REASONS WHY PATIENTS VISIT THE E.R.
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I was in ER and they asked me the pain question. I think I said ‘6’. My wife immediately said “don’t listen to him, he doesn’t think like other people”. So the doctor asked me “what would a ten be?” I answered “if I was on fire and you tried to put it out with acid, that would probably be a ten”.
They gave me pain meds.
Neurodivergent by any chance?
@@justaperson4656 - Well spotted, you’re right.
@@markgearing takes one to know one
Sounds kinda like me
@@markgearing my people!! 🌤
My son is an engineer, so deals in specifics. He went in with a kidney stone and was asked the one-to-ten pain question, so he said ten, but the doc told him most patients said 12 or 13. My son pointed out that his answer was within the stated parameters.
I described it to my mom as Michael Myers repeatedly stabbing me in the back XD
My answer (in April 2020) was “bad enough to bring me to the hospital during an unrelated pandemic.”
he didn't want an exception thrown at him during painful times
it would cause an overload
:') that's crazy, and it also reminded me to go drink some water
I'm terrified of getting a kidney stone, I've heard that its one of the worst pains
@@_the_bomb good answer
I actually find the 'immediate family only ' thing a little weird and sad, even though I know they have to limit people one way or another. I remember being in a hospital and seeing a sign that said when visitors are restricted to family, they define that as 'whoever the patient would consider family', which I liked. Some people have chosen families and have friends who are much closer to them than their blood relatives.
The "family only" thing varies from hospital to hospital. And f on the ER and Operating room to the ICU to the general and intermediate care floors. At my hospital, we let any visitor stay as long as the parents is ok with them staying (unless the patient has requester a restricted visitor list or they are under a trauma name)
Hospital in my city allowed me to enter the ER for my friend's little sister, but only after confirming with my friend that he wanted me there. I feel like that's the right way to go. You can't just let everyone in, but at least let the people in that are needed at that moment.
if I was in the ER and found out they turned away my friend of 25 years because they aren't my "immediate family" I would be kind of pissed tbh. I get that people have to make a call somehow, but we're as close as immediate family and I would want them to be able to visit.
family can be proven. how do you proof a friend is a friend when the patient isnt even concious. What if this friend is their stalker? what if this friend is the reason they are in the hospital?
@@lars7747 allow patients to put on their medical files "chosen immediate family" for those of us who chose our families after escaping "provable" families much worse than some stalkers. Medical files are accessible by your insurance across the US via your SSN if they can prove family they could prove that.
Never really got to experience the full 1-10 pain scale shenanigans as a veterinary professional (since, you know, animals don't talk), but I feel like it would be just as crazy if they could answer that question. Like a corgi or a poodle mix "OMG It's an 11 please doctor make the pain go awaayyyy" when the presenting complaint is annual wellness and all that happened was the doctor used a stethoscope. Or a happy golden retriever saying their abd pain is 6/10 despite being seemingly unaffected, but then it you take an x-ray and their spleen is actually about to explode and they were just so happy to see you that they forgot about how bad the pain actually is.
And then there's always that barn cat that fell from the hay loft who'll say "Pain? Why would I be in pain? Well, this bug bite on my ear might be a .5 out of 10..." meanwhile their tail is paralyzed, their hind leg is twisted 180 degrees, and that "bug bite" is actually a gigantic hematoma
Literally so accurate lol
Yeah dachshund would probs be with the poodles and corgis
i fostered for 14+ yrs critters of All types sizes. mostly orphans, critical care, pregnant or feral.. & this i would have to agree with completely ... 🤣🤣🤣🤣
And the husky thinks that the rectal temperature rates as over 9,000/10, judging by the screaming.
But imagine Huskys
My mom always got annoyed with doctors asking her things about me when I was little. She'd be like "I'm not the one in her body, she is, she has a voice she can talk, ask HER how she feels."
That's great. Not all parents are that way.
@@nicolepettit5120 Yeah. My mom is literally like in the first one. I could never get a sentence in no matter how badly i wanted, i'd get loudly cut off and spoken in my stead and told to pretty much to not saying anything (especially with psychiatrists under the threat of "being taken away"). It still happens a lot like god damn, will you let me speak for myself? Worst part is that she constantly makes shit up or makes assumptions about me and says them like they are facts. Narc behaviour tbh. It's always painfully obvious that the docs are annoyed as fuck that she won't let me speak a sentence when they adress me.
My boys are 6 and almost 5. When we visit the doctor I always give them time and encourage them to answer questions, then I help when they don't know what to say. I've done that since they were old enough to talk. And even when I do have to help them, I try to tell them the answer and have them repeat it to the doctor (for instance, maybe they don't remember their birth date), that way they're getting practice talking to doctors and relaying important info :)
My 14 year old still looks at me and to want me to answer for her. She’s got anxiety but I push her to answer her the questions and say the same thing… it’s your body, tell them!
good. my mom has been wildly different and would never let me say it for myself. ive been scared to say how i feel for like forever now
Years ago, my mum was admitted into the ER for excruciating pain. Her pain tolerance had always been quite high. So she went in joking and laughing with the doctors. She pointed out that the pain is exactly where her appendix was. The doctor had laughed and said he BET his degree that she DOES NOT have appendicitis. When the results were out, mum had to undergo and emergency surgery. What do you know? It was appendicitis.
lol i had to get surgery a couple months ago because i had appendicitis. it hurt so bad, i threw up and almost passed out cause of the pain 😭
Having that high of a pain tolerance can be a downfall. Having said pain tolerance myself that’s a hard pill to swallow.
Must’ve sucked for him to have to give up his degree like that.
@@ariannamae6114 sucked? Maybe. Well deserved? Absolutely.
Good thing they found out 😅 I hope that was his wake up call and that he was thankful she wasn't a patient with cancer or something!
Had a doctor blow off my neck pain when I said it was a 6 or 7. He told me it was just a strain and sent me home. Showed back up in the ER 3 days later with even worse neck pain, a 103 fever, and meningitis. I was so ridiculously sick that I thought I was literally dying. It's crazy how fast it escalated from "my neck really hurts" to "please just let me make it through this."
Wow that sounds terrifying, I'm so sorry
@Spark Studies it was no fun, for sure. Thankfully, I ended up with a great neurology team to take care of me once I was admitted. The doctor that treated me the second time I went to the ER actually went and got the doctor that initially sent me home cause he wanted him to see the result of his error. He apologized profusely, and I don't hold any ill will towards him. When he saw me, I had ZERO other symptoms.
@@lolastarling4032 I'm glad it turned out okay!
You were dying. Meni ngites kills
Doctor didn’t do a very good assessment 🤬
I had an ER tech get really sarcastic with me because I went to ER for a cough and back pain.. told me my back was just hurting because I was coughing a lot…I felt so embarrassed that I was “wasting” the ER’s time..especially after I mulled for hours over weather or not my pain was due to something minuscule…turns out it was a pulmonary embolism…
Just like Doctor Mike says: Nine times out of ten, the patient will know their body better than a doctor will.
I had to stand up against someone like that, for a friend. "Let's be clear. He has a very high pain threshold and doesn't want to cause a fuss. He will also diminish his own symptoms. The man HATES doctors and hospitals, yet asked me to bring him to the ER. Do you now understand?" That got their attention; and they became a bit more serious and interested. He was nearly dying from sepsis. 😡
I agree. I just hurt my knee the other day and went to the ER. They acted like I was faking it and said it'd feel better on its own in a couple of days. I went to ortho a couple of days later and was dx with a torn meniscus.
@@elizabethbottroff1218 That would piss me off as well.
@@elizabethbottroff1218 I am sure your friend appreciated that very much!
I have several horror stories from our ER but another instance of why you shouldn't just blow people off. I have a friend that lost her arm over being blown off by the ER. She was working out in her yard and felt a terrible sting and had been bitten by a spider. The pain had gotten so bad she knew something was wrong . When she got there they made her wait for 4 hours then blew her off as trying to get pain meds and sent her away. She had to drive another hour and half to a different hospital to get proper treatment and they had to cut off most her arm. I get the Er deals with a lot but just going on an assumption like this can lead to serious damage and even death. My 2 year nephew almost died because he was blown off at the same Er. Thankfully my sister took him to another hospital and they got him in for immediate surgery.
I am so sorry to hear about your friend, to have the severity of her emergency underestimated by the ER and to lose her arm as a result of that. There are no words. I want to educate people on the danger of spider bites to prevent this. Do you know what your friend's symptoms were?
You should consider advising her to sue
@Myoukei She is suing them, she's been caught up in court with it for years
@Jamie Nguy She said her arm just start stinging and hurting really bad. I know another guy that was stung by a brown recluse he was fortunate enough to get to the hospital in time and saw what bite him but his whole leg turned brown. He had to do special treatments for many years
You do know that in the entomologist community, it’s believed that the brown recluse is harmless. Their bites being the cause of a necrotic infection are thought to very likely be a myth.
