My aunt's doctor told her she was imagining symptoms for a decade. She died of cancer. It had spread everywhere. The specialist had to take a moment to compose himself. The guy was shaking with anger.
Happened to my grandma they found the cancer in the liver when it was the last stage, everytime she complained to the doctors about the the extra weight, while eating less than a cup of porridge or buckwheat a day, theyr answer was: eat less.
@@Einimas They get caught up on the obvious and refuse to look deeper. Even happened with my planar fasciitis. Doc said my feet hurt because I was fat. They hurt because they are flat and the tendons locked up until they weren't. Sorry for your loss. Never give doctors full trust.
I went to the hospital about fifteen years ago with extreme stomach pain. My roommate was concerned enough to drive me to the hospital, where they repeatedly badgered me with questions about my sexual history and asking if I was pregnant. I was a VIRGIN, so unless I had suddenly had my name changed to Mary and three stars were going to appear in the sky over me, I was not pregnant. The hospital finally "decided" that I must have a kidney infection and sent me home with a prescription for an antibiotic. Two days later, I was still in a lot of pain so my roommate took me to another hospital which found I had a ruptured hernia and had been bleeding internally. I got the bill from the first hospital, and I kid you not, they billed me for NINE PREGNANCY TESTS, all of which came up negative. Had my roommate not insisted on taking me to the second hospital, I could have bled to death internally.
What the fuck If you've never had sex the PT was completely unnecessary. Man if that wasn't 15 years ago id say you should dispute the charges for the PTs bc you were never sexually active at that point.
what makes me really mad about this, Some people suffered PERMANENT damage from some dumbass doctors who thought "oh they're just looking for pain meds"
@@yasininn76 If it sounds like a cold, feels like a cold, and reacts like a cold. I'm not going to fault the doctor for not immediately thinking "Lung Cancer." They should definitely be taught to take the patient's concerns more seriously but no, they should definitely think "Most common is most likely"
@@jinga9862 Problem is too many doctors take that saying to mean "Zebra's don't exist" and will continue to insist that it's a horse even as you show them the strips. That what many of these doctors did they ignored everything that was inconstant with what's most common due to confirmation basis.
My parents always had the "Just work harder" mentality when raising me (which, isn't always a bad thing, but it was in my case). On top of that, they were always ready to tell guests and friends about my "wild and creative imagination" but quick to scold me when I took too much time thinking and planning and not enough time acting on those thoughts and plans. On top of that, they just couldn't seem to understand why I would cry so easily. As soon as I found out what a "learning disability" was, I put two and two together and began to speculate that I may by neurodivergent. Problem was, I was 10 at the time, and my parents treated their own "mother/father knows best" behavior as gospel. When I was 13, I was diagnosed with ADHD, Major Depressive Mood Disorder with Psychotic Elements, and Anxiety. The only reason my parents bothered to get me tested was because they wanted to prove my speculation wrong.
I am so sorry that happened to you….I had a teacher who was legitimately mentally and emotionally abusing me, and when my parents raised hell and tried to get her at least in trouble when she crossed a major line, the school instead kept insisting my parents get me tested…. ADHD, Dysgraphia (both diagnosis’s received Age Seven), Major Depressive Disorder and General as well as social anxiety (diagnosed in my teens), a touch of Narcolepsy, Insomnia, and a side serotonin imbalance…it always upsets me when doctors don’t listen to children when they insist something is wrong
Well, they gave you a shitty time with their bs, if they didn't make up, just leave them as soon as you're 18, people that value their opinion over somebody's else concern, specially their child, are trashy people, no offense to your parents
Autistic here! I myself am not actually diagnosed officially, but self-diagnosed. (My parents don’t agree with me about it, sooo… self diagnosis babyeee!) Self diagnosed seems to be the first step for others, and I’m wondering if people find official diagnoses worth it?
@@avaarrow7478 for me an official diagnosis helped a whole heck of a lot. I was able to get permission to use my non disruptive fidget toys, a 504 to help with my struggles with school, and a lot of other things like that. It made a lot of my struggles a lot more bearable when I had teachers who wouldn’t believe me until they saw my papers
I actually can contribute to this one. When I was four years old I was having chest pains and trouble breathing. Mother took me the family pediatrition, who never even placed me on his exam table, just looked at me and told my mum I had an upset tummy and was overreacting. Few days later I'm in my bed going in and out of consciousness, struggling to breathe. We go to the pediatrition again, he wasn't in that day, so his replacement tended to me. Used his stethoscope on me and his eyes went wide. He called an ambulance and I was rushed to the Emergency Room. Pneumonia. Doctors said I could have died that day. I was on mechanical breathing for two weeks with how messed up my lungs were. My mother went back to the family doctor and smacked him so hard across the face, it most definitely left a mark. My first memory is waking up to see my twin brother clinging to me, crying his eyes out, waiting for me to wake up. That was 23 years ago. It took 10 years for my lungs to recover and I still sometimes need to watch myself when doing intense physical exercise. Now please excuse me, I have to go watch something a little more uplifting as that memory always brings me to tears. I hate seeing my brother cry.
My husband's uncle died from a heart attack. They kept insisting he had a panic attack due to him only being 48. They committed him to a psych ward instead where they found him dead next morning.
Please tell me that they got sued for malpractice. This is heart breaking anyway, but truly INJUSTICE! It is the most easiet thing to check for heart problems. EKG takes only few minutes to set up and is common practice!
@@SatumainenOlento This isn't America. You can't just sue left or right. I know his wife wanted to sue his doctor since he was the one refusing to send him to the hospital. He even stupidly made a commen that "It's just a panic attack. You don't die from those." I don't know why she decided against not going down the route. Maybe the grief was too big. Maybe the settled somehow. It's not really any of my business.
Americans aren't as sue-happy as the rest of the world thinks we are. While many will settle out of court, if I am entitled to financial compensation and the person refuses to pay then my only options are file a lawsuit. Even then, I need to prove that I have grounds to file.
I remember once I was in class and had to use my inhaler due to a sudden asthma attack. I was having a hard time breathing and ended up fairly distressed because I had such a hard time getting the damn thing out of my pocket so I was crying a little. I asked to be dismissed to call my Nana to either come pick me up or give my PE teacher a call about having to modify whatever activity I had to do for that class and the teacher just dismissed it as a panic attack (they had a medical slip/parent call rule about it) Either way I would have wanted to call my goddamn Nana- And you'll never guess who had another asthma attack because I didn't get a pass to modify what kind of physical activity I was doing that day. After that asthma attack, the coach was really nice about it and wrote up a whole sheet of alternative exercises for me during the fitness classes I was in but the other teacher was a jerk.
Story 11 is what a doctor should actually do. "Just to be safe" is the most important thing to do. It is better to waste 1 hour of a person's life than risking a 5% chance of game over. Basically what story 12 said. Being paranoid is probably the best trait for a doctor.
No being paranoid and doing the bare minimum is not the same thing. Being paranoid means that you are overthinking aka you should NOT do something Making sure is DEFINITELY not an overthinking
@@notlikely4468 Nah, not everyone lives in the U.S.A. . I will just have to wait 3 hours+ in the waiting area to take my exams and show it to my doctors. One day lost but stil better than 1 life lost.
@@WERTYUIO821 Still pretty much a zero sum game...instead of money it's time and resources So your long and detailed workup means some old lady doesn't get her knee replaced I'm more the "don't just do something, stand there" It will either get better, get worse, or stay the same And then we can procede from there
@@notlikely4468 Like I said, it is better to lose a day than a life. "Getting worse" in a lot of cases is a line between life and death. I know a family whose daughter was saved because their family doctor sent them to the hospital instead of letting them "wait it a bit". You have no idea how often those things happen. One of my uncles meanwhile died in front of my sisters because he said "it is nothing". That old lady will get her knee replaced at the doctor responsible for that not the nurses responsible for the exams lol.
I had wicked food poisoning once, where I even ran out of water to throw up. The pain was so intense that even my shy self started screaming in the public waiting room. I could not help it. (I really should have just called an ambulance) A nurse came in and had the audacity to say I had a low pain tolerance. I later showed my labs to my MIL, who's a nurse, and she said I would have been dead in the morning if I didn't have an IV. But, yeah, low pain tolerance. Obviously.
That's awful, I'm sorry you had to go through that. I am curious, what dangers would show up on labs that would be caused by food poisoning? Was it nutrient deficiencies caused by severe GI upset or something?
@@jacobjohnson8686 No idea, but it was almost that horrible about 8 months later. So that could be a good hypothesis. No major issues for years though, however.
I remember a dentist told me I had a low pain tolerance too when I had a severely decayed tooth due to an untreated break and I was just like bruh- if I've got a low pain tolerance doesn't that mean I should get treated to get rid of the pain anyway?? It never fails to piss me off when there are doctors or nurses who accuse patients of faking things when they really need help.
what would have hapend with sever food posining would have been lost of consiens via no enough calories dehyrdration and eventualy total system failer food poisening is one of thouse sickness that arre very hard on your body because it creates a path for other sicknesses but im no a docter just a smart kid who cant spell I had some mediocer food poisening from mc doneld so I couln't go out without being really hungry
My dad’s an ER doctor and has unfortunately received many patients with stories like this. The family practice doctors and walk-in clinic doctors ignore an issue until it becomes so severe they are sent to my dad at 3:00 AM. To make matters worse, we’re a small hospital, and sometimes they can’t even be treated with our limited resources by that point. He’s had to fly so many people to a larger town because their conditions were left untreated so long we can no longer take care of them. Also, my dad is known as the doctor that’s generous with painkillers. He catches some flack for this, but will never change his policy. The reason for this is because he had a cancer treatment so damaging it’s left him with permanent and severe chronic pain. He always says that he hands out painkillers because he knows what real pain feels like, unlike many of his coworkers. He would much rather give painkillers to an addict than to fail to give it to someone who really needs it.
Your dad is a saint and a blessing to the ill of this world. That is the exact way you should think of it, because at the end of the day, it's better to ease pain and prevent death while risking feeding addiction than it is to starve addiction but risk people's welfare and life because they MIGHT be faking it. You have no way of knowing for sure, and acting like you do only hurts people.
My mom was dying from a very painful, incurable cancer that also caused kidney failure (she was also on dialysis because of that), seizures, a heart attack (had to have open heart surgery), peripheral neuropathy from one of her chemo treatments (the pain made her cry herself to sleep). Her PCPs started denying her pain meds because "we don't want you to get addicted," and accused ME of being a drug seeker when I confronted them over their stupidity about 2.5 months before she died. Luckily, I was able to quickly find her another practice that took better care of her, and she was crying at dialysis one night soon after my fight with her PCP when her nephrologist just happened to walk past her & wanted to know what was wrong. He got out his prescription pad right there and told her that "addiction" was freaking ridiculous for someone in her condition & with her prognosis, and he'd be happy to take over her pain management. I was going to file a complaint against the other PCP's state medical license but my mom had to sign the paperwork & she was too weak, then she passed. But I showed my complaint to another doctor in that practice. He read it & apologized to me off the record.
This happened this November. I was admitted to the hospital after an epilepsy attack (I was undiagnosed at the time), I was staying in a room with another girl who is 15 (I'm 17), this story isn't mine, but I was informed of it and wanted to share the bullshit hospital staff experience. The girl was put under anesthesia for surgery and when she didn't wake up after she was shaken and yelled at by the hospital staff they accused her of faking not being able to wake up, even after they stuck a needle under her fingernails (If you know, you know how bad of a pain that is), no-budge, then they threatened to call child protection services on the parents, who I have met during my 1 week-long stay and were as scared as she was. Only to learn that after she awoke she was put in an empty room for a week and was forced to pee in a diaper for the entire weak. After the incident, she was practically left unable to walk for a week, and even when she could she would limp. Instead of the hospital taking responsibility, they are accusing a child of faking her condition, and when they learn that that wouldn't pass, they blame the parents!
If you have or manage to get any more details on this it would be greatly appreciated cos hooh boy I wanna hear the hell the parents put them through afterwards
Said that several times before here in the comments, will say it once again: and then they wonder why medical malpractice is the 3rd leading cause of death in the US...
My younger brother is autistic, and as a child I was confused because we had mostly the same symptoms, (only difference, he was extremely sensitive to cold temperatures, me warm temperatures, him being repulsed by food, me constantly needing to be chewing something or it causes irritation) but I already had pretty bad anxiety so I was always nervous bringing it up with my mom and doctor. It wasn’t until I met with a psychiatrist and she noticed my stutter and how I struggled with understanding both mine and others’ emotions that I was diagnosed. It was just because I was a girl and a “gifted kid” that I wasn’t diagnosed. On top of that I was insecure about about how my mom was struggling with how to take proper care of my brother and didn’t want to make her feel worse.
Yep. I'm a female and two specialists said they think I'm autistic but with their resources, they have to say no. For me, food gives me my sensory needs. 😬 Even when I had covid and couldn't taste food, I loved it because: textures.
@@LeahKoahal food, thats kinda funny my sister has her blanket, which she literally carries everywhere and if you focus closely shes almost always stroking. i originally wanted her to grow out of it but once she was diagnosed i was like just keep it
I’m probably autistic because I meet 100% of the actual criteria, but maybe it’s just from neglect? So not sure. But since I reached all the milestones people are told to look for missing for autistic children, a year or two before most children do, I understand why nobody thought that.
@@darkstarr984 Reaching milestones early is actually also a common symptom of autism. Most people however only think it could be a problem if children are reaching the typical milestones late, so autistic people who reach them early often get diagnosed later in life. Many autistic people are the 'gifted kid' because autism isn't being worse than other people, it's being different than other people. I'm glad you managed to get a diagnosis eventually.
for years i kept getting chest pains and the er kept saying nothing wrong and sent me home. they finally sent me to a specialist, the normal tests showed nothing but the specialist took a chance and said he was going to do one more test. Turned out i had a lot of blockages for so long my heart had started trying to repair itself. Had to have a double bypass
When I was 3 or 4 my regular doctor moved away and I had to get a new one, this one had no manners and while he was there, traumatized several children to the point where even nowadays with the threat of hyperthyroidism I still can barely get myself to get checked by a doctor. Edit: the doctor was fired like 2 years of traumatizing children.
I had a similar story! My family doctor retired. New one is INFAMOUS for her terrible bedside manner, her disbelief in prescribing medication for mental health issues, her complete negligence of the elderly and children (elderly patients just get told "you're old it happens" and a kid died because he cut his arm on something and she didn't give him tetanus shots or anything to prevent infections. She basically put a bandaid on it and told them to stop wasting her time) also she'd just...stop prescribing medication if she felt you didn't need it. My mother was diagnosed with fibromyalgia when she was young, and was trying to adjust her meds so she could lose weight, and was hoping for a referral to something like acupuncture or massage so she wouldn't need narcotics... the doctor called her a drug seeker??? (drug seeker actively saying she DIDN'T want drugs???) I had at the time undiagnosed autism and SEVERE social anxiety (like had panic attacks if you SAT next to me and I didn't know you well). My mother never even took me to MEET her, we went through the ARDUOUS process of changing our family doctor so I could get some actual help.
@@myheartismadeofstars My mom also had fibromyalgia and for years she was told it was all in her head and that she just needed to exercise more. The poor woman could barely walk from the hip and leg pain and they just tell her to exercise. It infuriates me to this day.
@@MdnightWnd My mother was also told she should exercise more. She was obese at the time, because another medication changed her metabolism, and she literally wanted to not be in pain so she COULD excercise!
Growing up, I complained frequently about joint pain. My pediatrician would just blow it off as growing pains. It took until I was 22 to find out I actually had juvenile rheumatoid arthritis and then 30 to learn I might have Ehlers Danlos Syndrome (I'm still undiagnosed, but only because it is nearly impossible to get tested as an adult. Most hospitals will only test children or pregnant women.) Had my pediatrician just believed me, I could have gotten help for both of those issues so much sooner.
Ayyy we are kind of similar! I was having joint pains in both knees since age 10. I'm 20 now and they finally referred me to a specialist to figure out what is going on. All I know so far is that whatever it is I have has given me Osteoarthritis. Right now I can barely walk without a cane and standing from sitting and vice versa is basically impossible for me if I can't hold onto something to push myself up. Everyone around me including professionals and family members all thought I was faking it as a kid because I was a troubled kid and thought I was doing it to get out of things. Now I just gotta wait another 2 years minimum before the specialist will see me because my case wasn't deemed very urgent at all. Pisses me off honestly haha
Had lyme disease back in 2017. I couldn't get in with my primary doctor, so I went to urgent care. After I was done with the round of medication they gave me, I went back in because my joints were hurting pretty bad. The Dr there said let's do a rheumatoid test to see if the lyme triggered it. Test came back, and they got me in with my primary dr. My rheumatoid factor was high, but he said it can be high and not be rheumatoid. A couple weeks later, I tried to get back in with my primary dr. He wasn't in, so I saw his nurse practitioner. I explained and he went and got my tests. He saw them and said yep, you have rheumatoid. My rheumatoid factor was 3x higher than normal. It took a few months to get in to the rheumatoid specialist to officially diagnose me with it. I just happened to luck out that day that my primary dr wasn't in. I'm 37 now and trying to get on disability from it. I believe that the lyme disease made it severe. It's not in my hips or upper back yet. Had a heart attack last February. The rheumatoid was probably a factor in it. Also had my 1st surgery due to it 3yrs ago on my wrist. The rheumatoid ate away the joint and caused the joint fluid to leak in the bones.
