Doctors, What Is the Worst Self-Medication You've Seen? | Professionals' Stories #43

doctors over at it how often do you see patients after they have tried to self-medicate what's the worst mistake you've seen i was working in a clinic when a man a man came in with his blind wife she is diabetic and during my questioning i found out she had had a few episodes of low blood sugar in the past few months and i mean low as an unable to ingest food to raise her blood sugar the husband told me he had to inject his wife to bring her around usually in these cases you would inject glucagon which is basically the opposite of insulin it raises blood sugar he proceeds to tell me that the glucagon is too expensive so he has been dissolving sugar in water drawing it up and injecting it into her thigh i tried to hide my shock but it must have been obvious he just looked at me and said well it worked didn't it i tried telling him all of the reasons he should use glucagon and not sugar water but he wouldn't have it i even told him that the pain of the injection is probably what woke his wife up not any increase in blood sugar he said the glucagon was too expensive i called around to a bunch of pharmacies and found it for twenty dollars for two injections but he still refused to buy it we ended up calling adult protective services tl dr husband injected his blind diabetic wife with sugar water to revive her from low blood sugar episodes good job i am very glad you called adult protective services lady in her mid-60s comes in with a terrible burn on her hairline and scalp i asked what happened and she said she was coloring her hair with the leftover dye from a month or so ago needless to say she had a third degree chemical burn all over her scalp okay that's problem one we ask her if she has any allergies because we want to give prophylactic antibiotics she says no we ask about her daily meds she rattles off a bunch including 1000 milligrams of amoxicillin augmentum we ask how long she's been taking the augmentin she replies two years every day for two years she's been taking massive doses of antibiotics her reasoning to keep myself from getting sick we went hunting for side effects found oral and vaginal thrush massive yeast infection in her colon malnutrition stomach ulcers and multiple open sores on her feet and knees plus she got a super infection on the burn site a few days later no fun tl dr don't take antibiotics if you don't need them seriously not a doctor but when i was about 16 i started having these little red irritated spots show up on my arm my mom was immediately like you have psoriasis is all just go tanning so i tan for about a week and they just got worse now i had them all over my body i had spots on my eyelids even so i go to the doctor finally turns out i had ringworm and by tanning i was basically rubbing them all over with the lotions and incubating while i tanned thanks mom i posted in a thread above this about how i got ringworm from a tanning bed i to you as you pathologist i've seen a few cases of patients who basically wreck their livers through use of some sort of herbal remedy like for weight loss or something similar be careful with unregulated dietary supplements is what i'm saying we got given the case in a lecture of a man who had a rash on his foot googled it and decided it was eczema or some similar inflammatory disease so ordered and applied a steroid cream for those who don't know these kind of steroids act by dampening the immune system the overactivity of which is the cause of diseases like eczema and psoriasis however he in fact had a fungal infection and had was just reducing his body's ability to fight it off if i remember correctly by the time he got to the doctors he needed it amputated tl dr go to the doctor i have a weird rash that i can diagnose on google this just convinced me to schedule a doctor's appointment pharmacist here patient came in and wanted to self-medicate his cat's pinky he wanted to know what the vet would prescribe and if it was available somehow over the counter after a little and trying discussion he is insistent on putting generic neosporin in his cat's eye i repeatedly instructed him that it wasn't safe due to sterility reasons and that it could harm the cat worsen the cat's condition or cause some other problem for the animal his reply to me well i'll try it in my own eye first and see and just like that as mysteriously as he arrived he was gone a doctor first one that comes to mind although probably not the worst was a woman who came in with worsening back pain she had fallen the previous day and filled a gallon size bag with ice and placed it on her back she fell asleep with it on her back and a few hours later she noticed that her back hurt even worse so she took another bag of ice and put it on and once again fell asleep when i examined her she had two large areas of burns with blisters on her upper back each about six inches in diameter when i took a picture and showed it to her no i will not post the picture her eyes welled up with tears she couldn't believe that ice had given her a second degree burn less than 15 20 minutes at a time every two three hours maximum for heat or ice packs tl dr patient left ice on her back too long got a nasty burn i work in a dental office most common thing we see is people placing an aspirin on their gums next to an aching tooth all that does is severely burn the gums and makes the pain worse i've also met a few people over the years who have taken their own teeth out with a pair of pliers one guy we saw had a problem tooth