If you do a round 2 include the patient who was in a few days ago and checked themselves out against medical advice. Only to come in again with the same symptoms now worse.
Working on a unit I loved those that leave AMA.... like.. "bye~ one less pt for me"
Or the patients who have to come back after being discharged, because the dr. Didn't get the problem right the first time.
No the best are the ones that call for an ambulance from the hospital waiting room or leave and do the same, hoping it will get them seen faster.
We get that in Veterinary ER's all the time!
The doctors and techs will usually go back and forth with the owners for a bit because they really don't want them to leave. Then, whether it's for financial reasons or because they think it'd be better for their pet to just die at home, people take them home only to realize how much suffering the pet really is in and bring it back to be humanely euthanized (if it hasn't passed on the way back). It breaks my heart every time.
@@alissan9377 sadly in many places that works
The "only family members" rule is absolutely uncomfortable for me. Some of us want friends with us when an emergency happens, because family members are not as close as some friends. Sometimes they don't even show up, friends know you better and they're actually dying to know if you're ok.
Just lie. How're they gonna prove you're not siblings?
@@KhanaHatake identification
edit: identification ≠ seeing your ID
identification is any method used to find out who you are.
@@TYsdrawkcaB Not everyone has the same name
@@TYsdrawkcaB not everyone has the same last name even if you are physically related because things like name changes aren't rare. Also people marry into families all the time.
My sister and I have different last names and they’re our maiden names. I have my moms and she has her dads.
It's very frustrating when you're in absolute agony that doctors don't believe the degree of pain that you are in.
And then somebody comes in with an excruciating chest pain and lies down on bed with a calm face. We try to take EKG because there is 8min time limit and the guy says "hold on i gotta send this email saying that im in Emergency room". Spends 5min sending an email and texting friends while ekg tech, x-ray tech and phlebotomist are all lined up outside
As someone who dissociates from pain, me just chilling instead of screaming in pain is accurate.
Oml same. One time I fell and my elbow hit concrete with all my body weight on it. I went to the ER and I was dissociating pretty badly from the pain, they left me sitting in the waiting room for 7 hours without even giving me a sling. Once they did the X-ray (it was so hard to move my elbow at all) they found out it was a bad fracture. The staff were really nice to me after that lol.
When I broke my leg, I told them 9 even though I was sobbing it hurt so much. They asked why not a 10. I said I am sure there is something that hurts worse than this, so I am reserving the 10 for that. 😂🤣
That's pretty much how I approach it too. Heck if I know what things I've never experienced feels like. I'm sure getting a limb ripped off is many times more painful that any broken bone lol
Exactly 😂
That’s me, but replace 9 with 6.5.
…I have a vivid imagination.
@@jacksongreen4107 😂😂 Love that!
@@jacksongreen4107 that's just gonna create miscommunication
Worked student health ER. Guy broke tooth on mystery meat, RA gave him 2 shots whiskey but still hurt...found a dentist on Saturday night to fix it. Someone dropped off an Arabic speaker without translator (in the 80's) using drawings figured out sharp abd pain for 2 days. Kid tripping on LSD said I had to guess what was wrong, seriously pissed when I guessed right first time. Always felt like triage should be a game show.
This is hilarious. But I know I shouldn't have laughed.
@TECHNOBLADE IS BURNING IN H3LL First techno is not burning in hell and dont say that shup up
Seriously what kind of dude would just leave a non-English speaker into an er room knowing nobody there speaks arabic
@@netad7771 I have worked in 3 states, Hmong, Laotian, Arabic, Tagalog, Spanish, Mandarin, Cantonese, Hindi, Thai, Cambodian, Vietnamese have all been present in my work days. I only speak English, Spanish and German so have to quickly figure out the problem,sort out the language and try to get translator. It isn't like people come in declaring what language they speak. It is a very false American thought that everyone speaks English.
@@netad7771 When I worked the ER the AT&T operators have access to someone that can translate most languages a patient might be speaking. The hardest part was figuring out what language we needed.
"I'm sorry is your name Katie?"
OMG yes stan a doctor who actually you know looks out for the PATIENT and doesn't tolerate "I'll do all the talking."
....is there a code for that type of thing? Bars and clubs have the Angel Shot for women so maybe hospitals should have that too in case the child doesn't feel able to talk in front of their parents.
Yeah, I need to know if there's a code or something
In "sensitive" cases (ie sexual matter or potential abuse neglect) one of the staff will ask the parent or guardian to 'fill out some paperwork real quick while the Dr. gets started' so they can get the truth without putting the patient at further risk.
@@andiward7068 Niiiiice
@TECHNOBLADE IS BURNING IN H3LL ok
What’s the “Angel Shot”?
On the flip side, there are doctors that don't realize they can talk directly to my non verbal daughter. Non verbal doesn't mean non understanding. She's quadriplegic (CP, not paralysis) and one time a doctor came in and was asking me if she could do this or that. Can she move her feet, can she lift her arms, can she blink on command, that sort of thing. I said, "why don't you ask HER?" So he starts asking her, and she shows him that she can do these things. He was absolutely fascinated that this profoundly physically disabled child can understand him (most can, and I wish more doctors knew that instead of assuming they can't), so he came back later to question her again, I guess to make sure it wasn't a fluke. After like 3 questions, she turned her head away from him and refused to interact anymore. I said "that means she's done". Then he came back the next day and tried again, and this little girl, who has almost zero use of her body, managed to swing her arm around and HIT HIM. I couldn't stop laughing. She's not a monkey that performs tricks for you, sorry. 🤣 Assume competence. Physically disabled and non verbal doesn't mean they don't understand and/or can't communicate. My daughter communicates just fine. The most efficient way is to just ask yes/no questions, which is often very easy to do in a medical setting, and I just fill in the gaps with details.
I use to work in a home for women with CP, all in wheelchairs. I had to take 1 resident to a follow-up doctor appointment, ENT. She had had an ear infection. This resident couldn't talk but was very intelligent and had a computer that she used to communicate. This was decades ago, pre-internet. The doctor kept shouting at the resident like she was deaf. I told the doctor in a quiet voice that she can hear just fine. He said, "I know" to me, then turned to the resident and started shouting again. Really irritating.
Hell yeah! As a disabled person, it boils my blood when someone talks to my wife over me (unless I've shut down because of over-stimulation, and then it annoys me that they won't listen to the person who knows me best) and I don't know what I'd do without my incredible spouse to advocate for me.
I'm incredibly glad your daughter has you to advocate for her - and that she knows she has the freedom to advocate for herself as to whether or not she's prepared to answer someone. You both sound awesome.
As a disabled wheelchair user - your daughter is my hero. Not in like a "aw she's inspirational" kind of way, more like I've got mad respect for her confidence to demonstrate her own competence by straight-up thumping an ableist asshat.
I'll never forget the EMT asking were I was in the pain scale, I explained it was bad (7 or 8) and that I had never felt anything like it. He called me dramatic and gave me something that just made me dizzy and more nauseous. He got in a fight with the head nurse when we arrived so I wasn't seen for awhile. It turned out to be an ectopic pregnancy 😄.
That Cheetos thing is so real. The amount of times I had to convince people to stop f*** eat junk food when they have stomachache or diarrhoea and they're always like "Why? Since when is it bad for me???"
Especially since that flaming hot shit is EVERYWHERE now.
Teacher here... nothing like Hot Cheeto vomit on a student's desk! It stained the desk!
@@kimberlysmith8616 whoa!
It seems like we humans also have a bad habit of craving that which hurts us the worst. In food and people. 😊
I've always known that the stomach troubles following eating crunchy grease were all my fault.
Worth it, sometimes. Not going to an ER for manageable stomach pain after eating like that. I'd give it time to pass and eat something reasonably healthy first to see if I could spare the efforts.
😅 the "family only" segment made me laugh so hard. Storytime: I had suffered a traumatic brain injury three years prior. I was working at a summer sailing camp 16+ hours from home, and we were about 9 weeks in. So I got a concussion when a kid accidentally kicked me trying to parkour over a catamaran (yay). I was losing consciousness, vomiting, and slurring my speech. The camp director's son was a paramedic and he drove me to the ER. When we got there, they said family only, but I couldn't see and could barely talk. He goes, "she's my cousin" and whispered under his breath, "what's your birthday, cousin? How do you spell your last name, cousin?" I handed him my medical ID / info bracelet, I could hear the triage nurses laughing, but they let him in!
Like most folks, I downplay the 1-10 scale, being in a hospital setting puts things in perspective and makes it hard to complain. But I gave an answer of 9 to the pain question once, and Doc wrote down 6. I said it thru my teeth as I couldn't stop crying and shaking, and the exam literally made me scream. Six. Now I know.
