would be dangerous. Any doctor/EMT who thinks they are fake needs a crash course from a neurologist. They can be debilitating.
@@michellebush7353 he’s told us he’s epileptic when though. If we call 911, that’s the information WE were given and would relay as witnesses. Not to mention he’s always extremely careful with not being on camera, lowering himself gently, and whatever else he can do to look like he’s had a seizure. The problem is he’s trying to get out of work, and we know that’s what it is. Again he’ll walk outside when a single customer comes in. He doesn’t play like that when working with me as I’ve snapped back at him a few too many times. Like no, you’re not being paid to sit outside. You’re paid to work.
Never saw a patient fake anything (yet), but I know I'm not someone doctors believe me most of the time when it comes to my mental health problems. Legit had a doctor not believe I had symptoms of depression when I was a very young child, even though I have vague memories of those moments and my own mother could back me up. Found a good psychiatrist that has no idea why my problems started so early in life, but fully believes me and it's nice to be heard.
The unintentional weight loss one hit close to home. Some issues are difficult to diagnose even with modern methods. Superior Messanteric Artery Syndrome could be a cause. This artery and the aorta can come together to form a "clothespin" around the duodenum and even pinches the renal vein in advanced cases, causing gross hematuria. Never ignore weight loss with excruciating pain. 😢
Not a doctor but I had an ex that was 100% just dramatic. Long story short I split my face open (my fault but mid fight) and was literally holding a pad up to my head because heads bleed a lot I found out. Anyway, I called the ambulance on myself, she was screaming in the background with a knife about unaliving herself. The person on the phone said “I know it’s difficult but can you ask the victim to try calm down I cannot hear you at all” I went out the front and said “I’m the victim, I’m not sure what’s wrong with her” we were CONSTANTLY at the hospital and I would hear the doctor tell her she was fine but than she would tell anyone with ears it’s a worst case scenario type of thing. Both of her parents were “dying” the entire 3 years we were together, they went to the doctors like a couple of times? Nearly 10 years later they’re alive and fine enough to not be living in a hospital (like she insinuated) anyway. We were only 15 when we met. 🙄
I had reconstructive surgery on my ankle and because I didn’t have insurance I was treated like a drug addict I was in pain couldn’t walk because I was doing my own physical therapy at home watching UA-cam vids( probably wasn’t the best idea but I couldn’t afford pt) it got to the point it was unbearable but when I went in I told the doctor I was in pain and he gave me a look my brother gives you before yelling at you so I said I’m sorry I’m in pain he scuffed and said Tylenol would work and he won’t be prescribing me pain meds because I’ll abuse them .. little did he know I only took those pills when I was in tears but I didn’t want to say anything so I suffered through that pain for 5 months it hurts so much but I understand people take advantage of the system and I assume he thought I was drug addict , plus since I didn’t have insurance I wasn’t top priority… American Healy system for the win I guess at least they fixed my ankle
People who fake diseases and injury are just assholes and there needs to be some sort of penalty when they are caught for sure. They ruin for people with real problems. But I think the doctors should still give pain meds when in doubt and someone may be in serious pain (unless there is a good medical reason you cant)
As an epileptic, I would guess it’s because during a real seizure you’re unconscious. And after you wake up you (well I do) have no memory of what just happened. If I have multiple, I get medicine.
I got a good chuckle scrolling down to this because it made me think of all the times I bargained with attendings to sign off on me going home early. 😂 Sometimes you'd just rather low-key suffer in the peace of your own home than be stabilized in the hospital but subjected to the constant beeping and to being woken up at 3 AM to have your blood drawn by the vampires. Fingers crossed you don't need to be admitted any time soon! (Sidenote, your sculpting is cool as hell!)
On the note of the kid wanting a cast: I ate it off my bike when I was 13. It was sore, but I’d broken my ankle before and this didn’t hurt nearly as bad. I insisted it wasn’t broken and flopped my hand around to show my mom it was fine. She made me get X-rays and I went home with a cast.