went to pull it out pulled the wrong one then tried again and pulled the problem one he shattered the alveolar bone in that area and had to be sent to an oral surgeon immediately resident physician here i've had numerous patients who've rejected medical treatment for a small localized and easily treatable cancer in favor of naturopathic homeopathic remedies inevitably they ray present years later with diffusely metastatic cancer in their brains liver bones it's everywhere by that point the conversation shifts from how i can cure them to how i can make them comfortable before they die for example woman has progesterone receptor positive breast cancer this means that the hormone progesterone will make her cancer grow faster she goes to her naturopath who prescribes her tubs of progesterone cream for years which most certainly made her cancer worse but it's okay she tells me it was years of natural progesterone nurse here at a get-together with friends where the wine drinking got out of hand i had a friend burn himself on the oven while making pizza then try to cauterize that wound with his lighter i'm an emt one of my first calls was an 80 plus year old man living in an assisted living facility that he had bought at least 150 bottles of some naturally lose weight quick pills that he saw late night on tv he had been taking an excess amount of them for at least a day straight we got there and his mental status was clearly altered didn't know where he was etc i wish i still had the picture of the stacks of cartoons he had in his small room i still wonder how he got them inside of the facility med student here literally all the time i've seen super overdosing otc meds guy with bloody stool and abdominal pain who we found out used for goody powder packets a day for over five years patient who had someone try to nail file his hemorrhoids not sure how he thought that would help massive infections from people literally stapling a wound shut with an office stapler i had a patient who came in saying that she had a sore throat so she took her cat's expired antibiotics and wanted to know why she wasn't getting better well done they'd expired geez talk about stupid physician here the one that stands out from among the rest of the field life-threatening problems with otc acetaminophen ibuprofen naproxen happen all the day long happened many years ago while i was a medical student i was serving my rural medicine rotation at a primary care practice in the styx a man came in for an urgent appointment for a rash i went to see him first to get working on the history in the exam room i met a very nice young fit man sitting bolt upright on the exam table looking very uncomfortable during the history it was revealed that he was a telephone line repairman and was working in late summer out on the telephone lines around the county climbing them to reach the wires he had been exposed to poison ivy this way over both arms and much of his torso which had happened before however this time the rash was worsening with time i asked him to remove his dark colored shirt and after he did i almost fainted he had open wounds all over his arms and chest all of the blisters from the poison ivy had unproofed and the tissue underneath was destroyed everything was bright red bleeding and weeping it looked intensely painful i'm having a hard time describing it it was the worst skin findings i'd ever seen i thought for sure this was stevens johnson syndrome or 10 so i started asking about medication use he told me he takes no medications at home but that his grandmother gave him a gallon of solution to put on the rash which he had been using regularly since the poison ivy began he didn't know what was in it we called grandma what was in it was bleach he got to go for a fun trip to the burn center poor guy tl dr man treated really bad poison ivy with bleach lots of skin was lost heard the story but didn't see the patient a woman in her 60s presented to their with episodes of passing out during sex she underwent a full workup cardiac neurological when she was admitted and no cause was found so she was discharged she returned again with the same complaint a few days later and divulged that this had actually happened during sex both times upon further questioning it turns out that her husband had been using topical nitroglycerine paste on his penis for erectile dysfunction when they had sex the medicine was absorbed into her bloodstream causing her blood pressure to drop precipitously her husband was advised to discontinue this practice tl dr stick to vitagra people with tooth pains trying some miracle remedy and when the pain stops they think they are healed what they don't know is that it means their nerves have been infected in fact so serious that the nerves died and rotting below the gums only until the pain starts again and their so-called remedy doesn't work do they go to the dentist by then there is no choice to but to remove the teeth and probably some additional surgery too btw dentists poke sharp objects at your gums for a reason it's to check for periodontal disease most dentists also don't fool with making payment arrangements this means people with no money get no dental care given the risk that i've heard comes with untreated abscess i find it really concerning that dental insurance is not mandated by the akka i did an mri on a patient who had treated her breast cancer with sodium bicarbonate the patient presented to them with numbs hands and neck pain the mri showed extensive bony metastases and a pathological fracture of c2 basically the cancer had