Maybe he accidentally wrote it upside down. But if he did it on purpose, then fuck that guy because that definitely sounds like a 9 to me
I have only said 9 once, and in similar circumstances, and I hate that that happened to you. That's messed up.
Tears is a 7 on mine. Doc would have had a straightening out by me over that!!!!!
I get what you were going for with the pain scale segment but I also feel like it isn't fair. When I had a perforated colon it was so painful I couldn't move. I didn't say 10 on the pain scale though because I thought "Well, I'm not screaming or crying so I guess it isn't that bad." I WAS DYING OF SEPSIS!!!
That sounds terrifying 😅
How long have you been dead ?
I think it is to het an idea of your state of mind and your perception of your pain. Everybody has a different pain tolerance, and there are others who live with constant debilitating pain, so their scales are always off.
You went through a lot; hope you are okay now.
It’s only one piece of the puzzle. Yes you can have a ruptured appendix and rate it a 7 while people walking around with fibromyalgia say their pain is 12 as a normal day.
“The worse pain of my life” or X was the worse pain and this is less or more than that is more helpful but they still need to try and tack a number on it.
I find these videos so funny! I relate a little too well. I worked several decades in an entry crisis unit. I'm finding the "Don't say it" captions especially gratifying. Although I am a generally calm clinician there were times when that patience was tested. We were an adult facility. Sometimes one adult can be as challenging as a room full of runny-nosed crying, diaper-filled pre-schoolers. At one point they put four lines on my phone and had told me I would have a staff for screening and assessment. They then decided that as I was experienced and working on my doctorate I could singlehandedly handle the incoming calls and intakes WITHOUT the promised staff. One perceptive nurse said it was my own fault because I was always so kind and polite. It was hell! I couldn't ever leave to go to the restroom without hearing my name loudly over the speakers throughout the building saying that I had a call on line one, then line 1 + 2 and so on. It became my job to screen every incoming person, to conduct a full intake, field all calls, sometimes a suicide call, all because a local news reporter did a story about the "mean nurses" in our detox unit. So because I was polite I was punished by having to screen everybody! That was dangerously unsustanable. My final straw was a patient who was mad because he had to wait, entered my small office, and communicated his dissatisfaction by turning his back to me, then bent over to serve me one loud and pungent fart! THAT was IT!!! No more Mrs. Nice Guy! The Lion had ROARED! They got me that additional staff immediately!
Diaper-filled? I get what you're saying, but what I'm imagining is a whole other thing that's both horrifying and hilarious at the same time.
So, fun story: I just spent all day in the ER today because the specialist who was supposed to see me denied the request that was sent in by my doctor, meaning ER was literally my only option (urgent care doesn't have the right equipment). While I was there, I got to watch a guy who apparently got drunk last night and had his foot run over get the cops called on him because he apparently needed a bed right that moment (despite not coming to the ER until 10am when his foot was ran over last night?) and also apparently single handedly pays the nurses salary. That was super fun and not stressful at all/s
Wow what a weird world this is
My ex broke his hand at work, drove himself home & waited almost 5 hours for me to get up & drive him to the er. Yeah, just one of the many reasons he’s now an ex 🙄
What a baby. I had my foot run over when I was just a tiny kid, it literally didn't hurt at all.
@@VvpandoravV so one of the reasons you broke up with you ex is because he so little wanted to inconvenience you or disturb your sleep that he waited with a broken have for 5 hours for you to get up before asking for a ride to the ER? Sounds like he got the good end of the deal when you guys broke up.
@@breadfan_85 sounds like you’re assuming I actually give a shiite about your opinion here lol
Lol I have been the patient who ate junk food and wondered why my digestive system disintegrated. It wasn't the ER, but I still needed a doctor to tell me that I was an idiot.
Reminds me of the son of my friend (a doctor's assistant). We were on our way to our holiday place and he said that he was hungry. So we went to a McDonald's. He was about 15 years old and quite lean. He got a maxi menu, an icecream and a big milkshake. He ate everything except half the milkshake. We were sitting there and he suddenly asked his mom if there were some cases of stomach flu at the doctor's. She said no and asked why. He said: "I think I got something. I don't know why but I feel a bit sick." We laughed and told him that after all the food he ate most people would be sick (and yes, it was the amount of food, he felt fine several minutes later).
@@seleyav.7101 lol I have done that. I am glad you were able to educate him. I was in my late 20s or early 30s when I finally realized.
@@rebeccajones9757 sound just like my ex. He was only eating pizza, McDonalds and chips and drinking energy drinks and cola. Sometimes he woke up, feeling sick an throwing up. Told him it was the junk food. He didn't believe me, because "he did this for years" and "it's just once every few weeks" so it can't be the food. He was in his early to mid 20s. Missed a trip to an amusement park because of him. Still mad about that.
@@TakiNanami good to know that he is your ex n not your boyfriend. 🤣😂
They go to the E.R. for CHEST COMPRESSIONS, CHEST COMPRESSIONS, CHEST COMPRESSIONS!
@doctormike
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We definitely need a collaboration with Dr.. mike
DOCTOR MIKEEE
In my town at one point ER was the place for everything because we didn't have an urgent care, I bet the ER doctors and nurses are glad we have an urgent care now a lot less flu and stomach ache cases to handle
I love urgent care! For the last 10 yrs I’d say 2-4x a year I come in with either sinus infection or bronchitis/pneumonia. I used to go to ER because I’m asthmatic and it would cause exacerbation and I’d need nebs, steroids, and oftentimes antibiotics. With urgent care I get seen days sooner. For the most part I get a good diagnosis. This year I got swimmers ear infection and misdiagnosed . So essentially went almost a week without the proper treatment. ENT prescribed antibiotic ear drops, had ear wick placed, and I had antibiotics changed to correct type. So follow up is very important especially if things aren’t getting better.
Speaking as a former healthcare employee, people still go to the ER for that small stuff instead of the urgent cares.
@@JellicleKitten for the longest time I didn’t understand the concept of urgent care. Now that I do I almost feel like ERs need to triage ppl and if they aren’t emergent send them to urgent care.
As someone with bad anxiety (especially in social department) I sometimes can’t get out what I need to say and often have to look to whoever I bring along with me. People I bring with me know that if I look at them it means I need help translating what I want to say or explaining what’s going on. Sometimes they have to help me translate what was said to me since my brain likes to jumble up the words I hear with other things. But that first skit makes me so sad. That parents are taking on the roll without giving the kids the chance to even TRY to answer things. I don’t really care for people answering for me when I can do it myself so I can only imagine the kids’ frustrations and anxieties when the parents do it.
My daughter would never speak. Just shrug and look at me. Super anxious but has learned she has to be her own advocate at times.
I work in PT and the nonchalant patient on their phone with "10/10 pain" is too accurate
Or maybe they’re a chronic pain patient who deals with excruciating pain daily so their pain level doesn’t conform with the stupid pain scale… also, a phone is a great distraction from not wanting to st@b yourself in the hand to see if pain transference is real.
@@sickgirlcar then it isn't a 10
@@terminaldeity I mean that people who live in pain are more used to it so if we’re saying it’s a 10, it’s more like a 13 for a “normal” person. If a chronic pain patient actually goes to the ER for pain, it’s literally because they’re trying not to kill themselves to put themselves out of pain. They go to the ER and get looked at like drug addicts or as if they’re “acting” since they don’t LOOK like they’re dying from pain. I know it’s not an all or nothing thing and that some people are indeed just trying to get meds, but it’s such a small percentage. And trying to find good doctors/nurses who actually LISTEN to their patients and want to actually help (fix the problem, not mask it) are so hard to come by. Look at some of the other comments, especially from women, it’s so fucking sad the bs we have to go through. If someone no longer wants to do their job, or cannot do their job without bias, then maybe they need to switch fields…
Also, to be fair, meds ruined my life and made me sick and I even asked NOT to get anything strong but was lied to.
This happened to me and my son aged 16. After ignoring me and talking to him they said there was nothing wrong, I asked them to do a blood sugar test before we left and yes, it turns out his sugars were off the chart, they admitted him.
There's a difference between asking for a couple of tests vs answering literally every question for your son.
How would you feel if your husband/boyfriend was always speaking for you in the ER and didn't give you an opportunity to answer? That's basically what that skit was describing.
@@crazy808ish That actually sounds awesome! I hate it when my husband calls for me on the phone and they insist that they have to talk to me first. Like, there's a reason I'm not calling, and it's not so that you'd insist on talking to me anyway. 😡😡
@@catinabox3048
The problem is that in a lot of cases where the husband/boyfriend/dad does the talking he does it because he is controlling over de women/children in his life and is often abusive to them and wants to prevent them from ratting on him or having the bruises he caused be seen and identified by medical professionals because that means a ticket to jail for him! Medical professionals ask to speak to the woman/child to make sure she/he/they/them are not being abused, it’s protocol in nearly every medical or police situation around the world
@@crazy808ish not always though- I need my mom to talk for me at appointments. I have a chronic illness that makes it incredibly difficult for me to remember my symptoms (or anything really), so she’s able to be my interpreter and remember for me. Bc I won’t be able to answer hardly any questions if i was alone
@Mayra Hemmerechts “a lot of cases” yeah, no. Maybe some cases but you are way over generalizing and giving people needless paranoia.