This video started making me think of my own experience when I have a medical condition called hydrocephalus. I need the shot the drain extra fluid from my brain and because of a doctor not believing something was wrong. When I collapsed in his office I ended up almost going completely blind, and I still have vision problems to this day I’m 22 now
Holy shit! Me too! I was born with it after my mom refused a C-section. The surgery to put the VP shunt has since caused all my organs to adhere together in my abdomen. I was told I was faking my abdominal pain until I was opened up about 2 years ago. When I was an infant, they had opened me up from my head all the way down to my pubic area, all without anesthetics (thanks 1990s). And it caused serious damage but saved my life. Guess who cant safely have kids but also can’t get sterilized because scar tissue is blocking off all her organs. And the scarring has caused chronic pain that has lasted for over two decades. Sometimes, I just don’t have the will to want to live anymore. I’m 28.
I have spina bifida, so hydrocephalus naturally came with it. I went to my doc and he had a CAT scan done and found that my shunt tube was broken in many places. The idiot doc asked a 14 year old kid, me, if I wanted the surgery to have it replaced. I had to think quick unfortunately. On one hand, I wasn't having symptoms of a malfunction. But then again what if it comes back? I had the surgery. For months afterwards, I had THE worse headache of my life for months because it was draining too fast. The doctor knew, but apparently didn't want to go back in to fix it. I was back in school about a week or 2 later. When other kids wasn't allowed to wear hats in one class, I got to because of the shaved part of my head. How I passed 9th grade, I'll never know.
@@spinalobifida I feel you for some odd reason I’m the same way where I don’t really show symptoms of shunt failure but when I do I know how bad those headaches can get the procedure I have or I had was to make it so I didn’t have to hydrocephalus anymore, and it failed, and the doctor left me like two months with headaches that bad so I am so sorry hope your doing better
My mom has a lot of medical issues but recently had chest and stomach pain. We rushed her to the er where they told her she was faking, her head started feeling like it was going to explode and she asked to be moved into a room or hallway so she could get away from a really loud medical machine. The nurse said, again she was faking it but gave her dilaudid which made my mom really sick and she closed her eyes, as she closed her eyes the nurse walked out and my mom heard him say “that’s the faker who wants special treatment, I gave her dilaudid and knocked her out” along with lots of laughter. My mom left next day ama, when we went to another er as her symptoms got worse, pancreatitis, gall bladder full of stones and coming up the duct, along with her other medical issues, drs said it would been excruciating. The first nurse needs to be glad I don’t know their name.
a long time ago i was cut off from my anti-depressant and i started to have a lot of down days. it got to the point i had to go back on my meds. when i was able to see a new doctor because i just moved. the first thing he said was "you are not depressed, you're just fat. take a few laps around the block and you'll be fine." i also had an eye doctor walk in, take one look at me. no test, no looking at my eyes, nothing. just walked in and said "you have cancer." then just walked out. i didn't have cancer.
I was having severe pain in my chest and upper back, I asked my dad (who is a physician) to take me to the ER. I could tell the attending assumed I was looking for pain meds, being an addict in recovery this felt horrible. I was later diagnosed with pulmonary embolism (blood clots in the lungs). If that doctor had turned me away I would have died. Scariest experience of my life.
When I was 16 I had seizures. Was in ER a lot. My mom was told I was faking it, she tore that person a new one. After 3 months I was finally diagnosed with Walking pneumonia encephalitis. Flash forward to when I was 32, I was at home doing fine when I got an intense headache. It hurt so bad I couldn't concentrate or think, the ER gave me meds, they didn't work. ER doc thinks I'm faking, a nurse told him no. They did a spinal tap. Bacterial meningitis, the bacteria was also in my blood & causes endocarditis which lead to open heart surgery. I'm alive & the hospital takes me more seriously now.
Hearing all these stories makes me happy for the doctors I had growing up. I had gallstones as a 14 year old, rare for it to happen in a kid that young unless it's genetic. I was in so much pain that they thought it was my appendix. They sent me to the hospital, did a scan, found out it was my gallbladder which was making my appendix inflamed and I was in surgery the next day. Another time I had been sick for a month, cause I didn't want to go to the doctor. I was coughing and having a hard time breathing. I'm asthmatic and again, sent me to the hospital to have xrays thinking it was pneumonia. I had bronchitis, which I found out in a person with asthma can turn into pneumonia.
I once injured my knee while sleeping. It was so bad that I had difficulty walking. My parents believed it was because I was not walking enough. They were also not letting me take my painkillers because they could make the injury worse(A reasonable decision because I am allergic to most painkillers and the ones I actually take are a little bit strong.). A couple of days later, I could barely say standing while taking a shower and I needed help walking. I went to the doctor. He immediately found out what I had but kept asking if I was using performance enhancing drugs because my knee injury was only common on doping users. In the he gave up and assumed that it was just an "unlucky case". A gym teacher that was waiting outside informed us that the doctor simply didn't believe in "sleeping injuries" which she did as a lot of her volleyball players had similar injuries over the year. The irony of the situation? The medication he suggested was my painkiller and the injury is usually caused by tiring the muscles rather than "now walking enough". I got a very huge "I told you so" win over my parents.
I was having a minor tic attack, didn’t even know I had tics ether. The doctor told me to “stop doing that or I’ll send you home” got needles in my arms and hands, got sent to a different hospital and I got diagnosed with tics. It’s like, if I could control it, I wouldn’t be at the hospital
I had something similar happen to me. I was getting a psych evaluation done and kept nodding my head. It was involuntary, but the guy noted that I had quote "attention seeking tendencies" because of that minor twitch that I had no control over.
Reading and hearing all those stories I notice how many of them involve kids and women. They are not taken serious enough. 'You're faking it, it's in your head, yada yada'. It's infuriating and dangerous. My complaints and symptoms are often not taken serious, very frustrating.
The one where they assumed the guy with an arm wound was a junkie reminded me of a painful memory. Several years ago my adult sister went into hospice with multiple organ failure. A social worker showed up asking my mom and I all kinds of questions about how much alcohol and what kind of drugs and in what quantities she had been consuming. We were confused and asked her why they would ask that. She replied that they needed to tailor her doses so she didn't go into withdrawal (as she died). Ohhhhh. The social worker and hospice nurses assumed that a 44 year old with multiple organ failure had to be an alcoholic or drug addict. In fact, she died of sepsis from an infection the hospitals couldn't find despite her frequent trips to the ER with severe abdominal pain because she had no health insurance and the county health department wouldn't authorize the kinds of tests that would have identified it. They wouldn't pay for the test, but they paid for a week of hospice. SMH.
If you can't afford US health care like 98.99% of us unless it's a joint Malpractice suit against one Quack in particular it's hard to sue any one Dr...sorry for your loss and that social worker was a moron
One doctor accused me of faking it, and another sent me to a shrink who did 'oracle cards with me'. Because of this I continued having at least 5 (partial) seizures a day. This eventually turned into upwards of 50 which is when I self diagnosed myself with the help of a friend because I was basically incapacitated by that point. For anyone out there, even in a country with a good medical system, if you have your doubts, try confiding with someone you trust and don't just believe the doctors unless they have done physical tests because they can be wrong.
Not an emergency, not a doctor, and I don't know whether they thought I was faking or not, but I was diagnosed with autism and anxiety in second grade, and was recommended to see a therapist to get meds prescribed. The first one we went to had talked with my mom for 30-50 minutes and gave me a prescription which made me stare at a wall for hours on end without saying a word. This was the summer and every summer before I had been energetic and spent all my time outside. My mom stopped giving me these meds and magically I stopped staring at the wall and became energetic again.
This reminds me of my dad's experience. He had been having issues with ulcerative colitis for a long time and he stayed active all through it and went to work. He went to the doctor because he started getting really sick. The doctor kept telling him he was fine because he was in unusually good shape. We had to keep bugging the doctor to check him more seriously and it turned out my dad's large intestine had died. He almost died from it. He's had to have tons of surgeries but he survived. He's doing really well now.
I once went to the doctor after tripping and experiencing Major pain. Did an Xray and called me a liar. Did an ultrasonic. My tendon was almost completely torn Stretching 3 Times as much as it possibly should.
Not by a doctor but by a teacher who thought she knew about epilepsy because she got migraines triggered by smells. She figured because she never saw me have an actual epileptic fit I was lying, until I had one in her class. I blackout during these fits obviously, but I guess I started clicking my pen and she yelled at me to stop “acting like a child and take my test” until every other classmate yelled at her to look up from her phone and she’d see that my eyes were rolling back and I was starting to thrash. My mother was LIVID considering it was in my medical history and there was medication at the nurses office for me. That teacher never gave me any shit ever again and I even got annoying extra attention from her 🙄
I came to the doctor telling him I hadn’t had a period in two months. They insisted on testing for pregnancy even though I keep repeatedly saying I’m a virgin. After the tests negative they did nothing. Month three still no period still testing mr for pregnancy even though I’m a virgin. This kept happening every month for 3 years. Finally I told off my gynecologist and would not pay for more pregnancy tests let alone have my insurance pay for it and she finally promised the next blood test would actually look for something else but if it shows nothing it’s my weight. A week after the blood tests my mom (emergency contact) got a call from the doc. I was in school and just couldn’t answer the phone. They wanted me to make an appointment. They scared mom. Anyways the first words out of the pas mouth was do I have breast discharge. I said no. Than she explains I have high prolactin levels. This is the hormone that produces breast milk. While she was telling me this I was thinking and told her I might have discharge and don’t know it because I had reduction surgery when I was 19 and can’t feel my nipples. She realized they probably made it impossible for me to breast feed instead. If your wondering it’s in my surgical history. Later, though more tests I found out I had a benign pituitary tumor (second mri of brain was slightly smaller than the first no one told me I had a tumor on the first) and thsts the cause. I’m probably the only patient that doctors think can be pregnant for 3 years.
Oh my god! 3 years of pregnancy tests!!! Totally nuts! There is people videoblogging who have pituitary tumour and prolacting problems in youtube. Please connect with other patients to get ideas how to deal with the condition and what treatments you can have. Please educate yourself about your condition. You will soon know more about it than a common doctor. You are probably already doing this, but I just say just in cade.
I'm bipolar and had violent episodes growing up. It took me until I was 9 to get diagnosed and only recently got on the correct medication. It took so long because my psychiatrist insisted I had a behavioral disorder. I constantly hurt people without the proper medication and the damage has already been done. It permanently traumatized my siblings. They forgave me and I'm doing much better but I could never take back those times I acted violent without proper medication.
Sending much love 💗💗💗 Your siblings should see this comment. They would realise that you actually carry quilt about what happened and truly care about them. Hope that it will get better with them.
My parents were told that I'm allergic to gluten. Teachers kept telling me my parents' insistence on my diet would turn me into a spoiled brat unable to survive in the "real world". In my teens, I would be less reliable with my diet, as I never showed the well known allergy symptoms (no rashes, no itchy skin, no collapse with anaphylaxis etc). Then my digestion would get more and more messed up, with me out sick with the diagnosis of stomach fru every other week. My gp insisted that it's just the stomach fru, as an allergy has different symptoms and I have no family history of celiac. I kept insisting, so he ordered a test to shut me up. It came back positive for celiac.
When I was nine I started getting horrible headaches which my parents pushed off as me not drinking enough water. I had it everyday up until the point I started making myself throw up so I could go home. The doctor said that I was probably making it up for attention since I just got a new brother so my dad made fun of me for like three weeks before a different doctor decided to get my blood drawn. He noticed something weird in my blood and ordered an MRI. My step-mom said as we were heading in “when we find nothing wrong with you, we’re gonna buy you a water bottle and you’re gonna get in trouble for not using it.” After work that day, my dad picked me up and dropped off my brother at my grandma’s so we could go down to Denver where I found out the cause of my headaches was actually a non-Cancerous brain tumor that was growing against my skull and causing pressure and blocking ventricles. Two surgeries, radiation, and a month in all at the children’s hospital and here I am now.
I remember being in a similar situation, but my headaches aren't caused by a brain tumor. I have a very high risk of overheating when doing physical activity. No amount of water will help it. The only thing that remotely helps is ibuprofen and rest and even then that's not a guarantee. My mom always took me out on hikes, if I didn't go she'd berate me, and would always talk about how dramatic I was and just tell me to drink more water. When I went to see a doctor after moving in with my grandparents, the doctor told me I had asthma and that the dizzy/sick spells I got were a result of heat exhaustion, which I was highly sensitive to. My mom just brushed it off as me being dramatic or lazy when in reality it was out of my control.
when my sister was in 4th grade she broke her foot in gym class and she could barely walk, the teachers made her walk to the nurse and then the nurse gave her ice and told her to go back to class. that nurse is still working there to this day.
An ER nurse threatened to send me to a psych ward when I was screaming from neck pain. I only went to the ER in the first place because my neck was hurting so much, not broken, just strained/sprained from tight muscles. I must have had an extremely poor diet back then.
A doctor almost send me home with acute appendicitis. It was a sunday and I didn't want to bother the ER so I went to something like an emergency family medicine thing. It's like a normal doctor, but open on weekends and evenings. I waited for almost 5 hours and at one point had to lie down on the floor because I felt like I was about to faint. The attending doctor was absolute crap. He asked if I had been vomiting and I said yes because earlier I had vomited from being in a lot of pain. Then he said that this couldn't be appendicitis and when he asked if I had a fever and I said, I think so, but I don't have a thermometer he just put down: no fever. He told me to go home and drink some tea, something I had done for the last few days. Luckily I kind of begged him to at least examine me and he poked my stomach a bit to which I started tearing up from pain. That's when he noticed that I was indeed pretty warm and in a lot of pain and he finally took my temperature and it was over 40° (that's over 100, I think). He then sent me to the ER and when I got there they made me sign the consent papers for surgery while simultaniously placing an IV and doing another ultra sound, because I already had fluid leaking from my appendix. It was actually pretty cool how fast everything went once I wobbled into the ER with a note from the other doctor. It took like 20 min from the first ultra sound to being wheeled into the OR. After that I apologized for taking up their time on a Sunday to which they replied that I probably would have died had I not decided to come in.
Oh boy, this video should be fun. I have THE "You don't have anything wrong with you" chronic illness that most doctors won't even bother investigating and it takes about 20 years to get a diagnosis and even then it's a crapshoot. (Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome) It's a similar story to the Fabry Disease story (very common with genetic illnesses). Also, growing pains aren't a thing. People who told me the pain I experience as a child were "growing pains." I still have them at almost 40.
I have also "You don't have anything wrong with you" -illness. (Not EDS thankfully!!! I feel so deeply sorry for anybody who has it. Horrible illness!) It is kind of crazy that I have a VISIBLE illness and can show even photos of some of my symptoms. But no..."Our common bloodtests show nothing so you can not have anything." AAARRGHHH! Hope that I will not end up being again an another patient dying young as hypochondriac.
me too im undiagnosed and my doc said i should look into it but has never set me up to do tests or see anybody, i have chronic pelvic pain as well as other pain and im so scared one day my appendix will be bursting or ill have an ectopic pregnancy (I use 2 forms of birth control) with those two its a 99.9% chance if I were to get pregnant that it would be ectopic
As someone who potentially also has EDS (still in the process of getting diagnosed, since as you said, it takes a while) I cannot tell you how much I relate to that statement of it being the "you don't have anything wrong with you" chronic illness. I hope doctor's take you seriously now, because I'm still trying in that regard!
God I could write a book my experiences with 99% doctors and me trying to get diagnosis and treatment for Ehlers Danlos Hypermobility type even AFTER diagnosis by Prof Medicine !!!
Ahaha I just had that discussion with a nurse this morning, too. For myself. We had the "Wait, that's not normal?" discussion, followed by "let me see what I can do for that".
Thats one of my genuine fears that people wont believe me when I say that I don't feel well. Other than wincing, which can be faked, i can't really tell people how i feel when i have migrains or just feel like shit without coughing a bunch. Its something thats been ingrained in me since i was a kid.
I was told by an OBGYN that if I had severe pain outside my period it was "normal" because "it's just ovarian cysts falling." Luckily at the time it started, I had gotten into watching Mama Doctor Jones here on RUclips, so I knew for a fact it was NOT normal. Had to scream at my dad and nearly fainted from the pain until he took me to get birth control. When my regular doctor and his wife, the nurse in the room, heard about my pains, they immediately got to getting me birth control, as endometriosis runs in my mom's family so it wouldn't be wild if that was the first sign for me. Got my prescription and lo and behold, pain gone, significantly lighter periods and with less cramping than EVER, as well as the fact that I feel comfortable around my own health there now. And although my dad is not a doctor, he acts like he is and for years he had told me I'm just fat and out of shape, I can't possibly have asthma. Yep, went to my doctor, he wasn't in so I went to another doctor at the practice. He listened about how my lungs burn when I exercise, even walking sometimes triggers it, to the point it can get extremely difficult to breathe. He right away got me an inhaler prescription and it's a lot more manageable. The look on my dad's face when the doctor agreed with me I did have sports asthma as I had said for years was great. Narcissists who think only their opinion matters being shamed by a doctor is hilarious when they realize they fucked up, and the doctor also scolded him for refusing to get me proper actually healthy foods. All he did was get me apples because "you're so picky" as if it's my fault he only cooks the same shit but then acts like its me who's picky
Doctors should never say someone is faking symptoms without testing first. I understand how there are some people who want the painkillers, but a lot of the time they are in real pain.
a few years ago went to the emergancy room literally thinking at age 34. I was having a heart attack. Im sure the nurses and doctors thought I was over reacting and probably heart burn. But they still did the tests just to be safe. yeah was GERD mixed with heart burn. im glad they took it seriously enough to make sure they werent wrong. I feel its better to over react then under react. what if I was in deed having a heart attack and they shrugged it off as heart burn.