My mom's a nurse and the liar was me. When I was like 7, my twin sister couldn't go to school because she had a stomach ache, so my mom was gonna ask her friend to look after my sister for the day since both of our parents had to work. For some reason, I thought my sister would be lonely so I lied and said my stomach hurt too so I could keep her company.
As someone with epilepsy every time I see people who fake seizures on TikTok or hear ab it it makes me sad. You don’t want to be on meds that make u feel like ass, you don’t want to lose months of memory or piss yourself in public bc you can’t help it, or not have a license at 18, or have scars from seizing in dangerous places. Epilepsy isn’t something that gets u attention it’s something that changes your life forever. This brain damage isn’t cute
I have seizures for real and half the time I can't remember having one when I wake up from one. Also I was in this accident where I almost broke every bone and I lost weight because of the pain. I didn't want to eat at all. Also having DID can't remember other personalities and get a lot of headaches. Its because of the people that fake it the doctors have a hard time taking anything seriously.
I should have known there'd be a story about dilaudid however it's spelled . that stuff gave me a bad panic attack. The only thing that seems to work really well most of the time for pain is non narcotic toradol but my Dr. says that one can do kidney damage, insurance wont pay for toradol for pain but will pay for loritab which is narcotic. This makes no sense at all and even the pharmacist said that didn't understand why the insurance wouldn't pay for the non narcotic toradol but will pay for lo5itab, I could have bought the toradol but it was like 27 something so not unaffordable but just more than i wanted to spend so I just took ibuprofen anyway, IDK what i'd do if I ever wind up in real pain again, last time it was kidney stones which are extremely painful and the dilaudid they gave me a shot of just made me real bad panic attack and the nurse was being a bitch not understanding that i was having a panic attack
I think they should start having a fine for faking medical problems, or maybe prison instead where healthcare is expensive. But only when they know for sure. And if they dont know for sure, doctors should help just in case (unless the medicine could be dangerous)
Yup. Give them the full workup to make sure this isn't just a hidden problem, and once it's 100% clear they're faking slap 'em with a fine for wasting time and resources that could have been spent on other patients.
@@ovinedreamer1451 Yes, and its not "just" wasting time, but increasing the risk that people who genuinely have the health problems dont get believed and dont help. I think giving expensive fines to the people who fake it and get caught for sure, could help lower the cost for people who actually need treatment as well. And when people do stop faking, you freed up more time and resources to help patients that actually need it
23:07 - What those parents did should allow them to be charged for gross negligence and child endangerment. Imagine the scenario took a turn for the worst: your child goes in for one of the most routine procedures only for the doctor to come and say they died on the operating table because you as a parent were stupid enough to disregard a simple instruction.
Coin flips both ways tbh. I have chronic pain, and I've struggled to have it taken seriously. I've even had to tell a couple urgent care doctors, through tears, "I don't want pain meds. I want answers. Please help me."
The kicker is that on the off chance a doctor has offered anything stronger than NSAIDs, I've said no every time. Every SINGLE time, and they still treat me like I'm drug seeking. Painkillers aren't gonna make my reproductive organs better. Granted, they might make me feel better short term, but I want a long term solution more.
Worst fake seizure I’ve seen was the lady making a snow angel on the floor of a train, clearly trying to convince the person she was with that she was epileptic. I looked at her and said, seriously? Then I looked up and utterly embarrassed her with this is clearly a fake seizure. During a real seizure, one tends to swallow their tongue. Cue attempts to swallow tongue. Then I add, you can’t actually swallow your tongue. Lady stopped her theatrics and returned to her seat, totally beat red.
The fact that she wasn't at all embarrassed by getting on the floor and making an ass of herself by faking a medical emergency but was when she was called out really shows how terrible some people are.
I worked with a mentally ill woman who loved to fake seizures on the busses. She was banned by many drivers. We'd just walk past her when she'd do it at the group home. She was just attention seeking. Pretty sad she was an old lady.
Right? it’s impossible to swallow your tongue, even during a seizure. People that say they’ve swallowed their tongue during a seizure is an easy way to tell they’re lying 🤥
I have epilepsy and you are wrong. We don’t swallow our tongue.