I have to say, I have chronic migraines that are a constant 10/10, but I have no choice but to carry on, so it doesn't look like I'm in that much pain, but I am.
My husband is the exact same way. He hides his migraine pain really well until it's too much to bear, and then he has to go to the ER and just hope he gets a doctor who will listen to him and actually give him the medicine he needs.
Migraines are what I call an often less respected chronic illness. People don't understand how devastating they are when they're chronic. 😔
My husband used to get them bad. He also hid his pain. As he has gotten older they kinda went away. He rarely gets a headache now. 2 of our 3 sons have migraines. So bad they have to go into a dark,quiet room for awhile. They are grown and have had them since they was small. -I had to take one of my sons to an urgent care for his migraines. He was pretty small. Told the doc his Dad has them. The doc said he was just copying his Dad. Had to explain that he gets them regular and we was out of meds. Makes me so angry when doctors do that!! - have had to take him as a grown man to urgent care 2 or 3 times. He had a migraine so bad he could barely see.
Thankfully, my husband's headaches have improved some over the last couple of years, but the worst are still absolutely horrendous. I'm an optimist, though, so I'm just proud that he's able and willing to work hard and be a leader at his job. The best I can do is be there for him and be someone to lean on in the hard times.
I have chronic migraines and cannot continue with a pain level of 7+. because it’s dangerous. I may not be sobbing in pain but if I push myself too hard, I’ll throw up in public, fall asleep at the wheel from fatigue and have slower delayed judgment. It would be dangerous to drive!
Same here
I'm 28 and I sometimes still take my Dad for important appointments, such as when I had my eye surgery and the doctor was relaying a lot of info. I was like "There is NO way I'm gonna remember everything... Dad! You're coming with!" He's also my 'free taxi' whenever I go to the dentist, he will just wait in the car or do some grocery shopping.
The pain scale thing is frustrating to me because I'm a very stoic person, and I really don't even know HOW to 'look like I'm in pain' like normal people do. I also have a very high pain tolerance because I have chronic pain (like I had a major surgery, one which they prescribed me narcotics for, and not only did I not need them, I didn't need the tylenol either. And I wasn't trying to be tough about it or anything, I was just...fine) so if I'm saying it's bad IT REALLY *IS* BAD! And I legitimately have experienced 10s on the pain scale, multiple times, which for me is 'if you threw me down the stairs right now I literally could not hurt worse than I already am hurting right now, because I CANNOT process any more pain than this'. At a 10 I may have trouble walking and talking completely normally, and it's very hard for me to think, and mostly all I'm doing is sitting and focusing on breathing because I feel like I have to consciously breathe and also it helps to have something to focus on. But. Because I'm not crying, and because my face looks like it always does, and because I can have a conversation and answer questions (even if I'm having trouble answering sometimes because I can't THINK), and can get up and walk and do things...my pain is NOT taken seriously. I went to the ER during one episode and I could tell they just did not believe me. I tried to explain that I have chronic pain and a stoic face, and that I really really mean 10 like I would not even care if someone hurt me right now because I cannot hurt more, but I don't think they believed me at ALL. They rushed me out as soon as possible. With a diagnosis of...acid reflux. (I've had plenty of acid reflux throughout my life. Terrible acid reflux even. And heartburn. This was not even REMOTELY like that.) I've had a lot of bad experiences with doctors and hospitals, but sometimes they really do continue to surprise me with how shitty they can be.
What did you end up having?
@@sparkstudies1675 still don't know. I've seen a gastroenterologist a few times so I've figured out I have IBS, but that doesn't really explain the 3 severe episodes i had with the piercing pains, including chest pain, esp since 2 of them seemed to be triggered by vaccines I got somehow? (Flu and then covid booster). So that feels like smth else at play. But I haven't had any episodes in over a year, and I had no reaction this time when I got my flu shot and covid booster, so that's good, low fodmap has def been helping.
Well if you got kids, I promise they treat kids shitty too. Vanderbilt children's hospital has some of rudest and mean people working there I've ever seen. I'd go to another hospital for my child's needs but unfortunately they are the only one where I live that isn't hours away. Even the security guards act like they hate their jobs. Never leave a loved one alone in the hospital either. They abuse them.
@@Stormy1984 That's awful; I'm sorry
I was the child in the first video but because I had extreme difficulty talking to strangers and my mother knew everything about me
I had the opposite kind of thing happen with the pain question. I had a kidney infection that was spreading to other parts of my body ontop of a kidney stone and got asked how I would rate the pain on a scale of 1-10. I said 10 because it felt like I was being boiled alive and someone was torturing me alive, I could literally barely move it hurt so much. Got told it couldn't possibly be a 10 because 10 meant the same pain as giving birth.
Okay, well, it feels like my kidneys are about to birth something and that it's going to cause me to explode into a million pieces. What the hell do I rate that?
What?.... childbirth is not a 10. 10 is the maximum on the scale, and there are plenty of women who've both given birth and been in serious accidents and have had other seriously painful conditions. Not saying childbirth is a walk in the park, but it's far from the most painful thing people can experience....unless you're a hyena.
When I came into the ER with neck and arm pain, I said my pain was an eight and I was crying my eyes out then. I've given birth, nothing so far has topped that. I ended up needing surgery for a herniated disk pressing down on my spinal cord. If an eight floored me, I can't see how someone can be so calm at a ten pain level.
sometimes autistic people don’t express pain the same way neurotypical people do.
It depends on the person. If I'm whining, it means my pain is not that bad. If I start being silent, space out and unable to move or talk much, that means I am in serious pain. I don't know how people who are in a lot of pain scream or cry since being in pain alone takes me too much energy to do anything else, including thinking if it's really bad.
Well thare are people with nerve conditions. And chronic pain patients
@@Dekubud Same. Mom has chronic pain. If she goes quiet, or her movements start to be methodical, my Lil' Bro and I go into high alert. We watch for the clenched jaw and the extra temple twitches by the eyes. That means that she's having to use all of her focus. Then we have to find a way, without causing her too much energy expenditure, to figure out if it's a bad flare up, or an actual issue that needs a drive to the ER.
She needs to discern herself if it's her normal, but angrier pain; or if she's hurt herself.
It took me an hour once to convince her to go for x-rays. It was just an accidental fall that could happen to anyone. The noise brought me down the hallway, and I found her still on the floor. But she kept holding her arm and protecting her ribs. I was also worried about her spleen. She had landed on something. She decided that the ER was a good idea. Yep. Arm and ribs. Fortunately nothing broken. Nailed them good though. Pain meds and an arm in a sling. 🤦♀️
We had pushed the ER visit because you could see that she was worried. Once the worst was cleared, you could see a lot of the anxiety leave her. With a more relaxed mindset, and the pain meds, she was better able to focus on dealing with the pain itself.
She received extra pampering for awhile. 😍
@@elizabethbottroff1218 That's me. I'm like your mom. She's lucky to have people like you in her life! Sorry you guys have to go on high alert and stress for her, I know it sucks for you and your mom. I hope she finds a way to manage her pain better... heck I hope all chronic pain people can! Best wishes for you guys!
I was so nervous at the doctors that I appreciated when my mom would speak up for me. She could also see sometimes I was on the verge of tears.
But man. This video shows so much that doctors and RN's, first responders etc., have to deal with.
Lol I had to go to the ER when I was 23 for severe stomach pain that turned into collapsing on the sidewalk, and I was also asked if I was pregnant. I told them no, but I was on my period and I expected that was the problem because the cramps were just really bad and I was so pissed that I had to call them over it.
They pressed me and were like, "Are you *sure?"* And I was like, "Yes". And they kept pushing and were like, "Because it could also be a miscarriage." And I was like, "I'm 100% sure. I'm a virgin, I've never even been kissed." Hell I'd never had someone even want to touch me. Never even *held hands* with someone because my hands were gross and sweaty, and middle schoolers say the meanest things, so I was too scared to touch anyone. So no. I wasn't pregnant or having a miscarriage.
Sometimes I wish we didn't have to explain our whole sexual history to get them to do some testing that isn't specifically pregnancy related. Like I could be literally dying but you are hung up on the pregnancy part above everything else. I get that people lie, especially kids, but I was 23, and had no reason to, and those people really kinda f*** things up for the rest of us.
