Doctors, what are your small check-up stories that turned into nightmares?
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The sight of someone being dragged into an ambulance by a doctor must be rather interesting.
By the ear no less! 😂🤣😂
@@kimhohlmayer7018 Well- depends of what is happening... I would not like to be there
I would love to hear exactly what happened from that doctor but i can imagine it went something like yea so medical school said i should probably go to a hospital for a possible (insert here) doctor hears this MF GET IN THE GOD DAMN AMBULANCE NOW person nah ill be fine doc BITCH YOU WILL GO tbh medical school is probably the best place to get told something and if you deny it then yeah any doctor or nurse will drag you to a actual hospital as fast as posible depending on what it is since if med school says it then they know it's gonna be close or spot on even better then what the hospitals can do because all the learning material is right there
"Minor aneurysm" sounds along the lines of "little bit pregnant".
My wife is a little bit pregnant right now.
Especially an aortic aneurysm. Especially after just explaining how low chances of survival are.
@@UniqueornBacon That survival rate is only if/when it bursts...
A Minor Aneurysm is one that has only just started to form and thus is very small and less likely to pop...
Picture it this way, the Aorta is like a garden hose.
A Minor Aneurysm would be a bulge the size of a pea on the side...
A Major Aneurysm would be a bulge the size of a potato on the side...
Both are bad, but one is far, Far, FAR worse than the other...
@@JensMorrison good luck
That's how you know it's fake
Critical care nurse here. Admitted a 33 year female to ICU with severe sepsis. BP low, has two IVs and a vasopressor to increase her BP. Temp 105. I told the hospitalist to not give her the prescribed antibiotic until a malaria test was done. Now, we’re in Chicago. He said that’s stupid, why would he order that? I said gut feeling because she’s just returned home after a month in India and I happened to know it was the rainy season when malaria goes up because of mosquitoes in droves. We made a bet. I’d pay him $20 if I was wrong and he’d make a public apology and buy pizza if I was right. Couple hours later he comes up and asks for everyone. He then makes a grudging apology and orders pizza. The reason I was so adamant is the particular antibiotic will kill the patient if given during a malarial flair. We started her on hydroxychloroquine and she was much better within 24 hours. Malaria is a parasite that uses blood cells to reproduce. When they burst to let the larvae out, the person gets very ill. Giving a drug to kill the parasite is the only treatment, along with fluids because the fever is high.
Me, this time I’m the patient and not smart. Halloween night, developed sudden very severe epigastric pain, right under my sternum, going to the middle of my back. Instead of going to the ER right away, I waited 24 hours and almost couldn’t move to get downstairs. Pain still the worst I’ve had. Lab work shows severe sepsis, which is systemic infection. They slam IVs in, give me pain medicine, then I go to CT. Couldn’t unbend my legs because the pain was so bad. Turns out belly full of pus. I go to have stents put in my bile duct to drain some pus and a drain put in. More fluids and antibiotics. 24 hours later, back to surgery to remove gallbladder, which was also inflamed and pus filled. No stones. Best guess from the doctors is gut bacteria somehow migrated where it normally isn’t present and caused this. I had been having severe back pain in the middle of my back for 6 months and just thought it was part of a degenerative condition that I have. Once the infection cleared, that pain was gone. Doctor told me that I was the worst sepsis case he’d seen in his career that wasn’t dead. God was definitely watching out for me. I got royally chewed out because the doctors knew that I knew I should have come much sooner. But medical people make awful patients.
I am a retired nurse and had similar symptoms for nearly a week before finally going to ER. I had suffered a heart attack and got a Stent. They always say medical PROS are always the most stubborn, lol.
I’m glad you all made it out okay.
So glad you are okay. That’s crazy. Please don’t do that again.
I’m so glad you saved that patient and that you’re also okay! Have never heard of the gallbladder becoming septic, yikes. Just got mine out, thought it was Sickle Cell pain becoming chronic. Surgeon guesstimated it’d been trying to pass a huge stone for ~2 years
I was on the weight loss program from hell(aka VIOLENTLY puking my guts up to stomach acid, throwing THAT up, then for shits and gigs dry heaving for hours on end!) dad took me to hospital I walked into the ER (dad had to park the car) the security guard and every nurse that saw me went WHITE! They IMMEDIATELY took me to get my vitals which were I was 85.7 lbs [~39 kg] SUPER LOW heart rate and super high blood pressure. Long story short, it was stage four brain cancer. I am almost NINE YEARS in remission (my remission date is November 24)
Wow. So glad you survived that. How scary.
Yeah I thought I was dying…turns out it was all in my head!
Here. Take my angry up vote. But fr. I'm so glad you're better! 💙💙
@@DrivestyneBa dum tss 😂😂😂😂
@@jessicapalmer3455lol Reddit much?
My mom hurt her leg playing softball whenever she was around 15 or 16. Because there was no blood it wasn't like a huge deal so she just kept on ignoring the pain. It was until she was in her late 20s that she figured out that she had actually broken her leg.
I broke my nose badly at age 4. No blood, no doctor. Found out at age 16 when I needed sinus surgery. Doc looked at CT and said, "Wow. So when did you break your nose? And when do you want to schedule surgery?" Cue my mom and I looking at each other questioningly and going, "Uhhhhh...never? Wait...surgery?" I'm not sure if the look he gave was checking to see if I was an abuse victim, or that he was just flabbergasted that one could break their nose to that extent and just...not know? My septum (the center divider) up towards the bridge of my nose is accordion folded up in there! 😂 It still creeps me out every time I see it on CT or MRI scans. I get those every few yrs because of chronic migraines. My nose leans to one side a bit and the end of my nose points up more than those of my family members, but otherwise you wouldn't know if I didn't point it out.
My dad broke a few bones that either weren't set, or weren't found until after they had started to set. My grandma was a very tough lady who raised tough kids, but with so many kids (5) on only grandpa's truck driver's income, and eventually grandma's bus company wages, money was tight and if bones weren't sticking out or a kid was near death, they were fine.
Thankfully, aside from the nose, and one broken toe in my early 20s, I haven't really broken anything else. Injuries galore, and tbh, those hurt way worse than the breaks. The toe thing was so weird because it was only fractured, +90% through, but as soon as I stood up I somehow knew it was broken. I can't explain it, but it just felt...different. When an 80 lb tv fell on my foot it looked BAD. Thankfully it was only a soft tissue crush injury. Hurt like heck, but different from the toe. 🤷🏼♀️
Story 12 I think the student needs to either restart their training from the beginning or stop all together before their next patient bleeds out 😬
or gets an air bubble injected into them, or the wrong meds, or something equally disastrous, it sounds like she either hadn't paid attention at all, panicked and didn't want to admit it, or maybe is a psychopath? sociopath? astropath? something ending in "path"
It sounded like a freeze response rather than incompetence. Can be a reaction to seeing the blood. That can sometimes mean a change of careers but can sometimes be worked through
@@zoelawrence568Yeah I was literally thinking something like option 2 that you said. Maybe she didn’t realize she has a blood phobia or something?
