r/Askreddit Doctors, What's the Biggest Case of "Faking It" You've Ever Seen?
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- r/Askreddit Today, we've got stories from doctors and nurses who describe the worst cases of faking it they've ever encountered. Usually, people fake illnesses because they want to get drugs, but the way they go about faking their injuries is absolutely insane. And apparently, a bunch of people like to pretend to be blind? I don't really understand how that would get you pain meds, but whatever floats your boat I guess. If you like this video and want to see more, hit the subscribe button!
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"Okay, does this hurt?"
"*demonic screeching ensues*"
".....No.."
Understandable, have a nice day.
@@Dononut305 **literally f-ing dies**
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@@beeeans6662 *Starts having a seizure* I-Assssss-ure yo-u d..edahjfiiujkasdfhdfdfhdikfuikdf
Yes.
if I was a doctor and there was someone faking unconsciousness, I would say, "We need to do surgery, but since they're already unconscious, we don't need anesthetic."
Very good joke đ
HOLY SHIT I GOT A FULL BODY CRINGE DAMN YOU ARE EVIL
@@yourdudebk7200 anesthetic Is correct.
@@yourdudebk7200 donât correct people who are correct your half as bad as the people who always think your is youâre when in a certain situation it isnt
I wish I had thought of that in my ER days!
I have a glass eye and I have also had doctors try to check the pupil, even after I tell them itâs a fake eye. For some reason they always say something like âwell, weâll check it, just in case.â Just in case what? My artificial eye magically became a real eye and I didnât notice?
Let me wager a guess that they actually check the eye socket itself for signs of inflammation or whatnot.
Just a guess, could be wrong
I'm blind in my left eye and it's visibly always reish pink, the iris and pupil is completely black with clearish spots and eye doctors always make me do vision tests with it. So now I always answer at least once with "E" on eye eye charts- some find it funny, others Well... Not so much-
I somewhat understand considering how many people are willing to lie
I accidentally faked blindness at my old school. I sometimes had to wear sunglasses due to light sensitive headaches cause by social interaction. The AMOUNT of people who got confused by me reading or using the vending machine was actually stupid
"Karen, what are you doing?"
"I'M SEIZING"
"Please Stop."
"Okay."
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My goodness, this is the most amount of likes Iâve gotten. Thank you!
@@zyno7738 nice
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A MIRACLE !!!!đŠđźđŠđČđ±
I have one for the glass eyes story.
Back in 1994 I was dating a guy and his mom invited me over to play cards. I brought a bottle from the liquor store, hoping that since it was one of her favorites, as recommended by her son, that it would help endear me to her.
I had to go to the bathroom a few hours later, and she smiled at me, took out her glass eye and put it IN MY DRINK while saying "no worries, I'll keep an eye on your drink". The look on my face was one of pure horror and it made everyone laugh. Apparently, that was her way of doing a family signal for "I like this one".
She could have just told me.
TreeStevens thatâs absolutely terrifying đđđ
Sounds like something my mom would've done lmao
That mom is a keeper.
Can I take this guy's mom? She sounds AWESOME!
Oh my gosh. That made me laugh!
When I was a teen, I was in pain and my parents refused to take me seriously. They always told me that I just had growing pains, and dismissed me. When I was in my mid 30s, I was finally diagnosed with fibromyalgia. When my mom found out, she asked if that was the pain I used to tell her about as a teen, and I said yes. She apologized profusely to me about it. My dad apologized as well. Felt nice to finally be vindicated.
It sucks being a kid with health issues. I remember for months I had abdominal pain whenever I ate. They kept saying it was gas. Wasn't until I started losing a ton of weight they took it serioudsly, but even then I was misdiagnosed for three years. It turned out it was Crohn's disease back when they still knew fuck all about Crohn's disease unlike today, 25 years later.
@@GeneralKenobiSIYE when you started describing your symptoms, Crohn's came to mind. So sorry you had to endure that, but glad they finally figured it out.
When I had a broken wrist 2 years ago my mom didnât take me to the hospital for 2 weeks and made me go to karate 3 times and it was self Defence for almost all of those classes and the self defence that we were doing was #3 and that oneâs takedown was to pull the other personâs right wrist and turn to the left so I would fall down, the wrist that I broke was my right wrist
@@pyrodegenarate6925 yeah my brother had something similar happen. He smacked his knee on a PVC pipe, and my mom didn't believe that he really damaged his knee. After about a month, we finally convinced her, with the help of our dad, to take him to the hospital. He nearly had to have surgery on his knee, and nearly lost his spot on the high school soccer team. I also sprained my ankle once, and my dad didn't believe me. I begged him to take me to the hospital. Finally he growled, "If it's not sprained, you're paying the hospital bill out of your allowance !" Yeah it was sprained, and he paid the bill. Wish parents took us more seriously.
A coworker of mine has the same problems. She had pain and medical issues during all her childhood but her whole family is more of a âthoughten upâ type and now her organs are all out of place or not working at all.
Itâs the opposite with me they thought I was faking being half blind for a year even a doctor thought I was faking it ,the next year they said âoh yea his right Retna is detached â
that is... um, how? Don't doctors go to school for like a stupid amount of time, and spend a stupid amount of money on that school, like what?!?
@@sapphiredrawsalot5153 Yes. I forget who said it but a female doctor CZcamsr suggests that some doctors do this because of past experiences with fakers and or doctors just being ignorant about patients because they think they know everything. Not word for word of what she said but something similar
@@FEKana yeah, it just strikes me as odd that someone who is so experienced can be so ignorant
Twins!
i hate when people are like âyouâre not disabled youâre not in a wheelchairâ its so annoying iâm disabled but i can walk
Thatâs not actually being disabled
Edit: im kidding
Nice profile picture.
felt that. gotta hate invisible disabilities.
I mean, you could always just ask if they would be willing to take a hammer to the shins and go run around and do heavy exercise. And I donât mean a light tap. I can guaranty they wonât be impaired at all! XD
Your just faking it, my name is Karen, and I am an EXPERT in all medicines because I looked at a FaceBook post.
All through my childhood I would suddenly "clock out" I would stare at something usually something that was moving and not blink, not breath, and I couldn't hear anyone or anything. My mom and family always joked that I was going into "Lindsay's World" . Then at the age of 16 I got diagnosed with Grand Mal epilepsy (tonic clonic seizures) turns out during the times I was going into "Lindsay's World" I was actually having Petit Mal seizures.
Is it dangerous?
Kinda freaky I come across this comment today since I was reading about different types of epilepsy earlier today (donât ask... I get curious about random things sometimes).
I was diagnosed at 17, but my Mom told me that my neurologist âdidn't know what he's talking about, that sounds fakeâ
@scooby-doo Afterlife No, it's just annoying for the people around, because sometimes people just stare into nothing...(also the guy making this comment used some big words)
@@dimsufferer9951 I'm sure that your mum is an expert in that particular field and knows more than the literal professional smh
âKaren, what are u doing?â
âIM SEIZING.â
âPls stopâ
âKâ
Titanium will 0597
Stolen
From chelsea donahu
Stolen from
I didnât steal the comment, i just quoted a part of the video. I didnât see Chelseyâs comment at all. Sorry if you thought that, but i wad just quoting my favourite part of the vid.
@@tharealgeneralgrievous ok
I was treated like a drug seeker when I went to urgent care for a SALINE drip because I was severly dehydrated. đ€Šââïž They refused treatment and sent me home where I speak a WEEK in bed chugging pedialyte and Gatorade. What would have taken no drugs and a couple hours to help, took a week to do myseld because they thought I wanted drugs...
One of my second cousins was born without her left ear and had a prosthetic made when she was about twelve. It wasn't easily noticeable so nobody commented usually... until the day she went to get her ears pierced and simply... removed her fake one in front of the piercer. Said piercer was... rather alarmed, to say the least.
ScarabD
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Not trying to be mean but that is hilarious
@@SaikiKFann Oh don't worry, it was!
I read the last part as âthe piercer set off the alarmâ
ScarabD now, the real question, did the person ask if she wanted that one pierced as well?
âIâm seizing!â
âOk, stop seizingâ
*stops*
Mercy resurrect energy there
And then, some dragons arrived.
And a large German man.
And a grandma with drugs.
And a Russian bodybuilder.
And a psychotic robot.
And an Irish mad scientist.
Strike __ is it bad that I know exactly who youâre talking about from those descriptions
@@yourlocalvader7281 Nope.
69th like!
