"It turns out she'd been eating literally nothing but chicken wings for weeks. When I asked her why in the world she would do that, she replied she just really liked chicken wings." That fucking killed me lmfao Edit: "We were diagnosed with tastebuds." That killed me too
this totally reminded me of something that happened to my best friend this year: she bought a new black turtleneck and wore it to school. got home and changed and her mum spotted this nasty black rash on her neck and rushed her to A&E. sat there for 3 hours. about 2 hours in she messages me telling me whats happened to which i reply "have you tried to wash it off?" she replied telling me her mother had not allowed her to touch it as she has dermatographia (yes i do draw on her for the kicks) and she doesn't want the skin to be irritated. she gets to the doctors office and he sits there confused for a while before saying "let me try this" and grabs an antiseptic wipe. the black rash wipes straight off. she updates me on her diagnosis of Black Dye and i almost piss myself laughing
I have dermatographia too. I was just recently diagnosed about a month ago. I also have adhd. I WILL sit in my desk during school and play tic tac toe with myself or draw a picture 😂 it’s very itchy tho, so I have to keep Benadryl on me at all times.
My mom actually correctly self diagnosed herself with gallbladder cancer. The doctors didn't believe she was right, told her to stop using google, and did the proper biopsy way later than they should've. Well she was right, and she died several months later. Wish they'd have listened to her.
I figured out my dad has a melanom months before doctors did and he had been to several GPs and a hospital before they decided to do a biopsy. He's still in treatement. Sorry for your loss
Every time I had a really bad cold, I would insist to my pediatrician that it was consumption. He always laughed and asked if I'd been watching old movies. No, just reading.
I was about 6 and in so much pain at bedtime I couldn't move, started around my stomach area and felt like someone was twisting a knife around my insides. Doc comes out to me and diagnoses me with appendicitis, went to hospital with mum by my bedside and farted basically the ENTIRE night. Woke up feeling totally fine and mum was then told I was misdiagnosed. I just had some serious trapped gas. Shit hurt.
A lot does not belong here. Patients may not know the 'correct' medical terms or jargon, or be scared, or confused, or not understand their symptoms. That does not make the patient 'dumb'.
When I was a new born baby the nurse at the clinic who weighed and measured me told my mum my head was shrinking. So, naturally, she raced me to my doctor in a panic over what she'd been told. He laughed and told her that wasn't possible and remeasured me to reassure her. She never went back to that clinic when she had my brother.
I thought I had appendicitis and my pain got so bad I couldn't move. Nobody would listen to me and my teachers made fun of me for crying in class. Then my mom FINALLY took me to a doctor after like a week and a half of being in horrible pain, I could barely move without being in SO MUCH PAIN. I was asked when the last time I pooped was and I couldn't remember. I was SEVERELY constipated hahaha
I once thought I was going to contract the same disease as the sick kitten I was trying to help. I was feeding him by hand, and he accidentally bit my finger.....he was SICK too....like....zombie sick....I was stupid for trying to help, but I never got sick.....what he had might not have been contagious....but still....waited a few hours...seemed fine....went to bed...I still don't know what was wrong with him....he couldn't stand, his head kept pushing itself back, as if he was looking at the ceiling, his eyes were cloudy, and his "meow" sounded broken....
Misaki Mei ... Unfortunately he passed away shortly after that, like.....hours ..... but I've never seen a cat curl up like a spider when they die....the smell coming from him while he was alive was a smell I'll never forget...I tried washing it off by giving him a warm bath, but the smell was coming from his insides... None of the other kittens had what he had....I buried him under my Apple tree, but I put a tiny collar on him first, to make sure he felt important, I found him in the greenhouse, and all he wanted was to be an inside kitty. So I wanted him to feel special for being the first one to get a collar. Only one kitten survived out of the entire litter.....and she's a dwarf......
