Here's a tip: if you genuinely believe that something is really wrong and your doctor refuses to run tests or treat you, ask them to put their refusal into writing and sign it. The doctor will usually change their mind because if you die or are permanently harmed because of their refusal of treatment and that refusal of treatment is written down and signed by them, that is physical evidence against them, they're in for malpractice and they could lose their medical licence.
Not so easy when your incompetent dr is insisting on inappropriate treatment and you're refusing. Especially as a pregnant woman. I had to get my family dr involved because the OB/GYN threatened to get a court order. She later apologized when she was proven wrong and I wasn't making shit up. She was behind the medical literature. She presumed I was some sort of anti-vaxxer anti-medical hippy just because I rejected her ill-informed treatment for a rare medical condition that is common in my family.
My ex is a doctor and there is no way she wouldn't refuse, she's not the smartest needle in the needle rack. After she refuses I can just find a drug to mimick the symptoms and ruin their life. I mat die but it's worth it. One time she ate my pop tart.
My dad started bloating in the hospital after a serious car accident when I was 11. The nurses all said he was just constipated and continued to give him stool softeners and other things. My mother, a cna at the time and was in college for nursing, cursed them out to get him to the ER because he was going to die. They take him to ER. He was having a bowel obstruction and was about to burst on the table. Thankfully for that night only there was a surgeon who specialized in that kind of thing. My mother saved my dads life.
linkLoverAG my first thought was internal bleeding, but a bowel obstruction is pretty bad... even a child would know that after a car accident it’s likely not constipation that is the culprit
How long was he in the ER for? Usually, a bowel obstruction wouldn't reach the point of perforating after just a few hours (it can, but it's rare, either as a result of the pain meds or because of some kind of trauma to the abdomen). I feel for him though - bowel obstruction is hell, and I'd be amazed if he wasn't showing far more concerning signs of an emergency abdomen...
@@kao_wolf That was my thought. Bowel obstruction is not a common result of a car accident, though some medication and trauma could produce an ileus (which is pretty much where part of the bowel stops working) and of course, a trauma could cause damage to a blood vessel causing serious problems with reduced blood flow and ischemia - either way, there are SO many reasons why abdominal pain should be taken seriously and worked up properly from a car accident, not assumed to be constipation, and I don't know how long he was in the ER, but for a bowel obstruction to progress to the point of perforation that fast, it must have been causing FAR more symptoms than just stomach pain (like signs of clinical shock, blood pressure issues, severe nausea and vomiting etc) and he would have been SERIOUSLY unwell from that... because often the first place of bowel obstruction, the first treatment is conservative - medication to help pain and nausea/vomiting, probably an NG tube to empty the stomach and reduce nausea/vomiting and decompress the gases/swallowed air, and waiting to see if the obstruction will spontaneously resolve or if surgery is required... and that can be something that goes on for several days, even. It does, obviously, depend on each individual case... but to get to the point of perforation so fast, you'd expect that to be overtly obvious to any nurse or doctor. Then again, I've had some incredibly blind/jaded/stubborn ******s who just can't see past their own blinkered opinion and sadly a lot of medical professionals dislike someone who takes an active role in their treatment - even if they know what they're talking about.
He was in the hospital for around 3 months total, but the obstruction happened about a month in. I can't remember very well how long it took, it was 10 years ago, but I want to say he went in around 10-11pm and I passed out in the hospital waiting room at around 2 am or 3 am
It's stuff like this that really make me worry about going to the doctor. Like, how can I be sure that they're right? What if I'm misdiagnosed and die because of it? It's terrifying to me
It's important to always play an active role in your own healthcare. Don't try to treat yourself, but doing your own research and asking questions and finding a second opinion if you feel like you're not being taken seriously are all super important things that everyone should do. Many doctors are wonderful, but many are not, and if you're fat or a woman or black or any other minority it's incredibly common for doctors to be dismissive of things that they wouldn't otherwise be dismissive of. A good doctor will always listen to your concerns and opinions and will always do their best to explain what's going on and answer any questions you might have. As long as you do your research, ask questions, and stand up for yourself you should be fine.
You'd die if you didn't go either. You go to the people who went to school for 8 years and worked 70+ hours a week for a minimum of 3 years to learn as much as possible before they're sent out to diagnose patients on their own because they will mostly be correct. All of these examples were uncommon conditions that have nonspecific symptoms. 99.9% of the time, the dr would have been correct.
@@morganalabeille5004 Eh, I work with patients who think they're fine and they're not. Your A1C of 9 is not okay. Your blood pressure of 165/96 is not okay. Not pooping every day is completely fine. People are not smart enough to do their own research because there is always going to be something they find that contradicts medical reality. Do some research yourself, but ask someone who knows medicine to validate the findings.
the doctor once diagnosed me with “seasonal allergies”. i had mono. that was a severely painful two months. i argued to my mum and my doctor in tears that this wasn’t normal and that it isn’t allergies, but i was never taken seriously. i suffered needlessly when i could’ve gotten relief if i had just known what was wrong.
2:53 Reminded me of a sad story I had once heard. A boy had gotten meningitis and it came on very quickly. As they were in the car to the hospital he had calmly told his mother that he was going to die. Didn’t even make it to the hospital. It must be so heartbreaking to hear someone say something like that.
Chicken and the egg. Going into a surgery thinking you are going to die might actually make it happen. The brain acts in really fucked up ways sometimes.
ikr! there are so many medical conditions it's impossible you've seen them all. doctors shouldn't write off the possibility of a condition just bc they haven't seen it
I know that diagnosing a patient is very important and the doctors have to be sure on what it is but I sometimes feel that they need to listen to the patient because it's their body and they know what's normal
Yup, I regularly get shouted at by doctors and nurses when I tell them that my normal temperature is 34 or 35 (Celsius) and that 37 is fever for me. Actually it's well known that some people run low! When I take my temperature, it always shows as 34 or 35, and when nurses take it and I'm not running a fever, it's the same!
Little Kitty I’m the same! My temp is normally 96-96.8 F (35.5-36 C). Pretty sure I’ve had to have my mom fight with doctors because “96 is low!” or “well, 98 is normal so you’re fine” even though I’m sweating and shaking.
E Ryuu oh, my mom’s a serious hypochondriac. I get taken to the doctor for every little reason. as many times as I’ve been x-rayed over my life for example, I ought to be radioactive or have some sort of super power. There were years I’d be x-rayed 5 times.
@@starkittsy I have this exact problem! But I've never argued with my doctor about it because I did not realize it wasn't normal. I only just had the realization a few months ago when I was sick but had "no fever", but I definitely did.
I got really sick when I was a kid, I told my parents I have Type 1 Diabetes and need to go to the doctor. They took me to the General Physician a week later and I was diagnosed with Type 1 Diabetes. I've also broken my collarbone in half twice, both times I was told it wasn't broken until the XRay confirmed it was in multiple pieces. ER doctor or Triage Nurse "it's not broken, it's just dislocated". 20 minutes later, "Yup, it's broken"
@@dicksdrugsanddebutantes9305 It’s not an easy thing to achieve, but ohhhh boy do they. I have EDS and have dislocated mine 3 or 4 times at this point. I swore the first time I had broken it. “Sternoclavicular joint dislocation” put into google image search will pop up X-rays of how it happens. I would rather dislocate a hip, shoulder, elbow, or ankle any day over my clavicle slipping ever again.
Told my doctor I had a “bad sleeping disease” when I was 4. Doc told me I needed a stricter bed time. Told my doctor I had insomnia at age 11. Was told I had an overactive imagination and I just needed to “turn my brain off” when I went to bed. Finally, at 18, got diagnosed with severe insomnia. So bad, the lack of sleep my entire life has resulted in obesity and made me pre-diabetic due to my body craving carbs due to lack of energy. I’m finally on sleep medicine now at 19, but I will be dealing with the effects for the rest of my life.
Your problem isn't a medication deficiency though. My advice, and I don't even know why I'm bothering, but get rid of wireless devices and get your cervical spine checked. The wireless devices because microwaves act on the brain and prevent sleep through a number of mechanisms. The cervical spine because the brain stem and the lower structures of the brain are involved in sleep and other circadian functions. If you have tethering of the spine, vertebrae out of place, etc, you could be compressing or tugging on the brain stem, and if this is done in a certain way, it results in insomnia. Your diet as well, make sure you're getting adequate magnesium, etc. I had insomnia most of my life, as well as somewhat frequent sleep paralysis and eventually night terrors. We got ride of the cordless phone, gone. Never had wifi or cell phones, and still don't, now I can sleep pretty much arbitrarily.
Acetyl how does not sleeping cause you to constantly over eat? I’m in college(for pre-med btw). I don’t get more than 2-3 hours of sleep normally and many nights of no sleep and I don’t have any weight issues. Blaming another issue allows people to not blame their poor habits
@@bigpeenerpeen Since you're a pre-med I'm going to assume you're capable of consulting the literature on melatonin's (and sleep itself's) role in hormone regulation, thus metabolism and subsequent behavior. As far as obesity itself, it's a multifaceted problem. I'm not overweight and never have been, and I do watch people and have the same edge of brutality regarding lifestyle factors. I've personally fasted for 7 days, easily. But there is nonetheless a bigger picture in the genesis and basis of obesity, you're on your way to being yet another doctor that can't trace the chain back more than a link or two. Do some real research, apply yourself. Look at environmental toxicity and food content.
The one about the old lady having a heart attack really gets to me. My dad went to A&E with chest pain and the nurse refused to do any tests and sent him home to take an antacid. My dad refused to accept that and went for an emergency appointment with GP the day after who did an ECG and lo and behold he was having a heart attack and immediately sent back to be admitted to the hospital. If my dad hadn't taken the initiative to get a 2nd opinion he could be dead. I will never forgive that nurse.
Wth that nurses advice could have killed him, I'm glad your dads okay now. I'm actually going for an ECG and blood test tomorrow because i got super dizzy and had bad chest pain maybe 2 weeks ago now and then my chest hurt again just recently. The doctors said its probably not anything serious but the tests are just to confirm if it something they can identify or not.
I had a doctor (same doctor who confirmed I had PCOS) tell me I could not have Endometriosis because I was too young. Got sent to a specialist for severe period pain, got surgery and what do you know, I also have early endometriosis and it’s only getting worse.
I was just coming to have a story about this. My grandmother AND my mother were mis-diagnosed as having "stage 4 endometriosis" their whole lives. Their condition magically cleared after their first baby. Endometriosis doesn't fucking magically vanish. So, queue me hitting my period at 9/10ish. Severe pain, but I have an extremely high pain tolerance so I dealt with it. For the next 3-4 years it increased in pain. By the time I was 15/16 I would be in such severe pain and discomfort I couldn't sip water without vomiting. Doctor says "oh, your family record says endometriosis runs in the family. That's what you must have. Unfortunately the only way to diagnose this is to perform surgery and go into your abdomen to look" which I believed. [It's BS btw, don't buy it, get another fucking doctor]. Now, go on for another 10 years almost of this pain probably 10 of every 12 periods in a year. The odd one or two would be either no pain at all [again high pain tolerance] or only a mild discomfort. Bad one though would have me literally bed-ridden for a week. Lasted 5-8 days, first 3 being the worst. Heavy flow, diarrhea, cold sweats and hot flashes, cramping so bad that no position except fetal and rocking back and forth would alleviate it, having to chew NSAID pain relievers like they were candy, taking 4x max dose just to touch the pain, vomiting, nausea, and fatigue so bad that just speaking a few words would take all of my energy. I'd literally have to inhale as deep as I could and speak using the exhale. Around 24-26 I discover this thing called Dysmenorrhea. Specifically, Primary not Secondary form. Check off symptom after symptom. Look up treatment: Wouldn't you know it, NSAIDs. What is Primary Dysmenorrhea? Essentially, each month a woman releases a VERY small amount of an enzyme/protein that is used in childbirth to cause contractions and release the lining of the uterus. The body normally regulates how much of this is put out, so that just enough to release the uterus lining is released, hence cramps being annoying and slightly painful but not terrible. Well, with PD, your body releases /all of it/. The full strength, "we're pushing out a baby get it out get it out get it out". Went to my OB/GYN [This being a totally new one, obvs] and said "Look, I'ma be real. I believe it's this, the treatments offered for this work, and my mother and grandmother had the same symptoms, described it as the same as childbirth, and after having a child it went away." She looked at my symptoms, looked at the family history in more detail, and said "I can't believe you were told this was Endometriosis, I'm so sorry. Yes, it's definitely this. Unfortunately I can't offer you any treatment other than what you're already doing, there isn't much known about this as far as safe and effective longterm treatments go. As for why your family's condition improved after giving birth, it's likely their bodies "learned" what real childbirth was supposed to feel like and regulated themselves, but honestly that's just a guess. Again, we don't know a ton about this condition yet." Since then? WHen I know my period is coming, all I have to do is take a half dose of NSAIDs every 12 hours until my flow is coming evenly, and magically it's fine the rest of the period. *shrug* But, it's stage 4 endo y'all.
@@CherryGryffon ah wow! Maybe that's why a lot of doctors think that having a baby solves Endometriosis. It's gets confused with PD! It's like a whole new fucking world just opened in front of my eyes 👀
I don't understand why doctors would refuse to do a diagnosis? I mean the patient (or insurance) is paying so there is nothing to lose for the doctors, are they just lazy?
@@averystrangeghostlysquid7637 but even if there are people with no problems they should just diagnose them if they really want it, i mean the doctors doesn't lose anything even if the diagnosis shows that the patience is fine since the doctors are getting paid
@@averystrangeghostlysquid7637 I guess thats true, but if a patient comes multiple time to get a diagnosis it would probably be better if they just do the diagnosis anyways...
It's taken me two or three years to get any kind of doctor or medical professional to take me seriously when I tell them I've almost definitely got EDS, presented my research and the DSM-V markers, all of which I hit. I was just referred to a tertiary care facility last week for an EDS workup. Also got a copy of my MRI images when I got MRIs of my cervical and throacic spine done. I noticed something odd in my t-spine, but when I got the call about the results they said everything was normal. Called the neurologist's office to double-check and he said the same thing. Did some research, determined it was a vertebral hemangioma, and my GP told me I was wrong because I only THOUGHT I knew how to read an MRI and wouldn't even look at it. A month after the MRIs took place, they called me to inform me I had a vertebral hemangioma. Every single diagnosis I have, I made myself long before any doctor ever did. weird how people like,,,,,,,, know their own bodies lmao
@@scottvelez3154 I assume that's what they mean, yes. It can be a pain in the ass getting a diagnosis too. I know so many people who spent years trying to get diagnosed and by the time they did, were in constant pain. But unless you have the most severe symptoms, including frequent dislocations/subluxations (and not the chiropractic bs kind), cardiac, GI or eye type problems that demand more intensive diagnostic processes, a lot of people get missed.