@@hhlech2852 I know. That’s why I use the swallow tongue line. It’s a very common misconception, and people used to put things in the seizing person’s mouth thinking this.
I remember being told by the nurse I was “faking” a leg injury. My mother looked at my knee and decided to take me home anyway. Turned out it was injured, and I still have complications from it to this day
19:00 Is OP *sure* that patient was lying? My first thought was a delusion.
You know it really sucks for those who actually are in pain but the doctors think they are faking it because of so many fakers
Now they treat everyone as faking and even if you are in undeniable pain with something that can’t be faked, you are lucky to get Tylenol. *Maybe* a 5 mg Percocet.
I had a gallstone blocking my bile duct, severe pain and infection. Got a tiny bit of morphine in the ER one time at the beginning and during surgery. Second I got out the nurse told me (as I’m in tears) that I could have a single Tylenol and a single Advil 4 hours after that and “stop overreacting”. After being cut open.
Honestly, you have a better opportunity of pain relief from drugs on the streets. My mom is a case manager for a large healthcare system and last week had a zoom meeting with a pain management specialist who said all patients are getting some non narcotic patch and being weans off opioids (regardless of diagnosis).
Can they sue for malpractice since the doctors refused to treat properly even though it was actually something severe. A few years ago this happened where i woke up with an awful abdominal pain on the right side where it was was painful to breathe. I went to an ER and was told it was a stomach ache and take pepto. I lingered at home for 3 days with my side hurting and I went back to the hospital and told them something didn’t feel right and to please be seen. After begging and crying from the pain they finally got me admitted and ran tests. Afterwards they got a CT scan and 30 minutes later they discovered I had appendicitis. I was so pissed off that they brushed me off 3 days ago for a stomach ache and it turned out it was something extremely serious. I hate hospitals because of that.
I can feel when I'm being "tested" by ER doctors and/or pain management doctors when I report an above-5 on the pain scale and they ask me what they can give me to feel relief, and I know it's because they get a revolving door of people who come in where the first word out of their mouth is "dilaudid." There's definitely a difference in the vibe of the room when I *don't* name-drop a high-risk med---like it gets way less awkward and things move along much faster.
Pain pill seeker.... I have had chronic in the spine, both knees and right hip for nearly 16 years.... They have done every painful test and did everything the doctors asked... for awhile they had me on morph, I didn't like it, too many headaches so I asked to change to a hydro code the headaches stopped and though I was hurting more it was what I could handle.... that is until newbie pharmacist f'd it all up... Labeled me a pill seeker and cannot get any pain meds....
however my cousin is on high doses of opio ds has been in rehab numerous times and had her teeth removed to get more pain meds... nope my cousin is not labeled a pill seeker and is given what my cousin wants.... Many times it is like my cousin is so out of it like falling asleep while eating
I went to the doctor when i was 20 was having weird nerve pain etc. My father and aunt both have MS so i said is it possible that i may have that as well? He then asked me if i drank milk i said no I'm lactose intolerant. He said then you dont have MS. Went for a second opinion when DR no.1 sent my records to DR no.2 had marked me down as drug seeking behavior. So that one treated me like garbage as well. Went 10yrs just dealing with it until i eventually lost all function in my right arm all at once one morning when i woke up. Went to the ER they did an MRI fearing i had a stroke. They found legions on my brain and a wk later after spinal tap etc. I was diagnosed with MS. With all that said DR's can be real short sited and think everyone is trying to get drugs from them.
You can't have MS *and* lactose intolerance? WTF was that doctor smoking?
@@ettinakitten5047 it wasn't that i was lactose intolerant it was that i didn't drink milk. To him i guess milk is the leading cause of MS. Ya dude was a total idiot.
This is why I don't like going to the doctors. I'm terrified of being told I'm just 'faking it' and the doctor not believing me.
I'm not a doctor, but as a fellow patient I wanna tell you (and anyone else who reads this novel of a reply) that there are absolutely compassionate doctors out there who approach patients in a very neutral and attentive way. Some of the doctors (maybe not all, but it's hard to judge from just reddit comments) even in this video could be coming from a place of concern.