Julia Johansson ......you have no idea how much that means to me, because before this little kittens passing, there was another one from a separate litter that had raging cancer in her throat....and she also passed away.....i got extremely attached....her name was princess......all of these kittens are from the same mother. She's a stray that hangs around our property and she's too fast and wild to catch (we want to get her fixed)....when she has her babies, she leaves them in the greenhouse, screaming for help.....she knows I can't sit there and listen to her babies starve to death....she knows I'll go get them and bring them inside.....I resent that mother cat.....she puts her responsibility onto me and than disappears.....her babies are always so tiny and helpless....I can't sleep in a warm bed knowing their freezing out there......
Once had a neighbor whose infant was diagnosed with some malady where a mosquito bite was a trip to the hospital, not the Dr,s office, the Hospital. They lived below the continental freeze line, where we have mosquitos sometimes up to ten months out of the year. I'd have moved north myself.
I have heard about Morgellons back in the early 2000's and have been interested in it as I'm interested in stuff like that. It's quite a strange psychology phenomenon. Yesterday, I was busy working on my computer and felt...some type of thread. But there was nothing there. I kept moving my hand, and I felt this thread all over it, tugging as I moved, but there was nothing. I couldn't see anything. I kept running my other hand over the area (to try to pick up the thread). Nothing. I ignored it, maybe it was a muscle twitch? And then it happened again. Repeat trying to see/remove it, repeat ignore, repeat situation. "Oh...oh my...is this...is this what it's like to have Morgellons...what happened to my brain am I just tired?? Hungry? What's going on!?!" A bit of Halloween decoration "spider web". I was so relieved. But for that brief few minutes, I thought, "This must be what it's like to have Morgellons...to know there's nothing there but to absolutely feel something there...and if you feel it and can't see it for long enough, you start thinking it might be under the skin." While Morgellons might not be a "real" disease, as a psychological "disease" it must be absolutely maddening. Imagine feeling this and finding bits of thread/yarn and thinking, "THERE, that came from my skin!!" and your doctor just shaking their head sadly and saying, "Sorry, it's not real..."
I remember a kid came in (I had fractured my arm and was waiting for a doctor and overheard this) because his pupils looked small. He had been playing Xbox in a dark room for the last 9 hours. Pupils get bigger in the dark, smaller in the light. His xbox had the same effect as looking at a lamp for 9 hours.
That pain rating system is so broken. If you have only had cat scratches and scrapes in your life then your pain reference is quite different from a person who has been stabbed or had say kidney stones. The fact that even when they ask it they rarely take it seriously should speak towards the efficacy of the questionable a tool.
lnsflare1 I like it I like it.. or possibly just rig the front door handles to jolt those walking in. Could cut down on nuisance cases as well. All those who faint at the door handle get rushed to the ER, brilliant!
There are a number of much better 1-10 scales available. E.g., 1=you can feel the pain if you think about it. By 3, you can't easily ignore it any longer. At 5, it interferes with what you have to do in life, but you can still manage. By 8, you're entertaining thoughts of ending it all, but not seriously. At 10, the pain is so bad you're drifting in and out of consciousness. Google the subject and you'll find a number of better 1-10 charts than just giving a patient a do-it-yourself scale.
Joseph Erhardt I remember hearing that at seven you would be passing out. I still feel that it is largely subjective but that may just be because there are few official charts. Though it is easy to see why one cannot study pain since well.. do no harm so. Guess for now it won’t be much better than it is :/
My mother actually does produce too much electricity. I've witnessed it. She has managed to short out electric locks, computers, and once a fridge just by touch them. I don't mean pressing a button either. I mean just touching the side of the thing. Maintenance hated her.
Once felt something solid-ish inside of my chest and went to the doctor absolutely convinced I was about to die of breast cancer. I was taught that what I’d felt was the lobules and whatnot, like the milk machine inventory that’s _supposed_ to sit inside your chest.
If I googled the symptoms for my condition I’d have a brain tumour What the condition actually is- I either don’t reabsorb or produce too much CSF (cerebral spinal fluid) and it builds up between my skull and brain and in the ventricles essentially squishing my brain and my optic nerves while also pushing the nerves into the eye ball. I have to have lumber punctures/spinal taps to relieve the pressure
That's odd. I have a shunt that does basically the same thing. It drains the fluid and it gets absorbed into the lining of my lung. I don't have to go to the hospital unless it breaks.