Just Another Bucky Lover if it was me i would threaten to kill dozens of kids. Dont care for me or my wellbeing? Okay, explain 20 kid corpses to the parents.
Had a friend that went to an ER after a car crash and suffering minor head injuries, the nurse insisted she was nauseous because she was pregnant and was lying about lack of any sexual activity recently. Wouldn't even 'waste doing a test since it was obvious'. She had to go to a totally different ER to get help for what was, in fact, crap caused by the car accident the day before (she wasnt pregnant). ....Ive known people whove tried to get driven to an ER like 15-20 minutes farther then the local one _while having a heart attack_ rather than go to that ER. Because thats actually improving their chances; that place would probably say it was heart burn.
I insist on going to the ER half an hour away because the local one 5 mins up the road has screwed me over numerous times, tried to tell me that TMJ pain was an infection with no blood test because only a dental specialist can diagnose an infection?! My head spun at that too don't worry, the Dr that time even admitted to only having an educated guess, even though I was demanding a blood test and here in Australia they are obligated by law to do basic tests on request of the patient according to my GP. I have EDS (Ehlers Danlos which I also happened to diagnose myself) as well so minor mistakes can turn to major screw ups with my health, I'd rather risk the half hour drive than the incompetence and risk of death at the local
I can relate to the appendix thing. I got stomach pains right before my mum told me it was time for bed. So she didn't believe me (i always made excuses to stay up late) The whole night i couldn't sleep because off the pain. Next day, my mum took me to our doctor, doc said i had air in my stomach. So they gave me meds and got send home I couldn't eat i cried because off the pain. Had a fever So my mum and i went to the ER. Doc felt my stomach they did a blood test. hour later surgery.. Doc said a few hours longer it would have burst. I had to stay for 5 days because of the fever So thanks doc...
Can partly relate. I had stomachaches for over a month (I think? I was like 10), but only for 5 min each. At one point my mum (who actually is working in the medical field) would stop believing me. She had it in mind, but I was lacking some other typical sympthoms. Well, until I got it in school and my teacher called her to pick me up. Straight to the doctor who didn't even run tests because it was friday and the results would only come monday. Would have probaly been to late. Then to hospital and getting surgery three (long) hours later. Was the first time the pain wouldn't go away, so...
@@felinah2559 yes apparently there's a difference some people can have weeks of pain. And others it's acute (my luck) I was 10 ish at the time And still it's the worst pain i think i ever had 23 now
I was patient, I thought I had hypothyroidism because I was always dead tired. My parents refused to take me anywhere and told me to get better sleep. It dead ass took me two years of persuading for me to try and get them to bring me to a doctor because I was so exhausted and felt like I had depression. It wasnt hypothyroidism, but my Vitamin D levels were at about 10% normal which also mimics depression symptoms (hence seasonal/winter depression)
@barebearburiesbarrysberries ive literally been telling my friends to make sure they get their vitamin D checked because of how the symptoms basically mirror depression!
Friendly reminder that most of these stories are not "Self-diagnosis" but "Self-advocacy". It's always a good idea to do your own research and make suggestions, but dont throw out a doctor's opinion just because their diagnosis doesn't match what you want it to be.
@@vagabondwastrel2361 I actually live in a country with free health care. I can just go to another doctor and not have to pay to get tested a second time. If I really wanted to, I could then go to another free doctor or go to a private clinic then pay to get tested. It never ceases to amaze me that there are those in the world who still consider having to pay for healthcare is a better way to go rather than having the choice to pay for better private healthcare or getting it free through the public system if you're strapped for cash.
Unless you know what the doctor is saying is BS. I knew something was terribly wrong but not sure what. Doctor threatened to send me to a psychiatrist if the tests didn't show anything wrong. Tests showed nothing wrong because she only ran the standard tests. Didn't return and found a doctor that actually listened to me. He ran the proper tests that revealed I had a life threatening D3 deficiency. He had never seen a D3 level that low before, neither had the lab.
@@FrostedGalaxies I would be more prone to support universal healthcare if we had just a flat consumption tax and no exemptions. America is already rocking 15-30 million illegal aliens not paying into the system while also draining the system. Before obamacare there were programs for the terminally poor. Wisconsin for example had a 1$ a month healthcare policy that was more functional than my 600$ a month policy after obamacare socialized health insurance. Then there is the issue where universal healthcare destroys innovation in the healthcare field.
I have an example of the failure of multiple doctors. For 2 years I went to the doctor multiple times to complain about various issues that never went away. I was constantly having stomach problems, headaches, extreme fatigue and just in general felt terrible. I knew there was something was wrong but each time it was written off. I was told to take an allergy pill, take meds for acid reflux, get better sleep. They never bothered to run test. Doing research I really felt like I had a thyroid issue (runs in my family) and a food allergy but after getting ignored for so long I just tried to deal with the problems I was having. Finally after 2 years I went back to the doctor practically begging them to please figure out what was wrong with me. I could barely function in life anymore. The female doctor I had noticed my desperation and that I had been to that clinic multiple times for the same complaints. She took me seriously and listened. She ran multiple blood test, and I mean multiple she practically tested me for everything and did an allergy screening. A few days later I got a call informing me that I had hypothyroidism and was allergic to wheat. I was completely right with my self diagnosis. I will always be grateful to that doctor who took me seriously. It’s thanks to her that my life improved significantly. I started taking thyroid meds and removed gluten from my diet. My health and life improved significantly. All the issues I was having went away. I like telling this story to people because it proves you know yourself and your body. If you feel something is wrong keep trying, don’t give up. There is a doctor somewhere that will listen to you. Don’t get discouraged by the ones who refuse to believe you or help you. I mean sure there’s a chance your self diagnosis is wrong but what’s not wrong is how you feel. If you don’t feel right don’t give up. Find a doctor willing to take you seriously who can help.
@mia morales It's common to *get* it in your teens, but you don't have it since birth. I'm type one diabetic, and I did not have it all my life - you simply can't survive in to your teens without a diagnosis, unfortunately. People get it at all different stages of life, most commonly during childhood or adolescence. I hope your brother is doing much better now, though, because diabetes sucks. (Sorry if this sounded slightly aggressive, I just hate when people are told the wrong information!)
Was feeling really sick and had a lump in my neck. Looked up the symptoms and it said it was lymphoma. And turned to different cancer doctors. Told them everything and they said I was fine. Two months later got diagnosed with lymphoma
The thing about lymph nodes is that they can get swollen for about a million reasons. Most of the time it is harmless. If they are very big or growing rapidly, that is a cause for concern. Feeling sick and having a lump in neck almost always means you have an upper respiratory infection or sth similar. Lymphoma would be very low on the list, no matter what the internet says. The right thing to do would be for the doctor to keep track of the lymph node and the symptoms, see if they go away like a simple infection should. There are so many diseases and conditions in the world. Every single field has thousands pages worth of textbooks written on them. The only way to manage that information is to be systematic about it, going from most likely to least likely.
As a young child, I spent my time reading informational books and watching spongebob, but mostly books. I even criticised others early on in grade school due to them preferring everything but informational or nonfiction books. One summer when I was 11 years old, I was looking at my abdomen because I had spent the fall, winter, and spring doing sports and I had been growing muscle there. I was pretty surprised by the progress but noticed that on my lower left (my left, your right) abdomen, a “muscle”, was developing faster than the other. I went into the bathroom and spent an hour looking at myself and thinking, “I’m gonna be ripped by the time I’m 16”. But then I remembered in one of the books about cancer. I even told myself, “I have to get myself checked out, I have cancer”. My concerns were ignored by my school nurse later the next day and even told me to stop worrying. Eventually after months my concerns died out. 2 years later, I felt pain in my left kidney (my left, your right) and in the middle of class that day I told my school nurses that I had pain in my left kidney. They laughed at me thinking that I was wrong. They even asked me, “do you know what a kidney is?” and “where is your kidney?”. Despite me pointing accurately where my kidney was, they told me to stop worrying. This time my mother listened to my concerns and brought me to my paediatrician who sent me to my local hospital *who sent me to the hospital of a big city near me*. They told me I have cancer and when they removed my kidney (where the tumour had been inside) they explained to me that the pain I felt was because the tumor had been popping veins and capillaries in my kidney and rearranging my circulatory system so that it could have it’s own blood supply. Aside from the giant list of signs and warnings that occurred, there could have been less serious consequences for me if the school nurses had listened to me the first time or at least told my mother about it. Anyways those nurses are out of commission in my former school. I’m 16 now and as of this year, I have stage 2 Cancer but I have been in remission for close to 3 years now.
When I was 3yo my doctor was on hollidays and I got sick. My mum drove me to a replacement doctor, who wrongly diagnosed me. My mum, knowing another kid who had the disease I was diagnosed with didnt believe it and went on early days google to google my symptoms. She believed it was meninchitis, she woke me up, and I layed frozen in my bed, I couldnt move one inch. They rushed me to the hospital in which a team of doctors immediately took me to the surgery room. This was all happening within a day. I had the worst bacterial form of meninchitis, which is very rare to make it out alive. Most people who do make it out alive are either mentally handicapped, blind or deaf. I made it out without any side effects, if I was brought into the hospital 10mins later I wouldnt be here (18 years later) writing this message. Thanks mom 😶
Doctors tell you they like when you ask questions and is involved in your care. But, if you hear them when they leave your room they think you are either crazy or hystonic. This attitude will reflect in your medical chart.
This video reminded me of all my health problems, how scary it can be, and how most doctors look at you like you're either a hypochondriac because you have anxiety or drug-seeking because you're young and/or have mental health stuff, but really I'm just having symptoms I shouldn't. I understand why, but also it's scary to think the possible worse and it not being caught despite "doing everything right". I'm glad many of these people were able to get the diagnosis they need, but also sorry for those that couldn't and paid the consequences. I know doctors aren't perfect, but also, damn.
Not really a diagnosis, but I thought I'd share this misdiagnosis I received once. Went to the local walk-in clinic with mild pulsating abdominal pain (nothing too bad, but I also didn't want it to get worse), the doctor asked me to lay down, pressed on my abdomen, and asked me if it hurt, to which I said "yes," he "diagnosed" me with appendicitis, and wrote a referral to the ER next door. I get to the ER, and 4 hours later, the come back with my results.....it was a UTI............A freaking UTI that could have been diagnosed with a dip test.... I didn't question the doctor, because you know, HE'S A DOCTOR, HE SHOULD KNOW WHAT HE'S DOING. Never again. I chime in all the time now, as you all should. It's saved me and my wallet A LOT.
One time I went to the ER convinced I had appendicitis. The triage nurse took my temp and started mad rushing around to finish other stuff and get me to a room. At the final second he was like oh! And go pee in this. I was SURE I was about to die due to his reaction to my fever so I was like WTHeckin heck? I'm not preggo why I gotta pee. Awhile later I've got a hydration drip and antibiotics and the doc comes in and he's like you got a gnarly UTI my dude. I really thought I was dying. I still don't know why that guy was rushing. But I'm glad they made me pee cause man, that sounds sucky, dude
Had BAD health anxiety as a kid and always thought I had crazy things like cancer and heart problems and swine flu. Was always wrong. As a college student started getting weak muscles, looked up my symptoms over the next few months and eventually found a video of a girl with a rare autoimmune disease who sounded exactly like me. I knew I had it right away. Went to the doctor, and she recognized the symptoms immediately. She was shocked I even knew what it was because the disease is so uncommon, but we were right.
8:30 So many doctors really make me angry with this stuff. "I've never had a patient with this problem, so obviously you don't have it!" It makes me wonder if a patient came in with something truly weird but objectively there - say, somehow a little Matchbox car got lodged inside their bicep - if the doctor would say, despite x-rays and other evidence, "I've never had a patient with this problem so obviously there isn't a Matchbox car lodged in your bicep."
I feel these people. I’m 21 and dealing with my 17th episode of pancreatitis (caused by hyperlipidemia, thnx dad) and the doctors at first were surprised when I always knew what was going on. But there’s no confusing that pain.
I correctly diagnosed myself with lupus. told my doctor (who I got on really well with) and she agreed with me. Went to hospital for tests; I have systemic lupus erythmatosis and it is a gift that keeps on giving. I have at least 5 other serious health problems as a result. They all end with the word "syndrome".
My mom kept diagnosing me with problems I didn't have. When I diagnose myself. She would get mad. My dads a doctor, looked at me after talking to me. Every single thing I thought was wrong was correct. My mom got everything she thought I had wrong. Yeah she an idiot.
artist_around _the_block she got mad at them because they didn’t agree with her, you could say she is a bad mom and an idiot (i’m really sorry if i’m wrong but from this story it sounds like that)
Well that's a real shame that your mother is an idiot. Considering that it's a genetic fact that you get your intelligence from your mother. Good luck with that.
@@laurabarber6697 the studies that said that, have been confirmed to be false. False in the sense your talking about anyways. Your just as likely to get intelligence genes from your dad.
I remember my parents and me insisting I had developed epilepsy after having what could have been partial seizures. My doctors believed me, but my teachers thought I was daydreaming, but we insisted and went to a specialist in the condition, he tried to diagnose me with everything BUT epilepsy, so we went to a general neurologist. When we told him I had a history of seizures and described the symptoms, within seconds he diagnosed me with epilepsy. I’ve been having EEGs and MRIs all the tests, been on loads of medication that isn’t working, now I’m being considered for surgery after spending 5 days in hospital wired up to a machine.
as a med student, me and some my classmates wish every day that certain ppl WON'T graduate for the sake of their future patients. now i finally understand why (non accidental) medical incompetence / mal praxis exists
I diagnosed myself with appendicitis at 15. Doctors at the ER confirmed it. I discovered it really early though, and wasn't in much pain, so was admitted to the hospital for 3 days before I got my surgery, lol. Funny thing was, I had talked to my mom about appendicitis a few days prior, and if not for that, would probably have dismissed the pain in my stomach for ovulation, even if it didn't hurt like "it should" and was in the wrong spot.
Awful and excruciating (like constantly crying, could barely do anything) stomach pain every day for several years when I was a young kid. I think it gradually subsided (can’t really remember, but I definitely would’ve noticed if it suddenly stopped). Went to doctors a billion times, but my mom always thought that I was faking it the whole time to get out of school, and she told me the doctors felt the same. So it fades away after about five years of every single day pain. All of a sudden, I’m 14 and I wake up in the morning and I can’t walk because of how badly my stomach hurts again (it’s been at least three years since the last one by this point). I crawl and drag myself on the floor to my parents room and my mom and I lay in her bed and look at WebMD for half an hour. She tries to hide the diagnoses from me, but I can see Appendicitis as the top result. Don’t know what it is at that time, but we go to the ER and wait for four hours before they finally bother to check me out. It was appendicitis. They said it was a miracle I didn’t die when I was 8.
