I actually got a lot of people suspecting I was a malingerer/hypochondriac. Fortunately I did get some people who finally listened to me and I ended up being diagnosed with a complex set of VERY REAL medical conditions. It's so hard to be believed sometimes, especially when you have a high pain tolerance! I just pray I don't miss something very bad because I'm so used to feeling grotty :(
I was a patient at the VA. It took me sixteen years to get fixed and I was denied pain medication for most of those years because “Black guys sell their medications or abuse them”. I was in a veterans home and all of the white veterans had Oxy 80’s and went out everyday. They road bikes, drove cars, went to the casino and stayed out all day while I stayed in my room or at the house suffering. I had twelve white doctors tell me there was nothing they could do even as my condition worsened. They finally gave me all kinds of pain medications including fentanyl patches and they gave me a home health aide who’d clean me, my apartment and do my shopping but they still refused to repair me. I quit taking their pills that only masked the symptoms and in the seventeenth year I met a surgeon by cold calling orthopedic surgeons and one said he did some pro bono work. The first time I met this surgeon of Arab descent he said, “I can fix you in six weeks”. Six weeks later I was mostly pain free and on the road to recovery. Where twelve white doctors concurred and kept me disabled and suffering for 17 years I only had to find one minority doctor to get repaired.
It's heartbreaking that such thing happened. I'm not even American, but my goodness, the way that America works is just terrible. Half the veterans end up being in full misery because they are just left to rot and without any help, and seeing that even those who are granted a bit of attention are treated with such disdain, that racism is so prominent even when they had no issue in sending you to work just like anybody else... I honestly wish you the best so the rest of your life can compensate for all you were made to go through
How does L&D miss an actual birth in progress and just send the patient to psych? Did they even check for dilation? Some pregnant women don't always show, but if _anybody,_ I'd expect _labor and delivery_ personnel to be able to accurately identify a late-stage pregnancy.
I had a severe bacterial sinus infection back in 2019 that i could not beat on my own. When I laid down it felt like my face was caving in on itself. I took myself to the ER around 3am one night because it was getting to be unbearable. I told them sitting up the pain was like a 2 but laying down it was 8. My voice made me sound like a helium sniffing chipmunk. I was asked if that was my normal voice lol. I was annoyed because they clearly thought I was lying about the pain. I had the infection for almost a month before that point and I was ready for it to be gone. They prescribed me a nasal spray and a mouthwash that had codeine in it. One spray and I could finally almost breathe properly again. The mouthwash was barely used. Another week and it finally cleared up entirely.
Went to college with a girl that was trying to sell one of her horses. Every time someone would come out to see him, she would put him through his paces and he would affect a limp. Perfectly healthy any other time. Miss you Slic.
OMG, the one finding themselves screaming with actual pain in the hand, I can relate. I scratched my hand very bad on metal. Clenching it was just painful. I was in tears. My father, a nurse, believed I was crying for attention, and I was being dramatic. "it's not blue, so you didn't hit it too hard". He continued flipping my hand while I moaned. "Tell me where does it hurt so bad!" "in the flesh" "Damn, that's a burn injury"
Frequent flyer to ED with ‘chest pain’, so was always jumped to the front of queue. Always wanted a specific narcotic, but our doc had seen him repeatedly, worked him up to rule out an MI, and told him he needed “something stronger”, so had us give him 3cc of sterile water, with an 18ga. needle. Plain water with no saline or glucose burns like crazy IM. His moans quickly went to ‘ow!’, but his’’chest pain’ was miraculously relieved
And then there's me, offering to present a full record of my medical history in three hard-back bound copies and apologizing a hundred times for *daring* to suggest to my Dr to give me Noctamid (a rather mild hypnotic) because it's the only thing that has actually worked smoothly for me and for my extreme sleeping disorder (I go to bed at 2am as earliest, at 4am most days, at 6am when things get bad and sometimes I just have full sleepless nights and go 40 hours without sleeping)
Dental assistant here: Had a patient who said he needed drugs for toothache. Nothing wrong with tooth. Dr. told him tooth needed to be extracted. Pain disappeared.
The one where they thought a women in labor wasn't and needed to be sent to the psych ward only for her to give birth in the hallway, made me go "What!?" How on earth did they think she was faking it?! I hope she sued 😤
My old doctor thought I was faking it…. Told me take ibuprofen, and it will be ok!…. Switched doctor who knew better, did all the proper tests…. X-rays, MRI…. Turns out I had herniated c-5/c-6 herniated disk, and bone spurs on opposite sides poking into my spinal cord!….