I hate when doctors just don't believe you. It happend to me even, my doctor said that I was looking for attention and that i was exagerating my symptoms (at this time is was sick basicaly every week and always fatigued and sometimes passed out and I had frequent chestpains and heart palpetations). After my mother tried her best for test to be done I was diagnosed with POTS and later my mother was also diagnosed with the same syndrome, as all the times she went to the doctor with the same symptoms she was also told she was faking it.
Shout out to those with chronic, non-visible pain such as Fibromyalgia, Polymyalgia Reumatica, and other conditions I'm not thinking of that are super hard to get a diagnosis for because doctor thinks you're faking to get out of work because you're "too young" to have pain. Bonus shout-out if they try to blame your pain on your weight.
Well, I am now 40 and "too young to have anything". I think that they will keep telling that to me until 80 and then I am just old and will die soon anyway.
My mom had fibromyalgia and no doctor ever believed her pain. She was never at all overweight, but the doctors constantly told her she just needed to walk more. The poor woman had such bad hip and leg pain that she could barely move, but they all thought it was in her head. She died in 2006 at age 56 before ever getting any treatment. It makes me so damn mad.
They blamed my weight for my narcolepsy. 7 years and making my father who i didn't live with badger my neurologist for a test I got diagnosed. I wasn't fat before I had narcolepsy. I also have had arthritis most of my life. I look normal. I got told I was looking for painkillers when I came in with an infected gallbladder i said none of your expensive addictive painkillers work on me i want you to fix me not drug me. Doctors need to let go of their egos and be more thorough. They have NOT seen it all, people with chronic pain do NOT react to extreme pain the same way as others and yes, we can respond coherently while in pains that'd cause most people to pass out.
I can really feel the last one. I was diagnosed with Asthma when I was 13. I ended up, later that year, running in gym playing mandatory basketball. After class, I couldn't breathe and took my inhaler. Getting to my next class I started loosing feeling in my limbs. Nurse comes in, takes my pulse ox and finds I'm at an 86, should be the hospital level. My lips and nails were blue and I'm sitting in the back of the choir room with my eyes glued shut from panic crying since I couldn't breathe. The nurse doesn't call an ambulance and instead gets me up to a 94 pulse ox then calls my 7-8 month pregnant mother to come get me. After that, I was not allowed to participate in gym
That was the procedure at my terrible middle school. If you complained of any pain or sickness you got mandatory sports. One kid (in another class) died (evil school withheld the cause from the public) in my first semester of my final year and school got sued and parents ended up having to pay up cause they lost because they said “the kid showed no signs of illness” (he did) and the court agreed. Parents ended up with no kid and homeless.
Was in the navy. Got accused of malingering and being drunk/hungover. I went to medical with a stabbing pain in my right ear, bouts of dizziness, and a low dull ache on the right side of my head, including heavy sinus pressure. It was an ear infection. It got bad enough they had to actually drain my sinuses at one point, and kept me using special drops and checking in every week for the next month. It was pretty brutal. But I could still show up and be expected to work, and hey "We've all had those rough nights. Next time don't get sloshed during a work week." Another time I was told I couldn't possibly have the flu, because I'd had a flu shot. Two years before the then current flu season. It was in fact the flu, and I got my shots updated before the next season to avoid a repeat of that incident. The doc I saw for a second opinion was the one who pointed out why vaccine regimens get updated and said, "You're other providers did you a disservice on checking whether you had the shot or not, as opposed to *when* you had your shot. Get them regularly. They aren't one and done." Lessons learned.
When I was 19 I suddenly started having trouble breathing whenever I exerted myself even slightly, like walking up a single flight of stairs or even walking quickly on flat ground. I kept going to my university's medical center but they would never believe me. They would listen to my heart and lungs but by that point I'd always have been waiting at least 30 minutes so my body had calmed down. I told them to watch me climb some stairs and then listen but they refused. After three weeks of this I went home on spring break and immediately told my pcp. He ran all kinds of tests but couldn't figure it out since I was an otherwise healthy teen. He randomly decided to do a lung CT scan. Turned out I had a pulmonary embolism and a large chunk of my left lung was blocked. I had to be hospitalized for a week and only allowed to get up to use the bathroom. They had to give me injections of blood thinners every hour for the first two days and then I was on an extremely high dosage of thinners for another year since apparently my blood is like ketchup. Embolisms have a mortality rate of 30% if untreated and the doctor was shocked that I'd had one for three weeks and kept going about my day. This was 20 years ago and just last year I found out I have a genetic disorder that had only been discovered very recently and one of the symptoms is blood clotting. Like it's so new that they don't even know all the symptoms yet or how many people have it. But yeah, screw those university people, they almost killed me from their negligence.
Husband almost died from MRSA (a type of staph infection), this was done on a military base but an 1st LT thought he could override my husbands doctor (who was a Capt and of higher rank) by stating my husband didn't need surgery, even though infection almost reached his heart. The Captain himself stormed down to the hospital and tore into the LT for having such an ego trip he almost cost a soldier their life and tried to say they had more authority than those higher on the chain of command. I heard he was pulled into a room with other officers and might have endured wall to wall counseling since he looked kinda roughed up when he left.
My sister got braces many years ago, I remember my mom being really worried that something would go wrong and her jaw would become messed up (I also had braces problems, but the orthodontist denied the problems I had, but that's another story for another time.), the orthodontist said everything would be ok. Fast forward a year, my sister was in constant pain, her braces had to be taken off early but to this day my sister is now in what I can only describe as constant pain. No amount of retainers and splits will make my sister's jaws good again.
As a teenager I cried and cried because my ovaries hurt. Doctor said I was making it up. Finally went to another doctor who said I had ovarian cysts. I had to go on birth control. Years later I nearly died twice when the cysts burst and filled my abdomen with infection. I wound up infertile but I was alive. No problems since. This was high school and college.
It will never fail to anger me seeing so many doctors write serious things like that off. It makes me happy that my current doctor is somewhat competent
In a psych ward a doctor said that my severe flashbacks of past trauma were fake and I was “Just using my past as an excuse for special treatment and attention.” Those flash backs caused me to nearly take my life mere days later. To this day, the psychiatric center in Springfield, Illinois is the least helpful in the state. (I did a survey among the teenagers who were there.)
Don't get me started on the "shit hole" (private mental hospital in the suburbs of Columbus, Ohio) that told me I'm "too young" to be incontinent (because stress + severe anxiety has never ever made overactive bladder overly overactive, right?) & forced me to use the toilet unassisted. The very *low* toilet unassisted, when I've always in the past had to rest my arm on the sink (coz they don't let you properly grab the rail for leverage) & force myself up that way! Which I didn't dare do. I had injured my left shoulder muscles by overly enthusiastic exercise, & it was finally healing! The damn bitch stood there *glaring* at me while I had to use *that arm* to pry myself up; & I screamed in AGONY!!! With her glaring at me! The occupational therapist brought in to work on my arm was furious when I told her what'd happened, & how my arm now had less mobility than when I'd first injured it! She marched up to the desk & told off the nurse. That was this past May. My shoulder still isn't right.
I am absolutely infuriated with just how patronizing some doctors are, acting like they're all high and mighty, not even believing what their patients told them what they're feeling.
My friend took me to emergency after I’d had the worst headache for really sick for 10 days and bedridden for much of that with my main symptoms being a very severe headache and inability to open my eyes if it was light. The doctors dismissed it as a tension headache and sent me home with aspirin without doing any tests. Over the next couple of days things got worse and I was having more issues with my vision. Had to go to hospital two more times before they did any tests and when they did they worked out very quickly it was intracranial hypertension and it had made me legally blind.
In 2018, I was in a work related motor vehicle accident. I was stopped and was rear-ended by someone going 75mph. I got scheduled with a workers comp dr. It was an urgent care facility. My 1st appointment was with 1 dr. She put me on light duty due to my lower back and shoulder hurting. I couple weeks later, saw another dr. She looked at my chart and saw that I have rheumatoid arthritis. Blamed my pain on that. Fully released me back to work. Had a follow-up a couple weeks after that and saw the 1st dr. She put me back on light duty and scheduled an mri. Shoulder was fine, but the back is another thing. 2 bulging and 1 herniated disc. A surgeon said the herniation was too small for him to do anything. By the end of the year, I could tell that the rheumatoid was in my lower back. In 2019, had another mri that showed no change. Had epidural steroid shots that didn't work. Now with the way it feels, it's still the same.
My doctors told me I was imaging my near constant cramps for 3 years. Turns out I had ovarian cysts that had ruptured and my body didn't absorb the fluids. Went to a specialist and a FEMALE doctor who both told me I'm fine 😑😑
Things like that unfortunately happen a lot to women, because as far as I know that field of medicine isn't researched as well as other parts of medicine. In Germany there are also very few gynecologists that are specialised on endometriosis for example and many who aren't don't know how to diagnose it and I doubt that that's much different in other countries. So, doctors also often don't learn enough about certain problems. At least that's the only explanation I could imagine why women with period problems are misdiagnosed or not diagnosed at all so often.
Being pregnant,I was in so much pain because of my sciatica that somehow it affected me so bad that it strained my lower tummy. I fell to my knees and my boyfriend thought I was faking it after I lashed out at him for not doing anything and ignored all my grunts I was making.
Hope ex-boyfriend. I had similar experience with my ex and I realised after I broke up with him that it was not healthy and he did not care that much about me if he could ignore my pain. And you are pregnant with his child and he does not care.
I had symptoms of a stroke: the right side of my body completely paralyzed, to the point where my face drooped. I was taken to the hospital by co-workers and the neurologist told my mother that I was faking it as I was depressed at the time. My mother saw that it was impossible for me to be faking it, but as the symptoms disappeared after 2 days, we went home. The 2nd time I went to the hospital with the same symptoms, another neurologist did a series of exams and tests and found out that I have complex migraines, which can cause the same symptoms as a stroke.
Not me, but my stepmom has fibromyalgia. (A chronic illness thats in her case really intense and causes a lot of pain daily) she jumped from doctor to doctor because at the time (around 2002-2008 I think) fibromyalgia was not considered an actual illness by many doctors. One of her doctors told her to her face that “she must be a junkie and theres no such illness like that” It took her a long time to get her diagnosis + the appropriate medication because most doctors wouldn’t be willing to prescribe her opioids “because she’s just a junkie” Thankfully she has a good medication and a lovely doctor and her life is way better than what it was. There are still hard and painful days but she’s thriving and living the best life she can. She’s still one of the best people I know and I’m proud of her
My mother had the same issue. Doctors never believing her. Telling her it's all in her head and to exercise more. Unfortunately she passed away in 2006 so she was never able to get the treatment she needed.
@@MdnightWnd oh I’m so sorry for your loss! Before my stepmom got her right meds in 2012 it was painful to watch her struggle with the pain. And being between the ages of 5-9 it was hard to understand what was going on and not being able to help! I hope you’re doing well!
It wasn't the dentist who accused me of faking, but my parents. I had some dental work done, not sure how to call it in english, but basically I had to wear this pink blob between my teeth at night. The problem was that it went too far back in my mouth, triggering gag reflex. I couldn't sleep with it. My parents got mad at me for not trying, not taking it seriously. But I did. I did try. In the beginning I couldn't fall asleep with it but I tried and tried and got so used to it that I could fall asleep with it. It was never in my mouth at morning though. My parents thought I just got sneaky and took it off at night. It all changed the next time we visited the dentist. My parents said that I didn't use it. Luckily the dentist asked me why not, and I explained. She then shaved a little bit off at the ends and suddenly there was no problems at all. Suddenly it was easy to use and there were no issues
I had something similar happen where my mom accused me of not taking the medicine the dentist prescribed- It was a holistic healing drug- For a severely damaged and decaying tooth that she refused to take me to get treated- and when the drug the dentist prescribed wasn't helping at all she accused me of not taking it properly- the endodontist I went to to fix and cap my tooth gave me some antibiotics and it was right as rain after a week. Also was it a retainer that you had to wear at night?
Everyone thought I was desperate for attention by claiming I was "sick." Got my first colonoscopy done age 26 years old August 28th, 2021. Found colon cancer, later in November found out it was stage 3. I didn't think I could put the fear of god in so many people but here I am. Motto for continuing the fight against cancer was what my radiation doc said "You're showing immense grace under pressure for a 26 year old. Instead of being angry at the situation your laughing and showing immense kindness to others it's amazingly refreshing to see. Almost spiritually euphoric in a way." Grace under pressure got me through radiation therapy, chemo therapy, and two surgeries. As a cancer survivor I hope 2023 will give me a break or at least a lot of wine to drink. What ever comes first.
WOW! That is almost poetic. Good on you! But also, remember to cry and be angry that this happenend to you. It is good and necessary not to be weak and weepy when you face something like that, but those emotions are there somewhere and needs to be felt. Set them free! They can might make you feel weak and whimpy for some moments, but that is not permanent feeling. (I am so good at ignoring those too with my own health problems. It is healthy knowledge that we feel a ray of feelings, but regardless, we are strong and continue!) All together, I think that you are incredible person and inspiration for everybody! Wonderful! I wish you cancer free rest of life!!! 💗💗💗 (It happens! People recover from stage 4 and live long cancer free-life. For sure you could be one of those people!)
These stories are the reason doctors should just believe what people say because it can be serious if they don’t believe it. It might be a prank, but you can also save someone’s life or stop them from getting severe side effects by helping them.
Yes when I went to the ER, not feeling my hands and feet! They thought I was crazy because my MRI showed no spinal damage. Turns out I have dysautonomia!
Ooooh...can dysautonomia cause numbness of limbs??? Wow! My MRI is also clear, but I have some level dysautonomia with other symptoms. Maybe that is the cause of my numb limbs too! I will ask my doctor next time. Yes, they were really abusive towards me in the hospital and blamed me mentally ill, because of numbness. Researching the subject, I have also other reasons which might constribute to it, like low potassium.
Have had school nurses, and my own extended family members tell me I was exaggerating and or flat out lying about my migraines because I get them so often… and then I would throw up. I started getting them at five.
You need to see a neurologist! They can prescrible you with a preventive medicine against migraines. Also, one herb (I can't remember name. Sorry!) can lower the frequency of them. It is not right that you are suffering from pain when it can be managed!!!
@@SatumainenOlento that’s very kind of you, but I actually already have gone to a neurologist. I also am on medications that help to prevent and manage the issue but it took awhile to get it this point, still many headaches slip through the pills. It’s better than it once was though.
I had chronic pain in my right hip. My doctor kept dismissing it. I was able to get a copy of my records. My doctor had written in my records that I wanted pain meds because I was an addict, even though I had no history of drug abuse. It took me going to three more doctors until I found one that did an MRI. Turned out I had a nerve pinch in two different places on my spine. He couldn't believe I could still walk because of the pain I was feeling. As anybody who has chronic pain knows chronic pain gives you significant pain tolerance.
Sometimes it's even worse when the kid is a girl especially with stomach problems. There were times that I wasn't believed when I was really sick before I was diagnosed with abdominal migraines. Fortunately I had strong advocates for parents and my medical history is well documented. After getting actual diagnosis, I've only had a couple of times when the doctors didn't believe me or were in doubt as most have never heard of this.
In 2014 I was putting on weight rapidly without good reason. Whenever I told doctors about it, they just assumed I was getting fat from eating chocolate and other junk food, and brushed it off. When I became unable to get upstairs due to my massive weight gain, and also unable to eat a normal portion of food, I went to the ER. The doctor there brushed it off again, told me to take more exercise and was about to send me home with some indigestion remedy. My dad complained at the doctor until he was blue in the face, and they finally consulted a cardiologist. I was found to have severe heart failure that was causing me to retain water, and after being admitted finally, received treatment that improved me significantly. If I hadn't been admitted that day, I probably would be dead by now...
Yes, now. Everything always hurts and is horribly sensitive to touch. I'm always tired, have trouble sleeping, have digestive problems, joints hurt, get headaches constantly, etc. They say that's all "classic" Fibro symptoms and think I'm making it up to get on disability or something. No, I just want some relief from this if it's possible because it's miserable and no one will listen.
Ask a doctor to run a Full thyroid panel on you. Fibro is a SYMPTOM of low thyroid and low adrenal output. Get onto the proper doseage of thyroid replacement and you can be pain free. Just be warned: it will take a long time to get there.
Retired doctor with several chronic ailments, here. A registrar at my cardio appointment told me that I didn't have angina, just by looking at me, despite being diagnosed. He asked me to show him my swollen feet and then told me that I didn't have congestive heart failure, despite being diagnosed. He then booked me in for a cardiac stress test to prove that I was lying. My blood pressure went through the roof within a minute to over 286/89. I was seconds away from suffering either a coronary, a stroke, or both. Spent a couple of hours in observation before I could safely leave to go home. I was waiting for him to tell me I'd faked having diabetes, too. I would have loved to have answered that one. Did I mention that I'm a retired doctor?