When I was around fourteen, my foot got caught under a car tire (I had heavy winter boots on, which protected it a lot) and luckily all it did was bruise my toes a bit, but that night I noticed an odd lump on the side of my foot. We went to the doctor (three, actually) who all did x-rays and insisted it was just swollen or a tissue buildup. Both me and my mom insisted it was bone. We thought something had shifted out of place when it got caught under the wheel, but we finally went to a fourth doctor which confirmed it was a navicular accessory. I got correct treatment for it, and I barely notice it anymore. Still pisses me off that it took four x rays though.
It is so very frustrating when medical professionals dismiss a patient's insight into their own health problems. Especially when it comes to women, who are perceived as hysterical and more ignorant than men. As we have seen here, it can prove fatal. I had a dermatologist misdiagnose a skin problem not once but twice because he simply would not take a decent history or listen to me. It cost me over a thousand dollars in the wrong medication and increased my misery greatly. I'm glad it wasn't my heart at stake.
Its not just women that have their insight ignored so I would suggest getting that "its because I'm a woman" attitude out of your head or you will find that people just dismiss you more.
@@tylerh629 idk, it seems to happen a lot with women, so maybe don't brush off women's experiences. sure it happens with men but statistically op is correct.
A doctor diagnosed me with Runners Knee, and I told them that I didn’t think they were right. We went back in and I was right. I have Juvenile Arthritis. Specifically oligoarthritis.
I was having lots of stomach pain, and my dad said “Your probably very constipated” I didn’t believe him, cus I didn’t feel like I had too poop. So, the pain got so bad I had to go to the hospital. They did an ultra sound to make sure it wasn’t appendicitis and would you look at that, I was constipated. They gave me some medicine and I was able to go home.
I had a psych who accused me of faking my mania and told me when I thought I was manic I was just feeling better from my depression. A few months later I was diagnosed with Bipolar Type 1 by a different psychiatrist.
TERFSMASHER MUSIC mental illnesses are in your head and the drugs they give you for them completely change your personality and/or turn you into a walking zombie.
wyatt neville that was such an ignorant comment. Tell that to my schizophrenic mother who yells at the air, and thinks the world and invisible forces are out to get her. It came out when I was a baby/toddler and whenever she doesn’t take her medication it’s hell, with her medication it’s also hell but slightly more manageable. Mental illness is no joke and it’s really hard on the individuals effected by it so for you to say stuff like that is a real disservice to those who battle with it on a daily basis. Personally bc genetics and environment I get panic attacks daily with strong urges to mutilate/kill myself violently almost daily and it’s a living hell trying to live a normal life and people making false claims that aren’t applicable to people who have actual mental problems. Your brain is weird different and your body is programmed to react a certain way point blank. It’s like if you someone brought up your middle school which you had a lot of memorial memories of and someone told you to block your brain from having the entire memory of your middle school pop up in your brain even for a millisecond. . . you can’t just stop your brain from making connections especially when they are so largely engraved. Trust me I tried and wanted to believe in that but doesn’t work for ptsd, your not even thinking about it and it strikes a deadly punch. Bc it’s not induced by thoughts rather your body is in a state of panic bc your body made certain patterns of reaction that aren’t necessarily thought induced.
I'm very happy with my current doctor, he acknowledges my medical knowledge and we always come to agreements about the next step for things. He's also one of the few doctors who admits when he doesn't know something, probably because he knows I won't freak out about it. Then he always either does his own research or gets me a person who does know. Because "there are so many things the human body can do, it wouldn't be reasonable to expect a doctor to always know or think about all of them."
As a nurse, this makes me disgusted. More than half of these were very textbook diagnoses that we all learn about from day 1 in the medical profession.
Not a doctor but here's what happened to me two years ago: I had severe lower back pain at the beginning of summer. Days later, I started having a really weird feeling around my crotch area. I was looking up all my symptoms online and the first result was PGAD. I didn't know what that was so I looked up a UA-cam video of someone who had it and I began instantly panicking. The person in the video got PGAD due to a disc in the spine being either broken or shifted. Since I also had back pain I thought I had PGAD from a shifted disc in my spine and I begged my mom to go to the doctors with me. She thought I was absolutely crazy and said I was just experiencing growing pains. I asked my cousin for help and she took me to her doctor while my parents were out of town. While the doctor didn't diagnose me with PGAD, he did notice that my shoulders were uneven. He ran a quick test and it turns out I had an S-type scoliosis (Which is a curvature in the spine). I had X-rays done to me months later and he was absolutely right. I find it kind of interesting that I come to the doctors to get diagnosed with one thing and actually get diagnosed with something completely different. Also, as for my crotch area, it turns out I was just horny because I was starting my period days after the doctor's visit. XD
The first case would have been quickly demonstrated by a simple urine dipstick (as taught in Medical School!) - rhinorrhea is protein deficient; CSF has detectable protein. The leg DVT is just misdiagnosis - any Patient presenting with longer-standing lower leg pain should be automatically screened - a simple calf girth measurement often demonstrates a size discrepancy, and the high probability of occult clot migration often provides a raised d-dimer. One or the other (with regional pain) provides full justification for a contrast chest CT. Many of the other cases are text-book examples of prejudgement and "not listening to the Patient", which again boils down to ineffective Clinical training. I was always taught that, "if you DON'T know what's wrong with your Patient, and they suggest a possibility - that must be considered (especially if the screening process is rapid)". Many times they'll be wrong, but many times they'll be almost (or completely) right - and as noted, if your Patient tells you they've got a kidney stone - they're probably right (the commonest d.d. being UTI - which will also need medical management!)
How about not lack of clinical training but just a person's ego that is actually so overblown that they can't listen to the patient. I'm a doctor and I Know It All.
@@laurabarber6697 Unfortunately a "dead right" assessment! The ability (and willingness) to REALLY listen to your Patient seems to be a dying art, possibly because of Clinic time pressures (more Patients needed to be seen per unit time), and too many other things needing to be done (especially for the junior grades who need to be on the ball for the many Clinical exams).
Fact: I had one stereotypical siezure at 4. I got told off for saying I was epileptic as a child, got told off for ‘daydreaming’. I’m now 17. I have 6 types of epilepsy, chronic migraines and other neurological issues and have been told I have had them since birth. The daydreaming was siezures.
I refused to have chorizo sausage with breakfast at a friends' house (he's a doctor) because I told him I had an internal hemorrhoid. He told me I didn't. I listed my symptoms. He told me I had an internal hemorrhoid, but there's no pain receptors *in there,* which is why I wasn't in any pain, and made me eat his awful spicy breakfast sausages.
My father kept telling the doctors in the hospital that he had serious problems and they kept ignoring him. Turns out he had developed Epatitis C and they all apologized afterwards. At the time the chances of getting through it and living a normal life weren't that high you know?
Gezi5 that happened to my grandma, although she’s has several brain surgeries. She went into the ER telling them that she wasn’t there for a diagnosis, she was there for treatment, she already knew what was wrong with her. But they didn’t care. I don’t think lazy health care professionals realize that they could and will kill someone will their laziness. The health business isn’t a job for being lazy, if you wanna be lazy, get a desk job that doesn’t depend on people’s lives and you can slack off when your boss isn’t around.
I got pneumonia in the military. They didn't give a crap, as they made me March myself a few miles to the medical center. Sat there all day waiting for treatment. Could barely breathe through the dust mask they make you wear, I was slowly dying with it on so I had to take it off but I was being threatened by some higher ranking guy everytime he saw me with it off. I think he was the one making me wait the 10hours by moving me back on the wait list. Finally got some respect and care when the doctors saw the xray of my lungs and realized I was practically dying. They also discovered that I had scoliosis from the xray. People would always scold me for never sitting up straight, especially in the military, turns out I was actually experiencing discomfort from sitting up but no one cared. That's my life, no one cares
my little brother went to the doctor with aching pains in his stomach, he’d always walk hunched. the doctor told him it was probably a bad case of the flu that was going around. a few weeks later he was instantly hospitalized because his appendix had burst open and leaked into his entire stomach area.
My friend told me about his symptoms he was having, fainting, going paler, being tired easily, etc. So I unknowingly told him that the symptoms he is having is like a leukemia(I didn't know it was cancer)... He ended up really having leukemia, but he survived the cancer anyways, but his personality is like.... Locked up in a cheerful boy like what is always was.
I've been plagued by SEVERE digestive problems for years, which includes severe cramping, fatigue, weird intense cravings, regular canker sores, GERD, etc. I kept being told it was stress, and it just kept getting worse. Someone I knew who had celiac disease suggested I try going gluten free for a bit. I thought it was silly and didn't listen.... Until I ended up in such a state of poverty bc of how sick I was that I couldn't work that I ended up pretty much eating nothing but rice for several days. I noticed that I felt better in those days of eating nothing but white rice than I had in years, despite how shitty my diet was. So I decided to try out the gluten free thing. And sure enough: the horrible cramping went away, and my digestive problems lessened considerably. I even stopped getting canker sores. I tried to tell doctors about this, and they weren't listening to me bc my digestive problems weren't COMPLETELY solved by going gluten free 🙄 Said that I needed a biopsy to determine that, but refused to actually order one. Well.... Until I begged my current one to do SOMETHING about my digestive health, and she started asking questions. And when she found out that my shit is often orange to yellow..... Everything changed. I later found out that yellow shit is an indicator of celiac disease. Also like. It can take up to 6mo for the damage to repair, and only 60% of sufferers fully recover anyway. So like.... That could be why I never fully lost my digestive health problems?? Bc I was fucking 23 when I cut gluten out of my diet?? And had multiple accidental exposures since??? [Btw if you're confused about the cravings thing: celiac disease impacts the body's ability to absorb nutrients. So the cravings was my body's way of going "we need this nutrient! Eat the food that has it!!" Like people had been likening me to a pregnant woman my whole life. And they get weird cravings bc they're building a person... Need a lot of nutrients for that 🤷♂️]
17:31 I"ve had three or four relatives with the same problem, and it caused severe health problems for each of them. It almost killed my grandfather (sure he was older, but the man was the most active 70 year old I've ever known). Since all of these were direct relatives of my mom she went to get a genetic test to see if she was at risk. They said they wouldn't pay for it because "There's no proof you are likely at risk."
My brother has had hidradenitis suppurativa that has really fucked up his life for a bit and has been getting better. Never knew how to spell it until now. Thank you.
I saw the stone in my dog's gut on the X-ray. The vet said it was just the curve of the intestine. My dog was dead less than a week later after having the stone surgically removed. I've been leery of that vet clinic ever since. Also, I knew my wrist was broken for about a week before I convinced my mom to take me to the ortho center.
I was in and out of the doctor's office a lot when I was younger due to constant sleep issues and stomach pain. We saw so many and heard every diagnosis in the book but doctors never wanted to run any more tests beyond bloodwork. The thing I learned from all those experiences was that doctors have to fucking clue what they're doing. They just throw darts at a dartboard, hoping to figure out what's wrong. And many of them think they know better than you about your body because of their education... but that education is terribly flawed because our understanding of the human body is severely lacking. Doctor's have their uses, but they aren't all-knowing like they like to be perceived. Find one who is humble and will listen to you. Just like in your job, the only one who is truly going to fight for your own wellbeing is YOU. It's YOUR body. Don't be afraid to go to another doctor if the one you have isn't cooperating with you. BTW I never did find out what was wrong with me. Symptoms ended up going away after awhile but I had to be homebound for a couple months because of it. I wonder what it was to this day. :(
It could have been anxiety!!! Anxiety does both of those things but mental health and stomach/intestine stuff wasn't really considered linked until recently. My sister also has such bad acid reflux that she takes 4x the amount of recommended meds for it (under doctors supervision) and she had a spell like that when she was a kid. Just took her the eff out for months. It can be happening without you feeling it as heartburn. She also had sleep issues in that time. That's just my armchair diagnoses because it sounded so familiar. I have IBS and OCD and I'll be darned if they aren't intertwined. But once I got the anxiety under control mystomach got a bearable
I once had a really bad cough (couldn't stand or eat without throwing up) for 4-6months and my doctor refused to believe I had anything but a cold. I had ammonia
I’m in medical school and I was today years old when I learned from this video I’ve had a deviated septum my whole life so the learning just keeps coming
I had hurt my knee almost 3 years ago and was told it was just a bad bruise. I tried explaining that I have a high pain tolerance and pressed them that something else was wrong. When it happened the pain was so bad I thought I had broken something at first. But I wasn’t taken seriously. 7-8 months later, I went to another doctor because of the pain I was still having. Found out my knee cap was off track. I’m still dealing with the pain 3 years later...🙄
My parents claimed I was a hypochondriac and refused to take me to a doctor for all my complaints of joint pain and back pain as a kid. When I grew up and got married I found out that it wasn't normal to be in pain all the time. Read about Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome and everything fit completely. 9/9 on the Beighton scale. Got it confirmed by a rheumatologist.
Bad part of being a paramedic is when someone keeps saying "I'm going to die". We can't even say "no you're not" because we're not allowed to give a false sense of security.
I have hidradenitis suppurativa and have had it since I was 15.(I’m 20 now) None of my doctors knew what it was so it wasn’t properly treated so it got worse. Only my later dermatologist helped with things but I’ve since moved to a small town and haven’t gotten a new one and so I’m going through the same thing of having doctors with no experience with it. I’m actually going through a flare up right now under both arms. The pain had me up most of the night. It’s not something I would even wish on my worst enemy😔
I had torn my rotator cuff during school a few months ago. I had went in the same day to the ER. The doctor had refused to give me x-rays or pain meds, I went to my physio therapist and had told her I tore it, she double checked it and had finally made sure i got the proper pain meds and x-rays. (i'm also in a manual wheelchair and it's extremely hard to push with a torn cuff.)
I've perfectly diagnosed myself 3 times. Once with bronchitis, once with a broken bone (doc thought it was a fracture but it was a break) and once when I had food poisoning and my family made me go into the doctor cuz they thought it was worse. Lol the funny thing about the broken bone is it got broken again a little while later and I saw a different doctor who didn't know the first time I had refused painkillers so he thought I was some kinda junkie, so he was pretty hostile till I again refused painkillers. I didn't need them cuz I have a high enough pain tolerance it doesn't hurt enough to warrant taking painkillers besides aspirin
Holy crap, the story at 8.30 literally just changed my life. I've always thought it was hard water, sweat and dust, meds, or whatever else. I have heat induced urticaria! 🤯
I'm a doctor. So many of these could have been avoided if they used the techniques we use in our government hospital. 1. Any patient coming with chest pain/ stomach ache/ vomitting, ECG is a must. 2. Any patient with self diagnosis, we send them for gold standard investigation in private lab ( which anyway won't be available in govt. Hospital) But also confirms the negative diagnosis.
