Doctors, When Could You Tell A Patient Was Faking It? (r/AskReddit)
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Gotta love it when there's doctors who are more worried about their egos than people who are visibly in pain -_-
Most people don't understand that the last wall between their town being "well" and being "satisfied customers" is doctors who refuse to become heroin dealers for ethical reasons.
2:00 This world needs more doctors like you who have empathy for their patients and an understanding that emotional pain is important too.
I remember a few times I'd get violently sick in elementary school due to food intolerances but be fine like an hour later. The principal hated me. My teachers liked me. They would keep me in the office bored as heck and when I asked for a different book to read to pass the cramps, I was told "if you are healthy enough to read, you can return to class".
I still hide my symptoms to this day because I have a job/ friends/ family who rely on me and I couldn't get sick.
I was constantly fainting and needing excessive sleep and had severe salt cravings. They asked if I was faking and thought it could be psychological. Nurse thinks it could be adrenal. Sure enough had a tumor the size of a golf ball! 🙄 All better now!
I had similar symptoms to what you had. My endocrinologist ended up diagnosing me with adrenal insufficiency as the cortisol level from the set of labs done the next day were almost non existent (iirc it was like 1.7). He then did follow up labs to determine the type I have and thank God it showed that it is likely secondary if not tertiary, although we (him, the doctor and I) suspect that it is secondary due to the absolute shit ton of meds I'm on that affect the HPA axis (hypothalamus, pituitary and adrenal).
Twice I have been accused of faking head pain by EMTs. The first time I turned out that I was having a hypertensive crisis and a basilar artery aneurysm. The second time I was found to have had a parietal lobe stroke and another hypertensive crisis. Yeah, I was faking it so well I found a way to mimic a fricking STROKE!
Oh wow, I can't believe those paramedics thought the grandma was faking it. As soon as OP started describing the symptoms I knew she'd had a stroke and I am nowhere near a doctor or a paramedic.
Same here. Definite stroke.
I wonder if they could sue those who refused to help her. It's possible her death was in part their fault.
Distracting kids is not very reliable to know if the pain is real or not. At 5 I fell and hurt my arm and kept crying until my friends went back to play without me, I then joined them and stopped complaining, so my mom thought I was fine. Turns out my arm was broken! 😂
Josee Anne Joly Youre correct. I broke my arm at seven (it eventually had to be rebroken and put back in place). The shock kept me from crying, so my mom didn’t believe I had hurt myself until my arm turned black from the bruising.
When I was a baby I got stomach cramps constantly and my parents would take me to the hospital for them to state nothing was wrong we me saying I was faking (between birth and 2 years old) until they watched me curl up in a ball clutching my stomach crying, it turns out before I was born my umbilical cord had gotten knotted up inside of my and made feeding quite hard. The doctors wouldn't even do any of the operations I needed however until I was 2 and a half including a very obvious skin deformity that was liquid collecting in like a ball by my mouth and would frequently burst spraying puss everywhere. There is a silver lining however as these problems have been fixed for years since they finily figured out I wasn't lying so I can live as a normal human
Jeez. They left you in pain? Umbilical hernias get repaired right away!! I know that's not what u had, but similar. How did they miss it?
I'm sorry but how tf does a baby/toddler fake pain that severe-
I was the one (suspected of) faking. Hallucinations? Severe, crippling anxiety? Sensory sensitivities? Balance issues? Off-the-charts making-me-cry-from-pain-sometimes headaches? Must be bad parenting, letting your kid (me) get away with anything and everything. Parents were recommended to send me to one of those whip you into shape schools, where the kids live on campus, have basically no interaction with parents, everything is strict AF, teachers/staff/whatever dictate everything from when you eat and sleep to how long/often you shower, basically the army but in school form.
Yeah no lol. Turns out my immune system was (and still is) attacking my brain as though it was some foreign pathogen. I was completely pulled out of attending school physically, and mostly out of school in general, getting maybe an hour of schoolwork in per day, because that's how bad my mental stamina is with all the crap I have to deal with every fucking day. But sure, it's nothing a firm touch can't fix. You go and think that. I curse you to have your first grandchild deal with what I'm dealing with, and I hope you make the same recommendation for his/her treatment you made for mine.
I love the drs who are good, who agree that people might be faking but, even if they are, they’re drs and need to treat them.
As a 20 year old in college, I couldn’t stop vomiting and had severe pain. I had an iron stomach (could eat anything and never threw up) so I was scared. The dr at the school clinic was like, how much have you been drinking? What illegal drugs did you take? I was so angry. As a stereotypical goody-two-shoes, I didn’t drink or do drugs, even at 20 years old. I was sent to the local hospital and same thing. Sent me home with Tylenol. Soon after, maybe 2 months, I was at home and same thing (pain and vomiting). My grandma took me to our hospital and wouldn’t you know? I needed my gallbladder out within 24 hours.
