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Retired doctor here, with disabilities, one of which affects my walking and movement. I was called in for the legally required examination, mostly verbal, for pension assessment. In the appointment letter it said to be "concise and relevant". So, following this instruction I only mentioned the main disability, causes, symptoms, side-effects, etc. Near the end of the appointment, we were talking and I casually mentioned another problem I had, not affecting or affected by my main disability. She turned pale and rebuked me for not mentioning it. Well, sorry, but the letter was pretty clear not to mention it. I spent an extra hour telling her about every disability I have, besides the obvious one. The wording on the more recent appointment letters has since been changed. The "concise and relevant" comment has been replaced with "full discosure of all symptoms, problems and diagnoses". So, it's not always the patient's fault.
Had something similar and the other way round as well.
Was at the doctor for a certain problem and he wanted to know all symptoms I had. Then chastised me for mentioning non-relevant things. Yea, sorry, you said I should tell everything, plus, how tf would I know which things are relevant to you? But then he completely ignores my medication, as well as every other doctor I'd been to, just for me to find out months later, by accident, that they are causing the problem in the first place and my gp basically prescribed the wrong one for no reason and forgot about it.
When I was at other doctors for other problems, they immediately jumped on certain things I just mentioned to be precise, but which obviously had nothing to do with my current problem. But they wanted to know everything about the other not related and already treated problem and didn't even want to search for another reason for the problem I was there for. That's why I'm no longer open about all my health problems with every doctor, as they immediately jump to the obviously wrong conclusions and don't take me serious. And then they have the nerve to complain about me not telling everything.
Can't get into details but it's seriously as idiotic as if I'd been there for a sprained ankle and they'd only want to see my arm which I broke 20 years ago. Or being there for pain in youknowwhat but getting told it's normal without even a check. Can't even begin to describe the weird shit I had to experience with some of them.
@@Max-ox5jd Yep. I go in with a list, and it's been ignored for 20 years, but I'm pretty sure I have PD and MS, both of which are in the family. But they always shut me down before I even begin to speak. Very frustrating, since both respond much more favourably if treatment is begun early on.
@@tardismole Is it hard to find a new doctor/get on a list for a new doctor where you are?
@@Kiss_My_Aspergers Before the whistle-blower rules changed, if you were struck off a doctor's register for complaining it was next to impossible for another doctor to take you on, because they all rallied around the original doctor. Now that the rules have changed, I don't think there is as much of a problem as there was before. Patients' complaints are treated much more fairly. However, you can still only register with a doctor whose practice is in your catchment area, so if you complain they will all know who you are, regardless if you win or not. GP's still retain the choice to take on a patient or to refuse. And without a GP, you cannot access hopsital referrals.
@tardis mole wow. That's fucked up. Sorry to hear the laws are not currently in the patients' favour.
Some times itâs done without knowing itâs a symptom.
My eye doc once said to me at the end of an appointment âat least you donât see halosâ
I stopped and asked her to explain.
I always have seen halos and stars around lights. I didnât know it wasnât normalâŠthought everyone saw them!
What? define what constitutes a halo
@@Babihrse Itâs when there is a ring around lights. Like you see the light and then there is a ring of light around itâŠthink of the rings of Saturn.
And then stars is when you see shoots of light going in all directions out from the centre.
I think I need to call my eye doctor lol
In my teens, I began to have uncontrollable spasms when I felt tired or stressed. I would break dishes making myself breakfast and just apologized to my parents saying I was clumsy. One day, my mom was next to me while I was doing homework and I had a spasm so big it startled her. She asked me if I was alright, and I answered : sure, I have these all the time when I'm tired! Don't you?
Mom immediately booked an appointment with our practitioner. He said he didn't think there was anything wrong. We went to a hospital and I was examined by the neurology section: turns out I am epileptic. Luckily, I have a benign form of epilepsy, so with fairly light medication I can go on with my everyday life!
â@@gdtestqueen basically glowing saturn rings around glowing saturn?
There are five people in your life you need to be 100% honest with: your doctor, your lawyer, your therapist, your spouse, and the person who fixes your computer.
Edit: I get the message. You should be honest with yourself and to every professional you hire. What I originally meant was being honest about intimate or incriminating details you wouldn't want to share with anyone. Not just being honest about things directly related to the job at hand.
I picked these people because they're where being shy or squeamish will hurt you most (the computer guy was a joke, but being honest about playing around with your system files or getting a virus from a shady porn site will save a lot of time).
This includes people being honest with their doctors if they are using drugs.
Your doctor is not asking about any drug use as a means to chastise you (hospitals will however use it to chastise you). They need to know this info so they know how to best treat whatever you are there for. And drug use can counteract with the medicines that the doctor would have originally prescribed.
And yourself
If I'm being honest
Don't be honest with your therapist unless you wanna be hauled off to a mental ward.
@@Sinful_Josh retired nurse, hospitals do not chastise you. They need to know especially if you're in the emergency room.
â@@julietteoscaralphanovember2223 itâs happened to me . Didnât have actual pain medicine (even over the counter) and had to find a way down 1 floor and into a car, without the use of my legs due to neuropathy and swollen feet leaving me in a lot of pain.
My friend that was taking me to ER is white trash and had drug on her that I used to block out the pain (lasted about an hour, long enough to get to hospital)
I had already told the ER about it because of increase heart rate and they saw the change as it wore off with pain).
They still tested my urine and chastised me grilling me about it instead of asking actual questions pertaining to my inability to walk.
Did tell my parents about the pain in my heels, but they decided it was 'a long way from my heart', and so didn't take any action. Eventually told my family doctor myself, and discovered deep planters warts. Took over a month of acid treatment, and had to re-learn how to walk like a normal person - I was walking the dinosaur for a long time even before I was diagnosed.
Vet here. Will never forget the time I was doing a routine checkup on a cat and noticed the ownerâs dog, who tagged along, wasnât looking so hot. Is it okay if I examine your dog? Sure. His abdomen was full of blood. Had to tell her he was dying from a rupture in his spleen đ
Veterinarian here: I always ask at every wellness exam if the owner has any concerns. I saw a small dog once and asked that question. Owner said no. I put my stethoscope on the dog, and it's heart rate was 30 beats per minute (normal for a small dog is about 100-120). He'd have several normal beats and then the heart would just stop for 2-3 seconds. I asked if the dog had any issues with fatigue or exercise intolerance. She said that the dog would pass out several times per day! It needed to see a cardiologist and probably needed a pacemaker, but it was outside the owner's budget.
Some of these doctors donât seem to understand that their patients havenât studied medicine. Things that are obvious to the doctor are not obvious to the patient. The results may be funny but the disdain is uncalled for. I once had a doctor quickly leave the room in order not to express irritation. Which was nice of him but confusing to me. I was 21. When he came back in as calm as I expected him to be, he asked why I had said I wasnât pregnant. I said because I threw up all day not just in morning. So he explained to me that I was, indeed, pregnant. I was probably the stupidest patient he ever had but he was kind to me. My sex education at that time came only from the diagram inside of the tampax box and hearing adults complain about morning sickness.
We-especially men-are taught not to complain, to grin and bear it, not to whine, etc. it can be hard to break that training when we go to the doctor. Also, it can be difficult for women talking to a man about defecation problems.
Not all doctors understand that they also act as educators. When a serious disease is suspected, any doctor will take time to educate the patient on the disease, the treatment and the possible outcomes. They need to understand that education can be needed at, what seems to them, to be an obvious level. Laugh all you want but do it in the hall. Post it so we can all laugh. But donât be surprised that a patient doesnât know what you know.
Nicely said. I agree. You can't automatically expect everyone to know everything.
My brother rang his Dr cos his wife wasn't "feeling well". Dr was away so spoke to locum. Locum said probably indigestion and to try some paracetamol and some baking soda. Brother rang back an hour later to say she was feeling worse and, finally thought to mention that wife was 9mos pregnant with first child. Queue massive panic from all concerned. Baby was born an hour after they arrived at maternity hospital. And, yes brother is as thick as a plank.
Not a doctor but an ASL interpreter that was called to the ER. Got there and an older gentleman was writhing in abdominal pain, so they went through the standard questions and the doctors were stumped until the patient signed for me to move closer to him and told me very hesitantly signed to me that he had not had a bowel movement in 10 days. He indicated that he wanted me to quietly share that bit of information with the doctors but didn't want to be embarrassed. I went to where the doctors were gathered to discuss the possibilities and quietly told them and of his embarrassment and the quietly admitted him to the GI floor for intestinal distress and a treatment plan to help his bowels empty themselves. Took 5 days before he was cleared to be discharged.
