Yep. Almost died at 13 because a male doctor insisted my pain was caused by cramps. In fact, my appendix was bursting. My mom insisted they operate and it saved my life (it was a close call though).
Actually, anecdotally, a number of women who have experienced both appendicitis and bad menstrual cramps have said they ignored the appendicitis at first because they either (1) assumed it was period cramps, or (2) their period cramps were so much worse that they assumed it couldn’t be anything serious. But the part about doctors ignoring them also is true.
My wife had hers rupture and it stayed like that for four days before they finally operated. She obviously almost died and had to have her stomach left open for more then a week with daily deep washing of her internal organs!!! I found out they essentially use a surgical version of bleach that they pour into such wounds and either sop up with surgical sponges and/or suction! 😳
People most often go in denial, cause how much easier it is to assume something usual than something unusual and disruptive. And in those cases, blaming their own cowardice on doctors is such a dishonorable act...
I ignored bladder infection once for three days straight cause I thought it was my normal usual cramps. I understood it was not only when during the night it got higher and behind my back.
@@AleksandarIvanov69 doctors also ignore when they say it’s not like any menstrual cramps they’ve had. And only one person in the situation is a medical professional that’s responsible.
Now imagine: Bad Cramps + IBS attacks = Is this Gas? Period? Or am I dying? I'm glad the pain I was feeling when my appendix went out was distinctly different from my usual cramps. Unfortunately, now my cramps feel like my appendix did when it went bad ToT
I got necrotizing fasciitis when I was 9 years old in my foot inside my cast when I broke it! I thought it was a normal amount of pain for a break so I waited for it to heal, but when pools of blood soaked through my cast, I was rushed to the ER and had it immediately taken off. The most I remember from that experience would be my skin practically being melted off, but I was very fortunate and luckily I didn’t have to have anything amputated. Now I just have a fun story and some sick scars and nerve damage which I am VERY thankful for!
While still in the OR after my c-section I felt extremely nauseous and they had me smell alcohol. I didn't throw up, and the nausea went away. Hadn't heard of this trick prior, but was thankful for it!
@@sydneyrouse see I can't test it because I have chronic migraines and strong odors like alcohol will cause one to get started on me pretty quick. It probably does work though, if you say it works it works I just don't know how.
I've used it many times with patients and had good results has never worked for me personally though. Since I had covid in December 2020 I've had much gastrointestinal distress, I've lost100+lbs from mostly nausea and vomiting.
It isn’t just women, it’s men too, too often have I went in and been called a hypochondriac when I quite literally had 3 broken fingers and a dislocated wrist, with the doctor saying it’s impossible to dislocate your wrist. Yea, I’m gonna have to disagree right there chief
@@pohorex6834 while I respect your experience, and it sounds like you had a real shitty doctor, it is proven that doctors are more likely to dismiss women when they raise concerns about their health.
Honestly the conundrum is propensity of somatization which MDs can’t do much for, it’s unfortunate conundrum that could lead to overlooking red flag symptoms
@@kaylanovacek8973 I can understand it. However, I've been dismissed with pneumonia 3 times, a broken arm, leg, and wrist 2 times. It's definitely possible for both, just more common for one more than the other.
Literally almost died for appendicitis. Went to emerge three times and was only admitted the last time because a nurse argued with a doctor tooth and nail over admitting me. There was no sympathy either. I couldn't stop shaking and they kept asking me to stop to draw blood and I tried so hard but it was like massive uncontrollable shivers. Even after the ultrasound they thought it was a ectopic pregnancy and didn't believe me when I told them I was a virgin (highschool at the time) now I have a massive scar running from my palvic bone to about an inch or two below my belly button and drainage scars where tubes were left in for some time after the surgery. Not fun but super thankful for that female nurse! She literally fought for my life
The doctors also nearly killed my sister when she had appenditis! She was 4 and she couldn't walk by the time she was admitted. It was so scary and she was in hospital for 3 weeks. My parents and another doctor had to fight for her life. Doctors should really start taking things like those more seriously before they kill/nearly kill more people. I hope you're doing well after the whole ordeal because I can't imagine going through something like it myself :)
This happened to me like 3 times I went to the hospital with appendicitis but I never even had it, I just had a really bad pain in my stomach but I’d have other symptoms of appendicitis like they said a blackout and such, never had it though.
My doctors wouldn't believe that I couldn't be pregnant either. They kept asking and asking and asking and I was like, NO, just do something! I had a large ovarian cyst.
I finally persuaded a friend of mine with abdominal pain to let me take her to the urgent care center. They examined her, told her she needed to go to the ER because they were pretty sure it was something they couldn't handle at the urgent care center and they had called the ER to expect us and she should be seen immediately. I had been pretty sure she had a hot appendix from the beginning, but that sealed the deal for me. The triage nurse was *not* impressed at all. She claimed Urgent Care never called the ER and made us wait. We waited until all the people ahead of us had been seen, then we waited until everyone who came after us was seen. They made us wait for a gal who came in after us and who had a sprained ankle and they made us wait until after a guy with no money and no medical insurance and who came in after us got a cast cut off his arm. Finally, after we had been there for 4 freaking hours, everyone who came in after us had been seen, and gone home and we had sat in the waiting room with no one else there and all the exam rooms sitting empty for 30 minutes the triage nurse let us go back to see the doctor. My friend had appendicitis, was admitted, and surgery scheduled for 11 am. At 8 am they drew blood, discovered her appendix had started leaking the pus and infection into her abdomen, and moved her surgery time to 9:30. The triage nurse had told the ER doctor my friend was obviously drug seeking and had nothing wrong with her, but she had to send my friend back to be examined per state law and hospital regulations.
I went through 3 hospitals before a children's hospital finally took me in when my appendix yeeted, I was about 16 when that happened, I actually almost died because I thought it was a pain that would go away and lol it didn't till my mom saw I wasn't ok.
You’d wish, I volunteered as doctor cause our country needs more determined doctors and never once started saying stuff like that lol and yes I do understand it’s a joke but I hate gen z humour
So glad I had my appendix removed when I was 10. My cousin threw me onto the ground, I landed funny, & then there was pain. Told my mom it hurts but she said it’s bc I was rough housing. After taking a bath like an hour later, she angrily took me bc I couldn’t stop crying. I no longer share anything with my mom, especially anything health related bc she kept dismissing it.
"WOMEN don't mistake appendix pain for period cramps, DOCTORS do." You're half right. Our doctors frequently do blow us off or ignore us, especially those of us who have horrific cramps, but a lot of us DO mistake more serious things for period cramps. When you're used to hearing that things like appendicitis are the worst pain ever, but the pain you're experiencing is on par with what you deal with every month, you're not going to think it's anything to worry about. I have endometriosis. I could 100% see myself not realizing I had appendicitis.
then theres me, who thinks every period cramp i get is appendicitis lol. Minor pain in the right side can be so many things. Probably the best advice i got from a doctor to tell the difference is to get up, hop on each leg and hop on both. If you can do that, you're fine. Now i do it whenever i get pains. Other things i read is that it hurts to breathe/cough, you can't... er... 'pass gas', it hurts to walk (ie stretching your abdomen), and that applying pressure and taking it away causes alot of pain.
This is 100% the reason I got birth control pills. It reduced my pain 99%... until it didn't, and I had to escalate to an IUD. I don't think I have endometriosis, but I have 2 sisters who do and another with PCOS, so I can't discount it. When I had a kidney stone, the only thing that told me it wasn't a cramp was that it was a week too soon.
@@jacquelynsmith2351 This is also why I went on birth control. My registered nurse in college told me that there is no real biological necessity to actually have a period each month, so I could take the standard week of placebo pills and have one if I wanted to... or not. I 100% chose not.
Very good point. But that's why patients need to be examined. Appendicitis has signs such as guarding and rebound tenderness on examination and also other symptoms like going off food, nausea and vomiting, fever etc
“My stomach is so painful doc” “Yeah that’s period cramps” “But I haven’t started my periods yet” “I’m the doctor I should know” “I’ve never been to see you before, you don’t know my medical history, I haven’t had a period before” “Who went to medical school out of the two of us?” “Well right now it looks like neither of us”
My appendix ruptured when I was 12 and the doctor told me it was just period cramps. My appendix was ruptured for a week, and I had made 3 trips in to see him before he finally checked anything. By that point several other organs were infected and I was in surgery for 8 hours. I flatlined during surgery for 6 minutes. I still struggle with the aftermath. I now have severe period cramps… so the doctor predicted the future 😂
Women DO sometimes ignore appendicitis pain thinking it's period cramps. A girl in my college psych class took the whole class in pain thinking it was just her cramps. When it didn't let up after 12 hours she went to get it checked out. Told us all when she came back that if the pain had fluctuated and let up from time to time she would have died because it felt less bad overall then her regular cramps.
I might be dumb but I heard recently that periods are not supposed to be as painful as everyone has them. I heard sometimes it’s caused by uterine fibroids? I’m not a doctor just another uterus-haver concerned for us!!
If you're nauseous due to stress or anxiety, humming or singing stimulates the vagus nerve, triggering a parasympathetic response and easing the nausea. :-)
Right after Christmas 2013, I had the most unimaginable pain. I can’t describe it. I thought I was dying. My boss called 911 but by the time I arrived at the ER, my pain has subsided. They told me I had bad gas and sent me home. Later that week my doctor examined me and ordered a scan of my gallbladder. It was full of gallstones and functioning at 12%. It was removed Jan 9th. I’m still so frustrated by that ER that did nothing and sent me home.
The easiest way to prove the brain is the most important organ is that medical science has figured out ways to at least temporarily replace every organ except for the brain.
When I had appendicitis, the ER doc just said it was a burst cyst without even examining me. Since I have had a burst cyst before, I knew that was wrong. It took a female resident to come in, actually listen to me and for the first time since getting to the ER (several hours have passed at this time), palpitated the area above my appendix. The pain was so severe, I launched off the bed. She promptly left to get me some pain meds and to let the doc know that I needed to be schedule for emergency surgery. I'm still mad at that first doc today and it's been over 20 years.
had the same experience as a 9 year old, severe pain in lower right quadrant of the abdomen that came on in waves, like a really serious case of nausea, parents took me to the doctors after not eating for a week, doctor said i was faking to get time off school, another week passes managed to eat half a digestive biscuit in the whole week, another visit this time to the hospital "oh he must be doing it for attention, there's no need to test him if it was serious he would be making more of a scene" at the 20 day mark had a fever that wouldn't go down, was curled up on the floor of my bedroom screaming in pain, rushed to hospital by ambulance, they tried fobbing the parents off with the "oh he probably just doesn't want to go to school tomorrow" mum said that i hadn't eaten in nearly 3 weeks and as a kid who loved his food there was something seriously wrong, parents told nothing was wrong. wasn't till my mum made a huge scene shouting at the doctor at the emergency room, demanding i got at least a scan or a doctor to actually do a physical exam she would make life very unpleasant. they gave me a ultrasound to calm my mom down, and ill never forget the panicked look on the radiographers face when he rushed out of the room and was shouting down the phone at the doctors at admitting, less than 30 mins later i was being wheeled into surgery, ruptured appendix, that had infected 40% of my small intestine, as a result have a huge scar from my right side to my belly button where they had to remove a significant chunk of my digestive system, all because they wouldn't take the complaints of a child seriously. now later in life suffering some pretty severe digestive issues all because my symptoms were waved away as attention seeking or a attempt to get out of taking a test at school. its a shame there weren't any of those no win no fee medical negligence lawyers back in the 90s, cos would have got a pretty sizeable payout considering their neglect left me less than 24 hours between being alive and being on a slab in the morgue and with serious issues even to this day 2 decades later. ever since then i have zero trust for the medical system, especially as that has been proven time and time again thanks to a recurrent shoulder dislocation i have which is getting waved off as a problem physio can fix, yet i've been doing physio for years and the problem isn't fixed, but a surgery to put in 6 stitches would likely fix the issue, but nope here's a sheet of exercises and more opioids, it will get better eventually.....honest
Reading all these stories and comparing them to my amab (and not out at the time) experience of appendicitis (went from ER waiting room to emergency surgery in one and a half hours on a holiday) makes me so incredibly angry at the medical system. Basically unless you're biologically male and white, you're screwed.
when i was getting tested for COVID the doctor told my mom we should immediately go to the emergency room to get my appendix checked and you know what my mom did? Nothing. We drove home and she completely ignored it. From time to time my side hurts (the same side the doctor was concerned about), but everyone says that if it was an appendicitis then I'd be dead by now so i guess my mom saved some gas in her tank. if it really was an appendicitis then i'd be dead and she would die soon after from the guilt. tsk.
So true story about doctors treating women different than men. My mother in law went to doctor with a sore back. They basically told her she was fine and she could take aspirin. My father in law goes to the same doctor a month later because he was actually hung over but his work required a note if he missed work. This was like 30 years ago. So he told the doctor his back hurt and asked for a note for the day. The doctor gave him pain meds and took him off work for 3 weeks. It has been proven that women have a higher pain tolerance than men because we have to go thru childbirth. So why do male doctors act like we run to them crying when we get a pin prick. If we say it hurts it’s because it hurts. I have fibromyalgia so this hits home for me because getting a doctor to actually treat it is difficult. Most want to tell u it’s in your head.
I live in france and im a student nurse. A lot of time they told us about a "Mediterranean syndrome". Apparently women from this part of the world exaggerate their pain sensation and reactions, especially before or after giving birth. My school warned us multiple time that some doctors or nurses would use this as an excuse to not give medication or investigate the cause of the pain. My school told us there is no such thing as a Mediterranean syndrome, and we should always trust our patients and believe them. They know themselves more than we do.
@@wherearetheblanketshans8501 yeah they tried to use that as an excuse not to take Fibromyalgia seriously. Now they are finding that women of childbearing years are more likely to get Fibromyalgia. It is a serious disease and it has taken years before doctors have started taking it seriously.
One of my friends kept getting told by multiple doctors that her syptoms were just because of mono. Turned out she had cancer. Shes okay now, she got a good doctor who found the cancer and treated her, but its gross to think she couldve died because the other doctors were so set in their diagnosis that they werent willing to accept anything else
I have gastroparesis and the doctors kept telling me that there was nothing wrong with me and that I was overreacting. They said my symptoms of acid reflux, and vomiting all could be resolved if I just swallowed my vomit or something.. also diagnosed me with an eating disorder when I didn't have one. When people keep telling you the same thing you start to believe it, glad they figured what it was, although it took a year to diagnose me.
@@gsivl8578 im happy youre okay now, its always so upsetting when doctors try to fight you on a diagnosis, before i was diagnosed with fibro, the doc i had told me verbatim "it is not as bad as you are making it. You are exaggerating and you need to stop." Meanwhile, i had been crying in pain for 10 hours straight, unable to move or walk. I threw a fit and they gave me an mri and a cat scan and found some cyts on my spine which are pushing on the nerves around them, causing my pain. She didnt even have the guts to come back and tell me she was wrong. She didnt come back at all. A nurse came in and said i could go home and i had to ask her what they found. Even she was bewildered by the fact that my doctor refused to come and tell me my diagnosis because she was wrong and fought me on it every step of the way. I still sit and think about how her ego was more important to her than her job or professionalism. Its not hard to tell someone you were wrong, but in my experience, doctors tend not to.
