When Were You Surprised With A Patients Self-Diagnosis? (Doctor Stories r/AskReddit)

medical professionals of Reddit when was someone's self diagnosis surprisingly accurate saw someone or she had a runny nose and was insistent that a cerebral spinal fluid the fluid that surrounds your brain was leaking through her nose and causing her to have a runny nose this is usually pretty unlikely especially without a history of trauma order a CT of her head but doesn't show anything and she otherwise looks fine so she sent home she comes back the next day with a jar or this fluid she had collected saying this isn't snot ran some more tests and turned out she was right I'm glad she was persistent poor woman's husband drags her to her repeatedly for weeks on end with a bizarre variety of neurological symptoms she'd seen a neurologist and was told it was all functional MRI showed a rapidly growing brain tumor she was having seizures her husband was 100 percent right just the other week at a 60 year old guy reeking of cigarettes come in for upper endoscopy camera to look at the esophagus stomach and part of the small bowel he was describing food getting stuck mid swallow in the middle of his chest I think its esophagus cancer he said I was thinking that too but didn't say anything sure enough that's exactly what it was obligatory not a medical professional but I have a funny story about self diagnosis from when I was in a motorcycle accident it was a head-on collision and I had gone over the hood and windshield of the car that hit me and skidded through an intersection was wearing a helmet boots leather jacket I absolutely had a massive concussion but wasn't aware of it at the time I was not in pain I felt disoriented and insanely thirsty but no pain I sat up and took off my helmet and there was a crowd of bystanders trying to get me to lay down but I just wanted to go home but the thing is no matter how many times I tried I could not actually stand when the EMTs arrived I was sitting upright on the ground and I helpfully inform them that I thought my leg might be broken because I had tried to stand and found it was not weight-bearing one of the EMTs scoffed and said something like you think or no crap I very sincerely insisted my leg might be broken at which point he got serious and asked me if I had actually looked at my leg or not I hadn't thought to do that bear in mind I had one heck of a concussion I looked down and there was my bone sticking out from my skin and through the denim of my jeans there was blood everywhere oh I said yes your leg is definitely broken said the EMT gently well I said reasonably I mean how do we know yet I mean we should probably get an x-ray shock is a hell of a drug when trauma patients say am I going to die right before they lapse into unconsciousness or get tubed for surgery they are usually right and they know it hidradenitis suppurativa recurrent severe skin abscesses she came in saying that she was worried she had it because she's had some abscesses in her armpit nine times out of ten it's because of shaving with a dirty razor which is what I told her I'll be damned if she was right ended up having five-plus abscesses that formed tracts requiring surgery they recurred a few months later sent to dermatology who confirmed the diagnosis worked in the ER when a lady ran in screaming that her husband was dead in the car staff walked out to see I asked if they should hurry and they said no because people exaggerate those things turns out dude was dead based on the smell and bloating have been for three or four days she was a junkie and was living in the car for days before she noticed he had odd I mean technically they still didn't have to hurry when I worked as a camp counselor I woke up one morning with severe joint pain I'd slept on the ground the night before so I chalked it up to that when it didn't go away after a couple days I went to the camp nurse who diagnosed me with dehydration after downing a 12-pack of Powerade I'm still surprised I didn't pee blue I still had the joint pain a bunch of the other counselors were convinced that it was stress or that the fluid in my joints had dried up but then I went and did the one thing you should never do I logged on to WebMD and searched my symptoms and right after canceled was Lyme disease it made a lot of sense but I'd never had any rash or notice any take on me so I went back to the camp nurse and she had me leave camp to get a blood test and I ended up going into the because there wasn't a clinic available but a nurse gave me a shot in the ass for the pain drew my blood and an antibiotic on an empty stomach just in case turns out I was allergic to the antibiotics so I got hives and I threw it up I received a call the next day that yes I did have Lyme disease dried-up joints my ass I don't remember a single person who claimed they had a kidney stone who was wrong the only person I ever had who didn't have a kidney stone unfortunately had a ruptured ectopic pregnancy i diagnosed myself with an adrenal tumor my primary care doc kept telling me my symptoms were caused by lifestyle choices I went to my jinn who took me seriously when I showed him my research it was a cancerous bioactive adrenal tumor the size of a grapefruit that was over two years ago and I'm still fighting this cancer I developed either recurrence or Mets a few months after my initial surgery and I've been dealing with liver and lung Mets ever since I won the argument with my primary care doctor but my prize was cancer sad trombone not nearly as dramatic it apparently scabies literal heck on earth is hard da da nose I noticed the symptoms pretty quickly and thought my childhood eczema had come back to haunt me when treatment for that only seemed to make it worse I figured out that it had to be scabies all the normal problem areas it's yet night etc the problem was I couldn't get the lotion to