When I was around 8 I went in for medicine because I had severe "spring allergies". The doc opened my puffy eyes and I was immediately sent to the ER. Turns out my eyes looked like clear jelly and I had cat scratch fever. My eyes were in the beginning process of basically "digesting" themselves.
The guy who lost the use of his legs from cancer reminds me of my friend. She had been having pain and wasn’t taken seriously. Woke up one morning paralyzed. Found out right before Christmas she had cancer. Stage IV Ewing Sarcoma. She died in 2022. I have commented on videos like this one before about her story. Miss her so much.
19:16 You pronounced “cannula” correctly! I’m only halfway through the video but the only mistake I’ve noticed is that “triage” is pronounced like “tree-age”. You got the second part of the word right :)
Think Julius Caesar for cesarean
It’s so small but the try-age driving me crazy 😂
Also mispronounced esophageal and varices.
It tree-ahdge. More precisely: /tri.aʒ/. Some do pronounce try-ahdge (/trai/), but it's rare in my (uninformed) experience. Hasn't made the transition from "common mistake" to "new pronunciation" yet, I think.
I laughed when he was worried about cannula because he had that one right after at least three other mispronounced words
My great aunt had a painful bump on her back since she was 4. This was a few years after the second world war, so she didn't complain and didn't get it looked at. There was already enough going on, living in a war torn country with not enough food and too many kids.
When she was 48 the pain got worse, and her husband made her go see a doctor. Turned out she had cancer. That bump was a tumor, just sitting there for all these years. After 40 years of doing nothing, it turned into cancer. Finding out this bump is cancer the doctor sceduled a few scans for 3 days later. That is when we learned she had cancer in almost her whole body at this point. She got live prolonging treatment and lived for 1,5 years after this. Her family still misses her every day!
6:11 thanks for showing us the pictures really glad that i can see it
I was just about to bring this up. Like post the pictures or don’t include that part of the narrative
The way my eyes widened in fear and anger when the 8 cm blood clot OP didn’t go to urgent care until AFTER a climbing day with husband and friends Dx Why AFTER when they’re visibly in pain and absolutely not okay. How did their friends and husband not drag them into urgent care themselves.
I don't think that op was climbing at least, but as a chronically ill person, I get it. I'm personally used to writing off small stuff until my body hits me with the "pay attention dammit!" hammer. 😅
i had something similar happen. the blood clots moved from my leg to my chest. i thought i'd just pulled a muscle in my leg. after a few weeks they were in my lungs and it was hard to breathe but i thought i had a cold or covid (this was 2021). it wasn't until one night i got up to go to the bathroom and when i sat on my bed i couldn't catch my breath. i thought, i have covid or i have a chest cold but after 30 mins of siting there not being able to breathe right i told my hubby, i need to go to the ER. it was like 2 weeks of leg pain but it wasn't constant it came and went so i ignored it, some pains go away so i didn't think it was an issue. I didn't complain much about it so my hubby didn't realize how bad it was, the day before we'd spend the day walking around a town square that was all decorated for xmas and my leg didn't hurt it only hurt when i was siting on the floor with our son, so i didn't do that. people can over look when you're in pain or think it's not that bad and you'll be fine after rest.
@@Just1Nora I have chronic pain too and I realize OP didn’t climb, but that’s the extremely weird part for me to begin with. Most of them should know what a sprain feels and looks like. Her pain was next level and should’ve been very visible. It’s just bizarre no one made her go to urgent care before the get together ended. Especially because she’s not known to have chronic pain.
@@WomanRoaring Us women really need to get better at complaining about pain Dx Maybe I just grew up in a medical environment so I think about these things a lot but if my friend told me about any of your symptoms I would’ve dragged you to urgent care/ER ASAP. Even more so for OP, who was in even more visible pain.
You have an extremely... Nice... Word view.
I'm Canadian, I haven't seen a doctor in over ten years.
I have a laundry list of health issues. I need multiple surgeries.
I just can't afford it. If I feel like crap, I go to bed.
Last time I got taken into urgent care I had spent 9 hours throwing up unable to move with kidney stones.
Took over 12 hours to get seen.
And I was kicked out the same day high as hell on morphine.
Put simply, health care is for the top 10% of the world population. That's it.
Scoliosis is not particularly dangerous condition, but is able to cause chronic pain.
Truth! Usually, the only life threatening danger that scoliosis causes is situational.
My son needed corrective surgery because the degree and direction of the curve was going to affect his heart if it kept progressing.
Scoliosis requires surgery if the spinal curve is 40 degrees or more. It can be life-threatening if not treated. It also definitely causes chronic pain!
It can result in big quality of life complications depending on the specific degree of curvature and location because it compresses your organs in different ways. But my ENT (ear, nose, & throat) specialist had such severe curvature that he was short, hunched over, and his pants sat at a strange angle because of hip tilt. He was a good doctor and even operated on my septum and sinuses when I was a teenager. I'm sure his breathing and gi system at the very least had serious impact.
But the takeaway is that even with serious deformity one can go on to be a successful doctor and surgeon.
i have scoliosis but it's a C curve not an S curve so it causes pain but i wasn't diagnosed until i was 23 when i was in a bad car accident. my gram noticed my hips weren't even when i was in high school and she hemmed my uniform skirt, she hemmed it crooked so it looked straight but no one thought, wow thats odd lets get her checked out at the doc. so when i got in the accident and had xrays done they noticed.
I also got a story, but not about me (even though I do work in a hospital as an assistant nurse).
So I got a friend who's a mechanical engineer who specialised in biomechanics (makes stuff for medical use) who got a special request from the hospital I work at for an internal fixation for a compound shin fracture just below the knee. They gave him the x-ray in order to make the fixation, and he took ONE look at it and he saw that they were wrong, it wasn't a compound fracture below the knee, it was a comminuted compound fracture in the middle of the shin!! They thought that the bone splinters were the patient's knee! So he went to the hospital directly to the orthopaedics department in order to talk to the doc who ordered the fixation, and it was a resident who just graduated med school (no offence to any resident, you guys make life in a hospital much easier), they've argued about the x-ray for like 10 minutes, until they decided to go to the head doctor who took one look at the x-ray and sent the patient into surgery, and now doesn't have to worry about losing their leg because of a stupid mistake.
TLDR: new doctor misdiagnosed a patient and nearly cost them their leg.
Doctors, please trust the opinion of other medical professionals
I’m too young to remember the vast majority of this, but apparently I would cry from pain at night. I was diagnosed with bilateral retinoblastoma at 21 months. I had my left eye removed at 3 1/2 (March 2007) and my right eye in September 2007 when I was four. I’ve gone from doing an MRI every six months to getting one once annually, about midway through the year. September 24 is my anniversary. Mom prayed that I would not remember the pain, and God seems to have answered that prayer. God will provide.