Turns out I was severely dehydrated with heat exhaustion, and *could* have died. My electrolytes have never been the same since. 🙃
Also f*** periods because that's usually when I just can't stay hydrated no matter what I do, and they just feel like someone is scratching my insides out through my lower holes 😂😭
Good news is I did have my first kiss that year though lol
I told my primary dr that my period wasn't the same normal flow. She was convinced I was pregnant even though I told her no. When the other lady came back to the the room to reveal my pregnant test and told the Dr it was negative. The look on her face was priceless. She was so shocked. It took years and a bunch of different doctors for me to find out I have rare from pcos and that's why my cycles where weird
@@Serenityblu23 I'm sorry for what you must have had to endure during that time, but honestly, imagining her face is so satisfying!
I'm glad you were able to get it figured out though. Some people unfortunately never do, and that's such a failure of our system...
Thank you for sharing!
MIDDLE SCHOOLERS???
@@Josh0639 yes. In middle school they made us learn to dance in gym. That's when they started telling me how disgusting I was because of my sweaty hands. That has stuck with me ever since.
@@islandboy4445 I feel that after 5th grade things went down hill for me. I don't have many friends and I was constantly being told how ugly I was. I didn't even attend my graduation, or anything social.
As a person who has chronic pain and rates getting a cavity filled without anesthesia as a 10. Yep. I can be at a 10 and you would never know unless you asked. The fact is when I changed to a different anti-inflammatory med I actually cried.... because for the first time in 5 years nothing hurt. P.S. I've been a nurse (ER, Med/Surg, and Post Partum) for over 20 years. I've seen it from both sides.
I have chronic pain too!!! I’ll say something is a ten and they don’t believe me cause I’m so relaxed. The thing is my normal day to day is already at a seven… I just have gotten used to sucking it up
i swear chronic pain messes up how we feel pain. we get so used to being at a certain level of pain all the time so when it escalates we don’t react the way others think we should.
That is not a 10, this is infuriating that you think your baseline pain is a 10 if you’re that casual. That is the limit of the scale. I’m not saying you are pain free, but a 10 does not look comfortable like that. You are not “high pain tolerance”
@@erikmoyer2587 I don't walk around at a ten 24/7. Never said that. At most it's about a five 24/7, with some peaks and valleys. Also each person's ten is different. That is why I gave an example of what my ten is. I have never broken a bone, been shot, been stabbed, or extensively burned.....so I can't exactly use that as a reference. Also chronic pain is not a pissing contest to see who can handle the most. It should be something for compassion and understanding...Not judgment.
I have chronic pain, too.... my 10 is when I can't move because of the pain.
My scale is simple, after receiving some serious injuries. I busted my ankle falling while Ice climbing, and blacked out, but was screaming the F bomb. Everything was black and I couldn't hear anything, but I was dimly aware of screaming coming from somewhere. THAT is a 10. If I can't stop screaming, but can see/ hear, that's a 9. Unfortunately, this realistic pain scale is apparently far from the normal, so I was left sitting in the busy ER with a 5-6 level chest pain for 3 hours... and it turned out to be a heart attack. So... do I lie to make my pain scale overly dramatic, because that's the ridiculousness the medical professionals are used to, or be honest and be taken less seriously...
And then there's pain tolerance to take into account. Your 10 might not be the same as my 10, for example.
Immediately postop from a major orthopaedic hip surgery where my pelvis was cut in three places and I had four screws holding me together was the worst pain of my life. I think I was screaming and grabbing the rail on the bed and desperately trying to get the nurse to understand it was my low back that hurt (my muscles were spasming so bad I was arched off the bed). I passed out right after and I’m not sure if it was from the pain or if they pumped me full of pain meds. That was 10 out of 10.
A number of days later I got a new roommate who was constantly whining about everything, demanded meds and even threw a tantrum. When the nurse came by in the morning to do vitals and asked my roommate what her pain level was, and she responded 10 out of 10 (the calmest voice I had heard her use ever). It took a lot of restraint to not laugh or say anything.
Ok so here’s the thing about it the 1-10 pain scale. People with chronic illness often don’t visually look like there is much pain. I have been in the er at a 8 or 9 and been on my phone because it help distract me. Now 10 out of ten for me personally I am screaming and I often lose control of my body because it hurts so bad. But that’s not to say that for other people it’s the same way
I once had a pretty significant accident at work and when my girlfriend of 4 years at that time got a phone call from my boss telling her that 'i fell from a 11 meter high oil tanker' and she had no additional information about my condition.
Bare in mind i moved to a different country to be with her so i have absolutely no family there.
So she rushed to the hospital immediately only to be told that she couldn't go in because only immediate family was allowed. So she explained to them that i have no family in the country and that she was the only person i had there besides some friends from work.
They didn't care.
She then tried convincing them by saying she was pregnant with my baby.
They didn't care.
So being the smart ass woman that she is, she had a ring on her index finger, which she had swapped over to her left ring finger during the conversation and then told them that we were engaged while showing them the ring...we weren't
That one finally worked though.
When i got out lf surgery, one of the very first things she told me was that story. And now that has also become the story of how we actually got engaged and i found out i was going to be a father 😂
I’m going to have to apologize next time I hit the ER with my kids. We’re all on the spectrum. I get anxious to put all the info out there at one time, and they don’t have neurotypical pain or bodily awareness to answer most questions. They’re pretty high functioning (as insulting as that language is, it’s medically labeled), and my youngest is heavily masked. Unfortunately, they all have a huge brain body disconnect. Sooooo…long story short, sorry to all the medical folks that take care of us. Please feel free to ask me to back off and allow you to try to get the info you need…just don’t be mad at me for it.
I was thinking the same thing. I have an autistic daughter who rarely tells me anything in general, and likely won’t answer questions from strangers. If I’m at the hospital it’s because she’s not her regular self and I’ve tried to lure something out of her already.
I'm sure as long as you explain at the beginning, the staff will understand!
I think it's fine if you're kids are really young or if they are shy, speak quietly, etc. But a 17 yo should be able to tell the doctor what's wrong. Heck, some 17 yo can drive to the hospital all by themselves.
Hi. I think you're amazing. What you are doing is exactly right. No one, even doctors will know your kids better than you. I'm neurotypical, I think is the term, don't worry everyone is labelled. I have serious mental health issues, have done for years. I tell the doctors to speak to my husband because I don't deal well in social situations at all. I've also noticed that once someone knows you have depression etc, it's hard to convince them when you really need to be heard. Trust your instincts, they're steering you in the right direction. Good health and happiness to you and your family. X
I'm a nurse dear and not all health care workers would agree with this video. It's stressful being a patient in the ER and you never need to apologize for being a supportive Mom and advocating for your kids. This video is a little condescending in my opinion.
I hate the pain scale question with a passion. I always avoid saying 10 because I know that's supposed to be the worst pain you can feel, but there have been a few times I've said 8-9 and looked relatively okay (not as nonchalant, but close I guess) and gotten dismissed as exaggerating. I really was a 8-9 but I'm so used to some pain somehow that I've learned to just deal with it, especially as someone with endometriosis who has to deal with abdominal pain all the time. I was on my phone in the waiting room to distract me from my pain, not because I was bored. The worst time this happened I had an ovarian torsion (which means my ovary wasn't getting blood/oxygen and was literally dying). It took the ER forever to even scan me because the triage put in her notes (I could see this in the visit summary) "claims level 8 pain, but seems relatively relaxed and no signs of injury". I literally passed out and woke up after surgery after 6 hours of waiting. My ovary died and had to be removed so I wouldn't follow it. I literally lost an organ because of this stupid pain scale question.
Professionals NEVER treat any patient just from the pain scale answers!!! I am a Medical ER Professional!! I know
Yep. My ovarian torsion almost killed me and the doctors were very slow giving me anything because I wasn’t showing my discomfort. I think when they asked scale 1-10 I said 7. Then the doctor came in and pressed my abdomen and I passed out.
After everything went down the nurse told me now I know what a 10 feels like 😂.
You lost an organ because of an incompetent nurse, not a pain scale.
I’ve seen a few articles that say the pain scale isn’t useful for people with chronic pain. Maybe the question should be, what number would you be on a regular day when you go to work or do the shopping. That might be a 4 or 5, but you can still function. If a person comes in with chronic pain and says 8, it would be higher than 10 for a person without pain. Or, we just have to act in pain instead of calm 🤷🏼♀️ We spend so much time masking pain, it’s hard to take that mask off and allow the real feelings be expressed.
I’m sorry you lost your ovary.
As someone who had endo (technically a bit is still there, but I had a full hysterectomy in 2021) I absolutely get this. The number of internal ultrasounds I've had, the amount of pain I was in, and all I'd be given was paracetamol.
One time I got kicked out of the medically acute unit, where I was waiting to be seen because I couldn't eat or drink, because I was using my phone, and got told "it can't be that bad." It was, the morphine I'd been given in the ER had worn off and I was using my phone to distract myself, messaging my wife to reassure them that I would be okay that they'd had to go to work and leave me with a friend, and desperately hoping no one would tell me I was just exaggerating or drug seeking.
