I won't give details, but mine was "that is NOT normal and you should be dead". Yup, the doctor actually used those words. A few weeks later I was asked if they could write a report about me to put in a medical journal (name redacted of course). That was the second time I had doctors wondering how is that possible lol
I had the opposite. For some reason my doctors always think I’m exaggerating or lying when I bring up things that are happening with my body because I’m “young” so I should automatically be completely healthy. It took me YEARS to get seen by a gastroenterologist because all my doctors insisted that the pain must have been anxiety, even when it got to the point that eating was so painful I started to hate food and felt like crying every time I had to eat or even thought about eating. It wasn’t anxiety. They put a camera down my throat to look inside my stomach and it was covered in scar tissue and open sores from the bacteria that had been eating away at my stomach lining for YEARS. It was H. pylori, which won’t go away without treatment. It also puts me at a significantly higher risk of stomach cancer, especially because of how long it went untreated. I could have been spared YEARS of excruciating pain and misery if someone had just checked sooner. I’m still trying to learn how to enjoy food again a year later. I have other gut problems but none of them are anywhere near as horrible as the H. Pylori was. I also FINALLY got in to see an ear nose and throat doctor about my sinuses because they’ve been constantly infected year round for as long as I can remember, and turns out I have a deviated septum that was never noticed before because it’s waaaay deep in my nose. Still waiting for insurance to approve doing scans of my sinuses because the pressure buildup inside my head is bad enough that my dentist can see it in X-ray’s of my upper teeth and sometimes the pressure is so bad that is MOVES MY TEETH out of place, which makes chewing painful. My dentist contacting my doctor is what FINALLY got them to take my concerns seriously. I’m willing to bet that a lot of people do notice when things aren’t normal, but they feel like the won’t be taken seriously if they mention it, so they just keep telling themselves that it’s nothing and that it’s probably normal.
I have 2 where the dr didn't ask how I was still alive, but friends. 1st one was 2yrs ago. I found out that my rheumatoid arthritis caused me to have a heart attack. The heart attack wasn't that bad. The scary part was my wife, who's an emt. She wasn't too happy with me about waiting 5hrs before telling her something was wrong. That conversation on the way to the hospital was a little one-sided. 2nd one was last year. I ended up slicing my finger open. I was trying to find a washcloth. I ended up grabbing a potholder that my mother-in-law made for my wife. Wife wasn't too happy about that after I got stitched up. Main reason she wasn't happy was that she told me not to work on my car that day and I didn't listen
that story about the numb arm when sneezing and chest pain story is something that has been happening to me for a couple years now and ive also just been told that im pinching a nerve every time or something, might have to get that checked out finally yeesh
Story 1: i cant imagine hearing that my kid burst into tears in the middle of class and not interrogating the teacher and principal at legnth about every little thing before taking my baby straight to the doctor.
Hey I have one of these. At the age of 16 I got sick of gym coaches saying to breathe in your nose and I yelled back “nobody can stop saying that!”. Found that I was the only one.. I had a deviated septum from breaking my nose as an infant(Dr’s best guess). A surgery later and my entire sense of taste was different. Foods I hated became my favorite, bad smells made me gag, frankly everything changed.
Been there done that, same as OP from Story 11, except with a number of foods rather than just dairy. American food sucks for gut health, and your gut is a huge factor in mental health as well. I'm tons more stable after cleaning up my diet and getting some extra vitamins.
The ever-present sense of darkness I began feeling in 6th grade. I thought it was just part of growing up, and it wasn't until I experienced insanity that I was diagnosed with clinical depression... about a decade after the depression started. For a long time, I dismissed the possibility because "I spend too much time happy!" And "Those times I attempted suicide were just REALLY BAD days. I don't usually feel like that and the attempts were pitiful at best, nothing that actually had a chance at succeeding." Because I didn't think I could be depressed, and because I had other issues as well, despite seeing counselors before and after onset, the possibility never came up... until I ran off to college in a new city where I didn't know anyone... during the pandemic... and became more isolated than I have been at any other point in my life. Since my depression comes from not feeling wanted, (Not from feeling unwanted. It's a lack of positive, not the presence of negative) being alone like that was wreaking havoc on my mental state and I literally went insane... in episodes, thankfully, which I quickly sought treatment for. I initially suspected schizophrenia, though I didn't research it heavily, and was surprised that it was depression. Though as soon as I was told about Depression Induced Mental Breakdown, it made sense, and so many little things made more sense as well, like the gray color filter over all of my middle school memories, and the desaturated filter over my high school memories... compared to the high color saturation of my elementary school memories. As soon as I started an antidepressant, I was amazed, and baffled that I had carried all of that emotional weight for so long without realizing. Of course, not all antidepressants are the same, and unfortunately that one lost effectiveness quickly, so we had to try a few others before finding my current one, which isn't as intensely effective but is so much better than nothing.