treat it without a doctor signing off I went to the doctor and she immediately starts diagnosing me with everything besides scabies while I'm telling her multiple times that it's most definitely scabies I went three four times and the last time I left when she refused to allow me to get the treatment cream and wanted to say I had allergies instead I told her I was not putting up with this torture while she keeps taking my money and miss diagnosing me and she goes well I'm sorry you aren't getting scabies treatment without a doctor's note and I really don't think you have scabies apparently she never heard of Amazon I went home ordered permethrin 10% off Amazon mixed it with a thick lotion and crap cleared right up I was so tempted to call her and let her know but she probably would have said one of her earlier attempts at treatment finally worked not a doctor but a patient had pancreatitis a few years ago around 2014 always had stomach problems but no idea why until that day two years later in 2016 I had the same terrible pain tried to wait it out for five or so days but broke down and went to the air I said I think I have pancreatitis was treated like a drug seeking alcoholic and I stopped drinking in 2014 because of the pancreatitis doctor tried to tell me it was indigestion when I asked why I was in constant pain even when I haven't eaten in three days was when the doctor completely changed her attitude and pretty much told me were not going to help you about three months later my lipase levels were high enough to be considered an attack so I was at MIT Elin was diagnosed with chronic pancreatitis not alcohol related but I still think about that doctor and it makes me so angry I wonder if my life could have been a little better if they took me seriously and found it out sooner 2017 has been rough I'm not medic but one of my co-workers is his best story once a woman came to hospital to prove herself diagnose diabetic blood test proved it doctor asked how did she know it she answered that her urine is too sticky after hurting my knee and having to ice it all the time I found I kept breaking out in hives after the ice I went to the doctor and told him I thought I had cold induced urticaria allergic to cold my parents scoffed at it the doctor had never had a patient with this so it was dismissed after it kept happening to me I got them to send me to an allergist my parents thought I was crazy until the doctor confirmed my diagnosis and handed my parents information on anaphylaxis but at least now I get a handicapped parking pass in the winter and don't have to shovel the walk patient not doc but I was almost as amazing as my PCP when I was rife so I'll share my dad had been diagnosed with afib and an arrhythmia a year prior he was told that most people are not diagnosed until they have a problem my dad took me and my kids to the Science Center where they had an exhibit all about the human body there is a section all about the heart they had several things that would monitor your heart rate including a drum that would beat along with your heart when you touched sensors everyone else had my steady heart beats show up on all other little things that they had but mine kept acting funny and so did my dad's the thing was I didn't have any symptoms and I felt perfectly normal so I didn't think that it would actually mean anything it's basically a toy right I told myself I'd feel dumb if I didn't mention it to my doctor in case there was a link when I suggested that I thought I had arrhythmia because the Science Center gadget didn't pick up my heart rate the same as everybody else my doctor looked at me a little funny but ran the tests sure enough they found it and did a few more tests to establish a baseline for comparison later on in life I went to my doctor because I thought I had appendicitis he agreed and sent me to the hospital they ran tests said I was fine and should go home I refused called my doctor who called them and made them rerun the tests with someone who knew what they were doing they came back to me and had me in surgery within two hours I had a dude come in the other night and tell us he thinks he was shot he absolutely nailed that one but in all seriousness it was GSW to the head and the MRI was gnarly my side of the story but when I was a kid I felt real ill but didn't really have any symptoms I just felt ill my mom just thought I was trying to wag school and the doctors felt the same they started to get really mad at me cause I was so ill for ages and kept crying at school and have to be picked up fast-forward two months or so and my dad was bathing me I was like six and saw these weird spots and bruises on my legs took me to Randy and after another couple weeks the tests came back and I had a rare form of leukemia and was super sick had almost two years off school and my bra had to donate me his bone marrow to survive it was brutal can't remember much they'll apart from the chemo turning my pee blue my stepfather is a doctor and told me two stories one was an older Irish woman who correctly predicted that she had a tumor in her left lung roughly the size of a golf ball she has never smoked or done anything that made her a risk but she insisted her very mild cough was the result of a large tumor and demanded to have it checked out she was dead on and claims she sought person on TV with the same symptoms and when she fell asleep a dead husband in her dream told her to go to the doctor and here she was the second was a guy who said he felt like he was stabbed and thought something went wrong with his surgery when they removed a cyst from his lung he was half right the surgery went fine but he had a thin strip of metal shish-kebab in him through the chest because he apparently plopped onto his bed without removing some junk including a large 6-inch receipt spiked his bandages covered up the new wound in other words it