I get told I don’t have “real autism” because I’m high functioning and don’t act like the people they specifically know. It gets really old really fast
My mother was accused of exaggerating how serious my nose bleeds were. It would start pouring like a faucet and could last more than 2 hours. I eventually ended up having a nose bleed in my doctor's office, I just sneezed a little violently and the flood came, at which point he decided that she had to be giving me something and reported her. CPS investigated and didn't find anything. He decided to test me for a bunch of things, even though he didn't believe it was possible for my nose bleeds to be that bad. Turns out I have, not one, but 2 separate forms of hemophilia. Also turns out I was always tired because of severe anemia, caused by the blood loss, caused by the hemophilia. I was 14 when I was diagnosed, my mom had been trying to make him listen since I was about 3. At least he had the decency to apologize to her.
i had this happen to me multiple times first, when I was 11 one night i had a really high fever and sore throat. My parents took my to the doctor the next day and he said it was just the flu. A few days later it hadn't gotten better and my parents took me to an after-hours doctor because it was the weekend. got diagnosed with tonsilitis. Second time, same doctor, kept saying that the pain in my right wrist (dominant hand) was just some soreness due to having fractured it before (twice). i ended up going to him three more times before he got me an x-ray and sent me to a specialist because I had a torn ligament that I'd been living with for months after spraining it again. One time, a doctor instantly assumed I had 'anxiety' or 'depression' because I had difficulty breathing even though I was getting in enough oxygen. I've never gotten a proper answer about that one. When I asked to see a doctor about an attention problem and other troubling mental health problems he just told me to look at the symptoms for anxiety or depression because he obviously didn't want to bother with trying to find something less easy to label. finally, since I was 13 (I'm 20 turning 21) I've had stomach aches and acid reflux problems. I've been to the doctor so many times and each time it's like he's not even trying. I have to tell him multiple times that I need help. originally they said I had ibs (doesn't actually fit) and then it's because of what i eat. recently I've been able to see a different doctor and she got me a test for an endoscopy (which I'm waiting for) because nothing my old doctor was reluctantly trying was actually working.
Not mine. My friends brother was feeling really sick and he went to our local, small town hospital. They diagnosed him with pneumonia and a cold. They traveled him down to the closest big city hospital. He was diagnosed with stage 4 pancreatic cancer, it spread to his bladder, lungs and two other organs. He was gone in a month and a half. The local hospital doctors get diagnoses wrong a bit too often
I really should not be watching this less than a week before an appointment addressing medical issues I’ve had that have been ignored for over four years haha
New comment for a second topic. I had a UTI at one point. Had one previously, so the one in this story was my second. I told the doctor I was pretty sure I knew what it was. He argued up and down that it wasn't so I just said. "All the same, I'd like to get tested for it." We did the test, and he was fuming when he came around the corner and wrote up my prescription. He hated the fact that he was wrong. Stand your ground. Especially if you're Canadian, because the tests are free.
The walking pneumonia one reminded me of when I had the same thing when I was nine, now the doctor wasn’t they one who said I was faking or exaggerating, it was my dad, and my aunt who literally is a nurse. My dad literally ripped me away from my grandmother because she suggested I go to a doctor, a week later we go when I almost collapsed during P.E. And FINALLY get diagnosed and treated. The same happened when I had a small fracture on my foot, everyone thought it was sprained and waited a few days to see if it would get better, it didn’t. So we called my dad to ask for permission to go to the doctor since he has custody. He said to wait a week, a WEEK. I had already done nothing about it for days and it was killing me because I had to walk on it. Then when we finally go the doctor didn’t put me in a cast and instead this show that I was in for 3 days and would just make it hurt more. Dad forced him to put a cast on me and then the stupid doctor didn’t even give me crutches, said I didn’t need them. Almost didn’t heal and I still have a very slight limp at times because of it.
My 25 year old daughter went to the doctors, she couldn't stand up because of stomach pain. He pressed her stomach she screamed, so he gave her anti acid lozenges. We took her in an ambulance to the hospital where she was diagnosed with a burst ulcer in her stomach. She had an emergency operation, a blood transfusion, in hospital fo three weeks developed pneumonia. She has an 8in scar.
In the US, medical malpractice isn't a 'criminal offense.' Not unless it's grossly negligent and serial- for many people. No, you have to sue the doctor, and their malpractice insurance pays you money. The AMA can revoke a doctors license to pratice medicine, if enough complaints are filed. Again, it has to be many people and proven through investigations. No, no criminal charges; they simply can't practice medicine.
For months I've been having issues with my heart. Episodes of severe palpitations that last for hours, chest pain, fainting spells etc. Every freaking doctor I went to said it was just anxiety and brushed me off. Finally I saw a new doctor and she listened to me. She listened to my heart and my heartbeats were very irregular. Turns out I'm having heart issues and possible heart damage due to 14 years of struggling with Bulimia, which the other doctors also brushed off when I mentioned it, knowing it could be linked.
Unfortunately for schools they don't care about students health. To them losing a student dying from an asthma attack is worth the risk if it means another student doesn't get away with vaping.
Interesting fact: medical malpractice is the 3rd leading cause of death in the US. On another note, I have several stories: -I basically never have fever when I'm sick, don't know why, might be genetic as both my father and my brother have the same condition. The only time I ever had fever was a case of flu so bad it sent me to the hospital for a few days. As such, when I was a kid, my mom often had a hard time convincing doctors and other medical staff I was indeed sick, because when they saw I didn't have fever they always assumed I was just faking it. -A friend accidentally hit me right in the eye while we were playing. Left a very visible red spot in my eye? As I was supposed to go to summer camp 2 or 3 days later, my mom wanted to make sure I was ok, so she brought me to the ER. Doctor just took a glance a it, and said it was nothing. When my mom insisted he did more than just take a glance, he accused her of being an overprotective mom worried over nothing, then recluently prescribe some eyedrops for me after she insisted some more. When we went to the pharmacy to get those, we learned the eyedrops he prescribed me were withdrawn from market... 10 years ago. Went to another ER, were they actually took it seriously, made me go through some exam to check if everything was alright. In the end I indeed just needed some eyedrops but still... -Not me, but a friend. In college we were in a special course that took attendence very seriously, basically if you missed class without proper justification more than 3 times during the semester, you were immediately explused. They insisted that, as we had a nurse office right in the building where we have class, we had no good reason not to have a note when we were sick. One day that friend was sick, the classic headache+nausea+diarea, he went to the nurse office, she told him to go back to class and just go to the toilet if he needed to. Threw up in the middle of class, was sent to the nurse office, she once again told him to go back to class. In the end he had to leave to go to an actual doctor... Worst is, she wasn't accusing him of faking, she acknowledged he was sick and still just told him to go back to class.
As a kid, I always had strep throat during the winter months, so it was already a bit problematic. One time i got it, the doctor gave me some medication and sent me on my way. A month later, my mom noticed me having strep breath, and took me to the doctor again. Gave me a different medication and sent me on my way. Another month later, my neck was entirely stiff. Couldn’t move it at all. The doctor said to get some physical therapy, and that I should be fine. The physical therapist said that it looked like it was caused by strep, so my mom asked the doctor if I could be tested. Doctor says no. Another month passes, and it’s summer time now. My mom goes to my aunt, who is also a doctor, and asks to have me tested. What do you know? Strep throat. Guess who had to get several blood tests and have their tonsils removed after that. Plus, I also have JIA now. Thanks a lot, doc.
I was feinting and experiencing migraines, chronic pain, body temperature and heart rate spikes and more for over a decade. My heart rate could stay around 130bpm for over an hour while I was laying down. I went to so many different doctors and even ended up in the emergency room and doctor after doctor ran blood tests and told me it was all in my head. I have a nervous system disorder and I didn’t get treatment until I was barely functional and happened to meet someone with the same disorder who told me what specialist to go to and what tests to get done. It still pisses me off to this day.
My sister has Endometriosis. Went into the room to get sterilization and was told that she was faking endo and nope by the nurse. Doc looks at her and asked how Endometriosis is faked when he is called in Also, had a UTI that was causing heaves and was accused of faking it. Luckily my lack of urine was the telling point.
I had very heavy and painful periods all my life. I went in for a hysterectomy after I had my daughter and the surgeon said it "looked like something exploded." I had stage 4 endo that had wrapped around my bowels and intestines. Not one doctor ever mentioned endometriosis to me when I complained about my periods and I suffered with them for 25 years. It's so frustrating.
I had two (2) incidents where this happened to me. I was assigned to MacDill AFB, was having sweats, vision issues, and a mild fever - went to sick call, the PA there gave me a bottle of 500 mg motrin and told me to take one every 6 hours (which we now know is too much - but during the 80's they handed the stuff out like candy, never thinking about a servicemember maybe having a beer and blowing his/her liver up after such high dosage). I went home, was reclining on the couch when I apparently passed out. I found out later that my wife had come home and found me convulsing (apparently fever had jumped to 104-105) so she called an ambulance and rode with me back to the hospital, where she stood in the emergency room and demanded to speak with the hospital commander as to why they were killing me.... well, it turns out I had a staph infection in my heart, and was essentially dying. They put me on intraveneous antibiotics and got me stabilized, and I found out later that my wife had threatened to bring in her congressman (who happened to be her uncle) unless she found out why this happened... I do not know what happened to that PA, but I never saw him again at that hospital. My cardiologist tells me now the scaring from that incident is why my heart has issues today, 30+ years later. You want to know something else? A servicemember cannot sue for medical malpractice - Uncle Sugar (Government) won't allow it. Now, finally they will have JAG investigate if the consequences are serious enough, but pretty much someone has to die first... even if a multitude of complaints are made against a specific doctor in a military hospital, at the time they would just transfer him somewhere else. The other incident was by my boss, senior manager at the firm at which I was working. I happened to be the version control manager for our programming division. It was my responsibility to ensure final testing of our monthly software update processed correctly, and then package the program up with an installer, the current month's data files, then package and mail all the update cd's out to our clients in the US and Canada.. Well, I was shivering, sweating, had a fever, and told the boss so - he said quote, "You are just looking for an excuse not to complete this month's distribution package because we are running late... so get back to work, I'll let you off when it ships". So I made sure I coughed on him before I stepped back - I had had the flu before, I was pretty sure I was very highly contageous when I did so... went back to work, got the software completed, burned to disc, packaged and ready for shipment (by myself since at the time we had no other peeps trained in my duties). Once I was done, I warned the shipping dept NOT to pick the discs up until the next day and to wear gloves when they did so just in case (I was hoping the virus would be dead by leaving the shipment overnight). Then I went home for a little over a week. When I got back I found out the boss had come down with the flu (this was the real deal, not just a bad cold or something) only his had progressed to pneumonia and he spent several weeks in the hospital. Well, as a result, if I showed up to work with so much as a sniffle after that, I was told to take myself the hell home until I was better! Which was great, as I was a salaried employee! Taught that stupid bastard a lesson!
Teacher and have students with major medical problem. One had a stroke at 1 hour another had open heart surgery repeatedly. Over 15 open heart surgeries before starting school. So much for children not getting strokes or heart surgery.
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My local e.r. tried to dismiss a recurrence of infected leftover bone spurs in my jaw meat as a tooth infection. I don't have jawbone in that area, and they kept saying toothache. I had to explain to several medical professionals that you, in fact, do need jaw bone to have teeth.
I was having trouble breathing a few years back so my ex drove me to the ER on a friday evening, I waited for 7 hours before a nurse came and told us that the line to see a doctor was long an I seemed to be well enough to go home and call my family doctor on monday, they didn´t run Any test at the hospital, not even check my saturation, my ex tried to argue with them but we got kicked out. He drove me to another hospital an hour away, found out that my lungs was filled with fluids so I only used 23% and I hade fluids in and around my heart, stayed at the hospital for several weeks due to further problem with my heart. I have a neighbor that went to a clinic with her 4 year old son, he couldn´t pee but the damn doctor told his mom to give him more water because the boy just didn´t Need to pee. The mom left but decided to drive to the ER, the boys bladder was so full that it was minutes from bursting but thankfully he got an emergency operation and survived, according to the doctor at the ER, if the mother had given the boy more water and just drove home instead he would have died.
Yep. I was young and thought I'd gotten my first period when I saw pink on the toilet paper. I was raised by a single father, and all my knowledge of such things came from equally ignorant friends and school. I felt awful, and as time went on, I felt worse. Two weeks later, I was spending my time half conscious, a little delirious on the living room couch, and my dad was yelling at me for faking to get out of chores. The woman with him at the time insisted there was something wrong and demanded I be taken to the hospital. I still remember hearing the doctor tell my dad that I had a kidney infection and if he'd waited even a day longer, I could've died.
I was told I was being “hysterical” by faking abdominal pain and chronic pain as a teenager into adulthood. Turns out all my abdominal organs are bound together through scar tissue. Nothing can be done without major surgery, but it means I need constant monitoring and I cannot safely be pregnant without fatal complications. It took me 12 years for a diagnosis, and in that time if I had decided to have a kid with my husband or had gotten constipated within that time frame, I would likely have died of organ failure or deadly bowel obstruction respectively. To this day, my doctors still insist I try for a baby even though I don’t want kids and I don’t want to die, but they insist it’s my “womanly duty”. We’re military, so women are seen as baby factories instead of actual people here sometimes. I’ve been told my depression would be “cured” if I would just reproduce and do what “the good lord told us to do and be fruitful and multiply” as one doc put it. So I replied “you want me to commit suicide? Did you read my chart?” She told me she didn’t think my surgeon was serious and that women naturally have babies and that she’d never heard of a woman dying in childbirth, so it must not happen. I complained to the head of the hospital about her. My husband finally got a vasectomy after a little over 2 years of trying to get one only becuase it would kill me if I didn’t get one. I almost flatlined trying to get my tubes tied and having it failed due to the condition, and that’s actually when it was discovered-on THAT operating table where a 30minute procedure turned into a 3hour unsuccessful one that was more “how screwed is this woman? Is her life in danger?” Almost flatlined too.
Ooohh...that sounds like a nightmare endo! Luckily you have a great husband! That is greatest bs stuff ever...Women die of childbirth all the time. Women without endo! Thanks god you are being sensible about it! All the best! 💗💗💗
I got accused for about a year by several doctors after havig massive back/lower abdomen pain. They got worse and worse over time and the doctor just couldn't find everything, even after taking x-ray images. It took many different doctors and a trip to the ER when it became unbearable and I blacked out to find out I got massive kidney stones. The time they finally found out was when I had extensive colics going with them when a big one cloggen my tubes. The pain was extremely unbearable and it makes me wonder why none of the about 5 or 6 didn't even think about checking my kidneys. It was hurtful to be told I was either faking it or it all was just psychosomatic. Had to be operated the same evening for them to be removed as I was peeing blood already.
My aunt's doctor told her she was imagining symptoms for a decade. She died of cancer. It had spread everywhere. The specialist had to take a moment to compose himself. The guy was shaking with anger.
Oh my
Happened to my grandma they found the cancer in the liver when it was the last stage, everytime she complained to the doctors about the the extra weight, while eating less than a cup of porridge or buckwheat a day, theyr answer was: eat less.
@@Einimas They get caught up on the obvious and refuse to look deeper. Even happened with my planar fasciitis. Doc said my feet hurt because I was fat. They hurt because they are flat and the tendons locked up until they weren't.
Sorry for your loss. Never give doctors full trust.
so sad
If it lasted a decade she could have been saved. 😠
I went to the hospital about fifteen years ago with extreme stomach pain. My roommate was concerned enough to drive me to the hospital, where they repeatedly badgered me with questions about my sexual history and asking if I was pregnant. I was a VIRGIN, so unless I had suddenly had my name changed to Mary and three stars were going to appear in the sky over me, I was not pregnant. The hospital finally "decided" that I must have a kidney infection and sent me home with a prescription for an antibiotic. Two days later, I was still in a lot of pain so my roommate took me to another hospital which found I had a ruptured hernia and had been bleeding internally. I got the bill from the first hospital, and I kid you not, they billed me for NINE PREGNANCY TESTS, all of which came up negative. Had my roommate not insisted on taking me to the second hospital, I could have bled to death internally.
Holy sh*t my god I’m glad you’re alright I hate how hospitals are so freaking stupid. I’m so sorry
What happened with the bills, surely they didn’t expect you to pay for something you didn’t even get?
And NINE FECKING PREGNANCY TESTS!!! Nobody would need that, I hope that you did not pay but sue them for malpractice and negligence!!!
this is what happened to me
What the fuck
If you've never had sex the PT was completely unnecessary. Man if that wasn't 15 years ago id say you should dispute the charges for the PTs bc you were never sexually active at that point.
what makes me really mad about this, Some people suffered PERMANENT damage from some dumbass doctors who thought "oh they're just looking for pain meds"
To be completely fair, doctors are taught "When you hear hooves, you don't think zebras." Doesn't excuse them for having God Complexes but still
Then they shouldn't be teached that. Simple as that.
@@yasininn76 If it sounds like a cold, feels like a cold, and reacts like a cold. I'm not going to fault the doctor for not immediately thinking "Lung Cancer."
They should definitely be taught to take the patient's concerns more seriously but no, they should definitely think "Most common is most likely"
@@jinga9862 Problem is too many doctors take that saying to mean "Zebra's don't exist" and will continue to insist that it's a horse even as you show them the strips.
That what many of these doctors did they ignored everything that was inconstant with what's most common due to confirmation basis.