I once got some kind of stress test or something to show what my anxiety level was or whatever... Well when the results came in they told me that I was now their new poster child because my default stress levels (i.e. when I'm supposed to be calm) was so high that it was supposedly 10× higher than the average adult man (I was a like 16-17 year old girl) and the example they gave was essentially that it was the equivalent of living in the middle of a busy highway never knowing when you're about to get run over and killed...they also said that their previous poster child had a literal physical indication that showed something was off while I was completely normal looking. No clue if any of that was legit (although they did keep telling me to calm down/that I was too anxious while they were doing the test...despite me being completely calm which might at least somewhat lend credence to their claims if my base anxiety levels are most peoples panic attack levels lol) or not but it _DOES_ make a lot of my life make sense...because I have really bad anxiety and have just kind of adapted to it over time (which would explain why my anxiety levels would be so high despite me being "calm"...because I'm literally ALWAYS anxious and I've just grown so accustomed to it that it really _IS_ normal to me even if my body says otherwise because I don't feel anxious whatsoever....I might subconsciously be anxious but I'm not aware of that fact and therefore it doesn’t bother me) so anxiety is just my default to the extent that, for me, even when I'm anxious I usually feel calm unless it's REALLY bad.
from the patient end: i thought i just had a really shit sleep schedule that was ruining my work life, brought it up to my doctor, and she started telling me about a medicine i knew was for adhd. long story short i have adhd and have had it for my whole life lol, and delayed sleep phase disorder is kinda common among adhd/asd folks
Similar thing except I figured it out myself when I saw something online.... I already _KNEW_ that I had ADHD... What I DIDN'T realize until I read about it online when I was in like middle school or something is that most normal people fall asleep within 30 minutes at the most...and that if it takes you longer than that you might have insomnia.... That's when I ended up self diagnosing myself as an insomniac because it would literally take me like 2-4 hours to fall asleep sometimes (which also meant that my parents would often get on my case for being out of bed/not going to sleep while I was just confused because I thought it was normal to not be able to sleep and didn't understand why they would get so annoyed at me because "how do you manage to stay awake in bed doing nothing for so long? Don't you get bored?" My mom and doctor didn't actually belive my self diagnosis at first (I just outright said that I had insomnia one day...not that I thought I had it just that I had it because it was kind of obvious at that point to me that it was the problem) and they said that it was just my ADHD medicine keeping me awake at night because it hadn't fully worn off yet (which isn't true btw) and I mean...I do sleep better/more easily when I don't take my ADHD medicine but A. It's not by choice, I just literally get exhausted because I don't have it to wake me up (despite me being MORE hyper when I'm unmedicated? Idk...it's confusing lol) so I sometimes end up nodding off...and B. When it's actually time for bed I still struggle to fall asleep just not AS much as I do with my medicine. But even _THEN_ I find it weird that they said that it wasn't insomnia and was just because of my medicine...but does that _REALLY_ matter?! Even if my insomnia WAS medicine induced (which it isn't, that just makes it worse) that's still insomnia? It might be caused by something else but at the end of the day it still takes me literal hours to fall asleep. After awhile though they agreed that what I was describing was insomnia lol. Plus I was prescribed with medicine to help me sleep as soon as I mentioned having trouble sleeping so even if they didn't believe me they still treated me for it.
“Beer Belly” isn’t normal either. Its a sign of inflamed liver and/or liver damage. If your stomach is hard and sticks out, and you drink a lot- please get yourself checked out.
One of my friends stopped suggesting food. It got serious and he was doing to go into surgery and have the contents of his stomach removed and put on IVs. Then he started digesting again randomly. The surgeon was disappointed because there was no longer an ethical reason to cut him open and see what's going on. Never happened again. No one, not even the professionals, know what was going on
I’m sorry what? He has seizures at random points and he doesn’t think he needs medication to control them/stop them from getting worse? Please tell me they revoked his license.
I won't give details, but mine was "that is NOT normal and you should be dead". Yup, the doctor actually used those words. A few weeks later I was asked if they could write a report about me to put in a medical journal (name redacted of course). That was the second time I had doctors wondering how is that possible lol
I had the opposite. For some reason my doctors always think I’m exaggerating or lying when I bring up things that are happening with my body because I’m “young” so I should automatically be completely healthy.