Nurse wife notices husband is jaundiced. Gets him to doctor right away. Cardiac. Doctor asked how long he had the physical symptoms. He answered 3-4 weeks. Doc gave med based on his answer. The med triggered a serious, damaging heart attack. Told doctor his heart has been bothering him for 9 months. Doctor told him he chose the med thinking his heart had reserve but because he lied his heart was in worse shape. Went from jaundice on Thursday, heart attack Saturday morning, transplant list Saturday evening to dead on Sunday. Because he lied to the doctor.
That makes me very angry... the doctor SHOULD have told him the risks of his answer being was wrong.
â@@onafehtsHe is legally required to so he did. Also, the packages the pharmacy provide with the medications explained the risks...
The "exhaustion" one...suddenly I'm really thankful that the explanation for my excessive tiredness turned out to be multiple sleep disorders...Yeah I barely managed to graduate college and have had a really rough start to my career because it took three years to get diagnosed...but at least I'm alive.
7 years here! Narcolepsy. They try you on anti-depressants first too?
Addison's disease here! Luckily I was diagnosed in time without going into adrenal crisis. Most diagnosed the "normal" way, after crisis has begun don't survive because the symptoms look like shock and the paramedics treat for shock rather than starting IV cortisol. By the time they've arrived at the ER, and eventually properly diagnose, it's too late. Glad you're okay! Exhaustion, true exhaustion, is life altering. Glad you graduated despite the inability to simply stay awake. I still require a nap every few hours. Hopefully, that changes and I can someday live a normal life again.
Sleep apnea and hypersomnia here. Needless to say Iâm not and will never be a morning person
@@sleepykittyMMD weirdly enough I have hypersomnia (and restless legs) but am indeed a morning person. i always try to wake up by 6 or 7 because i seems to function best in the mornings. it does require me to go to bed by like 8 but at least waking up early letâs me actually get out of bed easily, go take my medication and go do a few simple tasks while i wait for it to kick in without feeling like ill fall back asleep in a second.
â@Georgie Moore my gf is the same way, has hypersomnia too! Except she somehow still isn't a "morning person", like the golden hour or smth is 5-6am, once it's past that she can't wake up or can't function well/is not a morning person. And then usually sleeps until noon.
Some of these could be help if the education and campaigns actually teach about some of this stuff. We learnt about alcohol addiction, we learnt about the EXISTENCE of withdrawal symptoms, BUT we didn't know that SEIZURES can be a symptom of withdrawal when it comes to alcohol and other substances.
I had cancer about 3 years ago, and every doctor I went to about it said something along the lines of "I don't know what that is, but it's probably fine, come back if it gets worse." Eventually found a doctor who would test it, told me it was cancer, and operated on it. After the surgery I had some weird issue I can't explain well, but it's basically super weird hiccups but not?? Anyway. Went to a couple doctors about it who said, again, "I don't know what that is, but it's probably fine, come back if it gets worse." So I gave up. The issue isn't bad to deal with and I can't be bothered to keep going on a doctor hunt. Now I'm having really weird leg pain, that sometimes makes it difficult to walk or stand. It's consistently getting worse and has been for about a year, but I don't want to see anyone for it because I can almost guarantee they're just going to say "I don't know what that is, but it's probably fine, come back if it gets worse."
I really don't trust doctors anymore. They're great if they can diagnose what's wrong with you in 30 seconds or less. But in my experience if you have anything even a little odd they're just as useless as you are to fix it. I can't even tell you how frustrating it is to have medical professional after medical professional brush you off because they don't know how to deal with you. So their solution? You don't have symptoms, actually.
Several years ago, I took one of my brothers to the doctor and was in the examining room while the doctor asked him a lot of questions. His answers tried to minimize the issues and when I tried to say something, I was shushed and ignored.
After a bit, the doctor sent him to get a CAT Scan. So I was in the CAT Scan room watching the tech get ready and saw that he was only going to scan the lower intestines. I asked why and he said that the doctor thought it might be an issue with one of the lower organs (I don't remember which). I told him that from what I'd observed, it could be his heart. He ran me out and called the doctor.
A few minutes later he let me back in and readjusted the machine to include his upper chest. It turned out that he had lung cancer and one lung was completely full of fluid. So we took him to the regional hospital where his fluid was drained and where it was determined that he would be starting chemotherapy as soon as possible.
It didn't look good and he died of a heart attack before he could start chemotherapy.
That taught me something:
1) patients sometimes tell the doctor what they want the doctor to know
2) doctors don't always realize that the patient isn't telling them anything.
As a result, when I go to the doctor now, I make sure to tell the doctor everything that I can think of that might possibly be related. I suspect that there are things I should mention that I don't realize are important and I give so many details that the doctor obviously thinks many are not really important.
I'm so sorry for your loss. đ
I write notes for a week before appointments. Just hand them my notes when I get there. My doctor actually laughs about it but loves it too. He doesnât have to spend a lot time trying to draw out answers from me unless he wants to know more about something Iâve written. Although he talks to me about everything on the list.
@@Harley_Girl68 That's a great idea. I like it.
Imagine having enough chronic medical issues that you cant even tell the difference between whats normal and whats not, whats important and whats not, or even at times what might be an urgent issue and whats not.
Also, imagine having a silicone allergy, needing a medical device (generally made of silicone, which mine is) to stay alive, and having doctors tell you that allergy "cant happen," dont know what to do, and just pass you around between different doctors lol
I'm on alot of meds. instead of trying to remember all the names/doses, i hand the doctor what is basically a brochure
Minus the silicone allergy, that's me to a T. I gave up trying to remember all my medications and instead pull up the online My Chart I have for my doctor, which lists all of my medications. And at this point I can't tell what is my normal and what should be seen as important. It sucks when I have to fill out an emergency information form at work every year to provide to medics should they be needed. I have to write so many meds, and so many issues. I also wish I could put all my specialists down for contact just because I'd rather the right kind of doctor to know what's happened.
Yeah,that's me.i can get 1 X 10 minutes appointments per month, this time I chose to ask for bloodworks for my thyroid. I have lumps at the back of my head that I think are bullets from when I was a kid,so today I burnt a needle and stuck it through the skin over one of the lumps and sure enough it scraped on something hard,so now I'm considering just cutting it out because no one believes me anyway,but I know that there's more plus old skull fractures that hurt.I also have liver issues that hasn't been followed up since my last scan.fml.
@Maria Chickpea as much as I _completely_ understand and *thoroughly* relate to the urge you described, please *_don't._* Like, don't even move 'em around. You have no idea if they're pinning something in place that could jostle loose and end up somewhere dangerous. Lot of stories like that on videos like these. Take their warnings to heart: go to an ER if that's what it takes.
I find that funny - here in Germany getting a list with all medications (prescribed and self dosed) is the first a doctor ask for, every time I go to the doctor. And they ask about allergies etc., too. I have no allergy against any silicone, but a latex allergy and that is a real problem, because most medical tools contain latex, starting with one way gloves or the adhesive used in band aids. You have to be alert every time someone draws blood, because they always try to put a small band aid on the wound and it's really embarrassing to ask the doctor or the nurse what kind of gloves they use and have them to change into nitrile gloves. Having a band aid with latex glue for 1min on my skin leaves it red and with a longer time you will remove my skin with the band aid. I had that after an operation. Same with the nice surgical hose they dress you in the hospital after an OP. They contain latex and I woke up from narcosis with pain in the legs, my legs swollen, red and hot.
I've made it a normal routine to check every medication and device I get to check if it's without latex and if the medication doesn't interfere with my other medications and my chronic illness. I don't think medical personal is incompetent. I just think they are often stressed and overworked and use their standard remedies for the problem, when standard isn't a thing that is okay for me. A medical assistant that draws blood of hundreds of patients will in reflex get a normal band aid with latex and not the one without it, because they are not hospital standard.
About the silicone allergy - I understand the statement 'can't happen' , because silicone is a generic term for different types of polymeres that don't have all the same formula. You will never be allergic against every type of silicone, only against a specific sort of polymere. But it can be that in your case it is one of the most used in the medical area. It's the same with strawberry allergy - most are allergic when coming in contact with a special variety. My son reacts allergic to Honoye strawberry, but can eat the sparkle variety out of grandma's garden. He avoids every strawberry product where he can't see the variety, because Honoye is the most common variety you can get.