My mother always struggled with her bowels. The doctors kept telling her it was IBS but she knew something just wasn’t right. 2 years later she was diagnosed with stage 1 bowel cancer. She is ok now I’m just glad she kept persisting and going back to the doctors or she wouldn’t have got a diagnosis so early.
My brother once came to breakfast complaining of a stomachache, and my dad decided that even though it was probably just a bug or indigestion, to ask a few questions just in case. He found out it hurt in the right lower quadrant. Oh dear. He did the push test. It failed. He did the jump test. It failed. He called a doctor friend (my allergist, actually) and said: "I think he has appendicitis." She tells them to come into her office so she can take a look. She confirms his diagnosis, calls a friend at the hospital, and says, "My patient has appendicitis. I know you don't believe me, but do an ultrasound anyway." Final diagnosis: appendicitis. Very early, caught with plenty of time to spare. My brother was in and out of surgery in like an hour, went home the next day, was back in school 2 days later. All because my dad decided to double-check his stomachache.
I really empathize with people who struggled against their primary care doctor trying to get a diagnosis and treatment. It took more than 10 years to get a diagnosis for my very rare genetic disorder. The dermatologist who ultimately made the diagnosis had been in his field for 35 years and had never seen a case before. He had written one of the textbooks still used in medical schools, so he knew of the disorder, he had just never seen a case. But these poor folks who suffered with very common conditions without the help of their doctor - they really go through some crap!
The blood clot one - my husband's best friend had that happen. GP told him he suspected a blood clot. Sent him to hospital to get checked. Without doing an ultrasound the doc there told him it was just a leg cramp and sent him home. He died that night.
I went to my doctor with jaundice and told her I thought I was experiencing liver failure. One blood test later I was in the hospital. It wasn't liver failure, I just had a tumour squeezing my liver. Good times all round.
I've got a story that's the complete opposite... I was working 3rd shift, and had a system to get me through my 24hrs. Sleep for 4 hours before work, drink 2 monster 0's and a coffee while at work for 8hrs, crash when I get home and sleep for 4 hours, go about my day, repeat. After a few months of this I started getting SHARP and constant pain in all of my joints. My PCP insisted on fighting for an arthritis diagnosis after testing for nearly everything else and coming up negative. He ran several arthritis tests and even though I had the "genes" for it, none of them were "active", so he tried to send me to a specialist. My anxiety had me exhausted of all the blood tests, and I had to refuse the last one after they ran an x-ray. Got tired of the energy drinks and stopped drinking them completely. Pain went 100% away about 4 days later.
Some of these really make me hope that someone sued a doctor for BEING AN A** If a patient comes in and says "i think it may be this" just run the test damn it, it wont kill you. you still get to charge em anyway.
I'm a dr... it's well known fact around 80% of symptoms we have is psych related and not organic, the flow of patients is usually hardcore high, if you listen to every patient demand, then you will abuse limited resources, waste medical team time, and have the potential to harm patients for overdiagnosis of things that are incidental, or harm the patients due to invasive procedure or radiations. Most doctors follow the wisdom of watchful waiting, if it was a bizzare or irrational symptom then it go away in 99% of patients. Is the current medical system perfect? Nope. But for 2019 this is the best we got for medical practice. People should just chill and respect what doctors do, because trust me, if you were a doctor, you won't be an anomly, and people will bitch and whine about you.
MythoVirus Although i Never ran into such a Problem i Would like to ask you something if you dont mind that is What would be the best way to Go and convince your dr. to run a Test or rather what would I have to say to convince you, because yes some Seem random like the kid that watched the episode of Full House but Other claimed to have had researched their Symptoms and actually presented them
@@cringlez1096 ok then i dont mind to do for you a whole body mri, ct scans, and to give you 10 expensive meds for your very very mild headache.. and yeah do you want some coffee with that dear sir?
@@alifaras693 actually, funny timing for this to come back up, going to the hospital because i fell down a stair and twisted my ankle, its been a day or so, so im gonna have them do an x ray, just to make sure nothings broken. Its not necessarily the "mild headache" its the i know this isn't right situation, my foots not in much pain, but the foot is moving weird and it swollen and discolored, because i can put weight on it i should be fine. Thats more of what im getting at when i get mad at doctors that disregard the patient and blow off a symptom then discussing options and what they can afford, ive had doctors on both ends with me and my family.
Damn, I'm really sorry to hear that, it sounds like an incredibly painful emotional experience. Doctors need to do better and listen to people, after all no one knows your body better than you do.
All the appendicitis one got to me. For nearly two and a half years, I had constant stomach problems. I would throw up anything I ate within 6-8 hours of eating. My mom took me to doctor after doctor, diagnosing me with bulimia. My mother and I knew that wasn't it. And on October 10 2017, my appendix was found cinched between two coils of my intestines. My appendix should have been about the size of my pinky finger, instead it was the size and length of an Italian sausage. I'm so thankful for my school nurse who quickly and carefully tested for the symptoms and called an ambulance for me in the matter of 10 minutes. Without her I'd be dead or still have bulimia as a disorder.
My dad and my grandfather both have heart disease. At 9:40 this story happened to me. At a experimentiumthere was a monitor that you put your hands on to measure your heart rate my heart couldn't calm down and it stopped randomly, while my mom's was regular. I think I should get it checked out.
As someone with Hidradenitis suppurativa, if someone comes into the doctor saying they have it, they more than likely have it. When it gets so bad that you have to do enough research to find out about HS, you probably have HS. Its not fun.
One time my mom was having a heart attack but like was being calm enough to call an ambulance and let them know she was having one. But since she was so responsive and low-key chill they didn't believe her until they checked her out then she was rushed to the hospital. But yeah she was super calm during it. Absolute mad lad
I had to bring my diagnosis to my doctor, along with making him check my ER reports that get sent over. Each time my immobilizing pain (usually in my lower half, but frequently full body) was written off as one asinine fault on my end or another (like not spending 80+ cdn on shoes in early 2000's, ect.) This happened for 22 years. When I moved out I was able to switch doctors, and brought this up within a few visits, and she took one very quick physical, and immidiately got me a refurral to a specialist in the area. It ended up that I didn't just have the one I was concerned about, but three chronic pain issues. Fibromyalgia, Patella Femoral Syndrome, and "a lower back mechanical failure". I have figured out dealing with them for the most part, but still have issues from how many times doctors have basically said it's all in my head, there's nothing wrong. There's been other minor situations like sinus infections, dehydration, sprains/strains and breaks, that I still have had to explain it to them... (Edited for slightly more info)
Went to my doctor with my diagnosis of minor stimulant psychosis. I’m going through university with psychopharmacology as my major, how ever my Doc didn’t know that. Went in told her exactly what was wrong, told her that it’s being caused by my lifestyle, lack of sleep, 60 hour work week plus school, the adderall Im prescribed for ADHD, cigarettes and caffeine use. She told me that I was just sick and had a fever and that’s what was making me hallucinate and have delusions. Keep in mind I used to a massive amount of stimulants a couple years prior and knew from experience what tweaking felt like. I told her she was wrong and that I needed a long lasting benzodiazepine (clonazepam) script of .5 mg for 3 days at one pill a day so I can sleep and take time off my routine to get my body and neurotransmitters back to base level. She declined, so I figured well it’s because it’s a benzodiazepine maybe she’d go for a 3 day script of ambien or trazadone. She declined and wrote me a script for amoxicillin ( the only antibiotic I’m allergic to). Suffice to say ended up at the ER and they agreed with my diagnosis. She was also the doctor I joked with when I first met her and I asked “well maybe I could try Desoxyn instead of adderall” she wrote the script to which I promptly said I was joking and threw it away. She was about to give me pure methamphetamine and didn’t even realize. 🤦🏽♂️
Not sure if this fits but I love this story. I was 5 brother was 3 and non verbal, together we managed to break his collar bone. Combo of rough housing and a well meaning hug. It was November so we all show up to ER in puffy coats and the admitting nurse asked if my mother was sure it was broken. She just called my brother over and took off his coat. We were seen almost immediately.
I worked as a pharmacy assistant for a while, stocking shelves and helping people pick off the shelf items mainly. Guy comes in to speak to the pharmacist with a strange rash that isn't improving with regular rash treatments. I over hear and ask if it started with one larger patch at first. The man answers yes, and looks puzzled how I would know that. I suggested pityriasis rosea, and my pharmacist just nodded. Had it as a kid and was misdiagnosed multiple times myself. Wrote it down so he could show his doctor. Best day of my pharmacy career.
8:09 Fun fact, I work with a kid who's also allergic to the cold. Unfortunately we live in Canada and she breaks into hives nearly every day thanks to the harsh winters here. I'm not sure if she self-diagnosed it or if it was just found out recently bc it wasn't on her registration sheet, but either way we know about her allergy and she decides if she wants to wait outside with the other kids or not when their rides pick them up.
Self diagnosed pneumothorax, that happened when I was sleeping one night. Woke up, and couldn't breath properly, hurt when I tried. Felt like my chest fell into myself when I was lying down. Left side. Kept getting told there's no way you could have a pneumothorax when you've been sleeping. Went on for 2 days. Ended up getting really lucky, any longer with it and I'd have required surgery. Instead, I just got the normal procedure.
Not really a story of me being right but just two obnoxious doctors. So I was in the shower and had a very sudden pain that crippled me and I went to the hospital to check it out (my parents drove as I obviously couldn’t) where both of the doctors were arguing about if I had a cyst on my ovaries burst or appendicitis. I got driven out to a bigger city where they have ultrasound machines and such and turns out I had a cyst on my ovaries that burst on the same side of my appendix and had made it inflamed (causing appendicitis)... scary times.
@5:12 exactly what I'm going through right now. I syncope about 3 times a week, vomit daily, have been rocking a low grade fever for a couple months, experience Raynaud's-like symptoms, have painful bouts of phlebitis, and sometimes bouts with what my best guess is rhabdo, When I was a child I thought doctors were the smartest people in the world. I was so naive. Doc, I've been living this lifestyle for a lifetime. I don't think that's it.
My hospital has become addicted to foreign doctors H1b who can barely speak or understand English an hour trying to explain a badly iungriwn toenail I just hoped out there went home and heated up a flat screwdriver! I'd really like to ruin Kaiser Family Foundation not just financially
I had two self diagnoses confirmed in one week. Since June of 2020, I suspected that I was autistic. I was 22 at the time and stumbled upon a Tiktok page of someone who had been diagnosed later in life and hyper fixated on researching the symptoms and criteria. Two years later, I finally found a phycologist near me who specializes in adult autism assessments. I scheduled an assessment for a week later. A few days before my assessment, I started feeling symptoms of a UTI. I went to a walk in clinic, told them i thought i had a UTI, and was diagnosed with a UTI and given antibiotics. Three days later I was diagnosed with ASD level 1.
When I was 10, I broke my ankle at my uncle’s wedding. My dad told me I just had a sprain. Made me Actually walk it off- never let me even lean on anything until it healed improperly. Fast forward 2 years and all my joints start acting funny, I feel like I’m wading through water, joint pain, inflammation, etc. I tell my dad “hey I think I have arthritis,” as a joke. Due to the pain I had to quit all of my physically taxing extra curriculars. I turn 14, and I start noticing problems with my eyes. After 4 months of eye problems (inflammation, photophobia, going through 2 pairs of glasses), my eye doctor sends me for some blood tests. 5 more months later, I get diagnosed with JRA (juvenile rheumatoid arthritis).
I diagnosed a young friend (17) with Ehlers Danlos syndrome and convinced him to go to his doctor where it was confirmed. He said it was nice that someone knew how to test for it and I just replied that I should know as I've got it and I had already diagnosed my daughter with it.
Here's a tip: if you genuinely believe that something is really wrong and your doctor refuses to run tests or treat you, ask them to put their refusal into writing and sign it. The doctor will usually change their mind because if you die or are permanently harmed because of their refusal of treatment and that refusal of treatment is written down and signed by them, that is physical evidence against them, they're in for malpractice and they could lose their medical licence.
Mmmm this.
Not so easy when your incompetent dr is insisting on inappropriate treatment and you're refusing. Especially as a pregnant woman. I had to get my family dr involved because the OB/GYN threatened to get a court order. She later apologized when she was proven wrong and I wasn't making shit up. She was behind the medical literature. She presumed I was some sort of anti-vaxxer anti-medical hippy just because I rejected her ill-informed treatment for a rare medical condition that is common in my family.
Vibe check
My ex is a doctor and there is no way she wouldn't refuse, she's not the smartest needle in the needle rack. After she refuses I can just find a drug to mimick the symptoms and ruin their life. I mat die but it's worth it. One time she ate my pop tart.
@@krakenwarrior3237 why would you fuck up a relationship with a doctor. marry rich my dude
My dad started bloating in the hospital after a serious car accident when I was 11. The nurses all said he was just constipated and continued to give him stool softeners and other things. My mother, a cna at the time and was in college for nursing, cursed them out to get him to the ER because he was going to die. They take him to ER. He was having a bowel obstruction and was about to burst on the table. Thankfully for that night only there was a surgeon who specialized in that kind of thing. My mother saved my dads life.
linkLoverAG my first thought was internal bleeding, but a bowel obstruction is pretty bad... even a child would know that after a car accident it’s likely not constipation that is the culprit
How long was he in the ER for? Usually, a bowel obstruction wouldn't reach the point of perforating after just a few hours (it can, but it's rare, either as a result of the pain meds or because of some kind of trauma to the abdomen). I feel for him though - bowel obstruction is hell, and I'd be amazed if he wasn't showing far more concerning signs of an emergency abdomen...
@@kao_wolf That was my thought. Bowel obstruction is not a common result of a car accident, though some medication and trauma could produce an ileus (which is pretty much where part of the bowel stops working) and of course, a trauma could cause damage to a blood vessel causing serious problems with reduced blood flow and ischemia - either way, there are SO many reasons why abdominal pain should be taken seriously and worked up properly from a car accident, not assumed to be constipation, and I don't know how long he was in the ER, but for a bowel obstruction to progress to the point of perforation that fast, it must have been causing FAR more symptoms than just stomach pain (like signs of clinical shock, blood pressure issues, severe nausea and vomiting etc) and he would have been SERIOUSLY unwell from that... because often the first place of bowel obstruction, the first treatment is conservative - medication to help pain and nausea/vomiting, probably an NG tube to empty the stomach and reduce nausea/vomiting and decompress the gases/swallowed air, and waiting to see if the obstruction will spontaneously resolve or if surgery is required... and that can be something that goes on for several days, even. It does, obviously, depend on each individual case... but to get to the point of perforation so fast, you'd expect that to be overtly obvious to any nurse or doctor. Then again, I've had some incredibly blind/jaded/stubborn ******s who just can't see past their own blinkered opinion and sadly a lot of medical professionals dislike someone who takes an active role in their treatment - even if they know what they're talking about.