I had a multible disc prolabs on my lower back for about 6 years befor i could convince my doc to get me a MRI to confirm it. Every time i got there she keept telling me this can't be, you are to young to have that, it's probably just the muscles. Yeah and it's my muscels fault i had such pain i could only crawl on my hand's and knees trough my apartment... sure. Btw curently i have depression and everything that comes with it and i can't realy work cause of this, guess what my doc. (not the same) says, "you are to young to stop working". Well guess i need to jump in front of a train to prove it... so sad you realy have to prove everything befor people belive you... especialy if it's a doc. for mental health, how can a doc. say well he is donw bad but he is to young for this???
@@gsivl8578 I have gastroparesis also. I've had it many years and have learned to treat it mostly until I got covid. I had mostly gastric problems and a lot in the 2years since. I can't seem to convince a couple of doctors it's not the gastroparesis. I finally had to say gastroparesis doesn't cause a fever an infection does.
I’m very glad to hear that she’s okay now and that she got treatment! I have Myasthenia Gravis (among other chronic illnesses) and when I was still undiagnosed, I had a neurologist who I’d never seen before. He walked into the room and without even asking why I was there or what my symptoms are, he said “given your history with self harm, and the very quick weight loss, plus your age, this is obviously an eating disorder. The weakness is a mix of malnutrition and a psychosomatic illness. Go to an eating disorder recovery clinic.” I was seeing a GI specialist for 4 yrs at that point and had intestinal paralysis documented in my chart. Only got diagnosed almost two years later after entering a myasthenic crisis and nearly being intubated because my diaphragm became too weak.
On the doctors-don't-listen-to-women thing, I'd been trying for about ten years to get my uterus removed due to severe PMDD, but my physical symptoms weren't deemed serious enough. FINALLY got a doctor who determined something looked wrong inside and agreed to remove it. Operation was supposed to be laparoscopic but the fibroids were too large. Second choice was a c-section-type scar. What I woke up with was an incision that ran from pubic to AROUND and OVER THE TOP OF my belly button! I woke up to both doctors informing me that I'd had a "massive uterus" and "the ultrasound didn't do it justice." If a doctor had only listened to me earlier, I'd have had a 1.5-hr surgery instead of 4, a quick recovery instead of one taking over a year, and I'd have been spared years of PMS/PMDD symptoms equivalent to the kind that makes women throw their babies off bridges. Now I'm getting a hernia because of the surgery, so I'm having issues with moving, and new pain! Yea, doctors need to trust women's' instincts more, that's for sure.
Even the normal amount of PMS is really really hard. I can't even imagine going to bunch of doctors, geting dismissed on top of PMS/PMDD symptoms you have... I hope you get better.
@@laulavinia It's been almost miraculous to be relieved of it because I'm ME again. It's almost like reverse PTSD as "normal"/healthy clicks into place again.
Fun fact: when my appendix got removed, my doctors originally thought it was a twisted fallopian tube, because I was on my period that week. I insisted that it wasn't and I was almost certain it was appendicitis, but after doing an ultrasound, they didn't see anything wrong with it. Turns out it wasn't my uterus, but it was a rare case where my appendix was only infected on the inside, and showed almost no cosmetic damage. If I hadn't kept insisting that it was my appendix, it would've ruptured in a matter of hours following the surgery. Moral of the story, not all abdominal pain is period pain :)
I work at a pet clinic and dogs will stay perfectly still when get injected with multiple syringes! They will stay still when getting squeezed. But I kid you not, I’ve never seen anything as dramatic as a dog when it’s time to clip their nails!!
@@fede2293 Nope! I am still in high school, but I work as a kennel assistant and take care of the boarders over the weekend. I perform most of the janitorial work.
The appendix one made me remember my appendicitis story, I could hardly walk one day but I wasn't really in pain, mostly confused. Then like 2 weeks later it happened again and my folks took me to the walk-in clinic and the doctor, throughout some tests, kept saying "no way it's appendicitis. There is no way." because I wasn't responding to any of the symptoms or tests, but then they tested my blood... Myself and my grandparents were outside in the car waiting for the results, then they called. "GET HER TO THE ER /NOW/" and it turns out not only did I have appendicitis... It had been ruptured for TWO WEEKS.
@@Owen_loves_Butters oh didn't know that was the term, I was told that the only reason I survived was because fat tissue had surrounded the appendix before it had ruptured so the toxins were all contained
@@hazbinotakusimp2182 Yeah, most patients die within hours of a rupture like that from "Septic Shock"... You were still septic, so a round of treatments for that on top of surgery... It's that the fat that seemed to contain it, slowed the process so you didn't go into shock immediately... It's important to point out that not every appendix rupture is quite the same... Some folks get in bad enough shape before it goes that when it does, it's almost like a miniature bomb going off... Others only get a little bit of a tear and it just starts leaking slow... If I recall correctly, Harry Houdini took a couple weeks for it to finally kill him, and he even went on stage to perform after it burst... from a punch to his gut {another of the "tricks" he was famed for}... ;o)
@@hazbinotakusimp2182 You gotta thank your greater omentum for that. It's probably what migrated(yes it can move) and enclosed that region to protect your body It's one of the most amazing yet unheard of part of the human anatomy.
My dad used to be a fighter pilot and he can compress the air in his lungs so hard that some of the moisture in his lungs comes out as vapor. Anti-G straining maneuver. Nothing to do with boiling.
my crohns was called period cramps for almost 10 years and now its too severe to do anything with lol and im only 22! got diagnosed last year on my 21st birthday, was finally sent to the hospital and they thought i was dying due to my appendix bursting and almost sent me into emergency surgery but no it was crohns disease, like my bio father
The reason she says humming to stop vomiting is because there’s a neurological study showing that humming or smiling helps surpress the gag reflex. She should’ve worded it differently but it’s true. I have gastroparesis… I know from experience
Jayus uses they/them pronouns by the way! I see a lot of people misgender/wrongly use pronouns for them. I know you-and many others-don’t know, but I’m just telling you.
westzed23 depends on how violently or forcefully your body is trying to get it out of you. So for me, gastroparesis means paralyzed stomach, it’s an illness. I’ve my gastroparesis is mild that day, humming or smiling will help prevent me from throwing up but if it’s severe that day and just forcefully trying to get the food out then yeah, nothing will stop it from happening. With food poisoning it would most likely be the forceful.
The rubbing alcohol thing is totally true. I had surgery on my gi system and while hospitalized if I ever felt nauseous, the nurses brought me an alcohol pad to sniff, and it worked each time. Still does now!
Actually, someone who I went to elementary school with could make vapor come out of their mouth without drinking water. They got in trouble in 8th grade twice, accused for smoking. It's really odd how that happens. I've always wondered what made actual "vapor" and how it ends up out of their mouth.
Like when you drink a bottle of blue raspberry vodka then throw up everything in you, vs when you drink a bottle of disaronno and a quarter bottle of everclear then be drunk for 3 days. My theory is your gasoline breath, causes you not to be able to throw up. don't know tho.
I remembered when my sister was in terrible abdominal pain and she was throwing up pretty badly, when we took her to the hospital and did some x-rays, doctor said she just have ovarian infection and brushed her condition off, two months later with her condition still going worse and worse we took her to another hospital and they saw her liver's size was strangely enlarged, further investigation and it turns out she has a rare aggressive tumor Sarcoma soft tissue in her liver growing, she battled hard and strong from 2008 until 2019. Bless her soul she suffered a lot. Moral of the story, doctors should investigate with better care rather than throw vague assumptions just cause they deal with daily normal cases everyday, every patient should be treated as anew case rather than "oh a woman? must be her ovaries!"
To be fair to doctors, it's hard not to default to an Occam's Razor conclusion. It's so infrequently ever a tropical disease or a rare tumor, that it's easy to dismiss. When something only happens less than 1% of cases, the first instinct is the more common, less serious prognosis. That doesn't help your sister since she WAS that rare case, but the hundreds or thousands of people who complained about a similar situation were likely less sever infections or issues. It's sad, but that's the reason why it's so important to be or to have strong advocates for our health. We need to keep pushing or have someone advocate for us when we aren't well. You never know when it is that more serious small chance case.
@@kevinbarnard355 Yeah I totally agree with this. The problem isn't that medical doctors who have went through so many years of medical school, training, and experience are dismissive, it's really about being an advocate for yourself because it's not helpful to tend to go to the extreme conclusion when most people suffer simple problems.
My wife's stomach hurt and she had me take her to the ER. She didn't act hurt or anything. Just complained a few times.. The ER docs were trying to blow it off as period cramps but she'd had her period the week before. They did a blood test...and her appendix was shot. They told her it was weird that she felt it because it was so early in the process that she shouldn't have felt it yet.
@@Jonny188881 i also had hella pain near the stomach/pelvis area, it hurted so badly I couldn't even walk. I decided to just go to bed and chill, I slept for a little and when I woke up the pain had went away. i dont know what caused the pain, but it was nothing serious perhaps, considering this happened a few months ago and I'm still alive lol.
@@CelestialExility Ive had that every time i pee after holding it for more than an hour well not every time and i can hold it for more depending on the situations and everything... Just mainly at night if i dont get up to pee when i rlly have to it hurts after i do
The guy talking about appendicitis and women ignoring it thinking it's period cramps - it's not just the doctors, Mike, it is the women as well. I'm fortunate enough to have never had appendicitis, but I know that some women have cramps so bad that, if they get appendicitis, they just assume it's cramps and treat it the same. But also good point on doctors not believing patients, I've heard so many stories omg.
I still remember a girl at summer camp who almost died because the counselors thought she was just being a wimp over menstrual cramps. She lost consciousness and barely made it to a hospital in time. She looked awful when I saw them rush her out of camp. Almost no color her face and completely unresponsive.
But yeah, I have absolutely agonizing cramps sometimes. When I rate pain on a scale, migraines and cramps are basically what I compare things to as being close to a ten. Easily the worst pains I've ever experienced so far. Like, on the floor in a fetal position, rocking back and forth, and barely able to speak kind of pain.
🙋🏻♀️ survivor of this very thing here. I had extremely bad cramps as a teen (due to endometriosis), and BOTH the GP and I missed that the new pain I was feeling was actually my appendix about to burst. Only reason I’m here today is because of a VERY good surgical resident with awesome instincts who refused to let me leave until she ran another blood panel on me after finding out the pain had suddenly gone through the roof & then pretty much completely stopped not long after coming into the ER. I spent eight and a half weeks in the hospital fighting the infection, five of which I was in the ICU. My heart actually stopped 3 times due to the infection - I’d developed pericarditis from the peritonitis, (sounds like a bad pun, right?!), and I had to be sedated, put onto a respirator and undergo twice weekly dialysis for most of my stay in an effort to give my body a break while they threw every drug they could at the infection in an attempt to eradicate it. I’m grateful for every day I’ve had since then, and I can never thank that tenacious resident enough.
@@VictoriaWalker8thanks, I was very, very lucky. The resident was a “She” actually - oddly enough, what’s stuck with me the most wasn’t just that she’d saved me…I don’t remember very much prior to waking up in the ICU, but I DEFINITELY remember watching her stand up to a bunch of derisive, extremely misogynistic males that she was surrounded by there (this was mid-80’s). She had to actually go *against* her attending’s orders (😬😥) to get that lifesaving blood panel done - it easily could’ve ended her career before it started, right then & there, as it was a big no no for her to have acted as she did.
My anatomy teacher in highschool had a ganglion cyst when she was a kid (I was asking her about my own and what I should do to get rid of it.) She said when she was younger, her brother took heavy book and smacked it and it went away, and to NOT do that, but it did work. Another term for ganglion cysts are actually "bible cyst/ bible bump" because people used to get rid of them by smashing bibles on them.
I had a ganglion cyst on one of my wrists. I had been planning to go to the doctor as it started causing pain but one day I fell over in my room and landed on my hand. I heard a snap and it was gone lol. Hasn’t come back luckily
@@maikbam2827 That definitely doesn't count. When doing a head Transplantation you just replace the whole rest of the body, not the brain or the head. What you suggest would mean that if you perform a successful head Transplantation, the person waking up would have to have the personality and all of the traits of the body's, not the brain's, person. That doesn't happen because the brain defines the human. That's why per definition you don't really do a transplantation of the head when doing so but rather of the rest of the body.
@@jrmckim You actually have about 10 days. But yeah, you would have to get it ASAP because once you start having symptoms it's too late and can't be treated. All doctors could do is just try to keep you comfortable with pain medicine or maybe induce a coma.
As a nurse, we do use rubbing alcohol swabs to keep patients from throwing up from nausea. Also that vagus nerve comment about humming to help with nausea is also true.
Depends on the cause of the nausea though. I have (unintentionally) smelled rubbing alcohol after a night of drinking, and I immediately threw up on my shoes…
That blood donation bit cracked me up. They do ask a lot of questions when I donate blood. I let them take it out with a needle instead of bringing my blood in a bucket though.
I am sorry the buzz lightyear one choked me and then when Mike mentioned his wings and the the sudden clip of lightyear's wings popping out CAUGHT ME 😭
The second she mentioned the bruise on her leg that wasn't there several hours before, I was like "Was it flesh eating bacteria?" and then a second later it's confirmed. I thank Cabin Fever for making me look up Necrotising Fasciitis, because now I'm so much more thorough about keeping cuts, scraps, and any other injuries, clean while also watching out for signs of infection.
That girl did amazing to survive if it was necrotizing fascitis. My mom had that back in 2017 and needed emergency surgery to remove the dead tissue. When she got through the op, they told us only 2 out of every 5 cases survives initially and the reinfection rates are sky high. Sadly, she did get it again and passed from multiple organ failure because of it last year. We got lucky the doctor had even heard of it the first time round and he was able to help her and bought us 3 more years with her
Resident: "The patient's heart is bussin'!" Cardiologist: "What does it even mean?" Resident: "He has ventricular fibrillation" Cardiologist: "Oh sh*t!"
I was told for many years that my abdominal pain was just period cramps. Turned out that I have endometriosis that’s covering all of my reproductive system. My drs and parents felt like sh*t after hearing that.
@@serene_actual Either pain meds or surgical removal of problem tissues - there's really not much else that can be done about it. It is *not* a condition that goes away with medication.
@@serene_actual I had surgery to remove as much of the tissue as possible. I'll be scheduling the surgery again soon. The condition is technically incurable. The tissue will continue to grow back. It's been over 4 years since my first surgery. The pain has returned especially since the birth of my son.
@@electrowave114 my husband and I are going to try for a second kid in a couple years and after that I'll get a hysterectomy so I will finally be over with the pain.
