"It's depression, get a haircut" Omg that's the dumbest thing I think I've ever heard a licensed doctor say. That mother should absolutely have sued him.
Unfortunately not unusual. I was told "oh, you're depressed, get a job you'll be fine". Of course, once you have that (mis)diagnosis of depression it can take years for a Dr to look past it...
I remember going to a gp about what my mother perceived to be early signs of mental illness from bring bullied in school and the GP saying that I probably was misinterpreting the situation and how I was going through some kind of phase and would grow out of it. 2 months before my 18th birthday I was eventually diagnosed with Anxiety and panic disorder with a potential lean on PTSD because of certain signs I was showing after a massive struggle to get another gp to see me about that specific issue. Edit:missed out a bit of context initially
I kept having horrible migraines. I was 26 years old. I stopped having periods but wasn't pregnant. I was diagnosed with "tension headaches " then "cluster headaches " . I kept mentioning that I also wasn't having any periods. One doctor told me I was depressed because of another medical problem. I got furious! She wasn't a therapist or a psychiatrist. I went to the administration office and demanded I have a cat scan. I listed my symptoms and he actually said "you're looking for a tumor aren't you? I said " yes, a tumor in my Patuitary gland. It fits all the symptoms ". He just shook his head and gave me an appointment. Come to find out; I did have a tumor. It was the size of a golf ball by the time they found it (6 months after I started going to doctors)! Luckily it was benign and most likely caused from my Sarcoidosis.
Same thing happened to me except I was gay and gave birth to a parrot that had clawed my eye out. Doctor prescribed me 2 mustards and kicked me out of the plane. 3 weeks later, I died of stage 4 cholera
When I broke my leg at THIRTEEN they asked if I could be pregnant and I said no. They asked when my last cycle was and because I had to stop and think and it had been five weeks because I was just starting so it hadn’t regulated yet they accused me of lying and a nurse chewed me out for being sexually active at my age. I cried so hard and it’s still one of the most embarrassing moments of my life.
Yeah no kidding. I know plenty of women that age who have never been sexually active, myself included. I feel awful for that poor woman, if I was her I would have pursued some kind of legal action for medical malpractice and sexual harassment. No one should be treated that way!
@@arianebolt1575 Yep. To be fair, teen pregnancy in my area was pretty common. We had a girl pregnant in seventh grade and A LOT in high school. So I’m sure they had encountered some before, but it was still handled badly. And I never even held a boy’s hand until years later, so it was especially wrong in my case. Oh, and, also, MY LEG WAS BROKEN so I was already upset.
Not exactly a second opinion, but it was a struggle to get the doctor to even think it was something other than "you're fat". When I was about 18, I was gaining weight like crazy, losing my hair, and my skin was dry and flaky. My mom suspected my thyroid was out of wack and took me to the doctor to get my levels tested. The doctor looked me in the face and said I was just fat and needed to go run some laps, said my glory days of high school were behind me and I had been slacking so my weight had gone up. My mom said "I want that put on her chart. Write down that you won't do the tests. . ." and instead he did the tests. What do you know? My thyroid was so out of wack that I ended up hospitalized with what's called a thyroid storm after he did the tests. Hint, if you ask for something to be done and they either refuse or try to get out of it--ask for it to be written in your file that you asked and they refused. They'll either have a record of their refusal or they'll comply and you'll get some answers.
this is actually insanely good advice. my dad has always worked in care and i still ask him to go with me if i have to go to the er. having someone with you who knows the ropes and has some general knowledge of what a doctor should do makes you damn near invincible to the bs in this video
It does definitely help to either have or be with someone in the field. As a med student who was recently hospitalized, there've been so many times when they would do a procedure or try to give me a medication and I'd know enough to stop them or otherwise help myself. Most notable was when they tried to give me Heparin (a blood thinner, so it can cause severe bleeding) while I was hospitalized for a vascular issue, had low blood volume and may have been bleeding internally. Also, I've had the same problems with doctors blaming everything on my weight. I lost fifty pounds in a week due to an ongoing issue, several doctors didn't believe that I'd really lost that much weight until I showed them the documentation from a previous ER visit and several didn't think it was a problem because I was still fat. Whatever my current weight, losing fifty pounds in a week is a serious problem and shouldn't be overlooked.
I'm a nurse and a paient who prior to getting a degree and experience was also ignored when complaining of what turned out to be serious health issues. Everyone (expecially women) if a doctor tells you it's in your head (anxiety, depression, your pain is from past trauma) without doing ALL possible tests. They are doing you wrong. All tests have to be run before that can be considered as a diagnosis. If you can, report them, and then go to a different doctor. Don't stop until you get the care you deserve. I know it's hard and makes you feel like crap, but you are important. Text book symptoms were written based on what men feel. We are wired different. Your doctor should always treat you with respect and they should do testing. Severe headaches and new diagnosis of migraines REQUIRE an MRI of the brain. Complaints of pain after an injury should include an X-ray and if that is negative a CT or MRI to look at muscle and other soft tissue. All women of childbearing age regardless of BC use, should be given a pregnancy test when they go to the ER for any reason. These are minimal standards of care. You have the right (even in the same visit within the US) to demand evaluation by another Dr or NP/PA in the ER or in the clinic even in the same appointment. Stand your ground. Demand respect.
I fell down the stairs and hurt my ankle. The ER doctors said there was no break and referred me to a foot and ankle doctor. A few weeks later when I saw the other doctor he took more X-rays and said nothing was broken. I didn't feel like it was just a sprain so I asked to see the x-rays and called the doctor back to point something out. My fifth metatarsal was broken. Two doctors didn't see the break but myself, a lay person did find the break.
Sounds like you went to the same office a friend of mine went to. Multiple breaks since she was small on the same leg, always told it looks normal, but it’s always swollen and foot hangs weird. sees new dr once she’s an adult, it’s horrific mess when he takes the X-rays properly, without forcing everything into place.
Ever since I have memory, I could point out that there was something kinda "odd" with me. It was actually very obvious. Fast forward to me at 15: I was 100% sure that whatever it was, It had to be some sort of mental disorder. Convinced my parents that I wanted to see a psychologist or psychiatrist so they could either confirm it or calm me down about it. The first guy straight up said that I was just defiant, and depressed. Everytime I had to argue and explain *again* what my symptoms where, he just cut me off or waived it as me being an annoyance. He prescribed me meds that only complicated everything, the last session I had with him (I only went 3 times) he wouldn't let me explain that I felt worse than before. Fast forward another 4-5 years, considering dropping out of college because I feel like a failure as a student. Went to another psychiatrist, 15 minutes into the session... ADHD. I had almost every symptom from the book. First round of meds I actually felt so much better, I finished college.
Yep, been labelled as depressed and anxious for years, some psychiatrists even saying I had BPD. Nah, I’m just autistic and the difficulties of growing up and feeling outcast led to depression and anxiety.
I spent a decade with a steadily worsening gallbladder, all while being repeatedly told, "You can't have gallstones, you're thin and you're under 35." I only found out my gallbladder was packed with stones because it got noticed on an ultrasound I got for a kidney stone. Once I had it removed, I could actually eat without horrible pain.
Many years ago when my wife and I were around 20yrs old, I had to rush her to the er because she had trouble breathing. The Dr did blood work and x-rays and gave her antibiotics for a bacterial infection. She'd get better and a few weeks after the antibiotics, it was back up to the er for the same thing. This went on for about 8 months. Each time we ended up seeing the same Dr there. The last time we went to the er for her, we saw a different Dr. He did blood work, x-rays and an ultrasound. Come to find out, she had gallstones. Her gallbladder was pushing up in the bottom of her lung. It left a ring of infection that would never clear up with antibiotics. Had her gallbladder taken out and the bacterial infection in her lung stopped
Holy crap, I can't imagine dealing with this pain for that long!! I just went to the ER last Friday night and the doctor told me I have gallstones. She said she was surprised since I'm so young (Just turned 17 last month) but I don't understand why so many doctors just dismiss stuff because age makes it unlikely! It's seriously crazy! I'm sorry you dealt with that so long though, it's the worst pain I've ever felt and I haven't even been dealing with this very long.
Ooof! Same! I was 26. My gallbladder was so diseased it adhered to my stomach. My gallstones were all black and serrated. I was accused of drug seeking the times I went to the doctor/ER for it. Took 3 years to get the dx and at that point, surgery was an emergency.
@@cagewilliams9618 It was pretty horrible. I couldn't get it through to them that part of the reason I was thin was that I couldn't goddamn eat anything without pain, so I just...didn't eat much. Way too many doctors seem to think that 'less likely because of age' somehow equals 'impossible'. A guy I went to high school with died of a heart attack at 33 because doctors kept writing off his symptoms due to his age and the fact that he wasn't overweight. In this stupid superficial country, thinness is equated with health even when it really should not be (and conversely, everything that could possibly affect a heavier person seems to automatically be blamed on their weight).
12:24 i had a similar issue for about a whole year. when i first brought the issue up with my mom, she said it was just due to my being overweight, so we didn't see anyone about it for a while. over the course of time, what i could swallow dwindled down to just milk with vitamin mix. most of the doctors i went to see basically couldn't give me an answer and one was even starting to get annoyed at my frequent appointments. one clinic tried doing a barium swallow test on me, but since the stuff was way too thick for me to get down, they couldn't get a prognosis. then the pandemic hit, so unless i was down with the sickness, i couldn't just "waste" doctors' time with my issue. it wasn't until i was able to land a phone appointment with a local gastroenterologist that we were able to get a diagnosis. after answering a few simple questions, he found that i had a hiatal hernia; then after going to his clinic for an exam, he found that it was high up enough in my esophagus to affect my swallowing, rather than being further down like most cases. it's been two years since i had the operation, and while i'll always have a hiatal hernia, i'm happy that i can eat 50% properly again (i still can't consume most meats or very fibrous foods). i'm glad that my family and i didn't give up and went for not a second, but maybe eighth opinion.
My friend went to the on campus health clinic and was told her lungs hurt because she was depressed and was then given a demonstration on how anti-depressants work. She went to a different doctor and got an inhaler lol.
My campus clinic told me I lost fifty pounds in a week and was throwing up because I had a mild STD. I was not sexually active and had no fever. Dumbest nurse I've ever seen and I'm still pissed that she charged me $200 to tell me that.
Reminds me how my oldest brother was diagnosed with bipolar disorder and even went on medication for it and that honestly messed his life up for a while until he went and got a second opinion. Turns out it was just depression like it originally was. He’s doing better today thankfully.
I was diagnosed with cyclothymia at 19, at 35, I was rediagnosed with ADHD. Life hasn’t really got better but now I understand why I do things and feel certain ways more now.
Happened to me too, got diagnosed with bipolar disorder and was given different medications that never worked and only made me super fatigued. Turns out I’m autistic and once I got off the bipolar medication I had been on for years I started improving. It’s hard with mental health cause there is no tests but the fact I never ever experienced mania but was given a diagnosis of bipolar should of been a red flag to doctors. I think the doctor who diagnosed me was not trained properly in mental health cause he saw mood swings as bipolar but emotional dysregulation is a common feature of many health issues not just bipolar
Soo this is my story. I was in nicu for almost two months since I came out prematurely around the 6 month mark. My mom never left my side (or rather the outside room with a window) when I was there and one day she noticed my arm was turning purple. She spoke to the head nurse and head nurse dismissed her. My mom saw my arm getting more purple and swollen so she went back to the nurse again and was dismissed again. Eventually she pulled a doctor aside and told him her concerns. The doctor checked me out, saw the IV in my arm was put in improperly and there was an infection at the open site. They rushed to get the IV out and with my moms permission cut a piece of skin since it was rotting I believe. My mom, who was already dealing under a stressful time in her life had to be held back by a couple of other nurses since she was close to beating the ever loving crap out of the head nurse. She told me after that incident she didn’t see the head nurse again so I assumed she was reprimanded and I was able to heal and also gain enough weight to go home. I thankfully still have my arm and a nifty little scar on my inner bicep l lol
I had the opposite with my son (thank god) who was in the NICU for 3 weeks for having a small chin and possibly a serious disorder, he was sent to Boston Children’s Hospital (the best pediatric hospital in the world) and they said he’s completely fine ❤
@@pinkchaos. Honestly, better safe than sorry. I get the bills are horrific, but infants can crash FAST and it's always better to check if a doctor thinks something's wrong than let it go and be wrong.
Stories like these are why most patients refuse to treat me, an ER nurse, with any level of respect. I work in a field of science and technology, but I’m treated like a food service and hospitality worker.
From my experiences with nurses, some of them are absolutely amazing. I'd trust a well seasoned nurse more then most doctors if its a common issue as they have tons of practical experience dealing with it. I have also seen some mind numbingly dumb nurses though. Like when they took my temperature and it was 94.2 degrees and the nurse assured me I didn't have a fever and that I was fine... Really glad I didn't listen to that nurse.
I understand why people may be apprehensive at times but people really need to stop that. People really do treat nurses, especially ER nurses, like they aren't actually medical professionals. I appreciate you! The ER nurses that were helping me when I was in last week, were so great and so patient even though I was whinging the whole time. And they didn't dismiss me when I told them I was in agonizing pain which, hearing these stories, seems all too common for some people :/
People do need to realize that nurses are trained medical professionals. You guys handle way more than most doctors and also deal with the mess and more mundane tasks in hospitals, but the average person just doesn't see that.
When I was a kid my parents got me out of the bed wetting phase. Then I became a serial bed wetter at age 4-10, Almost nightly. I was diagnosed as a serial bed wetter, my parents were recommended a blanket that sounds an alarm when wet. It would wake up my whole family but me. Second, third and fourth opinion also diagnosed me as a serial bed wetter. Mum disconnected the blanket as it was useless, waking up the whole family and not me. They would change me, the bed, etc without disturbing me because I’d be dead to the world. Woke up one night after wetting the bed and climbed into mums bed. Had a huge seizure next to her in my sleep. Was still shipped off to school the next morning, mum informed my school. That lunch time I passed out, smacked my head on the way down and seized. Packed up into an ambulance, taken to a paediatric hospital and diagnosed with grand mal epilepsy within a week. I was having nocturnal seizures for years. All those years of undiagnosed epilepsy carried through my adult years and caused complications for me. I’m now 36, I still seize a few times a year.