I too enjoy smoking potatoes 😂
Obligatory not me, but my grandma. She was visiting family in Iowa and Minnesota. On her first night there she fell and hit her head on the wall. She was able to get up and had some neck pain but didn't think much of it. My great aunt got her a soft neck brace and she drove her way to Minnesota. She was there for about a week and a half and the pain just wasn't getting better so she cut her trip short and drove the 12 hours back to Colorado. The next day she made a doctor's appointment, and drove herself there. They took some X-rays but weren't too concerned, prescribed her some pain meds and muscle relaxers and sent her on her way. While she was standing in line to pick up her meds a nurse rushed out and said "Mrs. Olson do not move your head and please sit down in this wheelchair."
Turns out she broke c2 c3 (the same break the paralyzed Christopher Reeves) and walked around for 10 days. They rushed her to the hospital and she ended up with 6 titanium rods in her neck. 6 years later I ended with the same break, but mine was from a car accident.
i was diagnosed at 3 years old with scoliosis... yes, it can cause chronic pain... but growing up i lived under constant threat that if i fell wrong, it would be enough to land me in a wheelchair.... i didnt even have the option of having the doctors operate to straighten it out as they can do in most cases... it was deemed to risky to do because they would have to straighten out two bends with each surgery... and yes it would have taken multiple surgeries... the scoliosis has also caused other health issues to develop
I was diagnosed with Deep Vein Thrombosis a few years ago. A huge blood clot in my left leg and many in both lungs.The only symptom was pain in my left ankle. Very strange. After genetic testing, it is found that I have Lupus Anticoagulant Syndrome. Blood thinners for life for me. What fun.😊
Welcome to the club, my friend, due to my prosthetic heart valve. I am also on anticoagulant for the rest of my life, warfarin/Cuban to be precise, although occasional Lovenox and heparin, depending on what procedure needs to be performed or has just been performed The reason I have an issue with needles, you will never see me get a tattoo. 59:03
One thing I noticed is a lot of people get told they're not in that much pain or just trying to get out of work/school which is so dumb and annoying especially for jobs the world will still go around if this person has to be excused for the day it's better to be safe than sorry if that person is in danger imagine the guilt if they get very sick or even worse lose their lives because you assumed their pain was an attempt at playing hookie smh
My father started taking ibuprophen for the ache in his abdomen. He goes to the doctor and is expecting to be told he is constipated. He is told that he has stage four pancreatic cancer. More or less...they gave him morphine and sent him home. Six weeks later he passed. So...I guess one can say there is a grey area between overacting and responding in an appropriate period of time. Pancreatic cancer is particularly....fast acting. My aunt died of untreated breast cancer, still telling everyone she was "fine." It has eaten through to the outside of her body. THAT is absolutely waiting too long.
Gallbladder attacks suck. I started having them last November, had to wait till January to get in to the doctor. Was diagnosed with gallstones in April. My gallbladder was removed a week ago
hope you make a quick recovery and are free from complications or any negative occurrences, in the present and future 🙏🏾
I was once working as an assistant in an urgent care. This guy came in complaining of feeling light-headed, I'm pretty sure. All his vitals were within normal range and he was coherent and talking normally. The provider came in and talked to him for a bit, and then got me to see him out. He stood up and started walking from the room, she glanced back at him and immediately went "No, you go sit back down now." and he did. Everyone was confused, and we got alarmed when she told us to contact 911. Basically, it was very subtle but once she told me I could see/hear it too. When the guy stood up his breath became just a little wheezy, and he was also standing with his torso at a slightly weird angle. In the end an ambulance came for him, and he's basically punctured a lung and just didn't realize it. The guy was pretty young, too, I think in his mid-20s.
We were very lucky to have a good pediatrician. I believe the way it was told to me was; he heard a murmur during a checkup listening to my oldest sister's heart. She was apparently born with a hole in her heart (i think it was between the two sides so the blood was circling in there). Other doctors were shocked he even noticed it (I suppose tiny baby/tottler hearts are hard to hear). The best heart surgeon in either the country or the region (i forget which) used some of the protective heart sack to patch it.
I bet operating on 1-5 year olds is extra nerve wracking/heartbreaking.
So 35m I do triathlons and iron mans so great shape. Was working 18hr days 7 days a week as a contractor. Started feeling bad and just felt like crap for a week. One day working with my son I decided to go home to eat which I never do. Thank God my wife (a nurse) was home with a migraine. I sat in my easy chair as pain in my arm spread to my jaw. Wife came in, called 911 and I was shipped. At ER while talking with nurse I passed out, so I thought but actually had coded. Took 5min to get me back and straight to cath lab. I had a widow maker of the LAD, not from bad habits but it actually collapsed. Learned I'm one of the small percentage than can push myself literally to death. I learned my lesson the hard way.
Dear Mr. Narrator, should sound like tree-auge(triage). Can-u-la(canula). Sea-sar-ean(cesarean).
I'm pretty sure they do it to generate comments like yours
@@theignitionmagician1376
Well, it works. I was about to make a similar one.
Rule #1 of the internet should be "Don't feed the trolls"
@@theignitionmagician1376 I might be wrong but it could be made with ai.
@@Dillkeyz A lot of these kinds of reading videos are, but this guy adds his own commentary and emotional reactions to it n stuff. I would be surprised if it was though, that would really show AI voices have taken it to the next level haha.
Hope the guy in story 27 went back to his grandpa and said "so I did that favour you asked... Where do you want to eat, it's on me?"
The retinoblastoma story hit home. I survived bilateral retinoblastoma. Lost my right eye to it. But just the same, my mother was told that if she had waited any longer, I wouldn't be here. I have fun with my prosthetic and a picture of the calcified tumor that's still in my left eye.
My roommate was having shoulder pain for a week, she also had a dermal piercing in her back that she wanted to get removed. She decided to go to the ER on a Sunday evening to get the piercing taken out because the piercing place was closed. She off handedly said she was having shoulder pain, the ER nurse took her for an X-ray thinking she might have pulled a muscle at the gym. She ended up in the ER for 3 weeks, turns out she had a collapsed lung from vaping.
From vaping?
I thought vaping was just like scented water? What in vaping caused that? Was she sucking air in through the pipe too hard?
@@Roadent1241vaping is causing this in tons of young ppl. Some ppl are even dying. It is not just scent and water. right before Covid and at the beginning of COVID there was an overlap of patients needing oxygen or breathing machines because vaping was getting so bad. I know a lot of kids that either quit or cut down on vaping immensely because they realized how sick others were getting.