And some people DIED
My parents always had the "Just work harder" mentality when raising me (which, isn't always a bad thing, but it was in my case). On top of that, they were always ready to tell guests and friends about my "wild and creative imagination" but quick to scold me when I took too much time thinking and planning and not enough time acting on those thoughts and plans. On top of that, they just couldn't seem to understand why I would cry so easily. As soon as I found out what a "learning disability" was, I put two and two together and began to speculate that I may by neurodivergent. Problem was, I was 10 at the time, and my parents treated their own "mother/father knows best" behavior as gospel.
When I was 13, I was diagnosed with ADHD, Major Depressive Mood Disorder with Psychotic Elements, and Anxiety. The only reason my parents bothered to get me tested was because they wanted to prove my speculation wrong.
I am so sorry that happened to you….I had a teacher who was legitimately mentally and emotionally abusing me, and when my parents raised hell and tried to get her at least in trouble when she crossed a major line, the school instead kept insisting my parents get me tested….
ADHD, Dysgraphia (both diagnosis’s received Age Seven), Major Depressive Disorder and General as well as social anxiety (diagnosed in my teens), a touch of Narcolepsy, Insomnia, and a side serotonin imbalance…it always upsets me when doctors don’t listen to children when they insist something is wrong
Well, they gave you a shitty time with their bs, if they didn't make up, just leave them as soon as you're 18, people that value their opinion over somebody's else concern, specially their child, are trashy people, no offense to your parents
@@nataliecox6032 I feel so sorry for people that have a bunch of medical conditions
i couldn't imagine
Autistic here! I myself am not actually diagnosed officially, but self-diagnosed. (My parents don’t agree with me about it, sooo… self diagnosis babyeee!) Self diagnosed seems to be the first step for others, and I’m wondering if people find official diagnoses worth it?
@@avaarrow7478 for me an official diagnosis helped a whole heck of a lot. I was able to get permission to use my non disruptive fidget toys, a 504 to help with my struggles with school, and a lot of other things like that. It made a lot of my struggles a lot more bearable when I had teachers who wouldn’t believe me until they saw my papers
I actually can contribute to this one.
When I was four years old I was having chest pains and trouble breathing. Mother took me the family pediatrition, who never even placed me on his exam table, just looked at me and told my mum I had an upset tummy and was overreacting. Few days later I'm in my bed going in and out of consciousness, struggling to breathe. We go to the pediatrition again, he wasn't in that day, so his replacement tended to me. Used his stethoscope on me and his eyes went wide. He called an ambulance and I was rushed to the Emergency Room. Pneumonia. Doctors said I could have died that day. I was on mechanical breathing for two weeks with how messed up my lungs were. My mother went back to the family doctor and smacked him so hard across the face, it most definitely left a mark.
My first memory is waking up to see my twin brother clinging to me, crying his eyes out, waiting for me to wake up. That was 23 years ago. It took 10 years for my lungs to recover and I still sometimes need to watch myself when doing intense physical exercise. Now please excuse me, I have to go watch something a little more uplifting as that memory always brings me to tears. I hate seeing my brother cry.
Lots of virtual hugs for you! And im very glad your mother smacked the doctor, small justice was given
Your mom's a legend.
I agree! Your mom is a legend!!! Finally some justice!
Bro
You're a great example of why OTHER people should get vaccinated for preventable respiratory viruses.
@@Agender_Potato I mean I don't disagree with your message here but in this case it was pneumonia, which is usually the result of bacterial infections
My husband's uncle died from a heart attack. They kept insisting he had a panic attack due to him only being 48. They committed him to a psych ward instead where they found him dead next morning.
Please tell me that they got sued for malpractice. This is heart breaking anyway, but truly INJUSTICE! It is the most easiet thing to check for heart problems. EKG takes only few minutes to set up and is common practice!
@@SatumainenOlento This isn't America. You can't just sue left or right. I know his wife wanted to sue his doctor since he was the one refusing to send him to the hospital. He even stupidly made a commen that "It's just a panic attack. You don't die from those." I don't know why she decided against not going down the route. Maybe the grief was too big. Maybe the settled somehow. It's not really any of my business.
Americans aren't as sue-happy as the rest of the world thinks we are. While many will settle out of court, if I am entitled to financial compensation and the person refuses to pay then my only options are file a lawsuit. Even then, I need to prove that I have grounds to file.
I got a friggin' EKG at the hospital even though I was hospitalized for psychiatric reasons, geez.
I remember once I was in class and had to use my inhaler due to a sudden asthma attack. I was having a hard time breathing and ended up fairly distressed because I had such a hard time getting the damn thing out of my pocket so I was crying a little.
I asked to be dismissed to call my Nana to either come pick me up or give my PE teacher a call about having to modify whatever activity I had to do for that class and the teacher just dismissed it as a panic attack (they had a medical slip/parent call rule about it)
Either way I would have wanted to call my goddamn Nana- And you'll never guess who had another asthma attack because I didn't get a pass to modify what kind of physical activity I was doing that day. After that asthma attack, the coach was really nice about it and wrote up a whole sheet of alternative exercises for me during the fitness classes I was in but the other teacher was a jerk.
Story 11 is what a doctor should actually do. "Just to be safe" is the most important thing to do. It is better to waste 1 hour of a person's life than risking a 5% chance of game over.
Basically what story 12 said. Being paranoid is probably the best trait for a doctor.
No being paranoid and doing the bare minimum is not the same thing.
Being paranoid means that you are overthinking aka you should NOT do something
Making sure is DEFINITELY not an overthinking
So you want that $20K bill to rule out all the reasons you fainted?
Or would you rather someone said "I think you fainted...no charge"
@@notlikely4468
Nah, not everyone lives in the U.S.A. . I will just have to wait 3 hours+ in the waiting area to take my exams and show it to my doctors. One day lost but stil better than 1 life lost.
@@WERTYUIO821
Still pretty much a zero sum game...instead of money it's time and resources
So your long and detailed workup means some old lady doesn't get her knee replaced
I'm more the "don't just do something, stand there"
It will either get better, get worse, or stay the same
And then we can procede from there
@@notlikely4468
Like I said, it is better to lose a day than a life.
"Getting worse" in a lot of cases is a line between life and death. I know a family whose daughter was saved because their family doctor sent them to the hospital instead of letting them "wait it a bit". You have no idea how often those things happen. One of my uncles meanwhile died in front of my sisters because he said "it is nothing".
That old lady will get her knee replaced at the doctor responsible for that not the nurses responsible for the exams lol.
I had wicked food poisoning once, where I even ran out of water to throw up. The pain was so intense that even my shy self started screaming in the public waiting room. I could not help it. (I really should have just called an ambulance) A nurse came in and had the audacity to say I had a low pain tolerance. I later showed my labs to my MIL, who's a nurse, and she said I would have been dead in the morning if I didn't have an IV.
But, yeah, low pain tolerance. Obviously.
That's awful, I'm sorry you had to go through that.
I am curious, what dangers would show up on labs that would be caused by food poisoning? Was it nutrient deficiencies caused by severe GI upset or something?
@@jacobjohnson8686 No idea, but it was almost that horrible about 8 months later. So that could be a good hypothesis. No major issues for years though, however.
I remember a dentist told me I had a low pain tolerance too when I had a severely decayed tooth due to an untreated break and I was just like bruh- if I've got a low pain tolerance doesn't that mean I should get treated to get rid of the pain anyway??
It never fails to piss me off when there are doctors or nurses who accuse patients of faking things when they really need help.
@@bombdotcom2168 Good point!
what would have hapend with sever food posining would have been lost of consiens via no enough calories dehyrdration and eventualy total system failer food poisening is one of thouse sickness that arre very hard on your body because it creates a path for other sicknesses but im no a docter just a smart kid who cant spell I had some mediocer food poisening from mc doneld so I couln't go out without being really hungry
It's crazy that some doctors do the exact opposite of what they're supposed to do (letting patients die instead of saving them)
My dad’s an ER doctor and has unfortunately received many patients with stories like this. The family practice doctors and walk-in clinic doctors ignore an issue until it becomes so severe they are sent to my dad at 3:00 AM. To make matters worse, we’re a small hospital, and sometimes they can’t even be treated with our limited resources by that point. He’s had to fly so many people to a larger town because their conditions were left untreated so long we can no longer take care of them.
Also, my dad is known as the doctor that’s generous with painkillers. He catches some flack for this, but will never change his policy. The reason for this is because he had a cancer treatment so damaging it’s left him with permanent and severe chronic pain. He always says that he hands out painkillers because he knows what real pain feels like, unlike many of his coworkers. He would much rather give painkillers to an addict than to fail to give it to someone who really needs it.
Your dad is a saint and a blessing to the ill of this world. That is the exact way you should think of it, because at the end of the day, it's better to ease pain and prevent death while risking feeding addiction than it is to starve addiction but risk people's welfare and life because they MIGHT be faking it. You have no way of knowing for sure, and acting like you do only hurts people.
That's me alright. I do the same with my painkillers.
Your dad is a real exception to every ER worker I've ever met. Tell him I'm thankful he's out there
My mom was dying from a very painful, incurable cancer that also caused kidney failure (she was also on dialysis because of that), seizures, a heart attack (had to have open heart surgery), peripheral neuropathy from one of her chemo treatments (the pain made her cry herself to sleep). Her PCPs started denying her pain meds because "we don't want you to get addicted," and accused ME of being a drug seeker when I confronted them over their stupidity about 2.5 months before she died. Luckily, I was able to quickly find her another practice that took better care of her, and she was crying at dialysis one night soon after my fight with her PCP when her nephrologist just happened to walk past her & wanted to know what was wrong. He got out his prescription pad right there and told her that "addiction" was freaking ridiculous for someone in her condition & with her prognosis, and he'd be happy to take over her pain management. I was going to file a complaint against the other PCP's state medical license but my mom had to sign the paperwork & she was too weak, then she passed. But I showed my complaint to another doctor in that practice. He read it & apologized to me off the record.
This happened this November. I was admitted to the hospital after an epilepsy attack (I was undiagnosed at the time), I was staying in a room with another girl who is 15 (I'm 17), this story isn't mine, but I was informed of it and wanted to share the bullshit hospital staff experience. The girl was put under anesthesia for surgery and when she didn't wake up after she was shaken and yelled at by the hospital staff they accused her of faking not being able to wake up, even after they stuck a needle under her fingernails (If you know, you know how bad of a pain that is), no-budge, then they threatened to call child protection services on the parents, who I have met during my 1 week-long stay and were as scared as she was. Only to learn that after she awoke she was put in an empty room for a week and was forced to pee in a diaper for the entire weak. After the incident, she was practically left unable to walk for a week, and even when she could she would limp. Instead of the hospital taking responsibility, they are accusing a child of faking her condition, and when they learn that that wouldn't pass, they blame the parents!
Oh my god!!! What a horrendous experience! Parents should have taken her out of there to an another hospital and sued.
If you have or manage to get any more details on this it would be greatly appreciated cos hooh boy I wanna hear the hell the parents put them through afterwards
Said that several times before here in the comments, will say it once again: and then they wonder why medical malpractice is the 3rd leading cause of death in the US...
@@xegin1572 Funnily enough, this is in Europe
Some should not even be nurses who are just totally uncalled for .. cruel n brutal. They're a disgrace to good nurses.
My younger brother is autistic, and as a child I was confused because we had mostly the same symptoms, (only difference, he was extremely sensitive to cold temperatures, me warm temperatures, him being repulsed by food, me constantly needing to be chewing something or it causes irritation) but I already had pretty bad anxiety so I was always nervous bringing it up with my mom and doctor. It wasn’t until I met with a psychiatrist and she noticed my stutter and how I struggled with understanding both mine and others’ emotions that I was diagnosed.
It was just because I was a girl and a “gifted kid” that I wasn’t diagnosed. On top of that I was insecure about about how my mom was struggling with how to take proper care of my brother and didn’t want to make her feel worse.
Yep. I'm a female and two specialists said they think I'm autistic but with their resources, they have to say no.
For me, food gives me my sensory needs. 😬 Even when I had covid and couldn't taste food, I loved it because: textures.
@@LeahKoahal food, thats kinda funny
my sister has her blanket, which she literally carries everywhere and if you focus closely shes almost always stroking. i originally wanted her to grow out of it but once she was diagnosed i was like just keep it
I’m probably autistic because I meet 100% of the actual criteria, but maybe it’s just from neglect? So not sure. But since I reached all the milestones people are told to look for missing for autistic children, a year or two before most children do, I understand why nobody thought that.
@@darkstarr984 Reaching milestones early is actually also a common symptom of autism. Most people however only think it could be a problem if children are reaching the typical milestones late, so autistic people who reach them early often get diagnosed later in life. Many autistic people are the 'gifted kid' because autism isn't being worse than other people, it's being different than other people. I'm glad you managed to get a diagnosis eventually.
@@kittythedragon7789 Well, I'm not diagnosed with autism, but I have been with ADHD and autism seems pretty likely as well. But thank you.
for years i kept getting chest pains and the er kept saying nothing wrong and sent me home. they finally sent me to a specialist, the normal tests showed nothing but the specialist took a chance and said he was going to do one more test. Turned out i had a lot of blockages for so long my heart had started trying to repair itself. Had to have a double bypass
When I was 3 or 4 my regular doctor moved away and I had to get a new one, this one had no manners and while he was there, traumatized several children to the point where even nowadays with the threat of hyperthyroidism I still can barely get myself to get checked by a doctor.
Edit: the doctor was fired like 2 years of traumatizing children.
Side note holy crap some of these stories are so crazy and not ok at all I feel bad comparing my experience with theirs.
I had a similar story! My family doctor retired. New one is INFAMOUS for her terrible bedside manner, her disbelief in prescribing medication for mental health issues, her complete negligence of the elderly and children (elderly patients just get told "you're old it happens" and a kid died because he cut his arm on something and she didn't give him tetanus shots or anything to prevent infections. She basically put a bandaid on it and told them to stop wasting her time) also she'd just...stop prescribing medication if she felt you didn't need it. My mother was diagnosed with fibromyalgia when she was young, and was trying to adjust her meds so she could lose weight, and was hoping for a referral to something like acupuncture or massage so she wouldn't need narcotics... the doctor called her a drug seeker??? (drug seeker actively saying she DIDN'T want drugs???) I had at the time undiagnosed autism and SEVERE social anxiety (like had panic attacks if you SAT next to me and I didn't know you well). My mother never even took me to MEET her, we went through the ARDUOUS process of changing our family doctor so I could get some actual help.
@@myheartismadeofstars My mom also had fibromyalgia and for years she was told it was all in her head and that she just needed to exercise more. The poor woman could barely walk from the hip and leg pain and they just tell her to exercise. It infuriates me to this day.
@@MdnightWnd My mother was also told she should exercise more. She was obese at the time, because another medication changed her metabolism, and she literally wanted to not be in pain so she COULD excercise!
Growing up, I complained frequently about joint pain. My pediatrician would just blow it off as growing pains. It took until I was 22 to find out I actually had juvenile rheumatoid arthritis and then 30 to learn I might have Ehlers Danlos Syndrome (I'm still undiagnosed, but only because it is nearly impossible to get tested as an adult. Most hospitals will only test children or pregnant women.) Had my pediatrician just believed me, I could have gotten help for both of those issues so much sooner.
Ayyy we are kind of similar! I was having joint pains in both knees since age 10. I'm 20 now and they finally referred me to a specialist to figure out what is going on. All I know so far is that whatever it is I have has given me Osteoarthritis. Right now I can barely walk without a cane and standing from sitting and vice versa is basically impossible for me if I can't hold onto something to push myself up. Everyone around me including professionals and family members all thought I was faking it as a kid because I was a troubled kid and thought I was doing it to get out of things. Now I just gotta wait another 2 years minimum before the specialist will see me because my case wasn't deemed very urgent at all. Pisses me off honestly haha
Had lyme disease back in 2017. I couldn't get in with my primary doctor, so I went to urgent care. After I was done with the round of medication they gave me, I went back in because my joints were hurting pretty bad. The Dr there said let's do a rheumatoid test to see if the lyme triggered it. Test came back, and they got me in with my primary dr. My rheumatoid factor was high, but he said it can be high and not be rheumatoid. A couple weeks later, I tried to get back in with my primary dr. He wasn't in, so I saw his nurse practitioner. I explained and he went and got my tests. He saw them and said yep, you have rheumatoid. My rheumatoid factor was 3x higher than normal. It took a few months to get in to the rheumatoid specialist to officially diagnose me with it. I just happened to luck out that day that my primary dr wasn't in. I'm 37 now and trying to get on disability from it. I believe that the lyme disease made it severe. It's not in my hips or upper back yet. Had a heart attack last February. The rheumatoid was probably a factor in it. Also had my 1st surgery due to it 3yrs ago on my wrist. The rheumatoid ate away the joint and caused the joint fluid to leak in the bones.
Just get pregnant no one cares if you're a man anything is possible 🤣🤣🤣🥲
This video started making me think of my own experience when I have a medical condition called hydrocephalus. I need the shot the drain extra fluid from my brain and because of a doctor not believing something was wrong. When I collapsed in his office I ended up almost going completely blind, and I still have vision problems to this day I’m 22 now
Woah sorry about that, man! Hope it gets better. I’m fourteen and have experienced similar with my illness!