Some of these were horrifying and some so very difficult to listen to as it took me back to my mum's doctor telling her for a year she was just stressed and depressed because of taking on my senile nan. Mum told them more than once she knows her body and this was different and that something was wrong. For a year they kept telling her she was being stupid but she didnt want to bother the hospital people because the pain wasnt debilitating and she had a family to look after. My nan passed a year later and a couple of months later doctor finally gave in and sent her for tests and a little while after that she was diagnosed with bowel cancer. She beat that only to later get stomach cancer but again they kept telling her she was being silly despite what the result was the last time they told her that shit. By the time they searched and found the cancer it had grown around a hernia she had developed (another excuse they made for how she was feeling "wrong") and there was no saving her. My own story was within a year of my mum's passing I got a stabbing pain in my stomach and just dealt with it but by day 3 I was in agony, couldn't go a while without either flinching or buckling over from the surprise stabbings. I went to hospital to see emergency doctor (different from ER this was when it was a weekend or your doctor's surgery wasnt open coz, you know, illness and pain take the weekends off 🙄or they were fully booked with no foreseeable available appointments.) Emergency Doctor asked a buttload of questions and diagnosed a stomach ulcer from the stress of losing my mum, moving house and being only carer for my father. I, like my mother, stated no this was different I know my stress and my depression as I had been living with it all for years and there was something wrong here. Doctor waved me off with prescription for ulcer which actually made the pain worse, so much worse. Maybe 24 hours later *I* called an ambulance (something I learned from my mother to never do, just deal with the pain and dont complain - it wasn't that she thought it was obnoxious or annoying but she was raised to not be "a burden to others with your problems" and I picked up on that even though she never made me feel that way) and at first they couldn't find anything wrong with me. They did dye tests, x rays and ultrasounds and found nothing. I was left in the bed to cry out in pain until around midnight (i believe it was a sunday) a team came running in and immediately prepped me for surgery. I had no time to take it all in. Turns out they somehow realised my appendix was about to burst and had to rush me in asap. Neither of which were second opinion stories I guess but more lessons in GET ONE DAMMIT next time your doctor doesn't listen. Doctors know bodies but only YOU know YOUR body.
When I was in kindergarten I got a vomiting flu and my parents could not keep my blood sugar levels *down* (type one diabetes), it was the middle of the night and they were trying to decide whether to take me to the er. They called the on-call nurse at my GP who told them to "just keep giving her juice", which they did because they were young and didn't know better. In the morning they had to take me to the ER, where the physicians actually knew what they were doing. Long story short I ended up in diabetic ketoacidosis (my body was eating itself because it couldn't process the sugar in my blood) and spent ten days in a coma. Last I heard that nurse was Extremely fired. I'm 23 now so clearly I lived but. Man.
Not a second opinion, but reported to the ER with severe lower right quadrant pain. I rated my pain at either a 9/10 or a 10/10. The nurse rolled her eyes, scribbled a note, all but threw a low dose Tylenol at me that didn’t even touch the pain, and didn’t check on me for two hours. A completely different nurse came in and asked what my pain was. It hadn’t changed, and she checked my chart. Apparently, the previous nurse decided that because I wasn’t crying and screaming I was lying for narcotics, when in reality I just have a sky high pain tolerance (like out of bed, sitting upright, traveling 2 hours home less than eight hours after bilateral breast reduction high). The note was “patient reports high pain level but shows no clear signs of distress, suspect drug seeking behavior, actual pain level likely 4/10 or 5/10.” The nurse retook my medical history, scurried out, reported to the doctor, cursed out the previous nurse, and I was bumped up in priority due to my pain level and history of ovarian cysts. They found one the size of a golf ball on my right ovary and I was at high risk of torsion, requiring careful monitoring. The first nurse looked pale when she saw the ultrasound.
Man with bladder infection: the “peeing razor blades” symptom is spot on for young people. But I learned that for the elderly, it is quite the opposite. I was my Mom’s caregiver. As people age, they tend to not empty their bladders fully, and this increases the chance for bladder infections (UTIs). Often the first symptom of a UTI in an elderly person is mental confusion and/or loss of balance. If the fall causes a broken bone in the leg or pelvis, they frequently never leave the hospital or rehab alive. The pain from the broken bone causes them to stay in bed, so they either catch pneumonia due to shallow breathing or the inactivity causes a fatal blood clot to heart, lung, or brain. If you have an elderly relative, be alert for those signs: unusual confusion or wobbliness. Have them seen right away.
I used to have that pretty common thing where the toe nails grow too large on the sides and hurt the flesh surrounding them to the point of swelling and blood/ pus coming out of the area. The doctor I went to at first told me to have the toe covered with bandages, never let it touch water and be ok with it being inside sport shoes as long as it's covered. When I went to other doctors turns out almost all she said to me where the opposite of what I should be doing, my toe got worse(now it was more swollen and I had the same problem on both sides of the toe instead of only one side) and I needed a surgery. The same doctor also gave bad medical advice to a person I know that had burns on her leg. It only got worse. I really feel bad for those who went to her for more serious problems than hurt toes and skin burns, who knows what happened to them.
This is why it's so important to do your own research, advocate for yourself/ loved ones who may be ignored, and get second/ third opinions when your doc is clearly not doing anything beyond 'put some ice on it and you'll be fine"
I was sure my dog was pregnant what with her enlarged teats. Took her to the vets who felt her stomach but could find nothing and said it was a phantom pregnancy. A few weeks later my dog gave birth to five healthy little phantoms. And yes, I did get the opportunity to later tell the vet "I told you so."
My husband was told that he has IBS and has had stomach issues since he was a kid. One day he was shaking, bent over in pain and vomiting only green liquids. He has to spend 5 days in the hospital with diverticulitis, and another week off work with large antibiotics. It's a treatable illness's with surgery.
The story of the Stay at Home Mom that actually had cancer and was dismissed by the doctors that saw her repeatedly then threatened with divorce by her husband (which the child who wrote the story probably cut all contact with that sperm donor) at her worst and dying of stage 4 lung and brain cancer (9:13 not making everyone sit through it by placing the beginning timestamp, pause if you want to read thoroughly). Makes me wonder if "Dear Husband" was not being a "DH" and having some sort of affair on the road while she was at home taking care of the kids and slowly dying of cancer without knowing she had cancer due to the doctor dismissing it as headaches and migraines repeatedly. He was just waiting for this so he could up and leave her. Though I wonder what the update to that story was I hope it wasn't what I said. Though it most likely probably is. Him changing his stance when they found out won't count for anything if she did of course die from it, since it's a stage 4 cancer that metastasized all over her body. Wow that was a quick cancer if it grew and spread within months. That story was the worst.
Agreed entirely, and perfectly said sperm donor, that's all he was and a disgusting person. That was the one story that left me with a sick feeling in my chest, absolutely horrendous situation to be in, can't even imagine.
Spent about 10 years with untreated epilepsy. My mom tried to tell our doctor that she didn't know why I would stare blankly into space unresponsive and then act confused after a minute, and he just told her "Yeah she'll grow out of it." The nurse pulled her aside and told her it sounded like epilepsy, but every place we tried to contact just to get me *seen* by a doctor wouldn't take me because I was in some weird age limbo that none of them covered (I was 8-9 btw but that was either "too young" or "too old"). When I was 19 my mom took me to see a new doctor since I hadn't reliably been to one in years, and as soon as she started explaining to this lady she cut us off and was like "No one has had you tested for epilepsy?? I'm referring you to a neurologist in town that I know." Finally at almost 23 I have a relatively stable dosage that doesn't make me violently ill or barely work, though it's *still* in adjustment to find the perfect balance.
I remember my throat started becoming unbearably sore, almost to the point of crying whenever I swallowed. I checked my symptoms and thought I had Mono, which seemed to add up perfectly. I went to the doctor and explained everything, he told me I didn't have Mono, I had strep throat, and gave me some medication to take. A few days later I didn't feel any better and went to see another doctor. The doctor immediately told me how stupid the previous doctor was. Not only was I right about it being Mono, he told me the medication the other doctor gave me would cause an extremely itchy full body rash. Thankfully because I didn't wait the rash wasn't as bad as it could have been, he gave me a pill to take and a few to take home. Later that night I was already feeling better, after another day of recovery I felt fine.
The woman with the “go get a haircut” symptoms is so similar to my story. My symptoms were “depression” for several years and it turned out I had autoimmune thyroid disease, hepatitis, some pretty severe shit wrong with my sex hormones, and hypo pituitarism. The hypo pituitarism was causing my body to not make growth hormone, which is necessary for building and keeping muscle as well as a BUNCH of stuff directly connected to your moods. My body felt like I’d been mountain climbing just walking to the bathroom. SEVERAL doctors and specialists said that, too. It has to do with insurance. Insurance influences a disturbing amount of what the Standard of Care is. American healthcare is trash even if you have disposable income and can afford it.
I was born on base, and the doctor refused to believe my mom was in labor because she wasn't acting like women are apparently supposed to in that state, whatever that means. He also thought I was two weeks premature (spoiler alert, I wasn't). I was born in June and the hospital didn't have AC, so on top of that I almost got heat stroke because the nurses insisted on re-swaddling me every time my mom took off the blanket, I guess they didn't care about a newborn overheating. We'd moved off base by this point, but I'd had a lot of trouble with my tonsils, so my parents asked about having them removed when I was 4. The doctor, not our usual one, refused because I hadn't had a certain number of documented strep cases. One of them ruptured in my sleep less than a week later, and the doctor got chewed out by our usual one because a lot of kids die from that. It's been so long since then that parts of them actually grew back, but thankfully they don't cause me trouble anymore.
I get to share this story! Yay! It started with me feeling unwell and exhausted. I grew to be seriously sick with me not being able to hold anything down. After a few days of this, we went to my family doctor. He told me that it was just constipation and prescribed constipation medicine. My mom took me to the ER the next day. I had horrible appendicitis. We were told that I could have died if we waited any longer. I went to surgery that night.
My friend was being told it was a sciatic nerve, med seeking, muscle, joint, bone issues. She went to like 5 doctors… after 6 months, she was diagnosed with Stage IV Ewing Sarcoma in December of 2019. She lost her fight to the cancer May 22nd of this year. Just shy of 2.5 years since the diagnosis. I will never forgive the doctors who didn’t take her seriously. Her two daughters don’t have their mom in their life now, and their dad is utter crap.
I fell off of a scooter when i was about 11, and the doctor said "its just a bruise you'll be fine" My mom took me to st louis to get it checked out, and I had a fractured elbow
Ah geez, these stories are all basically, "you'll be okay" fly by night bs that makes me wonder if the docs barely passed medical school or were too busy/uninterested to do a proper workup.
Not a doctor yet, but I've had two instances like this as a patient: First, I was very sick in college. Flu-like symptoms but no fever and they never went away. Several doctors told me there was nothing wrong with me. One said it was IBD and gave me a muscle relaxant which made it much worse. Turned out it was celiac disease. Second one: Earlier this year I had stomach pain and digestive problems to the point that I could not eat. Went to the ER three times in a month and also got referred to three different specialists from the ER. Worst symptoms (aside from a pain level of 8-9) were severe weight loss and a blood glucose that risked coma. I'd lost 60 pounds in two weeks and one of the doctors didn't believe the numbers until I showed him the records from the previous ER visit that weighed me. The ER gave me tons of apple juice every time to get my blood sugar up and everyone ran tests. No one knew what it was but eventually the pain stayed at a 9 overnight and I went to the ER after about 8 hours of agony. ER has me admitted for pancreatitis and an inflamed gallbladder. Had my gallbladder out, but pancreatitis went away. The symptoms are better now, so the gallbladder definitely made things worse, but they don't know the underlying problem yet after 6 months and another hospital admission. It seems like the pancreatitis and the gallbladder were both caused by something else and no one knows what that something is. All tests are normal aside from an MRI angiogram and low potassium/another signaling molecule I forget right now, not sodium. They never expected pancreatitis because I don't drink. Still trying to get this diagnosed, but currently my money's on a vascular problem, possibly vasospasms of the celiac artery.
I had a “sprained knee” that wasn’t healing. After a few follow ups with no improvement I followed the doctor out of the exam room and started arguing with the doctor that it’s wasn’t just a sprained knee. He pulled the “in my 25 years of experience… blah, blah, blah” and reluctantly authorized an MRI. My NEW doctor said my ACL didn’t so much tear as “exploded”.
I had a friend who had gone for a check up at gp. As they were doing the eye exam, doctor told him his eyes were red and it was due to diabetes and that he needs new glasses. Buddy decided to see a specialist for it to get some help with how to handle it. This other doctor just looks at him and says, I want to do some tests first and sends him to the hospital to get it done. Week later he gets a good news bad news god news phone call. It’s not diabetes, it’s lukemia but we got it early so treatments should work great. He’s doing great still and it’s been at least 10 years since this happened.
i knew a teenage girl who was having terrible headaches. she went to her primary, and they gave her some light pain meds and sent her off. they persisted, so she went to a neurologist. she was diagnosed with brain cancer, and she passed about a year or so later.
For UTIs when you feel them start put bicarb soda in water and drink it. I put a heaped teaspoon in 1/2 glass of water, if I’m a bit late catching it I take it again that night. Cured within 12-24 hours. If not, then go to Dr.
First option doctor told me I was "inoperable" due to my stomach being "too small for a surgical balloon." Second opinion: "Surgery balloon isn't needed, just 3 small incisions, and less tissue makes it easier to operate."
In the last 9 months, I've seen 2 GP's, (mine retired in this time) 3 orthopedic surgeons, 1 general surgeon, and finally 1 hernia specialist. Also 2 MRI's and 2 ultrasounds. I kept being told I had a strained muscle(s) and no sign of a hernia. Finally, the 6th doctor ordered pelvic MRI which the 7th doctor confirmed was a sports hernia on right side, and a hernia on my left side. It was like pulling teeth trying to get all those doctors to believe me when I told them something was not right.
My daughter was very ill and went to an urgent care where the doctor told her she had a bad cold, to take over the counter cold meds and she'd be fine. She went to work as usual for two days and got worse...she then went to a different urgent care where she was diagnosed with walking pneumonia, the doctor told her if she had went on to work another couple of days she would have had to be hospitalized. I blasted the urgent care that misdiagnosed her on Yelp, telling people not to go there. 😠
I went in for a rash once and the doctor I saw told me, two separate times, that I had scabies. Just with a simple glance. That was scary, because 1, bugs, 2, all the people I could have spread it to. Finally was able to see my own doctor who told me that it was an allergic reaction. It was a really really bad reaction, but we eventually got it under control.
@@hammerboy4214 Lol, lots of things. But it turned out to be my new work place... lots of ppl who work there get sick. I think it might be the dust. Thankfully I don't work there anymore.
I have a brilliant one. Went to the hospital on a Friday with really sore lungs, struggling to breathe and coughing up blood. They did x rays etc and the Dr said you have pneumonia, you can still walk, go home. Over the weekend it was getting worse to the point I could hardly walk and early hours Monday morning while coughing it felt like my lung exploded. Back in to the hospital, saw another Dr who admitted me. Later that morning the respiratory Dr looked at what I was coughing up. He said he thought I had blood clots on the lungs so sent me to do the tests etc. He came back later that day and said I was very lucky, that I wasn't far from dying. In other words as well as the clots in the lungs I also had one making it's way to the heart. We found out that I have a blood clotting disorder. All the times I had been diagnosed with pneumonia over the years they now think it was clots.