Three months after that doctor discharged me, I was in hospital for a week before someone agreed to do an exploratory laparoscopy. Turns out my left ovary was adhered to my bowel with endometriosis, and my surgeon was like "how were you functioning with that much pain?"
I wasn't, sir, but no one seemed to care.
I hate the pain scale. I have chronic pain, for one, and for two, the scale changes based on what I've been through. So, natural child birth is pretty painful. But then I has frozen shoulder release surgery and that was 10 X worse, which changed my scale.
2:45 this is definitely my sister, she has a acid reflux problem, and still eat spicy Takis, claiming it helps her stomach
I could literally be on the verge of death (and I mean literally - I almost died having my second baby) and be seemingly okay. I’ve struggled with pain my entire life for various reasons so any time anyone asks me to rate my pain it honestly pisses me off because it will always be/look different for me then the average person.
I can have bad pain in some areas and seem fine even though it is a 10 and on other body parts like my stomach pass out at a 5 but even if I show that I have severe pain and can't even speak with a steady voice the nurses always get so mad with me and tell me in a really rude voice that I need to talk louder cause they can't hear me. They always find a way to invalidate you it's so sad.
Rating pain has NOTHING to do with how much pain youre in..... its to see if medication is helping.... if you say youre at 10 .. and pain relievers are given and its lessened.. it can be kept track of..
The skit here was showing how people claim high amounts of pain for dumb reason or just to continue the addiction....
Yes pain scale is to see which pain med is needed to be given and if that pain medication is alleviating pain. Doc doesn't want to give too much so you don't get addicted to morphine and too much is bad for your kidneys.
Heeeeey, I almost died giving birth to my oldest son! They botched the epidural, my blood pressure tanked, I passed out, and they had to inject me with adrenaline (I think) to keep me and baby alive. I was paralyzed from the chin down for many hours. Turns out they punctured the dura with the epidural needle.
It doesn't piss me off but I know what you're saying. What does piss me off is Er people blowing people off because they don't believe them just because they're not acting the way they think they should.
I was in the E.R. for a suspected burst ovarian cyst, and I was laying in the bed near the nurse station waiting on pain meds. The E.R. doc came over to evaluate me and he said, "what is the pain level?" And I said, calmly, "a 10 in my pelvic area, an 8 in my stomach, a 7 shooting down my leg" then I threw up 😂 He was like "oh no!" Then they gave me morphine. At first though, they didn't seem to be buying it because I was just chilling there on my phone trying to take my mind off the pain (and feeling of hurling). 😂
Vietnamese coffe and Red Bull’s?
He dead.
I infuriate my caretakers with my pain scale. I've been through a lot in life, illness and injury wise (it's a long list, I'll spare you), so when I get something like a compound fracture and I rate it a 4, it's just like, "I'm mostly conscious, I know what happened, and I'm not worried that I'm going to die in the next 15 minutes; I'm good. Seeing my bones is fun and all, but please help fix it. I have a trauma kit in my truck, but my fiancée insists that it is not a long-term solution."
i know that feel, got some chronic inflammatory rheumatism since i was 16, sometimes i can't do any sport, i limp, and yet, if the doctor ask me i'm like "that's like a 2 or 3 out of 10 i guess". then for a related reason i get uveitis, i have to get an injection directly in the eye under local anesthesia, and i say "i can't feel any pain, but damn, that's a fucking 20/10 on the discomfort scale, so uncomfortable i would give it a pain rating."
@@niscent_ Oh, *hell* naw. I'd happily take a lot of physical pain and abuse to *NOT* have a needle inserted into my eye while conscious, thank you very much!
That sounds like the sort of torture that violates the Geneva convention protocols. **shudder**
@@Nylak-Otter well... getting needle into my eye while on local anesthesia doesn't sound so bad, even more compared to feeling my eyes burning as i slowly loose my sight and become blind over the course of a few weeks.
it's really weird you have to hold your eye still for a few seconds, you feel absolutely nothing, then as you blink it starts to itch, and a few minutes later it becomes incredibly uncomfortable for the next 3-4h. its itching, it feels weird when you move your eye, but at least it's not painful, only mental pain from the discomfort.
Good for your fiancee. Everyone handles their pain differently 😂 some people think a bruised knee is enough to send them to the ER.
So you use the "Farmer Pain Scale"
Props to Steve for enduring the Flamin' Hot Cheetos
The way he was hoovering them down without flinching tells me he enjoys those little pieces of synthetic pain.
I don't know how he managed it! I can eat a small handful before I have to reach for a drink. The guy definitely suffers for his videos unless he was just eating a small handful at a time, then editing it to look like he was vacuuming out the whole bag. 😆
@@sunnywhite196 I could vacuum a bag of spicy chips myself. Flamin Hot Cheetos aren’t my favorite tho, I prefer Spicy Sweet Chili Doritos
@@GolfClash2718 I used to be able to. Heartburn prevents me from doing it unless it's the fun size bags these days.
Haven't spent a lot of time in ERs but from the experiences I have had, shit seems crazy all the time. When I was like 11 I tripped and cut my knee really badly and needed stitches. At the same time, a stomach bug was going around in my class, and I started showing symptoms like 20 minutes after busting my knee open. So I rock up to the emergency room with my mom, sporting a bleeding gash on my knee and a red plastic beach bucket that I was periodically throwing up in. And they sit us down in the waiting room and say it's gonna be a while before they can see me because a dude had just been in a bad accident and they were currently sewing his fingers back on. And next to me was an elderly couple waiting to see a doctor because the old lady had kidney pain and her husband was lecturing her about how he told her she should go pee if she needs to pee. Meanwhile the TV in the waiting room was blaring a news report about bird flu or swine flu or something, so I feel like everyone must have been super paranoid to be in the ER.
Jc that sounds like a horrible time.
What ended up happening?? Like how does that story end
@@sparkstudies1675 Lol, nothing! We waited, they stitched my knee up, I was home sick for a few days, and I still have the scar lol. No idea what happened to the fingers guy.
Patient (nonchalantly): "Yeah, my pain's a 10 out of 10."
Me: "Well, that's meant to be the worst pain you can imagine."
Pt: Yeah, this is the worst pain I can imagine.
Me: Let me put it like this, your leg hurts, right? If I smacked it with a baseball bat, you can imagine that your leg would hurt more, right?
Pt: right.
Me: so this isn't the worst pain you can imagine, right?
Pt: right.
Me: So what's your pain on a scale of 1-10?
Pt: 10.
Dissociation can be the cause for this. For some people, they've found that disconnecting from themselves as a way to cope with pain. It's basically going into shock. Happens to me because I have a dissociative disorder.
@@yukiandkanamekuran i didn't realize going into shock was so.. peaceful
@@breadfan_85 it's meant to calm you and disconnect you from reality. So you may feel numb, apathetic or zoned out.
One time I started getting lightheaded when i stood up.. you know how you feel when you stand up too fast? Like that, except it never went away. And then I started throwing up every time I tried anyway. Then started throwing up just for no reason. Called for an ambulance. I couldn't give the reason I came to the ER because by that point I'd become unresponsive, but I think someone who was in the ambulance filled them in on it. Apparently, this is a very good reason to go to the ER.
edit: severe anemia from massive peptic ulcer, if you were curious. something like 4 g/dl hemoglobin.
THE FU-
Fing hell. I was down to a 5 at one point because apparently my uterus decided it was time to do a murder/suicide and kept me on my period for MONTHS and that felt bad enough. I couldn't imagine being even lower with an ulcer on top of that.
I hope your feeling better now. I have stomach issues and animea as well. But they cant seem to figure out why my body wont hold iron correctly. Still havent figured it out since i have other issues that take presedence over that. ( like the fact that apparently i need brain surgery).
I really hope you are doing better though. I can handle most things buut when nausea comes in i just cant handle anything.
@nekowitch417 I was on my period non stop for a year. Wasnt painful unless it was the one week i happened to have cramps. ( thats tge only way o know when it was my real period vs my 'fake period' that had gotten so bad that i just never stopped bleeding all month.) Ends up we finally found that I have p.c.o.s. and with some blood work and ultrasounds got me on the right type of birth control to balance things out so that i dont bleed when not on my period anymore. Still have cysts on my ovaries that we keep an eye on, but I don't have to live in period pads or tampons anymore so I'm happy. Yet that wasnt why i have iron related animea..... so still trying to figure that one out.
As an EMT reading this, my reactions went from "not entirely unusual, but we can check you out" "OK yeah you should def go get checked out" "I will sit here and argue with you that you need to go if you try to refuse" "yup you're getting a lights and sirens trip to the ER..."