felt like he was stabbed because he was stabbed not a medical professional it's fourth grade me mid-1990s had a terrible shooting pain in my stomach it got to the point where I couldn't walk the doctor told me on the first visit it was probably a stomach virus and gave me some meds I was staying home from school due to the pain and was watching full house and Jesse had to go to the hospital and get his appendix removed I was so freaked out I made my parents take me back to the doctor the next day I was crying and told the doc I think I had appendicitis he did some checks and confirmed it surgery same day after surgery they told me if it waited in other few days it would have burst full house may have saved my life I caught whooping cough Bordetella pertussis and literally begged the doctors to run tests weeks and weeks passed and they just told me it wasn't whooping cough but I was catching back-to-back flu colds bronchitis girlfriend also caught it and we had gain begged them to run tests to which they told us they don't want it because by now they can't treat us anyways so it made no difference I explained that as they told me it was just a cold I'd been going to work for weeks well sick I Hey this two-bit I wanted to keep my job so I went and two colleagues have newborns so it would be good to warn them in case they catch it off me they ran the tests and diagnosis but such a pain in the ass I watched the episode of Grey's Anatomy where there was a patient with severe migraines and Derek Shepherd can't figure out where his pain is coming from Mark Sloan comes in looks at him and shoves a pencil up his nose diagnosing him with a deviated septum for years I had suffered with me grains and headaches and recently stopped breathing fully out of one side of my nose stuck my finger up felt bone went to the doctor a few days later my general doctor didn't believe me I went to an nth and told him what I thought was wrong and by golly I was right severely deviated septum had surgery a few weeks later my wife's OB Jin was out of the country when she started to go into labor her blood pressure had been high but we were monitoring it in the hospital it was through the roof I looked at her chart researched everything online and told the doctor on call that she has a chi ll p he ignored me said it was fine when the delivery was almost done her blood pressure dropped to nothing a nurse shot her up with something because the doctor was busy eating lunch and she recovered but I will never forget holding my wife's hand thinking that this might be the last time I see her alive when her OB Jin got back to town she confirmed the diagnosis I gave independently we live in a small town the doctor avoids me once while I was working as an EMT we ran a call for a guy who had gotten smashed and fell flat on his face on the sidewalk outside his apartment cutting open his phorid at the hospital he was told he would be breathalysed to obtain a back and loudly proclaimed I'm feeling I 8.30 8:00 he promptly blew a point 3:08 and the whole ER team applauded my gran was having chest pains and thought she was either having a heart attack or indigestion from a pastrami sandwich so she went to the doctor while she was there her BP was 210 stroked 90 the doctor said that she was obviously having indigestion and that the pain she was having was gas pockets and prescribed her an antacid and a higher discipline pressure medication than she was already taking she took it in her pressure bottom doubt I took her to the hospital and found out she had been having a heart attack for the past two days she died that night I'm still bitter 18 years later the best worst part is no lawyer would take the case against him because she was old and was going to die sooner anyhow my son came home from Iraq with a weird skin lesion that the army doctors diagnosed as psoriasis I didn't buy it I did some research online and suspected it was leishmaniasis an infection transmitted via sand fleas I took him to a private dermatologist and presented my research the dermatologist sent a barsy to the CDC and got the official diagnosis the army still insisted on labeling it a nonspecific skin irritation they didn't want to pay for the expensive drug regime I hired a lawyer the army gave in and paid for the treatment sure it cost us about the same to push them into it as if we just paid out of pocket but it was worth it to force them to put the proper diagnosis into my son's records I correctly self diagnosed a blood clot in my leg I went to the ER with excruciating pain in my calf and told the doctor that I suspected a blood clot the doctor assured me that I was young and healthy and I wasn't at risk for a blood clot he diagnosed it as a pulled muscle offered me some painkillers and sent me home fast forward two or three weeks I still had excruciating pain in my calf and I started to develop severe shortness of breath but I went to the urgent care clinic this time the doctor at the urgent care clinic immediately suspected a blood clot and sent me to the efficient tests via dr. did an ultrasound on my leg declared that I didn't have a blood clot and sent me home the next morning someone from vea called me and sheepishly admitted that they had misread the tests the night before and I did in fact have a blood clot it turned out that I had had a blood clot in my leg all along and the clot had broken off and traveled to my lungs thankfully I've made a full recovery despite nearly being killed by the incompetence of multiple doctors you have been visited by the be humble be stay humble and believe in yourself if you are new to the channel you can subscribe I publish new videos every day until then check out another video or don't either way have a great day you magnificent people [Music]

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Length: 17min 54sec (1074 seconds)

Published: Fri Sep 13 2019