I can confirm the rubbing alcohol thing for nausea. When my wife went into labor she was really nauseous at intervals and the nurse would hand her an alcohol swab and she would smell it a couple times and it would help to relieve her nausea.
Around June 2021 started having severe chest pain. My mom got me an appointment at Nemours Childrens Hospital. They said it was muscle spasms. Around August that year they started getting worse. Afraid it was my heart, my mom scheduled another appointment with Nemours with a different doctor. He diagnosed me with severe pectus excavatum. Turns out my sternum wall was pressing on my main arteries. July 14, 2022 I went in for MIRPE. Since then, I’ve had a fricking metal rod inside my chest to correct the depression.
Your left and right ears really do have different functions though. The left ear takes in sound from the left side, and the right ear takes in sound from the right side. It allows you to have an idea of what direction a sound is coming from.
I do feel like there is a difference though... I use one of those single-ear bluetooth headsets pretty much day in day out. When I have it in my right ear, there is basically zero effort required to follow what is being said on a phone call or podcast I am listening to, even in noisy environments. If I put it in my left ear, it feels like so much more effort required just to parse the speech and it's much easier to loose track and I'm unable to sort of quick-rewind in my head to re-analze what was said a second ago...
@@Zac_h72 you can't hear from the left side with your right ear, because the left side will always be on your left, and the right side will always be on your right. Oh, you're gonna turn your head to hear what's happening on the right with your left year? The right side is now the left side. 🧐🧐🧐
When I was a little younger I went to the ER because of nausea, fatigue, weakness, sleep problems, dry skin, etc. The doctor thought is was just a common cold, I told my mom I knew it was more than that, but the doctor insisted I was fine. Here’s a little information: I’m type 1 diabetic, allergic to way too many things, and I have been in and out of the hospital for my irregular blood sugar my entire life. So if you know some things about diabetes, then you probably know where this is going. I was in early stages of chronic kidney failure, we continuously tried to get our local doctor to do blood tests, but they always refused. Eventually we went to our endocrine specialist (which was a hassle because she’s an hour and a half away) but there is not much we can do other than try to maintain the diabetes. I’m allergic to most over the counter medicines, I have multiple health issues that make it extremely hard to lose weight (but I’m already a sort of healthy weight) and I’m not doing anything like smoking or drinking to speed up the process. We never went to that ER again.
I am very happy to say that when I got my appendix removed, the doctors listened to me without fail. I had mild pain and discomfort for about a week before we went into Emergency, got charged $1k to have an Urgent Care doctor poke me in the belly and send me out sure, but the moment I got there it was "I suspect appendicitis," "ok how long have you had this pain" "1 week" the doctors/residents/anyone who saw me immediately just doing their best impression to not seem surprised. I had atypical symptoms. The pain was at its worst a 6, barely any nausea, no vomiting, no blockage. CT Scan? My intestines looked like a storm cloud. I went into surgery that night. What was originally supposed to be a quick and easy Laparoscopic Appendectomy turned into an Open Surgery because... as it turned out? My appendix had already cracked open and was stuck to the outer lining. I legitimately almost died and I barely even showed any symptoms. If someone had made it harder for me to get the help I needed, I might not have been here today. Got Surgery on September 30th. Happy to say I can move around on my own just fine. Just got abdominal muscle cramps every now and then since they basically tore me open, lol
broo i also had hella pain near the stomach/pelvis part, it hurted so badly I couldn't even walk. I decided to just go to bed and chill, I slept a little and when I woke up the pain went away. i dont know what caused the pain, but it was nothing serious perhaps, considering this happened a few months ago and I'm still alive lol. your story gave me hella chills though, i literally could have died if my case was the same as yours because i decided to go to bed instead of going to the doctor :/
@@CelestialExility I know what you're talking about. I've had the same pain before. My doctor told me that it was related to the liquid levels in my kidneys changing too fast, and that not drinking any water for a day or two, and then guzzling 20 oz. will do it.
As soon as you present atypical (or anything different from the diagram in their textbooks) you're screwed if you can't find a good doctor. As a 20 year old I was misdiagnosed with Shingles because the MRSA that I actually had happened to all only be on my right side of my stomach. After coming back a week later telling her shingles shouldn't be this deep and so pus and blood filled she brushed me off and I went to urgent care, who basically scoffed at the original diagnosis and said what I had was most definitely MRSA.
this dark guy... i saw the same thing on someones comment, i think its safe to say everyone with the name dark in their youtube account is there for clout
My doctor thought I exaggerated my chest pain (btw it was rational because I was a 16yr old female) and said that it was a pulled muscle. At this time I was also having severe body oder and ph problems I was told were part of me not being clean or just my puberty. Turns out the pain and ph disruption was caused by my mediastinal teratoma tumor that collapsed my one lung and ruptured the sack on my heart. After getting emergency surgery and almost dieing did he then realize I had a high pain tolerance and to not ignore a female patients symptoms just because you think we're weak and won't because u never know whats going on inside a person who might look and act as a stereotypical teen girl I almost died because of it.
I heard about smelling rubbing alcohol to keep nausea at bay before. In a SciShow video too! IIRC they said that patients that did chemo would often use that as advised by hospital staff and that some study considered it just as good as taking anti-nausea medication.
my aunts gave me a cotton ball dabbed with rubbing alcohol for when i had a stomach infection that made me puke every 10 mins. it actually worked pretty well and fortunately i like the smell of rubbing alcohol
Yup this is true. There have been a couple studies showing it's as good or better than Zofran (in the acute setting). Look up "Inhaled isopropyl alcohol for nausea and vomiting in the emergency department" :)
I remember I was 14 and I went to the ER for really bad abdominal pains. The doctor sent me home after he pushed my stomach a few times and told me it was period cramps. I was actually passing a gallstone. 2 months later I go to the ER again for the exact same reason and they found out I had over 200 gallstones in my gallbladder. They lost a clip during surgery and every now and then it moves and feels like someone is stabbing me below the ribcage
My teacher told us the story of why she's scared of needles and it basically goes like this, She goes to donate blood which she has done before, then as she is donating blood the needle falls out of her arm and then nurse or whatever put then needle back in without sanitizing it or anything. (This was a few years ago so the story might be off but that's basically what I remember) TL:DR Teacher went to donate blood or something, the needle falls out of her arm and nurse puts it back in without sanitizing it.
I actually met someone who could produce water vapor from their mouth on command. They did a lot of weird breathing and mouth movements, but it was a small amount, not a ton like that. Still cool though.
I knew someone who could turn their saliva into a mist, they'd blow their cheeks up real big, then compress with their hands, some tongue clicking, then they open and a small fog rolls out
Yeah, it's a fun party trick. It's not boiling the water, it's vaporizing it (usually, or at least this is how I do it, by puffing out my cheeks a couple times with my mouth closed). It's similar to ultrasonic humidifiers; they don't just boil water, they mix air with very tiny droplets of water. That said, like @triforce9286 said, I've never seen that much vapor produced so this particular video might be faked with a vape, but that's just me speculating.
Twice got badly diagnosed due to my gender. First time was massive lower stomach pain, literally the worst in my life, I was screaming/begging for my mother to kill me (and I have chronic pain issues so my pain tolerance is high by necessity) ER doctor insisted I was only cramping and being a drama queen. Thankfully my mother stood up for me, demanded they bring an obgyn, who realized this was serious, turned out an ovarian cyst the size of a softball had ruptured, I ignored it because pain is the status quo of my life, and it was infected. Second time, I had known for 12 years that I had epilepsy, but suddenly my seizures were increasing. I had recently moved to Oregon, and this new neurologist told me that because my EEG was normal, I didn't have epilepsy at all, these were nothing but panic attacks, and refused to renew the medication that I literally needed to survive. FYI, going off epilepsy medication cold turkey can cause even someone without epilepsy to have a seizure. (They can be prescribed for mental health or chronic insomnia.) I argued that this was insane, three neurologists IN the past had treated me no problem, and cold turkey was literally a death sentence. I had to argue that panic attacks (which I do have) don't happen when you're asleep, or bored cooking dinner, or having a lovely family dinner, and panic attacks don't happen so suddenly that you collapse and break your arm. TWICE! I admit, I raised my voice in anger. It was horrifying to me, having an increase in seizures only to be told my prescription would not be renewed. Brain damage was a very real likelihood!!! So I got upset, was told to get out of the office and never return, and rather than send me to another neurologist in the network, I was assigned to see a seizure clinic that my insurance refused to cover, and they refused to let me see another neurologist in the entire freaking city of Portland. I then lost my insurance and had to supplement my epilepsy pills with my sister's spare pills, since I had no neuro to prescribe new pills, and anyway I couldn't afford $800/month for my pills without insurance. Thankfully, Oregon Health Plan became a thing, I got an awesome neurologist who not only got my seizures 100% under control with cannabis (5 years seizure free) but also takes an interest in my mental health, and he even read a novel I published after my brain was repaired enough to write again.
You know the worst part? There's no way without a lawsuit to inform these doctors of the severe mistakes they made. They never gave guilt. They just arrogantly go on, telling the story of a crazy woman they had to ban for the office just because they cut her off from some drugs.
What? How does having a normal EEG mean you DONT have epilepsy? Do they not know that epilepsy is a neurological condition? I have epilepsy and they say that to me because neuron active didn’t increase.
The rubbing alcohol thing does actually work for a short-term solution. My mom (an RN) used that trick on my older sister after she had jaw surgery and her mouth was wired shut. It bought enough time for her to take the ani-nausea meds!
The dog with a bag over its head is very dangerous. I’ve had clients who’ve lost dogs to coming home found that they got into the pantry and suffocated from having chip bag over their head and being unable to remove it.
Absolutely. Even large dogs die this way, they just don't have the range of motion and awareness we do. Hoping more people will upvote your comment for awareness
I witnessed my cat running around with a platic bag covering its head, my cat survived and was perfectly fine but its quite the scare at 3am when you just want a glass of water.
One of my old dogs got his head stuck in an ice cream container (plain vanilla! We kept any trace of chocolate away from him) and then he got stuck in a corner, and then just stood there, whining. We had to tug him out of the corner to get the canister off his head
6:14 Her tiktoks are all like “I have terrible food poisoning.” “Tap your fingernails together” “I fell and landed on a rock and now my arm is bleeding profusely.” “Recite the ABC’s backwards.” “I’m going into anaphylactic shock and my throat is closing.” “Just start tap dancing.”
My mom had a ganglion cyst and she wanted to do the book trick but I convinced her to get it surgically removed. Also the alcohol scent (and also bleach scent) do help with nausea. It’s a common tactic used amongst midwives to help pregnant women with nausea during labor.
I use Q-tips for my ears, just not for cleaning but for drying. Especially after shower or swimming they catch a lot of water and if I don't dry them inside soon. I can hear the water moving inside my ear and it's soooo uncomfortable and can cause me ear pain for a not-so-short while. I believe there are different shapes of ear tunnels (?) in addition to the tendency of dry/wet ear wax, and some ear tunnels, like mine, don't clean themselves so easily.
Just throwing this out here, smelling alcohol wipes really DOES help with nausea. When I’ve been admitted, the pregnant nurses would walk around with alcohol wipes to help maintain nausea!
I was just coming down here to say that this is true. I actually use it myself for nausea because of some gastric issues that frequently cause nausea. It totally works and I’ve read about it being used in ER’s.
Yeah, totally works... the problem is when your body really needs to expell something. This one time I had food poisoning but kept myself from vomiting by smelling alcohol, just prolonged my ailment... but eventually the alcohol life hack didnt work anymore D:
Thank you for sharing! I would advise if someone is often nauseated with no known cause though, they should see a doctor, rather than continue to stave off the nausea over and over.
My mom and I have both face male doctors minimizing our problems or concerns just because we’re women.Thank you for addressing that. I wish more men could see that if they aren’t part of the problem then there is no reason to be personally offended over an issue of discrimination women face being brought up. Not all male doctors are like that, of course. Unfortunately, some still are and it should be talked about.
I had a ganglion cyst for most of my teenage years. It was painful off and on and after a while the pain persisted for too long and I asked to have it removed before I would be off off my mother's insurance. This was before the 26 year age limit. The idea of somebody smashing it with a book would give me murder charges.
Hey Dr. Mike, there is a peer reviewed study in favor of the isopropyl alcohol working faster for the same results as ondansetron. Study was titled "Inhaled isopropyl alcohol for nausea and vomiting in the emergency department" As for the tongue to nose thing, that's due to rocking the vomer bone.
The rubbing alcohol when you’re nauseous has been a lifesaver for me when I’ve been motion sick. Idk how it works or if it’s placebo effect or what, but it works!! (At least for me)
Benadryl helps with acute situations of motion sickness. For me when it's bad enough to make me consider I'd be puking soon I pop a pill and nausea goes within minutes. Since it also clears the motion sickness nausea doesn't come back. Before I'd have to be smelling alcohol until my head hurt. It worked, though.
I cannot take phone calls through my right ear even with my hearing aids. I have to “squint” with my ears so much and it still is so hard to understand what is being said. I don’t know if it is just because of my specific auditory processing disorder which was caused by a concussion or if it is because I took phone calls using my left ear my whole life (I am left handed) so it got super strong at processing. I have no hearing loss (perfect hearing acuity) just auditory processing disorder.
Facts, idk if i have an auditory processing disorder, but I do have adhd, and its way easier to hear someone talking with my right ear. I'm not sure if its because I tend to sit on the left side of the classroom, or if I unconsciously always sit on the left side of the classroom because its easier to hear and understand. As a result I almost always use my left ear for music
i have great hearing, my mom is partially deaf so i do all the listening for her. but when i take off my glasses, somehow my hearing gets worse. once i broke my glasses and couldnt get new ones for a while. when people call my name, its like it doesnt even register. and if you are talking to me, i cant tell which direction youre talking from and if youre far or close. its really really weird. i cant function without my glasses at all because my hearing somehow gets worse, and i can only see a few inches in front of my face
Hello, the rubbing alcohol one is actually very accurate and so is the humming one. I use both of them when I get sick(very often I have sever migraines) and they help a lot. I knew that before her though which is how I know it's not some new trend
I’ve never had appendicitis but I did end up having a year late allergic reaction to a medication that caused my mouth to go numb, not being able to swallow or talk, caused me to drool, and I couldn’t control my arm from acting like a miniature seizure. The nurse saw me and said it was all in my head or trying to get attention due to me being on meds for depression. She never asked me any questions or and real info walked in and looked at me asked my mom to step out. We left after that with my mom thinking I was making it all up. A week later I ended up in the hospital not being able to breath at all only for my psychiatrist to tell us I was having an allergic reaction to the medication Geodon or something like that
My grandma's the same way, what the doctor says is law. She follows it to a T. They told her to eat spinach to help get her iron up and all she ate FOR A YEAR was spinach. Did more harm than good, she ended up raising her iron to dangerous levels. 😅doctors aren't always right and people like my grandmother need to realize that. My grandma is obviously an extreme case, idk how many people would go as far as she did but still.