Not a 2nd opinion doctor but..... I had a pedeitrician who was bad. For one thing. You see, i have Autism and my mom is poor. The doctor (who probably never did his research) falsely accused my mom of LYING about my autism with no proof. Even worse? They believed them and canceled insurance/welfare. Took us a whole year to fix everything up. This happened 5-6 years ago
My husband nearly died because of a misdiagnosis. He had the worst stomach upset, and really bad stomach pain. He worked 12-15hr days. He was a Mixologist (the supervisor/acting manager) so he couldn't get to a GP/FD. So he finally went to out of hours. He assumed because he was young that it was lingering stomach flu, and gave him pills to slow his bowels down and sent him home. These pills made things much worse. He was in and out of consciousness for weeks, bled profusely. He was taken in. The Drs took one look at his ob's and panicked. They took bloods and were even more alarmed and wondered how he was alive. He had a colonoscopy. His entire large colon was preforated and ulcerated. They operated, removed the entire large bowel, and gave him an illeostomy. He got worse. A week later they opened him up again. Apparently the doctor took one look and was defeated. It was the worst case of Crohn's he'd ever seen. He closed him back up and said he had to fight it himself, that there was nothing they could do for him. His best friends mum worked as a nurse. In the meeting they had that week, they brought him up. The plan was to keep him comfortable and continue treatment. But that he probably wouldn't make it through the week. He nearly died so many times. He's 6ft, and dropped to 6 stone. You could make out every bone in his body. His legs and arms were like match sticks. 8 weeks later and many many close calls, many ICU trips, transfusions, and operations, he was discharged. 6 years later, he's still here. He kicked the worst case, Crohn's many doctors had ever seen, and lived. (He still struggled, a lot.) But he's still here. Huge fuck you to the Dr who nearly killed my husband because he seemed young and fit. Your shit attitude could kill. (He also completely missed an illness of mine too. POS.)
I’m not a dr but I was told by a dentist that I needed my front two teeth pulled because they were dead and I needed like 4 root canals. I was so confused because I’ve never had any issues with my teeth. I got a second opinion and the new dentist was like, what??? No! Your teeth are totally fine
literally the last doctor before the "second opinion" Old Doctor: is normal for women of your age to have a higher bleeding -> get worse -> got suicidal -> quit my job because I felt guilty about doing a shitty job -> Obama care got approved New Doctor: this is not normal... The hospital said what?!, what PoS is being... sorry my cursing *gets into the phone* Real cause: Stage 3 cancer going on 4, 2 additional precancers, looks like I had it for almost 4 to 6 years and I was only alive cuz the tummy fat I could never get rid of kept holding cancer at bay so it didn't get into my lymph nodes. Literally, I was only alive because of some fat I couldn't get rid of for the past 3 years. So if my diet and exercise to get rid of it actually had worked, it would have killed me way before all this.
Remember that one time. Out of the blue on my palms and under my feet started forming some whiteheads that didn't really seem to ever mature (basically there was no white pus in there), and they started to itch a little so my mom brought me to a doctor that didn't even look at my feet or hands, just looked at me, scoffed, and told me to stop eating garbage and they would go away. So I started a diet and avoided things like ice creams and desserts, but after a few weeks they just became more and more and it started itching real bad. Went to the doctor again, who accused me of eating junk food behind my mother's back and just send us away. A month had passed by and my whole hands and feet were covered in these whiteheads and the itch had become so so bad that my mother needed to get me cortisone injections (and that's when my mother realised it was BAD, I would never ask for injections unless exhausted, exasperated and desperate for relief) because otherwise I wasn't able to function without skinning my arms and legs. After a month and a half my mother finally got an appointment with a dermatologist, who looked at me, grabbed a blue light and shined it on me: my WHOLE arms and legs where covered in needle thin stripes that started from my hands and feet and went all the way up my shins, forearms, thighs, arms and even my hips and shoulder. It wasn't junk food. It was Scabies. Thanks a bunch doc.
When I was in college, I constantly felt like absolute shit. Congestion issues, exhaustion, insomnia, and more. Kept going to on-campus health and was told it was stress, it was a cold, you need Tylenol. Two years I was in constant rounds of shit. I had a major allergic reaction due to shellfish (something I hadn’t had prior to college), and I finally saw an allergist for the first time in fifteen years. Guy ran blood and skin tests and came back with a whole ass list of things I was allergic to, including shellfish, dust, feathers, and every kind of pollen under the sun. My doc recommended me for allergy shots because I had so many, and, many years on, I only have the shellfish to worry about these days. Massive, life-changing treatment as far as quality of life.
I HAVE ONE!!! I had fainting spells for a while. Saw two cardiologists. They told me it was anxiety. Was put on antidepressants at age 12. Still fainted but was diagnosed with a fainting disorder. One day I had a seizure and was rushed into the er. They did an EKG and discovered I had a deadly heart condition called Wolff Parkinson White syndrome (extremely rare) two months later I went into surgery and got the condition fixed. Now I’m free of WPW but still disabled. Another time I went into a gastroenterologist for constipation. He told me I was making it up, that it was anxiety, and about two-three weeks later I was hospitalized because my colon was jaw packed with feces. Went to a different gastroenterologist and she diagnosed me with three stomach conditions which I’m medicated for. Some doctors are so bad
When I was a kid, about 6-7 I was constantly sick, I ended up missing most of the year of school because my doctor kept sending me home with antibiotics for reoccurring bronchial infection.. he somehow “missed” that I have a very severe case of tonsillitis… I had opened my mouth to say ahh countless times.. and he still missed it.. anyway on a second opinion my mother was told, by a very shocked doctor, that I needed immediate surgery to get them removed. She had never seen such a severe case before, she couldn’t fathom how it had been overlooked. Because I missed so much school that year, I never had a chance to make friends, and was very isolated from the other kids for a long time. So not just my health but my quality of life was impacted because having a constantly returning customer was good business.
I once had a doctor prescribed me Lithium because I *might* have been Bipolar. I was 8. And just Autistic + ADHD. The lengths people will go to not diagnose an AFAB with Autism. Edit: minor grammar changes.
When I was 17 I started having excruciating periods. Like, I bled for 10 days and couldn't do anything. I actually passed out every month before I even bled because it hurt so much. I went to the doctor. They ran zero tests and told me to use a heating pad for the pain. Went to another doctor. They said I had endometriosis. It might be hard for me to have kids, and I may not be able to wait as long as I wanted. Wouldn't have known that if I went to the first dox
I remember getting very sick when I was younger and going to the doctor who said it was a viral infection and just sent me home. We didn't get any second opinion but since I got nothing for my fever or vomiting from the doctor, I have a vague memory of my dad coming back from the pharmacy with a bag of different stuff to treat the symptoms and my mum scoffing at him for getting so much. It's pretty funny and I'm not even sure if it's a real memory or not since I was curled up on the sofa with a high fever.
I went to a doctor who insisted I had no idea what part of my body I was talking about. She talked over me and ignored every word i said. She was also the roughest woman doctor I'd ever met and had laid hands on me, we got the same parts woman, are you really that rough with yourself? Also insisted she saw absolutely nothing after glancing in a different area than I was talking sbout for two seconds... I could literally touch the area and feel that something wasn't right. That was a specialist. I also asked while I was there if she could refill my prescription. 1st, she didn't ask me what I wanted to refill and wouldn't let me say. 2nd, immediately spouted off a random drug name. 3rd, never said what it was or what it did. 4th, I checked it out later and freaked over the side effects of that shit (can cause you to stop breathing and death... I just needed something that acts only slightly stronger than advil - the dosage allows for 10 to 20 doses per prescription, each one only lasts a few hours, the last time I got it refilled was over a year ago, no one in their right mind would think I was a drug addict even if they didn't know how freaking weak that stuff is. A glass of alcohol is stronger than that stuff). 5th, called them to take that deadly shit off my prescription list and replace it with my actual meds that I needed, and they resisted every step of the way. 6th, they decide to replace the meds as a intramuscular shot format (they come in smaller than pea sized pills, normally - also, I was already taking meds that HAD to be intramuscular shots. I don't have any more space for another one of those shots). 7th, they had my record from previous visits and we talked about them, and they were the ones who originally prescribed me those weak pill form meds. 8th, I decided not to have them prescribe the stupid shot format, but they never took off the deadly shit they had first prescribed me. 9th, when I was just trying to get the heck out of there after such an awful experience of a visit, the receptionist chased me out to my car and wouldn't stop bothering me about doing more tests with them (probably so they can get more money from me). I told her no in the office 5 times already, and had to tell her NO nearly 20 times while inside of my car. My dad was the one in the driver's seat at the time, good thing too, I wanted to just drive off and run that bitch over - I'm sure she would have run after the car is how much of a crazy bitch she was. Next doctor, not a specialist, took a look for a couple minutes and told me she did see something but assumed it was something normal anyway, not helpful. (Not only can I feel with my hands that something is not right, but im in pain nearly every day too - pain shouldn't be normal.) But she absolutely agreed that no doctor in their right mind would do what that first doctor did, especially the meds they tried to give me. I asked her if she could take off that crazy prescription and she said she didn't want to interfere with another doctor... after just admitting that I never should have been prescribed that in the first place.🤨 Well, now I can't get the pain meds I actually needed because I can't get that stupid shit off of my prescription list, I've been waiting for the prescription to expire for at least 6 months now. P.S. The first doctor treated me so bad that I'm still traumatized by it. I start to shake just at the though of trying to see another doctor about this again. Only reason I went to the second one at all is because I knew they would at least respect me as another human being, since I had been to them before for other things. P.P.S. I still don't know what's wrong, and I can't hold a normal job because of it. On a happier note, I decided to start my own business so I can have a job without getting fired, because I can't keep regular hours due to the pain. It's not at the point where I can afford my own bills yet, but it's an improvement. (I'm nearly 23 now, this problem started when I was at least 19. I had to quit my first job at 19 only 3 months in, because I couldn't handle the pain and work in customer service. So much for good work history. 😒 Another reason for starting my own business.) My life is all screwed up because of an unknown problem I can't address and doctors who can't seem to do their job. At least this video made me feel a bit better about my situation. As long as it doesn't turn out to be cancer or something irreparable, at least I don't have to worry about having kids of my own - I'd rather adopt anyway.
Actually, second story: My mother had a bad headache, went to a clinic and was told she had migraines. She drove herself home and took painkillers. Headache got worse. She said it was the worse headache she'd ever had and something about it felt wrong. She drove herself to the ER and it turns out she had an SAH (brain bleed) and needed to be airlifted to a larger hospital that had a higher level of neurological care. She's fine now and didn't lose any memories or brain function, but they flipped out that she not only got misdiagnosed but also drove herself to the ER.
I went to a local doctor in the small town where I live for a black mole on my arm. He glanced at it just barely and declared it was a freckle nothing to worry about. When the mole began to change shape, I went to another doctor Who immediately ordered a biopsy. It was melanoma. Thank God & my NEW Doctor, it was discovered soon enough to remove it completely.
my grandmother died because no one took her seriously. she was a single parent (divorced, ex husband was and still is a piece of shit) of two kids, very poor (ex husband litterally never paid ANY of the child support he owed her) and just generally had a lot on her plate. I dont know the whole story, as obviously this was before I was born (my dad was a teenager I think) but she had health issues for a very long time and her doctor always insisted that it was nothing or that it was just the stress of being a single mother and she didn't have the time or money to get a second opinion. anywho, she went years with steadily worsening health issues, and eventually died of cancer. by the time she was actually diagnosed with cancer (not long before she died) she had been living with it for so long that it had spread all over her body and had taken over most of her organs to the point where they couldn't even figure out where the cancer started. she was basically a walking corpse, as the cancer had pretty much taken over her whole body. she died not long after that. apparently everyone was shocked that she hadn't died years before that.
When student doctors learn the old adage If You Hear Hoofbeats it's most likely just a horse and not a zebra some sadly go on to believe it's ALWAYS a horse. One of 3 horses with the names of Stress or Anxiety or The Flu.
My freind just died of rare stomach cancer. Her general physician the last 2 years said blood work and everything fine for age. Wouldn't order xray or prescribe anything for sleep, even though had script before for decade . Or pain med without specialist. She went to his specialists was told your fine for your age. I told her to get second , 3 opinion at this point. She went to paid for sliding scale charity doctor I suggested. As medicare wasn't doing anything for her before. The charity care doctor ordered xray and pet scan immediately, had results the next morning. Called her and referred her to oncologists as blood work, xrays showed anomalies. Week later it was diagnosed as rare aggressive stomach cancer in final stage. Her esophagus, liver and lungs all had the cancer spread. She was told 6 months. Passed 2 weeks later. Thanks general practitioner that wouldn't preform tests cause he wasn't reimbursed from Medicare fast enough! I told her he was OK but to have another doctor as I was patient before and he dismissed and misdiagnosed endometriosis . Told me I had irritable bowel and gave me tramadol and I was making up pain in my head.. I had cysts and needed hysterectomy . Thank God I went to another doctor or I could be dead too. Do not trust a doctor that dismisses chronic problem. He even misdiagnosed my brother in law with edema after 3 years of not drinking completely clean blood labs..that doesn't make sense. it was diabetes and he had a stroke at 35 because of medicine this doc prescribed. He also prescribed medication to another family member that gave them seizures. Once er doc took him off , seizures were gone. But was too late as the bad doc reported and person lost drivers liscense, then job and then house. These small towns we get stuck w horrible one or two docs. It takes emergency or expenses to travel and pay for another opinion. It's amazing how many of his patients r in obituaries. Yet he's doing good in eyes of law because least narcotics prescribed . That and buying out new doctors and their patient lists. It's not about health in Healthcare anymore. It's about least cost and numbers you bring in and keep. Like hospitals. You r just a dollar amount. They get plenty while minimally treating. It's sad.