@@pinkie5963CP youâve done a great deed to this comment
The story about the OP getting their brother to confess reminds me of one about my sister. She had told my parents that she was meeting her friend (a girl) at a basket ball game, when she had arranged to have a cute boy from a different school meet her at the game as well. She was under the impression that she wasnât allowed to date yet, so she kept it a secret from my parents. Nothing bad happened - I donât think the even held hands, but my sisters and I were VERY innocent and that felt pretty scandalous to her. Well, when she got home, she had a big silly grin on her face and she was just standing in the living room, not saying anything. So my parents, suspecting nothing, thought she wanted to tell them about her night or ask a question or something and asked, âDoâŠyou need to tell us something?â My sister, thinking she was caught, burst into tears and confessed the whole thing. đ My parents just silently sat there as she told them about her âsecret rendezvousâ and then said, âYou know, we wouldnât have had a problem with you meeting him at the game if you had told us about it. But because you kept it a secret, now youâre grounded for a bit.â Years later, she asked them how they always knew she was lying, and specifically about that night. They told her that they hadnât known, and apparently it was just her own guilty conscience that couldnât handle it. đ
Omg thatâs awesome đ Sounds like when I was younger and accidentally saw a scandalous photo on Google when looking for something and felt so bad I confessed to my mom. She laughed a bit but didnât really care because I was already upset about it and just told me not to do it again lol
"Well does this hurt"
"HMHMMHMHHMHMMHMHHMMHMHMHMHMMHHMHMHM ... no"
lol
"Well does this hurt"
Cue fortnite kid when he dies on fortnite:
Paramedic here, with two fun stories:
1) Woman swearing up and down she had pneumonia, and "needed" to be transported to a hospital the next city over because (and I hear this surprisingly often in various locations) "this hospital kills people!" She was given the choice between being transported to that hospital anyway (because taking 911 ambulances out of service for a non-emergency, and asking to add another hour or more to the round-trip is a big no-no), or signing a refusal of care. Turns out she didn't need to go that badly after all; she signed the refusal. Especially since she was "wheezing" with her VOCAL CHORDS!
2) Another woman collapsed in her front yard, witnessed by the neighbor. Fire helped us move her onto the stretcher (big girl), and we got her into the ambulance. I was still green as it gets, and our medical director (the doctor to whom we answer) was along for this ride. Lady was still unconscious, but groaning. That's a good sign; she's breathing. But she wouldn't wake up. Vitals, including blood sugar and temp, were acceptable.
MD: Hey, new girl, you ever placed an NPA? (Nasopharyngeal Airway Adjunct - a tube which goes in the nose to make sure the airway stays open.)
Me: Umm.... not on a living patient. (Note to readers here: I was fully trained and qualified, just not experienced.)
MD: Try it. Go ahead.
I made my way slowly through the preparation steps, getting tips and feedback a few times. Finally, I tried to put the thing in her nose... and she jerked her head away. I looked at the MD with an expression of "now what?" He gestured for me to continue. So I rammed that thing into her nose (carefully, just quickly) and got it halfway in before she reached up and YANKED it back out, suddenly awake. The others did an impressive job of not laughing.
Probably funnier in person, but one of my favorite stories. So far. ;)
Red T ah yes i too randomly collapse in my front yard for everyone to see
Red T - Thank you for your service, iâm surprised nobody said this yet.
B I G G I R L
*wheezes with vocal chords*
It sounds funnier in writing then it is in reality.
@@manueldodson929 When you've got a stethoscope up to their chest and can clearly hear the difference (try it on yourself - you'll see), it's just as funny as the words seem. ;)
Everybody: AAAH THAT WOMAN IS HAVING A SEIZURE
Worker: says something to the woman
Woman: gets up
Everybody: is that person a godly healer?
Ahhh ahh ahhhh aha
"divine doctor"
Check out Lai Yi if you have no idea what I'm talking about.
I donât see the big deal, itâs just a cleric rolling a 20, get over it
J j jesus
Is is the Messiah!
okay.... I sometimes fake feeling sick to get out of class, but seriously going as far to FAKE seize and taking up precious time in a ER that could go to someone who really actually needs it...
that's a new level of eNtItLeD
âSure you couldve died, but then you couldve sued that hospital for millionsâ
rslash?
b u d d y ?
repeat it after me
dead ppl cant sue
I MADE THIS COMMENT 6 MONTHS AGO, STOP TRYNA TEACH ME ABOUT THEIR FAMILIES SUING EM, YES I KNO PLE AS E ITS JUST A JOKEEEE
Happy one year anniversary, or more, I dunno, to this comment. How has someone still found this and replied I will cry
Omg your comment made me laugh!
Family members can
I mean. Clones can
Quinn Zyker we shall assemble the clones to attack the hospital
Well their family can
"IM SEIZING!"
"Ok, stop seizing"
*They stop*
That's basically one of the stories
Edit:Ok, I didn't know this has been up for over a year at this point, felt like 3 months ago ngl. Also jesus 2.5k likes, thanks amigos!
One of the few times when you telling someone to stop having a problem and they stopped.
Basically
I almost cried from laughing. If only you could tell someone to âstop your seizureâ or âdonât have an anxiety attackâ maybe even âstop faintingâ... hehe.. heh.,
Yeah, if only
Sounds JUST like my mom!
My sister once had a guy come in to emergency clearly announce âIâm going to have a seizure!â Carefully lie down on the ground and start fitting.
Well... if you have a condition that causes seizures you might recognise the warning signs and know how to prevent injury.
Ikajo I know that. But she told me he was obviously faking the seizure. When the nurses said something to him (donât remember what it was) and he stopped and got right up.
Most people that have seizures can actually tell beforehand that they are going to have seizures, it's called a seizure aura.
How can you be THAT obvious?
Layla Clark Maybe you should edit that part in the original comment. Some people who suffer from seizures can either identify when theyâre going to have a seizure or have a service animal who can tell if theyâre going to have a seizure. Normal procedure for people about to have a seizure is to lie down in a clear area where they cant get hurt. However the second part you added definitely makes it fake.
It should be illegal to fake an illness/injury. Youâre wasting hospital time and resources and in many cases they are trying to illegal get strong painkillers.
It actually is illegal if you get a prescription, I can't say the exact crime it is but you can be charged at least for absusing drugs. But since some people are really minor cases and some are major they can't really be 100% sure on an arrest until you get a prescription and prove you are faking it
a lot of these people have mental health issues and you're asking to punish someone suffering from that by law, that's fucked up
@@clemdelaclem I was going to like but its 69 so hope this counts as a like nice
Addiction is an illness though
Justice Dunham @ it isnât TO DO , but it could be illegal afterwards
I mean like, how stupid do you have to be to suddenly âwake upâ when the doctors say âwell, no pain meds I guess.â
8:09 back in high school I had a friend with a glass eye. His favorite trick was when a teacher said, "Keep your eyes on your own test!" to which he'd remove his eye and plonk it on his paper.
Ah, yes! People with prosthetics or something similar always come up with the best jokes about them.
I have a friend who had her legs amputated as a baby (she was missing some bones) and not has prosthetics. She has a couple of "prank stories" of how she lost her legs that she might tell before actually explaining it.
I have a question, do people with glass eyes blink? Because there's not a reason I know of for them to blink.
@@AR-wt3by The friend of mine blinked, but just with one eye. Perhaps the glass eye wasn't slippery enough for the eyelid to slide over it?
there was. i think a fb post someone: hey lend me a hand. him: ok â trow hid bionic handsâ here you go. , like the part of toy story
Mitsusa H âhey, can I have a hand?â
Top ten biggest mistakes in wording
About that little girl that wanted glasses so badly: Aren't non-prescription glasses a thing? The parents could have gotten her a pair of those. Though I suppose a little kid wouldn't necessarily know that that was an option.
Parents might not actually know either, plus, dont want to give in to the kid believing he needs them.
That's not even the real issue as some one with glasses my self I know that if she did indeed get them just by wearing them she would make it so she really needed glasses
Edit people need to quit talking about a pair a glasses that don't even apply to a comment that doesn't even mention of refer tođđ
@@larrybettes-finck6753 and that happens...how?
@@larrybettes-finck6753 not if they're non prescription
Those are just frames with glass that is the equivalent of looking out a window.