@@ashleighADDICT8029 I mean, that sounds more like grandma's fault than the doctors. The doctors probably assumed she was a normal person who would simply add spinach to her diet, not a weirdo who would go only spinach for an entire year. Yes, doctors aren't always right. They're human and can make mistakes. It's just that a doctor making a mistake can cause death.
Nobody ever discusses it but cotton buds are OKAY for your ears if you are responsible and gently clean only the outside and don't try using them as a dang toilet plunger. And the best way to clean the ear is a simple plastic bulb and warm water, melts the wax and makes it come out instantly and then simply use a small amount of alcohol for 20-30 seconds. The alcohol will kill any bacteria and also help dry the ear out faster to prevent any infections.
The smelling the alcohol when nauseous thing works. I had issues with my bp dropping during treatment at the dialysis center. Nausea was an effect from it. They'd give me alcohol swabs to sniff until the zofran shot kicked in. 100% legit.
Actually... The smelling alcohol to stop nausea is actually true. Your nerves which seems the nausea feeling and the nerves for smell are the same... If you can overpower them with a smell, it helps with the nausea. This is something that is recommended for pregnant women with nausea - sniff lemons, cinnamon gum, alcohol swabs or hand sanitizer.
A week after I watched this video my best friend was having “period cramps” at school. She said her mom said that it was a period cramp but I new her appendix had burst when she looked pail, she was in pain, and she could barely walk. I insisted she go to the nurse right away and so I took her there. The next time she texted me was after her surgery. My accusation was right.
That ganglion cyst trick is something piano players do. Apparently they get them quite often. But they certainly don’t smash it with a book, but with a quick slap with a ruler. Not enough to hurt, but enough to start the fluids moving. It’s also not instant, but takes a few hours.
I had a ganglion cyst on my inner right wrist (below my thumb but on the wrist). I had heard that people used to hit them with books but there was no way I was going to do that. I got the choice to pick between getting it drained or having it surgically removed. I was fifteen and I’d heard they could come back if they were drained, and I’d rather not have to be stabbed with a needle more than once, so I chose the surgery. I’m very happy with my decision because the scar isn’t very noticeable (unless I’m cold), plus , it looks like Harry Potter’s scar and I’m a fan of the series so it’s a win win.
@@dank7044 the force from the book pops the cyst, its mostly a jello like consistancy. highly unadviseable since then the cyst's fluid has to find its way out via reabsorbstion, but you could get an infection if you got a cut while the cyst fluid was there.
The rubbing alcohol one is true. Makes the nausea go away instantly. When I came out of surgery from having my gallbladder removed I learned about it thanks to a post op nurse. Edit: words are hard
Never helped me...I've got chronic nausea. I've tried smelling alcohol, lemon oil, mint, taking prescription and OTC anti-nausea meds, using different distractions. Glad a lot of the people commenting have found it helps them though. Nausea sucks so literally ANYTHING that works is a keeper. 🤷🏼♀
I feel like this is just your body being distracted. The rubbing alcohol has no true effect on nausea, it just makes your brain think about something else for a while.
@@Leah.Something it only works after surgery The use of isopropyl alcohol pads to treat nausea has mainly been used for postoperative nausea and vomiting related to inhalational anesthesics. In this setting, isopropyl alcohol has shown promise in reducing the need for additional conventional intravenous medications to treat ongoing nausea.
6:30 I promise Dr. Mike that pressing your tongue against the roof of your mouth absolutely helps clear your sinuses. I have done it for a while and I discovered it purely by accident, not because I was following some random advice from the internet. It does not cure you of your congestion, but can provide some temporary relief and allow you to breathe through your nose.
I was just going to say that it worked, and the tongue and pressing between your eye brows is cycled and not at the same time, has absolutely helped me. Glad I'm not the only one.
I do this one whenever I need it and it works great. The trick is to alternate pressure from tongue and finger and to be forceful. Once you find the right rhythm you can literally feel the sinuses drain into the back of your throat. It's a godsend
2:12 I used to be able to do this, learned it from a friend when I was younger but I no longer remember how to do it as well. It's like pressurizing what ever is in your mouth and then when you release it it comes out like that
I had a highschool class mate who could do the "vapor out of the mouth" thing Well, there are 2 factors that can change water into vapor, the waters temperature and atmospheric pressure, so you can get a low temp vapor but the PSI is also going to be low as well
Ironically I know the pain of having a high pain tolerance, walked into the ER With a broken foot "oh if it was broken you wouldn't be walking its probably just sprained or fractured" one xray later, "So its broken and we are going to get you some crutches." That was after walking on a fracture for 9 months thinking it was a sprain. The bone gave way because it healed wrong. One time I had migraine pain and vomiting so bad I nearly lost consciousness, nobody believed it was that bad untill i had taken 4 huge syringes of medical grade gravol, was still vomiting and then nearly blacked out and bashed my head on the floor. And then the capstone, nobody believed my back pain was more than just muscle pain (including me btw) until my spine finally gave out at work, now I need pills just to move around. My whole family is that way, we are just built different. High pain tolerance doesn't make it not hurt it just makes nobody believe you when you are in pain. The amount of times I heard the phrase "You don't look like you're in pain" could fill a phone book. If something doesn't feel right, get it checked out sooner than later. Its better to know than wonder.
same. Worked on a foot with a broken bone in it for 2 to 3 months before going to the doctor. Thought it was something else . Finally saw a doctor when it got to the point I cried after my shifts. Had to be non weight bearing for it for 4 months
Same issue. I'm not vocal about pain so no one really believes I have it bad. My migraines had me bedridden and in and out of consciousness, but my brother said well you're not screaming so it can't be that bad.
People are a-holes. All day it’s “be honest”, “say what you mean, mean what you say”, but when you do, you’re consistently not believed despite your consistent face value honesty AND you usually get an earful for it as well because you didn’t do a good enough Meryl Streep job to boot. 🤦🏾♀️ 🤬 wtf
I walked around with a fractured patella for a week before I went into the ED for cellulitis from the swelling in my calf. They looked at me and said, doesn't it hurt? Nah, it's so swollen half of it is numb.. Can you bear weight? Yep. Is it weak? Well, no, not really. Four weeks in a leg stabilizing cast plus another few months of slow recovery from no pain. Then I sprained the ankle on that leg. 😅
Yeah, I'm 19 now, but when I was younger, my parents just didn't care about how much pain I was in unless I was rolling around on the floor groaning. Same with mental/emotional pain such as depression.
I DEFINITELY went to urgent care for cyclical vomiting and was given alcohol pads to smell AFTER being treated with pills and IV meds for nausea that weren't working...right before the 3rd dose of meds I was given the alcohol pads...it took the edge off and my body was able to calm down enough to allow the meds to do their job...10/10 would do again...
@@bluehornet197 “Inhaled isopropyl alcohol for nausea and vomiting in the emergency department” (Lindblad et al., 2018), “For treatment of nausea in the ambulatory setting, is inhaled isopropyl alcohol as effective as ondansetron?” (Van Vooren et al, 2021), “Inhaling isopropyl alcohol from alcohol wipes was amore effective antiemetic than oral ondansetron in nauseated adults” (Dalrymple, 2020), “Control of Postoperative Nausea and Vomiting in Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery Patients with Isopropyl Alcohol: A Prospective Randomized Clinical Trial” (Verma et al, 2018) would say it’s not in her head. I (an MD) would also argue that it is not in her head :)
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Yep. Almost died at 13 because a male doctor insisted my pain was caused by cramps. In fact, my appendix was bursting. My mom insisted they operate and it saved my life (it was a close call though).
no it's not close call it's too close of a call
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I’m 13 and my period cramps feel like death is creeping up on me. That’s scary..
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Actually, anecdotally, a number of women who have experienced both appendicitis and bad menstrual cramps have said they ignored the appendicitis at first because they either (1) assumed it was period cramps, or (2) their period cramps were so much worse that they assumed it couldn’t be anything serious. But the part about doctors ignoring them also is true.
My wife had hers rupture and it stayed like that for four days before they finally operated. She obviously almost died and had to have her stomach left open for more then a week with daily deep washing of her internal organs!!! I found out they essentially use a surgical version of bleach that they pour into such wounds and either sop up with surgical sponges and/or suction! 😳
People most often go in denial, cause how much easier it is to assume something usual than something unusual and disruptive.
And in those cases, blaming their own cowardice on doctors is such a dishonorable act...
I ignored bladder infection once for three days straight cause I thought it was my normal usual cramps. I understood it was not only when during the night it got higher and behind my back.
@@AleksandarIvanov69 doctors also ignore when they say it’s not like any menstrual cramps they’ve had. And only one person in the situation is a medical professional that’s responsible.
Now imagine: Bad Cramps + IBS attacks = Is this Gas? Period? Or am I dying?
I'm glad the pain I was feeling when my appendix went out was distinctly different from my usual cramps. Unfortunately, now my cramps feel like my appendix did when it went bad ToT
I got necrotizing fasciitis when I was 9 years old in my foot inside my cast when I broke it! I thought it was a normal amount of pain for a break so I waited for it to heal, but when pools of blood soaked through my cast, I was rushed to the ER and had it immediately taken off. The most I remember from that experience would be my skin practically being melted off, but I was very fortunate and luckily I didn’t have to have anything amputated. Now I just have a fun story and some sick scars and nerve damage which I am VERY thankful for!
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Oh dang, that must have been pretty scary
At least you're ok and it didn't hit you in the long time run
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While still in the OR after my c-section I felt extremely nauseous and they had me smell alcohol. I didn't throw up, and the nausea went away. Hadn't heard of this trick prior, but was thankful for it!
Wait, how does smelling alcohol stop nausea? I believe you I think it does but I'm curious how it works.
@@cmpvariety1764 I have no clue 😅 I don’t know about it until they did it, so it wasn’t a placebo in my case!
@@sydneyrouse see I can't test it because I have chronic migraines and strong odors like alcohol will cause one to get started on me pretty quick. It probably does work though, if you say it works it works I just don't know how.
I've used it many times with patients and had good results has never worked for me personally though. Since I had covid in December 2020 I've had much gastrointestinal distress, I've lost100+lbs from mostly nausea and vomiting.
@@chrismcree3245 thats not covid related.
Thank you for acknowledging that doctors often dismiss what women have to say about their health/pain. You seem like you're a genuinely kind doctor.
Mike the white knight!
It isn’t just women, it’s men too, too often have I went in and been called a hypochondriac when I quite literally had 3 broken fingers and a dislocated wrist, with the doctor saying it’s impossible to dislocate your wrist. Yea, I’m gonna have to disagree right there chief
@@pohorex6834 while I respect your experience, and it sounds like you had a real shitty doctor, it is proven that doctors are more likely to dismiss women when they raise concerns about their health.
Honestly the conundrum is propensity of somatization which MDs can’t do much for, it’s unfortunate conundrum that could lead to overlooking red flag symptoms
@@kaylanovacek8973 I can understand it. However, I've been dismissed with pneumonia 3 times, a broken arm, leg, and wrist 2 times. It's definitely possible for both, just more common for one more than the other.
Literally almost died for appendicitis. Went to emerge three times and was only admitted the last time because a nurse argued with a doctor tooth and nail over admitting me. There was no sympathy either. I couldn't stop shaking and they kept asking me to stop to draw blood and I tried so hard but it was like massive uncontrollable shivers. Even after the ultrasound they thought it was a ectopic pregnancy and didn't believe me when I told them I was a virgin (highschool at the time) now I have a massive scar running from my palvic bone to about an inch or two below my belly button and drainage scars where tubes were left in for some time after the surgery. Not fun but super thankful for that female nurse! She literally fought for my life
The doctors also nearly killed my sister when she had appenditis! She was 4 and she couldn't walk by the time she was admitted. It was so scary and she was in hospital for 3 weeks. My parents and another doctor had to fight for her life. Doctors should really start taking things like those more seriously before they kill/nearly kill more people. I hope you're doing well after the whole ordeal because I can't imagine going through something like it myself :)
This happened to me like 3 times I went to the hospital with appendicitis but I never even had it, I just had a really bad pain in my stomach but I’d have other symptoms of appendicitis like they said a blackout and such, never had it though.
My doctors wouldn't believe that I couldn't be pregnant either. They kept asking and asking and asking and I was like, NO, just do something! I had a large ovarian cyst.
I finally persuaded a friend of mine with abdominal pain to let me take her to the urgent care center. They examined her, told her she needed to go to the ER because they were pretty sure it was something they couldn't handle at the urgent care center and they had called the ER to expect us and she should be seen immediately. I had been pretty sure she had a hot appendix from the beginning, but that sealed the deal for me. The triage nurse was *not* impressed at all. She claimed Urgent Care never called the ER and made us wait. We waited until all the people ahead of us had been seen, then we waited until everyone who came after us was seen. They made us wait for a gal who came in after us and who had a sprained ankle and they made us wait until after a guy with no money and no medical insurance and who came in after us got a cast cut off his arm. Finally, after we had been there for 4 freaking hours, everyone who came in after us had been seen, and gone home and we had sat in the waiting room with no one else there and all the exam rooms sitting empty for 30 minutes the triage nurse let us go back to see the doctor. My friend had appendicitis, was admitted, and surgery scheduled for 11 am. At 8 am they drew blood, discovered her appendix had started leaking the pus and infection into her abdomen, and moved her surgery time to 9:30. The triage nurse had told the ER doctor my friend was obviously drug seeking and had nothing wrong with her, but she had to send my friend back to be examined per state law and hospital regulations.
I went through 3 hospitals before a children's hospital finally took me in when my appendix yeeted, I was about 16 when that happened, I actually almost died because I thought it was a pain that would go away and lol it didn't till my mom saw I wasn't ok.
GenZs as doctors : " so we found something in your brain that be looking hella sus, you might have a brain tumour"
" go live your best life bestie "
sus amung us
@@greenlizard4208 amogus
No cap, we found a tumor. Its lookin pretty sus. Its not really poggers
😭
You’d wish, I volunteered as doctor cause our country needs more determined doctors and never once started saying stuff like that lol and yes I do understand it’s a joke but I hate gen z humour
So glad I had my appendix removed when I was 10. My cousin threw me onto the ground, I landed funny, & then there was pain.
Told my mom it hurts but she said it’s bc I was rough housing. After taking a bath like an hour later, she angrily took me bc I couldn’t stop crying.
I no longer share anything with my mom, especially anything health related bc she kept dismissing it.
My cousin got his appendix removed from dehydration when he was also 10
“I like the brain, I think the brain is magic”
- the human brain
Dang i just commented that lol
Thats why some people dont use it
Wow that makes sense lmao
Brain what if I smell sweet?
It is magic because it can think - My bias brain.
"WOMEN don't mistake appendix pain for period cramps, DOCTORS do."
You're half right. Our doctors frequently do blow us off or ignore us, especially those of us who have horrific cramps, but a lot of us DO mistake more serious things for period cramps. When you're used to hearing that things like appendicitis are the worst pain ever, but the pain you're experiencing is on par with what you deal with every month, you're not going to think it's anything to worry about.