This is the complete opposite of this. I'm an Army veteran and I go to a VA hospital. I get annual check ups. A week before my annual check up I found a small lump in my left arm pit. At the end of the check up the doctor asked if there was anything else. I mentioned the lump in my arm pit which was now gone. She checked and said, "Well, lets send you down for an x ray and you can go home. I get home and not 10 minutes later the doctor calls. "There is a mass on your right lung. I've set up an oncology appointment for you next week." When I told the oncologist how it was found he said, "That is the most nothing lump that has saved your life." The mass was cancer but encapsulated. Had the upper lobe of the lung removed and have been cancer free for almost 17 years
Am I the only one that gets immensely infuriated whenever one of these doctor stories say "the patient ended up having (weird ass disease that no one knows about)" and then they proceed to NOT TELL US WTF THAT DISEASE IS?!
Ikr? Granted I could probably google it based on the symptoms
It's probably a patient privacy thing since super rare diseases plus the story could possibly get linked to the person it's about.
Yeah, like 6:58. I think it's Dubin-Johnson syndrome but I am not sure at all. Wish they had told us.
Well, if they told us that, half the population would suddenly have the same disease. Some people really so "enjoy" poor health.
@@LadyAnneJT ah yeah true, tiktok adhd and tourrets is a thing now...
I grew up with the ârub some dirt on it, youâre fineâ parents, so itâs excruciatingly hard for me to admit - even to myself - that anythingâs wrong. When I walk into a doctorâs office of my own free will, my doctors know itâs bad. Keeping a health journal has helped a ton in not only keeping track of when a symptom or injury happens, but to check in daily with the body so I stop just brushing stuff off.
So many of these stories I relate to. And I donât know if itâs so much lying to the doc, as it is the âIâm fine itâll go awayâ thing those of us who are older tend to do.
and also with a health journal it can be helpful when you have symptoms that change drastically depending on the day, so you can look back at yesterday and see âok i didnât make that up, iâm actually having these symptomsâ
LOLârub some dirt on it.â Yep. That was my dadâs panacea. Iâd forgotten about it. Thanks for the memoryâŠ.
My mum was born in 1921, before there were antibiotics and the like. She had scarlet fever, whooping cough, and diphtheria and survived all of them. Her attitude was "I survived, and you'll survive." You practically had to be near death before she'd agree to take you to the doctor. I fell on the athletic field one Friday when I was in the tenth grade, and the school nurse cleaned my wound but told me I needed to see a doctor. By Monday, my arm was so swollen I had to wear a sleeveless blouse and drape my sweater over my shoulders. The nurse called Mum and wanted to know why this hadn't been addressed. I caught bloody what-for when I got home for making her look bad.
Honestly, the fact that the doctors rush you in and out in 15 minutes is itself a problem. And - in my experience - that's a generous estimate. Usually it's a lot faster.
Right. With the amount I pay for a visit, itâs wild
I was actually told by a nurse that the doctor only treated one thing at a time. This guy was just trying to get more visit fees from Medicare. I told her immediately that I was going home and finding another doctor who wasn't scamming Medicare.
@@dsa2591 I've heard that from other nurses as well. Not something that inspires confidence in the doctor.
Honestly, it has me strongly considering direct primary care.
â@@momentomori1747 I love my direct primary care provider. 10/10 would recommend. For the amount of random injuries and illnesses and infections I get it ends up being worth it for me.
@@katrinaxharhus3747 I used to work in a private practice, and we would frequently cover for other doctors when they went on vacation. One doctor for whom we covered always complained that we were "stealing" his patients. Turned out he NEVER allowed more than 10 minutes for an established patient, and only 15 minutes for a new one. His patients appreciated the fact that we took the time to actually listen and find out what was wrong with them.
When I was a kid I was being examined by a doctor. He had a reflex hammer and thumped the left knee and got a good healthy kick. He thumped my right knee and only got a thunk. No kick. He hit harder, got a louder thunk but still no kick.
I didn't understand what the doctor was doing, my regular doctor would have me take my prosthetic leg off for these sorts of exams, but as this doctor hadn't asked I hadn't said anything.
In another exam, years later (I was in my 40's) another doctor, perfuming the same exam thumped my right knee and my stump (what's left of my right leg below the knee, about 7 inches of skin bone and muscle, had a much stronger reaction than she expected. She asked if that was normal and I said it was. She didn't seem to know why having an amputation would cause this reflex to be so much stronger. I explained that about 5 pounds of flesh bone and muscle were missing, so of course there will be a much stronger reflex.
Don't know why the doctor didn't think of this, but I found a new doctor anyway.
This video is litteraly what could happen to le honestly. I totally see myself, 10-20 years in the future, speaking to my doctor about a mild pain and mentioning a "small detail" and the doc being mad that I didn't disclose it sooner and me being "Idk, I'm so broken from everywhere for so long, I don't remember what's normal and what is not"
Yep. Yet there's me having mentioned things that Are Wrong, been brushed off, and eventually I'll end up in hospital going "Why am I here? This is normal. Yes I told him multiple times over several years. It was Just Anxiety."
When my Dr unofficially diagnosed me with rheumatoid arthritis, we ended up talking for about 40 minutes. I had questions. I knew what rheumatoid arthritis was, but my world got turned upside down. He started me on meds while I was waiting to get in to a rheumatoid specialist. Even when I took myself off the meds because of how they made me feel the following year and started taking supplements, he went over what I was taking just to make sure they would help. Didn't try to get me back on RA meds either. He understood why I did it. He also gave me an inversion table that he didn't use anymore to help me with my back after I was in a wreck. He's a damn good doctor
I feel the need to remind doctors to listen to the patient when they say I have this rare disorder & this is what I need to not die instead of taking it personally. I have a rare disorder that causes random swelling of random body parts because I'm missing something (hereditary c1 deficiency) & I know what I need. I tell them it's not an allergy, epi & benadryl don't work for it. They give it anyway. I was having a throat swelling after having my wisdom teeth out & the doctor in the er gave me tagamet. Wtf? That's an antacid. He said "I'm the doctor, I tell YOU what you need". That's unacceptable.
"Great, let's go pick me a coffin since you know best~!"
I hate doctors that do this. My wife was once sent home with a broken femur because "you don't know it's broken, if it was you wouldn't have walked in here" - my wife has brittle bones. When it's broken, she knows. She got a call a few days later saying "so the consultant did his routine review of x-rays.... Can you come in right now?" Very broken. More broken for having _walked on it_ for several days. Needed a metal rod put in her femur in the end.
Had a patient admitted for stroke like symptoms. The CT scan shows multiple small regions of ischemia. He was alert and talking so it's not like he couldn't give history. He just chose not to tell us his twin and his older brother have both been diagnosed with a serious genetic disease that is dominant, so we could easily assume he has it too. The best thing is, his brother also never mentioned it. How did we find out? My attending happened to be the same doctor who treated his twin 6 years ago and she realized they look the same, and have the same last name.
Why should I trust doctors? They never trust me. i just have to keep hoping THIS time they'll listen when I tell all the symptoms and that this time won't be fatal. (Because fatal only benefits my family, I can't actually come back from that oopsie.) I do have a good doctor now that listens to me when i give symptoms but i give you two stories (I'm 40 now for reference.)
I was 17 and went from normal energy levels to needing multiple naps a day to function. I was 23 when a friend on the internet said "So when they did the sleep study you didn't have any apnea or narcolepsy signs?" What sleep study? I had to bring my father in to the neurologist to get them to do one. I didn't even LIVE with him at 23, but the doctor wouldn't do it based on my "looking for an excuse to be lazy" It did get worse over the years and I'm totally disabled from the NARCOLEPSY I've had since 17. Sometimes patients give up telling doctors because we get told we're crazy or overexaggerating or lying so many times it's like.. What's the point? You're just going to test my blood tell me i'm not anemic and stop being lazy. It's because i'm overweight. Nevermind that i wasn't overweight when this all started.
I have arthritis as well. And I went to the hospital with abdominal pain in early 2020 that was so bad I was hyperventilating from it. They thought I was there to try to scam painkillers and left me sitting in a bed with no water or iv fluids for nearly 30 hours. my head was pounding when the nurse came in to try to draw blood and i laughed and said "That's probably because they've been trying to kill me through dehydration for over a day now, sorry. hey if i die can my family sue?" My mother had been there at the time and told me to stop being morbid i wasn't going to die. Apparently I scared her. I got iv fluids less than half an hour later. The next day instead of morphine we REMOVED my infected gallbladder I was telling them about from the start. (side note: most of the heavily abused narcotics don't even work on me other than putting me to sleep for 30 minutes and making me throw up after. I definitely didn't want them and told them repeatedly i don't want painkillers i want them to fix the problem.)
Stuff like this is one of the reasons why patients don't mention stuff.