Medical professionals... Well, nurses to be fair ~ "He probably just needs to poo."
These freaking guys M8
He was in the hospital for around 3 months total, but the obstruction happened about a month in. I can't remember very well how long it took, it was 10 years ago, but I want to say he went in around 10-11pm and I passed out in the hospital waiting room at around 2 am or 3 am
It's stuff like this that really make me worry about going to the doctor. Like, how can I be sure that they're right? What if I'm misdiagnosed and die because of it? It's terrifying to me
i’ve been misdiagnosed once and i ended up in the emergency operating room. it’s not fun.
It's important to always play an active role in your own healthcare. Don't try to treat yourself, but doing your own research and asking questions and finding a second opinion if you feel like you're not being taken seriously are all super important things that everyone should do. Many doctors are wonderful, but many are not, and if you're fat or a woman or black or any other minority it's incredibly common for doctors to be dismissive of things that they wouldn't otherwise be dismissive of. A good doctor will always listen to your concerns and opinions and will always do their best to explain what's going on and answer any questions you might have. As long as you do your research, ask questions, and stand up for yourself you should be fine.
You'd die if you didn't go either. You go to the people who went to school for 8 years and worked 70+ hours a week for a minimum of 3 years to learn as much as possible before they're sent out to diagnose patients on their own because they will mostly be correct. All of these examples were uncommon conditions that have nonspecific symptoms. 99.9% of the time, the dr would have been correct.
@@morganalabeille5004 Eh, I work with patients who think they're fine and they're not. Your A1C of 9 is not okay. Your blood pressure of 165/96 is not okay. Not pooping every day is completely fine. People are not smart enough to do their own research because there is always going to be something they find that contradicts medical reality. Do some research yourself, but ask someone who knows medicine to validate the findings.
the doctor once diagnosed me with “seasonal allergies”. i had mono. that was a severely painful two months. i argued to my mum and my doctor in tears that this wasn’t normal and that it isn’t allergies, but i was never taken seriously. i suffered needlessly when i could’ve gotten relief if i had just known what was wrong.
2:53 Reminded me of a sad story I had once heard. A boy had gotten meningitis and it came on very quickly. As they were in the car to the hospital he had calmly told his mother that he was going to die. Didn’t even make it to the hospital. It must be so heartbreaking to hear someone say something like that.
mars he got an easy relief from a cruel world.
@@marionmelia2962 I dunno whats sadder, that you said it and I feel you or that you actually have upvotes :(
Dunno Yet hmm
years ago some guy in my school died in the backseat on his way to the hospital, really sad :/
Chicken and the egg. Going into a surgery thinking you are going to die might actually make it happen. The brain acts in really fucked up ways sometimes.
"The doc never had a patient with it, so it was dismissed" How is that an excuse if you're a medical professional?
ikr! there are so many medical conditions it's impossible you've seen them all. doctors shouldn't write off the possibility of a condition just bc they haven't seen it
I know that diagnosing a patient is very important and the doctors have to be sure on what it is but I sometimes feel that they need to listen to the patient because it's their body and they know what's normal
Yup, I regularly get shouted at by doctors and nurses when I tell them that my normal temperature is 34 or 35 (Celsius) and that 37 is fever for me. Actually it's well known that some people run low! When I take my temperature, it always shows as 34 or 35, and when nurses take it and I'm not running a fever, it's the same!
Little Kitty I’m the same! My temp is normally 96-96.8 F (35.5-36 C). Pretty sure I’ve had to have my mom fight with doctors because “96 is low!” or “well, 98 is normal so you’re fine” even though I’m sweating and shaking.
@@starkittsy Exactly! I'm the same, except my mom doesn't care if I have a slight fever.
E Ryuu oh, my mom’s a serious hypochondriac. I get taken to the doctor for every little reason. as many times as I’ve been x-rayed over my life for example, I ought to be radioactive or have some sort of super power. There were years I’d be x-rayed 5 times.
@@starkittsy I have this exact problem! But I've never argued with my doctor about it because I did not realize it wasn't normal. I only just had the realization a few months ago when I was sick but had "no fever", but I definitely did.
"It felt like he was being stabbed because he was stabbed"
*EVERY 60 SECONDS IN AFRICA A MINUTE PASSES*
Despaircito v3 _hmm, the floor is made of floor_
@@arktos849 hm, yes, the universe here is made out of universe
I got really sick when I was a kid, I told my parents I have Type 1 Diabetes and need to go to the doctor. They took me to the General Physician a week later and I was diagnosed with Type 1 Diabetes.
I've also broken my collarbone in half twice, both times I was told it wasn't broken until the XRay confirmed it was in multiple pieces. ER doctor or Triage Nurse "it's not broken, it's just dislocated". 20 minutes later, "Yup, it's broken"
How the hell does a collarbone become dislocated lol. Knees, shoulders, even elbows sure... but collarbones?
@@dicksdrugsanddebutantes9305 It’s not an easy thing to achieve, but ohhhh boy do they. I have EDS and have dislocated mine 3 or 4 times at this point. I swore the first time I had broken it. “Sternoclavicular joint dislocation” put into google image search will pop up X-rays of how it happens. I would rather dislocate a hip, shoulder, elbow, or ankle any day over my clavicle slipping ever again.
Told my doctor I had a “bad sleeping disease” when I was 4. Doc told me I needed a stricter bed time. Told my doctor I had insomnia at age 11. Was told I had an overactive imagination and I just needed to “turn my brain off” when I went to bed. Finally, at 18, got diagnosed with severe insomnia. So bad, the lack of sleep my entire life has resulted in obesity and made me pre-diabetic due to my body craving carbs due to lack of energy. I’m finally on sleep medicine now at 19, but I will be dealing with the effects for the rest of my life.
Your problem isn't a medication deficiency though. My advice, and I don't even know why I'm bothering, but get rid of wireless devices and get your cervical spine checked. The wireless devices because microwaves act on the brain and prevent sleep through a number of mechanisms. The cervical spine because the brain stem and the lower structures of the brain are involved in sleep and other circadian functions. If you have tethering of the spine, vertebrae out of place, etc, you could be compressing or tugging on the brain stem, and if this is done in a certain way, it results in insomnia. Your diet as well, make sure you're getting adequate magnesium, etc.
I had insomnia most of my life, as well as somewhat frequent sleep paralysis and eventually night terrors. We got ride of the cordless phone, gone. Never had wifi or cell phones, and still don't, now I can sleep pretty much arbitrarily.
Arty Bevs you’re trying to attribute your obesity to no sleep? Uhhhhhhhhhh.. that doesn’t make sense
@@bigpeenerpeen Uh, maybe to someone who doesn't know anything.
Acetyl how does not sleeping cause you to constantly over eat? I’m in college(for pre-med btw). I don’t get more than 2-3 hours of sleep normally and many nights of no sleep and I don’t have any weight issues. Blaming another issue allows people to not blame their poor habits
@@bigpeenerpeen Since you're a pre-med I'm going to assume you're capable of consulting the literature on melatonin's (and sleep itself's) role in hormone regulation, thus metabolism and subsequent behavior.
As far as obesity itself, it's a multifaceted problem. I'm not overweight and never have been, and I do watch people and have the same edge of brutality regarding lifestyle factors. I've personally fasted for 7 days, easily. But there is nonetheless a bigger picture in the genesis and basis of obesity, you're on your way to being yet another doctor that can't trace the chain back more than a link or two.
Do some real research, apply yourself. Look at environmental toxicity and food content.
The one about the old lady having a heart attack really gets to me. My dad went to A&E with chest pain and the nurse refused to do any tests and sent him home to take an antacid. My dad refused to accept that and went for an emergency appointment with GP the day after who did an ECG and lo and behold he was having a heart attack and immediately sent back to be admitted to the hospital. If my dad hadn't taken the initiative to get a 2nd opinion he could be dead. I will never forgive that nurse.
Did he have insurance? Nurses are told in secret to refuse uninsured patients.
Anonymous Libertarian he said A&E and GP. Gonna assume he’s from the U.K., so he wouldn’t need insurance. That literally isn’t a thing there.
Wth that nurses advice could have killed him, I'm glad your dads okay now.
I'm actually going for an ECG and blood test tomorrow because i got super dizzy and had bad chest pain maybe 2 weeks ago now and then my chest hurt again just recently. The doctors said its probably not anything serious but the tests are just to confirm if it something they can identify or not.
Y’all would be AMAZED at all the Endometriosis stories
Don't forget about how many women with pcos get called dramatic, that shit makes me wanna murder
I was thinking the same thing 😩
I had a doctor (same doctor who confirmed I had PCOS) tell me I could not have Endometriosis because I was too young. Got sent to a specialist for severe period pain, got surgery and what do you know, I also have early endometriosis and it’s only getting worse.
I was just coming to have a story about this. My grandmother AND my mother were mis-diagnosed as having "stage 4 endometriosis" their whole lives. Their condition magically cleared after their first baby. Endometriosis doesn't fucking magically vanish. So, queue me hitting my period at 9/10ish. Severe pain, but I have an extremely high pain tolerance so I dealt with it. For the next 3-4 years it increased in pain. By the time I was 15/16 I would be in such severe pain and discomfort I couldn't sip water without vomiting. Doctor says "oh, your family record says endometriosis runs in the family. That's what you must have. Unfortunately the only way to diagnose this is to perform surgery and go into your abdomen to look" which I believed. [It's BS btw, don't buy it, get another fucking doctor]. Now, go on for another 10 years almost of this pain probably 10 of every 12 periods in a year. The odd one or two would be either no pain at all [again high pain tolerance] or only a mild discomfort. Bad one though would have me literally bed-ridden for a week. Lasted 5-8 days, first 3 being the worst. Heavy flow, diarrhea, cold sweats and hot flashes, cramping so bad that no position except fetal and rocking back and forth would alleviate it, having to chew NSAID pain relievers like they were candy, taking 4x max dose just to touch the pain, vomiting, nausea, and fatigue so bad that just speaking a few words would take all of my energy. I'd literally have to inhale as deep as I could and speak using the exhale. Around 24-26 I discover this thing called Dysmenorrhea. Specifically, Primary not Secondary form. Check off symptom after symptom. Look up treatment: Wouldn't you know it, NSAIDs. What is Primary Dysmenorrhea? Essentially, each month a woman releases a VERY small amount of an enzyme/protein that is used in childbirth to cause contractions and release the lining of the uterus. The body normally regulates how much of this is put out, so that just enough to release the uterus lining is released, hence cramps being annoying and slightly painful but not terrible. Well, with PD, your body releases /all of it/. The full strength, "we're pushing out a baby get it out get it out get it out". Went to my OB/GYN [This being a totally new one, obvs] and said "Look, I'ma be real. I believe it's this, the treatments offered for this work, and my mother and grandmother had the same symptoms, described it as the same as childbirth, and after having a child it went away." She looked at my symptoms, looked at the family history in more detail, and said "I can't believe you were told this was Endometriosis, I'm so sorry. Yes, it's definitely this. Unfortunately I can't offer you any treatment other than what you're already doing, there isn't much known about this as far as safe and effective longterm treatments go. As for why your family's condition improved after giving birth, it's likely their bodies "learned" what real childbirth was supposed to feel like and regulated themselves, but honestly that's just a guess. Again, we don't know a ton about this condition yet." Since then? WHen I know my period is coming, all I have to do is take a half dose of NSAIDs every 12 hours until my flow is coming evenly, and magically it's fine the rest of the period. *shrug* But, it's stage 4 endo y'all.
@@CherryGryffon ah wow! Maybe that's why a lot of doctors think that having a baby solves Endometriosis. It's gets confused with PD! It's like a whole new fucking world just opened in front of my eyes 👀
I don't understand why doctors would refuse to do a diagnosis? I mean the patient (or insurance) is paying so there is nothing to lose for the doctors, are they just lazy?
M Isa You’ve got to consider that more often than not, doctors get people without issues.
@@averystrangeghostlysquid7637 but even if there are people with no problems they should just diagnose them if they really want it, i mean the doctors doesn't lose anything even if the diagnosis shows that the patience is fine since the doctors are getting paid
*as long as the diagnosis doesn't have possible dangerous side effects
M Isa It’s probably because of hospital room, they don’t have all day to do a diagnosis on someone they’re not even 30% on, with other people waiting.
@@averystrangeghostlysquid7637 I guess thats true, but if a patient comes multiple time to get a diagnosis it would probably be better if they just do the diagnosis anyways...
It's taken me two or three years to get any kind of doctor or medical professional to take me seriously when I tell them I've almost definitely got EDS, presented my research and the DSM-V markers, all of which I hit. I was just referred to a tertiary care facility last week for an EDS workup.
Also got a copy of my MRI images when I got MRIs of my cervical and throacic spine done. I noticed something odd in my t-spine, but when I got the call about the results they said everything was normal. Called the neurologist's office to double-check and he said the same thing. Did some research, determined it was a vertebral hemangioma, and my GP told me I was wrong because I only THOUGHT I knew how to read an MRI and wouldn't even look at it. A month after the MRIs took place, they called me to inform me I had a vertebral hemangioma. Every single diagnosis I have, I made myself long before any doctor ever did. weird how people like,,,,,,,, know their own bodies lmao
EDS... is that Ehler-Danlos?
@@scottvelez3154 I assume that's what they mean, yes. It can be a pain in the ass getting a diagnosis too. I know so many people who spent years trying to get diagnosed and by the time they did, were in constant pain. But unless you have the most severe symptoms, including frequent dislocations/subluxations (and not the chiropractic bs kind), cardiac, GI or eye type problems that demand more intensive diagnostic processes, a lot of people get missed.
So have I, several times. We know ourselves, why don't they listen more?
@@DawnSuttonfabfour A couple hypochondriacs and junkies ruined it for everyone.
Just Another Bucky Lover if it was me i would threaten to kill dozens of kids. Dont care for me or my wellbeing? Okay, explain 20 kid corpses to the parents.
Once self diagnosed myself with insomnia. When I visited the doctor, they diagnosed we with insomnia too. That was the best day of my career in life
Scuffed Skizzy the doctor diagnosed him and roblox has nothing to do with medical condition
@@flops2425 are you gatekeeping insomnia?