I have endometriosis. I could 100% see myself not realizing I had appendicitis.
then theres me, who thinks every period cramp i get is appendicitis lol. Minor pain in the right side can be so many things. Probably the best advice i got from a doctor to tell the difference is to get up, hop on each leg and hop on both. If you can do that, you're fine. Now i do it whenever i get pains. Other things i read is that it hurts to breathe/cough, you can't... er... 'pass gas', it hurts to walk (ie stretching your abdomen), and that applying pressure and taking it away causes alot of pain.
This is 100% the reason I got birth control pills. It reduced my pain 99%... until it didn't, and I had to escalate to an IUD. I don't think I have endometriosis, but I have 2 sisters who do and another with PCOS, so I can't discount it. When I had a kidney stone, the only thing that told me it wasn't a cramp was that it was a week too soon.
@@jacquelynsmith2351 This is also why I went on birth control. My registered nurse in college told me that there is no real biological necessity to actually have a period each month, so I could take the standard week of placebo pills and have one if I wanted to... or not. I 100% chose not.
Very good point. But that's why patients need to be examined. Appendicitis has signs such as guarding and rebound tenderness on examination and also other symptoms like going off food, nausea and vomiting, fever etc
@@ecocentriclife actually its advisable to have four periods a year for a healthy womb lining or you can risk endometrial hyperplasia and cancer.
“My stomach is so painful doc”
“Yeah that’s period cramps”
“But I haven’t started my periods yet”
“I’m the doctor I should know”
“I’ve never been to see you before, you don’t know my medical history, I haven’t had a period before”
“Who went to medical school out of the two of us?”
“Well right now it looks like neither of us”
XD
Lol
Haha! You're fun!
BAHQHQHAAHHAHAHA
Is that an actual conversation?
My appendix ruptured when I was 12 and the doctor told me it was just period cramps. My appendix was ruptured for a week, and I had made 3 trips in to see him before he finally checked anything. By that point several other organs were infected and I was in surgery for 8 hours. I flatlined during surgery for 6 minutes. I still struggle with the aftermath. I now have severe period cramps… so the doctor predicted the future 😂
i would get so angry at the doctor 😭 pls tell me your parents gave him an earful or something shdhsskskks
@@Rosi-Kuhns sue for medical malpractice
Women DO sometimes ignore appendicitis pain thinking it's period cramps. A girl in my college psych class took the whole class in pain thinking it was just her cramps. When it didn't let up after 12 hours she went to get it checked out. Told us all when she came back that if the pain had fluctuated and let up from time to time she would have died because it felt less bad overall then her regular cramps.
That was me, except with a kidney stone. I just kind of vibed until I lost all my fluids from vomiting and couldn't walk anymore :/
I might be dumb but I heard recently that periods are not supposed to be as painful as everyone has them. I heard sometimes it’s caused by uterine fibroids? I’m not a doctor just another uterus-haver concerned for us!!
Appendicitis doesn't feel like period cramps it feels like an abscess if you know what an abscess feels like.
@@DeathnoteBB For me at least, my extreme cramping is caused by endometriosis :(
This is why I take birth control constantly and only have a period once a year!
“Big fax no printer” is the best worst dad joke ever
Nahhh, I am stealing that for my daily lingo. I'm working it in somehow
I use this ngl
Had me dying
😭 ikr?
@@Brooklyn-nz3ug I might too
If you're nauseous due to stress or anxiety, humming or singing stimulates the vagus nerve, triggering a parasympathetic response and easing the nausea. :-)
Luckily I’m feeling nauseous right now. Thank
I love singing, thanks for the advice :)
This explains why listening to music works so well for me
I was sad because of stress one night a singing helped me calm down!
Thank you
Right after Christmas 2013, I had the most unimaginable pain. I can’t describe it. I thought I was dying. My boss called 911 but by the time I arrived at the ER, my pain has subsided. They told me I had bad gas and sent me home.
Later that week my doctor examined me and ordered a scan of my gallbladder. It was full of gallstones and functioning at 12%. It was removed Jan 9th. I’m still so frustrated by that ER that did nothing and sent me home.
The easiest way to prove the brain is the most important organ is that medical science has figured out ways to at least temporarily replace every organ except for the brain.
How about the heart or smth.
Yes ik the brain is important but how are you gonna get blood pumped through the body
@@angerycats2082 heart transplant have been done a lot
@@reidcarr9987 Exactly. But it is really an important organ.
@@reidcarr9987 oh my bad them but its still rlly important
@@angerycats2082 definitely
“I’ve seen residents talk like this ‘amongst’ each other.”
I don’t care if it’s intentional or not, I love it
"yo dave's a little sus" *airlock noises*
STOP
😭
GenZs as doctors : " so we found something in your brain that be looking hella sus, you might have a brain tumour"
" go live your best life bestie "
amongus?
When I had appendicitis, the ER doc just said it was a burst cyst without even examining me. Since I have had a burst cyst before, I knew that was wrong. It took a female resident to come in, actually listen to me and for the first time since getting to the ER (several hours have passed at this time), palpitated the area above my appendix. The pain was so severe, I launched off the bed. She promptly left to get me some pain meds and to let the doc know that I needed to be schedule for emergency surgery. I'm still mad at that first doc today and it's been over 20 years.
and you have every right to be
Bruh my mother went in for a sore throat a while back.
Doctor said it was Tonsillitis.
My mother laughed, and said:
*Doctor, I have no tonsils.*
had the same experience as a 9 year old, severe pain in lower right quadrant of the abdomen that came on in waves, like a really serious case of nausea, parents took me to the doctors after not eating for a week, doctor said i was faking to get time off school, another week passes managed to eat half a digestive biscuit in the whole week, another visit this time to the hospital "oh he must be doing it for attention, there's no need to test him if it was serious he would be making more of a scene" at the 20 day mark had a fever that wouldn't go down, was curled up on the floor of my bedroom screaming in pain,
rushed to hospital by ambulance, they tried fobbing the parents off with the "oh he probably just doesn't want to go to school tomorrow" mum said that i hadn't eaten in nearly 3 weeks and as a kid who loved his food there was something seriously wrong, parents told nothing was wrong. wasn't till my mum made a huge scene shouting at the doctor at the emergency room, demanding i got at least a scan or a doctor to actually do a physical exam she would make life very unpleasant. they gave me a ultrasound to calm my mom down, and ill never forget the panicked look on the radiographers face when he rushed out of the room and was shouting down the phone at the doctors at admitting, less than 30 mins later i was being wheeled into surgery, ruptured appendix, that had infected 40% of my small intestine,
as a result have a huge scar from my right side to my belly button where they had to remove a significant chunk of my digestive system, all because they wouldn't take the complaints of a child seriously. now later in life suffering some pretty severe digestive issues all because my symptoms were waved away as attention seeking or a attempt to get out of taking a test at school. its a shame there weren't any of those no win no fee medical negligence lawyers back in the 90s, cos would have got a pretty sizeable payout considering their neglect left me less than 24 hours between being alive and being on a slab in the morgue and with serious issues even to this day 2 decades later.
ever since then i have zero trust for the medical system, especially as that has been proven time and time again thanks to a recurrent shoulder dislocation i have which is getting waved off as a problem physio can fix, yet i've been doing physio for years and the problem isn't fixed, but a surgery to put in 6 stitches would likely fix the issue, but nope here's a sheet of exercises and more opioids, it will get better eventually.....honest
Reading all these stories and comparing them to my amab (and not out at the time) experience of appendicitis (went from ER waiting room to emergency surgery in one and a half hours on a holiday) makes me so incredibly angry at the medical system. Basically unless you're biologically male and white, you're screwed.
when i was getting tested for COVID the doctor told my mom we should immediately go to the emergency room to get my appendix checked and you know what my mom did? Nothing. We drove home and she completely ignored it. From time to time my side hurts (the same side the doctor was concerned about), but everyone says that if it was an appendicitis then I'd be dead by now so i guess my mom saved some gas in her tank. if it really was an appendicitis then i'd be dead and she would die soon after from the guilt. tsk.
So true story about doctors treating women different than men. My mother in law went to doctor with a sore back. They basically told her she was fine and she could take aspirin. My father in law goes to the same doctor a month later because he was actually hung over but his work required a note if he missed work. This was like 30 years ago. So he told the doctor his back hurt and asked for a note for the day. The doctor gave him pain meds and took him off work for 3 weeks.
It has been proven that women have a higher pain tolerance than men because we have to go thru childbirth. So why do male doctors act like we run to them crying when we get a pin prick. If we say it hurts it’s because it hurts. I have fibromyalgia so this hits home for me because getting a doctor to actually treat it is difficult. Most want to tell u it’s in your head.
Oh women don't even know pain until they get their toe stubbed and know real pain
That makes me so mad I deal with this bs from doctors all the time and your story is wild they need to just believe us when we say we are in pain
@@erikamichael115 exactly.
I live in france and im a student nurse. A lot of time they told us about a "Mediterranean syndrome". Apparently women from this part of the world exaggerate their pain sensation and reactions, especially before or after giving birth. My school warned us multiple time that some doctors or nurses would use this as an excuse to not give medication or investigate the cause of the pain. My school told us there is no such thing as a Mediterranean syndrome, and we should always trust our patients and believe them. They know themselves more than we do.
@@wherearetheblanketshans8501 yeah they tried to use that as an excuse not to take Fibromyalgia seriously. Now they are finding that women of childbearing years are more likely to get Fibromyalgia. It is a serious disease and it has taken years before doctors have started taking it seriously.
One of my friends kept getting told by multiple doctors that her syptoms were just because of mono. Turned out she had cancer. Shes okay now, she got a good doctor who found the cancer and treated her, but its gross to think she couldve died because the other doctors were so set in their diagnosis that they werent willing to accept anything else
I have gastroparesis and the doctors kept telling me that there was nothing wrong with me and that I was overreacting. They said my symptoms of acid reflux, and vomiting all could be resolved if I just swallowed my vomit or something.. also diagnosed me with an eating disorder when I didn't have one. When people keep telling you the same thing you start to believe it, glad they figured what it was, although it took a year to diagnose me.
@@gsivl8578 im happy youre okay now, its always so upsetting when doctors try to fight you on a diagnosis, before i was diagnosed with fibro, the doc i had told me verbatim "it is not as bad as you are making it. You are exaggerating and you need to stop." Meanwhile, i had been crying in pain for 10 hours straight, unable to move or walk. I threw a fit and they gave me an mri and a cat scan and found some cyts on my spine which are pushing on the nerves around them, causing my pain. She didnt even have the guts to come back and tell me she was wrong. She didnt come back at all. A nurse came in and said i could go home and i had to ask her what they found. Even she was bewildered by the fact that my doctor refused to come and tell me my diagnosis because she was wrong and fought me on it every step of the way. I still sit and think about how her ego was more important to her than her job or professionalism. Its not hard to tell someone you were wrong, but in my experience, doctors tend not to.
I had a multible disc prolabs on my lower back for about 6 years befor i could convince my doc to get me a MRI to confirm it. Every time i got there she keept telling me this can't be, you are to young to have that, it's probably just the muscles. Yeah and it's my muscels fault i had such pain i could only crawl on my hand's and knees trough my apartment... sure.
Btw curently i have depression and everything that comes with it and i can't realy work cause of this, guess what my doc. (not the same) says, "you are to young to stop working". Well guess i need to jump in front of a train to prove it... so sad you realy have to prove everything befor people belive you... especialy if it's a doc. for mental health, how can a doc. say well he is donw bad but he is to young for this???
@@gsivl8578 I have gastroparesis also. I've had it many years and have learned to treat it mostly until I got covid. I had mostly gastric problems and a lot in the 2years since. I can't seem to convince a couple of doctors it's not the gastroparesis. I finally had to say gastroparesis doesn't cause a fever an infection does.
I’m very glad to hear that she’s okay now and that she got treatment!
I have Myasthenia Gravis (among other chronic illnesses) and when I was still undiagnosed, I had a neurologist who I’d never seen before. He walked into the room and without even asking why I was there or what my symptoms are, he said “given your history with self harm, and the very quick weight loss, plus your age, this is obviously an eating disorder. The weakness is a mix of malnutrition and a psychosomatic illness. Go to an eating disorder recovery clinic.”
I was seeing a GI specialist for 4 yrs at that point and had intestinal paralysis documented in my chart.
Only got diagnosed almost two years later after entering a myasthenic crisis and nearly being intubated because my diaphragm became too weak.
"CHEST COMPRESSIONS! CHEST COMPRESSIONS!" and "BEEWOOP!" never gets old
@pínned by Dóctor Míke◻◻ reported
Oh my god i read that as cheeze compressions! Cheeze compressions! 😭😭
@@bonkusd939 wut?
@Fatmath Sobira it's peewoop
Yeeessss lol
On the doctors-don't-listen-to-women thing, I'd been trying for about ten years to get my uterus removed due to severe PMDD, but my physical symptoms weren't deemed serious enough. FINALLY got a doctor who determined something looked wrong inside and agreed to remove it. Operation was supposed to be laparoscopic but the fibroids were too large. Second choice was a c-section-type scar. What I woke up with was an incision that ran from pubic to AROUND and OVER THE TOP OF my belly button! I woke up to both doctors informing me that I'd had a "massive uterus" and "the ultrasound didn't do it justice." If a doctor had only listened to me earlier, I'd have had a 1.5-hr surgery instead of 4, a quick recovery instead of one taking over a year, and I'd have been spared years of PMS/PMDD symptoms equivalent to the kind that makes women throw their babies off bridges. Now I'm getting a hernia because of the surgery, so I'm having issues with moving, and new pain! Yea, doctors need to trust women's' instincts more, that's for sure.
and what did you tell them beforehand?
Even the normal amount of PMS is really really hard. I can't even imagine going to bunch of doctors, geting dismissed on top of PMS/PMDD symptoms you have... I hope you get better.
@@laulavinia It's been almost miraculous to be relieved of it because I'm ME again. It's almost like reverse PTSD as "normal"/healthy clicks into place again.
Dang
@@csih2119 that shes in pain Calvin.
Fun fact: when my appendix got removed, my doctors originally thought it was a twisted fallopian tube, because I was on my period that week. I insisted that it wasn't and I was almost certain it was appendicitis, but after doing an ultrasound, they didn't see anything wrong with it.
Turns out it wasn't my uterus, but it was a rare case where my appendix was only infected on the inside, and showed almost no cosmetic damage. If I hadn't kept insisting that it was my appendix, it would've ruptured in a matter of hours following the surgery.
Moral of the story, not all abdominal pain is period pain :)
I work at a pet clinic and dogs will stay perfectly still when get injected with multiple syringes! They will stay still when getting squeezed. But I kid you not, I’ve never seen anything as dramatic as a dog when it’s time to clip their nails!!
GenZs as doctors : " so we found something in your brain that be looking hella sus, you might have a brain tumour"
" go live your best life bestie "
@madsrock omg four shibas everything is drama...
Can I ask you what do you do in the clinic? Are you a vet?