I was Katie but I was laughing and smiling as much as I could with my double middle ear infection and my inability to hear anybody 😂 "HI IM SORRY, I CANT HEAR"
Just in case anyone is curious, the pain scale used in most hospitals is called a Mankoski Pain Scale (they combined it with the “Smiley Face chart”) and a 10 is pain so bad you’re nearly passing out. Nine is crying uncontrollably and moaning. I give this explanation because so many people make the ridiculous claim that their pain is a 10 or even crazier, an 11, 15, even 100. There’s no pain scale rating above a 10 because a 10 is passing out. It’s like when you lose a limb or have third degree burns over the majority of your body.
I HAVE had migraine episodes that ranked a 9 on the scale. My husband had to drive me to the ER, and I was literally in tears and unable to really describe anything aside from the fact that my head pain was extremely bad.
people need to know that description hospital professionals go by. Why not post it. That 10 means passed out from pain. patients need to know that in order to respond correctly.
The first one (as someone who has a shit dad) all children want the doctor to say to the parent "Is your name ___" always. So if ur a doctor just please say it- it makes the kid feel more comfortable. (From experience but not everyone's the same)
I've never found the pain scale to be super helpful because I can imagine a lot of really terrible things that would hurt way worse than anything I've ever experienced, like falling into a vat of acid, being eaten alive by rats, being slowly crushed by a road roller, having my limbs ripped off when being drawn and quartered, etc. I would never be able to say 10 no matter how excruciating the pain because I can only assume all those other things would be far worse.
Also PSA for people with chronic pain: if you have worse pain than usual, rate your pain about 2-3 points higher than you actually feel it to be because that'll be more equivalent to what other people would consider it. Dealing with constant chronic pain skews your perception of what's normal and you may not be taken seriously if you rate it at a 6 when others would probably say 9.
All these ER videos still remind me of the time I went to the dentist for some treatment when I was like 12. the dentist had to ask me some questions in private, and he asked me how bad my toothache hurts on a scale of 1-10. I asked, “wait are we going left or right?”
his response was “Uhh. choose whatever.”
being the degenerate I was, I replied with 1. he asked me, “so it doesn’t hurt?”
I can write a whole novel but long story short, I said “it does hurt.”
he said “okay, so are you able to go any higher than that?”
I said “you told me to choose which direction I can go in”
He looked so done after that debate was finished.
Both of my parents are in the medical community (I want to be a nurse) when I injure myself they ask me to rate my pain 10 is a shark biting your arm off and 1 is I can rub some dirt on it and be fine!
I describe 10/10 as being hit by a bus
Never had to rate my pain... if i wasnt "dead, dying, or bleeding out" i wasnt given immediate medical attention.... as a kid i spent 2 days with a broken arm before going to the ER, my arm has a permanent dip in it XD
Wouldn't 10 be 'blacking out from pain' level?
@@v.crowley You just gave me a flashback. Lil' Bro liked to scream and yell when playing. Mom was on bed rest and in horrendous chronic pain. It physically hurt her and took all of her energy reserves to come down the hallway to ensure that her children were safe.
Her rule became, " if the man that escaped the mental asylum came into the yard, cut your arm off at the shoulder with a machete, and then proceeded to use the severed limb to beat to you upon the head... then, and only then, you are allowed to scream."
She got her point across. He stopped screaming. If he ever got excited and forgot; he'd immediately yell, "Sorry Mommy, I'm okay." 🤣
You should include patients that come in to be checked for STDs, want to get a pregnancy test (both can be done for free at the health dept). Then get upset when they have wait and complain about the patient with SOA or chest pain that gets to go ahead of them.
So true! I just had surgery for thyroid cancer today and it sucked and I’ve been depressed. But I’ve still found moments of joy and fun at the same time. Including watching/listening to you gals! ❤️
1:15 My grandmother finally went to the ER when her pain was so bad she could not breathe or move. My mom actually insisted that she go as she had been having bad pains for many weeks and it wasn't getting any better. It turned out she had a cancer that had gone from her adrenal glands, up her spine, was pressing into her lungs, and was just hitting her brain. Her pain was a 10. She took some treatments, but passed away about three or four months later.😢 Rest in peace, Gram, you were the best grandmother a child could have.🙏
Vietnamese coffee and 2 Red Bulls, surprised his heart didn't just explode.
The pain scale patients are difficult for me to slam cuz in nursing school we’re supposed to take the patient at their word: their pain rating is what they say it is. And I get that. Some people have chronic pain that’s actually always severe but they’ve just gotten used to it, so they don’t look like they’re in a lot of pain even though they actually are. But I won’t lie: I am going to have some questions if I see someone presenting with stomach pain and they’re scarfing down Cheetos at the same time (though tbh if the Cheetos are actually helping then something else is definitely up).
Flaming Hot Cheetos at that! The way he was scarfing them down was insane.
Pleeeeeease don't forget that! Please don't treat people like me as drug seeking because we're not in hysterics. I had a severe hemorrhage while having a miscarriage and made jokes as I was regaining consciousness to help the ER staff be less stressed.
I got treated as a drug seeker with a kidney stone because according to the doctor it couldn't be one because "I wasn't curled up in pain and being hysterical." I told him I was curled up at home. He only did the CT scan because he thought I'd say no to the expense. Turns out I was right, kidney stone!
It sucks to present atypically and get dismissed and ignored. Mine was from abuse where showing pain made the abuse worse. Fast forwards years later, now I also have chronic pain on a daily basis (small fiber neuropathy, fibromyalgia etc) that is about equal to labor contractions (mom of 6) just spread out over my entire body and non stop. I rate it a 4 or 5 because it does get worse. Much worse. I'd rather give birth on a daily basis because contractions as least ebb and flow and doctors will offer treatment for the pain.
You just described my daily life with hEDS, cervical instability, cervicogenic migraines, and lumbar arachnoiditis. Childbirth is an 8; daily pain is always at least a 4. When horrible occipital nerve pain drove me to go the ER begging for an occipital nerve block, I told them it was a 7, 7.5. The local hospital didn't help at all, not even a Tylenol! I signed myself out AMA, went home, didn't sleep, waited until after my son's birthday dinner the next evening, and went to a large hospital in Nashville. They actually listened and did the nerve block, but nobody listened to me (or charted, in 3 ER trips) that my tongue/lower lip felt numb, like I had anesthesia, but I didn't. By the time I drove the 90 minutes home, the occipital neuralgia was back. The next morning half my face went paralyzed, so I drove back to Nashville. It was Ramsay Hunt Syndrome.
RHS is definitely up there on the pain scale. Not only that, but you can't get any rest because pain keeps walking you up. I don't think I slept more than a couple hours a night for 5 days until they got me on steroids and antiretrovirals.
Spicy foods weirdly help the stabby burny stomach pain I get from the endocrine pancreatic insufficiency pile of bullshit I have. There's this place down the street from my house that makes this chili Verde that will basically melt your face off. If the pain is bad enough I go there, get some tacos and things get better.
Spicy cheetohs are kinda crap though.
@@caitlinhs9670 Well, at least it helps. Though I can imagine you probably replace one pain for another after the spicy food.
0:42 Omg that moment was so satisfying 🤍💫🤍
The last one was kind of wholesome
The "oooohhhhhhh" sent me 🤣🤣🤣
Thanks Steve, now I'm craving Cheetos
I love your "dont say it"! I worked in the ER for many years and it is amazing what patients and/or family will say!
What was wrong with the first situation?
For those of you like me who struggle to assign numbers to abstract concepts: i think of it in terms of how often your pain interferes with your day-to-day life, and assign that value a percentage instead. so if 0% of your tasks are impeded by your pain you rate it a 0, but if 60% of your life is messed up by your pain rate it a 6.
For me that means any pain that prevents me from sleeping gets an automatic minimum of a 4/10, because I count the secondary effect of being sleep deprived as part of the score.
"My pain is so bad, I can't work, take care of myself, or even get out of bed because of my pain" is a much more grounded description for 10/10 than "the worst pain you've ever felt"
No matter how much pain I'm in I never say higher than like a 6 cause I'm always like "I'm sure there's something worse" 😭😭😭
I went into an ER when I was about 22 complaining of stomach pains. They asked me what my pain was 1-10 and I said 10. Super long story short, they didn't take me seriously and had me wait 4 hours to see a doctor. Turned out my stomach perforated, and I almost died from the 4 hours that I waited to see a doctor.
the katy meme is actually the story of my life whenever I go into hospitals, like my mom wouldn't even let me talk at all, it always had to be her.
Eating crunchy foods can be a sign that someone is actually in pain. It releases cortisol and dampens pain sensitivity. That doesn't take away that the foods may be causing the symptom of stomach pain, rather it explains why someone who is in pain would calmly eat a crunchy snack.
The Katie part. I always think kidnapper when the 'parent' will not let the kid speak.
I work in food service and stuff. They teached me that one of the signs of a kidnapper is never letting the person talk or be alone Or when the kid constantly looks for permission to do literally anything as far as grabbing an item or saying thank you.
If I'm wrong then sorry but that was my training.