Like in the case of the dilaudid lady: no one wants to subject a person to a hardcore medication and the potential for substance dependency if they don't absolutely need it and the benefits outweigh the risks. That doctor could absolutely have saved her life from the possibility of ODing (which would cause seizures!) or even from the possibility of actually escalating to genuinely hurting herself so she would actually need the opiates. The fact that, according to them, they're the first person to stand up and tell that lady "No" and also to go above and beyond to confirm that giving her those meds would be harm instead of life-saving care took a lot of guts.
Circling back to your biggest concern: when you're trying to find a doctor, read the reviews and really see what the patients are saying. Look for patient testimonials that emphasize that the doctor took their time in the appointment and really listened to them. You want a doctor who is going to treat your provider/patient relationship like a team effort and who is going to use your reported history as a guideline for their knowledge. Those doctors are absolutely out there---and there are absolutely more of them then there are jaded people or just flat-out bad eggs who don't take their patients' complaints seriously. You just don't hear about them nearly as much because most people don't speak out about good experiences like they do about bad ones.
tl;dr, doctors who come across as dicks might be dicks, but they might also be trying to protect patients from harm; also good doctors are out there and are eager to help, but you have to look for the diamonds in the rough to find the right fit for you.
You got this! I hope that you are able to be seen and to be treated the way that you need to be soon so that you can start your healing journey (or even just your journey to maintaining a happy quality of life with an illness).
Don't worry. The worst they can do is not believe you and you go to another doctor then. If you aren't faking being unconscious, you can argue, they can run tests etc. No one will risk saying "goodbye you are faking" to a patient who is at an actual risk. No one will throw an unconscious person on the pavement and close the door. "Tests" like the hand above face tests are quick and easy, but it's almost zero chance for a false negative. An unconscious person will slap themselves on the face. A dedicated conscious one will too,from what I just checked. My nose just hurt quite a lot more than I thought it would. But if I was unconcious, I wouldn't get hurt or anything from this at all, my face was fine after like a minute. Being mean to patients is only to check if they feel bad enough to accept umcomfortable treatment, cause if they aren't, they probably aren't as hurt as they say they are.
I know this is an older comment, but know that you can always ask a doctor for names of doctors they personally recommend for a second opinion if they don't believe you. If you come in and you are as honest as possible, you try to explain things to the best of your abilities, most doctors absolutely will believe you. They may not jump the shark and give you the medicine you might need right at the start, but they'll see if there's other options or maybe ask you see a specialist or do some tests to figure things out.
Lots of doctors don't believe me, but if they talk to my therapists or they allow me to explain myself (I do too much research into what's wrong with me lol), then they tend to start believing me. There are some shitty doctors out there, but don't let that stop you from getting the help you need. You're the most important person in your own life, so good luck and I wish you well!
My mom is literally the reason they stopped keeping medication in er rooms. She used to take me to the hospital with her and have me watch while she stole all the morphine and needles from unlocked drawers/cabinets. We then had bonding time while she taught me how to inject her back. She complemented me for only a small bead of blood after doing so. Turns out she’s been off and on meth my whole life
People like that are why people who need it can't get medication. I have no sympathy for them and wouldn't give them the steam of my urine in the winter time. Jerks.
are you okay????
They haven't kept morphine unsecured in ERs since the 1969...and it was The Controlled Substance Act of 1970 that caused it but most hospitals had been doing it since they opened
You poor soul. No one deserves to have an addict parent. I'm on and off meth too in the moment, but it's only been a few weeks and I'm gonna be off for a long time. I know because it's more than my will that I will be off. I'm also really struggling to get off opiates completely, I'm down to a dose that just keeps me going for the moment, planning to go lower and lower. Anyway, these are just teeny tiny doses of codeine compared to multiple lethal doses of oxy every day as I used to do. But I would never let a child watch this hell. I will no longer let anyone. Stay strong out there you brave soul. You've suffered more than enough.