This was in the newspaper couple years ago. Two gentlemen in a nursing home for people who have dementia. This two men was fighting and I meen really fighting like full bar fight with fist flying.. Police was called, police arrived but they couldn't make a police report about it because the two gentlemen had forgotten that they were in a fight and they were now best friends again. So dementia made two friends fight and back to be friends again with out they remember any of the event..
7:36 this reminds me of a story where my friend thought her dog had fleas so she started pulling them with tweezers the dog not reacting through this She figured out she was yanking the dogs nipples after a few minutes
Annie Be she could just think fleas look like that. Desiring to always be on top like that will not get you far in life, nor will it make you any friends. Try being a normal human being next time and don’t try to correct people’s stories you have no context about.
Ngl I feel the whole “I’m in pain but I can’t remember where thing”. Yes I understand what they mean cuz I feel the same but no I can’t rlly explain it. I have mega bad health anxiety (so no idea why I’m watching this) and it can create false pain and worsen already existing pain so... I’m just constantly in pain so I kind of forget like... where I’m hurting. Sometimes it’s like. Do I even feel pain right now? I can’t even tell anymore. Life is hell.
Im not gonna lie im the stubborn person who doesnt want to go to the hospital and assures you they're fine even though theyre definitely not. My ex had to force me to go to the er and turns out i have END STAGE KIDNEY FAILURE!! Who woulda guessed?! Seriously i had no clue that it was that serious. I only agreed to finally go when i began to go blind (from high blood pressure i later found out...i had no clue that could cause blindness til then)
I will never understand why people say things like this as if they're proud of the fact that they've made a series of very stupid decisions. "Stubborn" is just a really nice way of describing someone who consistently makes self-harmful choices out of a misplaced sense of pride (or just plain ignorance). There are people out there who are suffering and dying because they can't AFFORD to go to the doctor to get their condition checked out even though they know they desperately need it, and it makes me absolutely livid when people who CAN afford it low-key brag about how they've harmed themselves due to being "stubborn". I'm sorry about your condition and wish you the best in your treatment, but holy shit you brought it on yourself.
Not a doctor, but was a car wash manager of a long tunnel carwash. It's the king that you pull in to a certain point and the wash pulls the car thru while in neutral. Lady pulls up wearing those crazy big glasses you wear after cataract surgery. Asked me if I can ride her car thru the wash because she just had cataract surgery. She was like 80 years old I said sure, but where do you live, she says 2 towns away like 18 miles but likes this was cuz she used to live over here. She cannot ride thru a car was because she cannot see because of cataract surgery but can drive to and from doctor and to and from car wash blind but cannot sit in car and get pulled thru in neutral cuz she is blind. Yeh.
Worked in a level 1 for a while. My favorite story was a GSW. How was the patient shot, you ask? Patient was using (loaded) gun as a hammer. This person was admitted many times over the next few years getting surgeries because the abdominal wounds kept getting infected and splitting open because the patient didn’t follow protocol after surgeries. Last time I saw them the infection was overwhelming and I’m not sure if they lived through that last admission.
I worked with eye surgeons and I have one for you. She had watery eyes,and her next complaint was that she had noodles in her vagina lol. We told her to see her regular GP/doctor. She always came in with some complaint. My coworker who worked her up,came out doubled over with laughter,said SHE LET OUT THE BIGGEST AND SMELLY FART HE'S EVER HEARD AND SMELLED LOL😱🤮🤮🤧🤭💩💩💩
I thought I had blockage on my leg. I had serious reason though. My nails are dying which is a first sign of blockage. Later found out I have more serious problem. If I didn't freaked out and went to doctor i would be immobile. Nobody believed me except my boyfriend. I had to kidney test, blood test, ultrasound and MRI. The whole treatment was on me. My father finally believed when he saw my 2x swelling leg. He freaked out and doc said she would be in wheelchair if she didn't care enough to visit doctors. I have Osteoporosis. It's old age problem, 80ish and I'm only 22. So the doctors didn't even imagine me having it. They were assuming it was a vitamin D deficiency. I'm on strict diet and heavy dose of medicine.