@@klyxes I don't really truly know but to my knowledge it's due to how it is made to actually help a person needing the glasses so it acts as a focus for eyes that don't need it and depending on how much higher of a prescription than what she obviously doesn't need it makes it so that her eyes partially depend on that focus which in turn makes glasses needed for said person
That impression of your dad covering up his pain was priceless. Good laugh. Not a funny situation, but I couldn't help it.đđđŹ
when I was in 3rd grade my buddy went home with stomach pains and never returned. 3 days later the dean of students came in to tell us he had passed away of appendicitis. it's real guys if something isnt right GET HELP
"Does this hurt?"
"HrriiHHRHhhHRHhh...no..."
Lol
I audibly laughed.
I was rewinding this video because last time I watched it I left a little at the end. Accidentally rewound to exactly that moment
cracked me up so bad
BlackMagic Dirt if you have a ruptured appendix it does hurt a lot
When I was younger I liked playing hookie, and for a while my parents believed me. That is, until I was actually sick and my parents didn't believe me. Then I passed out and hit my head on the stove. I stopped playing hookie after that
A painfull lesson
Conner Shadrick this is the definition of the boy who called wolf.
I think my son learned this lesson yesterday.
@@Kappa_420 *cried wolf
Hookie? Do you mean hockey
I feel like I would be the opposite of this. Especially when I was smaller I was so petrified of even just seeing the school nurse because I thought sheâd hurt me or something. Whenever I had to go in (for example, once I fell face first on concrete and a teacher made me go) she was always really dismissive to the point where Iâd break down and sheâd either force me back to class or call my mom to get me because I was distraught. A similar story was when I had to help one of my friends down to her office because she was throwing up and literally about to faint, I had to almost drag her. The nurse told me I could go once I had helped her there and reluctantly I left, only for my friend to come back after me five minutes later with a dinky ice pack. This was elementary school by the way, we were ten years old. To this day Iâm still scared of any kind of medical doctor, even just the eye doctor. I know the obligatory not all but I still canât shake that memory of how mean an elementary school nurse was. I fell off a play set maybe four feet up after a boy pushed me flat on my back in first grade (about 6 for our non-American friends) and I refused to go to her office even though I couldnât breathe because I was so scared of her. Kids fake stuff yeah, but sometimes they need to be taken seriously. Just because theyâre smaller doesnât mean they donât experience pain.
Man, I remember when I was little, I had stomach aches constantly and severely. My doctors were convinced I was faking it because I didn't want to go to school. I actually enjoyed school, so nope, I was just in constant pain. My Mom believed them and started making me tough it out. We found out years later that I have IBS and in fact, my entire immediate family does except for my oldest brother. The doctors only figured out when one of my brothers and my mother started having symptoms too and they were like "somethings not right here."
One of my friends called me wanting me to tell her how to get her abdomen to stop hurting. From her description I thought she had a hot appendix and needed to go straight to the ER. She said she felt too bad to leave the house and couldn't I just tell her how to make it stop? Finally talked her into letting me take her to the Urgent Care Clinic. She came back to the waiting room almost immediately saying they had called the ER and told them they were sending her there because it was "something they couldn't handle there at the clinic." We walked into the ER, talked to the triage nurse and Triage Nurse was *not* impressed. Triage Nurse was a bitch who was convinced she was the be all and end all of medical knowledge and accepted no one else's diagnosis but hers. We sat in the waiting area for 3 hours and 45 minutes while every single person who was there before us was seen, and then every single person who came in after us was seen. They took a gal with a sprained ankle, someone with a sore throat, *and a guy who just needed his cast cut off his now healed broken arm before a woman with acute belly pain. elevated oral temp, and elevated pulse and respiration rates.* The triage nurse didn't send her back until the entire ER had been completely empty for half an hour and no new patients coming in or I'm sure we would have waited until 3 am or later instead of When we finally got back in an exam room it took the doctor about 30 seconds to figure out she wasn't faking it seeking drugs. After a quick exam, including a pelvic, and a blood draw he admitted her for appendicitis. Total time in exam room before being wheeled off to her room (including the paperwork he filled out and calling the surgical floor to get her a bed) 20 minutes. She was scheduled for surgery at 1 pm the following afternoon, but they had to take her to surgery at 10:45 am because the new blood work they did that morning showed her appendix had started leaking. Yep, the surgeon found a leaking appendix when he opened her up, all right, in a woman who was "faking it trying to get drugs." I don't know what happened with the triage nurse, but she made a patient who had been referred to the Emergency Room for a probable hot appendix/possible rupturing Fallopian tube from an ectopic pregnancy by a physician at the Urgent Care Clinic for nearly 4 hours. From the time my friend called wanting me to tell her how to make her belly stop hurting it was over six hours between my persuading her to let me take her for treatment and all the other crap.
I will never understand hospitals or doctors or nurses... A friend of mine suffered from this weird tightness on the right side of her body. Like, arm wouldn't move and back would be stiff. She met multiple doctors and ended up having to go to surgery. Nothing helped. Then her music teacher told her about this specialist in the capital (7-9h travel from my town) that might be able to help. So my friend went and it turned out that she just had a wrong position with her hips that "radiated" as pain in her back and right side. All she needed was right exercise, mindfullness of the hip's position and a physiological massage thing once a month. The cherry on top: the surgery they did on her arm actually worsened the situation and recovery will take a bit longer than it would have taken if she hadn's had the surgery...
I live in Nashville and many years ago I worked at the ER in one of our local hospitals which will remain nameless. I worked the 3 to 11 shift and one evening a man who was a famous singer on the Grand Ole Opry (he also shall remain nameless) came in complaining of severe abdominal pains. The ER nurse who was extremely good but who had decided she was much better than she actually was, made up her mind that this guy was just one of those attention-seeking celebrities and he was faking it and nothing was really wrong with him and she wasn't going to waste her valuable time on him so she parked him in the ER and treated patient after patient while ignoring him. In fact, he had been there about 3 or 4 hours and she had not yet even called his doctor to let him know the patient was there.
As part of my job I was in and out of his room and I made it a point to talk to him in an attempt to somewhat distract him because I could see that he was in a great deal of pain but the head nurse just WOULD NOT believe he needed immediate help. He finally told me that he couldn't stand it any more and he was going to go to another hospital and he left and went to that other hospital and we got word before our shift ended at 11 p.m. that the other hospital had already rushed him into surgery with a hot appendix.
That was back in the days before everyone sued for everything but in today's world he almost certainly would have sued my hospital and even back then he had every right to sue but he didn't. That nurse was so arrogant that she just KNEW he was faking and she would have let him lay there and possibly die because she couldn't even be bothered to call his doctor. .
I went to our closest hospital with severe lower abdomen pain at 12 weeks pregnant. I waited 4 hours in a very slow waiting room. They did an ultrasound, said there's nothing wrong, told to take 2 days off work, and sent me home. Later that day I went further to the hospital where my doctor works. One idiot made me get checked for appendicitis, when I was obviously in labor. I got yelled at to lay still in the CT when I couldn't stop shivering from my very high fever. I was finally diagnosed with group b step sepsis (very serious, life threatening, infection). I was admitted, miscarried, had massive hemorrhages, blood transfusions, got a PICC line, high doses of multiple iv antibiotics, had to go back several times because they weren't working. I nearly died, and became permanently disabled. That might not have happened if it was caught a little sooner.
As someone with epilepsy all these âseizuresâ just make me laugh, like if ONLY it was that easy to stop.
Next time let someone say please stop whenever you have an seizure.
@@thatonedemonchild624
Just say "No!" And you'll be good :)
I actually saw someone who, after putting a video of strobe lights on her phone, started âseizingâ on the bus. As someone who is first aid trained, I got up, walked over to her (the bus was stopped at a bus-stop) and her eyes immediately locked onto mine, she stopped shaking, and just shut her eyes and went âunresponsiveâ. I just bent down, went through her pockets (to remove any dangers) and put her phone, wallet, cigarette pack and lighters on a seat next to her. Her lips curled into a slight frown at this, and she slightly rolled over, to stop her pockets being searched. I already had suspicions it was fake. I told everyone else on the bus that âitâs ok, sheâs fine.â While mouthing âfakingâ. While everyone else was looking shocked, smirking, confused etc. I got up, and quietly told the driver to open the doors in a minute. I picked up her stuff loudly, jangling her keys, her change, etc, and signalled for the doors. When she heard footsteps, her stuff, and the doors, she put two and two together, sat bolt upright, and screamed âstop you thieving little f*gotâ and immediately realised her mistake when she realised i was stood next to her with a shit eating grin, and gave her stuff back. The driver told her to get off. Never seen someone move so fast
What type of epilepsy do you have? I have general epilepsy. The doctors say I am weird because my body takes me to a place it deems "safe" (if I'm not already in one), lays me down on the floor then starts seizing. I do all of this unconsciously, so I will be standing in the kitchen or something but come to on the floor in the living room.