I faked needing glasses as a kid only to find out I actually needed glasses. Then once the fun of having glasses wore off. I thought because I faked, the dilation activated the blurriness, and was then upset that my eyes were ruined.
As someone who has seizures, i find it fascinating how many people seem to declare they're having a seizure when they're faking. I get too confused to say much of anything before the drop. On the other hand, it takes longer to get attention if you don't announce yourself.
As someone with partial epilepsy: screw everyone that fakes seizures Mine was immediately controlled with medication, but when you’re shaking uncontrollably: all you want is for it to end I could tell my seizures were coming because it started with a migraine on one side of my head But for other people, it comes out of no where: they pee themselves, bite their tongue so hard that it starts bleeding and when they wake up they can be so out of it that it takes all day to recover I was lucky my seizures started and ended in middle school because that meant I only had to have my doctor sign the paperwork to allow me to get my learners permit to start driving Having a seizure means you lose your license for 6 months (or longer depending on where you live) and then epilepsy patients get their hopes up only to have another seizure, so the clock resets for them having some independence (Yes some people who are perfectly healthy choose not to drive, but when you live in an area that either has no or minimal public transportation you either stuck having someone drive you anywhere or feel like you’re missing out on your life because it seems like everyone else you know can drive)
Kids don't know that-- I bet many parents wish they did. I totally did this when I was little. I used to wear my sister's glasses to "prove" I needed them too.
When I was in 3rd grade, I needed glasses. My parents and teacher thought I was faking for attention……because the most popular girl and most popular boy in my class had recently gotten glasses……. No, I REALLY needed glasses! Can’t blame the adults, but geesh, didn’t they notice that I couldn’t see the blackboard, or sat right up to the TV? BTW, the flank tap is a valid diagnostic tool when evaluating for kidney pain.
Rich Housewives in Indian cities do this After a fight they pretend to hyperventilate , blaming everyone to make them feel this way Then walk into hospital emergency and they give them some medicine to relax via oxygen mask After an hour scolding their family Walk out . My friend who is a doctor , instructed the staff to start giving injection if they saw this one lady because she would abuse the staff and the family was no better After 1 instance she stopped visiting this hospital
I was told I was either faking it or lazy, turns out the doctor was a lazy pos and my hip is misshapen from birth… That causes the pain to affect my whole body because hips leads to legs and my misshapen hip made my leg length uneven. which I turn causes a load of daily pain and discomfort, and yet again I’m almost out of pain killers :( Took getting a new doctor & falling down the stairs 3 times in 2023 to be taken seriously about my pain… I started complaining about pain when I was 11, and it was excused at growing pains/ me being lazy… Some doctors really should listen to their patients and don’t immediately think people are insane or dealing drugs… I’m from a family of medical professionals, so I know some doctors are and can be judgemental fricks. because they either lack knowledge or fear the mentally I’ll…
In the 90s and older times, wearing glasses was not cool or trendy at all. You were a loser or nerd... nowadays, they're in style where kids are faking for them.... damn times do change
Speak for yourself! Glasses with the half tint were very cool in the 70s! My first were a half blue. I went with gray on the following pair. They don't even do the half tint anymore. Not that I've seen lately. The color would be dark at the top of the glasses, then get lighter and fade to the bottom half which was clear.
I know a certain do who had leg surgery years ago. He is totaly fine but it the street or grass is wet he'll limp. If he is ion trouble... limping. If there is a new human who could fall for it... Guess what. 😂
As someone with epilepsy , the seizure fakers are both infuriating and hilarious all at once. I mean, you have a tonic clonic or grand mal seizure…. You’re too busy being unconscious and biting your tongue and cheeks and having shaking so much you’re gonna feel like you tried to exercise after being inactive for ten years or so. There are seizures where you are still awake and your arm or leg might shake but yeah. Glad they made him pay his bill.
I actually got a lot of people suspecting I was a malingerer/hypochondriac.
Fortunately I did get some people who finally listened to me and I ended up being diagnosed with a complex set of VERY REAL medical conditions. It's so hard to be believed sometimes, especially when you have a high pain tolerance! I just pray I don't miss something very bad because I'm so used to feeling grotty :(
I was a patient at the VA. It took me sixteen years to get fixed and I was denied pain medication for most of those years because “Black guys sell their medications or abuse them”. I was in a veterans home and all of the white veterans had Oxy 80’s and went out everyday. They road bikes, drove cars, went to the casino and stayed out all day while I stayed in my room or at the house suffering.
