On the other hand I was sick for 8 years and no doctor would take me seriously. Google suggested it was lupus, as did my family history, and my doctor laughed at me. Then 2 years later I was diagnosed with lupus by that same doctor. Mayyybe it wouldn’t take 10 years to diagnose if doctors would stop blaming every symptom on my weight, anxiety, or my period? There’s a huge difference between people assuming they have every disease they read about and people who know they are sick and doctors just won’t help them so they have to figure it out themselves.
This is very true. It took years of pain and multiple trips to the ER to even consider I had a real problem. Years later, the doctors finally admitted I had severe galllstones & a chronic liver disorder.
@@xerofelix7090 I’m sorry you had to go through that. I’ve had 3-5 CT scans a year for the past 5 years alone and doctors always told me I was “fine.” It wasn’t until I had just had surgery for a ruptured ectopic that they came into my hospital room and said “your gallbladder is dying and about to explode, I’m sorry but we need to remove it now.” Looking back at my past ct results nearly all of them mentioned problems with my gallbladder: stones, sludge, and diffuse wall thickening. Not a single doctor thought it was worth mentioning to me, until it was too late. Id argue that the medical gaslighting is the main cause of my medical anxiety, because it feels like once a doctor has decided that you’re “fine” it takes a near death experience on your part for them to acknowledge the problem so they can fix it to boost their god complex (as opposed to them looking incompetent.) Always read your test results, friends. Ask your doctor to explain them to you and to put them in your chart, even if they’re less than nice about it.
@lauren9667 But..I did my research. I learned more from Googling for 20 minutes than your daughter did during all her years of vet school. The Dunning-Kruger effect is strong with too many people.🙄😅
Credentialism ended with the last so called pandemic. It's not difficult to read a medical paper, I can do it. I need a medical dictionary next to me, and I need to be constantly looking up words, but your daughter can't read an engineering paper without at least 4 years of math at graduate level.
@@fuzzywzhe Funny, she did take advanced math and she can read an engineering paper. She could build a computer with the right information. Both her father and I have graduate degrees in engineering, so I’m qualified to make that assessment. You can read a medical paper with a dictionary. I can speak Portuguese with a dictionary. Neither means squat. All the medical papers in the world aren’t going to help you when a dog hits the ER coding and the owner is positive they know what it is - so much so that they interfere with her ability to TREAT the animal. Being an educated patient/owner is an admirable thing, but that doesn’t replace the 4+ years put in by doctors who are learning to DO, not just understand what might be going on.
@@lauren9667 Ask her if she knows what pseudouridine is. If you're an engineer and have worked in engineering, I have a question for you - would you buy the FIRST generation of any product? I wouldn't. We always make errors. The first generation is sent out, and basically the people who buy them are doing quality assurance for us. We get units back, find errors and weakness in design, fix them, and produce the 2nd generation. They have been working on rna and dna vaccines for 30 years now. What are the chances that 4 companies all found a solution at the same time that had been evading them for 3 decades and why would you consider the FIRST generation to be reliable? I don't know what people got injected into them, but I know what it wasn't. You'd think medical professionals would realize this, but they don't. However, I do. Is there any error in my logic, reasoning, or data? Am I drawing an incorrect conclusion?
According to a new study published in the journal Technology, Mind and Behavior, researchers found that internet use is associated with greater wellbeing in people around the world. "Our analysis is the first to test whether or not internet access, mobile internet access and regular use of the internet relates to well-being on a global level," said Prof Andrew Przybylski, of the University of Oxford, who co-authored the work.
To be fair, using WebMD to look up and learn about things I've already been diagnosed with had been extremely helpful in managing my symptoms for me. It's also helpful in judging which symptoms are severe enough to need medical attention/diagnosis. I recently learned about POTs which matches a lot of my symptoms, and knowing I can try treating it at home first with a specialized exercise routine has saved me a potentially very expensive appointment with a cardiologist. Knowing is half the battle. But, it's just how you USE that information that's the problem.
If dr.s would take us seriously we wouldn't have to turn to web md! Endometriosis has a 10 to 11 year diagnosis time. Lupus is 6! Chronic fatigue syndrome is 12 to 14 years! Heck something as common as diabetes has a 4 to 7 year delay! So, ya, we know we're sick but doctors blow us off and gaslight us. So yup. We turn to the internet for help because it's all we've got!
Nice, I don't have WebMD or DrGoogle syndrome, but I've been accused of it plenty. Apparently I need to stop googling my symptoms and "self diagnosing" myself with....things I'm actually diagnosed with. But unfortunately I've encountered several doctors who think that just because they'd never heard of a condition, I must've just diagnosed myself. Yeah, I can't imagine why a non neurologist hasn't heard of a subcategory of neurological condition that is rare enough I'm the first patient my doc has had in her decade as a doctor.
(Of course, this isn't a new problem - People used to have medical dictionaries. Useful... But also tend to cause people to hyperfixate on the worst possible explanation for their symptoms.)
This was hilarious! What dedicated medical professionals can do! It’s amazing! Also one of the funniest videos I’ve seen in ages. I’ll be watching this again! 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Just found your channel. Started having a single symptom around 25yrs ago. 17yrs ago it became episodes of multiple symptoms a few times a year and now its worse than ever. Sick of it so hope to learn more x
This is all well and good...till you have a doctor that doesn't give a crap, or maybe you have something somewhat rare. I had complained about a particular issue. No one had any idea what it was or what it could be. Over the years I've spoken with multiple doctors and other medical professionals. Typically they would ask a bunch of questions to rule out this or that, but in the end, the answer was always 'I have no idea. Don't worry about it'. A few years later, new doctor. Ran it by her, and got the same response 'I have no idea. Don't worry about it'. But I did find something on the internet, and asked her about it as a possible solution. She rolled her eyes at me and reacted sarcastically that I found a potential answer on the internet. I went online, found out what specialist typically diagnoses the potential solution, got tested, and I was right. After decades of asking, I was diagnosed with Visual Snow.
@@carlyle8969 Well, up till then I just listened to my doctor...I didn't make demands or question them. When she rolled her eyes at me and mocked me for having a suggestion...I got a new doctor. Additionally I looked online for what specialty could diagnose me if I really had visual snow, made an appointment on my own and got an answer. Ultimately I guess I stopped being passive about medical issues and take a more active approach with medical professionals.
I think the real concern is that you appear to demonstrate symptoms of being a multi dimensional being who is able to simultaneously exist in multiple locations at the same time. . . There's a different Doctor you see for that. 🤓😋
I have been in the hospital for 21 days. When I go look up whatever they have tries to lately put a label on, their language is the first NIH article on Google and plan of action the WebMD article first preceding it. Also, haha: they tested me for TB on a whim last week and I found out I am the proud carrier of TB yesterday 🎉 😂😂😂😂😂
"Mild constipatioon" Magnesium will fix THAT right up.... I haven't had a solid movement in MONTHS since my endocrinologist gave me that for my thyroid. Better than what Gardiance did.
@aurorafauna4195 It works amazingly well taking it with my pain meds. It's a balancing act, and my magnesium levels are checked regularly. My now retired cardiologist loved when I started taking it. My primary care dr said I bet he did.