Holy shit! Me too! I was born with it after my mom refused a C-section. The surgery to put the VP shunt has since caused all my organs to adhere together in my abdomen. I was told I was faking my abdominal pain until I was opened up about 2 years ago. When I was an infant, they had opened me up from my head all the way down to my pubic area, all without anesthetics (thanks 1990s). And it caused serious damage but saved my life.
Guess who cant safely have kids but also can’t get sterilized because scar tissue is blocking off all her organs. And the scarring has caused chronic pain that has lasted for over two decades. Sometimes, I just don’t have the will to want to live anymore. I’m 28.
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I have spina bifida, so hydrocephalus naturally came with it. I went to my doc and he had a CAT scan done and found that my shunt tube was broken in many places. The idiot doc asked a 14 year old kid, me, if I wanted the surgery to have it replaced. I had to think quick unfortunately. On one hand, I wasn't having symptoms of a malfunction. But then again what if it comes back? I had the surgery. For months afterwards, I had THE worse headache of my life for months because it was draining too fast. The doctor knew, but apparently didn't want to go back in to fix it. I was back in school about a week or 2 later. When other kids wasn't allowed to wear hats in one class, I got to because of the shaved part of my head. How I passed 9th grade, I'll never know.
@@spinalobifida I feel you for some odd reason I’m the same way where I don’t really show symptoms of shunt failure but when I do I know how bad those headaches can get the procedure I have or I had was to make it so I didn’t have to hydrocephalus anymore, and it failed, and the doctor left me like two months with headaches that bad so I am so sorry hope your doing better
My mom has a lot of medical issues but recently had chest and stomach pain. We rushed her to the er where they told her she was faking, her head started feeling like it was going to explode and she asked to be moved into a room or hallway so she could get away from a really loud medical machine. The nurse said, again she was faking it but gave her dilaudid which made my mom really sick and she closed her eyes, as she closed her eyes the nurse walked out and my mom heard him say “that’s the faker who wants special treatment, I gave her dilaudid and knocked her out” along with lots of laughter. My mom left next day ama, when we went to another er as her symptoms got worse, pancreatitis, gall bladder full of stones and coming up the duct, along with her other medical issues, drs said it would been excruciating. The first nurse needs to be glad I don’t know their name.
a long time ago i was cut off from my anti-depressant and i started to have a lot of down days. it got to the point i had to go back on my meds. when i was able to see a new doctor because i just moved. the first thing he said was "you are not depressed, you're just fat. take a few laps around the block and you'll be fine."
i also had an eye doctor walk in, take one look at me. no test, no looking at my eyes, nothing. just walked in and said "you have cancer." then just walked out. i didn't have cancer.
@@isabelaatenska yeah, most of my family thinks it's funny that i have a fear of hospitals/doctors after all the tests and other things.
I was having severe pain in my chest and upper back, I asked my dad (who is a physician) to take me to the ER. I could tell the attending assumed I was looking for pain meds, being an addict in recovery this felt horrible. I was later diagnosed with pulmonary embolism (blood clots in the lungs). If that doctor had turned me away I would have died. Scariest experience of my life.
When I was 16 I had seizures. Was in ER a lot. My mom was told I was faking it, she tore that person a new one. After 3 months I was finally diagnosed with Walking pneumonia encephalitis. Flash forward to when I was 32, I was at home doing fine when I got an intense headache. It hurt so bad I couldn't concentrate or think, the ER gave me meds, they didn't work. ER doc thinks I'm faking, a nurse told him no. They did a spinal tap. Bacterial meningitis, the bacteria was also in my blood & causes endocarditis which lead to open heart surgery. I'm alive & the hospital takes me more seriously now.
Hearing all these stories makes me happy for the doctors I had growing up. I had gallstones as a 14 year old, rare for it to happen in a kid that young unless it's genetic. I was in so much pain that they thought it was my appendix. They sent me to the hospital, did a scan, found out it was my gallbladder which was making my appendix inflamed and I was in surgery the next day. Another time I had been sick for a month, cause I didn't want to go to the doctor. I was coughing and having a hard time breathing. I'm asthmatic and again, sent me to the hospital to have xrays thinking it was pneumonia. I had bronchitis, which I found out in a person with asthma can turn into pneumonia.
Me too, my doctors were all amazing, and i feel disgusted by some of these doctors just shoving these people's concerns...
I had a cold that turned into bronchitis. No fun.
I once injured my knee while sleeping. It was so bad that I had difficulty walking. My parents believed it was because I was not walking enough. They were also not letting me take my painkillers because they could make the injury worse(A reasonable decision because I am allergic to most painkillers and the ones I actually take are a little bit strong.). A couple of days later, I could barely say standing while taking a shower and I needed help walking. I went to the doctor. He immediately found out what I had but kept asking if I was using performance enhancing drugs because my knee injury was only common on doping users. In the he gave up and assumed that it was just an "unlucky case". A gym teacher that was waiting outside informed us that the doctor simply didn't believe in "sleeping injuries" which she did as a lot of her volleyball players had similar injuries over the year.
The irony of the situation? The medication he suggested was my painkiller and the injury is usually caused by tiring the muscles rather than "now walking enough". I got a very huge "I told you so" win over my parents.
I was having a minor tic attack, didn’t even know I had tics ether. The doctor told me to “stop doing that or I’ll send you home” got needles in my arms and hands, got sent to a different hospital and I got diagnosed with tics. It’s like, if I could control it, I wouldn’t be at the hospital
I had something similar happen to me. I was getting a psych evaluation done and kept nodding my head. It was involuntary, but the guy noted that I had quote "attention seeking tendencies" because of that minor twitch that I had no control over.
@@bombdotcom2168 that sucks really, now it’s diagnosed people don’t give me shit for it
Reading and hearing all those stories I notice how many of them involve kids and women. They are not taken serious enough. 'You're faking it, it's in your head, yada yada'. It's infuriating and dangerous.
My complaints and symptoms are often not taken serious, very frustrating.
I had the exact same thoughts! Crazy
The one where they assumed the guy with an arm wound was a junkie reminded me of a painful memory. Several years ago my adult sister went into hospice with multiple organ failure. A social worker showed up asking my mom and I all kinds of questions about how much alcohol and what kind of drugs and in what quantities she had been consuming. We were confused and asked her why they would ask that. She replied that they needed to tailor her doses so she didn't go into withdrawal (as she died). Ohhhhh. The social worker and hospice nurses assumed that a 44 year old with multiple organ failure had to be an alcoholic or drug addict. In fact, she died of sepsis from an infection the hospitals couldn't find despite her frequent trips to the ER with severe abdominal pain because she had no health insurance and the county health department wouldn't authorize the kinds of tests that would have identified it. They wouldn't pay for the test, but they paid for a week of hospice. SMH.
You didn’t sue them, why?
Probably cost too much to sue.
If you can't afford US health care like 98.99% of us unless it's a joint Malpractice suit against one Quack in particular it's hard to sue any one Dr...sorry for your loss and that social worker was a moron
One doctor accused me of faking it, and another sent me to a shrink who did 'oracle cards with me'. Because of this I continued having at least 5 (partial) seizures a day. This eventually turned into upwards of 50 which is when I self diagnosed myself with the help of a friend because I was basically incapacitated by that point. For anyone out there, even in a country with a good medical system, if you have your doubts, try confiding with someone you trust and don't just believe the doctors unless they have done physical tests because they can be wrong.
Not an emergency, not a doctor, and I don't know whether they thought I was faking or not, but I was diagnosed with autism and anxiety in second grade, and was recommended to see a therapist to get meds prescribed. The first one we went to had talked with my mom for 30-50 minutes and gave me a prescription which made me stare at a wall for hours on end without saying a word. This was the summer and every summer before I had been energetic and spent all my time outside. My mom stopped giving me these meds and magically I stopped staring at the wall and became energetic again.
This reminds me of my dad's experience. He had been having issues with ulcerative colitis for a long time and he stayed active all through it and went to work. He went to the doctor because he started getting really sick. The doctor kept telling him he was fine because he was in unusually good shape. We had to keep bugging the doctor to check him more seriously and it turned out my dad's large intestine had died. He almost died from it. He's had to have tons of surgeries but he survived. He's doing really well now.
I once went to the doctor after tripping and experiencing Major pain. Did an Xray and called me a liar. Did an ultrasonic. My tendon was almost completely torn Stretching 3 Times as much as it possibly should.
Not by a doctor but by a teacher who thought she knew about epilepsy because she got migraines triggered by smells. She figured because she never saw me have an actual epileptic fit I was lying, until I had one in her class. I blackout during these fits obviously, but I guess I started clicking my pen and she yelled at me to stop “acting like a child and take my test” until every other classmate yelled at her to look up from her phone and she’d see that my eyes were rolling back and I was starting to thrash. My mother was LIVID considering it was in my medical history and there was medication at the nurses office for me. That teacher never gave me any shit ever again and I even got annoying extra attention from her 🙄
Dead Lord, get that bitch fired!
I came to the doctor telling him I hadn’t had a period in two months. They insisted on testing for pregnancy even though I keep repeatedly saying I’m a virgin. After the tests negative they did nothing. Month three still no period still testing mr for pregnancy even though I’m a virgin. This kept happening every month for 3 years. Finally I told off my gynecologist and would not pay for more pregnancy tests let alone have my insurance pay for it and she finally promised the next blood test would actually look for something else but if it shows nothing it’s my weight. A week after the blood tests my mom (emergency contact) got a call from the doc. I was in school and just couldn’t answer the phone. They wanted me to make an appointment. They scared mom. Anyways the first words out of the pas mouth was do I have breast discharge. I said no. Than she explains I have high prolactin levels. This is the hormone that produces breast milk. While she was telling me this I was thinking and told her I might have discharge and don’t know it because I had reduction surgery when I was 19 and can’t feel my nipples. She realized they probably made it impossible for me to breast feed instead. If your wondering it’s in my surgical history. Later, though more tests I found out I had a benign pituitary tumor (second mri of brain was slightly smaller than the first no one told me I had a tumor on the first) and thsts the cause. I’m probably the only patient that doctors think can be pregnant for 3 years.
Oh my god! 3 years of pregnancy tests!!! Totally nuts!
There is people videoblogging who have pituitary tumour and prolacting problems in youtube. Please connect with other patients to get ideas how to deal with the condition and what treatments you can have. Please educate yourself about your condition. You will soon know more about it than a common doctor. You are probably already doing this, but I just say just in cade.
I'm bipolar and had violent episodes growing up. It took me until I was 9 to get diagnosed and only recently got on the correct medication. It took so long because my psychiatrist insisted I had a behavioral disorder. I constantly hurt people without the proper medication and the damage has already been done. It permanently traumatized my siblings. They forgave me and I'm doing much better but I could never take back those times I acted violent without proper medication.
Sending much love 💗💗💗 Your siblings should see this comment. They would realise that you actually carry quilt about what happened and truly care about them. Hope that it will get better with them.
@@SatumainenOlento it has gotten slowly better. They forgave me. However, the damage was already done. They can't forget the trauma it caused them.
Don't wanna be disrespectful but, what exactly did you do? Sorry if it makes you uncomfortable
I'm very glad you got diagnosed young. I was approximately 56 ;)
It sucks.
@@VFILE-sr1wk I had violent episodes. Although I never hit my siblings, I threw things and it traumatized them.
My parents were told that I'm allergic to gluten. Teachers kept telling me my parents' insistence on my diet would turn me into a spoiled brat unable to survive in the "real world". In my teens, I would be less reliable with my diet, as I never showed the well known allergy symptoms (no rashes, no itchy skin, no collapse with anaphylaxis etc).
Then my digestion would get more and more messed up, with me out sick with the diagnosis of stomach fru every other week. My gp insisted that it's just the stomach fru, as an allergy has different symptoms and I have no family history of celiac. I kept insisting, so he ordered a test to shut me up. It came back positive for celiac.
Just FYI everyone, the only way to positively test for celiac is a biopsy. So this story is b.s.
@@ssansu that's not what my gp told me, but thanks for the info.
When I was nine I started getting horrible headaches which my parents pushed off as me not drinking enough water. I had it everyday up until the point I started making myself throw up so I could go home. The doctor said that I was probably making it up for attention since I just got a new brother so my dad made fun of me for like three weeks before a different doctor decided to get my blood drawn. He noticed something weird in my blood and ordered an MRI. My step-mom said as we were heading in “when we find nothing wrong with you, we’re gonna buy you a water bottle and you’re gonna get in trouble for not using it.” After work that day, my dad picked me up and dropped off my brother at my grandma’s so we could go down to Denver where I found out the cause of my headaches was actually a non-Cancerous brain tumor that was growing against my skull and causing pressure and blocking ventricles. Two surgeries, radiation, and a month in all at the children’s hospital and here I am now.
I remember being in a similar situation, but my headaches aren't caused by a brain tumor. I have a very high risk of overheating when doing physical activity. No amount of water will help it. The only thing that remotely helps is ibuprofen and rest and even then that's not a guarantee. My mom always took me out on hikes, if I didn't go she'd berate me, and would always talk about how dramatic I was and just tell me to drink more water.
When I went to see a doctor after moving in with my grandparents, the doctor told me I had asthma and that the dizzy/sick spells I got were a result of heat exhaustion, which I was highly sensitive to. My mom just brushed it off as me being dramatic or lazy when in reality it was out of my control.
when my sister was in 4th grade she broke her foot in gym class and she could barely walk, the teachers made her walk to the nurse and then the nurse gave her ice and told her to go back to class. that nurse is still working there to this day.
So tired of these doctors accusing everyone in pain of seeking drugs.
An ER nurse threatened to send me to a psych ward when I was screaming from neck pain. I only went to the ER in the first place because my neck was hurting so much, not broken, just strained/sprained from tight muscles. I must have had an extremely poor diet back then.
A doctor almost send me home with acute appendicitis. It was a sunday and I didn't want to bother the ER so I went to something like an emergency family medicine thing. It's like a normal doctor, but open on weekends and evenings. I waited for almost 5 hours and at one point had to lie down on the floor because I felt like I was about to faint. The attending doctor was absolute crap. He asked if I had been vomiting and I said yes because earlier I had vomited from being in a lot of pain. Then he said that this couldn't be appendicitis and when he asked if I had a fever and I said, I think so, but I don't have a thermometer he just put down: no fever. He told me to go home and drink some tea, something I had done for the last few days. Luckily I kind of begged him to at least examine me and he poked my stomach a bit to which I started tearing up from pain. That's when he noticed that I was indeed pretty warm and in a lot of pain and he finally took my temperature and it was over 40° (that's over 100, I think). He then sent me to the ER and when I got there they made me sign the consent papers for surgery while simultaniously placing an IV and doing another ultra sound, because I already had fluid leaking from my appendix. It was actually pretty cool how fast everything went once I wobbled into the ER with a note from the other doctor. It took like 20 min from the first ultra sound to being wheeled into the OR. After that I apologized for taking up their time on a Sunday to which they replied that I probably would have died had I not decided to come in.
Oh boy, this video should be fun. I have THE "You don't have anything wrong with you" chronic illness that most doctors won't even bother investigating and it takes about 20 years to get a diagnosis and even then it's a crapshoot. (Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome) It's a similar story to the Fabry Disease story (very common with genetic illnesses). Also, growing pains aren't a thing. People who told me the pain I experience as a child were "growing pains." I still have them at almost 40.
I have also "You don't have anything wrong with you" -illness.
(Not EDS thankfully!!! I feel so deeply sorry for anybody who has it. Horrible illness!)
It is kind of crazy that I have a VISIBLE illness and can show even photos of some of my symptoms. But no..."Our common bloodtests show nothing so you can not have anything." AAARRGHHH!
Hope that I will not end up being again an another patient dying young as hypochondriac.
me too im undiagnosed and my doc said i should look into it but has never set me up to do tests or see anybody, i have chronic pelvic pain as well as other pain and im so scared one day my appendix will be bursting or ill have an ectopic pregnancy (I use 2 forms of birth control) with those two its a 99.9% chance if I were to get pregnant that it would be ectopic
As someone who potentially also has EDS (still in the process of getting diagnosed, since as you said, it takes a while) I cannot tell you how much I relate to that statement of it being the "you don't have anything wrong with you" chronic illness. I hope doctor's take you seriously now, because I'm still trying in that regard!
God I could write a book my experiences with 99% doctors and me trying to get diagnosis and treatment for Ehlers Danlos Hypermobility type even AFTER diagnosis by Prof Medicine !!!
Ahaha I just had that discussion with a nurse this morning, too. For myself. We had the "Wait, that's not normal?" discussion, followed by "let me see what I can do for that".
Thats one of my genuine fears that people wont believe me when I say that I don't feel well. Other than wincing, which can be faked, i can't really tell people how i feel when i have migrains or just feel like shit without coughing a bunch. Its something thats been ingrained in me since i was a kid.
I was told by an OBGYN that if I had severe pain outside my period it was "normal" because "it's just ovarian cysts falling." Luckily at the time it started, I had gotten into watching Mama Doctor Jones here on RUclips, so I knew for a fact it was NOT normal. Had to scream at my dad and nearly fainted from the pain until he took me to get birth control. When my regular doctor and his wife, the nurse in the room, heard about my pains, they immediately got to getting me birth control, as endometriosis runs in my mom's family so it wouldn't be wild if that was the first sign for me. Got my prescription and lo and behold, pain gone, significantly lighter periods and with less cramping than EVER, as well as the fact that I feel comfortable around my own health there now.