@@cadenward8577 well, I recently went no contact with my mother. She’s never been nice to me in any way, I always blamed her bipolar but I’m done making excuses for someone who couldn’t care less about me. Her way of trying to get me back is insulting me, pushing me harder into my choice. I’m in therapy weekly for the foreseeable future, pregnant, a homeowner, but unfortunately too mentally ill to be working. Every day I’m pushing forward and I think that’s good for now. Thank you for asking
Use to get “Alice in Wonderland Syndrome” with fevers and on cold meds when I was younger.
When I was last in the hospital, the nurses INSISTED that I get a dose of pain meds when they put in an IV. I said no to the insistence. I had a multi-night stay, and this would happen every-other time a nurse would pop in to check on me. I didn't need it any time they offered. Eventually, the doctor came around, saw that I was fit to discharge, and straight up offered to send me home with a prescription for the good shit. I said no again, lmao. To this day, I still don't understand why everyone was so hot and bothered to say I should get on pain meds. I had vague discomfort (that I never personally mentioned in the first place, my mother did off-handedly when I was being scooted into a room) and not life-ending agony. They refused to believe I had _maybe_ a level two pain at the worst of it. Think, like, the beginning of a dehydration headache most the time. That's what they were basically begging to medicate away. This is literally the opposite of most people's reality, and I don't know what it is about me that made them flip the script.
Man the seizure one’s really bug me as an epileptic
Same, as someone who has an epileptic sibling and friend. Like anyone who’s seen a real seizure would never try to copy it because it’s impossible.
Speaking of seizures and pain meds, I have to deal with something that is pretty frustrating no matter what I do. Thankfully I don’t have seizures very often, but I do have them. I’ve told just about everybody I know not to call 911, because I’m going to be fine. it may look really bad, but I’m not gonna die or anything. But there have been a couple of times when I have ceased in public or around a bunch of people who I didn’t know very well. So of course, they called the paramedics, and I end up in the hospital. a lot of the times after I come out of a seizure, I have what I can only describe as the migraine from hell. The bitch of it is though, I don’t dare ask for anything for the pain. There’s just no way to do that without it sounding like, I’m drug seeking when I swear that’s not the case. i’m guessing assholes like the ones in this video are the reason why.
I drive a Porsche, and one day I was trying to find a parking spot when i see an old lady walking ahead of me. I stop to let her cross, she proceeds to do the whole bump into your car and fall on the ground thing. This lady was probably in her 60s rolling around on the concrete moaning "this man just hit me". While she was playing possum someone asked what happened and i said "this lady is saying I hit her" without missing a beat she sits up and screamed "You did hit me!" Then goes back to laying on the floor. The Cops, the fire department, and an ambulance all came for this one woman and none of them were falling for her BS. She told them that I was recklessly driving though the parking lot and struck her. When they reviewed the security camera it literally showed me going through the lot at at most 5mph, me stop for her, and her purposefully bump into my car and flop on the ground. They sent me on my way. I have no idea what happened to the lady afterwards lol.
Pneumothorax is a particular type of pain, after several bouts you learn to recognize it ec before it shows well on an x-ray.
Me in ER: my left lung is collapsing.
ER doc, looks at x-ray: nope, looks fine.
Actual Radiologist: 5% collapse, you're getting too good at this, Kitty. Come here dr.x, let me show you what you missed.
Teaching moment 😂
Could you imagine being unconscious and they do the hand drop test and it ends up breaking your nose?
Usually, that would be the smallest of your problems in this case because you don't get unconscious for fun...
It wouldn't break your nose. It's not nearly enough force for that.
@@deineroehre i passed out at the thought of my mom getting her nose pierced
Remember the saying _“When you hear hoof beats, think horses, not zebras”_ is not accurate, first think where you are and which 'hoof bets' are common on your location, those hoof beats could be giraffes or camels too depending on your location.
Tonto say, 'buffalo come.'
@@eightw5783 Tonto wise. 😹
This has me worried a doctor didn’t believe me when I said my favorite food was broccoli. I ate wayyyy to much of it when I was little but being overweight it didn’t look it.