I had twelve white doctors tell me there was nothing they could do even as my condition worsened. They finally gave me all kinds of pain medications including fentanyl patches and they gave me a home health aide who’d clean me, my apartment and do my shopping but they still refused to repair me. I quit taking their pills that only masked the symptoms and in the seventeenth year I met a surgeon by cold calling orthopedic surgeons and one said he did some pro bono work. The first time I met this surgeon of Arab descent he said, “I can fix you in six weeks”. Six weeks later I was mostly pain free and on the road to recovery.
Where twelve white doctors concurred and kept me disabled and suffering for 17 years I only had to find one minority doctor to get repaired.
It's heartbreaking that such thing happened. I'm not even American, but my goodness, the way that America works is just terrible. Half the veterans end up being in full misery because they are just left to rot and without any help, and seeing that even those who are granted a bit of attention are treated with such disdain, that racism is so prominent even when they had no issue in sending you to work just like anybody else... I honestly wish you the best so the rest of your life can compensate for all you were made to go through
That's so messed up. I can't believe they would do that.
I hate that you made it about race when the real problem is the VA system.
My uncle had a helluva time with the VA. The VA needs an overhaul.
@@kelf114 - but he's quoting stuff the healthcare providers told him? 🤔.
How does L&D miss an actual birth in progress and just send the patient to psych? Did they even check for dilation? Some pregnant women don't always show, but if _anybody,_ I'd expect _labor and delivery_ personnel to be able to accurately identify a late-stage pregnancy.
this is reddit bro like 99% is karma farming
Shtty people being hired who don’t like their job I bet they thought they’d work with babies all day who can’t talk
I had a severe bacterial sinus infection back in 2019 that i could not beat on my own. When I laid down it felt like my face was caving in on itself. I took myself to the ER around 3am one night because it was getting to be unbearable. I told them sitting up the pain was like a 2 but laying down it was 8. My voice made me sound like a helium sniffing chipmunk. I was asked if that was my normal voice lol. I was annoyed because they clearly thought I was lying about the pain. I had the infection for almost a month before that point and I was ready for it to be gone. They prescribed me a nasal spray and a mouthwash that had codeine in it. One spray and I could finally almost breathe properly again. The mouthwash was barely used. Another week and it finally cleared up entirely.
2:34
I can attest that miniature poodles (and toy poodles) are that manipula- I mean smart.
2:35 i swear dogs are children who communicate in body language and barks. I will die on this hill.
Went to college with a girl that was trying to sell one of her horses. Every time someone would come out to see him, she would put him through his paces and he would affect a limp. Perfectly healthy any other time. Miss you Slic.
OMG, the one finding themselves screaming with actual pain in the hand, I can relate. I scratched my hand very bad on metal. Clenching it was just painful. I was in tears. My father, a nurse, believed I was crying for attention, and I was being dramatic. "it's not blue, so you didn't hit it too hard". He continued flipping my hand while I moaned. "Tell me where does it hurt so bad!" "in the flesh" "Damn, that's a burn injury"
Frequent flyer to ED with ‘chest pain’, so was always jumped to the front of queue. Always wanted a specific narcotic, but our doc had seen him repeatedly, worked him up to rule out an MI, and told him he needed “something stronger”, so had us give him 3cc of sterile water, with an 18ga. needle. Plain water with no saline or glucose burns like crazy IM. His moans quickly went to ‘ow!’, but his’’chest pain’ was miraculously relieved
And then there's me, offering to present a full record of my medical history in three hard-back bound copies and apologizing a hundred times for *daring* to suggest to my Dr to give me Noctamid (a rather mild hypnotic) because it's the only thing that has actually worked smoothly for me and for my extreme sleeping disorder (I go to bed at 2am as earliest, at 4am most days, at 6am when things get bad and sometimes I just have full sleepless nights and go 40 hours without sleeping)
Dental assistant here: Had a patient who said he needed drugs for toothache. Nothing wrong with tooth. Dr. told him tooth needed to be extracted. Pain disappeared.
The one where they thought a women in labor wasn't and needed to be sent to the psych ward only for her to give birth in the hallway, made me go "What!?"
How on earth did they think she was faking it?! I hope she sued 😤
My old doctor thought I was faking it…. Told me take ibuprofen, and it will be ok!…. Switched doctor who knew better, did all the proper tests…. X-rays, MRI…. Turns out I had herniated c-5/c-6 herniated disk, and bone spurs on opposite sides poking into my spinal cord!….
I’m a retired ICU nurse, I’ve seen tons of people faking seizures 😂
I have actual epilepsy called petite mal (controlled) and hate when people do fake seizures.