Seriously, there are way too many doctors that brush stuff off like that. Just because something is less likely doesn't mean it's not happening. I've had neck pain for years but they never really address it when I tell them. Also I'm broke so I REALLY can't afford to spend a ton of money just to be told "it's nothing lol"
I'm actually going to the doctor soon because I just snapped out of the delusion that there's nothing wrong with me...perpetuated by doctors. I went several times over a few years, complaining of anything from "seizure-like" episodes, exhaustion, to chest pain and odd tingling sensations in very specific spots on my abdomen. Every time it's: you're perfectly healthy, just fine, it's really all just in your head.
Alright. I started to believe them and thought I was crazy and just imagining things. Well, now there's a huge, dark mass in my left breast, a visible bump on my lower ribcage, and my upper left back tingles and burns worse now. Two out of three are pretty damn undeniable now. I feel pretty ashamed that I eventually ignored all of it and gave up, genuinely thinking I am some kind of ridiculous hypochondriac. Now I just need to find an in network doctor.
@@laya8880 I hope it's not cancer. Good luck.
I just turned 30, and and am permanently losing my eyesight because my Drs ignored my pleas for help. I told them I was sick for 5 years, and had been losing my eyesight in odd patters over those years. I told them that I thought it was a brain condition I had as a kid coming back, and that I exhibited several symptoms. The neurologist literally called me a hypochondriac, and gave me migraine meds (even though I wasn't having migraines.) I woke up one day last year and couldn't see across the room anymore with my glasses on, and had acquired nystagmus. So I went to the eye Dr for an emergency visit, and they clocked my vision at 20/400+ with lenses, and sent me to the ER for scans. Turned out I was right for 5 years. They have managed to get me to where I'm only visually impaired again instead of blind. But they think this is the best it can get to, and that it's going to get worse again one day. All because the Drs chose to gaslight me for 5 years.
I had a classmate who thought if you start take medication, you are freed from the sickness, because you don't even have symptoms. I had to explain them that's not how it works. This was in university. Last year.
You'd be surprised how many people think like that. I used to sell insurance, and for the travel cover we had to do a medical screening. You ask "do you have high blood pressure or heart issues?" "Oh no" and then you ask "are you on any medication?" And they bring out a list as long as their arm of all their blood pressure meds, heart medication, blood thinners. "So.... You do have High blood pressure, and diagnosed heart problems?" "Oh well I don't have high blood pressure if I take my medication and my heart has been fine since they put the stents in after my heart attack! " _sigh_
I have a better question. Doctors, what was a symptom your patient did mention and it was important for the diagnosis, but you decided to ignore?
Ah, yes. Now thatâs relevant info.
Let me just get my mother's medical records............ Long story short, over my 30 years of life, she'd had a transplanted kidney, which was her ONLY FUNCTIONING KIDNEY and it obviously wasn't even hers, so on top of the anti-rejection tablets she took daily we think they were giving her medication doses for other things at the amount for people with, uh, both kidneys available and working at decent capacity, and they wondered why she constantly had problems.
I'm not surprised she was ratty a lot of the time. I AM surprised she survived 30 years like that. She was in her 70's. They wouldn't listen to her or dad or me even when she was on her hospital bed in the last few months. C=
We have free healthcare BTW, maybe if we'd bribed them......!
They don't listen to me either but hey I guess that's the curse of being a woman. If I get that bad, I'm just not gonna bother. I couldn't live like her. I'm not that brave.
@@Roadent1241 I'm so sorry for that. I went to the doctor and told him I was starving myself just to stop gaining weight, I was on a 400cal per day diet, and some days I would just drink water. His reply? "If you cut the bread you'll start seeing some results". I've been treating my self since then, based on Google researches and try and error. I'm feeling much better now, and hoping I'm not just masking symptoms of a worse problem. But hey, if it's a worse problem I can go back to the doctor and hear them say how I should've seek treatment before lmao
Yes!! Like telling me my extreme abdominal pain and swelling was stress related and probably caused by a fight I had with my boyfriend (I didn't even have a boyfriend at the time) đ
â@@camilasantos4446you might want to check your thyroid and hormone levels. There are natural remedies that can help if that's the case. Good luck đ
I never mentioned my chronic constipation that was on and off from my childhood until my mid-20s. Later found out in an unrelated surgery that my organs are tied together from a shunt surgery as a newborn. I have to be VERY careful not to eat too much high-fiber foods too quickly. My surgeonâs assistant was surprised I was still alive. If I had decided to have children after I got married, my intestines would have likely burst suddenly without warning. Following my surgeonâs advice has solved the issue and I am no longer a living time-bomb.
How do you forget to tell the vet your dog is deaf that's really important
As the person who IS HoH and constantly forgets, I wonder if it's just a thing for the people around that they just Get Used To It And Forget?
not exactly a symptom, but once a patient came in to the emergency room bc his post operative wound in his back area was draining pus and smelled bad. nothing out of the ordinary, but he also complained of belly and chest pain, and told us that the infected wound found his way through the belly and that's why it was hurting. that's doesn't happen, but he was so worried and my colleague also was curious about it, so he got a CT scan done. When it came back, he had a HUGE fluid buildup in his lungs, and when further asked about it he just casually mentioned that he had been involved IN A CAR CRASH and that's when the symptoms started.
if you have been involved in a car crash recently, even if you think youre fine, PLEASE TELL THE DOCTORS. his lungs sounded fine, so if we hadn't seen the scan and knew about the car crash, we would've never known that we HAD TO DRAIN THAT LUNG FLUID !!
Great show u guys! As a lay person I want to mention one reason a person may be extremely reluctant to go to the E.R.
I've gone twice to the emergency room in the last few years, both times with chest pain. Both times they ascertained that I wasn't having a heart attack.
The nurse on duty the 2nd time was obviously annoyed with me and said that I should not come back 'unless there was something really wrong with me'.
I've never been so embarrassed in my life. My mom and her sister died very young both from heart attacks, and now that I'm in my 70s I'm worried. But I'll never go back unless I'm bleeding heavily from a wound, etc. I seriously was so ashamed of myself.
Others may have had similar experiences.
Ugh, yeah, I've had experiences like that. Mostly just from one hospital though - people will literally go out of town to avoid it if they can, and years ago they had to remove the Reviews & Ratings section from their Facebook page because they were getting *_so many_*_ negative reviews._ At least 50% of the handful of good reviews were clearly either employees, sockpuppet accounts, or someone was getting paid to post them. Maybe ONE review was a troll. *MAYBE.*
The whole hospital isn't garbage. Almost every tech I've met there is nice. It's mostly the ER, the Outpatient Mental Health wing, and the Inpatient one. But I haven't used either of the latter two in years, so who knows what they're like now. It sounds like the ER hasn't gotten any better, though.
If you have to drive/be driven to a different hospital for a second, or even third opinion, and you have the time and travel budget, I say do it.
It seems so many doctors have become so arrogant...
Oh, and if they refuse to run any tests on you, make sure they note it on your file and ALWAYS have them fax a copy of their report of your visit to your family doctor (and consider getting a copy of it for yourself, as well, if that's possible). This way, you can at least point to where you are being let down by so-called "medical professionals", and, in the meantime, help any other ERs you go to know what you've already had done (or not had done) for you at the last place, plus maybe also get a clearer picture of your complaint by narrowing down what you clearly know it is *not.* Regardless... best wishes and best of health. âïž
Ahhh the clinics i went to the doctor keeps talking over me , a lot of comments too.. unwanted ones so me and hospital donât get along well last time I went willingly by myself was when I fell off my bicycle then proceed to slip on the wet ground and popped my arm out of itâs socket , i went inside my work place asked to have a day off , went and tried popping it back up just enough so I can move it and ride my bicycle to the clinic , went to the clinic and waited - then the doctor told me it looks fine and I should not be too dramatic and go when there was clearly nothing wrong , got painkillers
Alot of people are worried about it because it could affect their employment prospects in future or mortgage or health insurance premiums if it gets out or they now have to truthfully disclose it on a form. Thing is you only have to die once to loose it all and your family anyway.
One thing I will say is it doesnât help when some doctors donât listen or explain to people why they are asking or what for. I have had to take photos in awkward situations because doctors didnât understand or believe me when I said my symptoms.