I will definitely tell you that migraine with Aura is absolutely HORRIBLE. I honestly don't wish it on my worst enemy. For those that suffer with them, the effects are debilitating. 😢
It is grim. 😢
It's literally insane, I can't even count how many foods I now can't eat because when I'd get migraine and had eaten something before it would come back up and after all that puking and insane headaches I just can't even look at certain foods without getting nauseous. Not to talk about how any light and smells or even warm air make me wanna actually kill myself
@@Midget-lc5zc :'(
Vet tech here. That one about just telling us what your pet ate…PLEASE DO! Like it says we don’t give a FLIP if you have illegal substances and you won’t get in trouble. We just want to help your animal! Please don’t risk your pets life!
My sister had her tonsils removed when she was 18 or 19. When they were going through their checklist they asked her what she had for breakfast. She responded confidently "Froot Loops!" She is now a registered nurse.
Just think of all the patients who get unnecessary CT scans and whatnot because they're lying to the doctor. That stuff is expensive, and a waste of resources! Having said that, sad to see so many people addicted to alcohol and opiates.
I've only had a seizure once, I don't remember a thing except slowly coming to on my living room floor and gagging. My body hurt so much afterwards and I was so exhausted bc all my muscles were flipping shit... to this day, there was no discernable cause, but jfc who???? Would even WANT to fake that? It sucks ass! I felt like I'd run 50 miles while flapping my arms, my whole body was so sore! And anti-seizure meds don't make you high, so like???? Tf these morons doing???
They do! Benzos like diazepam or clonazepam for example are anti-seizure if I remember correctly and they definitely do make you high in higher doses. If the high is pleasurable or not, that's another discussion, at least to me, but it's a feeling of being high nevertheless
I'm sorry for any spelling mistakes and whatnot, I'm not a native speaker and I'm not an expert in english drug names, I just hope I got my point across
I also paralyzed my arm for real and I can't feel a damn thing. It was as dead a fish. I called it my "dead fish arm" lol I got about 90percent of it usage now thanks to surgery.
i have had a history of doctors not believing anything is wrong with me due to my weight??? like anything i feel is apparently fake bc i am slightly overweight. it infuriates me so much. went to a NURSE instead of a doctor, and she actually took me seriously and my lab work came back and something actually is wrong! so yea..
moral: sometimes drs don’t really know everything🤷🏻♀️
I have epilepsy (called petite mal) I hate when people fake seizures (Note: Not a doctor).
Not me, but my dad had a doctor tell him lose weight and stop smoking (I wasn’t alive yet) and supposedly the doctor was fat and smoked.
I assume many people don't know when you are having a seizure?
That's what Petite Mal is, right? When you don't fall over and shake but you kind of zone out on your feet? I'm not epileptic or a doctor, so I don't really know.
I have seen people have Grand Mal seizures, looks scary.
@@tomzimmerman8 I take medication actually which prevents them. Have been seizure free for years.
As a kid, nobody knew. It looks like I was daydreaming. Funny thing is my brother always said (name here) has epilepsy.
My brother has grand mal, his seizures were triggered by old screens. He is lucky and doesn’t take meds.
@@heartroll8719 Old screens? Like old cathode-ray tube "boob tube" televisions? How strange. I thought it was completely random.
So do newer plasma screens have no effect? I'll bet your brother is glad to be living in the post-CRT era.
@@tomzimmerman8 Yeah. Or computer screens. At our old dentist, he couldn’t sit in the waiting room because of the tv.
He also went to the movies with his girlfriend last year, and the projector was bothering him so they left.
Mine used to be caused by stress and bad sleep.
I get told I'm "pain med seeking" if I have to go to the ER for my month long migraines. They're surprised when I say my pail level is over a 10, but show no signs of being in pain. I mean, when you have pain for over a month, you kind of ignore it to a point. Docs could never find anything wrong with my brain except my blood vessels being constricted in my scalp. Yeah, that's usually what causes migraines.