@@fede2293 Nope! I am still in high school, but I work as a kennel assistant and take care of the boarders over the weekend. I perform most of the janitorial work.
My dog is a border collie and this very much applies to him. 😪
The appendix one made me remember my appendicitis story, I could hardly walk one day but I wasn't really in pain, mostly confused. Then like 2 weeks later it happened again and my folks took me to the walk-in clinic and the doctor, throughout some tests, kept saying "no way it's appendicitis. There is no way." because I wasn't responding to any of the symptoms or tests, but then they tested my blood... Myself and my grandparents were outside in the car waiting for the results, then they called. "GET HER TO THE ER /NOW/" and it turns out not only did I have appendicitis... It had been ruptured for TWO WEEKS.
Once your appendix ruptures, it doesn’t really hurt anymore. You were septic for sure by then, and that’s probably what they saw in the blood test.
@@Owen_loves_Butters oh didn't know that was the term, I was told that the only reason I survived was because fat tissue had surrounded the appendix before it had ruptured so the toxins were all contained
@@hazbinotakusimp2182 Yeah, most patients die within hours of a rupture like that from "Septic Shock"... You were still septic, so a round of treatments for that on top of surgery... It's that the fat that seemed to contain it, slowed the process so you didn't go into shock immediately...
It's important to point out that not every appendix rupture is quite the same... Some folks get in bad enough shape before it goes that when it does, it's almost like a miniature bomb going off... Others only get a little bit of a tear and it just starts leaking slow...
If I recall correctly, Harry Houdini took a couple weeks for it to finally kill him, and he even went on stage to perform after it burst... from a punch to his gut {another of the "tricks" he was famed for}... ;o)
@@hazbinotakusimp2182 You gotta thank your greater omentum for that. It's probably what migrated(yes it can move) and enclosed that region to protect your body
It's one of the most amazing yet unheard of part of the human anatomy.
How long were you in for sepsis?
My dad used to be a fighter pilot and he can compress the air in his lungs so hard that some of the moisture in his lungs comes out as vapor. Anti-G straining maneuver. Nothing to do with boiling.
That is sick and I'm picturing people who can do that as cyborgs now
Yeah sure maybe on a cold day it doesn't and won't happen at 37°C the bodies internal temperature
cap
well, the tiktok one looked like vaping to me. Water vapor isn't that "thick"
@@Inferiis The tic tock dude was simply mistaken. It can be done by compression, clearly not by boiling, lol.
my crohns was called period cramps for almost 10 years and now its too severe to do anything with lol and im only 22! got diagnosed last year on my 21st birthday, was finally sent to the hospital and they thought i was dying due to my appendix bursting and almost sent me into emergency surgery but no it was crohns disease, like my bio father
The reason she says humming to stop vomiting is because there’s a neurological study showing that humming or smiling helps surpress the gag reflex. She should’ve worded it differently but it’s true. I have gastroparesis… I know from experience
GenZs as doctors : " so we found something in your brain that be looking hella sus, you might have a brain tumour"
" go live your best life bestie "
Jayus uses they/them pronouns by the way! I see a lot of people misgender/wrongly use pronouns for them. I know you-and many others-don’t know, but I’m just telling you.
Yeah I do something similar when nauseous, but I focus on breathing constantly. Won't stop you from barfing but it will delay it.
So humming suppresses the gag reflex during nervousness and fear. I believe if you have an illness or food poisoning it won't work.
westzed23 depends on how violently or forcefully your body is trying to get it out of you. So for me, gastroparesis means paralyzed stomach, it’s an illness. I’ve my gastroparesis is mild that day, humming or smiling will help prevent me from throwing up but if it’s severe that day and just forcefully trying to get the food out then yeah, nothing will stop it from happening. With food poisoning it would most likely be the forceful.
The rubbing alcohol thing is totally true. I had surgery on my gi system and while hospitalized if I ever felt nauseous, the nurses brought me an alcohol pad to sniff, and it worked each time. Still does now!
“I had stomach on my gi system…”
What?!?!
@@perrobravoperocastrado2286 it was a typo, I fixed it
I agree!! I used this trick with my husband. It worked like a charm and he could finally sleep and not puke!
There have actually been a couple studies done in ERs showing this works!
We can trust only jayus.
"I like the brain"
- Dr. Mike's brain who made the conscious decision for himself to talk about liking the brain
GenZs as doctors : " so we found something in your brain that be looking hella sus, you might have a brain tumour"
" go live your best life bestie "
@@Dara-uf9xs Stolen comment.
the brain is such a narcissist
So his brain likes itself
**insert obama giving himself award meme**
Actually, someone who I went to elementary school with could make vapor come out of their mouth without drinking water. They got in trouble in 8th grade twice, accused for smoking. It's really odd how that happens. I've always wondered what made actual "vapor" and how it ends up out of their mouth.
Fun fact: I work as an EMT and the rubbing alcohol thing is actually in our county protocols as a valid treatment for patients with nausea!
How does that work
How does that work mf
@@Truecrimeresearcher224 your body thinks you are drinking so it waits until you get totally wasted to throw up.
Like when you drink a bottle of blue raspberry vodka then throw up everything in you, vs when you drink a bottle of disaronno and a quarter bottle of everclear then be drunk for 3 days.
My theory is your gasoline breath, causes you not to be able to throw up. don't know tho.
@@Nickname2Two lmao
I remembered when my sister was in terrible abdominal pain and she was throwing up pretty badly, when we took her to the hospital and did some x-rays, doctor said she just have ovarian infection and brushed her condition off, two months later with her condition still going worse and worse we took her to another hospital and they saw her liver's size was strangely enlarged, further investigation and it turns out she has a rare aggressive tumor Sarcoma soft tissue in her liver growing, she battled hard and strong from 2008 until 2019. Bless her soul she suffered a lot. Moral of the story, doctors should investigate with better care rather than throw vague assumptions just cause they deal with daily normal cases everyday, every patient should be treated as anew case rather than "oh a woman? must be her ovaries!"
To be fair to doctors, it's hard not to default to an Occam's Razor conclusion. It's so infrequently ever a tropical disease or a rare tumor, that it's easy to dismiss. When something only happens less than 1% of cases, the first instinct is the more common, less serious prognosis. That doesn't help your sister since she WAS that rare case, but the hundreds or thousands of people who complained about a similar situation were likely less sever infections or issues. It's sad, but that's the reason why it's so important to be or to have strong advocates for our health. We need to keep pushing or have someone advocate for us when we aren't well. You never know when it is that more serious small chance case.
@@kevinbarnard355 Yeah I totally agree with this. The problem isn't that medical doctors who have went through so many years of medical school, training, and experience are dismissive, it's really about being an advocate for yourself because it's not helpful to tend to go to the extreme conclusion when most people suffer simple problems.
Glad she’s ok
I'm so sorry for you, I hope she's in a better place, if it exists
OMG I am seriously so sorry and I know how it feels my sister died from Cancer!!! Hope your doing well
My wife's stomach hurt and she had me take her to the ER. She didn't act hurt or anything. Just complained a few times.. The ER docs were trying to blow it off as period cramps but she'd had her period the week before. They did a blood test...and her appendix was shot. They told her it was weird that she felt it because it was so early in the process that she shouldn't have felt it yet.
Happened with me as a man. "you just have a sore stomach" nearly killed me. Ended up getting told I would have died in an hour.
@@Jonny188881 i also had hella pain near the stomach/pelvis area, it hurted so badly I couldn't even walk. I decided to just go to bed and chill, I slept for a little and when I woke up the pain had went away. i dont know what caused the pain, but it was nothing serious perhaps, considering this happened a few months ago and I'm still alive lol.
@@CelestialExility Ive had that every time i pee after holding it for more than an hour well not every time and i can hold it for more depending on the situations and everything... Just mainly at night if i dont get up to pee when i rlly have to it hurts after i do
@@spiritsofwolves Get your bladder and kidneys checked. That does not sound so good. :( Also very stressful
I laughed way to hard at that little patient joke.... I like puns
The guy talking about appendicitis and women ignoring it thinking it's period cramps - it's not just the doctors, Mike, it is the women as well. I'm fortunate enough to have never had appendicitis, but I know that some women have cramps so bad that, if they get appendicitis, they just assume it's cramps and treat it the same.
But also good point on doctors not believing patients, I've heard so many stories omg.
I still remember a girl at summer camp who almost died because the counselors thought she was just being a wimp over menstrual cramps. She lost consciousness and barely made it to a hospital in time. She looked awful when I saw them rush her out of camp. Almost no color her face and completely unresponsive.
But yeah, I have absolutely agonizing cramps sometimes. When I rate pain on a scale, migraines and cramps are basically what I compare things to as being close to a ten. Easily the worst pains I've ever experienced so far. Like, on the floor in a fetal position, rocking back and forth, and barely able to speak kind of pain.
🙋🏻♀️ survivor of this very thing here. I had extremely bad cramps as a teen (due to endometriosis), and BOTH the GP and I missed that the new pain I was feeling was actually my appendix about to burst. Only reason I’m here today is because of a VERY good surgical resident with awesome instincts who refused to let me leave until she ran another blood panel on me after finding out the pain had suddenly gone through the roof & then pretty much completely stopped not long after coming into the ER.
I spent eight and a half weeks in the hospital fighting the infection, five of which I was in the ICU. My heart actually stopped 3 times due to the infection - I’d developed pericarditis from the peritonitis, (sounds like a bad pun, right?!), and I had to be sedated, put onto a respirator and undergo twice weekly dialysis for most of my stay in an effort to give my body a break while they threw every drug they could at the infection in an attempt to eradicate it. I’m grateful for every day I’ve had since then, and I can never thank that tenacious resident enough.
@@Caninecancersucksrocks omg! That's a crazy story... Thank God he was there in the right time and place to help you.
@@VictoriaWalker8thanks, I was very, very lucky. The resident was a “She” actually - oddly enough, what’s stuck with me the most wasn’t just that she’d saved me…I don’t remember very much prior to waking up in the ICU, but I DEFINITELY remember watching her stand up to a bunch of derisive, extremely misogynistic males that she was surrounded by there (this was mid-80’s). She had to actually go *against* her attending’s orders (😬😥) to get that lifesaving blood panel done - it easily could’ve ended her career before it started, right then & there, as it was a big no no for her to have acted as she did.
My anatomy teacher in highschool had a ganglion cyst when she was a kid (I was asking her about my own and what I should do to get rid of it.) She said when she was younger, her brother took heavy book and smacked it and it went away, and to NOT do that, but it did work. Another term for ganglion cysts are actually "bible cyst/ bible bump" because people used to get rid of them by smashing bibles on them.
"BY THE POWER OF GOD, YOU SHALL NOT BE A CYST"
I had a ganglion cyst on one of my wrists. I had been planning to go to the doctor as it started causing pain but one day I fell over in my room and landed on my hand. I heard a snap and it was gone lol. Hasn’t come back luckily
@@bird2034 This is what I need to do then 🤣I hope I fall on my hand cause I don't have the guts to smash a book on it
I had one too and came here just to comment about bible bumps lol… kinda surprised he’s never heard of them.
@@RikuIshmaru same! Surprised he didn't know it was a common remedy back in the old days haha
The brain is the only organ that can't be replaced while preserving the person. ;)
Well actually a head transplant was alteady performed so that counts
Thank you! I wanted to write exactly the same
@@maikbam2827 That definitely doesn't count. When doing a head Transplantation you just replace the whole rest of the body, not the brain or the head. What you suggest would mean that if you perform a successful head Transplantation, the person waking up would have to have the personality and all of the traits of the body's, not the brain's, person. That doesn't happen because the brain defines the human. That's why per definition you don't really do a transplantation of the head when doing so but rather of the rest of the body.
124,
Ruined 🥶🥶
It can, we just don't know it yet
0:27 mmmm pneumonia
1:39 shoot
2:17 boils it?!?!
3:13 NO IT DIDNT WORK
4:40 weird
5:18 hyperventilating
5:49 good jokes
6:48 mispronouncing
7:26 wheeze
7:46 shouting
i love how upset the patient at 6:50 is about the mispronouncistion while the doctor is basically telling him hes gonna die in a few weeks
'Are you even a doctor?'
"That's confidential."
If you get a rabies vaccine within a certain time.. think its 72 hours after getting bit.. you wont die.
@@netherdominater9960 NHS in a nutshell. No patient care, no mental health treatment, nada.
@@jrmckim I thought it was before the first symptom, but I might be mistaken. That's somewhat comforting though, considering how dangerous it is lmak
@@jrmckim You actually have about 10 days. But yeah, you would have to get it ASAP because once you start having symptoms it's too late and can't be treated. All doctors could do is just try to keep you comfortable with pain medicine or maybe induce a coma.
“I used to think that the brain was the most wonderful organ in my body. Then I realized who was telling me this.” - Emo Philips
Isn’t the A$$ the one in charge?🤔😬🤙🏽
@@julespeace684 I thought it was the stomach
He is so good
The BRAIN!
GenZs as doctors : " so we found something in your brain that be looking hella sus, you might have a brain tumour"
" go live your best life bestie "
Oh, a funny video from Dr.Mike! This totally brightens my Sunday!
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@@thedotgiver2820 hi there, can I get a symbol please!? Ta
@@peacefuldoves ▪︎
@@thedotgiver2820 may i have a dot please?
@@leeyes4405 .
Literally the alcohol thing is so valid. I had nurses give me alcohol prep pads when I was nauseated after surgery and it was great!
The “big facts no printer” made me laugh harder than it should’ve 😂
GenZs as doctors : " so we found something in your brain that be looking hella sus, you might have a brain tumour"
" go live your best life bestie "
As a nurse, we do use rubbing alcohol swabs to keep patients from throwing up from nausea. Also that vagus nerve comment about humming to help with nausea is also true.
Depends on the cause of the nausea though. I have (unintentionally) smelled rubbing alcohol after a night of drinking, and I immediately threw up on my shoes…
for me i have low tolerance on alcohol just the smell of it makes me almost throw up
I find the same thing helps my patients!
@@NurseMaddyW Interesting! You just smell them? Or wipe under nose? I've never heard of this?❤️
@@DetroitFettyghost I literally just open the swab and lay it on their nose.
7:23: "Why is it in a bucket?"
"Because there's too much to hold in my mouth, duh!"
You can always depend on the Irish for a laugh.
Proud Irish
Thank yeww
That blood donation bit cracked me up. They do ask a lot of questions when I donate blood. I let them take it out with a needle instead of bringing my blood in a bucket though.
I am sorry the buzz lightyear one choked me and then when Mike mentioned his wings and the the sudden clip of lightyear's wings popping out CAUGHT ME 😭
dr mike:
doesnt get ben dover'
cackles at "little patient"
pure baby?
yes
Also didn't get the invisible/can't see him comment
@@BrittanyMoody0315 I think he did get that one!
Ttyy
The second she mentioned the bruise on her leg that wasn't there several hours before, I was like "Was it flesh eating bacteria?" and then a second later it's confirmed. I thank Cabin Fever for making me look up Necrotising Fasciitis, because now I'm so much more thorough about keeping cuts, scraps, and any other injuries, clean while also watching out for signs of infection.