Speaking of the overlap, I know someone who had a collapsed lung from covid and the hospital didn’t believe them. Kept saying she wasn’t covered for treatment there because they decided she must have been vaping. she had to wait till restrictions were ended so she could travel to a better hospital for treatment. So if a hospital can’t tell the difference between someone almost dying from Covid, from someone dying from vaping. I’d say vaping is pretty bad.
Anyway I assume you don’t vape because you didn’t know this but now that you do I hope you don’t start and if you have friends that think it’s just scented water let them know as well.
Two incidents that happened to me:
When I was 7, I went to the optometrist for something. I can't remember exactly what but I barely saw anything out of my left eye unless I closed my right eye. So my doctor told me to sit still while she checked the back of my eyes and realized, even without getting close enough to check my eyes, that my left eye never faced forwards, only to the left and upwards. I always blinked a lot to hide it so it wasn't noticeable. Lo and behold I had a very obvious external strabismus. I had to go into sugrery a few weeks later. It's currently not obvious especially when I wear my glasses.
When I was 15, I went in for an eye check to review my glasses after my family and I moved states. The optometrist checked the back of my eyes and immediately recommended me for a few tests and lo and behold, I have glaucoma. The reason I went in for this particular check up was the fact that despite me wearing my glasses consistently, my vision was still deteriorating. Luckily I didn't need surgery for that.
recently i was waiting in the ER after my boyfriends mom had a small heart attack… about an hour into us waiting for more news a dude walks in with a small garbage can quite literally full of blood, blood all around his mouth… that scared the shit out of me. hope he’s okay.
54:50 first doctor said he had a virus, but gave him antibiotics? Obviously they do work on bacteria from the appendix but antibiotics have 0 effect on viruses. What was the first doctor thinking??
So as far as I know, scoliosis itself isn’t life-threatening, but can cause conditions that might be. Depending on how severe it is, it can reduce lung and cardiac function by causing your ribs to compress your lungs and heart. Other organs like your digestive system can be effected as well, and scoliosis is just generally physically stressful.
Heres a story of mine (husbands is below). Id been complaining of a sore shoulder for about 3 weeks one summer about 8ish years ago. It was SO sore & constantly aching n really hurt holding it in certain positions. One xmas wed been away camping with the kids & pulling down the tent n packing up was so hard going, it was aching so bad but i carried on.
Go to my doc the following week & had an xray & turned out id broken my collarbone! Id snapped the tip off! No wonder it bloody ached like a mofo lol
I love u narrator, but the way u pronounce “triage” has me rolling. And the way u thought cannula was probably meant to be pronounced?! Hilarious, made my night
Story 21, in regard to the ovarian cyst. Had a very similar experience, was chilling at home when I felt this sudden horrible pain that had me hunched over for a few minutes unable to move. Chalked it up to gas and ibs bc ibs is freaking painful. Went about the rest of my day until I started feeling faint. I laid down in bed with my then boyfriend when my mom came into my room and said my brother was worried that maybe I had Covid bc I looked really pale and clammy. This was mid 2020 so it was definitely something that could’ve been a concern. I felt silly going to the ER but agreed to go. My bf drove us over and I arrived around 11:30pm and feeling overall kind of cruddy with mild pain and tenderness on my right side. Long story short, they ran some tests and some ultrasounds and told me that my abdomen was full of blood and still filling from a ruptured ovarian cyst that started hemorrhaging. Had to have emergency surgery to remove the blood and stop the bleeding. Thankfully my ovary was good and didn’t need to be removed!
So glad you survived!! I had a ruptured cyst. It didn’t cause and big issues but it hurt like hell. The only time I’ve ever had morphine and I only remember that it helped some and I took nap. Later the dr who checked my scan told me that I had a ruptured cyst but they don’t understand why I was in so much pain cuz that happens all the time. When I hear about ppl who have this happen regularly I really feel for them. I can’t believe that drs don’t think it could hurt that bad just because it’s common. I hope some day they have a safe but common ruptured cyst or similar. Just some good old karma for all the times they’ve said that’s “normal”, “it’s not that bad”
A way to reduce risk of infections like the one from the mosquito bite is to make sure if you scratch it open wash it with clean water or wound wash or rubbing alcohol if you can stand the sting and apply a clean bandage and antibiotic ointment. Cleaning and keeping nasty stuff from your hands and clothes out of scratches and cuts goes a long way to preventing infection. And if it becomes red and warm or tracks red streaks go see a doctor.
I've had red streaks ONCE, and I got damned lucky. My then-husband wasn't exactly good to me, and refused to let me see a doctor in case it came back on him. Anyhow, I locked myself in the bathroom, squeezed the wound like a horrifying zit, and scrubbed the hole in my thigh with Q-tips and rubbing alcohol. Do not recommend, but between that and a ton of Neosporin, the red streaks went away.
Just no.
If scoliosis is very bad/untreated it can cause the spine to curve forward and pressure the lungs inside the rib cage, that can cause suffocation. But this modern age scoliosis usually is treated before it gets that bad.
Happening to a friend on mine right now. 😢
I actually have one. A few days after my period I was suffering from abdominal pain, I figured I was post-period bloated. The pain would go away and come back. 48 hrs before leaving for vacation I finally decided to go to the ER. 4 I get in the back and one urine test done. I'm pretty sure had my liver enzymes not been elevated I may have been diagnosed with post-periond bloating or something. After another 4 hours and 1 ultrasound later, a blocked bowl by a gallstone. The hospital I was at didn't have the needed doctor available, so I went home for a couple hours and had my dad take me back to a different ER. Was admitted to the back immediately, a couple more tests, MRI, and surgery consult later I was set to have the stone removed. A couple hours post op, I was on my way to enjoy my vacation. No issues, got scheduled for surgery to remove my gallbladder a few weeks later as all the tests had shown 0 infection. 10 days later, I'm back in the ER scheduled for surgery the next morning to remove my gallbladder. Within 10 days my non-infected gallbladder was gangrenous and the morning of the surgery I ended up going into sepsis. Truthfully, I should have figured it should have been my gallbladder, my mom needed hers removed at 21, my sister had hers removed in her 20s-30s, and I was around 27 to have mine removed.
Rutine doc appt. grandpa, said he fell in the barn about a month ago and his leg had been brothering him since. Got sent for x ray and went home
His doc got chewed out by the ER for sending an 88 year old home with a broken hip.
I don't get the thought process. "He's young and has nothing diagnosed." Well no duh he has nothing diagnosed. Why do you think they're there?
Honestly this is why it took me so long to be diagnosed with conditions I was born with. Smh. I’m also lucky to be diagnosed with the conditions I developed later on because I lived near the top hospitals in the country. Now whenever I get a new dr they don’t believe me and say who told you that. Like I’m making it up. Until they check my medical records.
I’m scared for everyone out there that’s undiagnosed. Good luck and god speed.
Undiagnosed means no prior health issues
@@fishyfungus5026 You missed the point.