My grandma always does thus. She requests medical help and refuses to tell them anything because they ahould just know. She has almost killed herself this way several times. Its getting to the point i stopped asking for updates on her health because knowing is too frustrating and she is a grown adult so she is allowed to kill herself if she wants. Before anyone asks, she is fully cognitively aware and very much not wanting to die
When my brother was younger (around 4-6 years old) he would get recurrent ear infections, we would go to urgent care and try to get that taken care of. I would always tell the physician the things my little brother was experiencing because he couldnât communicate very well in English. The physician who was taking care of him told us that he had an ear infection.. my little brother was prescribed medication for it ⊠it helped for a little bit but he still felt the same. A couple of days later he wasnât feeling well. We went back again to urgent care and I told the physician that was seeing my little brother that he wasnât feeling better and that he was in pain. Again, he said it was an ear infection and prescribed him different medication than what he was prescribed the first time around. Days passed and he wasnât feeling any better. We then decided to take him to ENT doc. And the doctor said that the reason my brother had recurrent ear infections was because he wasnât getting the right medication. He even had some hearing loss because of this. Needless to say, I felt so upset. Whenever we felt sick or whatever, my parents would encourage us to go to urgent care, just from that experience, that my brother had, I had no intention of ever going back to urgent care.
I saw a famous newscaster on Letterman once who said his doctor asked him right at the end of his exam if he had anything else to report. He said, "Sometimes I get a little fibrillation under my chin." "Anything else?" "Sometimes I have pain in my arms." The doctor said, "In BOTH arms at the SAME TIME???" When the guy said yes, his doctor brought in a cardiologist, and they scheduled him for quadruple bypass surgery.
Ok I am guilty of being the patient that made the mistake. At some time in my life I donât remember exact I started having wrist pain in my right wrist. I thought it was carpal tunnel syndrome because I love computers so I got ergonomic stuff and at some point the pain went away. Years later the pain came back while I was doing martial arts. I was still convinced itâs carpal tunnel and even told my sensi that. He tried to get me to tell my doctor but I was already seeing my doctor for unexplained chronic vomiting and every time I plan to tell him I forget. I finally decided to make an appointment specifically for the wrist pain and I didnât mention the thought that it was carpal tunnel. He asked how I injured it. I said I donât remember (still true). He said he wants to send me to a hand specialist but with an X-ray. X-rays where no big deal to me so I had one. He said it showed nothing but to expect the referral anyways. The next morning I got a call from his office wanting to know which radiology I want his magnified view X-ray request sent to or will I pick it up myself. I picked it up and had it when I went to the specialist. It ends up I have a disease that causes the lunate bone to die. If that wasnât bad enough patients misdiagnosed with carpal tunnel syndrome usually are sent to physical therapy and end up in stage 4 when they see the surgeon. I was lucky I was still in stage 2. To this day I donât know which X-ray clinched the diagnosis. Years later the doc that referred me told me he thought it was a hair line fracture. The weird part is if I told my docs when I first started hurting I might have ended up in stage four because X-rays donât detect stage 1 and carpal tunnel was the most likely cause
Your doctor probably asked for the X-Ray only because you do martial arts, expectint a small fracture. There would probably have been no XRay if you didnât do a contact sport.. :/
@@unemilifleur I donât remember if I told him if I was in martial arts or not. If I did, your right but either way he did an extra in an attempt to figure it out which was why I liked him best as my doctor
Doc has 15 minutes to guess what's wrong. Don't skimp. Write it down. They can read faster than you can talk If you are testing a new med, take notes. Bring them with you to the next appointment. If anything is "off" call in for sooner appointment. Do not be vague. Do not make the ER staff GUESSSS what's wrong. if you THINK you're having a heart attack , don't just say "don't feel right". They can figure out maybe its NOT an actual heart attack. You're not sweating so go home, its all in your head. Nope. SHOW me on the EKG its not a heart attack. YOU are not the trained expert but only YOU have the clues.
Sadly, many people my age or older are embarrassed to talk about bodily matters to a member of the opposite sex.
Sometimes, it's "I can't talk about stuff like that with a MAN!"
Sometimes, its "Can't stand to look weak to the cute nurse."
Either way, all this delicate lack of communication is DANGEROUS!
Trust me, you don't want them engraving "I didn't want to bother anyone" on your headstone!
I wonder how many are Americans worried about healthcare costs.
It's wild how some people can go through unnecessary pain that can be medically treated. I know someone who had rhinoplasty done, but it turns out it didn't heal correctly and left him in constant pain. Instead of telling his plastic surgeon he decided to go to another country, live there for about a year, then finally return home and get it corrected. I met him in this other country and he never once brought it up to me or any of our friends. I didn't find out until years later when he casually mentioned it and showed me an old picture of his from before the nose job. I was shocked.
In my experience: they don't want to be a bother in case it is normal. They don't know any better. Perhaps they also think the doctor won't take it seriously (I.e. "you *just* had the procedure done, of course it's going to hurt!")
I recently had surgery on my ovary and ever since I've had a weird period and unusual cramping outside of period time (never had it before--I've diagnosed it myself as ovulation pains via doctor google).
Everything else is fine. I just accepted it as "I guess this is my life now." I have a follow up in March and will mention it then but I suspect doctor will tell me it's nothing to be concerned about.
In the case of the USA I think it's a problem of the cost. Nobody wants to go to the ER when the co-pay can make you bankrupt. And in other cases you often recognize something not as a problem, because you think it's something normal. Like the pandemic at the moment. You have the same symptom if you got covid or a cold. I had for months a dry cough and thought it was from the dry air because it was the heating period and my work colleagues heated our office red hot. I was drinking much that time to stay hydrated and using a salve for my nose, because it was so dry. After 3 months my doc asked me if my cough was new or still the same. When I said the same, she did a full checkup, found at first nothing, but did later another test that is not standard, because in Germany most people got a shot as children against it. I had gotten that shot too, but I'd gotten still pertussis.
@@Schaemia "... you just had the procedure done, of course it's going to hurt!" That's a good point. I gathered it was done quite recently before the move/we met, but to wait over a year or not bring it up to another plastic surgeon seemed unnecessary. I'm sorry he was hurting, but I admit he was in very good spirits because no one knew.
@@seanthiar Oh wow, I'm sorry to hear you were battling pertussis the whole time, but I'm glad it was found out.
Yes, my friend got the plastic surgery done in the U.S., but comes from a wealthy family so I doubt money was a concern. I agree with the other poster that he may have figured the pain was normal and when he realized it wasn't going away after several months of living with it he decided to get it checked out.
Also because a lot of doctors either act like you're exaggerating or just push you pain meds
Med student here. I can only face palm so hard, but these are sadly things you hear a lot.
In my experience not so much the doctors but the nurses in my case treated me like an idiot when I asked questions they treat you like a stupid person. It makes you feel like they donât care and then now your afraid to ask or mention odd stuff. Because Iâm not a medical person I donât donât know the answer thatâs why I asked the questions. Just ridiculous doctors should ask the questions not the cranky nurses.
At the tail end of 2020 I started getting sick with some nausea, vomiting and a mild stomach pain. The nausea & vomiting kept getting worse until January of 2021 when I completely stopped tolerating any food or liquid by mouth. The persistent vomiting caused my potassium to plummet and I ended up being admitted to the hospital for a week. The vomiting and hospital admissions continued until May/June of 2021. I was unable to eat from end of December until about the beginning of June. I was on a NG tube feed a couple times and the doctors ran every test multiple times. I asked if it could be my meds Iâm on and was told to let the doctor do his job. I got a second opinion and was quickly diagnosed with serotonin syndrome, aka serotonin toxicity. The combination of meds I was put on caused an overload of serotonin that was slowly poisoning me and my doc said in another month I wouldâve been in organ failure. I lost a ton of weight which most of it came back but Iâm just happy to be here and no serious long term side effects.
Well, the saying "You don't need to be ashamed, the doctors have seen everything, they handle it professionally." sounds like kind of mockery to me nowadays.
Lots of doctors have made me feel ashamed or unwell because of how unprofessional they acted to me. They definitely have not seen "everything", lots of them have not even seen the "usual" stuff. I had lots of them know nothing about seriously normal problems a lot of people have, acting surprised, embarrassed, overall just unprofessional. I could fill a book with stories by now. Seriously. You wouldn't believe it. I don't trust doctors in general anymore, from my experience half of them don't know what they are doing, or are way too old for the job, or are way too embarrassed to even work with patients, know not even basics in their own special field, or only have experience with like 5 different sicknesses and nothing out of the ordinary or even other basic stuff, are discriminating or sexist, etc.
And you need several years of special education just for THAT? One would expect more. Im not even sure if firing doctors is the solution because there already is a shortage of healthcare staff, long waiting lines for patients and doctors being overworked, which increase the risk of mistakes just by accident from lower focus. But the ones that show horrible attitude and wont even take their patients seriously (with no good reason to think they are faking) have no excuse.
As someone who grew up with several health issues, you'd be shocked at how many things you would think are normal if you didn't have any frame of reference.