That girl did amazing to survive if it was necrotizing fascitis. My mom had that back in 2017 and needed emergency surgery to remove the dead tissue. When she got through the op, they told us only 2 out of every 5 cases survives initially and the reinfection rates are sky high. Sadly, she did get it again and passed from multiple organ failure because of it last year. We got lucky the doctor had even heard of it the first time round and he was able to help her and bought us 3 more years with her
I hope a miracle happens and it extends to as many years as u want to spend time with her
1:02 I was not ready for the bogos binted meme, it cracks me up EVERY time 😭😭
Resident: "The patient's heart is bussin'!"
Cardiologist: "What does it even mean?"
Resident: "He has ventricular fibrillation"
Cardiologist: "Oh sh*t!"
It. is. literally. bustin'. What. do. you. not. get?
@@sarahcoleman5269 wHaT dID tHeY tEaCh YoU aT mEdScHoOl?!?!?!?!
You didn't need to pop off like that, sis
I was told for many years that my abdominal pain was just period cramps. Turned out that I have endometriosis that’s covering all of my reproductive system. My drs and parents felt like sh*t after hearing that.
What happened next? If you insist to say?
@@serene_actual Either pain meds or surgical removal of problem tissues - there's really not much else that can be done about it. It is *not* a condition that goes away with medication.
Mine did the exact same thing. No one thought anything was wrong... They were wrong.
@@serene_actual I had surgery to remove as much of the tissue as possible. I'll be scheduling the surgery again soon. The condition is technically incurable. The tissue will continue to grow back. It's been over 4 years since my first surgery. The pain has returned especially since the birth of my son.
@@electrowave114 my husband and I are going to try for a second kid in a couple years and after that I'll get a hysterectomy so I will finally be over with the pain.
I can confirm the rubbing alcohol thing for nausea. When my wife went into labor she was really nauseous at intervals and the nurse would hand her an alcohol swab and she would smell it a couple times and it would help to relieve her nausea.
Yep helped after I had my brain surgery too
Yeah he made a video correcting his mistake
I rely on fresh burst Listerine for nausea control.
@@heyhihowyoudoin5411 YOU HAD BRAIN SURGERY 🧠
Thank you so much for this tip
Around June 2021 started having severe chest pain. My mom got me an appointment at Nemours Childrens Hospital. They said it was muscle spasms. Around August that year they started getting worse. Afraid it was my heart, my mom scheduled another appointment with Nemours with a different doctor. He diagnosed me with severe pectus excavatum. Turns out my sternum wall was pressing on my main arteries. July 14, 2022 I went in for MIRPE. Since then, I’ve had a fricking metal rod inside my chest to correct the depression.
Your left and right ears really do have different functions though. The left ear takes in sound from the left side, and the right ear takes in sound from the right side. It allows you to have an idea of what direction a sound is coming from.
Ah, technically correct... The best kind of correct.
Big brain moment
Love it
I do feel like there is a difference though...
I use one of those single-ear bluetooth headsets pretty much day in day out.
When I have it in my right ear, there is basically zero effort required to follow what is being said on a phone call or podcast I am listening to, even in noisy environments.
If I put it in my left ear, it feels like so much more effort required just to parse the speech and it's much easier to loose track and I'm unable to sort of quick-rewind in my head to re-analze what was said a second ago...
That's not functioning differently. That's hearing sounds from one side or the other. A function both ears have.
@@Zac_h72 you can't hear from the left side with your right ear, because the left side will always be on your left, and the right side will always be on your right. Oh, you're gonna turn your head to hear what's happening on the right with your left year? The right side is now the left side. 🧐🧐🧐
When I was a little younger I went to the ER because of nausea, fatigue, weakness, sleep problems, dry skin, etc. The doctor thought is was just a common cold, I told my mom I knew it was more than that, but the doctor insisted I was fine.
Here’s a little information: I’m type 1 diabetic, allergic to way too many things, and I have been in and out of the hospital for my irregular blood sugar my entire life. So if you know some things about diabetes, then you probably know where this is going.
I was in early stages of chronic kidney failure, we continuously tried to get our local doctor to do blood tests, but they always refused. Eventually we went to our endocrine specialist (which was a hassle because she’s an hour and a half away) but there is not much we can do other than try to maintain the diabetes. I’m allergic to most over the counter medicines, I have multiple health issues that make it extremely hard to lose weight (but I’m already a sort of healthy weight) and I’m not doing anything like smoking or drinking to speed up the process.
We never went to that ER again.
my strategy for healthcare is dont get sick
@@WOWexe-ey9pm wish I could do that mate
@@WOWexe-ey9pm
yeah. if ur homeless, just buy a house.
Mad respeckt bro, mad respeckt. I salute to you sir.
@C I E L M A R T I N E Z um it was a joke lmao
I am very happy to say that when I got my appendix removed, the doctors listened to me without fail. I had mild pain and discomfort for about a week before we went into Emergency, got charged $1k to have an Urgent Care doctor poke me in the belly and send me out sure, but the moment I got there it was "I suspect appendicitis," "ok how long have you had this pain" "1 week" the doctors/residents/anyone who saw me immediately just doing their best impression to not seem surprised.
I had atypical symptoms. The pain was at its worst a 6, barely any nausea, no vomiting, no blockage. CT Scan? My intestines looked like a storm cloud.
I went into surgery that night. What was originally supposed to be a quick and easy Laparoscopic Appendectomy turned into an Open Surgery because... as it turned out? My appendix had already cracked open and was stuck to the outer lining.
I legitimately almost died and I barely even showed any symptoms. If someone had made it harder for me to get the help I needed, I might not have been here today.
Got Surgery on September 30th. Happy to say I can move around on my own just fine. Just got abdominal muscle cramps every now and then since they basically tore me open, lol
broo i also had hella pain near the stomach/pelvis part, it hurted so badly I couldn't even walk. I decided to just go to bed and chill, I slept a little and when I woke up the pain went away. i dont know what caused the pain, but it was nothing serious perhaps, considering this happened a few months ago and I'm still alive lol. your story gave me hella chills though, i literally could have died if my case was the same as yours because i decided to go to bed instead of going to the doctor :/
@@CelestialExility I know what you're talking about. I've had the same pain before. My doctor told me that it was related to the liquid levels in my kidneys changing too fast, and that not drinking any water for a day or two, and then guzzling 20 oz. will do it.
As soon as you present atypical (or anything different from the diagram in their textbooks) you're screwed if you can't find a good doctor. As a 20 year old I was misdiagnosed with Shingles because the MRSA that I actually had happened to all only be on my right side of my stomach. After coming back a week later telling her shingles shouldn't be this deep and so pus and blood filled she brushed me off and I went to urgent care, who basically scoffed at the original diagnosis and said what I had was most definitely MRSA.
this dark guy... i saw the same thing on someones comment, i think its safe to say everyone with the name dark in their youtube account is there for clout
@@arlynnecumberbatch1056 ok Arlynne cuCUMberbatch 😱😂😂😂
My doctor thought I exaggerated my chest pain (btw it was rational because I was a 16yr old female) and said that it was a pulled muscle. At this time I was also having severe body oder and ph problems I was told were part of me not being clean or just my puberty. Turns out the pain and ph disruption was caused by my mediastinal teratoma tumor that collapsed my one lung and ruptured the sack on my heart. After getting emergency surgery and almost dieing did he then realize I had a high pain tolerance and to not ignore a female patients symptoms just because you think we're weak and won't because u never know whats going on inside a person who might look and act as a stereotypical teen girl I almost died because of it.
I heard about smelling rubbing alcohol to keep nausea at bay before. In a SciShow video too! IIRC they said that patients that did chemo would often use that as advised by hospital staff and that some study considered it just as good as taking anti-nausea medication.
And works instantly, too! Pretty good as short term relief
And when I was in a hospital in Costa Rica they did that to me too.
my aunts gave me a cotton ball dabbed with rubbing alcohol for when i had a stomach infection that made me puke every 10 mins. it actually worked pretty well and fortunately i like the smell of rubbing alcohol
I use it preclinically and it often works. At worst, it's an inexpensive and accessible placebo.
Yup this is true. There have been a couple studies showing it's as good or better than Zofran (in the acute setting). Look up "Inhaled isopropyl alcohol for nausea and vomiting in the emergency department" :)
"I like the brain, I think it's magical"
He Just complemented himself
Lol true
True, but he really is complementing us all
LOL
@@djdanger1256 except Twitter :>
I remember I was 14 and I went to the ER for really bad abdominal pains. The doctor sent me home after he pushed my stomach a few times and told me it was period cramps. I was actually passing a gallstone. 2 months later I go to the ER again for the exact same reason and they found out I had over 200 gallstones in my gallbladder. They lost a clip during surgery and every now and then it moves and feels like someone is stabbing me below the ribcage
uhhhhh can't you sue them for medical malpractice?
And like uh… get the clip removed??????
@@enderbirds3814 they lost it idk if they gonna find it
@@ellamay6405 I tried and it's not a strong enough case
@@enderbirds3814 been trying to get it removed for a while, my hospital is really busy and wait lists are super long
2:48
uhhhh those needles on that guy’s head is pretty disturbing as a trypanophobic person 💀
My teacher told us the story of why she's scared of needles and it basically goes like this,
She goes to donate blood which she has done before, then as she is donating blood the needle falls out of her arm and then nurse or whatever put then needle back in without sanitizing it or anything.
(This was a few years ago so the story might be off but that's basically what I remember)
TL:DR Teacher went to donate blood or something, the needle falls out of her arm and nurse puts it back in without sanitizing it.
there ok
right?
@@maskedgunbamboo8138 yea she's fine, she's in her 60s now I think
@@adammartinez7588 that’s good
That is such bad malpractice oh my god
Kudos to the editor who captures your inner-most feelings doctor.
the editing has been so good lately! the editors are on fire
I actually met someone who could produce water vapor from their mouth on command. They did a lot of weird breathing and mouth movements, but it was a small amount, not a ton like that. Still cool though.
I knew someone who could turn their saliva into a mist, they'd blow their cheeks up real big, then compress with their hands, some tongue clicking, then they open and a small fog rolls out
The video looked like vape though
It’s pretty easy when you learn how to do it, it works pretty well.
Yeah, it's a fun party trick. It's not boiling the water, it's vaporizing it (usually, or at least this is how I do it, by puffing out my cheeks a couple times with my mouth closed). It's similar to ultrasonic humidifiers; they don't just boil water, they mix air with very tiny droplets of water.
That said, like @triforce9286 said, I've never seen that much vapor produced so this particular video might be faked with a vape, but that's just me speculating.
Twice got badly diagnosed due to my gender. First time was massive lower stomach pain, literally the worst in my life, I was screaming/begging for my mother to kill me (and I have chronic pain issues so my pain tolerance is high by necessity) ER doctor insisted I was only cramping and being a drama queen. Thankfully my mother stood up for me, demanded they bring an obgyn, who realized this was serious, turned out an ovarian cyst the size of a softball had ruptured, I ignored it because pain is the status quo of my life, and it was infected.
Second time, I had known for 12 years that I had epilepsy, but suddenly my seizures were increasing. I had recently moved to Oregon, and this new neurologist told me that because my EEG was normal, I didn't have epilepsy at all, these were nothing but panic attacks, and refused to renew the medication that I literally needed to survive. FYI, going off epilepsy medication cold turkey can cause even someone without epilepsy to have a seizure. (They can be prescribed for mental health or chronic insomnia.) I argued that this was insane, three neurologists IN the past had treated me no problem, and cold turkey was literally a death sentence. I had to argue that panic attacks (which I do have) don't happen when you're asleep, or bored cooking dinner, or having a lovely family dinner, and panic attacks don't happen so suddenly that you collapse and break your arm. TWICE!
I admit, I raised my voice in anger. It was horrifying to me, having an increase in seizures only to be told my prescription would not be renewed. Brain damage was a very real likelihood!!! So I got upset, was told to get out of the office and never return, and rather than send me to another neurologist in the network, I was assigned to see a seizure clinic that my insurance refused to cover, and they refused to let me see another neurologist in the entire freaking city of Portland. I then lost my insurance and had to supplement my epilepsy pills with my sister's spare pills, since I had no neuro to prescribe new pills, and anyway I couldn't afford $800/month for my pills without insurance. Thankfully, Oregon Health Plan became a thing, I got an awesome neurologist who not only got my seizures 100% under control with cannabis (5 years seizure free) but also takes an interest in my mental health, and he even read a novel I published after my brain was repaired enough to write again.
What a ride! Glad that it got figured out, I would've reacted the same way, some doctors just frickin suck.
You know the worst part? There's no way without a lawsuit to inform these doctors of the severe mistakes they made. They never gave guilt. They just arrogantly go on, telling the story of a crazy woman they had to ban for the office just because they cut her off from some drugs.
What? How does having a normal EEG mean you DONT have epilepsy? Do they not know that epilepsy is a neurological condition? I have epilepsy and they say that to me because neuron active didn’t increase.
@@RobinTheBot I would definitely sue in that case. That's criminally negligent malpractice.
The rubbing alcohol thing does actually work for a short-term solution. My mom (an RN) used that trick on my older sister after she had jaw surgery and her mouth was wired shut. It bought enough time for her to take the ani-nausea meds!
The dog with a bag over its head is very dangerous. I’ve had clients who’ve lost dogs to coming home found that they got into the pantry and suffocated from having chip bag over their head and being unable to remove it.
Absolutely. Even large dogs die this way, they just don't have the range of motion and awareness we do. Hoping more people will upvote your comment for awareness
Thankfully the owner was right there, but yeah incredibly scary 😟🥺 but yeah very scary for pets.
I witnessed my cat running around with a platic bag covering its head, my cat survived and was perfectly fine but its quite the scare at 3am when you just want a glass of water.
One of my old dogs got his head stuck in an ice cream container (plain vanilla! We kept any trace of chocolate away from him) and then he got stuck in a corner, and then just stood there, whining. We had to tug him out of the corner to get the canister off his head
6:14 Her tiktoks are all like
“I have terrible food poisoning.” “Tap your fingernails together”
“I fell and landed on a rock and now my arm is bleeding profusely.” “Recite the ABC’s backwards.”
“I’m going into anaphylactic shock and my throat is closing.” “Just start tap dancing.”
No. No they're not.
Ok
Ive tried some of her tips
they work really well
My mom had a ganglion cyst and she wanted to do the book trick but I convinced her to get it surgically removed. Also the alcohol scent (and also bleach scent) do help with nausea. It’s a common tactic used amongst midwives to help pregnant women with nausea during labor.
I use Q-tips for my ears, just not for cleaning but for drying. Especially after shower or swimming they catch a lot of water and if I don't dry them inside soon. I can hear the water moving inside my ear and it's soooo uncomfortable and can cause me ear pain for a not-so-short while. I believe there are different shapes of ear tunnels (?) in addition to the tendency of dry/wet ear wax, and some ear tunnels, like mine, don't clean themselves so easily.