20:21 ok this is a little off topic but this story reminded me of this kid (I think he's 10ish?) at my church whose favorite food is pickles. He loves pickles more than candy, cake, cookies, etc. He would eat pickles all day, every day, for every meal if he could. Some kids are weird lol
My kid's favorite food hands down was broccoli until he turned 5 now he just follows cravings
My former coworker claimed to have seizures brought in by stress and gave explicit instruction to NOT call an ambulance should he have one as he had a bad experience one time. We tried to be understanding with it, but he spent most of shift outside because of being supposedly overwhelmed… by a single customer walking in the door.
He was witnessed during a “seizure” in which he gently lowered himself to the floor. Once the shift lead suggested to another coworker calling 911, he was just fine.
The second incident was with my boyfriend working. He didn’t even hesitate to just call 911 before calling the manager about what’s going on. Manager said he made the right call bringing in EMT.
Turns out the Dx was pseudo seizure. Kid wasn’t epileptic.
If he has Functional Neurological Disorder (Conversion Disorder) his pseudo seizures are very real and are anxiety related. I have them and I absolutely make sure noone mistakes them for epilepsy because how they are treated is very different and being given epilepsy meds would be dangerous.
Any doctor/EMT who thinks they are fake needs a crash course from a neurologist. They can be debilitating.
@@michellebush7353 he’s told us he’s epileptic when though. If we call 911, that’s the information WE were given and would relay as witnesses. Not to mention he’s always extremely careful with not being on camera, lowering himself gently, and whatever else he can do to look like he’s had a seizure. The problem is he’s trying to get out of work, and we know that’s what it is. Again he’ll walk outside when a single customer comes in. He doesn’t play like that when working with me as I’ve snapped back at him a few too many times. Like no, you’re not being paid to sit outside. You’re paid to work.
Never saw a patient fake anything (yet), but I know I'm not someone doctors believe me most of the time when it comes to my mental health problems. Legit had a doctor not believe I had symptoms of depression when I was a very young child, even though I have vague memories of those moments and my own mother could back me up. Found a good psychiatrist that has no idea why my problems started so early in life, but fully believes me and it's nice to be heard.
The unintentional weight loss one hit close to home. Some issues are difficult to diagnose even with modern methods. Superior Messanteric Artery Syndrome could be a cause. This artery and the aorta can come together to form a "clothespin" around the duodenum and even pinches the renal vein in advanced cases, causing gross hematuria. Never ignore weight loss with excruciating pain. 😢
Not a doctor but I had an ex that was 100% just dramatic. Long story short I split my face open (my fault but mid fight) and was literally holding a pad up to my head because heads bleed a lot I found out. Anyway, I called the ambulance on myself, she was screaming in the background with a knife about unaliving herself. The person on the phone said “I know it’s difficult but can you ask the victim to try calm down I cannot hear you at all” I went out the front and said “I’m the victim, I’m not sure what’s wrong with her” we were CONSTANTLY at the hospital and I would hear the doctor tell her she was fine but than she would tell anyone with ears it’s a worst case scenario type of thing. Both of her parents were “dying” the entire 3 years we were together, they went to the doctors like a couple of times? Nearly 10 years later they’re alive and fine enough to not be living in a hospital (like she insinuated) anyway. We were only 15 when we met. 🙄
I just love doctors that think I'm faking when I'm not. And you wonder why nobody's trusted any more.
I had reconstructive surgery on my ankle and because I didn’t have insurance I was treated like a drug addict I was in pain couldn’t walk because I was doing my own physical therapy at home watching UA-cam vids( probably wasn’t the best idea but I couldn’t afford pt) it got to the point it was unbearable but when I went in I told the doctor I was in pain and he gave me a look my brother gives you before yelling at you so I said I’m sorry I’m in pain he scuffed and said Tylenol would work and he won’t be prescribing me pain meds because I’ll abuse them .. little did he know I only took those pills when I was in tears but I didn’t want to say anything so I suffered through that pain for 5 months it hurts so much but I understand people take advantage of the system and I assume he thought I was drug addict , plus since I didn’t have insurance I wasn’t top priority… American Healy system for the win I guess at least they fixed my ankle
People who fake diseases and injury are just assholes and there needs to be some sort of penalty when they are caught for sure. They ruin for people with real problems. But I think the doctors should still give pain meds when in doubt and someone may be in serious pain (unless there is a good medical reason you cant)
My knee pain. “Faked” it for ten years. I’m to young. Just exercise more! NOPE! Effing benign tumor.