I didn't even realize there was anything wrong physical health wise until I got covid which absolutely wrecked me and made everything worse, and when I was researching to try and figure out what was up with these symptoms(I mostly got neurological symptoms from covid, and I'm still having some going on 2 years later?, I realized that my lifelong chronic pain, fatigue, gi issues, menstrual health, and more weren't normal. There's other things too, like I was diagnosed with depression and anxiety but didn't get diagnosed with PTSD until over 4 years after that, which put my diagnosis at over 10 years after getting it.
Same, but for hearing. I have atypical hearing loss, that went undiagnosed for years because I could still hear the kinds of things people normally start to have problems hearing first. Well let me tell you when I finally managed to get people to take my suspicions seriously and actually got hearing aids there was a whole new world of sounds out there that I never realized existed. Did you know refrigerators make a humming sound? Or that traffic noise has a dark growing undertone to it?
@@MissCaraMint oh my, hearing.
I have a light brai hearing problem.
I can hear sounds normally but have a hard time decodifing it.
It caused a lot of problems in my childhood.
I noticed that I had the hearing problem but no adult believed in me.
So I spend my whole childhood without friends and being unfairled framed as disrespectful and disobedient.
@@AramatiPaz Tell me about it. I have ADHD so any missed remarks or not noticing when someone was speaking to me was kind of all blamed on it. I thought I was slowly going crazy. Itâs progressive you see, my hearing loss. And I guess for a while ther it just kind of seemed like my ADHD symptoms were getting worse, but really is was my hearing. Mom was verry apologetic. Still at least I live in Norway where the government covers the expence of things like hearing aids.
"wee-poo mobile" is a new one for me. XD
Around here I've heard it called the 'Wee-Woo Bus' LOL
7:20 if it was their first child and if neither one had changed a baby's diaper before that, it would be reasonable for them to assume that that was normal sense everything that went in was likely white or grey-ish.
Iâm in my 60s and retired but was on disability before that. Was born 2 1/2 months premature. Have learning disabilities that have not been diagnosed but as a special needs teacher I recognize them. From early childhood I had problems eating and often had projectile vomiting. My parents took me to doctors but they all said it was nerves and I was high strung. Looked like I was 8 months pregnant from age 11 on. Moved and got a new doctor. After I nearly stabbed myself in the stomach on the way driving back from Florida, went and really complained to the doctor. Sent me to a doctor who had me taking Metamucil, didnât work so sent me for 8 hours of X-rays. I was 20 when I went to a surgeon on Friday and in the hospital Monday. My intestines were tied up in knots with many 390° turns in them. Even going into the operating room he still didnât know what was wrong. Spent over a month in hospital and took the summer off to recover. My bowel was blown up like a balloon. Thatâs why I looked pregnant. Belly was as hard as a drum. Now I have chronic pain and pancreatitis. It never ends but, I am alive.
How do you you force your doctor to not ignore it?
I was the patient. Doc asked if I was taking my meds. I said I was but they didn't ask if they stayed down. Yes I'm on the spectrum. My stomach had ulcerated itself shut and later found out I had an intestinal blockage for 5 years.
One would assume though that you would tell the doc if you threw up regularly after taking your medication....
@@nonchiii4548 Yeah, that's the thing... you not only have to be very direct and specific with your line of questioning with people on the spectrum, but you have to ask very specific follow up questions(as well as remember to ask them) as well. if you don't ask you're not gonna be told. it doesn't usually occur to them to just add "but xyz" to end of their yes/no response a lot of the time, like neurotypical people would. Ask a yes/no question, and you'll get a yes/no answer. the natural follow-up question is: "good, did you keep it down?" It's pretty well known that a lot of autistic people(and some adhd people) have sensory issues related to texture and it can make it difficult to swallow pills and such. It's kind of something her doctor should know if they've had her in their care for very long.
Source: I have both friends and family on the spectrum(and I should probably get tested myself because it's genetic, but I'm lazy and hate using phones). đ€·
@nonchiii That's the thing about being neurodivergent. We're running in Assembly, y'all are running in C++, neither is "wrong" or "weird", just "different". "My Common Sense Isn't Your Common Sense", basically. Which is true. Common sense is ultimately dependent on the individual's lived experience and what *they* were expected to know.
Went to the ER. I had been clean for a few months, however I was still taking Suboxone. As embarrassed as I was to admit I was an addict, I knew I had to be honest to get the best care.
Turns out I had a blockage and required surgery. I had a BM 3 times in a month but was too embarrassed to see a doctor. I even stopped eating, unless it was in liquid form, because it hurt to have a full belly.
Don't wait till the discomfort turns into pain. I could have had a serious problem if I waited another day or two.
On the dental case. They shouldnt have asked if he had health problems. They should ask about medication taken daily.
Story #19, I'm curious why the parents never mentioned the tingling and dizziness
The kid didn't tell them
@@blakethesnake6686 the kid said they did tell their parents
@@blakethesnake6686 at 13:42 is when thy thought they told the parents
@@ashleynicolecooke4386 they didn't tell them about the tingling and dizziness. did you even read the post?????????
@@blakethesnake6686 yes they said they thought they told their parents not that they tell them
I had several of these moments personally over the course of about a month, not that I didn't relay information to the doctor, but that I didn't realize the severity of the issues until seeing one. I caught covid in the fall of 2021, I only knew it because I lost my sense of taste very briefly, and was otherwise asymptomatic, except for constipation which generally isn't a covid symptom. Three weeks later and still covid positive, but no other symptoms beyond mild chills and the ongoing constipation, around this time I go back to my doctor and describe the situation and they check me out briefly, find no abdominal tightness or swelling, but send me home with some stuff to alleviate the constipation. A few day later I still haven't had a bowel movement, and now I'm having issues emptying my bladder fully and am having rectal pain, I've never had constipation issues in my life so I don't really know what to expect, but feel this is probably about how things go, so I go back. They test my urine this time and see I've got a urinary tract infection, they scan my abdomen to check on the constipation, see nothing out of the ordinary, prescribe antibiotics and send me home. Within two days I am starting to have auditory hallucinations, and the pain has gotten severe enough to warrant an emergency room visit. I tell them I've had covid recently and describe the timeline up to now, they also check my urine and do a scan and find nothing wrong, doctor has a brainwave and says he go in "manually" to check if an enlarged prostate is the source of the pain, is immediately aware that an abscess is present, sends me for a more specific scan on site and they find that it isn't one, but multiple abscesses. They tell me I'm gonna need surgery immediately, because the timeline on the pain developing to this stage being so short means that whatever I've got is extremely aggressive. Everything locally is full so I get treated to a two and a half hour ride in an ambulance and have my surgery within four hours of arriving. Within two days they say I am ready to be sent home, they tell me I'm going to need to keep the catheter in for the next four days, after which point I can either return for removal or self remove. I have them teach me how to remove it myself and head home.
Over the next few day I am relieved that the pain is gone, still haven't had a bowel movement, but didn't much care, I was exhausted from the surgery and recent ordeal but otherwise happy. I remove the catheter on the day I was instructed to do so without issue and spent most of the next few day in bed recovering. Three days afterwards I am still super tired, and even though I've not eaten much of anything I've got no appetite whatsoever, otherwise I don't particularly feel sick. So I get my roommate to drive me to a local vitamin shop to look for some easy to down meal supplements so I can at least be getting some nutrition in me, and within about two minutes of walking around the shop I nearly black out from exhaustion. He takes me back to the emergency room, they get me into a bed immediately, and they order bloodwork. About twenty minutes later they call a code sepsis and I think to myself "who's the poor guy with sepsis?", turns out it was me, because they come into my room with the cart and begin the transfer to a solitary room. I spent about six days in the hospital and lost 40 pounds over the whole ordeal, dropped from 170 to 130. They told me if I hadn't come in when I did there was a good chance I'd have been dead by the next day, I was extremely lucky I got out of bed when I had, because I very nearly just went back to sleep that day. The moral of the second part here I guess is to take symptoms seriously, stuff you wouldn't expect can be indicative of something life threatening.
Edit: Forgot to mention, but they never did solve the mystery of why I was unable to poop for nearly 6 weeks, up until the surgery I was eating normally , and while in the hospital for sepsis they were adamant that I eat as much as I could, to the point they were bringing in extra fruit and glucose shakes alongside my already extra portioned meals (I am diabetic). Had my first bowel movement about 3 days after leaving the hospital, perfectly normal, nearly 5 weeks of eating just vanished like some kind of miracle.
Alot of people are just not aware of their bodies enough to identify specific pains, I have to be because of autoimmune disorders but I can't tell you how many times I've had to explain to family that "my stomach hurts" can mean a million different things and they need to be alot more specific. Idk if it's due to having to ignore it because of inability to receive care or being scared to think too hard about it ? But it's more common than I would have thought.