@@fishyfungus5026 sure, no KNOWN prior health issues. it's an important thing for a doctor to note when there aren't any known conditions, but writing off a young patient purely on such a notion is ridiculous. that's the real problem in this circumstance.
I remember when i was a kid, I went to the ER for sudden chest pain, on the left side of my chest radiating to my arm. I got in *fast.* After a couple tests the doctor comes in looking quite happy. Turns out it was a mitral valve prolapse, a heart condition that is a bit uncomfortable at times, but not dangerous. Im guessign he was happy because he got to send me home that night, instead of operating on me. The pain wasn't actually caused by the prolapse, but my suddenly becoming aware of it and freaking out. Which is understandable, because it makes your heart click.
That first dude must have felt so cool diagnosing it right off the top of their head like that
I'm mad because of story 53, I had a similar experience with having a rock stuck in my ear as little kid. But my experience at the hospital left me so traumatized that I would become hysterical and would scream bloody murder at the sight of the hospital. I was 3 or 4 at the time and the doctor had the nurses put me in a Mummy Restraint and held me down while he went at my ear with a pair of forceps. He didn't have me sedated or anything, I still remember screaming and crying for my mommy and the terrible pain in my ear. We found out shortly afterwards that he accidentally scratch my eardrum while extracting the rock. And we found out years later that I wasn't thee only one who was left traumatized by this doctor.
Oh and if you ever have a small child traumatized by a doctor(or just scared in general), my mother highly recommend buying a toy doctor kit and playing doctor with them.
My birth was basically such a story. My mum got into regular check-up and the doctor noticed that I needed to get out _immediately_ because I had started poisoning her. Because I write this comment you know that it turned out well in the end.
same sort of thing happened to my tonsils. I kept getting sick periodically and eventually we just had them cut out. haven't had a problem since.
My scoliosis used to be really bad I got some chiropractor appointments that helped it straighten out. However, I used to have a huge bump on my right shoulder which is actually my rib cage pushed out very far because my spine was, is still, pushing against my ribs. And my height is currently 5 ft 4 as I had a growth spurt. However, because of my spine is curved and because of my spine one of my legs is shorter than the other. I will never be the 5'9 height that apparently I was supposed to be according to x-ray scans. Chiropractors can only do so much to help scoliosis. And because of how my spine was pushing my rib cage it led to some breathing issues that was mistaken as asthma for a long time. One in actuality I just don't have my full air capacity
I have one. It was my dad. He was going in for an routine outpatient procedure, I can't remember exactly what it was, but I do remember that they accidentally left a tiny cut on his heart, nothing dangerous, but it meant that they had to do an MRI. They found a huge tumor on the inside of his heart. Normally these tumors wouldn't be found until autopsy because nobody knows to look for them, there are no symptoms other than random strokes. So he had a triple bypass, got the tumor removed, was in the hospital for three weeks and came home. It was the year 2000, the year I graduated high school. Because of that mistake, I got to keep my daddy for another 24 years. He passed away three days after Thanksgiving last year.
I have been in the veterinary field with a BS as a veterinary nurse (or technician) for around 4 years now, working in several states. The saddest case I saw was with an elderly woman. She brought in her very sweet, fluffy cat because she was getting a bit older at age 11 and didn't want to eat anymore along with being really lethargic. Her owner thought it was a simple infection. The veterinarian did a physical exam and felt something weird and hard in her abdomen. We x-rays and it turned out to be a solid, possibly cancerous mass in her abdomen. The vet told the owner that even with aggressive treatment, she may only live for 3 months. I watched her break down immediately. Her cat continued going downhill quickly. She was euthanized less than a week later sadly
A few years ago, I had severe pain between my shoulder blades and dizziness. I called 911, they got BP of 70/30. As they took me to the ambulance, the older EMT said "I think you have a dissecting aortic aneurysm."
He was right and after a quick CT scan, I had emergency surgery, now doing well.
I wanted to become a veterinarian when i was a kid, but realized when i was older (while having to put down a pet fish) that i wouldn't have been strong enough to send off the patients that couldn't be saved.
The Dixie cup of chalky stuff is a GI cocktail: viscous lidocaine, liquid antacid, and sometimes diphenhydramine.
Story 22 got me worrying im covered in bites
Im not a doctor, but this did happen. My dad had been having a bit of trouble swallowing, not too bad, just sometimes had to swallow twice. He thought it might just be allergies so he went to our allergist (he’s an awesome allergist by the way he knows a lot and is super sweet) anyways they found a tumor in his throat and stomach. After studying it, they found out it was cancerous and very rare. He almost died multiple times due to low bloodcell count or something like that, along with blood clots and he had covid while on chemo. Not fun, but he’s about 4 years out of it and no more cancer has been found. He’s very lucky.
Lol,
So 30ish yrs ago i went to the er for a possible heart attack......it was gas.
3 years ago i go to the er for extreme gas and a possible blockage...😂😂😂
It was c dif. Spent a week in the hospital on intense antibiotics while hallucinating.
I almost died.
glad you're okay now lol
Glad you're OK. I got C-dif while in the hospital. I hope you have no reoccurrence of this nasty infection. I've had several.
@margarmargar1871 ow , I'm glad it hasn't come back but weirdly it runs in my family.
Hope you are now free of it❤️
Congrats on 100k!
Apparently I am medical magic:
-developed type 1 diabetes
-vision went bad (got diagnosed cuz of it)
-got to hospital, never go into DKA coma
-get eye scans
-no diabetic retinopathy
-fast growing cataracts (how?)
-get double cataract surgery (apparently fixing both eyes at once isn’t usually done)
-single distance lens put in one eye
-fancy near-to-intermediate distance lens put in other eye
-recover, get reading glasses, a-okay
I have a check up this month so my surgeon can submit this fiasco to a medical journal
So glad you didn’t get retinopathy. Keep your sugars good and you will hopefully be able to see for a good long time.
My advice is keep your sugars in range and watch your blood pressure! My husband wasn’t dx with diabetes until he was around 39 yrs old. Lots of damage to his eyes. Quadruple heart bipass and kidney transplant. You are incredibly lucky and I wish you a long and happy life!
Not a medical person, but I work in a nursing office (this fact will be important in a moment). Was rolling on the mats doing BJJ one Sunday when one of my legs got twisted underneath me. Popping sound and a lot of pain in my right ankle, which I put down to a sprain. Elevated and iced it for awhile, then the coach helped me to my car. Drove to a nearby CVS and bought an ankle brace and a cane, then went home, followed by more elevation and ice. Drove the 20 miles to work the next day on surface streets because shifting from gas pedal to brake was difficult and I didn't want to risk it at freeway speeds. Explained what had happened and limped around all day, glad my desk was only a few steps from the printer. When it was time to go home, the head nurse asked if she could take a look, so I took off the brace, revealing a LOT of swelling and some bruising. She low-keyed it, saying I might have a hairline fracture and suggesting I go to urgent care on my way home. Drove to urgent care and limped in, then limped over to x-ray, then back to urgent care, where I got good news and bad news. Good news, wasn't a hairline fracture. Bad news, was a spiral fracture of my right fibula. No fun. And no mats for the next 2 months.