Why do people always fake seizures specifically?
As an epileptic, I would guess it’s because during a real seizure you’re unconscious. And after you wake up you (well I do) have no memory of what just happened. If I have multiple, I get medicine.
HAHA on people faking to go to the hospital. I do just about anything not to have to spend a day in a hospital. Doctors have to convince me to stay.
I got a good chuckle scrolling down to this because it made me think of all the times I bargained with attendings to sign off on me going home early. 😂 Sometimes you'd just rather low-key suffer in the peace of your own home than be stabilized in the hospital but subjected to the constant beeping and to being woken up at 3 AM to have your blood drawn by the vampires.
Fingers crossed you don't need to be admitted any time soon! (Sidenote, your sculpting is cool as hell!)
On the note of the kid wanting a cast: I ate it off my bike when I was 13. It was sore, but I’d broken my ankle before and this didn’t hurt nearly as bad. I insisted it wasn’t broken and flopped my hand around to show my mom it was fine. She made me get X-rays and I went home with a cast.
My mom's a nurse and the liar was me. When I was like 7, my twin sister couldn't go to school because she had a stomach ache, so my mom was gonna ask her friend to look after my sister for the day since both of our parents had to work. For some reason, I thought my sister would be lonely so I lied and said my stomach hurt too so I could keep her company.
I will never understand why people fake a seizure. I have a seizure disorder. They’re terrible.
As someone with epilepsy every time I see people who fake seizures on TikTok or hear ab it it makes me sad. You don’t want to be on meds that make u feel like ass, you don’t want to lose months of memory or piss yourself in public bc you can’t help it, or not have a license at 18, or have scars from seizing in dangerous places. Epilepsy isn’t something that gets u attention it’s something that changes your life forever. This brain damage isn’t cute
I have seizures for real and half the time I can't remember having one when I wake up from one. Also I was in this accident where I almost broke every bone and I lost weight because of the pain. I didn't want to eat at all. Also having DID can't remember other personalities and get a lot of headaches. Its because of the people that fake it the doctors have a hard time taking anything seriously.
When i went to rehab they were surprised i only had one doctor and one pharmacy. Lol
dude from the thumbnail lookin like johnny sins bruh 💀
I thought the same thing lol xD Had to make sure that I was on the right website.
Me who is actually deaf in my left ear
I should have known there'd be a story about dilaudid however it's spelled . that stuff gave me a bad panic attack. The only thing that seems to work really well most of the time for pain is non narcotic toradol but my Dr. says that one can do kidney damage, insurance wont pay for toradol for pain but will pay for loritab which is narcotic. This makes no sense at all and even the pharmacist said that didn't understand why the insurance wouldn't pay for the non narcotic toradol but will pay for lo5itab, I could have bought the toradol but it was like 27 something so not unaffordable but just more than i wanted to spend so I just took ibuprofen anyway, IDK what i'd do if I ever wind up in real pain again, last time it was kidney stones which are extremely painful and the dilaudid they gave me a shot of just made me real bad panic attack and the nurse was being a bitch not understanding that i was having a panic attack
Holy shit the mom screaming Dilaudid sounds like my ex gf and her mother😳😳😳
Good ol’ Johnny Sins in the thumbnail
"Nah, you're not 18 inches"
I think they should start having a fine for faking medical problems, or maybe prison instead where healthcare is expensive. But only when they know for sure. And if they dont know for sure, doctors should help just in case (unless the medicine could be dangerous)
Yup. Give them the full workup to make sure this isn't just a hidden problem, and once it's 100% clear they're faking slap 'em with a fine for wasting time and resources that could have been spent on other patients.
@@ovinedreamer1451 Yes, and its not "just" wasting time, but increasing the risk that people who genuinely have the health problems dont get believed and dont help. I think giving expensive fines to the people who fake it and get caught for sure, could help lower the cost for people who actually need treatment as well. And when people do stop faking, you freed up more time and resources to help patients that actually need it
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