It took me YEARS to get seen by a gastroenterologist because all my doctors insisted that the pain must have been anxiety, even when it got to the point that eating was so painful I started to hate food and felt like crying every time I had to eat or even thought about eating.
It wasn’t anxiety. They put a camera down my throat to look inside my stomach and it was covered in scar tissue and open sores from the bacteria that had been eating away at my stomach lining for YEARS. It was H. pylori, which won’t go away without treatment. It also puts me at a significantly higher risk of stomach cancer, especially because of how long it went untreated.
I could have been spared YEARS of excruciating pain and misery if someone had just checked sooner.
I’m still trying to learn how to enjoy food again a year later. I have other gut problems but none of them are anywhere near as horrible as the H. Pylori was.
I also FINALLY got in to see an ear nose and throat doctor about my sinuses because they’ve been constantly infected year round for as long as I can remember, and turns out I have a deviated septum that was never noticed before because it’s waaaay deep in my nose. Still waiting for insurance to approve doing scans of my sinuses because the pressure buildup inside my head is bad enough that my dentist can see it in X-ray’s of my upper teeth and sometimes the pressure is so bad that is MOVES MY TEETH out of place, which makes chewing painful.
My dentist contacting my doctor is what FINALLY got them to take my concerns seriously.
I’m willing to bet that a lot of people do notice when things aren’t normal, but they feel like the won’t be taken seriously if they mention it, so they just keep telling themselves that it’s nothing and that it’s probably normal.
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a lot of doctors get stuck on "you're too young/old" - they should listen to the symptoms and ignore age or gender.
These are episode proposals for House
I’m so happy that PMDD is being talked about more. I wasn’t diagnosed until age 25, and it was 14 years of hell every month before that.
I have 2 where the dr didn't ask how I was still alive, but friends. 1st one was 2yrs ago. I found out that my rheumatoid arthritis caused me to have a heart attack. The heart attack wasn't that bad. The scary part was my wife, who's an emt. She wasn't too happy with me about waiting 5hrs before telling her something was wrong. That conversation on the way to the hospital was a little one-sided. 2nd one was last year. I ended up slicing my finger open. I was trying to find a washcloth. I ended up grabbing a potholder that my mother-in-law made for my wife. Wife wasn't too happy about that after I got stitched up. Main reason she wasn't happy was that she told me not to work on my car that day and I didn't listen
So what your saying is that you should listen to your wife more?
that story about the numb arm when sneezing and chest pain story is something that has been happening to me for a couple years now and ive also just been told that im pinching a nerve every time or something, might have to get that checked out finally yeesh
story 1 kinda scared me.
Story 1: i cant imagine hearing that my kid burst into tears in the middle of class and not interrogating the teacher and principal at legnth about every little thing before taking my baby straight to the doctor.
Hey I have one of these. At the age of 16 I got sick of gym coaches saying to breathe in your nose and I yelled back “nobody can stop saying that!”. Found that I was the only one..
I had a deviated septum from breaking my nose as an infant(Dr’s best guess). A surgery later and my entire sense of taste was different. Foods I hated became my favorite, bad smells made me gag, frankly everything changed.
Been there done that, same as OP from Story 11, except with a number of foods rather than just dairy. American food sucks for gut health, and your gut is a huge factor in mental health as well. I'm tons more stable after cleaning up my diet and getting some extra vitamins.
The ever-present sense of darkness I began feeling in 6th grade. I thought it was just part of growing up, and it wasn't until I experienced insanity that I was diagnosed with clinical depression... about a decade after the depression started. For a long time, I dismissed the possibility because "I spend too much time happy!" And "Those times I attempted suicide were just REALLY BAD days. I don't usually feel like that and the attempts were pitiful at best, nothing that actually had a chance at succeeding."
Because I didn't think I could be depressed, and because I had other issues as well, despite seeing counselors before and after onset, the possibility never came up... until I ran off to college in a new city where I didn't know anyone... during the pandemic... and became more isolated than I have been at any other point in my life. Since my depression comes from not feeling wanted, (Not from feeling unwanted. It's a lack of positive, not the presence of negative) being alone like that was wreaking havoc on my mental state and I literally went insane... in episodes, thankfully, which I quickly sought treatment for. I initially suspected schizophrenia, though I didn't research it heavily, and was surprised that it was depression. Though as soon as I was told about Depression Induced Mental Breakdown, it made sense, and so many little things made more sense as well, like the gray color filter over all of my middle school memories, and the desaturated filter over my high school memories... compared to the high color saturation of my elementary school memories.