I remember when that story with the photo of the kid/baby with eye cancer. I’m so glad the parents listened and brought their kid in for treatment. I’ve always remembered this.
Last time i was this early my dad left to get milk
👨🥛 im back kiddo
@@Buttery_Smooth_brain mom?
Milkman couldnt just put it on the counter after?
Scoliosis can be life altering to the extreme. I had it until I was 12 and had correction surgery. I had 3 tethered spinal cord releases as a result. When your spinal cord gets tethered, it causes neurological issues thar range from mild to severe. I was losing motor function. It ended up leaving me permanent nerve issues. Most of the major nerve issues were luckily temporary
A friend of mine has broken her spine at least 3 or 4 times. The last time it happened (and hopefully LAST time it will happen) she was able to recognize that her spine was broken because of previous experience with it, but she drove herself to the ER and WALKED IN. Because of this, the ER nurses didnt believe her when she explained why she was there and made her wait a long time in the waiting room. Then, when they finally took her back, they just fucked with her for a while, making her keep getting on and off the table to "prove" that her spine couldn’t possibly be broken. Well the xray comes back and sure enough, broken spine. Not only that but they saw that a jagged fragment of her broken spine was pressing against her spinal cord threatening to lacerate it! She said she heard the doctor screaming at the nurses after that and she was sent to OR. I get why they didnt believe her but to fuck with her like that was beyond unprofessional not to mention almost caused her to be paralyzed from the thorax down and would have cost the hospital a fuck ton in the ensuing lawsuit.
“Esophageel vareecies” at 2:19 had me ROLLING
My great uncle, in his 80s, tripped while building a fire and hit his head on the hearth. Gave himself a big bruise and wound up with neck pain that wouldn't go away, so after a few weeks, my great aunt made him go to the doctor. One X-ray later and he's told to not move, they're summoning a helicopter to transfer him to another hospital for immediate surgery. Turned out he had the exact same kind of break that paralyzed Christopher Reeve, and they had no idea how in the hell it hadn't paralyzed him, too. He had surgery and then spent the next six months in a neck brace.
The amount of mispronounced words in this video bothers me way too much 😭 love listening to your videos at night, but this specific one makes me unable to sleep. Lol
Edit: you were pronouncing cannula correctly :)
They do it for comments. Ps. It’s working
awwww yes its the deep voice boi with red dead in the background. chopping up stickers to give away at a concert tonight while listening to this
Like a year or so ago, my mom went in for a physical. She ends up getting an ambulance ride to the hospital and it turns out she has tachycardia and stays in the hospital for a few days. Has to have a procedure where they shock her heart back into rhythm. Shes now on medication for the condition, but it turned out those weird "episodes" she had every once in a while wasnt a reaction to food or stress, but was her feeling the symptoms of tachycardia. She had gone years without noticing because she hadn't felt bad and every other time she went to the doctor, her blood pressure and pulse were normal. Just so happened that that one time her blood pressure and pulse were high. They might not have caught it if she hadnt gone to the doctor on that day at that time.
No rehab for the MRI spine fracture/collapsed lung guy? That's amazing!
You're gonna keep me sane at work with this one lol
Smoked a potato. ☠️
I was the patient. Irregular heartrate issues on and off for a month or so. I have a litany of health issues so I blew it off. I saw a dr on a Friday who did an EKG which was fine and sent me home. Monday I woke up with some chest pain, but that's not totally unusual for me and it was gone by noon. After blowing off these symps a couple of friends demanded I go to the ER. I went, my EKG was fine, I told them I periodically feel like I'm going to pass out with the heartrate thing. They're ready to send me home with a clean bill of health when the dr notices something in my history. I have Ehler's-Danlos Syndrome which can cause structural abnormalities in the heart in some types. Just to CYA he ordered a CT scan of my chest. My heart was fine, my lungs however, were littered with blood clots, everywhere. Doctor came back in, pale af. "So, I was going to send you home but I ordered the CT to check on heart and you have numerous pulmonary emboli". I laughed and he was like "No, seriously. I was about to send a patient whose lungs are full of blood clots home". Clots were unrelated to EDS or anything else I had, just decided to show up, but like I said, my body just doesn't work. I was just chilling with those bad boys for a month before getting them noted, lol. A week in the hospital and lots of blood thinners later I was sent home on oxygen.
That was 8 years ago, fast forward to this past Feb, I have been back on oxygen for a few years but just let my PCP handle it. I needed bladder surgery and anesthesia wouldn't approve me without seeing a pulmonologist. So I go back to my same doc who runs a bunch of stuff. Turns out, the reason I have had to be back on oxygen for 3 years is because one of the clots never went away and led to a condition called chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension. The blood pressure in my lungs is too high to compensate for the clot and it will eventually lead to heart failure. I even have a nifty "man I wish I had a med student here right now" heart sound to accompany it, lol. The only cure is a 8hr long surgery where you're cooled to 64F, put on bypass, then they stop the bypass and scrape the clot out. That or a lung transplant. I don't intend to do either, we don't live near a facility that offers them and couldn't afford to travel anyway.
Not a doctor but patient. When I was 3 years old I had both the cold and flu back to back. My mom was worried and took me to the doctor. Two nurses were in the room, one was supposed to take my blood and the other was talking to us. We realized the nurse was taking a while to get the blood and the nurse asked her to, "draw the blood." The nurse, with a horrific look stated she did. She was holding a vial of completely clear liquid. Turns out I had luekimia. Got it cured and I've been doing okay sense, but it freaked the heck out of everyone.
Former vet tech here, you actually pronounced cannula perfectly! Triage is pronounced with "tree" at the start though.
aye these are amazing, congrats on 100k!!!!
“I told you so” is never a celebration.
Is it not? Surely it can be for a good thing like winning a lottery or a prediction.
The story about the woman who had a tumor, the comment the narrator made is incredibly out of touch. Women die from not being taken seriously every single day
So do men...
@@ZtaticifyWhy…whenever a woman brings up a problem facing women…does a man HAVE to jump in and either claim “not all men” or “so do men”? Cant you let a woman say something without jumping in even in the comment section of a CZcams video? Was your manliness affected by this comment? Were you triggered into commenting? So bizarre.
Funny. I'm a male and felt I've never been taken seriously. I have pain in my left feet I feel was completely preventable if only they had acted and can't be bothered having a few pains and weird birthmarks checked out. They won't do it. They refuse and I don't know why. Doctors study for decades only to tell people to walk it off or something.