I have epileptic and non epileptic Seizures. I've never tonic cloniced. My seizures look like I've just passed out. I still feel and can hear everything. Because Im not shaking, some paramedics think im faking it. But some go too far. I had a breathing tube up my nose. Now that was agony.
If they tried to drop my arm on my face, i would probably let it hit me but I would break out laughing
When I was 10, I lied at my eye doctor cuz idk- I wanted glasses? But when they did the machine thing with the images, I actually couldnât see them all too well. I also have a lazy eye (which is a lot worse than my other eye) and I got different scores for each eye. I ended up actually needing glasses, and they were seemingly better than I needed, but it turns out, again, that my vision sucks. Yeah. I lied for something I was gonna get no matter what
A lazy eye, like a eye that won't open unless you hold it open by using your fingers, all tho that doesn't work 100% either? If it's what I think it is, then I got it too
And I have glasses as well. I didn't lie to get them, I needed them because of the lazy eye and I've used glasses since kindergarten, switched glasses as I got older, broke one pair by accident when I hit the dinner table, I even have one of my oldest pair of glasses in a very old glasses case that's just laying in one of the drawers in my mom's night stand in my parents' bedroom
I remember when I started to need glasses, my parents said I was faking because âI thought glasses were cool.â When I started failing my classes because I couldnât see squat they believed me. People also didnât believe me when I was incredibly sick, even when I fainted as a result of dizzy spells several times and lost a lot of weight much too fast. They believed me when I passed out in public and got rushed to hospital in an ambulance!
Ari Kiri Iâve lost faith in humanity now.
@$$hat parents. >:-C
I'm what the exact things are, but that could be a CPS worthy thing.
Not sure*
I'm sorry. I've needed them since age 2. (Probably before, but my first surgery was age 2) and i couldn't imagine someone not just letting me get my prescription.
Re faking blindness - I'm visually impaired, which means I'm considered blind even though I can see a little bit. I can read my phone when I have accessibility zoom on and can see someone waving even though I probably can't tell who they are unless I know them really well (can identify them by footsteps, walk style, or clothing). I walk with a cane but can walk without it if I'm ok with bumping into / tripping over things. I'm even an illustrator that does highly detailed artwork! It just has to be within 2 inches of my face. Understandably, most people assume I'm faking.
So if I'm in a place where I actually need help, I will sometimes pretend to be more blind than I actually am to avoid getting threatened and screamed at. I hate doing it... I feel like I'm screwing over "real" blind people... but I've actually only ended up in a lot of trouble for "faking it" when I'm not faking anything at all.
Alternatively, I sometimes have to fake having more vision than I really have. Like when I was in grade school, I had to learn how to read the board based on context clues. If you blurred a photo to the point where the text just looks like wiggly lines, I could probably read it to you because of this skill. I learned how to find dropped things by tilting my head until the light catches the shiny bits. Before they let me have a cane, I learned that if I don't pick up my feet and I wear thin shoes, I can feel the ground. (Yes I wore holes in all my shoes.) I learned to recognize people by memorizing their wardrobe so I didn't get lost in the lunch room. Etc etc. It comes in handy in job interviews too, since most jobs refuse to hire disabled people.
Point being, all the posts about people faking blindness is exactly why it continues to happen.Because sighted people assume what blindness is, and I have to follow their expectations exactly or else I'm literally threatened with violence. So please don't judge if you see a blind person using a phone, walking without their cane, etc ect. Blindness is a spectrum. We're just adapting to your narrow views for our own safety.
pianobooks42 my mom has Retinitis Pigmentosa - she has maybe less than 5% of her vision and youâre right, itâs hard to define for people who arenât familiar. Donât feel bad about playing it up for sighted people đ
This took some time
I'm also visually impaired and have dealt with this stuff. Ugh.
Thanks for the insight, it never crossed my mind somebody could be "blind" but still have a limited field of vision.
Thanks for opening my eyes and giving this knowledge
I didn't know it it was a spectrum
I thought it was good, limited, and blind
I didn't know almost blind counted as blind
that glass eye one reminds me of when i was applying to college XD I was applying to a US college but I'm not from there so they asked me what ESL class to put me in. I'm from Canada... I only speak 1 language... they called me 5+ times insisting that if I didn't know my ESL level, they would have to test me when I got to the school.
To be fair, Quebec and its love of the French language does exist within the English speaking Canada. But really, what were those Admissions staff ESL levels? It must of been pretty low if they didn't realize you spoke English.
That story about the kid peeing on cats reminds me of when I was younger. My parents fostered children, and we had one boy a few years older than me that at the time I idolized. It was his birthday, my parents rented a movie he wanted to see, but at the time we were outside playing with a neighbours kid when we found a frog. The foster brother took one of my grandmothers needles for insulin and filled it with Raid and injected it into the frog. I was horrified. I immediately left and went inside. I didn't say anything to my parents, I was too conflicted at the time. I just put the movie on and started watching it. A few minutes later, he storms into the house and says "Whatever he said, he's a liar!" and stormed into his room. My parents looked at each other, looked at me, realized how upset I was, and said "He hasn't told us anything. What's going on?" so I told them. He ended up getting sent to another foster home a couple days later.
When I was around 13 or 14 my eyes started bothering me, I started squinting to see stuff at distance. When I was taken to the eye doctor, we sat in his office, which had the eye chart on the wall behind him. So as I sat there close enough to read it, I memorized it. When I did the test I did fine and didn't need glasses! 6 months later I went back and confessed and got my glasses.
Damn. You must have like photographic memory or something.
The Houleigan you are a legend
Iâve done the same thing but still need glasses
@@UnKnown-ys7ft in 2007 I had laser eye surgery, so I no longer need glasses
The stuff is actually starting to happen to me, but I'm not going to even try to see if I'm having any issues
I have an eye story:
So once when I was seven, I really wanted reading glasses and begged my mom to get me some. And she would always say no. So, when me, my mom and my brother were at the store where you can get glasses and eye appointments (I think it was F.Y.I Doctors or something), and I said to my mom:
Me: Mom, usually at school, I canât see the board.
Mom: Ok, letâs get an appointment for you.
So, a few minutes later, we were shown to the eye exam room.
I purposefully did really bad on the test and got glasses #1, which I lost two years after the eye exam when I went on a trip to the Caribbean (it was Barbados). Then, I got another eye exam and I did it truthfully.
Turns out, I had messed up eyes. My right eye was really blurry and my left eye was fine. So it was a fun trip down the rabbit hole.
Now I wear contacts and I love them.
When I got contacts for the first time, I fucking CRIED
I have the same thing where one eye is worse than the other
R/Slash: The test of pressing on a person's abdomen over the appendix is called a Rosving's sign. If the person has pain, it's said to be a positive Rosving's sign
fun fact! period cramps can feel like appendicitis. i thought i was just having cramps and if my mom didn't drag me to the ER, i would've ended up in the morgue as well đ
good new is, i never have to worry about appendicitis again lol
Back when I was in like, 3rd grade, I needed glasses, but my brother recently got glasses at the time. So my parents were all like âyou donât need glasses, youâre just doing it because your brother has glassesâ and I kept insisting I CANT SEE, and eventually my parents got me an eye appointment. Guess what, I needed glasses
Felix Mcbeth gay
I couldn't see the board very well, everything in the world was hella blurry, and apparently failed the in school eye test in 3rd grade. I was told by a quack that I had an eye dominance problem and that I didn't need glasses but some nausea causing machine that would force me to no longer be left eye dominant. I flat refused (good thing cuz I was born a lefty but forced by g-ma to switch). My mom would yell at me about not being able to tell time cuz the clock was 20 ft from the t.v. on the dining room wall and I had to run over to be 2 feet from it to see the hands. 5th grade we all decided to fake our in school vision tests for fun. Turns out I didn't need to try and fail it. I got glasses. Went home and looked across the corn field and said hey mom, did you know there was a house over there? First time I could ever see individual leaves on the trees.
I was accused of faking migraines most of my life...until the doctors discovered I required brain surgery to survive.
Slow progressing but deadly*
I was accused of faking seisures...until I had one in front of a nurse. I know they get fakers, but they can be too quick to guess you're making it up, especially if you have any history of mental illness.