I have narcolepsy, GP sent me to a psychiatrist thinking I was mentally ill due to the hallucinations (everyone with narcolepsy gets hallucinations in the onset/awakening from sleep, I got declared sane, and luckily the guy was familiar with narcolepsy and suspected that might be the case, it may have been the fact that both appointments I had with him I fell asleep in the waing room 😅
My mom's water broke and she started labor with my brother. She gets to the hospital and everything is going normal. Doc is expecting an average labor cuz she dilating and a steady speed so he goes off to donother stuff. Big mistake cuz my family is far from "average" when it comes to medical situations. Doc thought they'd have a few hours before she'd have to push so everyone was taking they're time getting things together. No big rush we totes got time. Not long after the doc left my mom calls a nurse and "says they babies coming. Now." Nurse shrugs my mom off and says "no, we've got time. It's fine." My moms like "no, we don't. This is my third child. I know the routine by now. And I'm telling you he's coming. NOW." nurse rolls her eyes but tells my mom she'll look to see if it is to make her feel better. Nurse lifts up the blanket and looks and my mom told us that when the nurse stood back up her eyes were huges and she had gone a bit pale and was gasping like a fish. My mom's like "I told you!" And the nurse tries to get a hold of a calm demeanor and goes "uh... I'm... uh.. let me... let me just go get the doc." And instead of walking the nurse does an almost run while yelling for the doc. Few min later the doc comes in with an attitude of wtf is it with hysterical women, doesn't even acknowledge my mom really and lifts the blanket to look. He seemed to have the air of ill show you you're wrong. As soon as he looks the nurse goes "see!" And the doc freezes for a sec then looks at my mom and goes "uh, alright Mrs. Gray, it looks like you're boy is ready to join us, so um nurse, we're gonna need a rush on everyone and Mrs gray, you just keep taking breaths, we're gonna get started her in a few minutes." 15min later ny brother was born to the surprise of those who made the mistake of thinking they'd have a slow night 😆 also, apparently when my mom got there there were some soldiers training to be medics and one of the things they had to do was witness a birth, so my mom was asked if she would mind them being and there's and she said she was fine with it. She doesn't mind helping people to learn especially if they're learning to help others. Well there were 3 guys who had to watch and my dad said that while my mom was pushing, the 1 black guy of the group who was standing in the middle went super pale and had he's knees buckle like he almost passed out. His buddies grabbed him by the arms and held him up, telling him that he's gotta watch through the whole thing. Any time my mom tells thus story, my dad always throughs that bit in cuz its his favorite part
When I was born, the doctor told my mother I would die in a couple of hours, then a few months, then three years tops. My parents were told I would die so many times they just stopped listening. I finally got a proper diagnosis, and it turned out I was literally never in danger of dying.
I also had pre-eclampsia. I also had eclamptic seizures but I was at home and it took 20mins for the ambulance to get here. I needed to be revived twice in the ambulance and once at the hospital. Had an emergency c-section and was in a coma for 18hrs, son was in NICU for a while as he reacted to the anti seizure medication I was given. My midwife referred me to he hospital but they didnt want to see me straight away as my levels were on the fence. But on the day I had him my blood pressue was so high it couldnt be read. Have had 3 subsequent pregnancies and they have been complication free.
If someone suspects ectopic pregnancy there is no “waiting until the next morning”!!!!!!!! Both those doctors messed up. One messed up more but still!!!
18:40 uuugh that one made me pissed, doctors for some reason blame stress when somthing is obviously wrong, something similar happened for me i had headaches on the regular and seizures they said I was stressed and needed to get over it or put me on meds and Tylenol for the headaches....I had a brain injury and a stroke now I have issues with speak, memory, brain function and a permanent seizure disorder 😑
I had where I went to my primary doctor and complained about gi symptoms. She blamed it as a side effect of a medication. I had been off the med for a couple of years, but she wasn’t really listening to me. I eventually got a second opinion by a gi doctor, and they decided to actually run tests. I have gastroparesis, so my issues were from my stomach having issues digesting food and moving it into my intestines.
My dad's doctor was told multiple times that he was getting weird random fever spikes and losing weight. Wemt from 195 to 160 in less than a year with no diet. Finally a different doctor told him he had colon cancer. Surgery was a success but it spread to his lungs. He's in chemo now. The time he lost not getting the right diagnosis led to this :(
We are in danger from people in every profession: incompetent doctors, incompetent mechanics, politicians who think they are smarter than we are. We need to respect our own intelligence and judgment.
The statement in the story about the grandma falling off a horse about how she didn't feel listened to by the first doctor and decided to get a second opinion is one we all need to remember - if we feel like we're being brushed off or ignored by a medical professional, get a second opinion. I'm a retired medical transcriptionist and my husband is a retired lab tech, so we are pretty medically savvy, but we won't tolerate being brushed off or ignored by a doctor.
My brother got a sore throat when he was in his twenties. He's always been fairly healthy and didn't hiink much of it. But it didn't go away, and after a couple of months he went to the health clinic. The doctor barely looked at him and told him it was a cold. His throat kept getting worse and worse and he had throuble breathing. He went back to the health clinic, met the same doctor who still didn't examine him but just told him that he had a cold and to fuck off. He then spent 18 months trying to get a new appointment but was denied because "there was nothing wrong with him". The doctor had blocked him. Then he finally got an appointment at the ear, nose and throat clinic. The night before he couldn't sleep because he wasn't able to breathe. The ENT doctor looked in his throat and asked my brother if he had any difficulties breathing. My brother confirmed that he struggled a lot with getting air. The doctor walked oit of the room an dreturned back shortly thereafter, informing my brother that he was having emergency surgery first thing the following morning because he had a growth in his air pipe that blocked 99 % of the pipe. They managed to almost kill him on the operation table as they gave him meds he was heavily allergic to. But the biggest issue was that awful first doctor who never even looked in his throat. If she had it would have been caught much sooner; he could just as well have died in his sleep that final night before the ENT visit.
Went to a bunch of psychiatrists throughout my childhood only to be diagnosed with OCD, ADHD, Depression, PTSD, Bipolar Disorder, etc. Finally at age 17 I got diagnosed with Autism and Dysthymia (a type of chronic, life-long depression) and got proper help. This is extremely common for people, especially women, with Autism. I went through about 10 psychiatrists in my life who were barely qualified and finally got help 4 years ago
You'd think all the time and effort spent in medical school would make doctors and nurses more competent, or at least unwilling to take risks that could cost them their medical licenses.
Unfortunately it's not so much about taking risks, as it is just saying "Eh, it's good enough." They think their diagnosis is good enough, so no further testing is needed. It's the same mindset that results in potential fire traps escaping notice, or buildings being built with inadequate load bearing capacity (which can lead to partial or full collapse). Someone just said "Eh, it's good enough" with no further analysis. Recipe for disaster every time.
Chest pains, heart pounding and difficulty breathing even at night and made working out impossible. Couldn't even walk my dogs without feeling like I'd pass out. Doctor took one look at me and decided it was because of obesity and talked down to me "when you exercise your heart rate goes up". Like yeah, no shit but that doesn't explain why I couldn't breathe at night. Turns out of my medications was at too high a dosage. They lowered it and the pain stopped. And I can walk my dogs again!
My father managed to live through having an aortic aneurysm in 2010. He was diagnosed with it in France, they (for whatever stupid reason) allowed him to fly back to Australia, with a 6cm aneurysm. He had surgery the next day, everything was fine for a week. The day he was due to be discharged, the pain came back, as did the aneurysm. Another surgery, that took 12 hours to complete, section of his aorta had to be removed and a graft put in place - saved his life but he ended up paralysed due to restricted blood flow to his spine for the 12 hours.
My time to shine! I passed out after turning too quickly around October. Went to a specific specialist who looked at me for barely a second and I was told I was stressed and it was allergies, Things kept happening, like the dizziness when I turned to one side and eventually my hearing on my right side got worse. Went to the same type of specialist a year later, she ACTUALLY looked at me told me I needed a scan. Turns out those “allergies” were a benign brain tumor! I could’ve relearned to walk and talk my less busy sophomore year of high school but had to take the recovery on in my overwhelming junior year. So yeah, had to suffer for about an extra year cause a doc didn’t do her job.
Not really a “second opinion story” but only because there wasn’t enough time and definitely fits under “Incompetent medical ‘professional’” story Basically my mom was having terrible stomach pain and so my dad brought her into our town hospital, and the only diagnosis we get is “indigestion”, I’m pretty sure, because it’s a small problem in our small town, the docs only thought she was in for drugs and refused to give even pain meds. Well my dad began to head out to another place for a second opinion, but never got the chance as not even 15 minutes after they left my mother’s appendix burst.
A dentist once told my mom that she needed a root canal. She got a second opinion and that dentist couldn't find a single thing wrong. That was four years ago and she's never had any issues with her teeth since, so idk what that first dentist was on about.
My dentist wanted to perform surgery on my upper jaw to “fix” my overbite. To be fair it’s not a very prominent overbite but they were not willing to take out my braces if I didn’t get the surgery. Went to a small dentist office (the first opinion came from a med school) and the small office dentist said I didn’t need it if it wasn’t causing me any issues. He actually revealed a lot of dentists will recommend unnecessary surgeries so they can put it on their resume. Plus they neglected to tell me of the risks involved which included numbing and difficulties chewing and I’ve read countless horror stories of things never being the same. It’s been over a decade and my jaw and teeth are still fine. I always recommend getting a second opinion on teeth, and for overall health in general
5:15 and a virus bad enough to cause severe pain and vomiting in a woman who is already immune compromised and about to give birth tto a defenceless baby isn't a problem apparently?
In 2017 I had lyme disease. My regular Dr couldn't get me in, so I went to urgent care. They gave me a month's supply of lyme meds. About 2 months later, I was still in a lot of pain. Regular Dr couldn't get me in, so I went to urgent care again. The Dr there said let's do blood work to see if the lyme triggered rheumatoid arthritis. About a week later, I was able to get to my regular Dr to go over the results. He said that my rheumatoid factor was high, but people can have a high rheumatoid factor and it's not rheumatoid arthritis. A few more weeks go by and I was still in pain. So I call to get in to my Dr. He wasn't in, but I got in with the NP. He saw my blood work and said that I have rheumatoid arthritis. Normal rheumatoid factor is 0-14, and it can go up to 20 for people without rheumatoid arthritis. My rheumatoid factor was almost at 90. Still boggles my mind how a tick bite can fuck up my life. At 37, I'm trying to get on disability from the rheumatoid arthritis
My sister: Excruciating stomach pain starting at 14 that comes and goes. Is told by a series of doctors (no less than 4) its psycho somatic (all in her head) 16 years pass. She still has the pain regularly and is considering su!c!de, her BF convinces her to try one last doctor. She had endometriosis. A month later she had a full hysterectomy and is pain free. Almost lost a sister to the absolute incompetence of those doctors. In the meantime my sister was gas lit by professionals into thinking she was entirely making the pain up.
I was told by my lifelong doctor that my symptoms were due to stress for 6 months and it turned out I had 2 types of infections that my immunesystem couldn't fight off because I also had developed a serious chronic neuroinflammatory disease. The other doctor figured me out after the first round of bloodtests.....
First story I called from the first three symptoms, just from _Party of Five_ and a college chancellor who had that same disease back when I was in grad school. How awful that a nurse *and* a doctor both missed it!
Oh, the gallbladder one ... I went for 15 MONTHS, so many doctor visits because of excruciating stomach pains, multiple ER visits, got told it was this or that, take these pain meds, before someone FINALLY checked my gallbladder and I had emergency surgery the day after. Took 6 hours, don't even know how many stones were there, and my gallbladder had begun to grow into my liver. Surgeon said it was the worst case he'd ever seen. No surprise when it had gone on for 15 months ...
Went to an urgent care last year. Was constantly exhausted to the point of barely being able to stay awake. Felt really weak. Had a lot of phlegm. Had go e through an entire course of antibiotics. No fever. They gave me a Covid test and sent me home without a follow-up. Turns out I have an autoimmune condition that inflames my blood vessels. They were particularly enflamed in my lungs, thus the exhaustion and the constantly coughing up phlegm. Never going there again.
30yrs ago my grandma went to the doctor with flu symptoms the doctor had an attitude and told her it will pass. An hr later while she was preparing things for Christmas dinner the next day she was dead. She dropped down dead while i was mixing the cake mix. I was 12 yrs old. Turns out the doctor was drunk and killed 2 other patients that day. 😡
My dad was diagnosed with acid reflux that did not improve. He went a second time to the same doctor and he repeated that it was just acid reflux. Turns out my dad had developed heart disease and they were the warning signs he was going to have a heart attack. The fact that 1. Heart disease is what killed his father at a young age (below 50) was ignored. 2. My dad was a heavy cigarette smoker. 3. His diet is extremely high in fat and cholesterol This was all ignored because my dad was on the slim side and the assumption is that heart attacks happen to fat people, not slim people. He changed doctors after this happened, quit smoking and eats better, just not as better as he should. He reminds everyone that skinny doesn’t mean healthy now lol and to always keep trying to quit smoking.
Mine isn't a misdiagnosis, mine is a mis-medication. I was diagnosed with ADHD very young, around six years old. My doctor prescribed me blood pressure medication because, according to him, ADHD was caused by a blood pressure issue. In a six year old. Well, I was only to have half a pill a day(which didn't work. Obviously) except one day. My dad gives me the entire pill. Cue poison control and the ER because they gave a SIX YEAR OLD BLOOD PRESSURE MEDICATION. On top of it, my parents never bothered to get me properly rediagnosed or medicated so I just suffered for years, and still do because getting diagnosed as an adult sucks.
Had back problems after helping a friend move (had a refrigerater fall on me) kept having back pain, getting worse. CAT scan and MRI apparently showed nothing. Went to neurologist, it two months even with E.R. referral, he did a spinal x-ray with contrast. I found out I had been living with a ruptured disc and 2 herniated discs, he said mri and cat scans were so poorly done nothing would show. Had surgery and long recovery. Worst part is I started thinking this was how my life would be forever. Still have issues cause it went untreated for so long
"It's depression, get a haircut"
Omg that's the dumbest thing I think I've ever heard a licensed doctor say. That mother should absolutely have sued him.
Most of the people in the video could sue someone into bankrupcy and the lack of information about if any of that happened boils my piss!
Unfortunately not unusual. I was told "oh, you're depressed, get a job you'll be fine". Of course, once you have that (mis)diagnosis of depression it can take years for a Dr to look past it...
I remember going to a gp about what my mother perceived to be early signs of mental illness from bring bullied in school and the GP saying that I probably was misinterpreting the situation and how I was going through some kind of phase and would grow out of it. 2 months before my 18th birthday I was eventually diagnosed with Anxiety and panic disorder with a potential lean on PTSD because of certain signs I was showing after a massive struggle to get another gp to see me about that specific issue.
Edit:missed out a bit of context initially
I kept having horrible migraines. I was 26 years old. I stopped having periods but wasn't pregnant. I was diagnosed with "tension headaches " then "cluster headaches " . I kept mentioning that I also wasn't having any periods. One doctor told me I was depressed because of another medical problem. I got furious! She wasn't a therapist or a psychiatrist. I went to the administration office and demanded I have a cat scan. I listed my symptoms and he actually said "you're looking for a tumor aren't you? I said " yes, a tumor in my Patuitary gland. It fits all the symptoms ". He just shook his head and gave me an appointment. Come to find out; I did have a tumor. It was the size of a golf ball by the time they found it (6 months after I started going to doctors)! Luckily it was benign and most likely caused from my Sarcoidosis.
Was the first doctor fired?
@@goukeban6197 No, she had to go before the review board and was only reprimanded.. Basically a bad mark in her personal files.