As soon as I started an antidepressant, I was amazed, and baffled that I had carried all of that emotional weight for so long without realizing. Of course, not all antidepressants are the same, and unfortunately that one lost effectiveness quickly, so we had to try a few others before finding my current one, which isn't as intensely effective but is so much better than nothing.
I once got some kind of stress test or something to show what my anxiety level was or whatever...
Well when the results came in they told me that I was now their new poster child because my default stress levels (i.e. when I'm supposed to be calm) was so high that it was supposedly 10× higher than the average adult man (I was a like 16-17 year old girl) and the example they gave was essentially that it was the equivalent of living in the middle of a busy highway never knowing when you're about to get run over and killed...they also said that their previous poster child had a literal physical indication that showed something was off while I was completely normal looking.
No clue if any of that was legit (although they did keep telling me to calm down/that I was too anxious while they were doing the test...despite me being completely calm which might at least somewhat lend credence to their claims if my base anxiety levels are most peoples panic attack levels lol) or not but it _DOES_ make a lot of my life make sense...because I have really bad anxiety and have just kind of adapted to it over time (which would explain why my anxiety levels would be so high despite me being "calm"...because I'm literally ALWAYS anxious and I've just grown so accustomed to it that it really _IS_ normal to me even if my body says otherwise because I don't feel anxious whatsoever....I might subconsciously be anxious but I'm not aware of that fact and therefore it doesn’t bother me) so anxiety is just my default to the extent that, for me, even when I'm anxious I usually feel calm unless it's REALLY bad.
from the patient end: i thought i just had a really shit sleep schedule that was ruining my work life, brought it up to my doctor, and she started telling me about a medicine i knew was for adhd. long story short i have adhd and have had it for my whole life lol, and delayed sleep phase disorder is kinda common among adhd/asd folks
That actually explains so damn much i was diagnosed with adhd as a kid and here i thought i was just weird
Similar thing except I figured it out myself when I saw something online....
I already _KNEW_ that I had ADHD...
What I DIDN'T realize until I read about it online when I was in like middle school or something is that most normal people fall asleep within 30 minutes at the most...and that if it takes you longer than that you might have insomnia....
That's when I ended up self diagnosing myself as an insomniac because it would literally take me like 2-4 hours to fall asleep sometimes (which also meant that my parents would often get on my case for being out of bed/not going to sleep while I was just confused because I thought it was normal to not be able to sleep and didn't understand why they would get so annoyed at me because "how do you manage to stay awake in bed doing nothing for so long? Don't you get bored?"
My mom and doctor didn't actually belive my self diagnosis at first (I just outright said that I had insomnia one day...not that I thought I had it just that I had it because it was kind of obvious at that point to me that it was the problem) and they said that it was just my ADHD medicine keeping me awake at night because it hadn't fully worn off yet (which isn't true btw) and I mean...I do sleep better/more easily when I don't take my ADHD medicine but A. It's not by choice, I just literally get exhausted because I don't have it to wake me up (despite me being MORE hyper when I'm unmedicated? Idk...it's confusing lol) so I sometimes end up nodding off...and B. When it's actually time for bed I still struggle to fall asleep just not AS much as I do with my medicine.
But even _THEN_ I find it weird that they said that it wasn't insomnia and was just because of my medicine...but does that _REALLY_ matter?! Even if my insomnia WAS medicine induced (which it isn't, that just makes it worse) that's still insomnia? It might be caused by something else but at the end of the day it still takes me literal hours to fall asleep.
After awhile though they agreed that what I was describing was insomnia lol. Plus I was prescribed with medicine to help me sleep as soon as I mentioned having trouble sleeping so even if they didn't believe me they still treated me for it.
“Beer Belly” isn’t normal either. Its a sign of inflamed liver and/or liver damage.
If your stomach is hard and sticks out, and you drink a lot- please get yourself checked out.
Story 12 the human brain is so strange. Trauma can somehow cause someone to revert the the state of an animal.
One of my friends stopped suggesting food. It got serious and he was doing to go into surgery and have the contents of his stomach removed and put on IVs. Then he started digesting again randomly. The surgeon was disappointed because there was no longer an ethical reason to cut him open and see what's going on. Never happened again. No one, not even the professionals, know what was going on
8:29 I had the same thing
Was told my body didn’t know much hormones I needed.
So the birth control just even everything out.
1-5 times a month. I'm really behind.
I’m sorry what? He has seizures at random points and he doesn’t think he needs medication to control them/stop them from getting worse? Please tell me they revoked his license.
is it really not normal to have 2 voices in your head just chating ?
I'm not sure if you're joking or not, but no. You should see a doctor.
I got the 420th like 😅😂
poor first person.