@@Lenape_Ladybecause women are talked about literally everyday, men should be too should they not? EVERYONE can die from not being taken seriously. That's the point. Youre making an issue because you got all offended because someone happened to bring up men. Thays exactly what im talking about when it's ok to talk about women but never men
@stalincat2457 Yes, men do get ignored, but it's statistically proven that women get ignored and dismissed far, far more often. Did you know that it wasn't until the second half of the 20th century that they started including women in most medical studies? The reason was "their pregnancy and/or hormones throw the study off." Instead of realizing that maybe female hormones have a different effect on health than male hormones, they just decided to ignore it simply because it was different than men. Even today, in developed countries, women are often denied requested procedures on their reproductive organs simply because it might upset their male parter, _even when they don't have a male parter._
Women were often sent to psych wards because their doctors thought they were crazy when they brought concerns to them.
Yes, men sometimes get ignored by doctors. But women were intentionally left out of medical studies and trials for the majority of history simply because they were different than men, and are still experiencing the damage from it.
It's not even just in the medical field. Most car manufacturers don't use crash dummies that are designed to replicate the average female body. The fact that the average woman is shorter than the average man, and the fact that they typically have breasts, changes the way seatbelts work. Women are statistically more likely to die in car crashes even when wearing their seatbelt, simply because most vehicles are designed only using male bodies in tests.
The fact that men choose to ignore the proven discrepancies and differences just because they feel offended by a woman complaining about how women are treated is absurd and laughable.
"Tumor Mormon Family" is not only something Id never expect to hear, but also an oxymoron
I was a paramedic, we attended a patient whose complaint was feeling cold and “off”. I was in charge of doing obs, when I went to take his radial pulse - it couldn’t find it. So I switch it up and go for carotid pulse - I couldn’t find that either. The whole time the patient is joking around - but was very pale and still. I went to get my partner who had a lot more experience than me and quietly told him the issue. He takes over and also can’t find a pulse. He was transported by another crew, and me and my partner debriefed. He said that it was possibly peripheral shut down, which was the case. Unfortunately the patient passed in 2 days. It was the patient that was the closest to death I’ve ever met (that is still conscious)
as someone with scoliosis, albeit balanced and not severe: Yes! Scoliosis CAN become life threatening if the curve is extraordinarily bad, as it will risk your ribcage possibly collapsing
The higher the degree of the curve, the more likely you are to have posture issues and deformations.
My curve was moderate when I got diagnosed with it around 4 and a half years ago. Im going to be going to a back doctor here soon due to the fact my back will start hurting within 30 minutes of standing if im not wearing anything for support and we need eomething better than an Amazon corset
This happened to me about two months ago now.
One Sunday, I woke up with a headache behind my right eye. No problem. Just take it easy, take an Advil, and I’ll be fine in the morning. Wednesday comes around, and the headache got worse and spread to the right half of my skull. I was rolling around and in agony. My mum sees this and says “well, this ain’t normal. We’re going to the hospital.” Mum drives me to the ER and I go through triage. They take my blood, blood pressure, temperature, vitals, and come up with nothing. I’m basically told this is just cluster headaches and while it sucks they’ll go away in a day or so. I’m sent home and told to take a Tylenol before bed. Thursday morning, the skin of my forehead is all dry and bumpy and vision in my right eye is blurry. Trusting the doctors, I figure it was just because I kept rubbing my face from the pain. It isn’t until Thursday evening I realize each of those little bumps is filled with pus. Friday morning, my dad wakes me up because he saw my face. Forehead, cheek, eye, jowl, and neck are swollen and leaking blood and pus. I am in incredible pain. Dad fucking floors it to the hospital. Doctors see me and immediately recognize that I have shingles in my face. Doctor from two days previous apologizes for misdiagnosing me and says if I wasn’t brought in that day I would have gone completely blind in my right eye. They never thought of shingles as a diagnosis because I am 24 and shingles in someone as young as me is a rarity. I was given a gauntlet of meds including painkillers, crazy antivirals, and anti-inflammation eye drops.
I am mostly recovered now, but my eyes are super sensitive to light and all the nerves on the right half of my face are shot and completely numb. I have lost some sharpness in my vision, but if we had waited one more day before going to the ER I would have been blind. For the rest of the summer, I can’t go outside without a hat and sunglasses, no matter how mild the weather is. The doctors are hopeful I will have 100% of my vision back by August. For bow, my forehead is all scars and scabs.
I have scoliosis and it wasn't very fun before surgery. Every time I ran, it was like a spring in my back and caused a lot of pain. I had like 65-ish degree turn in my upper back and closer to a 40 degree one in my lower. Thankfully I only really needed my upper back surgically fixed for my lower to go back to normal. I now have two titanium rods holding my spine in place.
My mother randomly noticed me sitting weird and checked my back. It was not straight. She has it too and suspected something was wrong.
Glad you had the surgery. Hope everything continues to got well.
I've had it 5 years ago at this point and had my last check up 2023, so I've made a full and complete recovery. Thank you :)
I really like this narrator, his comments are hilarious :>
I was the patient, and my doctor was a family friend. I was seven.
It was a yearly checkup, where they check your ears and vision and stuff. He put his hand on my stomach, and I'll never forget what he said as he turned to the nurse.
"We need an ultra sound."
A month later, woke up from a three hour surgery, weighing four pounds lighter as they had removed two liters of fluid from my kidney. Still only have one kidney, that's cool.
I had gallbladder stones for 18 years.. first time was in my teens, after eating a hotdog .. my friend drove me to the ER, they took an EKG on me, and sent me home with the diagnosis "Inflamed Duodenum", after that I didn't seek medical help when ever the attacks came... after 10+ years I just figured it was IBS or something .. finally in 2020, I had an attack that just didn't want to let go, after 3 days in pain, I went to the ER again ... They did bloodworks, told me "good news, it's not cancer", did x-rays and ulstrasound on me, half of my gallbladder was full of gravel. I got admitted, and had my operation, during the op, I started bleeding from my liver wall, so they had to open me up completely. When I finally woke up (that I remember) I'm in the organ transplant post-op ward. With stitches and staples across half my chest.
I was keept in the hospital for 10 days, and while there, they noticed i was often fatigued in the daytime, and referred me for a sleep apnea evalutation. after sleep examination, turns out I had severe sleep apnea (more than 15 events/h is considered bad enough to warrant treatment, I had 1/minute). Ended up in the OR room again, extracting my tonsils.. after the operation, the surgeon told me that it was the largest tonsils in her 20+ year career.
The interesting thing was that I had had kidneystones a year or two before and commented that the pain was similar to what I regularly got in my chest.. that ER doc didn't even blink and consider giving me an ultrasound on the chest... if she had, my gallbladder stones would have been diagnosed 3 years earlier.