Same thing happened to me except I was gay and gave birth to a parrot that had clawed my eye out. Doctor prescribed me 2 mustards and kicked me out of the plane. 3 weeks later, I died of stage 4 cholera
Did you like...mention the Sarcoidosis? There's no way she wouldn't have been fired if an autoimmune disease wasn't mentioned beforehand.
@@Mizzybelle. yes, I did.This was at a military hospital. Back in the 80's.
The doctor who laughed at that poor woman, calling her a liar for being a virgin, uh, dude, not every girl is a sex nymph.
When I broke my leg at THIRTEEN they asked if I could be pregnant and I said no. They asked when my last cycle was and because I had to stop and think and it had been five weeks because I was just starting so it hadn’t regulated yet they accused me of lying and a nurse chewed me out for being sexually active at my age.
I cried so hard and it’s still one of the most embarrassing moments of my life.
@@83gemm
Screw those people.
Yeah no kidding. I know plenty of women that age who have never been sexually active, myself included. I feel awful for that poor woman, if I was her I would have pursued some kind of legal action for medical malpractice and sexual harassment. No one should be treated that way!
@@83gemm At that age? I could go months with nothing. Convinced myself I was pregnant from using a toilet.
@@arianebolt1575 Yep. To be fair, teen pregnancy in my area was pretty common. We had a girl pregnant in seventh grade and A LOT in high school. So I’m sure they had encountered some before, but it was still handled badly. And I never even held a boy’s hand until years later, so it was especially wrong in my case.
Oh, and, also, MY LEG WAS BROKEN so I was already upset.
Not exactly a second opinion, but it was a struggle to get the doctor to even think it was something other than "you're fat". When I was about 18, I was gaining weight like crazy, losing my hair, and my skin was dry and flaky. My mom suspected my thyroid was out of wack and took me to the doctor to get my levels tested. The doctor looked me in the face and said I was just fat and needed to go run some laps, said my glory days of high school were behind me and I had been slacking so my weight had gone up. My mom said "I want that put on her chart. Write down that you won't do the tests. . ." and instead he did the tests. What do you know? My thyroid was so out of wack that I ended up hospitalized with what's called a thyroid storm after he did the tests.
Hint, if you ask for something to be done and they either refuse or try to get out of it--ask for it to be written in your file that you asked and they refused. They'll either have a record of their refusal or they'll comply and you'll get some answers.
this is actually insanely good advice. my dad has always worked in care and i still ask him to go with me if i have to go to the er. having someone with you who knows the ropes and has some general knowledge of what a doctor should do makes you damn near invincible to the bs in this video
It does definitely help to either have or be with someone in the field. As a med student who was recently hospitalized, there've been so many times when they would do a procedure or try to give me a medication and I'd know enough to stop them or otherwise help myself. Most notable was when they tried to give me Heparin (a blood thinner, so it can cause severe bleeding) while I was hospitalized for a vascular issue, had low blood volume and may have been bleeding internally.
Also, I've had the same problems with doctors blaming everything on my weight. I lost fifty pounds in a week due to an ongoing issue, several doctors didn't believe that I'd really lost that much weight until I showed them the documentation from a previous ER visit and several didn't think it was a problem because I was still fat. Whatever my current weight, losing fifty pounds in a week is a serious problem and shouldn't be overlooked.
I'm a nurse and a paient who prior to getting a degree and experience was also ignored when complaining of what turned out to be serious health issues. Everyone (expecially women) if a doctor tells you it's in your head (anxiety, depression, your pain is from past trauma) without doing ALL possible tests. They are doing you wrong. All tests have to be run before that can be considered as a diagnosis. If you can, report them, and then go to a different doctor. Don't stop until you get the care you deserve. I know it's hard and makes you feel like crap, but you are important. Text book symptoms were written based on what men feel. We are wired different. Your doctor should always treat you with respect and they should do testing. Severe headaches and new diagnosis of migraines REQUIRE an MRI of the brain. Complaints of pain after an injury should include an X-ray and if that is negative a CT or MRI to look at muscle and other soft tissue. All women of childbearing age regardless of BC use, should be given a pregnancy test when they go to the ER for any reason. These are minimal standards of care. You have the right (even in the same visit within the US) to demand evaluation by another Dr or NP/PA in the ER or in the clinic even in the same appointment. Stand your ground. Demand respect.
I fell down the stairs and hurt my ankle. The ER doctors said there was no break and referred me to a foot and ankle doctor. A few weeks later when I saw the other doctor he took more X-rays and said nothing was broken. I didn't feel like it was just a sprain so I asked to see the x-rays and called the doctor back to point something out. My fifth metatarsal was broken. Two doctors didn't see the break but myself, a lay person did find the break.
Sounds like you went to the same office a friend of mine went to. Multiple breaks since she was small on the same leg, always told it looks normal, but it’s always swollen and foot hangs weird. sees new dr once she’s an adult, it’s horrific mess when he takes the X-rays properly, without forcing everything into place.
@@coyowolf4609 so much money for nothing
Ever since I have memory, I could point out that there was something kinda "odd" with me. It was actually very obvious. Fast forward to me at 15: I was 100% sure that whatever it was, It had to be some sort of mental disorder. Convinced my parents that I wanted to see a psychologist or psychiatrist so they could either confirm it or calm me down about it.
The first guy straight up said that I was just defiant, and depressed. Everytime I had to argue and explain *again* what my symptoms where, he just cut me off or waived it as me being an annoyance. He prescribed me meds that only complicated everything, the last session I had with him (I only went 3 times) he wouldn't let me explain that I felt worse than before.
Fast forward another 4-5 years, considering dropping out of college because I feel like a failure as a student. Went to another psychiatrist, 15 minutes into the session... ADHD. I had almost every symptom from the book. First round of meds I actually felt so much better, I finished college.
Yep, been labelled as depressed and anxious for years, some psychiatrists even saying I had BPD. Nah, I’m just autistic and the difficulties of growing up and feeling outcast led to depression and anxiety.
I spent a decade with a steadily worsening gallbladder, all while being repeatedly told, "You can't have gallstones, you're thin and you're under 35." I only found out my gallbladder was packed with stones because it got noticed on an ultrasound I got for a kidney stone. Once I had it removed, I could actually eat without horrible pain.
Many years ago when my wife and I were around 20yrs old, I had to rush her to the er because she had trouble breathing. The Dr did blood work and x-rays and gave her antibiotics for a bacterial infection. She'd get better and a few weeks after the antibiotics, it was back up to the er for the same thing. This went on for about 8 months. Each time we ended up seeing the same Dr there. The last time we went to the er for her, we saw a different Dr. He did blood work, x-rays and an ultrasound. Come to find out, she had gallstones. Her gallbladder was pushing up in the bottom of her lung. It left a ring of infection that would never clear up with antibiotics. Had her gallbladder taken out and the bacterial infection in her lung stopped
Holy crap, I can't imagine dealing with this pain for that long!! I just went to the ER last Friday night and the doctor told me I have gallstones. She said she was surprised since I'm so young (Just turned 17 last month) but I don't understand why so many doctors just dismiss stuff because age makes it unlikely! It's seriously crazy! I'm sorry you dealt with that so long though, it's the worst pain I've ever felt and I haven't even been dealing with this very long.
Ooof! Same! I was 26. My gallbladder was so diseased it adhered to my stomach. My gallstones were all black and serrated. I was accused of drug seeking the times I went to the doctor/ER for it. Took 3 years to get the dx and at that point, surgery was an emergency.
I had to get mine removed when I was 25. Age should not be a consideration (I mean for the doctors who rule it out because of that).
@@cagewilliams9618 It was pretty horrible. I couldn't get it through to them that part of the reason I was thin was that I couldn't goddamn eat anything without pain, so I just...didn't eat much. Way too many doctors seem to think that 'less likely because of age' somehow equals 'impossible'. A guy I went to high school with died of a heart attack at 33 because doctors kept writing off his symptoms due to his age and the fact that he wasn't overweight. In this stupid superficial country, thinness is equated with health even when it really should not be (and conversely, everything that could possibly affect a heavier person seems to automatically be blamed on their weight).
12:24 i had a similar issue for about a whole year. when i first brought the issue up with my mom, she said it was just due to my being overweight, so we didn't see anyone about it for a while. over the course of time, what i could swallow dwindled down to just milk with vitamin mix. most of the doctors i went to see basically couldn't give me an answer and one was even starting to get annoyed at my frequent appointments. one clinic tried doing a barium swallow test on me, but since the stuff was way too thick for me to get down, they couldn't get a prognosis. then the pandemic hit, so unless i was down with the sickness, i couldn't just "waste" doctors' time with my issue.
it wasn't until i was able to land a phone appointment with a local gastroenterologist that we were able to get a diagnosis. after answering a few simple questions, he found that i had a hiatal hernia; then after going to his clinic for an exam, he found that it was high up enough in my esophagus to affect my swallowing, rather than being further down like most cases.
it's been two years since i had the operation, and while i'll always have a hiatal hernia, i'm happy that i can eat 50% properly again (i still can't consume most meats or very fibrous foods). i'm glad that my family and i didn't give up and went for not a second, but maybe eighth opinion.
My friend went to the on campus health clinic and was told her lungs hurt because she was depressed and was then given a demonstration on how anti-depressants work. She went to a different doctor and got an inhaler lol.
The heck does depression have to do with lungs? Such incompetence deserves to be rewarded with violence.
The amount of wrong turns you have to take to get to that mess of a conclusion is insane
My campus clinic told me I lost fifty pounds in a week and was throwing up because I had a mild STD. I was not sexually active and had no fever. Dumbest nurse I've ever seen and I'm still pissed that she charged me $200 to tell me that.
Reminds me how my oldest brother was diagnosed with bipolar disorder and even went on medication for it and that honestly messed his life up for a while until he went and got a second opinion. Turns out it was just depression like it originally was. He’s doing better today thankfully.
I’m glad he got the proper care
I was diagnosed with cyclothymia at 19, at 35, I was rediagnosed with ADHD. Life hasn’t really got better but now I understand why I do things and feel certain ways more now.
Happened to me too, got diagnosed with bipolar disorder and was given different medications that never worked and only made me super fatigued. Turns out I’m autistic and once I got off the bipolar medication I had been on for years I started improving. It’s hard with mental health cause there is no tests but the fact I never ever experienced mania but was given a diagnosis of bipolar should of been a red flag to doctors. I think the doctor who diagnosed me was not trained properly in mental health cause he saw mood swings as bipolar but emotional dysregulation is a common feature of many health issues not just bipolar
Soo this is my story.
I was in nicu for almost two months since I came out prematurely around the 6 month mark.
My mom never left my side (or rather the outside room with a window) when I was there and one day she noticed my arm was turning purple. She spoke to the head nurse and head nurse dismissed her. My mom saw my arm getting more purple and swollen so she went back to the nurse again and was dismissed again.
Eventually she pulled a doctor aside and told him her concerns. The doctor checked me out, saw the IV in my arm was put in improperly and there was an infection at the open site.
They rushed to get the IV out and with my moms permission cut a piece of skin since it was rotting I believe.
My mom, who was already dealing under a stressful time in her life had to be held back by a couple of other nurses since she was close to beating the ever loving crap out of the head nurse.
She told me after that incident she didn’t see the head nurse again so I assumed she was reprimanded and I was able to heal and also gain enough weight to go home.
I thankfully still have my arm and a nifty little scar on my inner bicep l lol
I had the opposite with my son (thank god) who was in the NICU for 3 weeks for having a small chin and possibly a serious disorder, he was sent to Boston Children’s Hospital (the best pediatric hospital in the world) and they said he’s completely fine ❤
@@pinkchaos. Honestly, better safe than sorry. I get the bills are horrific, but infants can crash FAST and it's always better to check if a doctor thinks something's wrong than let it go and be wrong.
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Stories like these are why most patients refuse to treat me, an ER nurse, with any level of respect. I work in a field of science and technology, but I’m treated like a food service and hospitality worker.
From my experiences with nurses, some of them are absolutely amazing. I'd trust a well seasoned nurse more then most doctors if its a common issue as they have tons of practical experience dealing with it.
I have also seen some mind numbingly dumb nurses though. Like when they took my temperature and it was 94.2 degrees and the nurse assured me I didn't have a fever and that I was fine... Really glad I didn't listen to that nurse.
I understand why people may be apprehensive at times but people really need to stop that. People really do treat nurses, especially ER nurses, like they aren't actually medical professionals. I appreciate you! The ER nurses that were helping me when I was in last week, were so great and so patient even though I was whinging the whole time. And they didn't dismiss me when I told them I was in agonizing pain which, hearing these stories, seems all too common for some people :/
People do need to realize that nurses are trained medical professionals. You guys handle way more than most doctors and also deal with the mess and more mundane tasks in hospitals, but the average person just doesn't see that.
When I was a kid my parents got me out of the bed wetting phase. Then I became a serial bed wetter at age 4-10, Almost nightly. I was diagnosed as a serial bed wetter, my parents were recommended a blanket that sounds an alarm when wet. It would wake up my whole family but me. Second, third and fourth opinion also diagnosed me as a serial bed wetter. Mum disconnected the blanket as it was useless, waking up the whole family and not me. They would change me, the bed, etc without disturbing me because I’d be dead to the world. Woke up one night after wetting the bed and climbed into mums bed. Had a huge seizure next to her in my sleep. Was still shipped off to school the next morning, mum informed my school. That lunch time I passed out, smacked my head on the way down and seized. Packed up into an ambulance, taken to a paediatric hospital and diagnosed with grand mal epilepsy within a week. I was having nocturnal seizures for years. All those years of undiagnosed epilepsy carried through my adult years and caused complications for me. I’m now 36, I still seize a few times a year.
This is why you sue the shit of them. Eventually, malpractice insurance drops them, and bingo, one less shitty doctor.
Some of these were horrifying and some so very difficult to listen to as it took me back to my mum's doctor telling her for a year she was just stressed and depressed because of taking on my senile nan. Mum told them more than once she knows her body and this was different and that something was wrong. For a year they kept telling her she was being stupid but she didnt want to bother the hospital people because the pain wasnt debilitating and she had a family to look after.
My nan passed a year later and a couple of months later doctor finally gave in and sent her for tests and a little while after that she was diagnosed with bowel cancer. She beat that only to later get stomach cancer but again they kept telling her she was being silly despite what the result was the last time they told her that shit. By the time they searched and found the cancer it had grown around a hernia she had developed (another excuse they made for how she was feeling "wrong") and there was no saving her.
My own story was within a year of my mum's passing I got a stabbing pain in my stomach and just dealt with it but by day 3 I was in agony, couldn't go a while without either flinching or buckling over from the surprise stabbings. I went to hospital to see emergency doctor (different from ER this was when it was a weekend or your doctor's surgery wasnt open coz, you know, illness and pain take the weekends off 🙄or they were fully booked with no foreseeable available appointments.)