And although my dad is not a doctor, he acts like he is and for years he had told me I'm just fat and out of shape, I can't possibly have asthma. Yep, went to my doctor, he wasn't in so I went to another doctor at the practice. He listened about how my lungs burn when I exercise, even walking sometimes triggers it, to the point it can get extremely difficult to breathe. He right away got me an inhaler prescription and it's a lot more manageable. The look on my dad's face when the doctor agreed with me I did have sports asthma as I had said for years was great. Narcissists who think only their opinion matters being shamed by a doctor is hilarious when they realize they fucked up, and the doctor also scolded him for refusing to get me proper actually healthy foods. All he did was get me apples because "you're so picky" as if it's my fault he only cooks the same shit but then acts like its me who's picky
Doctors should never say someone is faking symptoms without testing first. I understand how there are some people who want the painkillers, but a lot of the time they are in real pain.
My mother told me I was faking depression because "I had no reason to be sad" like yeah, I shouldn't be sad.
a few years ago went to the emergancy room literally thinking at age 34. I was having a heart attack. Im sure the nurses and doctors thought I was over reacting and probably heart burn. But they still did the tests just to be safe. yeah was GERD mixed with heart burn.
im glad they took it seriously enough to make sure they werent wrong. I feel its better to over react then under react. what if I was in deed having a heart attack and they shrugged it off as heart burn.
I hate when doctors just don't believe you. It happend to me even, my doctor said that I was looking for attention and that i was exagerating my symptoms (at this time is was sick basicaly every week and always fatigued and sometimes passed out and I had frequent chestpains and heart palpetations). After my mother tried her best for test to be done I was diagnosed with POTS and later my mother was also diagnosed with the same syndrome, as all the times she went to the doctor with the same symptoms she was also told she was faking it.
Shout out to those with chronic, non-visible pain such as Fibromyalgia, Polymyalgia Reumatica, and other conditions I'm not thinking of that are super hard to get a diagnosis for because doctor thinks you're faking to get out of work because you're "too young" to have pain.
Bonus shout-out if they try to blame your pain on your weight.
Well, I am now 40 and "too young to have anything".
I think that they will keep telling that to me until 80 and then I am just old and will die soon anyway.
My mom had fibromyalgia and no doctor ever believed her pain. She was never at all overweight, but the doctors constantly told her she just needed to walk more. The poor woman had such bad hip and leg pain that she could barely move, but they all thought it was in her head. She died in 2006 at age 56 before ever getting any treatment. It makes me so damn mad.
They blamed my weight for my narcolepsy. 7 years and making my father who i didn't live with badger my neurologist for a test I got diagnosed. I wasn't fat before I had narcolepsy. I also have had arthritis most of my life. I look normal. I got told I was looking for painkillers when I came in with an infected gallbladder i said none of your expensive addictive painkillers work on me i want you to fix me not drug me.
Doctors need to let go of their egos and be more thorough. They have NOT seen it all, people with chronic pain do NOT react to extreme pain the same way as others and yes, we can respond coherently while in pains that'd cause most people to pass out.
I can really feel the last one. I was diagnosed with Asthma when I was 13. I ended up, later that year, running in gym playing mandatory basketball. After class, I couldn't breathe and took my inhaler. Getting to my next class I started loosing feeling in my limbs. Nurse comes in, takes my pulse ox and finds I'm at an 86, should be the hospital level. My lips and nails were blue and I'm sitting in the back of the choir room with my eyes glued shut from panic crying since I couldn't breathe. The nurse doesn't call an ambulance and instead gets me up to a 94 pulse ox then calls my 7-8 month pregnant mother to come get me. After that, I was not allowed to participate in gym
That was the procedure at my terrible middle school. If you complained of any pain or sickness you got mandatory sports. One kid (in another class) died (evil school withheld the cause from the public) in my first semester of my final year and school got sued and parents ended up having to pay up cause they lost because they said “the kid showed no signs of illness” (he did) and the court agreed. Parents ended up with no kid and homeless.
@@CupwakeRBLX Oh my gods that's horrible. Those poor folks. While my case sucked my heart goes out to them as they had it very arguably worse.
Was in the navy. Got accused of malingering and being drunk/hungover. I went to medical with a stabbing pain in my right ear, bouts of dizziness, and a low dull ache on the right side of my head, including heavy sinus pressure. It was an ear infection. It got bad enough they had to actually drain my sinuses at one point, and kept me using special drops and checking in every week for the next month. It was pretty brutal. But I could still show up and be expected to work, and hey "We've all had those rough nights. Next time don't get sloshed during a work week." Another time I was told I couldn't possibly have the flu, because I'd had a flu shot. Two years before the then current flu season. It was in fact the flu, and I got my shots updated before the next season to avoid a repeat of that incident. The doc I saw for a second opinion was the one who pointed out why vaccine regimens get updated and said, "You're other providers did you a disservice on checking whether you had the shot or not, as opposed to *when* you had your shot. Get them regularly. They aren't one and done."
Lessons learned.
When I was 19 I suddenly started having trouble breathing whenever I exerted myself even slightly, like walking up a single flight of stairs or even walking quickly on flat ground. I kept going to my university's medical center but they would never believe me. They would listen to my heart and lungs but by that point I'd always have been waiting at least 30 minutes so my body had calmed down. I told them to watch me climb some stairs and then listen but they refused. After three weeks of this I went home on spring break and immediately told my pcp. He ran all kinds of tests but couldn't figure it out since I was an otherwise healthy teen. He randomly decided to do a lung CT scan. Turned out I had a pulmonary embolism and a large chunk of my left lung was blocked. I had to be hospitalized for a week and only allowed to get up to use the bathroom. They had to give me injections of blood thinners every hour for the first two days and then I was on an extremely high dosage of thinners for another year since apparently my blood is like ketchup. Embolisms have a mortality rate of 30% if untreated and the doctor was shocked that I'd had one for three weeks and kept going about my day. This was 20 years ago and just last year I found out I have a genetic disorder that had only been discovered very recently and one of the symptoms is blood clotting. Like it's so new that they don't even know all the symptoms yet or how many people have it. But yeah, screw those university people, they almost killed me from their negligence.
People in my mother's family have blood clotting issues, and some have had PE's.
Husband almost died from MRSA (a type of staph infection), this was done on a military base but an 1st LT thought he could override my husbands doctor (who was a Capt and of higher rank) by stating my husband didn't need surgery, even though infection almost reached his heart. The Captain himself stormed down to the hospital and tore into the LT for having such an ego trip he almost cost a soldier their life and tried to say they had more authority than those higher on the chain of command. I heard he was pulled into a room with other officers and might have endured wall to wall counseling since he looked kinda roughed up when he left.
"Ur only a teen, u don't get depressed" GET THAT MAN'S DEGREE IN THE FIRE!
My sister got braces many years ago, I remember my mom being really worried that something would go wrong and her jaw would become messed up (I also had braces problems, but the orthodontist denied the problems I had, but that's another story for another time.), the orthodontist said everything would be ok. Fast forward a year, my sister was in constant pain, her braces had to be taken off early but to this day my sister is now in what I can only describe as constant pain. No amount of retainers and splits will make my sister's jaws good again.
As a teenager I cried and cried because my ovaries hurt. Doctor said I was making it up. Finally went to another doctor who said I had ovarian cysts. I had to go on birth control. Years later I nearly died twice when the cysts burst and filled my abdomen with infection. I wound up infertile but I was alive. No problems since. This was high school and college.
It will never fail to anger me seeing so many doctors write serious things like that off. It makes me happy that my current doctor is somewhat competent
I’ve had middle ear infection, and that hurt a lot. I can’t imagine what this person had to go through
In a psych ward a doctor said that my severe flashbacks of past trauma were fake and I was “Just using my past as an excuse for special treatment and attention.”
Those flash backs caused me to nearly take my life mere days later.
To this day, the psychiatric center in Springfield, Illinois is the least helpful in the state.
(I did a survey among the teenagers who were there.)
Don't get me started on the "shit hole" (private mental hospital in the suburbs of Columbus, Ohio) that told me I'm "too young" to be incontinent (because stress + severe anxiety has never ever made overactive bladder overly overactive, right?) & forced me to use the toilet unassisted. The very *low* toilet unassisted, when I've always in the past had to rest my arm on the sink (coz they don't let you properly grab the rail for leverage) & force myself up that way! Which I didn't dare do. I had injured my left shoulder muscles by overly enthusiastic exercise, & it was finally healing!
The damn bitch stood there *glaring* at me while I had to use *that arm* to pry myself up; & I screamed in AGONY!!! With her glaring at me!
The occupational therapist brought in to work on my arm was furious when I told her what'd happened, & how my arm now had less mobility than when I'd first injured it! She marched up to the desk & told off the nurse.
That was this past May. My shoulder still isn't right.
@@cathyvickers9063 Damn. Hopefully that lady was fired.
I’ve never heard of a helpful ward
@@Journey_to_who_knows Only one I’ve ever been to that actually helped was the PBHU at Children’s in St Louis
I am absolutely infuriated with just how patronizing some doctors are, acting like they're all high and mighty, not even believing what their patients told them what they're feeling.
now im scared to what could happen when im older or tomorrow because of medical workers like these
My friend took me to emergency after I’d had the worst headache for really sick for 10 days and bedridden for much of that with my main symptoms being a very severe headache and inability to open my eyes if it was light. The doctors dismissed it as a tension headache and sent me home with aspirin without doing any tests. Over the next couple of days things got worse and I was having more issues with my vision. Had to go to hospital two more times before they did any tests and when they did they worked out very quickly it was intracranial hypertension and it had made me legally blind.
In 2018, I was in a work related motor vehicle accident. I was stopped and was rear-ended by someone going 75mph. I got scheduled with a workers comp dr. It was an urgent care facility. My 1st appointment was with 1 dr. She put me on light duty due to my lower back and shoulder hurting. I couple weeks later, saw another dr. She looked at my chart and saw that I have rheumatoid arthritis. Blamed my pain on that. Fully released me back to work. Had a follow-up a couple weeks after that and saw the 1st dr. She put me back on light duty and scheduled an mri. Shoulder was fine, but the back is another thing. 2 bulging and 1 herniated disc. A surgeon said the herniation was too small for him to do anything. By the end of the year, I could tell that the rheumatoid was in my lower back. In 2019, had another mri that showed no change. Had epidural steroid shots that didn't work. Now with the way it feels, it's still the same.
My doctors told me I was imaging my near constant cramps for 3 years. Turns out I had ovarian cysts that had ruptured and my body didn't absorb the fluids. Went to a specialist and a FEMALE doctor who both told me I'm fine 😑😑
Things like that unfortunately happen a lot to women, because as far as I know that field of medicine isn't researched as well as other parts of medicine. In Germany there are also very few gynecologists that are specialised on endometriosis for example and many who aren't don't know how to diagnose it and I doubt that that's much different in other countries. So, doctors also often don't learn enough about certain problems. At least that's the only explanation I could imagine why women with period problems are misdiagnosed or not diagnosed at all so often.
Being pregnant,I was in so much pain because of my sciatica that somehow it affected me so bad that it strained my lower tummy. I fell to my knees and my boyfriend thought I was faking it after I lashed out at him for not doing anything and ignored all my grunts I was making.
Hope ex-boyfriend. I had similar experience with my ex and I realised after I broke up with him that it was not healthy and he did not care that much about me if he could ignore my pain. And you are pregnant with his child and he does not care.
I had symptoms of a stroke: the right side of my body completely paralyzed, to the point where my face drooped.
I was taken to the hospital by co-workers and the neurologist told my mother that I was faking it as I was depressed at the time.
My mother saw that it was impossible for me to be faking it, but as the symptoms disappeared after 2 days, we went home.
The 2nd time I went to the hospital with the same symptoms, another neurologist did a series of exams and tests and found out that I have complex migraines, which can cause the same symptoms as a stroke.
Collapsing lung, my third Dr.s first. It’s def a pain like no other. Thank goodness for actual radiologists in the ER.
Not me, but my stepmom has fibromyalgia. (A chronic illness thats in her case really intense and causes a lot of pain daily)
she jumped from doctor to doctor because at the time (around 2002-2008 I think) fibromyalgia was not considered an actual illness by many doctors. One of her doctors told her to her face that “she must be a junkie and theres no such illness like that”
It took her a long time to get her diagnosis + the appropriate medication because most doctors wouldn’t be willing to prescribe her opioids “because she’s just a junkie”
Thankfully she has a good medication and a lovely doctor and her life is way better than what it was. There are still hard and painful days but she’s thriving and living the best life she can.
She’s still one of the best people I know and I’m proud of her
My mother had the same issue. Doctors never believing her. Telling her it's all in her head and to exercise more. Unfortunately she passed away in 2006 so she was never able to get the treatment she needed.
@@MdnightWnd oh I’m so sorry for your loss! Before my stepmom got her right meds in 2012 it was painful to watch her struggle with the pain. And being between the ages of 5-9 it was hard to understand what was going on and not being able to help!
I hope you’re doing well!
It wasn't the dentist who accused me of faking, but my parents.
I had some dental work done, not sure how to call it in english, but basically I had to wear this pink blob between my teeth at night. The problem was that it went too far back in my mouth, triggering gag reflex. I couldn't sleep with it.
My parents got mad at me for not trying, not taking it seriously. But I did. I did try. In the beginning I couldn't fall asleep with it but I tried and tried and got so used to it that I could fall asleep with it. It was never in my mouth at morning though.
My parents thought I just got sneaky and took it off at night.
It all changed the next time we visited the dentist. My parents said that I didn't use it. Luckily the dentist asked me why not, and I explained. She then shaved a little bit off at the ends and suddenly there was no problems at all. Suddenly it was easy to use and there were no issues
I had something similar happen where my mom accused me of not taking the medicine the dentist prescribed- It was a holistic healing drug-
For a severely damaged and decaying tooth that she refused to take me to get treated- and when the drug the dentist prescribed wasn't helping at all she accused me of not taking it properly- the endodontist I went to to fix and cap my tooth gave me some antibiotics and it was right as rain after a week.
Also was it a retainer that you had to wear at night?
Everyone thought I was desperate for attention by claiming I was "sick." Got my first colonoscopy done age 26 years old August 28th, 2021. Found colon cancer, later in November found out it was stage 3. I didn't think I could put the fear of god in so many people but here I am. Motto for continuing the fight against cancer was what my radiation doc said "You're showing immense grace under pressure for a 26 year old. Instead of being angry at the situation your laughing and showing immense kindness to others it's amazingly refreshing to see. Almost spiritually euphoric in a way." Grace under pressure got me through radiation therapy, chemo therapy, and two surgeries. As a cancer survivor I hope 2023 will give me a break or at least a lot of wine to drink. What ever comes first.
WOW! That is almost poetic. Good on you! But also, remember to cry and be angry that this happenend to you. It is good and necessary not to be weak and weepy when you face something like that, but those emotions are there somewhere and needs to be felt. Set them free! They can might make you feel weak and whimpy for some moments, but that is not permanent feeling. (I am so good at ignoring those too with my own health problems. It is healthy knowledge that we feel a ray of feelings, but regardless, we are strong and continue!)
All together, I think that you are incredible person and inspiration for everybody! Wonderful! I wish you cancer free rest of life!!! 💗💗💗 (It happens! People recover from stage 4 and live long cancer free-life. For sure you could be one of those people!)
These stories are the reason doctors should just believe what people say because it can be serious if they don’t believe it. It might be a prank, but you can also save someone’s life or stop them from getting severe side effects by helping them.
Yes when I went to the ER, not feeling my hands and feet! They thought I was crazy because my MRI showed no spinal damage. Turns out I have dysautonomia!
Ooooh...can dysautonomia cause numbness of limbs??? Wow! My MRI is also clear, but I have some level dysautonomia with other symptoms. Maybe that is the cause of my numb limbs too! I will ask my doctor next time.
Yes, they were really abusive towards me in the hospital and blamed me mentally ill, because of numbness.
Researching the subject, I have also other reasons which might constribute to it, like low potassium.
@@SatumainenOlento I think so; it’s very common in the community! I’m no medical professional, or even an adult, though, so don’t trust me lol
Have had school nurses, and my own extended family members tell me I was exaggerating and or flat out lying about my migraines because I get them so often… and then I would throw up. I started getting them at five.
You need to see a neurologist! They can prescrible you with a preventive medicine against migraines. Also, one herb (I can't remember name. Sorry!) can lower the frequency of them.
It is not right that you are suffering from pain when it can be managed!!!
@@SatumainenOlento that’s very kind of you, but I actually already have gone to a neurologist. I also am on medications that help to prevent and manage the issue but it took awhile to get it this point, still many headaches slip through the pills. It’s better than it once was though.
I had chronic pain in my right hip. My doctor kept dismissing it. I was able to get a copy of my records. My doctor had written in my records that I wanted pain meds because I was an addict, even though I had no history of drug abuse. It took me going to three more doctors until I found one that did an MRI. Turned out I had a nerve pinch in two different places on my spine. He couldn't believe I could still walk because of the pain I was feeling. As anybody who has chronic pain knows chronic pain gives you significant pain tolerance.
Can't help but notice how most of the stories are either women or kids getting ignored like holy crap what is going on
Sometimes it's even worse when the kid is a girl especially with stomach problems. There were times that I wasn't believed when I was really sick before I was diagnosed with abdominal migraines. Fortunately I had strong advocates for parents and my medical history is well documented. After getting actual diagnosis, I've only had a couple of times when the doctors didn't believe me or were in doubt as most have never heard of this.