spread all through her body and have weakened her bones to the point that they were disintegrating putting her a risk of damaging her spinal cord or worse it's more just sad that people want to believe that these simple remedies can treat complex isus are supposed to modern medicine i'm a medical student i have two that stand out first we had a guy come into the free clinic complaining of knee pain he is a larger guy an ex-football player who developed a bit of a gut after he stopped playing he said that he has some old injuries torn meniscus chronic arthritis etc he used to go to his doctor in another state who would drain the knee and give him a steroid injection every so often when he lost his job he lost his insurance too hence being seen at the free clinic before he decided to come to us though he decided it was a good idea to take a needle and try to drain his knee himself four times on physical exam the knee is massively swollen tender bright red classic signs of a septic joint we weren't equipped to treat it in the free clinic so we strongly encouraged him to go to the air he didn't want to go because of his insurance situation we tried to explain the gravity of the situation to him but he refused to listen without prompt treatment he could end up losing his leg we offered to call him an ambulance to take him to the air but he refused and left the clinic never did find out what happened to him second this one i heard second hand from a classmate we had a firefighter coming with some burns on his leg i believe they were incurred from a drunken cooking accident rather than any on the job heroics but i could be mistaken anyway the burns were serious but he was expected to make a full recovery quickly enough he was discharged and instructed to eat a lot of protein to help him recover he interpreted this as get as much protein into your body as possible by any means necessary he goes home takes some protein powder and mixes it up with water and sets it up in an iv needless to say he developed a pretty serious bloodstream infection it prevented his burn from healing correctly and he ended up needing a partial amputation of his foot he eventually recovered but it took way longer and there were so many unnecessary complications i'm a pediatric nurse parents brought their child in with weakness through the general admission questions we discovered that they were into natural treatments when their infant child developed tummy problems they decided to give her a bottle of honey water to help with that the baby was diagnosed with botulism it says right on the honey bottle not to let kids under like to eat it we had a patient come in who was using duct tape to treat various skin ailments not the end of the world if you have a wart and just use a small piece of it only on the wart this woman was using giant strips of duct tape that she'd leave on for months at a time on her face her arm and foot when the duct tape was removed huge square portions of her skin came off with it she has a long rectangular scar on her face now from it not self-medicating but something even worse ignorance denial woman came in with a tennis ball-sized tumor extending out of her left breast when asked why she didn't come in earlier she said she thought it was normal worst mistakes i've seen our patients coming in for treatment when it is too late and the disease is way too advanced my mother-in-law rest her soul had finished menopause previously and was bleeding vaginally for two years before telling anyone kids doctors she fought for six years but cervical cancer took her life when she was first diagnosed it was at stage four already please people don't be freaking stupid if there's something wrong get some help as a veterinarian the holy trifecta are giving aspirin to cats giving ibuprofen to dogs giving eastern to dogs usually done by md's or nurses all three of these run a good chance of killing the animal not a doctor but i was observing in the ear for this during my senior year in high school i did a program called new visions that allowed seniors to skip half their day at school and instead spent it job shadowing doctors surgeons nurses physical therapists etc i scrub did surgery saw a bunch of births vaginal and c-section assisted during codes and was eventually certified as an emtb through the same program it was awesome man comes into the air after trimming trees on his farm and a very large branch had landed on his head he had split his skull and instead of going to the air he had his wife clean his scalp with vodka and staple his scalp shut with a staple gun and thick sewing thread that they used on horses according to him anyways it was severely infected and nearly gangrenous several of the staples had created micro fractures on the skull too apparently the adopts face when the man nonchalantly described how he just got drunk and had his wife use the staple gun on his skull was hilarious guy had to go into surgery and it took about six hours and several skin grafts to repair the damage that sounds like an awesome program you were really lucky only semi-related did the gym teacher at my junior high had a student who broke his arm during class and the teacher's response was to insist that it was only a sprain and that the student should do jumping jacks to help it feel better his classmates had to call him an ambulance my uncle is a doctor and a few years ago when i was trying to figure out if i wanted to go into medicine or not he let me shadow him in his office for a day well this one girl came in to see him she was absolutely