@@jessicataylor7174 Those in the medical field seem to follow a practice of "call them a liar until proven otherwise" rather than doing any kind of basic teating.
That's awful! Idk how migraines are for others, but I have a weak stomach and any discomfort can lead to vomiting. That's probably why I don't get accused of faking it and being lazy...
MrsShocoTaco Well, we use a problem-solving technique of Subjective,Objective, Assessment, and Plan (SOAP) for care planning, and if objective findings do not jibe with what is reported by patients, we do become puzzled and often suspicious. Unfortunately, being human, the suggestion that patients have selfish or drug-seeking motives is often high on the professionals solution tree, and the subjective report is devalued. We catch hell for âunneededâ testing, as these often expensive things are never paid by many patients. We catch hell for prescribing pain management drugs, even when objectively needed. And, with the litigiousness of many, our judgement from experience is no longer adequate âproofâ for treatment. So, treatment and testing are minimized to just enough to demonstrate âadequateâ care, but no more. Sadly, once the decision is made that the patient is not really sick, the plan becomes âget out of my ERâ. And more often than we care to admit, true life-threatening illness is missed.
@@mred8002 I get all that, I really do. There are definitely a lot of people who fake illness & injury for nefarious purposes. But, honestly, how many 6 year olds have you ever treated that faked intense migraines for pain meds? One Dr actually tried to send me to a psych eval when a CT scan would've solved the mystery.
I took so much otc pain meds over the years that it destroyed my kidneys so that's now an issue as well. ...yay
I have a reverse faking story. This is kinda long, so bare with me
When I was 11 my family and I were playing at a trampoline park. As we were getting ready to leave, my vision in my right eye got weird.
It's hard to explain, but basically there was a zig zag right in the middle of my vision that was blurry.
I told my mom and she said that I was just dehydrated.
So we leave the park and get to burger king. We get some chicken nuggets and some water. I wasn't hungry, nor was I thirsty, but I drank the water anyway. We then head to City Market and I start getting a really bad headache.
While shopping, my entire right arm becomes paralyzed. I told mom that my arm just went numb, and she said that I probably hit it while jumping.
As were checking out, my mom has me type her phone number into the thing for the rewards. I could not remember the number. I just stood there with a blank expression while my left arm was holding my right arm, while my right pointer finger was just in front of the numbers like I was trying to type the numbers in.
I turned to my mom and I told her that I can't remember the number. She got pissed and pushed me aside thinking I was being a defiant 11 year old.
As we were loading the vehicle, I started getting super light headed and I just sat in the front seat with my feet up on the door to try and relax. Car gets loaded and we start to drive to safeway. (It's like a minute away from City Market)
As we pull into Safeway, my entire right side of my body, including my face, became paralyzed. I start crying and I tried telling her that I hurt, and that I couldn't move, but I couldn't speak. I just cried. She looked over at me to see what was going on, and her eyes widened and she started freaking out.
She turned around and started driving home. She called my older brother (who was 21 at the time) and told him to get home to watch my siblings. She said I was having a stroke.
After hanging up with him, she called the hospital and got an ambulance to meet her at the house.
We got to the house, my siblings go inside, and the ambulance shows up. My headache, was horrible. I was sensitive to everything. Light, sound, movements, even the way the air moved around me made my head hurt.
The paramedics talk to my mom and ask her questions. She tell them I was having a stroke. These guys deadass told her that 11 year olds don't have strokes. I will tell you right now, that I know 2 year olds that have strokes.
Anyway, they asked me my name, and I took me 5 minutes to try and say it. When I finally did, it was slurred, but it was the name my mom had given them. I answered their yes and no questions, "yes" and "no" were the only words I could try to say. They then poked my finger and got blood.
They turned to my mom and said that I was faking, but wanted to know if she still wanted them to take me to the hospital. She got pissed and told them "No. She is already in the vehicle, I will take her myself." And she did.
Get there, and she left me in the vehicle to check me in and get a wheelchair. I remember that I was starting to calm down, and I tried moving my body. Hurt like hell. I grabbed the phone I was using and texted her asking what was taking so long.
I couldn't speak, and could barely move my fingers, let alone feel my fingertips, but I could text. It was the only way I could communicate.
My dad got off work and rushed to the hospital. When he got there my mom had rolled out a wheelchair. I got put into the wheelchair and got pushed inside. Not going to lie, it was interesting when they tried to weigh me. I was a floppy noodle.
Skip to when we got into a room. My head hurt so much, I swear you could have shot me in the head 5 times and it would have felt better than what it felt like. I got an IV, and had to pee in a cup. (That was also interesting)
After 4 hours, they finally got my blood. Something they were supposed to get right when I got in there.
After the blood work, and the pee test, they said I was fine, and that I was probably faking for attention. I. Got. Pissed. I had to get poked with a needle. I am scared to DEATH of needles. Why would I fake this, to get poked with a needle!?
A little while later there was a male nurse who said that he new I was not faking, and that there would be a neurologist coming in in a couple moments to check on something. This nurse was awesome. He was really nice and tried to keep me entertained. He even got me some food and water from the cafeteria.
The neurologist came in and asked me what happened. (I could talk by this point.)
After hearing what happened, and getting pissed at the paramedics, he told me that the hospital should have given me an MRI. He said I had the symptoms of a Hemiplegic Migraine, (a Hemiplegic Migraine basically mimics a stroke. It looks like a stroke, but the difference is that I am aware of what's happening around me) but because I didn't get an MRI, he had to rule it as Hemiplegic Migraine/ Stroke/ Seizure.
He started going on about how the paramedics should have taken me more seriously, and right as he was saying that, those exact 2 paramedics started walking past my room. Mom pointed them out, and that neurologist started berating them. It. Was. Glorious.
Sorry for this being so long. I just wanted to share my story
It was the floppy noodle fo međ and those paramedics should have been fired
I hope youâre doing well now! I imagine you couldâve probably sued them for that lol
1:07
I have a similar story (happened to my grandma, not to me)
One evening, last january my grandma called my mum saying her chest hurt, so they drove to the local hospital and they said she was just fine, and gave her some cough syrup.
Turns out
SHE HAD A GODDAMN HEART ATTACK
As someone that suffers from MS as well as a multitude of other health issues, it's actually really upsetting to hear of people faking conditions that are serious.
I'm going through severe grief as well as depression, anxiety and PTSD (from finding my passed father in 2018) And these people use valuable time that really ill people need..
Thank you to the doctors and nurses that weed these people out!
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Azuraion well hope youâre doing better!
I know right, when people fake depression for attention I always get so mad as someone who actually has depression, it's fucking stupid
I'm so sorry that you've been through all that! đ„
karen: *shaking on the floor*
nurse: what're you doing
karen: *completely stops shaking* *gets up* I'M SEIZING
karen: *goes back to shaking on the floor*
this is great
Dont interrupt her SEIZING
ok but i saw one of these (my sis is training to be a nurse) so i could tell it was fake the hospital was called but my sis told my mom it was fake and my mom told the hospital workers and from what i heard they left her and she got up in like 0.5 sec and thats how they knew she was faking it (this took down in the lovely target) its kinda strange how this took down in front of me who 2 years later is reading/watching a simallar story
One time my friend said he wants to be a surgeon. He then tried to poke my eye out with a fork. He is not my friend anymore. We were 6.
He was just trying to make you his future customer
Assault Airsoft, that is deep. You are correct, maybe. I should have not let his mom take him to 1st grade somewhere else. (Sorry if you get hurt)
"does this hurt"
*Screams in agony* nah my diggity dogs
My sister... the biggest faker I know. Her youngest son, who has a bit of a learning problem went on holiday with his mum and my elderly parents. He started complaining of pains in his legs. So she tells him itâs his disability and heâll become paralysed. She then went out and bought a wheelchair telling him he needed to use it. After the holiday she goes home and tells her church that her son is paralysed and then sends him to school and tells them the same.
I donât know the full story she told, but some crazy story people half believed. And because the little kid has his mum telling him this he believes it (because mums are supposed to be honest) anyway, someone at the school smells a rat and calls the police. They arrive at the school and tell the kid he has to get out of the chair, then demand the mum goes to the hospital with the son.
Ok, so my sister has 4 kids, the oldest 3 are huge, 6 footers, and this 4th kid is short. So you might guess...
Heâs not paralysed, heâs got growing pains. Itâs just his body finally shooting up, but her first though it to buy a wheelchair.
Your sister is so dramatic wth
Sounds like munchausen by proxy. Like, that shit isnt normal.
Also, wheelchairs are fucking expensive.