Had a friend that went to an ER after a car crash and suffering minor head injuries, the nurse insisted she was nauseous because she was pregnant and was lying about lack of any sexual activity recently. Wouldn't even 'waste doing a test since it was obvious'. She had to go to a totally different ER to get help for what was, in fact, crap caused by the car accident the day before (she wasnt pregnant).
....Ive known people whove tried to get driven to an ER like 15-20 minutes farther then the local one _while having a heart attack_ rather than go to that ER. Because thats actually improving their chances; that place would probably say it was heart burn.
Too much trouble is rather just die at home
Wtf. In our er the doc ordered a pregnancy test on a woman going though menopause.
@@vampyremisa America the safe bet is FAT always
I insist on going to the ER half an hour away because the local one 5 mins up the road has screwed me over numerous times, tried to tell me that TMJ pain was an infection with no blood test because only a dental specialist can diagnose an infection?! My head spun at that too don't worry, the Dr that time even admitted to only having an educated guess, even though I was demanding a blood test and here in Australia they are obligated by law to do basic tests on request of the patient according to my GP. I have EDS (Ehlers Danlos which I also happened to diagnose myself) as well so minor mistakes can turn to major screw ups with my health, I'd rather risk the half hour drive than the incompetence and risk of death at the local
@@purplestripes3437 always go to other docs if they don't listen to you.
I can relate to the appendix thing.
I got stomach pains right before my mum told me it was time for bed.
So she didn't believe me (i always made excuses to stay up late)
The whole night i couldn't sleep because off the pain.
Next day, my mum took me to our doctor, doc said i had air in my stomach.
So they gave me meds and got send home
I couldn't eat i cried because off the pain.
Had a fever
So my mum and i went to the ER.
Doc felt my stomach they did a blood test.
hour later surgery..
Doc said a few hours longer it would have burst.
I had to stay for 5 days because of the fever
So thanks doc...
Can partly relate. I had stomachaches for over a month (I think? I was like 10), but only for 5 min each. At one point my mum (who actually is working in the medical field) would stop believing me. She had it in mind, but I was lacking some other typical sympthoms. Well, until I got it in school and my teacher called her to pick me up. Straight to the doctor who didn't even run tests because it was friday and the results would only come monday. Would have probaly been to late. Then to hospital and getting surgery three (long) hours later. Was the first time the pain wouldn't go away, so...
@@felinah2559 yes apparently there's a difference some people can have weeks of pain.
And others it's acute (my luck)
I was 10 ish at the time
And still it's the worst pain i think i ever had 23 now
I was patient, I thought I had hypothyroidism because I was always dead tired. My parents refused to take me anywhere and told me to get better sleep. It dead ass took me two years of persuading for me to try and get them to bring me to a doctor because I was so exhausted and felt like I had depression.
It wasnt hypothyroidism, but my Vitamin D levels were at about 10% normal which also mimics depression symptoms (hence seasonal/winter depression)
@barebearburiesbarrysberries ive literally been telling my friends to make sure they get their vitamin D checked because of how the symptoms basically mirror depression!
Friendly reminder that most of these stories are not "Self-diagnosis" but "Self-advocacy". It's always a good idea to do your own research and make suggestions, but dont throw out a doctor's opinion just because their diagnosis doesn't match what you want it to be.
This is actually why I like the capitalist healthcare system. You can just go to another doctor then pay to get tested.
@@vagabondwastrel2361 I actually live in a country with free health care. I can just go to another doctor and not have to pay to get tested a second time. If I really wanted to, I could then go to another free doctor or go to a private clinic then pay to get tested. It never ceases to amaze me that there are those in the world who still consider having to pay for healthcare is a better way to go rather than having the choice to pay for better private healthcare or getting it free through the public system if you're strapped for cash.
Unless you know what the doctor is saying is BS. I knew something was terribly wrong but not sure what. Doctor threatened to send me to a psychiatrist if the tests didn't show anything wrong. Tests showed nothing wrong because she only ran the standard tests. Didn't return and found a doctor that actually listened to me. He ran the proper tests that revealed I had a life threatening D3 deficiency. He had never seen a D3 level that low before, neither had the lab.
@@vagabondwastrel2361 you know that with universal healthcare you can do the same, right? It's just free or cheaper.
@@FrostedGalaxies I would be more prone to support universal healthcare if we had just a flat consumption tax and no exemptions. America is already rocking 15-30 million illegal aliens not paying into the system while also draining the system.
Before obamacare there were programs for the terminally poor. Wisconsin for example had a 1$ a month healthcare policy that was more functional than my 600$ a month policy after obamacare socialized health insurance.
Then there is the issue where universal healthcare destroys innovation in the healthcare field.
I have an example of the failure of multiple doctors. For 2 years I went to the doctor multiple times to complain about various issues that never went away. I was constantly having stomach problems, headaches, extreme fatigue and just in general felt terrible. I knew there was something was wrong but each time it was written off. I was told to take an allergy pill, take meds for acid reflux, get better sleep. They never bothered to run test.
Doing research I really felt like I had a thyroid issue (runs in my family) and a food allergy but after getting ignored for so long I just tried to deal with the problems I was having.
Finally after 2 years I went back to the doctor practically begging them to please figure out what was wrong with me. I could barely function in life anymore. The female doctor I had noticed my desperation and that I had been to that clinic multiple times for the same complaints. She took me seriously and listened. She ran multiple blood test, and I mean multiple she practically tested me for everything and did an allergy screening. A few days later I got a call informing me that I had hypothyroidism and was allergic to wheat.
I was completely right with my self diagnosis.
I will always be grateful to that doctor who took me seriously. It’s thanks to her that my life improved significantly. I started taking thyroid meds and removed gluten from my diet. My health and life improved significantly. All the issues I was having went away.
I like telling this story to people because it proves you know yourself and your body. If you feel something is wrong keep trying, don’t give up. There is a doctor somewhere that will listen to you. Don’t get discouraged by the ones who refuse to believe you or help you. I mean sure there’s a chance your self diagnosis is wrong but what’s not wrong is how you feel. If you don’t feel right don’t give up. Find a doctor willing to take you seriously who can help.
Diabetes is not hard to self diagnose, lol.
"How did she know?" 😂🤣
@mia morales It's common to *get* it in your teens, but you don't have it since birth. I'm type one diabetic, and I did not have it all my life - you simply can't survive in to your teens without a diagnosis, unfortunately. People get it at all different stages of life, most commonly during childhood or adolescence. I hope your brother is doing much better now, though, because diabetes sucks. (Sorry if this sounded slightly aggressive, I just hate when people are told the wrong information!)
@mia morales not really, a lot of base symptoms, such as excessive drinking/urination, and sleepiness/hunger point to diabetes in general.
@mia morales ok
@@flops2425 no, that's wrong lmao
@@flops2425 you gotta get your cerebrospinal fluid checked cause I just read some dumb shit
Was feeling really sick and had a lump in my neck. Looked up the symptoms and it said it was lymphoma. And turned to different cancer doctors. Told them everything and they said I was fine. Two months later got diagnosed with lymphoma
Now did that lump happen to be about the size of your thumbtip on the right side?
riot mine was on the left side, but it started at around that size. But when I had it removed, it was the size of a credit card
My cat died of lymphoma 7 months ago. Tumors wrapped around his organs. Terrible
Had lymphoma twice. The first time it was stage 4b. Initially they said I might just have an infection..
The thing about lymph nodes is that they can get swollen for about a million reasons. Most of the time it is harmless. If they are very big or growing rapidly, that is a cause for concern.
Feeling sick and having a lump in neck almost always means you have an upper respiratory infection or sth similar. Lymphoma would be very low on the list, no matter what the internet says. The right thing to do would be for the doctor to keep track of the lymph node and the symptoms, see if they go away like a simple infection should.
There are so many diseases and conditions in the world. Every single field has thousands pages worth of textbooks written on them. The only way to manage that information is to be systematic about it, going from most likely to least likely.
As a young child, I spent my time reading informational books and watching spongebob, but mostly books. I even criticised others early on in grade school due to them preferring everything but informational or nonfiction books. One summer when I was 11 years old, I was looking at my abdomen because I had spent the fall, winter, and spring doing sports and I had been growing muscle there. I was pretty surprised by the progress but noticed that on my lower left (my left, your right) abdomen, a “muscle”, was developing faster than the other. I went into the bathroom and spent an hour looking at myself and thinking, “I’m gonna be ripped by the time I’m 16”. But then I remembered in one of the books about cancer. I even told myself, “I have to get myself checked out, I have cancer”. My concerns were ignored by my school nurse later the next day and even told me to stop worrying. Eventually after months my concerns died out. 2 years later, I felt pain in my left kidney (my left, your right) and in the middle of class that day I told my school nurses that I had pain in my left kidney. They laughed at me thinking that I was wrong. They even asked me, “do you know what a kidney is?” and “where is your kidney?”. Despite me pointing accurately where my kidney was, they told me to stop worrying. This time my mother listened to my concerns and brought me to my paediatrician who sent me to my local hospital *who sent me to the hospital of a big city near me*. They told me I have cancer and when they removed my kidney (where the tumour had been inside) they explained to me that the pain I felt was because the tumor had been popping veins and capillaries in my kidney and rearranging my circulatory system so that it could have it’s own blood supply. Aside from the giant list of signs and warnings that occurred, there could have been less serious consequences for me if the school nurses had listened to me the first time or at least told my mother about it. Anyways those nurses are out of commission in my former school. I’m 16 now and as of this year, I have stage 2 Cancer but I have been in remission for close to 3 years now.
When I was 3yo my doctor was on hollidays and I got sick. My mum drove me to a replacement doctor, who wrongly diagnosed me. My mum, knowing another kid who had the disease I was diagnosed with didnt believe it and went on early days google to google my symptoms. She believed it was meninchitis, she woke me up, and I layed frozen in my bed, I couldnt move one inch. They rushed me to the hospital in which a team of doctors immediately took me to the surgery room. This was all happening within a day.
I had the worst bacterial form of meninchitis, which is very rare to make it out alive. Most people who do make it out alive are either mentally handicapped, blind or deaf. I made it out without any side effects, if I was brought into the hospital 10mins later I wouldnt be here (18 years later) writing this message. Thanks mom 😶
Doctors tell you they like when you ask questions and is involved in your care. But, if you hear them when they leave your room they think you are either crazy or hystonic. This attitude will reflect in your medical chart.
This video reminded me of all my health problems, how scary it can be, and how most doctors look at you like you're either a hypochondriac because you have anxiety or drug-seeking because you're young and/or have mental health stuff, but really I'm just having symptoms I shouldn't. I understand why, but also it's scary to think the possible worse and it not being caught despite "doing everything right". I'm glad many of these people were able to get the diagnosis they need, but also sorry for those that couldn't and paid the consequences. I know doctors aren't perfect, but also, damn.
I don't have anything to do with doctors anymore. I hear "drug-seeking" one more time I'm cutting his head off with my fingernails! 🤭🤭🤭🤭🤭🤭🤭🤭☠
Not really a diagnosis, but I thought I'd share this misdiagnosis I received once. Went to the local walk-in clinic with mild pulsating abdominal pain (nothing too bad, but I also didn't want it to get worse), the doctor asked me to lay down, pressed on my abdomen, and asked me if it hurt, to which I said "yes," he "diagnosed" me with appendicitis, and wrote a referral to the ER next door. I get to the ER, and 4 hours later, the come back with my results.....it was a UTI............A freaking UTI that could have been diagnosed with a dip test....
I didn't question the doctor, because you know, HE'S A DOCTOR, HE SHOULD KNOW WHAT HE'S DOING.
Never again. I chime in all the time now, as you all should. It's saved me and my wallet A LOT.
One time I went to the ER convinced I had appendicitis. The triage nurse took my temp and started mad rushing around to finish other stuff and get me to a room. At the final second he was like oh! And go pee in this.
I was SURE I was about to die due to his reaction to my fever so I was like WTHeckin heck? I'm not preggo why I gotta pee.
Awhile later I've got a hydration drip and antibiotics and the doc comes in and he's like you got a gnarly UTI my dude.
I really thought I was dying. I still don't know why that guy was rushing. But I'm glad they made me pee cause man, that sounds sucky, dude
Better safe than sorry lmfao if it was your appendix and it burst you could have died
Had BAD health anxiety as a kid and always thought I had crazy things like cancer and heart problems and swine flu. Was always wrong. As a college student started getting weak muscles, looked up my symptoms over the next few months and eventually found a video of a girl with a rare autoimmune disease who sounded exactly like me. I knew I had it right away. Went to the doctor, and she recognized the symptoms immediately. She was shocked I even knew what it was because the disease is so uncommon, but we were right.
8:30 So many doctors really make me angry with this stuff. "I've never had a patient with this problem, so obviously you don't have it!" It makes me wonder if a patient came in with something truly weird but objectively there - say, somehow a little Matchbox car got lodged inside their bicep - if the doctor would say, despite x-rays and other evidence, "I've never had a patient with this problem so obviously there isn't a Matchbox car lodged in your bicep."
I feel these people. I’m 21 and dealing with my 17th episode of pancreatitis (caused by hyperlipidemia, thnx dad) and the doctors at first were surprised when I always knew what was going on. But there’s no confusing that pain.
I correctly diagnosed myself with lupus. told my doctor (who I got on really well with) and she agreed with me. Went to hospital for tests; I have systemic lupus erythmatosis and it is a gift that keeps on giving. I have at least 5 other serious health problems as a result. They all end with the word "syndrome".
My mom kept diagnosing me with problems I didn't have. When I diagnose myself. She would get mad. My dads a doctor, looked at me after talking to me. Every single thing I thought was wrong was correct. My mom got everything she thought I had wrong. Yeah she an idiot.
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You cat say that about your mother 😂🤣
artist_around _the_block yes she can. While it may not be entirely true, they’re just expressing how they feel
artist_around _the_block she got mad at them because they didn’t agree with her, you could say she is a bad mom and an idiot (i’m really sorry if i’m wrong but from this story it sounds like that)
Well that's a real shame that your mother is an idiot. Considering that it's a genetic fact that you get your intelligence from your mother. Good luck with that.
@@laurabarber6697 the studies that said that, have been confirmed to be false. False in the sense your talking about anyways. Your just as likely to get intelligence genes from your dad.
I remember my parents and me insisting I had developed epilepsy after having what could have been partial seizures. My doctors believed me, but my teachers thought I was daydreaming, but we insisted and went to a specialist in the condition, he tried to diagnose me with everything BUT epilepsy, so we went to a general neurologist. When we told him I had a history of seizures and described the symptoms, within seconds he diagnosed me with epilepsy. I’ve been having EEGs and MRIs all the tests, been on loads of medication that isn’t working, now I’m being considered for surgery after spending 5 days in hospital wired up to a machine.
as a med student, me and some my classmates wish every day that certain ppl WON'T graduate for the sake of their future patients. now i finally understand why (non accidental) medical incompetence / mal praxis exists
I diagnosed myself with appendicitis at 15. Doctors at the ER confirmed it. I discovered it really early though, and wasn't in much pain, so was admitted to the hospital for 3 days before I got my surgery, lol.