um- snakeoil-huckster's story has me dying because I actually do have trouble with electrical things. like we've tested it, and I have something like four times the normal person's electrical field. I don't need to scuff my feet to move magnetic filings, I get sparked often, and if someone is trying to play a game/ use their phone within three to five feet of me I noticeably slow load time. I refuse to be outside when there is thunder clouds, I could (if I wanted to die) probably stand next to a tall building and lighting would probably hit me instead of the taller thing.
the Asian fever thing isn't true, but the patient might have gotten confused about a different Asian medical concept. Or more specifically, Chinese medicine. Chinese medicine has this concept of "Heat vs Cold", which is a concept not familiar to most of the West. It is a concept whereby your body is generating too much internal heat, but not in the same way fevers start. Fevers are responses to bacterial infections or viruses, but "Heatiness" is more akin to perhaps being overheated or dehydration. It implies that you can feel very warm as if you are having a fever, but never have your temperature hit a fever. So the patient is definitely confused. She should've gone to her parent or a Traditional Chinese doctor, not a Western doctor. Both are real medical practices, they're just based on different things.
My mom and I really do have too much electricity in our body’s nothing bad happens when we mess with anything technical just watch’s tho neither of us can wear them
funnily enough, I'm hiding from my mom as i watch this. why am i hiding you ask? because she, a speech language pathologist who hasn't actually worked in a medical area in ten years, thinks it's ridiculous that i might be concerned about my eye swelling up and getting painful and bloody.
Not a doctor but I met someone in a hospital who claimed to have prostate cancer. Not a good diagnosis aye? Well here´s the catch : It was a WOMAN .....
13:45 HOOOOLY CRAP. Klonopin is strong af even when the pill is only .5mg like what I'm taking for my seizures, and oh my god I'm surprised that girl didn't die within like 2 hours. Unless she did, in which case RIP sis.
I got hives last years bc of stress(well i think its called hives in english ) but it can be caused by a) stress or b) allergies or reactions to fragrance , but it can be quite alarming bc theyre red huge spots all over your body and when you put a light perpendicular to your skin theres also hundreds of tiny little bumps and its really painful, so it can be quite alarming aha , anyway i was 18 , and i never thought in my life i would be allergic to stress lmfao
Am I the only one who gets annoyed when people share stories that are the opposite, like I get it it’s important not to assume that the patient is stupid or faking it but that’s not what we asked people aren’t assuming that every time a patient diagnosis them with something it’s wrong or that every time a condition seems if it’s fake they’re just wanting to hear stories about people faking things and having hilariously wrong self diagnosises
About 3:37 I had to pause to just sing that one verse from NIN's The Becoming. I guess I really am a dork. At least I'm a dork who's a decent singer. :D
Nit picking but it bothers me. You dont have a "fricking tachycardia." Tachycardia is a description of heart rate. You are ethier tachycardic or bradycardic. Or have a normal heartrate. Unless shes in V tac. But even then shes not having a V tac.
@@TheSexySquirtle oh, I guess my brain filtered the "a" out. lol. but, to answer your question, YES. it effects me a lot, both physically, and psychologically. but, by far, the worst symptom is fatigue, and dizziness,
@@karmstrong6566 Oh man. I'm sorry to hear that. I don't know much about POTS other then what I googled after you said you have it. Does it increase your chances of A fib? Or V fib? Or V tac? Edit: After doing more research. It looks like a vasodilation problem then an electrical impulse problem.
The lady at 8:48 isn't completely crazy my family and another family have met do have Strange genetics that mess with Electricity To a nearly unbelievable degree
seriously? More than a billion people on the planet, and you can't find someone who knows how to read? Why do people use these robot speakers?I mean, if you don't speak english that's one thing, but I would think if you didn't speak or understand english, you wouldn't make a video in english. If the person does speak english, why not just read? Even if you didn't speak english, it's such a common language worldwide that I find it ridiculous that the poster couldn't find SOMEONE to read.