(Not actually a not-told symptom, a symptom that wasnât actually there) when I was little (6) I was going to the doctorâs every 2 months, and i thought that the reflex test was a test to see how weak you are. I wanted to win the test. So I put all of my effort into not moving a muscle. The doctor didnât panic, and asked me if Iâm trying to not move, I say yes, he informs me that actually this test is for seeing if you can react. Never did that again.
Honestly the story at 15:00 has me angry at the doctors. It's clear they were asking about his health, yes, but a person who is feeling healthy will say yes, because they're so used to their routine of taking meds it becomes second nature and they don't think about it. You're supposed to ask "Health problems OR medication". This one's on the docs.
Especially since every doctor does it different. I have been asked for health problems, and when I mentioned them, then said I take medication, they were like "Meh, you didn't need to tell me, if you take meds it's not a health problem any longer and can't have anything to do with your current problem." (even tho for some problems it turned out to be caused by said medication...).
Others asked for medication only and then wanted to know details which obviously weren't related or which I wasn't comfortable at disclosing - like if I'm there because of a easily noticable body sickness I won't talk to a dermatologist or so about the reason for my psych meds which I didn't even disclose to my psych doc or myself fully yet. It's just not their business.
That's probably why he is fixing the damage for free now
@@Max-ox5jd I dont get these doctors. They should ask for both . And even if you feel perfectly healthy with medication its still relevant because it could interfere with other medications
If go to the doctor, I tell them EVERYTHING that is happening in my body that I can think of. Even if it seems irrelevant to me. I go in for dry eyes and the only thing that helps is yawning for tear production, but every time I yawn to produce tears I fart obnoxiously. I'm telling the doctor.
should i tell a doctor about varying levels of cloudiness in my urine? the yesterday it was hard to see the bottom of the toilet and it scared me, but ive already told my mom about it and she has too much going on to deal with me right now
@Emma Johnson absolute yes! There's a lot of things that can make that happen. Pls see a doctor about it. Talk about any pain, difficulty going, smells, or "adult activity". Any strange colors. If you've been feeling sick, or just not quite right.
@@AmandaS-si9mh tysm i just feel like iâm oversharing when i mention things about my medical health in general so bringing things up to my mom to get them checked gives me fear, but your encouragement legitimately helps a lot thank you
Wait wait wait, you gotta ask the teaching doctor to get a normal EKG?
In Germany you just get it, when you go into the ER. It's part of the standard vitals you take. (Puls, blood oxygen, temperature, blood pressure and ekg)
The doctor gets those informations when he/she sees you for the first time.
My childhood friend didn't tell her surgeon about the numbness and tingling in her feet... Then got upset at him that her knee replacement failed to heal and got infected. Yeah, undiagnosed diabetes will do that. After I told her that she should inform her surgeon about all that numbness and tingling she was always complaining about on Facebook she brushed it off as "not important". SMH honestly though I have to meet her posts or drives me crazy the things she will complain about but not seen treatment for...
I used to have a neighbour (theyre dead now) ended up losing both their legs for refusing to see a doctor about issues with their feet that several people had warned them to seek healthcare for, he was diabetic and smoked a lot. If other people are warning you to check out an issue you probably should. I dont get how he werent more worried
As a chronically ill AFAB woman with a history of open heart surgery, I write down every freaking little thing.
The amount of stories I hear where someone loses their motor function and just shrugs blows my mind
That one video on Chubbyemu where this alcoholic who had tried quitting was on death's door when his wife was like "not sure if this is related, but he drank the fluid out of a lava lamp"
*HONEY CALL THE WEEWOO WAGON*
Someone said âsub-arachnoid hemorrhageâ sounds like spiders bleeding all over your brain and honestly I couldnât agree more
I've got a story from the other side of the issue, where doctors were completely aware of the symptoms and history but decided to focus on a completely different issue, and almost cost my grandpa his life.
He was having lots of fluid retention issues, and it was building up in his feet and lower legs. Hearing about that, I assumed it was a heart issue, and assumed his doctors were treating that issue whenever he mentioned his "fluid retention treatments".
One day, instead of driving to his appointment, he decided to walk--wasn't a long distance, but as an old man in poor health, it was a fair bit of exertion for him. And while he's having his treatment done, he lets his interpreter know he's having severe chest pain (he's deaf, and communicates in ASL). Cue a MASSIVE heart attack right there in the hospital. He's rushed into emergency surgery and ends up getting a triple bypass. Blessedly, he makes it through the surgery, and within a few days, the swelling in his lower legs disappears almost completely.
Turns out the doctors were convinced the edema was a result of a kidney issue (what?) And never once thought to check the guy's heart function. If they had, they would've found it holding on by a thread, and that walk to the clinic was what finally made it snap. The heart surgeon later told my mom that, if he hadn't been literally at the hospital when he had the heart attack, he most likely would have died.
It just floors me that nobody on his medical team ever thought to take a look at his heart. I've only got a damn Bachelor's in biology, and I know that fluid retention is a major sign of heart issues. And even disregarding that, he's an 80-year-old man in poor health; why would you NOT be checking his heart, regardless of symptoms!?
That one about the grandparents got me
I always consider what Iâve eaten if I see any red or black in my stool since I have had ulcerative colitis (and a total colectomy shockingly early on because of how aggressive it was). Beets, tomatoes, or blueberries tend to create those colors.
So I have a group of congenital disease diagnoses, plus an atypical thyroid problem and negative reaction to several drugs. I have been accused by several doctors of getting my diagnoses off the internet, faking the drug reactions and more. One doc raged at me, saying I was making things "too complicated," that he should just dismiss me and that I probably had seen 4 doctors in town looking for people to fool. He was the only primary I had seen in that city. So ask me again why sometimes we don't mention our symptoms or diagnoses.
When fumbling around on the floor is faster than actual surfing
My grandmother kept having "funny turns" a few times a day for a few weeks. She'd been to the doctor but just said she was feeling faint and short of breath. They eventually sent her to a hospital for blood work and stuff, and she had one of her "turns" there. They immediately rushed her to cardio because she'd been HAVING HEART ATTACKS. For several WEEKS.
ER nurse here. I'm. So. Triggered!
I have an app on my phone that's technically for first responders to see all my meds, my conditions, allergies, etc. It's super convenient at doc visits because I can bring up everything in one place!
I have been exhausted for years; my Docter keeps saying it is side effects of all the meds I take. Hope she is right!
You can look up the side effects of all drugs online.
@@builtontherockhomestead9390 The first thing they all say is cause drowsiness.
Tell the cops nothing
Tell the paramedics everything
And your eyebrows look fine
It's really hard for me to get proper help from doctors...because I really don't know the right words to say to get my point across. I say "I'm in pain" and they ask "shooting, stabbing, burning?" and I have no idea what those words mean in this context. I'm pretty sure I have Alexithymia (difficulty understanding and describing how I feel) and I very well may have aphantasia of some description as well which has already hindered my ability do get what I think is possibly PTSD checked out (No I don't have visual flashbacks, and I don't know what you mean by "it's like I'm back in that moment") but sometimes it makes me think that, even when I'm completely crippled by pain or whatever, that if I can't explain it, then it's not important enough to mention. Because even if I did, the doctor wouldn't understand.
Quick note on PTSD diagnostics, I also have alexithymia, aphantasia, and PTSD. It turns out, you only need flashbacks OR nightmares; I have nightmares basically every night, though I normally donât remember them in the morning, sometimes I wake up in a panic. The closest Iâve ever had to flashbacks/âitâs like youâre back in the momentâ is sudden fear in response to a trigger, which usually ends after a few moments but throw me off. Going out of your way to avoid triggers (ie, your abuser used Irish Spring brand soap so you donât allow any Irish Spring products in your household, or they owned a Chevy Blazer so despite a potential vehicle being perfect in terms of function and budget, you purchase a more expensive/less functional car instead) count as avoidance behaviors, another diagnostic criteria for PTSD!
Itâs worth telling docs, âI have a very difficult time understanding and explaining how things feel in my body.â
I had no clue how quickly new blood thinners take affect. I was surprised by the patient that had a bleeding problem 2 hours after taking a blood thinner. Warfarin takes around 5 days to get your blood thin because it works by blocking the production of clotting factors and the clotting factors already in your blood take time to degrade, it also takes time for your body to make new clotting factors so you blood stays a bit thin for days if you miss a dose. Clotting time must bounce around a lot with the new thinners and be very dependent on taking them at the right time. I think I'll stick to my rat poison "Warfarin". I haven't had any problems in over 30 years.