Emergency Doctor asked a buttload of questions and diagnosed a stomach ulcer from the stress of losing my mum, moving house and being only carer for my father. I, like my mother, stated no this was different I know my stress and my depression as I had been living with it all for years and there was something wrong here. Doctor waved me off with prescription for ulcer which actually made the pain worse, so much worse.
Maybe 24 hours later *I* called an ambulance (something I learned from my mother to never do, just deal with the pain and dont complain - it wasn't that she thought it was obnoxious or annoying but she was raised to not be "a burden to others with your problems" and I picked up on that even though she never made me feel that way) and at first they couldn't find anything wrong with me. They did dye tests, x rays and ultrasounds and found nothing. I was left in the bed to cry out in pain until around midnight (i believe it was a sunday) a team came running in and immediately prepped me for surgery. I had no time to take it all in. Turns out they somehow realised my appendix was about to burst and had to rush me in asap.
Neither of which were second opinion stories I guess but more lessons in GET ONE DAMMIT next time your doctor doesn't listen. Doctors know bodies but only YOU know YOUR body.
When I was in kindergarten I got a vomiting flu and my parents could not keep my blood sugar levels *down* (type one diabetes), it was the middle of the night and they were trying to decide whether to take me to the er. They called the on-call nurse at my GP who told them to "just keep giving her juice", which they did because they were young and didn't know better. In the morning they had to take me to the ER, where the physicians actually knew what they were doing. Long story short I ended up in diabetic ketoacidosis (my body was eating itself because it couldn't process the sugar in my blood) and spent ten days in a coma. Last I heard that nurse was Extremely fired. I'm 23 now so clearly I lived but. Man.
Not a second opinion, but reported to the ER with severe lower right quadrant pain. I rated my pain at either a 9/10 or a 10/10. The nurse rolled her eyes, scribbled a note, all but threw a low dose Tylenol at me that didn’t even touch the pain, and didn’t check on me for two hours.
A completely different nurse came in and asked what my pain was. It hadn’t changed, and she checked my chart. Apparently, the previous nurse decided that because I wasn’t crying and screaming I was lying for narcotics, when in reality I just have a sky high pain tolerance (like out of bed, sitting upright, traveling 2 hours home less than eight hours after bilateral breast reduction high). The note was “patient reports high pain level but shows no clear signs of distress, suspect drug seeking behavior, actual pain level likely 4/10 or 5/10.”
The nurse retook my medical history, scurried out, reported to the doctor, cursed out the previous nurse, and I was bumped up in priority due to my pain level and history of ovarian cysts. They found one the size of a golf ball on my right ovary and I was at high risk of torsion, requiring careful monitoring. The first nurse looked pale when she saw the ultrasound.
Man with bladder infection: the “peeing razor blades” symptom is spot on for young people.
But I learned that for the elderly, it is quite the opposite. I was my Mom’s caregiver. As people age, they tend to not empty their bladders fully, and this increases the chance for bladder infections (UTIs).
Often the first symptom of a UTI in an elderly person is mental confusion and/or loss of balance. If the fall causes a broken bone in the leg or pelvis, they frequently never leave the hospital or rehab alive.
The pain from the broken bone causes them to stay in bed, so they either catch pneumonia due to shallow breathing or the inactivity causes a fatal blood clot to heart, lung, or brain.
If you have an elderly relative, be alert for those signs: unusual confusion or wobbliness. Have them seen right away.
I used to have that pretty common thing where the toe nails grow too large on the sides and hurt the flesh surrounding them to the point of swelling and blood/ pus coming out of the area. The doctor I went to at first told me to have the toe covered with bandages, never let it touch water and be ok with it being inside sport shoes as long as it's covered. When I went to other doctors turns out almost all she said to me where the opposite of what I should be doing, my toe got worse(now it was more swollen and I had the same problem on both sides of the toe instead of only one side) and I needed a surgery.
The same doctor also gave bad medical advice to a person I know that had burns on her leg. It only got worse.
I really feel bad for those who went to her for more serious problems than hurt toes and skin burns, who knows what happened to them.
This is why it's so important to do your own research, advocate for yourself/ loved ones who may be ignored, and get second/ third opinions when your doc is clearly not doing anything beyond 'put some ice on it and you'll be fine"
I was sure my dog was pregnant what with her enlarged teats. Took her to the vets who felt her stomach but could find nothing and said it was a phantom pregnancy. A few weeks later my dog gave birth to five healthy little phantoms. And yes, I did get the opportunity to later tell the vet "I told you so."
My husband was told that he has IBS and has had stomach issues since he was a kid. One day he was shaking, bent over in pain and vomiting only green liquids. He has to spend 5 days in the hospital with diverticulitis, and another week off work with large antibiotics. It's a treatable illness's with surgery.
The story of the Stay at Home Mom that actually had cancer and was dismissed by the doctors that saw her repeatedly then threatened with divorce by her husband (which the child who wrote the story probably cut all contact with that sperm donor) at her worst and dying of stage 4 lung and brain cancer (9:13 not making everyone sit through it by placing the beginning timestamp, pause if you want to read thoroughly). Makes me wonder if "Dear Husband" was not being a "DH" and having some sort of affair on the road while she was at home taking care of the kids and slowly dying of cancer without knowing she had cancer due to the doctor dismissing it as headaches and migraines repeatedly. He was just waiting for this so he could up and leave her.
Though I wonder what the update to that story was I hope it wasn't what I said. Though it most likely probably is. Him changing his stance when they found out won't count for anything if she did of course die from it, since it's a stage 4 cancer that metastasized all over her body.
Wow that was a quick cancer if it grew and spread within months. That story was the worst.
Agreed entirely, and perfectly said sperm donor, that's all he was and a disgusting person. That was the one story that left me with a sick feeling in my chest, absolutely horrendous situation to be in, can't even imagine.
Spent about 10 years with untreated epilepsy. My mom tried to tell our doctor that she didn't know why I would stare blankly into space unresponsive and then act confused after a minute, and he just told her "Yeah she'll grow out of it." The nurse pulled her aside and told her it sounded like epilepsy, but every place we tried to contact just to get me *seen* by a doctor wouldn't take me because I was in some weird age limbo that none of them covered (I was 8-9 btw but that was either "too young" or "too old"). When I was 19 my mom took me to see a new doctor since I hadn't reliably been to one in years, and as soon as she started explaining to this lady she cut us off and was like "No one has had you tested for epilepsy?? I'm referring you to a neurologist in town that I know." Finally at almost 23 I have a relatively stable dosage that doesn't make me violently ill or barely work, though it's *still* in adjustment to find the perfect balance.
I remember my throat started becoming unbearably sore, almost to the point of crying whenever I swallowed. I checked my symptoms and thought I had Mono, which seemed to add up perfectly. I went to the doctor and explained everything, he told me I didn't have Mono, I had strep throat, and gave me some medication to take. A few days later I didn't feel any better and went to see another doctor. The doctor immediately told me how stupid the previous doctor was. Not only was I right about it being Mono, he told me the medication the other doctor gave me would cause an extremely itchy full body rash. Thankfully because I didn't wait the rash wasn't as bad as it could have been, he gave me a pill to take and a few to take home. Later that night I was already feeling better, after another day of recovery I felt fine.
The woman with the “go get a haircut” symptoms is so similar to my story.
My symptoms were “depression” for several years and it turned out I had autoimmune thyroid disease, hepatitis, some pretty severe shit wrong with my sex hormones, and hypo pituitarism.
The hypo pituitarism was causing my body to not make growth hormone, which is necessary for building and keeping muscle as well as a BUNCH of stuff directly connected to your moods. My body felt like I’d been mountain climbing just walking to the bathroom.
SEVERAL doctors and specialists said that, too. It has to do with insurance. Insurance influences a disturbing amount of what the Standard of Care is.
American healthcare is trash even if you have disposable income and can afford it.
15:45 Not even a medical professional but a few lines into this I thought "that sounds like narcolepsy"
I was born on base, and the doctor refused to believe my mom was in labor because she wasn't acting like women are apparently supposed to in that state, whatever that means. He also thought I was two weeks premature (spoiler alert, I wasn't). I was born in June and the hospital didn't have AC, so on top of that I almost got heat stroke because the nurses insisted on re-swaddling me every time my mom took off the blanket, I guess they didn't care about a newborn overheating.
We'd moved off base by this point, but I'd had a lot of trouble with my tonsils, so my parents asked about having them removed when I was 4. The doctor, not our usual one, refused because I hadn't had a certain number of documented strep cases. One of them ruptured in my sleep less than a week later, and the doctor got chewed out by our usual one because a lot of kids die from that. It's been so long since then that parts of them actually grew back, but thankfully they don't cause me trouble anymore.
I get to share this story! Yay!
It started with me feeling unwell and exhausted. I grew to be seriously sick with me not being able to hold anything down. After a few days of this, we went to my family doctor. He told me that it was just constipation and prescribed constipation medicine. My mom took me to the ER the next day. I had horrible appendicitis. We were told that I could have died if we waited any longer. I went to surgery that night.
My friend was being told it was a sciatic nerve, med seeking, muscle, joint, bone issues. She went to like 5 doctors… after 6 months, she was diagnosed with Stage IV Ewing Sarcoma in December of 2019.
She lost her fight to the cancer May 22nd of this year. Just shy of 2.5 years since the diagnosis.
I will never forgive the doctors who didn’t take her seriously. Her two daughters don’t have their mom in their life now, and their dad is utter crap.
I fell off of a scooter when i was about 11, and the doctor said "its just a bruise you'll be fine"
My mom took me to st louis to get it checked out, and I had a fractured elbow
Ah geez, these stories are all basically, "you'll be okay" fly by night bs that makes me wonder if the docs barely passed medical school or were too busy/uninterested to do a proper workup.
It reminds me of my grandpa's favorite joke
"What do you call a doctor that was last in their class?"
" . . . doctor."
I work in the ER and you are absolutely right
It’s possible to graduate at the bottom of the class
Reminds me of something my Nana always said: “Doctors bury their mistakes.”
@@kranberry3318 sometimes literally
Not a doctor yet, but I've had two instances like this as a patient:
First, I was very sick in college. Flu-like symptoms but no fever and they never went away. Several doctors told me there was nothing wrong with me. One said it was IBD and gave me a muscle relaxant which made it much worse. Turned out it was celiac disease.
Second one: Earlier this year I had stomach pain and digestive problems to the point that I could not eat. Went to the ER three times in a month and also got referred to three different specialists from the ER. Worst symptoms (aside from a pain level of 8-9) were severe weight loss and a blood glucose that risked coma. I'd lost 60 pounds in two weeks and one of the doctors didn't believe the numbers until I showed him the records from the previous ER visit that weighed me. The ER gave me tons of apple juice every time to get my blood sugar up and everyone ran tests. No one knew what it was but eventually the pain stayed at a 9 overnight and I went to the ER after about 8 hours of agony. ER has me admitted for pancreatitis and an inflamed gallbladder. Had my gallbladder out, but pancreatitis went away. The symptoms are better now, so the gallbladder definitely made things worse, but they don't know the underlying problem yet after 6 months and another hospital admission.
It seems like the pancreatitis and the gallbladder were both caused by something else and no one knows what that something is. All tests are normal aside from an MRI angiogram and low potassium/another signaling molecule I forget right now, not sodium. They never expected pancreatitis because I don't drink. Still trying to get this diagnosed, but currently my money's on a vascular problem, possibly vasospasms of the celiac artery.
I had a “sprained knee” that wasn’t healing. After a few follow ups with no improvement I followed the doctor out of the exam room and started arguing with the doctor that it’s wasn’t just a sprained knee. He pulled the “in my 25 years of experience… blah, blah, blah” and reluctantly authorized an MRI. My NEW doctor said my ACL didn’t so much tear as “exploded”.
I wonder how many of these situations become a malpractice lawsuit.
I'm guessing at least half of them.
Not enough
I had a friend who had gone for a check up at gp. As they were doing the eye exam, doctor told him his eyes were red and it was due to diabetes and that he needs new glasses. Buddy decided to see a specialist for it to get some help with how to handle it. This other doctor just looks at him and says, I want to do some tests first and sends him to the hospital to get it done. Week later he gets a good news bad news god news phone call. It’s not diabetes, it’s lukemia but we got it early so treatments should work great. He’s doing great still and it’s been at least 10 years since this happened.
i knew a teenage girl who was having terrible headaches. she went to her primary, and they gave her some light pain meds and sent her off. they persisted, so she went to a neurologist. she was diagnosed with brain cancer, and she passed about a year or so later.
For UTIs when you feel them start put bicarb soda in water and drink it. I put a heaped teaspoon in 1/2 glass of water, if I’m a bit late catching it I take it again that night. Cured within 12-24 hours. If not, then go to Dr.
First option doctor told me I was "inoperable" due to my stomach being "too small for a surgical balloon." Second opinion: "Surgery balloon isn't needed, just 3 small incisions, and less tissue makes it easier to operate."
In the last 9 months, I've seen 2 GP's, (mine retired in this time) 3 orthopedic surgeons, 1 general surgeon, and finally 1 hernia specialist. Also 2 MRI's and 2 ultrasounds. I kept being told I had a strained muscle(s) and no sign of a hernia. Finally, the 6th doctor ordered pelvic MRI which the 7th doctor confirmed was a sports hernia on right side, and a hernia on my left side. It was like pulling teeth trying to get all those doctors to believe me when I told them something was not right.
My daughter was very ill and went to an urgent care where the doctor told her she had a bad cold, to take over the counter cold meds and she'd be fine. She went to work as usual for two days and got worse...she then went to a different urgent care where she was diagnosed with walking pneumonia, the doctor told her if she had went on to work another couple of days she would have had to be hospitalized. I blasted the urgent care that misdiagnosed her on Yelp, telling people not to go there. 😠
I went in for a rash once and the doctor I saw told me, two separate times, that I had scabies. Just with a simple glance. That was scary, because 1, bugs, 2, all the people I could have spread it to. Finally was able to see my own doctor who told me that it was an allergic reaction. It was a really really bad reaction, but we eventually got it under control.
What are you allergic to?
@@hammerboy4214 Lol, lots of things. But it turned out to be my new work place... lots of ppl who work there get sick. I think it might be the dust. Thankfully I don't work there anymore.
I have a brilliant one. Went to the hospital on a Friday with really sore lungs, struggling to breathe and coughing up blood. They did x rays etc and the Dr said you have pneumonia, you can still walk, go home. Over the weekend it was getting worse to the point I could hardly walk and early hours Monday morning while coughing it felt like my lung exploded. Back in to the hospital, saw another Dr who admitted me. Later that morning the respiratory Dr looked at what I was coughing up. He said he thought I had blood clots on the lungs so sent me to do the tests etc. He came back later that day and said I was very lucky, that I wasn't far from dying. In other words as well as the clots in the lungs I also had one making it's way to the heart.