In 2014 I was putting on weight rapidly without good reason. Whenever I told doctors about it, they just assumed I was getting fat from eating chocolate and other junk food, and brushed it off. When I became unable to get upstairs due to my massive weight gain, and also unable to eat a normal portion of food, I went to the ER. The doctor there brushed it off again, told me to take more exercise and was about to send me home with some indigestion remedy. My dad complained at the doctor until he was blue in the face, and they finally consulted a cardiologist. I was found to have severe heart failure that was causing me to retain water, and after being admitted finally, received treatment that improved me significantly. If I hadn't been admitted that day, I probably would be dead by now...
Yes, now. Everything always hurts and is horribly sensitive to touch. I'm always tired, have trouble sleeping, have digestive problems, joints hurt, get headaches constantly, etc. They say that's all "classic" Fibro symptoms and think I'm making it up to get on disability or something. No, I just want some relief from this if it's possible because it's miserable and no one will listen.
Ask a doctor to run a Full thyroid panel on you. Fibro is a SYMPTOM of low thyroid and low adrenal output. Get onto the proper doseage of thyroid replacement and you can be pain free. Just be warned: it will take a long time to get there.
Don't give up. I wish you luck.
Retired doctor with several chronic ailments, here. A registrar at my cardio appointment told me that I didn't have angina, just by looking at me, despite being diagnosed. He asked me to show him my swollen feet and then told me that I didn't have congestive heart failure, despite being diagnosed. He then booked me in for a cardiac stress test to prove that I was lying. My blood pressure went through the roof within a minute to over 286/89. I was seconds away from suffering either a coronary, a stroke, or both. Spent a couple of hours in observation before I could safely leave to go home. I was waiting for him to tell me I'd faked having diabetes, too. I would have loved to have answered that one. Did I mention that I'm a retired doctor?
I get told I don’t have “real autism” because I’m high functioning and don’t act like the people they specifically know.
It gets really old really fast
My mother was accused of exaggerating how serious my nose bleeds were. It would start pouring like a faucet and could last more than 2 hours. I eventually ended up having a nose bleed in my doctor's office, I just sneezed a little violently and the flood came, at which point he decided that she had to be giving me something and reported her. CPS investigated and didn't find anything. He decided to test me for a bunch of things, even though he didn't believe it was possible for my nose bleeds to be that bad. Turns out I have, not one, but 2 separate forms of hemophilia. Also turns out I was always tired because of severe anemia, caused by the blood loss, caused by the hemophilia. I was 14 when I was diagnosed, my mom had been trying to make him listen since I was about 3. At least he had the decency to apologize to her.
i had this happen to me multiple times
first, when I was 11 one night i had a really high fever and sore throat. My parents took my to the doctor the next day and he said it was just the flu. A few days later it hadn't gotten better and my parents took me to an after-hours doctor because it was the weekend. got diagnosed with tonsilitis.
Second time, same doctor, kept saying that the pain in my right wrist (dominant hand) was just some soreness due to having fractured it before (twice). i ended up going to him three more times before he got me an x-ray and sent me to a specialist because I had a torn ligament that I'd been living with for months after spraining it again.
One time, a doctor instantly assumed I had 'anxiety' or 'depression' because I had difficulty breathing even though I was getting in enough oxygen. I've never gotten a proper answer about that one. When I asked to see a doctor about an attention problem and other troubling mental health problems he just told me to look at the symptoms for anxiety or depression because he obviously didn't want to bother with trying to find something less easy to label.
finally, since I was 13 (I'm 20 turning 21) I've had stomach aches and acid reflux problems. I've been to the doctor so many times and each time it's like he's not even trying. I have to tell him multiple times that I need help. originally they said I had ibs (doesn't actually fit) and then it's because of what i eat. recently I've been able to see a different doctor and she got me a test for an endoscopy (which I'm waiting for) because nothing my old doctor was reluctantly trying was actually working.
Not mine. My friends brother was feeling really sick and he went to our local, small town hospital. They diagnosed him with pneumonia and a cold. They traveled him down to the closest big city hospital. He was diagnosed with stage 4 pancreatic cancer, it spread to his bladder, lungs and two other organs. He was gone in a month and a half. The local hospital doctors get diagnoses wrong a bit too often
I really should not be watching this less than a week before an appointment addressing medical issues I’ve had that have been ignored for over four years haha
New comment for a second topic. I had a UTI at one point. Had one previously, so the one in this story was my second. I told the doctor I was pretty sure I knew what it was. He argued up and down that it wasn't so I just said. "All the same, I'd like to get tested for it." We did the test, and he was fuming when he came around the corner and wrote up my prescription. He hated the fact that he was wrong. Stand your ground. Especially if you're Canadian, because the tests are free.
The walking pneumonia one reminded me of when I had the same thing when I was nine, now the doctor wasn’t they one who said I was faking or exaggerating, it was my dad, and my aunt who literally is a nurse. My dad literally ripped me away from my grandmother because she suggested I go to a doctor, a week later we go when I almost collapsed during P.E. And FINALLY get diagnosed and treated.
The same happened when I had a small fracture on my foot, everyone thought it was sprained and waited a few days to see if it would get better, it didn’t. So we called my dad to ask for permission to go to the doctor since he has custody. He said to wait a week, a WEEK. I had already done nothing about it for days and it was killing me because I had to walk on it. Then when we finally go the doctor didn’t put me in a cast and instead this show that I was in for 3 days and would just make it hurt more. Dad forced him to put a cast on me and then the stupid doctor didn’t even give me crutches, said I didn’t need them. Almost didn’t heal and I still have a very slight limp at times because of it.
My 25 year old daughter went to the doctors, she couldn't stand up because of stomach pain. He pressed her stomach she screamed, so he gave her anti acid lozenges. We took her in an ambulance to the hospital where she was diagnosed with a burst ulcer in her stomach. She had an emergency operation, a blood transfusion, in hospital fo three weeks developed pneumonia. She has an 8in scar.
How are any of these stories not ending in these people getting arrested?!
In the US, medical malpractice isn't a 'criminal offense.' Not unless it's grossly negligent and serial- for many people. No, you have to sue the doctor, and their malpractice insurance pays you money. The AMA can revoke a doctors license to pratice medicine, if enough complaints are filed. Again, it has to be many people and proven through investigations. No, no criminal charges; they simply can't practice medicine.
For months I've been having issues with my heart. Episodes of severe palpitations that last for hours, chest pain, fainting spells etc. Every freaking doctor I went to said it was just anxiety and brushed me off. Finally I saw a new doctor and she listened to me. She listened to my heart and my heartbeats were very irregular. Turns out I'm having heart issues and possible heart damage due to 14 years of struggling with Bulimia, which the other doctors also brushed off when I mentioned it, knowing it could be linked.
Most of these negligent doctors should be sue and made to cover all cost of all future care.
Unfortunately for schools they don't care about students health.
To them losing a student dying from an asthma attack is worth the risk if it means another student doesn't get away with vaping.
Interesting fact: medical malpractice is the 3rd leading cause of death in the US.
On another note, I have several stories:
-I basically never have fever when I'm sick, don't know why, might be genetic as both my father and my brother have the same condition. The only time I ever had fever was a case of flu so bad it sent me to the hospital for a few days. As such, when I was a kid, my mom often had a hard time convincing doctors and other medical staff I was indeed sick, because when they saw I didn't have fever they always assumed I was just faking it.
-A friend accidentally hit me right in the eye while we were playing. Left a very visible red spot in my eye? As I was supposed to go to summer camp 2 or 3 days later, my mom wanted to make sure I was ok, so she brought me to the ER. Doctor just took a glance a it, and said it was nothing. When my mom insisted he did more than just take a glance, he accused her of being an overprotective mom worried over nothing, then recluently prescribe some eyedrops for me after she insisted some more. When we went to the pharmacy to get those, we learned the eyedrops he prescribed me were withdrawn from market... 10 years ago. Went to another ER, were they actually took it seriously, made me go through some exam to check if everything was alright. In the end I indeed just needed some eyedrops but still...
-Not me, but a friend. In college we were in a special course that took attendence very seriously, basically if you missed class without proper justification more than 3 times during the semester, you were immediately explused. They insisted that, as we had a nurse office right in the building where we have class, we had no good reason not to have a note when we were sick. One day that friend was sick, the classic headache+nausea+diarea, he went to the nurse office, she told him to go back to class and just go to the toilet if he needed to. Threw up in the middle of class, was sent to the nurse office, she once again told him to go back to class. In the end he had to leave to go to an actual doctor... Worst is, she wasn't accusing him of faking, she acknowledged he was sick and still just told him to go back to class.
As a kid, I always had strep throat during the winter months, so it was already a bit problematic. One time i got it, the doctor gave me some medication and sent me on my way. A month later, my mom noticed me having strep breath, and took me to the doctor again. Gave me a different medication and sent me on my way. Another month later, my neck was entirely stiff. Couldn’t move it at all. The doctor said to get some physical therapy, and that I should be fine. The physical therapist said that it looked like it was caused by strep, so my mom asked the doctor if I could be tested. Doctor says no. Another month passes, and it’s summer time now. My mom goes to my aunt, who is also a doctor, and asks to have me tested. What do you know? Strep throat. Guess who had to get several blood tests and have their tonsils removed after that. Plus, I also have JIA now. Thanks a lot, doc.
What is JIA?
That is medical malpractice.
The fact kids can’t keep inhalers on them in that school is wild like in my school if you where asthmatic you had an inhaler on you at all times
My sister and I have the same rare genetic disease and it took us 8 years to get diagnosed. Very painful.
I was feinting and experiencing migraines, chronic pain, body temperature and heart rate spikes and more for over a decade. My heart rate could stay around 130bpm for over an hour while I was laying down. I went to so many different doctors and even ended up in the emergency room and doctor after doctor ran blood tests and told me it was all in my head. I have a nervous system disorder and I didn’t get treatment until I was barely functional and happened to meet someone with the same disorder who told me what specialist to go to and what tests to get done. It still pisses me off to this day.
My sister has Endometriosis. Went into the room to get sterilization and was told that she was faking endo and nope by the nurse. Doc looks at her and asked how Endometriosis is faked when he is called in
Also, had a UTI that was causing heaves and was accused of faking it. Luckily my lack of urine was the telling point.
I had very heavy and painful periods all my life. I went in for a hysterectomy after I had my daughter and the surgeon said it "looked like something exploded." I had stage 4 endo that had wrapped around my bowels and intestines.
Not one doctor ever mentioned endometriosis to me when I complained about my periods and I suffered with them for 25 years. It's so frustrating.
I had two (2) incidents where this happened to me. I was assigned to MacDill AFB, was having sweats, vision issues, and a mild fever - went to sick call, the PA there gave me a bottle of 500 mg motrin and told me to take one every 6 hours (which we now know is too much - but during the 80's they handed the stuff out like candy, never thinking about a servicemember maybe having a beer and blowing his/her liver up after such high dosage). I went home, was reclining on the couch when I apparently passed out. I found out later that my wife had come home and found me convulsing (apparently fever had jumped to 104-105) so she called an ambulance and rode with me back to the hospital, where she stood in the emergency room and demanded to speak with the hospital commander as to why they were killing me.... well, it turns out I had a staph infection in my heart, and was essentially dying. They put me on intraveneous antibiotics and got me stabilized, and I found out later that my wife had threatened to bring in her congressman (who happened to be her uncle) unless she found out why this happened... I do not know what happened to that PA, but I never saw him again at that hospital. My cardiologist tells me now the scaring from that incident is why my heart has issues today, 30+ years later. You want to know something else? A servicemember cannot sue for medical malpractice - Uncle Sugar (Government) won't allow it. Now, finally they will have JAG investigate if the consequences are serious enough, but pretty much someone has to die first... even if a multitude of complaints are made against a specific doctor in a military hospital, at the time they would just transfer him somewhere else.
The other incident was by my boss, senior manager at the firm at which I was working. I happened to be the version control manager for our programming division. It was my responsibility to ensure final testing of our monthly software update processed correctly, and then package the program up with an installer, the current month's data files, then package and mail all the update cd's out to our clients in the US and Canada.. Well, I was shivering, sweating, had a fever, and told the boss so - he said quote, "You are just looking for an excuse not to complete this month's distribution package because we are running late... so get back to work, I'll let you off when it ships". So I made sure I coughed on him before I stepped back - I had had the flu before, I was pretty sure I was very highly contageous when I did so... went back to work, got the software completed, burned to disc, packaged and ready for shipment (by myself since at the time we had no other peeps trained in my duties). Once I was done, I warned the shipping dept NOT to pick the discs up until the next day and to wear gloves when they did so just in case (I was hoping the virus would be dead by leaving the shipment overnight). Then I went home for a little over a week. When I got back I found out the boss had come down with the flu (this was the real deal, not just a bad cold or something) only his had progressed to pneumonia and he spent several weeks in the hospital. Well, as a result, if I showed up to work with so much as a sniffle after that, I was told to take myself the hell home until I was better! Which was great, as I was a salaried employee! Taught that stupid bastard a lesson!
Welp, this was a lot. I’ve literally had pneumonia twice, a back brace for two years, and brain surgery. I know pain, and a LOT of it
Teacher and have students with major medical problem. One had a stroke at 1 hour another had open heart surgery repeatedly. Over 15 open heart surgeries before starting school. So much for children not getting strokes or heart surgery.
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What the hell are doctors doing when learning??
My local e.r. tried to dismiss a recurrence of infected leftover bone spurs in my jaw meat as a tooth infection. I don't have jawbone in that area, and they kept saying toothache. I had to explain to several medical professionals that you, in fact, do need jaw bone to have teeth.
I was having trouble breathing a few years back so my ex drove me to the ER on a friday evening, I waited for 7 hours before a nurse came and told us that the line to see a doctor was long an I seemed to be well enough to go home and call my family doctor on monday, they didn´t run Any test at the hospital, not even check my saturation, my ex tried to argue with them but we got kicked out. He drove me to another hospital an hour away, found out that my lungs was filled with fluids so I only used 23% and I hade fluids in and around my heart, stayed at the hospital for several weeks due to further problem with my heart.
I have a neighbor that went to a clinic with her 4 year old son, he couldn´t pee but the damn doctor told his mom to give him more water because the boy just didn´t Need to pee. The mom left but decided to drive to the ER, the boys bladder was so full that it was minutes from bursting but thankfully he got an emergency operation and survived, according to the doctor at the ER, if the mother had given the boy more water and just drove home instead he would have died.
Yep. I was young and thought I'd gotten my first period when I saw pink on the toilet paper. I was raised by a single father, and all my knowledge of such things came from equally ignorant friends and school. I felt awful, and as time went on, I felt worse. Two weeks later, I was spending my time half conscious, a little delirious on the living room couch, and my dad was yelling at me for faking to get out of chores. The woman with him at the time insisted there was something wrong and demanded I be taken to the hospital. I still remember hearing the doctor tell my dad that I had a kidney infection and if he'd waited even a day longer, I could've died.
I was told I was being “hysterical” by faking abdominal pain and chronic pain as a teenager into adulthood. Turns out all my abdominal organs are bound together through scar tissue. Nothing can be done without major surgery, but it means I need constant monitoring and I cannot safely be pregnant without fatal complications. It took me 12 years for a diagnosis, and in that time if I had decided to have a kid with my husband or had gotten constipated within that time frame, I would likely have died of organ failure or deadly bowel obstruction respectively.
To this day, my doctors still insist I try for a baby even though I don’t want kids and I don’t want to die, but they insist it’s my “womanly duty”. We’re military, so women are seen as baby factories instead of actual people here sometimes. I’ve been told my depression would be “cured” if I would just reproduce and do what “the good lord told us to do and be fruitful and multiply” as one doc put it. So I replied “you want me to commit suicide? Did you read my chart?” She told me she didn’t think my surgeon was serious and that women naturally have babies and that she’d never heard of a woman dying in childbirth, so it must not happen. I complained to the head of the hospital about her.
My husband finally got a vasectomy after a little over 2 years of trying to get one only becuase it would kill me if I didn’t get one. I almost flatlined trying to get my tubes tied and having it failed due to the condition, and that’s actually when it was discovered-on THAT operating table where a 30minute procedure turned into a 3hour unsuccessful one that was more “how screwed is this woman? Is her life in danger?” Almost flatlined too.
I'm sorry, where do you serve? It sounds like a bloody cult
But... until our medicine got as good as it is now most women died in childbirth, do these doctors know nothing?
Ooohh...that sounds like a nightmare endo! Luckily you have a great husband!
That is greatest bs stuff ever...Women die of childbirth all the time. Women without endo! Thanks god you are being sensible about it!
All the best! 💗💗💗
I got accused for about a year by several doctors after havig massive back/lower abdomen pain. They got worse and worse over time and the doctor just couldn't find everything, even after taking x-ray images. It took many different doctors and a trip to the ER when it became unbearable and I blacked out to find out I got massive kidney stones. The time they finally found out was when I had extensive colics going with them when a big one cloggen my tubes. The pain was extremely unbearable and it makes me wonder why none of the about 5 or 6 didn't even think about checking my kidneys. It was hurtful to be told I was either faking it or it all was just psychosomatic. Had to be operated the same evening for them to be removed as I was peeing blood already.