But how would it have helped if she was a Warfarin? As you say it sticks around for days even after your last dose. She would just have bled when she fell, and we donât know if she was even with someone then who could have helped her, or if she had a panic button or anything. However with the blood thinner she was on she just had to not take it to drastically reduce her chances of such a bleed. The staying power being shorter is in many ways a benefit when it comes to blood thinners because of the increased risk of bleeding. Itâs an example of how a little information could have saved this womanâs life by knowing she should check in with her doctor before taking her medication again.
@@MissCaraMint Warfarin is reversible if you have an accident, with vitamin K injections if it's not too much of an emergency, or a plasma transfusion will instantly replace the clotting factors if it needs to be done quickly.
When someone's on blood thinners, they're on them for a reason, and with how easily I get blood clots, I wouldn't want to have to worry about my clotting time bouncing around just because I missed 1 dose or I ran out of medication for a couple of days.
â@@Primalxbeast Of course people are on medication for a reason. If they didnât have a reason they wouldnt have to take the medication obviously. The problem is just that you picked a story where her being on Warfarin would have probably made little differece to the result, while stating how basically Warfarin is better. The reality is that on Warfarin the dangers of bleeding are worse than on say Eliquis. In this particular situation Being on Warfarin would not have benefitted the patient. What would have benefitted her (and probably saved her life) would have been some knowledge and education about when to consult with a doctor before taking her next dose of medication. Her situation is not yours, and you are making it kinda sound like what would be best for you would implicitly be best for her. Each person is different, and has different needs.
@@MissCaraMint I just posted because I was interested in the differences between the different blood thinners, no need to get your panties in a wad.
Iâd like to mention that yes, multiple black stools need to be reported but⊠also do not panic if youâve had any peptobismol or bismuth products recently. That will also turn your stools pitch black. So just remember when youâve treated stomach issues with bismuth!
Speaking of, it apparently is not uncommon to be allergic to Peptobismol (specifically, the active ingredient, Bismuth Subsalicylate). I got hives the one and only time I ever took the stuff; freaked my poor parents out lol
The first story is like russian to my english, non med mind
Was gonna watch this video, but saw the "doctor " in the thumbnail and the nose ring and that was all i needed to see.
This would be so much easier to watch without the moving background. Why do you do that? For some of us that is enough to trigger a migraine.
I understand the chest pain lady at 11:25. I get that her chest symptoms are more severe but she wanted to address the other things first because if she started with the chest pain the doc would have focused on that and then never did anything about the other things. My wife has the same problem. She usually is in poor health and has multiple things going wrong at once but every time she goes to the doc they tend to only focus on the one thing the appt was for or whatever she mentions first and then completely blow off all the other issues she wants checked out for. And being on Medicaid in Alabama, she only gets 14 appointments a year. She canât make separate ones for each symptom, she needs them all addressed at once cus most of her spots are used up by her specialist visits.
One time when I was in my early teens my psychiatrist asked if I was having any nipple discharge. I said yes at the same time my mom said no. She was like âwhy didnât you tell me?!?!?!â I told her I didnât think it was a big deal since and looked it up and it didnât seem like a serious problem. Turns out I have super high prolactin levels due to a medication I was on. I was taken off that medication.
People often seem to think Iâm a hypochondriac with how often Iâm at the doctors. In reality Iâd probably be there more often if I wouldnât spend so long dismissing symptoms. I just have a lot of health issues.
I've been to the hospital in 2022 for a week I made sure to mention everything because although it all seemed random they all started at around the same time
Knee hurting
Red spots on my legs which progressed to my arms then the leg spots clumped together and went deep purple turning into bruises once that happend I was limping constantly
Chest pains struggled to lie down or get up from lying down and was uncomfortable
Bleeding gums
All sounds random but they where all connected I had scurvy my diet is so shit I got the pirate disease and even when I got out of hospital was still limping for a week or so
When I am telling my docters more then two symptoms they get annoyd because lack of time and I have to make another appointment.
Only two symptoms at a time...
This question will make a very good plot for a TV series, can almost go for 8 seasons.
One thousand ways to cause your death by not disclosing information
I knew a guy who had a similar incident to the one from story 6. He had a mild infarctus, I don't know the term, and he didn't feel it, but since he was out of breath, he went to the clinic as he didn't think it was life threatening. They see him, and after a small check up, they send him to the hospital (I don't remember how he got there, but he didn't drive) because he was having a heart attack, but he didn't feel it. It's a problem similar to the guy in Millenium where he didn't feel any kind of pain, only this was just for his chest.
He was fine, and he came in my Tim-Hortons (where I work, not the owner) for his now, weekly coffee, instead of daily.
Iâm the patient in his situation my moms a nurse and I had been having back and leg pain thought it was gonna go away but no so after a week or two I told my mom about it, didnât go the doctor until my pain got worse and at that point it was only in my leg and we just thought it was a sprained hampering or something until three x-rays (two being on the wrong leg) an MRI, and a second opinion later I find out I have a bulging disc. Note to self donât put off pain. Iâm starting physical therapy in a week .
You are going to see more in ERs. I'm not the only one that refuses to have your kind near me.
I thought everyone had severe stomach pain and vomiting after eating. I was 42 when I went in for a surgery, and while I was out, I vomited and began to aspirate the remains of food I'd eaten for lunch the day before. They had to do gastric lavage (stomach pump) and asked my husband how much I had eaten before surgery. He told them it had been over 24 hours since I'd eaten. Turns out I have severe gastroparesis, and as of my endoscopy yesterday, I can hold a side salad in my stomach for four days. I was sure that after four days of no solid food, I'd be clean, but no, the doctor had to flush out the salad from Monday night to do the endoscopy Friday afternoon.
If you tell patients to write down ailments as they occur and have it handy when talking to medical personnel, it might speed up the treatment procedures.
8:46 "Opahtomolgy" I'm sorry, it's a hard word, but it was hilarious how you read it
The guy mispronounces a lot of medical terms -- assuming it's a human and not a bot.
And it was spelt wrong too! It's ophthalmology.
@@karenkovler7238 Well that's not the narrator's fault XD
@@scotpens I think a bot would have got it right, and that's coming from knowing they can't say 'coworker' correctly.
My grandmother went to the doctor for "fatigue and lightheadedness" She didn't mention the swelling in her face and arms, shortness of breath, or fainting. When she got there, the doctor immediately ordered like a dozen tests. She has lung cancer. The symptoms have been reduced with radiation therapy, but it's inoperable because she waited so long.
Currently being tested for worsening exhaustion with the exact same symptoms as last op minus any bleeding....yikes
"She shrugged and figured it was just hormones." Ok... and even if it was... she should be trying to treat that...
I empathise with the frustration (and some of those were on the patient) but also, the average person isn't a clinician.
And lets be real, when we encounter the medical field we don't often get a lot of information, or time to think, or context on why things are important or prompter questions to help us remember things. And patients are usually already in pain, scared, confused, overtired and possibly already on powerful painkillers.
Was asked by a nurse if I smoked, I said no because I quit a week prior (smoker for 9 years, 1 pack a day) at 20 years old and later told her I previously quit and ig it was important because Iâm on birth control and itâs dangerous
I went to the doctor at 39. My periods had been getting scant, then stopped. I felt weird and emotionally brittle, but I wasn't sure why. Really, really busy. 3 jobs. The doctor looked at me and told me I was pregnant. ??? As soon as he saw my breasts, he left the room and diagnosed me. I couldn't believe him. After all, in the distant past, I was told that I couldn't have kids. Six months later I set the baby carrier on his desk with my new daughter in it. I found out that I WAS going to have a baby, a few months before it actually happened. Mind blowing. We're fine, she's 25, she made it! Yes, tell the doctor your nipples changed color. It IS important. It's the last thing I would have mentioned, as it wasn't exactly an issue. The doctor told me he had five kids of his own, four of which he delivered himself. He knew the look! LOL.
I think Drs should be able to diagnose someone as being an idiot.
PATIANT HERE: I got pneumonia , stayed in the hospital for a week and was released feeling better. I got a second more severe pneumonia 1 month later that raised a lot of concern to the doctors . And this time it was getting worse and worse and my doctor was running out of ideas as to why I was getting worse. When the doctor says " we don't know why your getting worse " I felt like I was on my death bed at 22 years old. THEY DID however ask me several times have you been tested for STDs and I kept saying yes and my test came back clean. I've been to planned parent hood and they said I was fine . They said "were gonna test you anyways because this is the only thing we havent done yet and it's our last option. "Turns out.... I didn't know AIDS takes a long time to show up and here I just kept thinking I was clean. " When the doctor said you have HIV AIDS I thought. ..GREAT ..... so this is how I die..... I looked at my boyfriend and said SEEEE???? I TOLD YOU I WASNT GONNA DIE FROM DRINKING đ.