Funny thing was, I had talked to my mom about appendicitis a few days prior, and if not for that, would probably have dismissed the pain in my stomach for ovulation, even if it didn't hurt like "it should" and was in the wrong spot.
Awful and excruciating (like constantly crying, could barely do anything) stomach pain every day for several years when I was a young kid. I think it gradually subsided (can’t really remember, but I definitely would’ve noticed if it suddenly stopped). Went to doctors a billion times, but my mom always thought that I was faking it the whole time to get out of school, and she told me the doctors felt the same. So it fades away after about five years of every single day pain. All of a sudden, I’m 14 and I wake up in the morning and I can’t walk because of how badly my stomach hurts again (it’s been at least three years since the last one by this point). I crawl and drag myself on the floor to my parents room and my mom and I lay in her bed and look at WebMD for half an hour. She tries to hide the diagnoses from me, but I can see Appendicitis as the top result. Don’t know what it is at that time, but we go to the ER and wait for four hours before they finally bother to check me out.
It was appendicitis. They said it was a miracle I didn’t die when I was 8.
When I was around fourteen, my foot got caught under a car tire (I had heavy winter boots on, which protected it a lot) and luckily all it did was bruise my toes a bit, but that night I noticed an odd lump on the side of my foot. We went to the doctor (three, actually) who all did x-rays and insisted it was just swollen or a tissue buildup. Both me and my mom insisted it was bone. We thought something had shifted out of place when it got caught under the wheel, but we finally went to a fourth doctor which confirmed it was a navicular accessory. I got correct treatment for it, and I barely notice it anymore. Still pisses me off that it took four x rays though.
When they thought they weren't sick.
It is so very frustrating when medical professionals dismiss a patient's insight into their own health problems. Especially when it comes to women, who are perceived as hysterical and more ignorant than men. As we have seen here, it can prove fatal. I had a dermatologist misdiagnose a skin problem not once but twice because he simply would not take a decent history or listen to me. It cost me over a thousand dollars in the wrong medication and increased my misery greatly. I'm glad it wasn't my heart at stake.
Its not just women that have their insight ignored so I would suggest getting that "its because I'm a woman" attitude out of your head or you will find that people just dismiss you more.
@@tylerh629 idk, it seems to happen a lot with women, so maybe don't brush off women's experiences. sure it happens with men but statistically op is correct.
@@dallaswalker340 nah dude, happens to us guys as well.
A doctor diagnosed me with Runners Knee, and I told them that I didn’t think they were right. We went back in and I was right. I have Juvenile Arthritis. Specifically oligoarthritis.
I was having lots of stomach pain, and my dad said “Your probably very constipated” I didn’t believe him, cus I didn’t feel like I had too poop. So, the pain got so bad I had to go to the hospital. They did an ultra sound to make sure it wasn’t appendicitis and would you look at that, I was constipated. They gave me some medicine and I was able to go home.
I had a psych who accused me of faking my mania and told me when I thought I was manic I was just feeling better from my depression. A few months later I was diagnosed with Bipolar Type 1 by a different psychiatrist.
TERFSMASHER MUSIC mental illnesses are in your head and the drugs they give you for them completely change your personality and/or turn you into a walking zombie.
@@wyattneville7672 and your medical/psychiatric experience is what, Wyatt?
wyatt neville that was such an ignorant comment. Tell that to my schizophrenic mother who yells at the air, and thinks the world and invisible forces are out to get her. It came out when I was a baby/toddler and whenever she doesn’t take her medication it’s hell, with her medication it’s also hell but slightly more manageable. Mental illness is no joke and it’s really hard on the individuals effected by it so for you to say stuff like that is a real disservice to those who battle with it on a daily basis. Personally bc genetics and environment I get panic attacks daily with strong urges to mutilate/kill myself violently almost daily and it’s a living hell trying to live a normal life and people making false claims that aren’t applicable to people who have actual mental problems. Your brain is weird different and your body is programmed to react a certain way point blank. It’s like if you someone brought up your middle school which you had a lot of memorial memories of and someone told you to block your brain from having the entire memory of your middle school pop up in your brain even for a millisecond. . . you can’t just stop your brain from making connections especially when they are so largely engraved. Trust me I tried and wanted to believe in that but doesn’t work for ptsd, your not even thinking about it and it strikes a deadly punch. Bc it’s not induced by thoughts rather your body is in a state of panic bc your body made certain patterns of reaction that aren’t necessarily thought induced.
Don't know why it's assumed a non medical person can't figure some of these things out.
They're brainwashed into thinking they're on a vastly higher plane. It's a form of control.
I'm very happy with my current doctor, he acknowledges my medical knowledge and we always come to agreements about the next step for things. He's also one of the few doctors who admits when he doesn't know something, probably because he knows I won't freak out about it. Then he always either does his own research or gets me a person who does know. Because "there are so many things the human body can do, it wouldn't be reasonable to expect a doctor to always know or think about all of them."
As a nurse, this makes me disgusted. More than half of these were very textbook diagnoses that we all learn about from day 1 in the medical profession.
Not a doctor but here's what happened to me two years ago: I had severe lower back pain at the beginning of summer. Days later, I started having a really weird feeling around my crotch area. I was looking up all my symptoms online and the first result was PGAD. I didn't know what that was so I looked up a UA-cam video of someone who had it and I began instantly panicking. The person in the video got PGAD due to a disc in the spine being either broken or shifted. Since I also had back pain I thought I had PGAD from a shifted disc in my spine and I begged my mom to go to the doctors with me. She thought I was absolutely crazy and said I was just experiencing growing pains. I asked my cousin for help and she took me to her doctor while my parents were out of town. While the doctor didn't diagnose me with PGAD, he did notice that my shoulders were uneven. He ran a quick test and it turns out I had an S-type scoliosis (Which is a curvature in the spine). I had X-rays done to me months later and he was absolutely right. I find it kind of interesting that I come to the doctors to get diagnosed with one thing and actually get diagnosed with something completely different. Also, as for my crotch area, it turns out I was just horny because I was starting my period days after the doctor's visit. XD
The first case would have been quickly demonstrated by a simple urine dipstick (as taught in Medical School!) - rhinorrhea is protein deficient; CSF has detectable protein. The leg DVT is just misdiagnosis - any Patient presenting with longer-standing lower leg pain should be automatically screened - a simple calf girth measurement often demonstrates a size discrepancy, and the high probability of occult clot migration often provides a raised d-dimer. One or the other (with regional pain) provides full justification for a contrast chest CT. Many of the other cases are text-book examples of prejudgement and "not listening to the Patient", which again boils down to ineffective Clinical training. I was always taught that, "if you DON'T know what's wrong with your Patient, and they suggest a possibility - that must be considered (especially if the screening process is rapid)". Many times they'll be wrong, but many times they'll be almost (or completely) right - and as noted, if your Patient tells you they've got a kidney stone - they're probably right (the commonest d.d. being UTI - which will also need medical management!)
Okay. I like you.
How about not lack of clinical training but just a person's ego that is actually so overblown that they can't listen to the patient. I'm a doctor and I Know It All.
@@laurabarber6697 true.....
@@laurabarber6697 Unfortunately a "dead right" assessment! The ability (and willingness) to REALLY listen to your Patient seems to be a dying art, possibly because of Clinic time pressures (more Patients needed to be seen per unit time), and too many other things needing to be done (especially for the junior grades who need to be on the ball for the many Clinical exams).
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Fact: I had one stereotypical siezure at 4. I got told off for saying I was epileptic as a child, got told off for ‘daydreaming’. I’m now 17. I have 6 types of epilepsy, chronic migraines and other neurological issues and have been told I have had them since birth. The daydreaming was siezures.
I refused to have chorizo sausage with breakfast at a friends' house (he's a doctor) because I told him I had an internal hemorrhoid. He told me I didn't. I listed my symptoms. He told me I had an internal hemorrhoid, but there's no pain receptors *in there,* which is why I wasn't in any pain, and made me eat his awful spicy breakfast sausages.
My father kept telling the doctors in the hospital that he had serious problems and they kept ignoring him. Turns out he had developed Epatitis C and they all apologized afterwards. At the time the chances of getting through it and living a normal life weren't that high you know?
Wtf is that first one
Gezi5 that happened to my grandma, although she’s has several brain surgeries. She went into the ER telling them that she wasn’t there for a diagnosis, she was there for treatment, she already knew what was wrong with her. But they didn’t care. I don’t think lazy health care professionals realize that they could and will kill someone will their laziness. The health business isn’t a job for being lazy, if you wanna be lazy, get a desk job that doesn’t depend on people’s lives and you can slack off when your boss isn’t around.
I got pneumonia in the military. They didn't give a crap, as they made me March myself a few miles to the medical center. Sat there all day waiting for treatment. Could barely breathe through the dust mask they make you wear, I was slowly dying with it on so I had to take it off but I was being threatened by some higher ranking guy everytime he saw me with it off. I think he was the one making me wait the 10hours by moving me back on the wait list. Finally got some respect and care when the doctors saw the xray of my lungs and realized I was practically dying. They also discovered that I had scoliosis from the xray. People would always scold me for never sitting up straight, especially in the military, turns out I was actually experiencing discomfort from sitting up but no one cared. That's my life, no one cares
My appendix bursted. Had 4 days of just terrible pains before that. The bursting pain was insane though. Not a good time
my little brother went to the doctor with aching pains in his stomach, he’d always walk hunched. the doctor told him it was probably a bad case of the flu that was going around. a few weeks later he was instantly hospitalized because his appendix had burst open and leaked into his entire stomach area.
My friend told me about his symptoms he was having, fainting, going paler, being tired easily, etc. So I unknowingly told him that the symptoms he is having is like a leukemia(I didn't know it was cancer)... He ended up really having leukemia, but he survived the cancer anyways, but his personality is like.... Locked up in a cheerful boy like what is always was.
I've been plagued by SEVERE digestive problems for years, which includes severe cramping, fatigue, weird intense cravings, regular canker sores, GERD, etc.
I kept being told it was stress, and it just kept getting worse. Someone I knew who had celiac disease suggested I try going gluten free for a bit. I thought it was silly and didn't listen.... Until I ended up in such a state of poverty bc of how sick I was that I couldn't work that I ended up pretty much eating nothing but rice for several days. I noticed that I felt better in those days of eating nothing but white rice than I had in years, despite how shitty my diet was.
So I decided to try out the gluten free thing. And sure enough: the horrible cramping went away, and my digestive problems lessened considerably. I even stopped getting canker sores.
I tried to tell doctors about this, and they weren't listening to me bc my digestive problems weren't COMPLETELY solved by going gluten free 🙄
Said that I needed a biopsy to determine that, but refused to actually order one.
Well.... Until I begged my current one to do SOMETHING about my digestive health, and she started asking questions. And when she found out that my shit is often orange to yellow..... Everything changed. I later found out that yellow shit is an indicator of celiac disease.
Also like. It can take up to 6mo for the damage to repair, and only 60% of sufferers fully recover anyway. So like.... That could be why I never fully lost my digestive health problems?? Bc I was fucking 23 when I cut gluten out of my diet?? And had multiple accidental exposures since???
[Btw if you're confused about the cravings thing: celiac disease impacts the body's ability to absorb nutrients. So the cravings was my body's way of going "we need this nutrient! Eat the food that has it!!" Like people had been likening me to a pregnant woman my whole life. And they get weird cravings bc they're building a person... Need a lot of nutrients for that 🤷♂️]
17:31 I"ve had three or four relatives with the same problem, and it caused severe health problems for each of them. It almost killed my grandfather (sure he was older, but the man was the most active 70 year old I've ever known). Since all of these were direct relatives of my mom she went to get a genetic test to see if she was at risk. They said they wouldn't pay for it because "There's no proof you are likely at risk."
My brother has had hidradenitis suppurativa that has really fucked up his life for a bit and has been getting better. Never knew how to spell it until now. Thank you.
4:20 "Right after cancer..." dude is a legend for making that joke
If I'm ever a trauma patient, remind me not to ask if I'm going to die.
I asked if I was going to die when I had knee surgery and I didn't die.
I diagnosed myself with atrial fibrillation with RVR, the nurses and Dr seemed impressed
I saw the stone in my dog's gut on the X-ray. The vet said it was just the curve of the intestine. My dog was dead less than a week later after having the stone surgically removed. I've been leery of that vet clinic ever since.
Also, I knew my wrist was broken for about a week before I convinced my mom to take me to the ortho center.
I was in and out of the doctor's office a lot when I was younger due to constant sleep issues and stomach pain. We saw so many and heard every diagnosis in the book but doctors never wanted to run any more tests beyond bloodwork. The thing I learned from all those experiences was that doctors have to fucking clue what they're doing. They just throw darts at a dartboard, hoping to figure out what's wrong. And many of them think they know better than you about your body because of their education... but that education is terribly flawed because our understanding of the human body is severely lacking. Doctor's have their uses, but they aren't all-knowing like they like to be perceived. Find one who is humble and will listen to you.
Just like in your job, the only one who is truly going to fight for your own wellbeing is YOU. It's YOUR body. Don't be afraid to go to another doctor if the one you have isn't cooperating with you.
BTW I never did find out what was wrong with me. Symptoms ended up going away after awhile but I had to be homebound for a couple months because of it. I wonder what it was to this day. :(
It could have been anxiety!!! Anxiety does both of those things but mental health and stomach/intestine stuff wasn't really considered linked until recently.
My sister also has such bad acid reflux that she takes 4x the amount of recommended meds for it (under doctors supervision) and she had a spell like that when she was a kid. Just took her the eff out for months. It can be happening without you feeling it as heartburn. She also had sleep issues in that time.
That's just my armchair diagnoses because it sounded so familiar.
I have IBS and OCD and I'll be darned if they aren't intertwined. But once I got the anxiety under control mystomach got a bearable
I once had a really bad cough (couldn't stand or eat without throwing up) for 4-6months and my doctor refused to believe I had anything but a cold. I had ammonia
Pneumonia
I’m in medical school and I was today years old when I learned from this video I’ve had a deviated septum my whole life so the learning just keeps coming
I had hurt my knee almost 3 years ago and was told it was just a bad bruise. I tried explaining that I have a high pain tolerance and pressed them that something else was wrong. When it happened the pain was so bad I thought I had broken something at first. But I wasn’t taken seriously. 7-8 months later, I went to another doctor because of the pain I was still having. Found out my knee cap was off track. I’m still dealing with the pain 3 years later...🙄
Ya know some people are too panicky but in the end only u know your body
My parents claimed I was a hypochondriac and refused to take me to a doctor for all my complaints of joint pain and back pain as a kid. When I grew up and got married I found out that it wasn't normal to be in pain all the time. Read about Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome and everything fit completely. 9/9 on the Beighton scale. Got it confirmed by a rheumatologist.