beautiful mid-twenties perfect makeup hair everything she was in to see my uncle because her toe was an unbearable pain and she could barely stand to walk anymore well my uncle has her take her shoe off and i almost threw up he had to take a second and turn away to collect himself her toe was like three times its size and the outside looked slimy and like the skin was about to drop off after a few seconds of stunned silence my uncle asked what happened to it she said she was walking one day and she cut her toe pretty bad on some glass while she was at her apartment she called her grandmother and asked if there was anything she should do to stop the bleeding and heal the infection she said her grandmother was a shaman and apparently she went to her for all medical advice well guess what the grandma told her to put on it mayonnaise yep she didn't even clean it or anything just plopped some mayonnaise right on it we asked her how long she had been doing it for two weeks constantly the smell was absolutely terrible and when my uncle even slightly poked it with something she would almost scream in pain he immediately told her to go to the hospital and told her that one of his buddies would be waiting there for her so later than day my uncle's friend calls back and said that they had to do surgery on her toe and that there were two or three pieces of glass embedded deep in her toe he said that when the surgeon made an incision the toe basically exploded and pus went everywhere they had to remove all the dead skin and almost had to remove the toe because the infection was so bad but apparently she made a really great recovery so that's good me and my uncle will never forget that though i'm not a doctor but i work at a pre post surgical eye clinic the worst i think i've ever seen was someone wore their contacts for three months straight it was gross remember guys take out your contacts at night and wash them like you were told to do after my mother's friend had her cornea fall off i'm very protective of my eyes i just can't understand how they do that mine get dry and uncomfortable after half a day and sleeping with them and just makes it even worse just take five minutes to change them for god's sake guy came in with a deep laceration to the leg genius decided he would super glue the wound shut it became infected and then gangrene sent in he then waited until his leg was a greenish black before coming in he lost the leg i work as a caregiver i had a patient who tried to holistically cure parkinson's for 10 years when i started caring for him he was a human statue who could only communicate by blinking his crazy hippie mother was behind a lot of it she brought in shaman healing gazers oil enemas you name it after six months of this i dragged his butt to a neurologist to be put on meds today he walks talks plays piano goes to a local college and even puts on concerts when i think of those 10 wasted years i just shake my head to this day the minute someone starts yammering about alternative medicine i shut that crap down i've seen what it does to people i am not a doctor but this is important about 10 years ago my now mother-in-law had what everyone thought was a severe panic attack or mild heart attack they rushed her to the hospital and found out it was her gallbladder she said it was nothing serious and didn't get it removed about three years later same thing happens possible heart attack turns out it's a gallbladder her husband my wife and i were all there in her room when the doctor is recommending taking it out she says no the doctor then tells her no more spicy food junk food or fast food after he leaves she starts going off about how doctors just want to cut people open to make money and i swear she says i just need lemon juice that will fix it fast forward another three years later of not listening to a doctor and taking lemon juice my wife gets a call around midnight from her dad who is mumbling incoherently after about 30 minutes he explained to my wife that my mother-in-law had woke up screaming painfully and he had rushed her to the ear and was scared she was going to die the hospital had told him that she was going into emergency surgery about four hours later we found out that they had removed her gallbladder and that it had actually ruptured she is still alive and still tries to give my wife and i medical advice don't you just love that part with the being incredibly wrong and yet still they have to know better than everyone it is amazing how many people truly believe dr's are all buttholes md here patient a few weeks back came in very very yellow jaundiced and had hundreds of marks over his entire body from scratching severe pruritus his liver function tests were through the roof total bilirubin 28 we did the full workup labs ultrasound mri even liver barsi nothing obvious turns out the guy was taking supplements by the handful from gnc he had acute vitamin a poisoning great case gynecologist friend in lebanon told me about women trying to abort by themselves due to abortions being illegal so you have the patience coming into a with him aha just due to knitting needle insertion and that is a classic but a very frequent case is massive septicemia due to the insertion of a raw piece of meat or sometimes a dead bird the crazy part is that those cases happen quite frequently if you are new to the channel you can subscribe i publish new videos every day until then check another video [Music] bye for now

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Length: 23min 59sec (1439 seconds)

Published: Tue Mar 30 2021