We found out that I have a blood clotting disorder. All the times I had been diagnosed with pneumonia over the years they now think it was clots.
The amount of these that are dr's just ignoring women is just upsetting.
It's their wandering uteruses, moving around the body and affecting other organs...
Not a 2nd opinion doctor but.....
I had a pedeitrician who was bad. For one thing. You see, i have Autism and my mom is poor. The doctor (who probably never did his research) falsely accused my mom of LYING about my autism with no proof. Even worse? They believed them and canceled insurance/welfare. Took us a whole year to fix everything up. This happened 5-6 years ago
Sue his ass
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Did the doctor get his licence revoked?
@@MrDoreius Pff wake up and see the planet you live on for what it is.
My husband nearly died because of a misdiagnosis. He had the worst stomach upset, and really bad stomach pain. He worked 12-15hr days. He was a Mixologist (the supervisor/acting manager) so he couldn't get to a GP/FD. So he finally went to out of hours. He assumed because he was young that it was lingering stomach flu, and gave him pills to slow his bowels down and sent him home. These pills made things much worse. He was in and out of consciousness for weeks, bled profusely.
He was taken in. The Drs took one look at his ob's and panicked. They took bloods and were even more alarmed and wondered how he was alive. He had a colonoscopy. His entire large colon was preforated and ulcerated. They operated, removed the entire large bowel, and gave him an illeostomy. He got worse. A week later they opened him up again. Apparently the doctor took one look and was defeated. It was the worst case of Crohn's he'd ever seen. He closed him back up and said he had to fight it himself, that there was nothing they could do for him. His best friends mum worked as a nurse. In the meeting they had that week, they brought him up. The plan was to keep him comfortable and continue treatment. But that he probably wouldn't make it through the week. He nearly died so many times. He's 6ft, and dropped to 6 stone. You could make out every bone in his body. His legs and arms were like match sticks. 8 weeks later and many many close calls, many ICU trips, transfusions, and operations, he was discharged. 6 years later, he's still here. He kicked the worst case, Crohn's many doctors had ever seen, and lived. (He still struggled, a lot.) But he's still here.
Huge fuck you to the Dr who nearly killed my husband because he seemed young and fit. Your shit attitude could kill. (He also completely missed an illness of mine too. POS.)
My dad was told the rash on his leg was a fatal infection. He went for a second opinion. Turns out, it was just poison Ivy.
I’m not a dr but I was told by a dentist that I needed my front two teeth pulled because they were dead and I needed like 4 root canals. I was so confused because I’ve never had any issues with my teeth. I got a second opinion and the new dentist was like, what??? No! Your teeth are totally fine
"I've had multiple people come to me diagnosed with Appendicitis who have had their Appendix removed".
Comeagainscusywhatnow?!
literally the last doctor before the "second opinion"
Old Doctor: is normal for women of your age to have a higher bleeding
-> get worse -> got suicidal -> quit my job because I felt guilty about doing a shitty job -> Obama care got approved
New Doctor: this is not normal... The hospital said what?!, what PoS is being... sorry my cursing *gets into the phone*
Real cause: Stage 3 cancer going on 4, 2 additional precancers, looks like I had it for almost 4 to 6 years and I was only alive cuz the tummy fat I could never get rid of kept holding cancer at bay so it didn't get into my lymph nodes.
Literally, I was only alive because of some fat I couldn't get rid of for the past 3 years. So if my diet and exercise to get rid of it actually had worked, it would have killed me way before all this.
Remember that one time. Out of the blue on my palms and under my feet started forming some whiteheads that didn't really seem to ever mature (basically there was no white pus in there), and they started to itch a little so my mom brought me to a doctor that didn't even look at my feet or hands, just looked at me, scoffed, and told me to stop eating garbage and they would go away. So I started a diet and avoided things like ice creams and desserts, but after a few weeks they just became more and more and it started itching real bad. Went to the doctor again, who accused me of eating junk food behind my mother's back and just send us away. A month had passed by and my whole hands and feet were covered in these whiteheads and the itch had become so so bad that my mother needed to get me cortisone injections (and that's when my mother realised it was BAD, I would never ask for injections unless exhausted, exasperated and desperate for relief) because otherwise I wasn't able to function without skinning my arms and legs.
After a month and a half my mother finally got an appointment with a dermatologist, who looked at me, grabbed a blue light and shined it on me: my WHOLE arms and legs where covered in needle thin stripes that started from my hands and feet and went all the way up my shins, forearms, thighs, arms and even my hips and shoulder.
It wasn't junk food. It was Scabies. Thanks a bunch doc.
When I was in college, I constantly felt like absolute shit. Congestion issues, exhaustion, insomnia, and more. Kept going to on-campus health and was told it was stress, it was a cold, you need Tylenol. Two years I was in constant rounds of shit. I had a major allergic reaction due to shellfish (something I hadn’t had prior to college), and I finally saw an allergist for the first time in fifteen years. Guy ran blood and skin tests and came back with a whole ass list of things I was allergic to, including shellfish, dust, feathers, and every kind of pollen under the sun. My doc recommended me for allergy shots because I had so many, and, many years on, I only have the shellfish to worry about these days. Massive, life-changing treatment as far as quality of life.
It really sounds like more people need to be sued for malpractice, like some of these are really bad and obvious.
I HAVE ONE!!! I had fainting spells for a while. Saw two cardiologists. They told me it was anxiety. Was put on antidepressants at age 12. Still fainted but was diagnosed with a fainting disorder. One day I had a seizure and was rushed into the er. They did an EKG and discovered I had a deadly heart condition called Wolff Parkinson White syndrome (extremely rare) two months later I went into surgery and got the condition fixed. Now I’m free of WPW but still disabled.
Another time I went into a gastroenterologist for constipation. He told me I was making it up, that it was anxiety, and about two-three weeks later I was hospitalized because my colon was jaw packed with feces. Went to a different gastroenterologist and she diagnosed me with three stomach conditions which I’m medicated for. Some doctors are so bad
When I was a kid, about 6-7 I was constantly sick, I ended up missing most of the year of school because my doctor kept sending me home with antibiotics for reoccurring bronchial infection.. he somehow “missed” that I have a very severe case of tonsillitis… I had opened my mouth to say ahh countless times.. and he still missed it.. anyway on a second opinion my mother was told, by a very shocked doctor, that I needed immediate surgery to get them removed. She had never seen such a severe case before, she couldn’t fathom how it had been overlooked.
Because I missed so much school that year, I never had a chance to make friends, and was very isolated from the other kids for a long time. So not just my health but my quality of life was impacted because having a constantly returning customer was good business.
I once had a doctor prescribed me Lithium because I *might* have been Bipolar. I was 8. And just Autistic + ADHD. The lengths people will go to not diagnose an AFAB with Autism.
Edit: minor grammar changes.
When I was 17 I started having excruciating periods. Like, I bled for 10 days and couldn't do anything. I actually passed out every month before I even bled because it hurt so much. I went to the doctor. They ran zero tests and told me to use a heating pad for the pain. Went to another doctor. They said I had endometriosis. It might be hard for me to have kids, and I may not be able to wait as long as I wanted. Wouldn't have known that if I went to the first dox
I remember getting very sick when I was younger and going to the doctor who said it was a viral infection and just sent me home. We didn't get any second opinion but since I got nothing for my fever or vomiting from the doctor, I have a vague memory of my dad coming back from the pharmacy with a bag of different stuff to treat the symptoms and my mum scoffing at him for getting so much. It's pretty funny and I'm not even sure if it's a real memory or not since I was curled up on the sofa with a high fever.
I went to a doctor who insisted I had no idea what part of my body I was talking about. She talked over me and ignored every word i said. She was also the roughest woman doctor I'd ever met and had laid hands on me, we got the same parts woman, are you really that rough with yourself? Also insisted she saw absolutely nothing after glancing in a different area than I was talking sbout for two seconds... I could literally touch the area and feel that something wasn't right. That was a specialist. I also asked while I was there if she could refill my prescription. 1st, she didn't ask me what I wanted to refill and wouldn't let me say. 2nd, immediately spouted off a random drug name. 3rd, never said what it was or what it did. 4th, I checked it out later and freaked over the side effects of that shit (can cause you to stop breathing and death... I just needed something that acts only slightly stronger than advil - the dosage allows for 10 to 20 doses per prescription, each one only lasts a few hours, the last time I got it refilled was over a year ago, no one in their right mind would think I was a drug addict even if they didn't know how freaking weak that stuff is. A glass of alcohol is stronger than that stuff). 5th, called them to take that deadly shit off my prescription list and replace it with my actual meds that I needed, and they resisted every step of the way. 6th, they decide to replace the meds as a intramuscular shot format (they come in smaller than pea sized pills, normally - also, I was already taking meds that HAD to be intramuscular shots. I don't have any more space for another one of those shots). 7th, they had my record from previous visits and we talked about them, and they were the ones who originally prescribed me those weak pill form meds. 8th, I decided not to have them prescribe the stupid shot format, but they never took off the deadly shit they had first prescribed me. 9th, when I was just trying to get the heck out of there after such an awful experience of a visit, the receptionist chased me out to my car and wouldn't stop bothering me about doing more tests with them (probably so they can get more money from me). I told her no in the office 5 times already, and had to tell her NO nearly 20 times while inside of my car. My dad was the one in the driver's seat at the time, good thing too, I wanted to just drive off and run that bitch over - I'm sure she would have run after the car is how much of a crazy bitch she was.
Next doctor, not a specialist, took a look for a couple minutes and told me she did see something but assumed it was something normal anyway, not helpful. (Not only can I feel with my hands that something is not right, but im in pain nearly every day too - pain shouldn't be normal.) But she absolutely agreed that no doctor in their right mind would do what that first doctor did, especially the meds they tried to give me. I asked her if she could take off that crazy prescription and she said she didn't want to interfere with another doctor... after just admitting that I never should have been prescribed that in the first place.🤨 Well, now I can't get the pain meds I actually needed because I can't get that stupid shit off of my prescription list, I've been waiting for the prescription to expire for at least 6 months now.
P.S. The first doctor treated me so bad that I'm still traumatized by it. I start to shake just at the though of trying to see another doctor about this again. Only reason I went to the second one at all is because I knew they would at least respect me as another human being, since I had been to them before for other things.
P.P.S. I still don't know what's wrong, and I can't hold a normal job because of it. On a happier note, I decided to start my own business so I can have a job without getting fired, because I can't keep regular hours due to the pain. It's not at the point where I can afford my own bills yet, but it's an improvement. (I'm nearly 23 now, this problem started when I was at least 19. I had to quit my first job at 19 only 3 months in, because I couldn't handle the pain and work in customer service. So much for good work history. 😒 Another reason for starting my own business.)
My life is all screwed up because of an unknown problem I can't address and doctors who can't seem to do their job. At least this video made me feel a bit better about my situation. As long as it doesn't turn out to be cancer or something irreparable, at least I don't have to worry about having kids of my own - I'd rather adopt anyway.
Actually, second story: My mother had a bad headache, went to a clinic and was told she had migraines. She drove herself home and took painkillers. Headache got worse. She said it was the worse headache she'd ever had and something about it felt wrong. She drove herself to the ER and it turns out she had an SAH (brain bleed) and needed to be airlifted to a larger hospital that had a higher level of neurological care. She's fine now and didn't lose any memories or brain function, but they flipped out that she not only got misdiagnosed but also drove herself to the ER.
I went to a local doctor in the small town where I live for a black mole on my arm. He glanced at it just barely and declared it was a freckle nothing to worry about. When the mole began to change shape, I went to another doctor Who immediately ordered a biopsy. It was melanoma. Thank God & my NEW Doctor, it was discovered soon enough to remove it completely.
my grandmother died because no one took her seriously. she was a single parent (divorced, ex husband was and still is a piece of shit) of two kids, very poor (ex husband litterally never paid ANY of the child support he owed her) and just generally had a lot on her plate. I dont know the whole story, as obviously this was before I was born (my dad was a teenager I think) but she had health issues for a very long time and her doctor always insisted that it was nothing or that it was just the stress of being a single mother and she didn't have the time or money to get a second opinion. anywho, she went years with steadily worsening health issues, and eventually died of cancer. by the time she was actually diagnosed with cancer (not long before she died) she had been living with it for so long that it had spread all over her body and had taken over most of her organs to the point where they couldn't even figure out where the cancer started. she was basically a walking corpse, as the cancer had pretty much taken over her whole body. she died not long after that. apparently everyone was shocked that she hadn't died years before that.
The one at 4:40 with the midwife is horrifying
Honestly, like you caused that child to have a disability when she could've been fine had you showed more concern
When student doctors learn the old adage If You Hear Hoofbeats it's most likely just a horse and not a zebra some sadly go on to believe it's ALWAYS a horse. One of 3 horses with the names of Stress or Anxiety or The Flu.
Seriously... And don't forget the overweight horse 🙄
@@fourleaves6877 With "sleep apnea" that doesn't respond to CPAP.
My freind just died of rare stomach cancer. Her general physician the last 2 years said blood work and everything fine for age. Wouldn't order xray or prescribe anything for sleep, even though had script before for decade . Or pain med without specialist. She went to his specialists was told your fine for your age. I told her to get second , 3 opinion at this point. She went to paid for sliding scale charity doctor I suggested. As medicare wasn't doing anything for her before. The charity care doctor ordered xray and pet scan immediately, had results the next morning. Called her and referred her to oncologists as blood work, xrays showed anomalies. Week later it was diagnosed as rare aggressive stomach cancer in final stage. Her esophagus, liver and lungs all had the cancer spread. She was told 6 months. Passed 2 weeks later. Thanks general practitioner that wouldn't preform tests cause he wasn't reimbursed from Medicare fast enough! I told her he was OK but to have another doctor as I was patient before and he dismissed and misdiagnosed endometriosis . Told me I had irritable bowel and gave me tramadol and I was making up pain in my head.. I had cysts and needed hysterectomy . Thank God I went to another doctor or I could be dead too. Do not trust a doctor that dismisses chronic problem. He even misdiagnosed my brother in law with edema after 3 years of not drinking completely clean blood labs..that doesn't make sense. it was diabetes and he had a stroke at 35 because of medicine this doc prescribed. He also prescribed medication to another family member that gave them seizures. Once er doc took him off , seizures were gone. But was too late as the bad doc reported and person lost drivers liscense, then job and then house. These small towns we get stuck w horrible one or two docs. It takes emergency or expenses to travel and pay for another opinion. It's amazing how many of his patients r in obituaries. Yet he's doing good in eyes of law because least narcotics prescribed . That and buying out new doctors and their patient lists. It's not about health in Healthcare anymore. It's about least cost and numbers you bring in and keep. Like hospitals. You r just a dollar amount. They get plenty while minimally treating. It's sad.