Shock is a helluva drug is now my new favorite phrase.
Bad part of being a paramedic is when someone keeps saying "I'm going to die". We can't even say "no you're not" because we're not allowed to give a false sense of security.
I have hidradenitis suppurativa and have had it since I was 15.(I’m 20 now) None of my doctors knew what it was so it wasn’t properly treated so it got worse. Only my later dermatologist helped with things but I’ve since moved to a small town and haven’t gotten a new one and so I’m going through the same thing of having doctors with no experience with it. I’m actually going through a flare up right now under both arms. The pain had me up most of the night. It’s not something I would even wish on my worst enemy😔
I had torn my rotator cuff during school a few months ago. I had went in the same day to the ER. The doctor had refused to give me x-rays or pain meds, I went to my physio therapist and had told her I tore it, she double checked it and had finally made sure i got the proper pain meds and x-rays. (i'm also in a manual wheelchair and it's extremely hard to push with a torn cuff.)
I've perfectly diagnosed myself 3 times. Once with bronchitis, once with a broken bone (doc thought it was a fracture but it was a break) and once when I had food poisoning and my family made me go into the doctor cuz they thought it was worse. Lol the funny thing about the broken bone is it got broken again a little while later and I saw a different doctor who didn't know the first time I had refused painkillers so he thought I was some kinda junkie, so he was pretty hostile till I again refused painkillers. I didn't need them cuz I have a high enough pain tolerance it doesn't hurt enough to warrant taking painkillers besides aspirin
Holy crap, the story at 8.30 literally just changed my life. I've always thought it was hard water, sweat and dust, meds, or whatever else. I have heat induced urticaria! 🤯
I'm a doctor.
So many of these could have been avoided if they used the techniques we use in our government hospital.
1. Any patient coming with chest pain/ stomach ache/ vomitting, ECG is a must.
2. Any patient with self diagnosis, we send them for gold standard investigation in private lab ( which anyway won't be available in govt. Hospital)
But also confirms the negative diagnosis.
My mother always struggled with her bowels.
The doctors kept telling her it was IBS but she knew something just wasn’t right.
2 years later she was diagnosed with stage 1 bowel cancer.
She is ok now I’m just glad she kept persisting and going back to the doctors or she wouldn’t have got a diagnosis so early.
My brother once came to breakfast complaining of a stomachache, and my dad decided that even though it was probably just a bug or indigestion, to ask a few questions just in case. He found out it hurt in the right lower quadrant. Oh dear. He did the push test. It failed. He did the jump test. It failed. He called a doctor friend (my allergist, actually) and said: "I think he has appendicitis." She tells them to come into her office so she can take a look. She confirms his diagnosis, calls a friend at the hospital, and says, "My patient has appendicitis. I know you don't believe me, but do an ultrasound anyway." Final diagnosis: appendicitis. Very early, caught with plenty of time to spare. My brother was in and out of surgery in like an hour, went home the next day, was back in school 2 days later. All because my dad decided to double-check his stomachache.
I really empathize with people who struggled against their primary care doctor trying to get a diagnosis and treatment. It took more than 10 years to get a diagnosis for my very rare genetic disorder. The dermatologist who ultimately made the diagnosis had been in his field for 35 years and had never seen a case before. He had written one of the textbooks still used in medical schools, so he knew of the disorder, he had just never seen a case. But these poor folks who suffered with very common conditions without the help of their doctor - they really go through some crap!
The blood clot one - my husband's best friend had that happen. GP told him he suspected a blood clot. Sent him to hospital to get checked. Without doing an ultrasound the doc there told him it was just a leg cramp and sent him home. He died that night.
I went to my doctor with jaundice and told her I thought I was experiencing liver failure. One blood test later I was in the hospital. It wasn't liver failure, I just had a tumour squeezing my liver. Good times all round.
I've got a story that's the complete opposite...
I was working 3rd shift, and had a system to get me through my 24hrs. Sleep for 4 hours before work, drink 2 monster 0's and a coffee while at work for 8hrs, crash when I get home and sleep for 4 hours, go about my day, repeat.
After a few months of this I started getting SHARP and constant pain in all of my joints. My PCP insisted on fighting for an arthritis diagnosis after testing for nearly everything else and coming up negative. He ran several arthritis tests and even though I had the "genes" for it, none of them were "active", so he tried to send me to a specialist. My anxiety had me exhausted of all the blood tests, and I had to refuse the last one after they ran an x-ray.
Got tired of the energy drinks and stopped drinking them completely. Pain went 100% away about 4 days later.
Some of these really make me hope that someone sued a doctor for BEING AN A**
If a patient comes in and says "i think it may be this" just run the test damn it, it wont kill you. you still get to charge em anyway.
I'm a dr... it's well known fact around 80% of symptoms we have is psych related and not organic, the flow of patients is usually hardcore high, if you listen to every patient demand, then you will abuse limited resources, waste medical team time, and have the potential to harm patients for overdiagnosis of things that are incidental, or harm the patients due to invasive procedure or radiations. Most doctors follow the wisdom of watchful waiting, if it was a bizzare or irrational symptom then it go away in 99% of patients.
Is the current medical system perfect? Nope. But for 2019 this is the best we got for medical practice. People should just chill and respect what doctors do, because trust me, if you were a doctor, you won't be an anomly, and people will bitch and whine about you.
MythoVirus Although i Never ran into such a Problem i Would like to ask you something if you dont mind that is
What would be the best way to Go and convince your dr. to run a Test or rather what would I have to say to convince you, because yes some Seem random like the kid that watched the episode of Full House but Other claimed to have had researched their Symptoms and actually presented them
MythoVirus you sound like one of the doctors in this video
@@cringlez1096 ok then i dont mind to do for you a whole body mri, ct scans, and to give you 10 expensive meds for your very very mild headache.. and yeah do you want some coffee with that dear sir?
@@alifaras693 actually, funny timing for this to come back up, going to the hospital because i fell down a stair and twisted my ankle, its been a day or so, so im gonna have them do an x ray, just to make sure nothings broken. Its not necessarily the "mild headache" its the i know this isn't right situation, my foots not in much pain, but the foot is moving weird and it swollen and discolored, because i can put weight on it i should be fine. Thats more of what im getting at when i get mad at doctors that disregard the patient and blow off a symptom then discussing options and what they can afford, ive had doctors on both ends with me and my family.
That last one is what happened to my father, he was ignored and died later that night.
Damn, I'm really sorry to hear that, it sounds like an incredibly painful emotional experience. Doctors need to do better and listen to people, after all no one knows your body better than you do.
All the appendicitis one got to me. For nearly two and a half years, I had constant stomach problems. I would throw up anything I ate within 6-8 hours of eating. My mom took me to doctor after doctor, diagnosing me with bulimia. My mother and I knew that wasn't it. And on October 10 2017, my appendix was found cinched between two coils of my intestines. My appendix should have been about the size of my pinky finger, instead it was the size and length of an Italian sausage. I'm so thankful for my school nurse who quickly and carefully tested for the symptoms and called an ambulance for me in the matter of 10 minutes. Without her I'd be dead or still have bulimia as a disorder.
My dad and my grandfather both have heart disease. At 9:40 this story happened to me. At a experimentiumthere was a monitor that you put your hands on to measure your heart rate
my heart couldn't calm down and it stopped randomly, while my mom's was regular. I think I should get it checked out.
As someone with Hidradenitis suppurativa, if someone comes into the doctor saying they have it, they more than likely have it. When it gets so bad that you have to do enough research to find out about HS, you probably have HS. Its not fun.
One time my mom was having a heart attack but like was being calm enough to call an ambulance and let them know she was having one. But since she was so responsive and low-key chill they didn't believe her until they checked her out then she was rushed to the hospital. But yeah she was super calm during it. Absolute mad lad
I had to bring my diagnosis to my doctor, along with making him check my ER reports that get sent over.
Each time my immobilizing pain (usually in my lower half, but frequently full body) was written off as one asinine fault on my end or another (like not spending 80+ cdn on shoes in early 2000's, ect.)
This happened for 22 years.
When I moved out I was able to switch doctors, and brought this up within a few visits, and she took one very quick physical, and immidiately got me a refurral to a specialist in the area. It ended up that I didn't just have the one I was concerned about, but three chronic pain issues.
Fibromyalgia, Patella Femoral Syndrome, and "a lower back mechanical failure".
I have figured out dealing with them for the most part, but still have issues from how many times doctors have basically said it's all in my head, there's nothing wrong.
There's been other minor situations like sinus infections, dehydration, sprains/strains and breaks, that I still have had to explain it to them...
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Went to my doctor with my diagnosis of minor stimulant psychosis. I’m going through university with psychopharmacology as my major, how ever my Doc didn’t know that. Went in told her exactly what was wrong, told her that it’s being caused by my lifestyle, lack of sleep, 60 hour work week plus school, the adderall Im prescribed for ADHD, cigarettes and caffeine use. She told me that I was just sick and had a fever and that’s what was making me hallucinate and have delusions. Keep in mind I used to a massive amount of stimulants a couple years prior and knew from experience what tweaking felt like. I told her she was wrong and that I needed a long lasting benzodiazepine (clonazepam) script of .5 mg for 3 days at one pill a day so I can sleep and take time off my routine to get my body and neurotransmitters back to base level. She declined, so I figured well it’s because it’s a benzodiazepine maybe she’d go for a 3 day script of ambien or trazadone. She declined and wrote me a script for amoxicillin ( the only antibiotic I’m allergic to).
Suffice to say ended up at the ER and they agreed with my diagnosis.
She was also the doctor I joked with when I first met her and I asked “well maybe I could try Desoxyn instead of adderall” she wrote the script to which I promptly said I was joking and threw it away.
She was about to give me pure methamphetamine and didn’t even realize. 🤦🏽♂️
Not sure if this fits but I love this story. I was 5 brother was 3 and non verbal, together we managed to break his collar bone. Combo of rough housing and a well meaning hug. It was November so we all show up to ER in puffy coats and the admitting nurse asked if my mother was sure it was broken. She just called my brother over and took off his coat. We were seen almost immediately.
I worked as a pharmacy assistant for a while, stocking shelves and helping people pick off the shelf items mainly. Guy comes in to speak to the pharmacist with a strange rash that isn't improving with regular rash treatments. I over hear and ask if it started with one larger patch at first. The man answers yes, and looks puzzled how I would know that. I suggested pityriasis rosea, and my pharmacist just nodded. Had it as a kid and was misdiagnosed multiple times myself. Wrote it down so he could show his doctor. Best day of my pharmacy career.
8:09 Fun fact, I work with a kid who's also allergic to the cold. Unfortunately we live in Canada and she breaks into hives nearly every day thanks to the harsh winters here. I'm not sure if she self-diagnosed it or if it was just found out recently bc it wasn't on her registration sheet, but either way we know about her allergy and she decides if she wants to wait outside with the other kids or not when their rides pick them up.
OLiVER might be the cold lowering her immune system (some people are like that) and made other sensitivities worse
Self diagnosed pneumothorax, that happened when I was sleeping one night. Woke up, and couldn't breath properly, hurt when I tried. Felt like my chest fell into myself when I was lying down. Left side. Kept getting told there's no way you could have a pneumothorax when you've been sleeping. Went on for 2 days. Ended up getting really lucky, any longer with it and I'd have required surgery. Instead, I just got the normal procedure.
Not really a story of me being right but just two obnoxious doctors. So I was in the shower and had a very sudden pain that crippled me and I went to the hospital to check it out (my parents drove as I obviously couldn’t) where both of the doctors were arguing about if I had a cyst on my ovaries burst or appendicitis. I got driven out to a bigger city where they have ultrasound machines and such and turns out I had a cyst on my ovaries that burst on the same side of my appendix and had made it inflamed (causing appendicitis)... scary times.
I have had a ruptured cyst on both ovaries (at different times). That pain is a bastard and unmistakeable when you have had it before.
Id be scared that they were both right.
2:29 why did the voice say jeans like that 😂
@5:12 exactly what I'm going through right now. I syncope about 3 times a week, vomit daily, have been rocking a low grade fever for a couple months, experience Raynaud's-like symptoms, have painful bouts of phlebitis, and sometimes bouts with what my best guess is rhabdo, When I was a child I thought doctors were the smartest people in the world. I was so naive.
Doc, I've been living this lifestyle for a lifetime. I don't think that's it.
A lot of these “medical professionals “ deserve to be sued or jailed for malpractice
My hospital has become addicted to foreign doctors H1b who can barely speak or understand English an hour trying to explain a badly iungriwn toenail I just hoped out there went home and heated up a flat screwdriver! I'd really like to ruin Kaiser Family Foundation not just financially
@@richardscathouse that was some bad english lol
You need to look at the broader system, particularly the link between various foundations, NGOs, the medical-industrial complex.... and education.
I had two self diagnoses confirmed in one week. Since June of 2020, I suspected that I was autistic. I was 22 at the time and stumbled upon a Tiktok page of someone who had been diagnosed later in life and hyper fixated on researching the symptoms and criteria. Two years later, I finally found a phycologist near me who specializes in adult autism assessments. I scheduled an assessment for a week later. A few days before my assessment, I started feeling symptoms of a UTI. I went to a walk in clinic, told them i thought i had a UTI, and was diagnosed with a UTI and given antibiotics. Three days later I was diagnosed with ASD level 1.
When I was 10, I broke my ankle at my uncle’s wedding. My dad told me I just had a sprain. Made me Actually walk it off- never let me even lean on anything until it healed improperly. Fast forward 2 years and all my joints start acting funny, I feel like I’m wading through water, joint pain, inflammation, etc. I tell my dad “hey I think I have arthritis,” as a joke. Due to the pain I had to quit all of my physically taxing extra curriculars. I turn 14, and I start noticing problems with my eyes. After 4 months of eye problems (inflammation, photophobia, going through 2 pairs of glasses), my eye doctor sends me for some blood tests. 5 more months later, I get diagnosed with JRA (juvenile rheumatoid arthritis).
I diagnosed a young friend (17) with Ehlers Danlos syndrome and convinced him to go to his doctor where it was confirmed. He said it was nice that someone knew how to test for it and I just replied that I should know as I've got it and I had already diagnosed my daughter with it.