I went to the ER once for stomach pain and the doctor asked if it was possible I was pregnant. I told him no since my husband (who was with me) has a vasectomy. They took me to another room and when the results were ready the doctor said "look, you are going to have to level with your husband that you cheated on him. I know it's painful, but he's going to find out eventually". The nurse handed him my results - I wasn't pregnant. Using the most common issues is just plain lazy and assuming your patients are lying is kind of shitty.
As a woman I would advise other women of any age range (even teens) to not go to the ER - they treat women like shit. Take a pregnancy test and then find a good OGBYN.
I think its because a lot of women, especially teenagers, do tend to lie to doctors about being potentially pregnant, but yea, its definitely super shitty to just assume that the girl is pregnant and use some super cheap manipulation trick to try and get them to say it.
Doctors shouldnt try to trick patients. If they dont believe them, then run a test. Using manipulative tactics is just way too far.
Agreed.
I’d say go to the ER if it’s an emergency either way, if they treat you horribly because you’re a woman in an emergency they aren’t doing their job right. It’s the *emergency* room so if you’re in a doctor just brushes you off like that it’s specifically that doctor’s fault. Yet, I live in a different city (Gillette, Wyo) and I’ll say that at least here I’ve heard no bad stories from the ER about nurses or doctors.
Depends on your city and hospital for how they’ll treat you I guess
Now, you’re in no means in the wrong to not go back with that doctor working there, please don’t if they didn’t believe you and thought you were cheating before even getting the lab results back.
Not all ER's are like this. Its more the individual than the department. Please don't tell people to not go to the ER due to 1 shifty person. Thats bad advice. I've had bad experiences with dentists. I never tell people to not go.
We have to ask the obvious questions. What happens if we did a full work up and you were only pregnant?
When I had glandular fever my throat was so swelled up that my tonsils were almost touching each other. The whole back of my throat was white. I couldn't eat or drink anything and if I did manage to swallow a few bites I would vomit it straight back up. My GP prescribed oxycodone hoping that it would ease the pain enough to eat and drink. It didn't do anything for the pain. So I went into e.d. they took my temperature and admitted me to hospital straight away. I was so dehydrated they had to give me i.v. fluids. I got put in isolation and had student doctors coming into my room in protective gear asking to see my throat. When I got admitted to the ward the nurses were negligent and extremely rude. The day before I was discharged they ignored my bell and "forgot" to give me my pain meds and I was in absolute agony.
The e.d staff were so much nicer and understanding even though they were as stretched as thinly as you can imagine. The ward I was admitted to was probably at about 50% capacity at the time and the room I was in I had to myself even though there were 3 other beds. It was then I realized that if nurses pick an issue with you they will treat you like shit for your entire stay. I had to go to the nurses station when they ignored my bell and they were all standing around laughing. I get that they are entitled to breaks of course! But all at the same time? That's ridiculous. I was so happy to be discharged. I've never had that experience any of the other times I've been admitted to hospital (there's been a few times over the years)
The delivery on 9.5 was fabulous
"Can I get a room next to my friend?" "Get out".
My best friend's gf once had me take her to the ER over having a cold (this was before Covid). She had the sniffles a little bit and thought she was dying. I could see the nurses rolling their eyes behind her back.
I had pneumonia once, and I tried to tough it out for 3 days over the weekend. Finally was so woozy I could barely walk to the bathroom. Asked a friend to drop me off on the way to work.
Got to the ER, and I have a bad heart, so they got my vitals done first....oxygen was 65%, and they all freaked out LOL
Spent a week in the hospital with nebulizer meds. I had so much mucus, it collapsed part of my lung.
@@vividdawn913 Yikes! That sounds awful! I'm glad you made it through & that the hospital staff took you seriously & treated you. Last time I went to the ER was for a back injury. As soon as they saw I had no insurance they decided not to even examine me. Didn't take my bp, didn't listen to my heart (and I have a heart condition), wouldn't even touch me. Just left me sitting in the waiting room for 4+ hours. I complained of chest pain and they pretty much kicked me out. Then they charged me $1k just for sitting in a waiting room.
GOLDEN! Pure GOLD!!!
Enjoy these multiple skits, vs 1 30 second ones. I know they just mean more work for you, but I just wanted to put a vote in for more of this style!
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Man if any of my homies were in a situation like that I’d wanna see them. I’ve grown up with them and they’re deadass my brothers.
I was in the ER 2 nights ago...not once was I asked about pain... the staff were AMAZING, kind and patient. because I had a brain tumour removed, no one could give me pain meds until it was determined that I had no serious brain injury. I found out I have a broken clavicle, very near the edge of the bone.
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I actually felt sorry for the doctors and nurses I saw in my local ER last week because my stupid self had tried her best to cut off the top of her right thumb. After pokes, prods and an X-ray later all was deemed fairly minor, no stitches required. Nurse came in to clean up the wound and I promptly passed out after being instructed to put my slightly mangled thumb into a bath to clean the wound! I am not a good patient
Well, look at it this way. Now you know. You can warn people next time, if you ever injure yourself again. I have a friend that was tough as nails, and can handle anything... but she had it on her chart that she had to be reclined completely flat before any needles are visible. She faints out cold.
I remember back in 2018 I went to the hospital for excruciating abdominal pains that I had for days and it wasn't getting better. I have many preexisting issues, but was about an hour away from the hospital I normally would have went to. Anyway, I was on my own and drove myself to the ER, almost drove into the intersection because of the agonizing pains. I get there and I almost missed when they called because half the time I was tethered to the restroom. I went back, the nurse seemed nice enough, but then the Doctor came in and I explained the situation and he looked me up and down and laughed and said I get you some bentyl for IBS cramps and you shoukd be good. I'll still run other tests but I doubt it will show anything noteworthy. Also to nite I was put on one of those chairs to wait instead of a bed. I was rolling in the chair in agony and I remember him walking back up to me with his head down and not making eye contact. I said no words. I found out I had a severe infection, and toxic megacolon. He couldn't look me in the eye anymore, and said he'd put the paperwork to be admitted right away and for pain meds. Finally. I knew better before than to say something contrary to the doctor, so I simply let him see the results speak for itself.
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my man's liver is crying 💀
Just a reminder that chronic pain patients who just constantly exist at an 8+ on the pain scale, and are experts at masking and living through that pain out of survival necessity, do not present as expected when that pain becomes a 10 or goes off the chart. It would be great if Drs would trust that if a chronic pain patient deems their pain at a level to make a trip to the ER, it's pretty freaking bad. There is nothing worse than feeling like your insides are on fire or your leg is being stabbed by a million knives or your brain is trying to escape your skull and having a medical professional look at you like you're lying. If I'm at the hospital, it's bad.
I'm a hospitalist, and very much yes.
I had a patient tell me their pain was a 12, and I said that's just evidence of the failing of the public education system. That patient wasn't happy, but it got my point across
That pause then Huh after the coffee and red bull reply deserves 50 gold stars ✨✨🤣
I’m EMS and every time we try to get info from the patient for the hospital, we have at least one bystander trying to tell us how the person is feeling while the patient is fully able and trying to tell us their symptoms. More than once I’ve had to redirect a bystander away
God, I love pain scales. There's an insurance lawyer I've worked for who clarifies her pain scale with far-too-graphic examples: "so being lit on fire alive, that would be a 10." Also women who have had children operate on an obviously different pain scale from the rest of us. I've never heard a woman with kids describe any other pain as being above a 6.
I sort of understand the cheeto guy. Not all stomach pain is due to a medical issue. Hunger pangs happen when your metabolism increases, stress, change in diet or exercise. It isn't fun and does need to be monitored to make sure its not ulcers. When I had stomach pain, I do several observations. Am I dizzy, where is the pain, how long it is happening, am I nauseous? Found out when I ate more protein and fiber, the pangs were under control. I also noticed I wasn't eating as much, only ate when I was hungry which is a huge change for me. Thus I was more hungry. But coming to the ER, while eating flaming hot cheetos.... maybe switch to the regular kind😅
I hate the pain scale question, almost every single time I answer I get looked at like I'm a buffoon 😭
The Vietnamese coffee and red bull 😂❤
The neck pain 😂 I work in a chiropractic clinic and this is literally every day. People with “level F” OATS running in from the rain 👁👄👁
I was in an ER waiting room for 11 hours last week. The whole time I was there they only called people for triage and x rays. A whole crew of us were in that waiting room overnight. I was the only person actively bleeding, but I have no idea what anyone else was there for. 8am rolled around and they suddenly called back 4 people starting with me. The doctor who gave me the stitches was appalled that I had been out there that long. Did they somehow not have a doctor working overnight??
That's awful, but sounds about right.
I've always thought bleeders had priority.
Possibly...
I am a retired nurse and worked in ER. These short videos are. absolutely hilarious and true!! Thanks for sharing your “comedy” based on real events.
Farmer pain scale: I'm here ain't I?!