I have narcolepsy, GP sent me to a psychiatrist thinking I was mentally ill due to the hallucinations (everyone with narcolepsy gets hallucinations in the onset/awakening from sleep, I got declared sane, and luckily the guy was familiar with narcolepsy and suspected that might be the case, it may have been the fact that both appointments I had with him I fell asleep in the waing room 😅
My mom's water broke and she started labor with my brother. She gets to the hospital and everything is going normal. Doc is expecting an average labor cuz she dilating and a steady speed so he goes off to donother stuff. Big mistake cuz my family is far from "average" when it comes to medical situations. Doc thought they'd have a few hours before she'd have to push so everyone was taking they're time getting things together. No big rush we totes got time. Not long after the doc left my mom calls a nurse and "says they babies coming. Now." Nurse shrugs my mom off and says "no, we've got time. It's fine." My moms like "no, we don't. This is my third child. I know the routine by now. And I'm telling you he's coming. NOW." nurse rolls her eyes but tells my mom she'll look to see if it is to make her feel better. Nurse lifts up the blanket and looks and my mom told us that when the nurse stood back up her eyes were huges and she had gone a bit pale and was gasping like a fish. My mom's like "I told you!" And the nurse tries to get a hold of a calm demeanor and goes "uh... I'm... uh.. let me... let me just go get the doc." And instead of walking the nurse does an almost run while yelling for the doc. Few min later the doc comes in with an attitude of wtf is it with hysterical women, doesn't even acknowledge my mom really and lifts the blanket to look. He seemed to have the air of ill show you you're wrong. As soon as he looks the nurse goes "see!" And the doc freezes for a sec then looks at my mom and goes "uh, alright Mrs. Gray, it looks like you're boy is ready to join us, so um nurse, we're gonna need a rush on everyone and Mrs gray, you just keep taking breaths, we're gonna get started her in a few minutes." 15min later ny brother was born to the surprise of those who made the mistake of thinking they'd have a slow night 😆 also, apparently when my mom got there there were some soldiers training to be medics and one of the things they had to do was witness a birth, so my mom was asked if she would mind them being and there's and she said she was fine with it. She doesn't mind helping people to learn especially if they're learning to help others. Well there were 3 guys who had to watch and my dad said that while my mom was pushing, the 1 black guy of the group who was standing in the middle went super pale and had he's knees buckle like he almost passed out. His buddies grabbed him by the arms and held him up, telling him that he's gotta watch through the whole thing. Any time my mom tells thus story, my dad always throughs that bit in cuz its his favorite part
When I was born, the doctor told my mother I would die in a couple of hours, then a few months, then three years tops. My parents were told I would die so many times they just stopped listening. I finally got a proper diagnosis, and it turned out I was literally never in danger of dying.
I also had pre-eclampsia. I also had eclamptic seizures but I was at home and it took 20mins for the ambulance to get here. I needed to be revived twice in the ambulance and once at the hospital. Had an emergency c-section and was in a coma for 18hrs, son was in NICU for a while as he reacted to the anti seizure medication I was given. My midwife referred me to he hospital but they didnt want to see me straight away as my levels were on the fence. But on the day I had him my blood pressue was so high it couldnt be read. Have had 3 subsequent pregnancies and they have been complication free.
If someone suspects ectopic pregnancy there is no “waiting until the next morning”!!!!!!!! Both those doctors messed up. One messed up more but still!!!
18:40 uuugh that one made me pissed, doctors for some reason blame stress when somthing is obviously wrong, something similar happened for me i had headaches on the regular and seizures they said I was stressed and needed to get over it or put me on meds and Tylenol for the headaches....I had a brain injury and a stroke now I have issues with speak, memory, brain function and a permanent seizure disorder 😑
I had where I went to my primary doctor and complained about gi symptoms. She blamed it as a side effect of a medication. I had been off the med for a couple of years, but she wasn’t really listening to me. I eventually got a second opinion by a gi doctor, and they decided to actually run tests. I have gastroparesis, so my issues were from my stomach having issues digesting food and moving it into my intestines.
My dad's doctor was told multiple times that he was getting weird random fever spikes and losing weight. Wemt from 195 to 160 in less than a year with no diet. Finally a different doctor told him he had colon cancer. Surgery was a success but it spread to his lungs. He's in chemo now. The time he lost not getting the right diagnosis led to this :(
We are in danger from people in every profession: incompetent doctors, incompetent mechanics, politicians who think they are smarter than we are. We need to respect our own intelligence and judgment.
The statement in the story about the grandma falling off a horse about how she didn't feel listened to by the first doctor and decided to get a second opinion is one we all need to remember - if we feel like we're being brushed off or ignored by a medical professional, get a second opinion. I'm a retired medical transcriptionist and my husband is a retired lab tech, so we are pretty medically savvy, but we won't tolerate being brushed off or ignored by a doctor.
I can also respect a doctor who tells me they don't know what's wrong with me, and refers me to a specialist.
Not a doctor but I was diagnosed with constipation... Turns out I was having a heart attack!
I was diagnosed with sinusitis, then ear infection, 4 ER visits in one week. Fourth time was diagnosed with encephalitis!!!!!!!!!
My brother got a sore throat when he was in his twenties. He's always been fairly healthy and didn't hiink much of it. But it didn't go away, and after a couple of months he went to the health clinic. The doctor barely looked at him and told him it was a cold. His throat kept getting worse and worse and he had throuble breathing. He went back to the health clinic, met the same doctor who still didn't examine him but just told him that he had a cold and to fuck off. He then spent 18 months trying to get a new appointment but was denied because "there was nothing wrong with him". The doctor had blocked him.
Then he finally got an appointment at the ear, nose and throat clinic. The night before he couldn't sleep because he wasn't able to breathe. The ENT doctor looked in his throat and asked my brother if he had any difficulties breathing. My brother confirmed that he struggled a lot with getting air. The doctor walked oit of the room an dreturned back shortly thereafter, informing my brother that he was having emergency surgery first thing the following morning because he had a growth in his air pipe that blocked 99 % of the pipe.
They managed to almost kill him on the operation table as they gave him meds he was heavily allergic to. But the biggest issue was that awful first doctor who never even looked in his throat. If she had it would have been caught much sooner; he could just as well have died in his sleep that final night before the ENT visit.
Went to a bunch of psychiatrists throughout my childhood only to be diagnosed with OCD, ADHD, Depression, PTSD, Bipolar Disorder, etc.
Finally at age 17 I got diagnosed with Autism and Dysthymia (a type of chronic, life-long depression) and got proper help. This is extremely common for people, especially women, with Autism. I went through about 10 psychiatrists in my life who were barely qualified and finally got help 4 years ago
You'd think all the time and effort spent in medical school would make doctors and nurses more competent, or at least unwilling to take risks that could cost them their medical licenses.
Unfortunately it's not so much about taking risks, as it is just saying "Eh, it's good enough." They think their diagnosis is good enough, so no further testing is needed. It's the same mindset that results in potential fire traps escaping notice, or buildings being built with inadequate load bearing capacity (which can lead to partial or full collapse). Someone just said "Eh, it's good enough" with no further analysis. Recipe for disaster every time.
Chest pains, heart pounding and difficulty breathing even at night and made working out impossible. Couldn't even walk my dogs without feeling like I'd pass out. Doctor took one look at me and decided it was because of obesity and talked down to me "when you exercise your heart rate goes up". Like yeah, no shit but that doesn't explain why I couldn't breathe at night. Turns out of my medications was at too high a dosage. They lowered it and the pain stopped. And I can walk my dogs again!
18:30 REPRIMANDED?! That guy should have LOST HIS FUCKING LICENSE
My father managed to live through having an aortic aneurysm in 2010. He was diagnosed with it in France, they (for whatever stupid reason) allowed him to fly back to Australia, with a 6cm aneurysm. He had surgery the next day, everything was fine for a week. The day he was due to be discharged, the pain came back, as did the aneurysm. Another surgery, that took 12 hours to complete, section of his aorta had to be removed and a graft put in place - saved his life but he ended up paralysed due to restricted blood flow to his spine for the 12 hours.
My time to shine!
I passed out after turning too quickly around October. Went to a specific specialist who looked at me for barely a second and I was told I was stressed and it was allergies, Things kept happening, like the dizziness when I turned to one side and eventually my hearing on my right side got worse. Went to the same type of specialist a year later, she ACTUALLY looked at me told me I needed a scan. Turns out those “allergies” were a benign brain tumor! I could’ve relearned to walk and talk my less busy sophomore year of high school but had to take the recovery on in my overwhelming junior year. So yeah, had to suffer for about an extra year cause a doc didn’t do her job.
Not really a “second opinion story” but only because there wasn’t enough time and definitely fits under “Incompetent medical ‘professional’” story
Basically my mom was having terrible stomach pain and so my dad brought her into our town hospital, and the only diagnosis we get is “indigestion”, I’m pretty sure, because it’s a small problem in our small town, the docs only thought she was in for drugs and refused to give even pain meds. Well my dad began to head out to another place for a second opinion, but never got the chance as not even 15 minutes after they left my mother’s appendix burst.
A dentist once told my mom that she needed a root canal. She got a second opinion and that dentist couldn't find a single thing wrong. That was four years ago and she's never had any issues with her teeth since, so idk what that first dentist was on about.
he was on about the $$$
My dentist wanted to perform surgery on my upper jaw to “fix” my overbite. To be fair it’s not a very prominent overbite but they were not willing to take out my braces if I didn’t get the surgery.
Went to a small dentist office (the first opinion came from a med school) and the small office dentist said I didn’t need it if it wasn’t causing me any issues. He actually revealed a lot of dentists will recommend unnecessary surgeries so they can put it on their resume. Plus they neglected to tell me of the risks involved which included numbing and difficulties chewing and I’ve read countless horror stories of things never being the same. It’s been over a decade and my jaw and teeth are still fine.
I always recommend getting a second opinion on teeth, and for overall health in general
5:15 and a virus bad enough to cause severe pain and vomiting in a woman who is already immune compromised and about to give birth tto a defenceless baby isn't a problem apparently?
That one about the pregnant woman whose baby ended up with cerebral palsy... I hope they sued!
In 2017 I had lyme disease. My regular Dr couldn't get me in, so I went to urgent care. They gave me a month's supply of lyme meds. About 2 months later, I was still in a lot of pain. Regular Dr couldn't get me in, so I went to urgent care again. The Dr there said let's do blood work to see if the lyme triggered rheumatoid arthritis. About a week later, I was able to get to my regular Dr to go over the results. He said that my rheumatoid factor was high, but people can have a high rheumatoid factor and it's not rheumatoid arthritis. A few more weeks go by and I was still in pain. So I call to get in to my Dr. He wasn't in, but I got in with the NP. He saw my blood work and said that I have rheumatoid arthritis. Normal rheumatoid factor is 0-14, and it can go up to 20 for people without rheumatoid arthritis. My rheumatoid factor was almost at 90. Still boggles my mind how a tick bite can fuck up my life. At 37, I'm trying to get on disability from the rheumatoid arthritis
My sister: Excruciating stomach pain starting at 14 that comes and goes. Is told by a series of doctors (no less than 4) its psycho somatic (all in her head) 16 years pass. She still has the pain regularly and is considering su!c!de, her BF convinces her to try one last doctor.
She had endometriosis. A month later she had a full hysterectomy and is pain free.
Almost lost a sister to the absolute incompetence of those doctors. In the meantime my sister was gas lit by professionals into thinking she was entirely making the pain up.
I was told by my lifelong doctor that my symptoms were due to stress for 6 months and it turned out I had 2 types of infections that my immunesystem couldn't fight off because I also had developed a serious chronic neuroinflammatory disease. The other doctor figured me out after the first round of bloodtests.....
First story I called from the first three symptoms, just from _Party of Five_ and a college chancellor who had that same disease back when I was in grad school. How awful that a nurse *and* a doctor both missed it!
Oh, the gallbladder one ... I went for 15 MONTHS, so many doctor visits because of excruciating stomach pains, multiple ER visits, got told it was this or that, take these pain meds, before someone FINALLY checked my gallbladder and I had emergency surgery the day after. Took 6 hours, don't even know how many stones were there, and my gallbladder had begun to grow into my liver. Surgeon said it was the worst case he'd ever seen. No surprise when it had gone on for 15 months ...
Went to an urgent care last year. Was constantly exhausted to the point of barely being able to stay awake. Felt really weak. Had a lot of phlegm. Had go e through an entire course of antibiotics. No fever. They gave me a Covid test and sent me home without a follow-up. Turns out I have an autoimmune condition that inflames my blood vessels. They were particularly enflamed in my lungs, thus the exhaustion and the constantly coughing up phlegm. Never going there again.
Lemme guess you’re “fully vaccinated” aren’t you...
30yrs ago my grandma went to the doctor with flu symptoms the doctor had an attitude and told her it will pass. An hr later while she was preparing things for Christmas dinner the next day she was dead. She dropped down dead while i was mixing the cake mix. I was 12 yrs old. Turns out the doctor was drunk and killed 2 other patients that day. 😡
My dad was diagnosed with acid reflux that did not improve. He went a second time to the same doctor and he repeated that it was just acid reflux.
Turns out my dad had developed heart disease and they were the warning signs he was going to have a heart attack. The fact that 1. Heart disease is what killed his father at a young age (below 50) was ignored.
2. My dad was a heavy cigarette smoker. 3. His diet is extremely high in fat and cholesterol
This was all ignored because my dad was on the slim side and the assumption is that heart attacks happen to fat people, not slim people. He changed doctors after this happened, quit smoking and eats better, just not as better as he should. He reminds everyone that skinny doesn’t mean healthy now lol and to always keep trying to quit smoking.
Mine isn't a misdiagnosis, mine is a mis-medication. I was diagnosed with ADHD very young, around six years old. My doctor prescribed me blood pressure medication because, according to him, ADHD was caused by a blood pressure issue. In a six year old. Well, I was only to have half a pill a day(which didn't work. Obviously) except one day. My dad gives me the entire pill. Cue poison control and the ER because they gave a SIX YEAR OLD BLOOD PRESSURE MEDICATION. On top of it, my parents never bothered to get me properly rediagnosed or medicated so I just suffered for years, and still do because getting diagnosed as an adult sucks.
What I learned from this video: if something is clearly wrong and the doctor dismissed, ignore them and get someone different to help.
Had back problems after helping a friend move (had a refrigerater fall on me) kept having back pain, getting worse. CAT scan and MRI apparently showed nothing. Went to neurologist, it two months even with E.R. referral, he did a spinal x-ray with contrast. I found out I had been living with a ruptured disc and 2 herniated discs, he said mri and cat scans were so poorly done nothing would show. Had surgery and long recovery. Worst part is I started thinking this was how my life would be forever. Still have issues cause it went untreated for so long