I had a surgery and after a few days I was sent home the doctor called me the next day to check on me. I told him that I was in the most pain I’ve ever been in. I can’t even move without almost passing out from pain and that there was a ton of blood and green smelly stuff leaking out of the wound. He said that it was normal for right after a surgery. That he would note everything and check in tomorrow. I didn’t even make it another 10 hours. I was so septic that I had gone into shock and my organs started to fail. I passed out and went into a coma. My dad and mom called the 911. Taken right to ER. Turns out that the stitches on my stomach were not done correctly and all my stomach acid and any food I’d eat had been leaking out inside of my abdomen. I had total organ failure. Then my heart stopped. It only got worse from there. I flat lined. I had to spend over 110 days in the heart failure ICU and then another 90 days under regular care. If my parents hadn’t not called 911 I would have not lived the night. If they had waited for the next 24 hours they wanted me to wait till he called me for his next check up fallow call I’d have not made it. Turns out that the hospital I had gone to was a teaching hospital and the med students had really messed up the closing stitches. This could probably be an easy 28 pages long if I went into the full story and explained all the details. 0/10 would not recommend. On top of that while I was in the hospital there was some high ranking member of the government and he was given his whole floor to himself and the rest of us peasants were moved to a whole different place in the hospital. Not a joke or exaggerating the room I spent 110 days in was actually a storage closet right behind the nurses station that had been cleared out to fit my bed. Unless you blocked the door with it there wasn’t even room to fit a chair. And nurses would have to move my bed left and right just to get to both sides. It was truly hell. Being right behind the nurses station it was so loud I couldn’t sleep for no longer than 40 minutes without being woken up. I have been thinking about writing a book about my experience. It’s been almost 4 years now and I’m still having to deal with complications from that. And I have bad PTSD about it. I could hear all the beeping from all the calls buttons from the whole wing. That sound gives me a panic attack. Sleep deprivation is an absolute nightmare.
So for story 21 I bet lawyers would be salivating over that due to the nurse’s negligence.
Not a doctor, but an RN. I worked in a small hospital in a nowehere town with nothing around so I've got tons of stories that I could tell but one thing someone said stood out to me, CHECK YOUR NUTS. Listen to me fellas, I know its your balls and its embarrassing but you know what it's like down there. You know the topography and the landscape - if something is off, see a doctor. Please don't wait until its a big problem. You dont want that. Just as an example, a guy frequently shaved that entire area and got an ingrown hair. Then he noticed it just started growing and getting worse. Somehow he ended up getting staph in that area, maybe from touching it, or something on his razor, its a super common skin infection that can usually be cleared up quickly with antibiotics. By the time he came in, his scrotum on the side was the size of a grapefruit. He had to go to surgery ro get it cut open and the infection drained. He had to stay in the hospital for IV antibiotics and because he had a wound drain attached to his right testicle. It left a hole the size of a plum and when we changed the drain, which was very painful, I could see his exposed testicular sac. I could see his nut guys. Thats something nobody should ever have to see. So check your nuts. I also recommend avoiding shaving in that area, the hair is there to guard your skin from friction and wetness and that delicate area can become an irritated breeding ground for germs easily.
Scoliosis can be somewhat life threatning if it is a larger angle. Its mostly just painful af. Most people with slight scoliosis (which is large portion of people with scoliosis) have no pain or some back pain and don't really need surgery until a certain angle is hit.
The story with the kid and the pellet gun-- IRL “ A Christmas story” kid has no idea how lucky he was!!
Didn't need surgery, but had a guy come for a routine yearly ECG and just happened to show signs of heart attack on it. The nurse came and asked me like "Is this real? He says he's fine.". So I asked him and no, no chest pain, no shortness of breath, no nothing. Asked how he came here, he had walked the 400 meters or so (a quarter of a mile) and had to stop a few times to catch his breath. So I keep asking because there's no way this isn't a heart attack at this point but he keeps being adamant that he's feeling fine. When I asked "What if you walk a little?", he said "Well then I would get chest pains and shortness of breath, but laying here and not moving at all, I'm pretty much fine, the chest pain isn't that bad when I stay still".
God damn it people, tell the doctor your symptoms!
So, here’s one that a medical professional should maybe have seen a lot sooner, but it sure caught ME off guard:
Back in September, I started having a weird issue with my hands where they felt stiff and sore all the time. I had just taken back up an old job as a private gardener, so I just figured I was overdoing it, and my muscles weren’t adapting as quickly as they had when I was a teen.
By then, rather than getting better with time, they started getting *worse.* I’d wake up with my hands burning, like the kind of sensation you get when your appendages have gone numb from the cold and now they’re starting to regain feeling? And they’d suddenly go numb in the middle of activities, like driving. Our first thought was adult onset diabetes (it does run in my family,) but the blood tests all came back normal (except my vit D but we STILL don’t have an answer on that.) Doctor finally refers me for a nerve test, I get in four months earlier than expected which was a nice surprise, and after I kid you not five minutes of testing, the neurologist looks at me and effectively says,
‘You have crippling carpal tunnel syndrome in both wrists, you should have surgery about it as soon as possible before there’s irreparable damage.’
Anyways, it’s been just under five months since then, and two carpal tunnel releases later, my hands are still healing but I can consistently feel them and actually like… USE them again, so… knock on wood.
the way you said "It looks like poo!" made me giggle
Friends' son worked at the state mental hospital. Trying to subdue a violent patient, his arm broke. Arm gets x-rayed and bone cancer is found.
Congratulations on getting 100k!!!
The student in story 12 deserved to get sent to jail for attempted manslaughter.
1:20 ah yes smoked potatoes 💀
Scoliosis can differ a lot. I have minor scoliosis myself, it shows mostly that I'm veering a little to one side more around my "body axis" so to speak. It can get bad, it does cause me general pain, and I know a child with multiple problems (weak muscle genetic issue, autism, epilepsy etc.) who has insane scoliosis. For a 10 year old, it's so excessive she cannot fit into a corset now (thanks to the parents not using corset properly because the child seemed uncomfortable in it... now the back of the kid turns to the side in a horrid angle) I can't imagine the pain that will be brought with that if it keeps being left untreated...
I'm an xray student and one of my teachers told us that they used to teach MRI by having a student of the class volunteer to get an MRI (the procedure doesn't use ionizing radiation) while the other students watch how the MRI is being done. One time they found a big aneurysm in the aorta of a student while one of those presentations. She went into surgery immediately and my school stopped giving live MRI presenations on students 💀
Tree -ahge lol. You absolutely got cannula right. Love your reading style ❤
So I was looking through r/medical gore, and the amount of things that were minor issues that people ignore until it's a disaster, is absolutely baffling. It also gave me a fear of "bone setters", which is basically an older person in some Indian and African rural areas, where a bone is set by wrapping it tightly, which often leads to limb death, requiring full limb amputation or if they still can't get to a hospital, death from sepsis.