@@painoftheheart12 I can imagine...
The doctor who advised less chocolate and sweets must have thought that the migraine is caused by high blood sugar (that, or he's catching OP in a lie)
I'll bet on the second option
@@limiv5272 Chocolate is a well known trigger for migraine attacks. So are peanut butter, preserved foods (such as pickles, luncheon meats, aged cheese, wines (basically anything with nitrates). My sister can get a migraine from eating some nuts that were roasted in peanut oil. She was having terrible headaches that I swore were migraines, but they didn't occur in the typical part of her head, so she continued to have them for a couple of years. Finally she told her PCP about her headaches and she (the PCP) told my sister that yes, her headaches were migraines. It turned out that both chocolate and peanuts are triggers for her. Chocolate can be a trigger for me, but only if I have it repeatedly within a few days, like chocolate and then a week later chocolate again I will be fine, but chocolate today, chocolate tomorrow, chocolate again the third maybe a migraine, chocolate on the fourth day for sure a migraine. So far peanuts aren't a trigger for me...yet.
@@bunnyslippers191 Is it more likely that a kid has migraines induced by sweets, or that the kid is pretending to get out of doing things?
@Esther Syvanen I never said it's impossible, I said it's less probable than the child pretending
Glad I don't like most of those things
When I was in HS, I was in marching band. We weren't supposed to share water bottles, but it happens. I contracted Mono, but didn't know it.
I kept complaining about being fatigued and didn't feel like eating at all (I lost 20-30 pounds) to my mother, but she just thought I was being melodramatic.
One day, I had zero energy and was just laying on my back on the living room floor when my mother noticed a strange lump in my abdomen. She took me to the doctor and I was sent for an ultrasound. As it turned out, that lump was my enlarged liver and I had lost so much weight that you could see it.
They did other tests which confirmed my mono diagnosis, and my doctor asked my mother if she knew that I had a really bad case of mono. She responded saying that she just thought I was lazy.
The combination lock story reminds me of my own time catching a combination.
In a mental hospital.
So my brother was in a mental hospital for depression and suicidal tendencies and my other brother, mom and I would go see him. Towards the end of his visit, I spaced out and caught the nurse putting in the code for the door (they were locked with a keypad combination). So I was talking with my brother in the hospital when I mentioned it. He asked for the code and I told him, went home, and forgot. The next visit, my mom tells me that he and the other patients had apparently unlocked and gone through every. Door. They found.
My mom had me face away whenever they put in the code after that.
the glass faking:
all my siblings had eye issues and when i started in 6th grade to experience severe headaches, blurry visions to the point where my head was hurting so much i bumped into a giant concreter pole.
The eye doctor said i was faking it before even looking at me just cause i wanted glasses like my siblings.. and said i only had a minor astigmatism but i was mainly exagerrating, that i should only wear them to read and watch tv and that it wouldnt evolve. years later: i can't see shit without glasses, it did evolve and i don't think the doctor realised that i basically was spending my day reading things at different distances, i mainly struggle from far away so me wearing glasses and sitting at the front of the class stopped almost all the headaches ( i still struggled with witheboard, blackboards were a lot easier for me)
Wow that eye doctor is a piece of sh*t!
Doctors should not be allowed to talk to patients like that, especially before even checking out a patient!
This doctor is dumb af because the fact that all your siblings have eye issues means that it's genetic, and that you most likely have some too. What a moron.
I have gone through elementary school without being able to see a lot of the teksts on the board because people thought i was faking it. Untill one day i literally kept pushing my mom until she actually made the appointment to please make an appointment because i can't see shit. Turned out i was not faking it and even explained why i had headaches multiple times a week.
I hate it when people fake not being able to see because the people that are actually not able to see are less creditable with their symptons.
Only 6 years after i got my glasses i realised everyone thought i was faking it because i have autism and just thought my mom just kept forgetting to make an appointment for the entire 5 years of me asking for glasses.
I have ADHD
my eyes are about 100
Not quite the same situation, I didn't even realize I couldn't see until my 3rd grade teacher recommended that my mom take me to get my vision checked. He had noticed that I was struggling to see the blackboard during class regardless of where he placed me. I was just dumb and didn't think it was that unusual to be unable to see anything beyond my arms reach.
Lady: im paralyzed
Doctor: jump around
Lady: jumps around
Doctor: well damn you are unable to move
Wow this is some serious case gentlemans
19:36 - That was mean!
When I was in primary school, all of my friends were getting glasses and I was so jealous and really wanted some so every time I would go home after school, I would tell my parents that I couldnât see the board and it was blurry. They took me to see an option and turns out I have an astigmatism and a cataracts only both eyes. Will need surgery in the future. But it doesnât end there. I came into school wearing my new purple glasses that cost around ÂŁ150-240 (I canât exactly remember as I had gotten two different pairs and one was designer) and my friends were convinced I was lying because âchildren canât get surgeryâ and âyour eyes were fine beforeâ. And so they told my teacher I was lying and I had went to one of my friends houses and stolen hers, so my teacher took them off of me and she gave them to the other girl who put them on and couldnât see anything out of them at all, she started walking but immediately banged her hip into a table and fell over. My teacher confiscated them until my parents came to pick me up so she could tell them about how I stole them from the other kids and how it wasnât very good for me to lie about something as crazy as surgery, as soon as my mum confirmed I wasnât lying, we went home and my mum spoke to the principal, the day I was moved into a different class and never saw that teacher again. Still got bullied though.
"Children can't get surgery"???
Doctor: I'm sorry ma'am but your son has lung cancer. We'll have to preform surgery on him so he can get a lung transplant.
Doctor: But your son is 6 years old so we'll have to wait 12 years until he's an adult because children can't get surgery.
I got a surgery on my hand at 13 because a kid kicked my hand and broke my finger and dislocated it at an angle along the jagged break. I would not want to wait 5 years for me to be an adult to get surgery
As someone who's sister had seven surgeries on her inner ear and now has a hearing aid. can confirm, children can get surgeries.
If u have cleft lip palate, it is definitely better to do surgery as soon as possible (when u are baby) cause it can cause problem in speech when u do it later
They probably meant kids can't get eye surgery. Reason being that usually eye sight gets worse for years and if you get surgery too young you might have to get classes few years later.
OP (From the piss story): Look. Friend's Mum? When friend comes in, you need to act disgusted.
Friend's mum: Why?
OP: If I tell you, I won't be able to prove it. If I don't tell you, it'll prove itself.
flawless logic, mom senses would be on overdrive then and all she has to do is wait
Me: gets shot and is bleeding out
Karen: hey can you please stop or in gonna call the police
Ok
"proceeds to stop bleeding and the wound heals up instantly"
That lupus story made me SO MAD!! I have severe lupus and fibromyalgia, and the amount of Drs and nurses that thought I was faking it was never ending. And a car wreck is what triggered my lupus, so that story pisses me off!! Shes giving us all a bad name
So there is the story my friend told me: His uncle was getting off the train at some station and saw a blind man begging at the side of the building so he puts while passing a 2BGN banknote at the persons hat (about 1.50$), they converted the 2 BGN to coins nowadays but I sidetrack. A sudden gust of wind sends the banknote flying and the "blind" man starts chasing it, the wind randomly puts the banknote near the uncle who picked it up and calmly walked away.
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Here a trick my classmates pulled off to fake sick - Eat chalk or raw potatoes both of which induce brief fevers.
alternatively sit in the sun wearing a warm sweater
chalk doesn't sound that ideal
Damn, choosing between chalk and raw potatoes... such a hard choice. đ
I eat raw potatoes all the time. Add salt yum!
And chalk is eaten pretty often for anti acid... Def does not cause fevers.
My dad told me straight out when I was a kid, "never admit to anything you haven't been accused of." I believe it was after he had to punish me for something that he didn't care about, but my mom was mad. This is both great and terrible advice, lol.
Take out the "terrible" part, this is great advice, especially on the Internet.
People thought my wife was faking her fibro and seizures, until she collapsed in the middle of school, convulsing. It took her breaking her spine, literally, for them to take her seriously. And even then, nope! Not always.
Honestly, rSlash laughing in the middle of reading a post is one of my favourite things about the channel. It always makes me happy.
I have scoliosis "proceeds to bend back into 'S' shape"
lol
I have scoliosis and this is actually funny (most scoliosis jokes suck or are over used)
Lmfao i have scoliosis and this is actually funny
I tried to imagine what that would sound like for spine to just bend back into position
The sound I came up with can only be described as *wet crunchy*
Cockadoodle Doo Studios please stop, please stop, PLEASE STOP.