Do you keep fit?
@@jonlyons1033 I do. Why ask that?
Did they do that to get pain relievers?
@@roxcyn I suppose for a variety of reasons, benzodiazepines, psych issues, attention…
I faked needing glasses as a kid only to find out I actually needed glasses. Then once the fun of having glasses wore off. I thought because I faked, the dilation activated the blurriness, and was then upset that my eyes were ruined.
Sounds so frustrating that people will fake symptoms just to get some fucking pain killers
As someone who has seizures, i find it fascinating how many people seem to declare they're having a seizure when they're faking. I get too confused to say much of anything before the drop. On the other hand, it takes longer to get attention if you don't announce yourself.
As someone with partial epilepsy: screw everyone that fakes seizures
Mine was immediately controlled with medication, but when you’re shaking uncontrollably: all you want is for it to end
I could tell my seizures were coming because it started with a migraine on one side of my head
But for other people, it comes out of no where: they pee themselves, bite their tongue so hard that it starts bleeding and when they wake up they can be so out of it that it takes all day to recover
I was lucky my seizures started and ended in middle school because that meant I only had to have my doctor sign the paperwork to allow me to get my learners permit to start driving
Having a seizure means you lose your license for 6 months (or longer depending on where you live) and then epilepsy patients get their hopes up only to have another seizure, so the clock resets for them having some independence
(Yes some people who are perfectly healthy choose not to drive, but when you live in an area that either has no or minimal public transportation you either stuck having someone drive you anywhere or feel like you’re missing out on your life because it seems like everyone else you know can drive)
Can’t kids just get the frames? Every optometrist would sell ‘em the frames . . .
Kids don't know that-- I bet many parents wish they did. I totally did this when I was little. I used to wear my sister's glasses to "prove" I needed them too.
When I was in 3rd grade, I needed glasses. My parents and teacher thought I was faking for attention……because the most popular girl and most popular boy in my class had recently gotten glasses……. No, I REALLY needed glasses! Can’t blame the adults, but geesh, didn’t they notice that I couldn’t see the blackboard, or sat right up to the TV?
BTW, the flank tap is a valid diagnostic tool when evaluating for kidney pain.
Woww, the one at 1:51 REALLY angered me.
Rich Housewives in Indian cities do this
After a fight they pretend to hyperventilate , blaming everyone to make them feel this way
Then walk into hospital emergency and they give them some medicine to relax via oxygen mask
After an hour scolding their family
Walk out .
My friend who is a doctor , instructed the staff to start giving injection if they saw this one lady because she would abuse the staff and the family was no better
After 1 instance she stopped visiting this hospital
I was told I was either faking it or lazy, turns out the doctor was a lazy pos and my hip is misshapen from birth…
That causes the pain to affect my whole body because hips leads to legs and my misshapen hip made my leg length uneven. which I turn causes a load of daily pain and discomfort, and yet again I’m almost out of pain killers :(
Took getting a new doctor & falling down the stairs 3 times in 2023 to be taken seriously about my pain…
I started complaining about pain when I was 11, and it was excused at growing pains/ me being lazy…
Some doctors really should listen to their patients and don’t immediately think people are insane or dealing drugs…
I’m from a family of medical professionals, so I know some doctors are and can be judgemental fricks. because they either lack knowledge or fear the mentally I’ll…
They don't know.
In the 90s and older times, wearing glasses was not cool or trendy at all. You were a loser or nerd... nowadays, they're in style where kids are faking for them.... damn times do change
Speak for yourself!
Glasses with the half tint were very cool in the 70s!
My first were a half blue. I went with gray on the following pair.
They don't even do the half tint anymore. Not that I've seen lately.
The color would be dark at the top of the glasses, then get lighter and fade to the bottom half which was clear.
13 yo might have a mother who has Munchausen by proxy
If I am old to the channel? Do i unsubscribe?
As someone who had ro wear glasses from birth.. why..WHY..would someone want to wear glasses lol
.also.. who were those l and d nurses lmfao
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I know a certain do who had leg surgery years ago. He is totaly fine but it the street or grass is wet he'll limp. If he is ion trouble... limping. If there is a new human who could fall for it... Guess what. 😂
As someone with epilepsy , the seizure fakers are both infuriating and hilarious all at once. I mean, you have a tonic clonic or grand mal seizure…. You’re too busy being unconscious and biting your tongue and cheeks and having shaking so much you’re gonna feel like you tried to exercise after being inactive for ten years or so. There are seizures where you are still awake and your arm or leg might shake but yeah. Glad they made him pay his bill.