That’s bad for you you’ll die
I always used rubbing alcohol in my ears to get the water out.
@@Star1412s that sounds significantly safer. Not going to accidentally puncture an eardrum or get a bit of cotton lost in there to fester that way.
Just throwing this out here, smelling alcohol wipes really DOES help with nausea. When I’ve been admitted, the pregnant nurses would walk around with alcohol wipes to help maintain nausea!
I was just coming down here to say that this is true. I actually use it myself for nausea because of some gastric issues that frequently cause nausea. It totally works and I’ve read about it being used in ER’s.
I've also heard that too, but never tried it myself to find out
Yeah, totally works... the problem is when your body really needs to expell something. This one time I had food poisoning but kept myself from vomiting by smelling alcohol, just prolonged my ailment... but eventually the alcohol life hack didnt work anymore D:
Thank you for sharing! I would advise if someone is often nauseated with no known cause though, they should see a doctor, rather than continue to stave off the nausea over and over.
Yep, always get incredulous looks when I suggest this to patients in the ER. Doesn't work for everyone, but it's certainly worth a try.
My mom and I have both face male doctors minimizing our problems or concerns just because we’re women.Thank you for addressing that. I wish more men could see that if they aren’t part of the problem then there is no reason to be personally offended over an issue of discrimination women face being brought up. Not all male doctors are like that, of course. Unfortunately, some still are and it should be talked about.
I had a ganglion cyst for most of my teenage years. It was painful off and on and after a while the pain persisted for too long and I asked to have it removed before I would be off off my mother's insurance. This was before the 26 year age limit. The idea of somebody smashing it with a book would give me murder charges.
Hey Dr. Mike, there is a peer reviewed study in favor of the isopropyl alcohol working faster for the same results as ondansetron. Study was titled "Inhaled isopropyl alcohol for nausea and vomiting in the emergency department"
As for the tongue to nose thing, that's due to rocking the vomer bone.
GenZs as doctors : " so we found something in your brain that be looking hella sus, you might have a brain tumour"
" go live your best life bestie "
Yeah I was given alcohol wipes for nausea in the ER.
The rubbing alcohol when you’re nauseous has been a lifesaver for me when I’ve been motion sick. Idk how it works or if it’s placebo effect or what, but it works!! (At least for me)
I see. I'm prone to motion sickness, it makes me hating car trip day, I will try to do that from now on!
@@kris_pang I hope it helps! Worth it to try, at least. I keep alcohol swabs with me whenever I travel now.
Benadryl helps with acute situations of motion sickness. For me when it's bad enough to make me consider I'd be puking soon I pop a pill and nausea goes within minutes. Since it also clears the motion sickness nausea doesn't come back. Before I'd have to be smelling alcohol until my head hurt. It worked, though.
Works for me too. Also clears my head when I star to get dizzy from getting my blood drawn.
GenZs as doctors : " so we found something in your brain that be looking hella sus, you might have a brain tumour"
" go live your best life bestie "
Both my dogs lifted up their heads at this 2:18 😂😂😂😂😂
just that one part got me dying 😂😂😂
Actually, people with auditory processing disorders find that listening to sounds through one ear makes them more understandable than with the other
GenZs as doctors : " so we found something in your brain that be looking hella sus, you might have a brain tumour"
" go live your best life bestie "
Isn't that just focus?
I cannot take phone calls through my right ear even with my hearing aids. I have to “squint” with my ears so much and it still is so hard to understand what is being said. I don’t know if it is just because of my specific auditory processing disorder which was caused by a concussion or if it is because I took phone calls using my left ear my whole life (I am left handed) so it got super strong at processing. I have no hearing loss (perfect hearing acuity) just auditory processing disorder.
Facts, idk if i have an auditory processing disorder, but I do have adhd, and its way easier to hear someone talking with my right ear. I'm not sure if its because I tend to sit on the left side of the classroom, or if I unconsciously always sit on the left side of the classroom because its easier to hear and understand. As a result I almost always use my left ear for music
i have great hearing, my mom is partially deaf so i do all the listening for her. but when i take off my glasses, somehow my hearing gets worse. once i broke my glasses and couldnt get new ones for a while. when people call my name, its like it doesnt even register. and if you are talking to me, i cant tell which direction youre talking from and if youre far or close. its really really weird. i cant function without my glasses at all because my hearing somehow gets worse, and i can only see a few inches in front of my face
Hello, the rubbing alcohol one is actually very accurate and so is the humming one. I use both of them when I get sick(very often I have sever migraines) and they help a lot. I knew that before her though which is how I know it's not some new trend
Well for some it works but for me it doesn't.
Humming one doesn't work.
Could be placebo
I agree
I tried the humming thing and immediately threw my guts up
I’ve never had appendicitis but I did end up having a year late allergic reaction to a medication that caused my mouth to go numb, not being able to swallow or talk, caused me to drool, and I couldn’t control my arm from acting like a miniature seizure. The nurse saw me and said it was all in my head or trying to get attention due to me being on meds for depression. She never asked me any questions or and real info walked in and looked at me asked my mom to step out. We left after that with my mom thinking I was making it all up. A week later I ended up in the hospital not being able to breath at all only for my psychiatrist to tell us I was having an allergic reaction to the medication Geodon or something like that
Moms think doctors know everything and are always right 🤦♂️
My grandma's the same way, what the doctor says is law. She follows it to a T. They told her to eat spinach to help get her iron up and all she ate FOR A YEAR was spinach. Did more harm than good, she ended up raising her iron to dangerous levels. 😅doctors aren't always right and people like my grandmother need to realize that. My grandma is obviously an extreme case, idk how many people would go as far as she did but still.
I took geodon as a kid…hated it, had side effects. No fun.
@@ashleighADDICT8029 I mean, that sounds more like grandma's fault than the doctors. The doctors probably assumed she was a normal person who would simply add spinach to her diet, not a weirdo who would go only spinach for an entire year.
Yes, doctors aren't always right. They're human and can make mistakes. It's just that a doctor making a mistake can cause death.
Nobody ever discusses it but cotton buds are OKAY for your ears if you are responsible and gently clean only the outside and don't try using them as a dang toilet plunger.
And the best way to clean the ear is a simple plastic bulb and warm water, melts the wax and makes it come out instantly and then simply use a small amount of alcohol for 20-30 seconds.
The alcohol will kill any bacteria and also help dry the ear out faster to prevent any infections.
5:55 I laughed out loud at the "little patient" joke. That was gold.
I liked the joke but I was quite more impressed with Doctor Mike's laughter
The smelling the alcohol when nauseous thing works.
I had issues with my bp dropping during treatment at the dialysis center. Nausea was an effect from it. They'd give me alcohol swabs to sniff until the zofran shot kicked in.
100% legit.
GenZs as doctors : " so we found something in your brain that be looking hella sus, you might have a brain tumour"
" go live your best life bestie "
Actually... The smelling alcohol to stop nausea is actually true. Your nerves which seems the nausea feeling and the nerves for smell are the same... If you can overpower them with a smell, it helps with the nausea. This is something that is recommended for pregnant women with nausea - sniff lemons, cinnamon gum, alcohol swabs or hand sanitizer.
@cak01vej jesus men here's a like for writing that
@Blvkk I respect you for admitting when you were wrong
@Blvkk i respect both of you for respecting each other
I love how it says reacting to dangerous TikTok’s when most of these are dogs are doing funny stupid stuff.
“You’ve got a friend in me” for that Buzz Lightyear one was the worst joke of the decade
A week after I watched this video my best friend was having “period cramps” at school. She said her mom said that it was a period cramp but I new her appendix had burst when she looked pail, she was in pain, and she could barely walk. I insisted she go to the nurse right away and so I took her there. The next time she texted me was after her surgery. My accusation was right.
how are kids today better than anyones parents?! you did a great job on saving your friends life
Good save bro!! Unless you a girl then good save girl!!
We need more guys like you
That ganglion cyst trick is something piano players do. Apparently they get them quite often. But they certainly don’t smash it with a book, but with a quick slap with a ruler. Not enough to hurt, but enough to start the fluids moving. It’s also not instant, but takes a few hours.
for 2:15 for the if you need a grouping symbol and a ending symbol. Love the stuff, learned a lot
I had a ganglion cyst on my inner right wrist (below my thumb but on the wrist). I had heard that people used to hit them with books but there was no way I was going to do that. I got the choice to pick between getting it drained or having it surgically removed. I was fifteen and I’d heard they could come back if they were drained, and I’d rather not have to be stabbed with a needle more than once, so I chose the surgery. I’m very happy with my decision because the scar isn’t very noticeable (unless I’m cold), plus , it looks like Harry Potter’s scar and I’m a fan of the series so it’s a win win.
I have one on my right hand, I wanna get it removed but totally scared lol how was the process?
Well, if it needs to be drained or surgically removed, how can a book bang make it go away?
@@dank7044 the force from the book pops the cyst, its mostly a jello like consistancy. highly unadviseable since then the cyst's fluid has to find its way out via reabsorbstion, but you could get an infection if you got a cut while the cyst fluid was there.
@@plumtucker9514 woah, i didn't think that was possible. Thx anyways.
The rubbing alcohol one is true. Makes the nausea go away instantly. When I came out of surgery from having my gallbladder removed I learned about it thanks to a post op nurse.
Edit: words are hard
Never helped me...I've got chronic nausea. I've tried smelling alcohol, lemon oil, mint, taking prescription and OTC anti-nausea meds, using different distractions. Glad a lot of the people commenting have found it helps them though. Nausea sucks so literally ANYTHING that works is a keeper. 🤷🏼♀
i also agree the alcohol does work i had nausea after surgery and after sniffing an alcohol wipe it went away instantly
I feel like this is just your body being distracted. The rubbing alcohol has no true effect on nausea, it just makes your brain think about something else for a while.
@@Leah.Something it only works after surgery The use of isopropyl alcohol pads to treat nausea has mainly been used for postoperative nausea and vomiting related to inhalational anesthesics. In this setting, isopropyl alcohol has shown promise in reducing the need for additional conventional intravenous medications to treat ongoing nausea.
@@tmyby07 I had a doc use this on me in the clinic. It works but is very temporary. At best it buys me time to get somewhere to vomit.
6:30 I promise Dr. Mike that pressing your tongue against the roof of your mouth absolutely helps clear your sinuses. I have done it for a while and I discovered it purely by accident, not because I was following some random advice from the internet. It does not cure you of your congestion, but can provide some temporary relief and allow you to breathe through your nose.
I dont know, it didnt help me
It helped me
I was just going to say that it worked, and the tongue and pressing between your eye brows is cycled and not at the same time, has absolutely helped me. Glad I'm not the only one.
I do this one whenever I need it and it works great.
The trick is to alternate pressure from tongue and finger and to be forceful. Once you find the right rhythm you can literally feel the sinuses drain into the back of your throat.
It's a godsend
2:12 I used to be able to do this, learned it from a friend when I was younger but I no longer remember how to do it as well. It's like pressurizing what ever is in your mouth and then when you release it it comes out like that
I had a highschool class mate who could do the "vapor out of the mouth" thing
Well, there are 2 factors that can change water into vapor, the waters temperature and atmospheric pressure, so you can get a low temp vapor but the PSI is also going to be low as well
I've also seen this done, no trick
Done it myself. Was gonna comment but then erased it cause I felt stupid lmao.
I had a friend in college who could do this too! It was a great icebreaker fact at all our conferences and leadership retreats 👍🏻
@@v0idk1tty Whenever you feel stupid, I say do it anyway
My dad can do this
Ironically I know the pain of having a high pain tolerance, walked into the ER With a broken foot "oh if it was broken you wouldn't be walking its probably just sprained or fractured" one xray later, "So its broken and we are going to get you some crutches."
That was after walking on a fracture for 9 months thinking it was a sprain. The bone gave way because it healed wrong.
One time I had migraine pain and vomiting so bad I nearly lost consciousness, nobody believed it was that bad untill i had taken 4 huge syringes of medical grade gravol, was still vomiting and then nearly blacked out and bashed my head on the floor.
And then the capstone, nobody believed my back pain was more than just muscle pain (including me btw) until my spine finally gave out at work, now I need pills just to move around.
My whole family is that way, we are just built different. High pain tolerance doesn't make it not hurt it just makes nobody believe you when you are in pain.
The amount of times I heard the phrase "You don't look like you're in pain" could fill a phone book.
If something doesn't feel right, get it checked out sooner than later. Its better to know than wonder.
same. Worked on a foot with a broken bone in it for 2 to 3 months before going to the doctor. Thought it was something else . Finally saw a doctor when it got to the point I cried after my shifts. Had to be non weight bearing for it for 4 months
Same issue. I'm not vocal about pain so no one really believes I have it bad. My migraines had me bedridden and in and out of consciousness, but my brother said well you're not screaming so it can't be that bad.
People are a-holes. All day it’s “be honest”, “say what you mean, mean what you say”, but when you do, you’re consistently not believed despite your consistent face value honesty AND you usually get an earful for it as well because you didn’t do a good enough Meryl Streep job to boot. 🤦🏾♀️ 🤬 wtf
I walked around with a fractured patella for a week before I went into the ED for cellulitis from the swelling in my calf. They looked at me and said, doesn't it hurt? Nah, it's so swollen half of it is numb.. Can you bear weight? Yep. Is it weak? Well, no, not really.
Four weeks in a leg stabilizing cast plus another few months of slow recovery from no pain. Then I sprained the ankle on that leg. 😅
Yeah, I'm 19 now, but when I was younger, my parents just didn't care about how much pain I was in unless I was rolling around on the floor groaning. Same with mental/emotional pain such as depression.
I DEFINITELY went to urgent care for cyclical vomiting and was given alcohol pads to smell AFTER being treated with pills and IV meds for nausea that weren't working...right before the 3rd dose of meds I was given the alcohol pads...it took the edge off and my body was able to calm down enough to allow the meds to do their job...10/10 would do again...
It's just in your head
There's actually a couple studies done in ERs showing it's as good or better than Zofran - definitely not all in your head!
@@madelinetaylor5514 definitely all in your head as doctors agree this doesn't work and they know more then nurses
@@bluehornet197 “Inhaled isopropyl alcohol for nausea and vomiting in the emergency department” (Lindblad et al., 2018), “For treatment of nausea in the ambulatory setting, is inhaled isopropyl alcohol as effective as ondansetron?” (Van Vooren et al, 2021), “Inhaling isopropyl alcohol from alcohol wipes was amore effective antiemetic than oral ondansetron in nauseated adults” (Dalrymple, 2020), “Control of Postoperative Nausea and Vomiting in Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery Patients with Isopropyl Alcohol: A Prospective Randomized Clinical Trial” (Verma et al, 2018) would say it’s not in her head. I (an MD) would also argue that it is not in her head :)
@@bluehornet197 it’s in the medical protocols in the state of Maryland, I’d say it works
02:30
"You've got a friend in me" 😅😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