The eye doctor one reminded me of when the doctor looked in my eye and said "is that normal? You should get that checked."
My grandfather's story, not mine: He went to a new eye doc because his old one retired, and one of the first things he was told was "use this thing to cover your right eye, then tell me what you can read". His response was to say "Doc, I'm completely blind in my right eye, I don't need to cover it" "Okay, then cover your left eye and tell me what you can read" "Doc... I'm completely blind in my right eye, I wouldn't be able to see anything if I covered my left eye"
My mum worked for the police in communications for a while and an old lady used to call and blame every cold case, murder, theft on her neighbour
Op: I was paying my copay...
Me, a Canadian: *confusion*
"15 students named Sarah"
*Wait...my name is Sarah*
Would of been fun to throw in a few Sara's for variety without actual variety
*16 students named sarah*
WHY AREN'T YOU IN CLASS SARAH????
And thatâs 16.
Also a Sarah here. Representing
I once pranked my friend telling her, through texts:
"Are you home?" "Yeah, why?" "I need you to look out of your window" "Why?" "Just do it" "Ok, I'm in the window, now what?" "Don't you see anything outside?" "No, there's nothing. Why?" "YES, MY INVISIVILITY CLOAK WORKS!" "GODAMN IT!"
Still cracks me up.
noctis nox maybe think Harry Potter...
â@noctis nox there's nothing male or female about Harry Potter's invisibility cloak...
I loved it when I read it so I've just tried it on my mum... She's furious, telling me to grow up already... đ€Ł Love the joke đđ
Lmao you just gave a great idea
Oooooh I gotta use this one day lmao
As someone whos on high doses of fentanyl, i will never understand the appeal. Having to go to the doctors monthly for refills, worrying about the timing because you dont want to go into withdrawals or take it too soon, being out and realizing you forgot your meds at home and having to cut the trip short.... its just a big fing hassle. Im constantly nagging for new specialists to try and fix me so i dont have to worry about it. Like really, what do these pain meds do for others that they dont do for me that people go through so much trouble to get them. I feel left out
I fractured my ankle when I was around 9, but because I was being a normal, active kid even though I was constantly complaining, my parents didn't believe me for about a month before they finally gave in, expecting it to be a sprain at worst. Haha nope.
Theeen, only a few years later, at 13 I herniated a disc in my lower back. Went for a month complaining, went to a doctor, and I'm pretty sure she thought I was faking it because it was the 'give them pain pills to make them go away'. Came off the pain pills, still had problems, went to a specialist, he basically looked at us and said 'why are you here your normal doctor should have been able to deal with this,' was very appalled to find out that no it was not properly taken care of.
Got told I âjust had indigestionâ when pregnant and in intense pain from kidney stones.
Also got told that the excruciating pain that lasted 5~ hours or so was panic attacks. I was put on meds & sent to counselling. After 18months of repeated episodes, many trips to the docs, and many A&E trips a simple blood test revealed it was gallstones.
Man, what fun.
I had a very good CNP, who diagnosed the gallstones I had right away. They were small, but would probably have come back. Now they are gone along with the bile duct. Means cheese is just an item I avoid as much as possible.
The second doctor I saw about having constant upper abdominal pain and nausea tried to tell me it was a UTI...yeah, it was gallstones and I needed surgery to remove my gallbladder đ
@@victoriaross3263 bruh i JUST got my gallbladder removed and the pain is no joke. It fucking suckked.
I hope you're doing better.
when i was in the 5th grade, i had a pack of mini oreos for lunch. (my family was going through a hard time then, so the mini oreos were a huge treat.) this girl who was very popular and very well-off kept asking me for one, and i just hemmed and hawed without outright saying no. well, i got to the end of the bag, where you get crumbs and lone end-piece cookies without cream. i happened to have a packet of mayonnaise, and an idea formed.
i took two end-pieces, squirted mayonnaise on them, and then fitted them together to make a mini oreo. it was perfectly convincing. i called the girlâs name and offered her the oreo. her eyes lit up, and she snatched it from my hand greedily. i watched with dark amusement as she popped the whole thing in her mouth, began to chew, and then froze, a look of horror dawning.
unfortunately, she was not a very good sport about it. she spat it out and began crying, screaming that she was allergic. now, were she actually allergic, i would have felt terrible, because i didnât actually dislike this girl at all. however, she wasnât allergic at all - i knew this for a fact in the moment, and she later admitted she was lying about that years later when we were laughing about it together. no one else knew that though, and everyone began freaking out. i was immediately sent to the principalâs office.
i got a lecture, and at the end, he asked why i did it. âi thought itâd be funny,â i said.
âbut it wasât funny, was it?â
âno, sir, it wasnât funny at all,â i lied.
"I lied"
and I LOL'd
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If I was waiting in a chair while that happened i would go up and say:
"I've seen my brother have a seizure before. Shut the hell up."
(and yes, i have seen my brother have a seizure)
(he's fine)
One of my nephews started having seizures as a baby. Finally when he was around 8 or 9, they removed part of his brain to reduce the severity of the seizures. For four years he was seizure free, but they came back. He's a teenager, so I'm hoping once he gets through puberty they go away.
"Sure you could've died, but then you could've sued that hospital for millions"
When I was in 5th grade, I managed to convince my P.E. teacher, mom, doctor, and respiratory therapist that I had asthma in order to get out of exercising. My mom had to drive me to a specialist in another town who diagnosed me with 'exercise induced asthma' and prescribed me an inhaler and weekly hospital treatments where I breathed in some sort of medicine out of a machine. All because my _lazy_ lil' punk-ass didn't like running laps.
My mother still doesn't know.
Cager Carter unless she reads this đ
Now thatâs a whole new level of not doing sport. Iâm not sure if I still have asthma but it used to be worse when I was younger.Skipping sports was the best!
@@pineappleproductions1534 Yes, I was indeed Next Level Lazy. I absolutely *loathed* running and would clearly throw myself and others under a bus to avoid it.
Don't worry though. Karma got the last laugh. When I reached grade 7, it was discovered I was the only student in my class with scoliosis. It progressed to the point of needing surgery to fuse my spine with titanium rods by grade 10.
But hey... at least I was excused from sports for the remainder of school, eh? _SMH_
@@tigeresscrazy8085 One of many reasons I use a pseudonym
Yea Iâm blind in one of my eyes but I went to a new eye doctor because my optometrist âgraduatedâ to me being able to to a regular doctor so long as I came back to him once every 3 years. Anyway this regular eye doctor didnât know ANYTHING I tried telling him I am blind in my right eye but he wasnât having it saying it doesnât look blind and I donât see any eye scars (had eye surgery to save the structure of my eye and keep partial side view so I can still technically drive) anyway he then gave me extremely high glasses prescription that really hurts and makes my âgoodâ eye way worse. Iâm blind in my left eye also but that one is correctable with glasses the other notđ€ŠđŒââïžhe is so confused and got annoyed at me
That doctor sucka
So what your saying is you got a doctor who has no experience?that's what it sounds like to me doctor even if they are not the smartest should at least be better then that with a little experience
When I was 4 I started getting horrible, debilitating migraines. Chronic Migraines run in my family. My mom took me to the doctor to see if there's anything that can help. The Doctor was convinced that my mom had no clue what she was talking about and that a 4 year old can not possibly have migraines. So, he told her I must have a Tumor or Cancer, and ran me through several uncomfortable tests to "prove" it. Surprise, Surprise, I did not have Cancer, or a Tumor, I just had Chronic Migraines. The Doc said then that there's nothing they can give me. So, yeah.
Had extreme abdominal pain as well, and had crummy insurance, with the nearest "covered" hospital being 45 miles away. I went to a close place, driving myself as it was fine while sitting and driving or in a chair. Laid on the gurney with my naked butt under the A/C vent for THREE HOURS - I never imagined they might have thought I was faking it. I ended up having a kidney infection, and I eventually had two kidney transplants in three years.
When I was in 7th grade my English classroom had florescent lights just like all the others in the school but with one difference, one of them was buzzing in a way that cant be heard unless it was completely silent, but every time I was in that room it gave me extream migraines. I knew it had to be the light because no other room gave me migraines and I had headaches from buzzing lights before. People thought I was faking it to get out of that class but if I was going to try and get out of class i would have picked history, not English.
they are both equally bad
Omg same! In my 7th grade lunch room, I had study hall there for a few days each week, and there was always a super annoying buzzing sound in one corner of the room. It wasnât bad enough to give me a migraine but it was definitely annoying and hurt my head. I tried explaining it to someone and Iâm pretty sure they thought I was crazy lmao
Today's this one bully I had who had this I don't know what she had but it made a high frequency buzzing noise and I could hear it it didn't actually bother me but every time she pressed it I'd snap my head up anyway and she got in huge trouble for it
I had the whooping cough in 4th grade. I would have LOVED for it to make me just yell âWHOOOOPâ after each cough xD
I remember as a child i was always weak, had head aches and never wanted to go to school, and because of it i never paid attention in school cause i just wanted to lay down. Eventually my mother god fed up with me and said, "if your going to keep faking it, im a take you to the DR and then you will feel stupid!" So i kept "faking it" Eventially they did a blood test and i was so anemic they threatened to call CPS on her if i didn't get to eat meat, eggs and dairy. My mother was vegan and even if her food filled my stomach, it was basically like eating nothing so i was close to being a dead child. After that my mother let me eat eggs and milk. it didn't help much, but it kept them from calling CPS on the next DR visit.
Had the opposite issue. Had multiple seizures in a hospital. I have epilepsy, diagnosed at a young age.
Woke up to a nurse screaming at me saying to stop "panicking" and I was just anxious and in no way actually having a seizure. My chronic fainting disorder is now much worse. So much so I am in the process of moving because I can't live by myself anymore. I can't help but wonder if I would have been fine if they had taken me seriously.
That mayo story reminds me of a thing that happened at work. So our department was moving to a different floor, and me and the rest of department leadership came in on the weekend to wipe down the desks, check the drawers for stuff left behind by the previous inhabitants, etc. I had picked up a little breakfast sandwich on the way in, and since it was the weekend we were all there in straight casual wear. I had on a fleece that had pockets, so the sandwich was just kind of hanging out in my pocket.
When nobody was looking, I quietly slipped the sandwich into a desk drawer, and once someone else was in view, I made a show of "finding" the sandwich. And immediately unwrapping it and taking a bite. The look of horror at seeing me take a bite out of a sandwich that they believed had been sitting in a drawer for 3 weeks was priceless.
As we all know from Dr. House: junkies are idiots!
And as a smoker myself, i can agree. I always make sure to have at least 1-2 packs at home, because when i run low i get really nervous đ
âThey asked me if I had a degree in Theoretical Physics. I told them I had a theoretical degree in physics.â
In my school we have locker posters and my friend moved all of them down n one. The chaos that insured was mesmerizing as everyone panicked because they all "forgot" their locked combos at once.
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My friends all started getting glasses in elementary school and they would talk about how everything was so much more clear and nothing was blurry anymore and they could read correctly
And I was talking to my one friend who said âI thought everything was just blurry at the edges but now itâs all clear!â
And I just thought to myself
Things arenât supposed to be blurry???
So I told my parents and they thought I was faking it
Recently Iâve had a lot of trouble seeing the TV when we watch movies and I canât read for long before everything gets super blurry
I went to the eye doctor
Iâve needed glasses for a very long time
Tip to everyone or there
Things have defined edges
They are not meant to be blurry at the edge
If they are really blurry
You need glasses
Yeah, I needed to get glasses for a long time. I could have used this advice a year ago
Do you live in the US?
Where I live, kids have eye exams in kindergarten and elementary school, so cases like yours are almost impossible
my vision is fine but I get occasional blurriness from a connective tissue disorder. also looking through all glasses just looks blurry to me, like my mum tried to show me a smudge on her glasses and I was just like "I can't see it coz the whole thing looks like a blurry smudge"
Jack Hannah well ya thatâs usually what glasses look like to people that donât need them
And I mean like when things are constantly blurry
For me when I donât wear glasses things just donât have a clear edge to them
Itâs like if you took a drawing then blurred it enough that it didnât have defined edges
Thatâs just what the world looks like to me (I have a pretty low prescription though so itâs worse for others)
Limi V
Yep
I live in nevada and we definitely donât do that
If you want to check if your eyes work you go to the eye doctor but your parents have to choose to do that you donât ever get tests like that done by schools where I live
I could have lived a long and happy life without hearing the phrase pencil jammed repeatedly into the ear Thanks rSlash
You still can, if you just stop jamming a pencil repeatedly into your ear.
I had to go to 4 different eye doctors to find out I had an astigmatism. They kept giving me a stronger script. I finally got to this last doctor and he said you would probably only need reading glasses if you didnt have an astigmatism. I was a little hesitant at first after 6 years. Got the glasses and after adjusting to them, I'm still amazed at the world I'm seeing now.
That first story on the prank one got me so good! đ€Ł
Introduced my mom to RSlash. She could NOT stop laughing the entire drive to the airport. RSlash..
Bringing adult millennials together with their boomer parents lol
I have avoided the rabbit hole of Reddit because I know I'll never sleep if I go there.
So.
Not a doctor, but veterinary medicine. I have so many faking it stories but my favourite is:
An obvious opiate abuser who was know by all the local doctors and pharmicists as someone who had burned too many bridges trying to get prescriptions, thought she could fool us by bringing in her dog and cat after "they had a fight". Neither showed any signs of pain distress in thr waiting area. When in my consult room the 'wounds' were badly applied cosmetics which both animals had tried to clean off. I knew she was seeking opiates so I dragged it out and said I'd need to do imaging to ensure there was no major damage, run basic pathology testing, administer antibiotics, and advised her that for the teo animals it would be costly. She told me to do whatever was needed to make sure kitty and pooch were okay and then to make sure to prescribe pain meds for them. Sure thing, Karen.
So I ran pathology tests and found that pooch had elevated inflammation markers and imaging showed some mild arthritis. Told her, and she once again said that I needed to prescribe pain meds for her to give pooch at home. Now, pooch was not in pain, but was a little dehydrated. Arthritis, when caught early, is treated with steroid injections and anti-inflammatory medication, with regular reviews to track progress/degeneration. One of the other vets confirmed kitty was absolutely fine and returned kitty to the Karen and she was going to complain about the lack of care given to kitty who clearly needed pain killers.
Called her back in to discuss pooch's treatment but did not tell her that the anti-inflammatory medication was not an opiate, just the dose he needed and how often, explained that I was giving him a steroid injection and some IV fluids for dehydration. She conveniently lost her purse so we agreed to invoice her which could be paid off weekly over six weeks.
She returned with pooch a few days later saying he needed more meds because the dose I prescribed was not effective at all. I notified my boss. We did morr scans which indicated pooch had not been given any of his treatment so boss called RSPCA while I dragged things out. She absolutely insisted he needed more, and pooch was actually in pain so i said I would administer some Suboxone which lasts 24 hours (give or take a few depending on the animal's metabolism) and she was furious, demanding medications to take home for him. I explained that just like an ED doctor my duty I to treat pain immediately, and that pooch would also be sent home with more medication.
Boss and i supplied RSPCA with the footage and audio at their request because there was obviously some form of neglect.
Invoiced her again. She never paid attention to the actual costs of things when we told her.
Pooch was back a few days later with a badly broken femur, and again the anti-inflammatory medication had run out (which should have lasted at least four weeks). We tell her we need to operate on pooch and have him stay a few days. She loses her mind and tells us to just plaster the break and send him home with meds, with many profanities included. Boss calls RSPCA again and they ask to speak to her. They inform her that if we do not operate with her permission they will immediately seize pooch give us the permission. Boss received a heap of abuse for calling RSPCA and still refused to give the permission. At that point she vomited blood in the consult room, blamed us for it because we were stressing her out. That's when we told her the medication pooch had been sent home with was not pain relief but an anti-inflammatory, which when taken incorrectly can cause stomach bleeding/ulcers.
She was taken to hospital and given non-opiate based pain relief and a heap of antacids, tried to sue us for poisoning her, then refused to cough up the AUD$2.5k for all the treatment, resulting in us filing a counter-suit.
TL;DR: opiate addict tried to get opiates from vets using her animals thinking she'd found a loophole and cheaper way to get her fix after being blacklisted by medical professional AND all heroin dealers, got animal neglect and abuse charges, 12 months in prison, no opiates, and at a total cost of AUD$5k.
When my paramedic friend gets his usual faker...
"Get me the bone marrow needle! We can make money out of this!"
Guess who's suddenly all okay?
I know what itâs like to feel that Bc literally last month I had surgery to get my appendix removed and I could barely move around so it sucked