So, yeah, frick you to all the drs whose first response is “they’re faking”.
I can relate to that concussion story. I was sent to the ER by a docs, who then sent me to a childrens hospital for an MRI because I had possible neck damage. Nurse at the kids hospital said I was faking and sent me home for he to pass out in the shower and give myself ANOTHER concussion, and a gash to the head. It took me 7 months to recover.
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Totally agree with the medic about pain relief. It's a medicine. If someone is in pain and you have the means to alleviate it you should. Except of course where the patient opts out if pain relief. I work with mental health and I had a client once that had gall stones. She was also a recreational drug user. They saw her marks and spent so much time deciding weather or not she got pain relief until it was proven she had gall stones. I was so angry. They let her suffer because of their own bullshit predudices. Now I speak up because some nurses will embarrass recreational drug users when they present to emergency and my clients are already unwell and anxious. Just treat the patient and leave your opinions to yourself. That shit is for the drug counselling crew not the emergency department.
I had a blood clot in leg, very very painful & cudnt walk. i was in hospital for 3 days on the 3rd, a nurse told me ''i shud just do the world a favour & go ahead & kill myself, cos at least then I wud free up a bed!''
@@abige69 my God what a bitch. I had a nurse call me "that woman who can't even feed her kid" when I was in hospital with my baby girl. If I could find out who it was (she said it to a group of other patients 1 of whom told me), I'd have had her fired. But at the time it devastated me. Most nurses are brilliant but you always get that 1 or 2 who should never have gotten their diplomas.
Addiction is a domino scale. The staff that considered the "need" for opiates may have been the first level of care that considered the risk of progressive dosage against the risk of dependency. This is the primary reason why EMT's and Paramedics are not legally allowed to administer opiates. It's not because those care providers aren't responsible enough to decide, it's because they don't have enough time with patients to determine bad motives.
@@abige69 What was your age and income when that event occurred? It is entirely possible that the world can be better off when you are gone. I would never assume you are a worthless person. However, if the collective group has any control over the treatment decisions in relation to their living group benefit, maybe they should have more details available before they consider your case "necessary" for ideal society goals.
@@nicholasbyram296 I was in my mid 20s & on benefits, but I'm in the UK so we hav the NHS so free health care no insurance needed. most health care workers are great, I just seem to attract the nasty uns! I used to hav a doc that refused to prescribe me my inhalers cos "I was just going to sell them so ppl can get high!" etc!
I had another doc Yrs b4 that told me getting attacked & raped "was my own fault, what did I expect to happen, living on my own"
One day, I think in my junior year of high school. I woke up, was still tired so I told my mom I felt sick and didnt want to go to school. I didnt get sick often, which helped me when i wanted to fake. My brother knew i was faking and was practically yelling at my mom to make me go to school but she felt my forehead, decided I had a fever, and left me home. I took a nap on the couch for a while, when I woke up I rubbed my neck a little and felt a lump. As someone who was doing a medical academy within my high school I figured it was a lymph node and called my mom. She drove straight home and took me to urgent care. Turned out I had pneumonia all over my left lung and didnt even know. Didnt start feeling really sick until a couple days later. Once my antibiotics finished I didnt feel any better, I actually felt worse, so we went back. Instead of pneumonia, I then had a severe sinus infection, and another round of antibiotics to clear that up. Took 3 weeks before i actually felt any better. At least the docs didnt think I was faking, though my brother felt pretty bad about accusing me of faking. Even I thought I was faking until my lymph node started swelling.
My younger brother was prescribed Vyvanse for his ADHD and it turned him into a violent little psycho with demon hallucinations. He was on that crap for three years until my dad met my now step-mom and she realized it was the meds through context clues in the conversation where we told her his issue. He's on a new medication now (I think Straterra?) and he has admitted that he has almost no memory of those three years. He'll hear about something he did and he'll get upset about it, and it's been six years since then.
This is so wild
I was (and maybe still am, I don’t remember) on vyvanse and never had any problems
Weird how different people’s reactions to meds can be
It’s amazing how some of these doctors are explaining how they should never assume a patient is faking, and if they do they should never let on to the patient. And then some of the other doctors are straight up accusing their patients of drug abuse to their faces
Yeah, this reminds me of the shit that happened to my wife. For years they treated her like a drug addict never believing anyone who witnessed her suffering either. When a doctor finally discovered what was wrong we had a line of doctors lined up to beg forgiveness. There have even been a few who (even with the proof of the problem) STILL try to treat her like an addict.. DICKS!
Damn this vid is out of timing with the audio....
Laid in a hospital bed in pain for HOURS with a back broken in 3 places and a broken tailbone because staff thought i was faking for pain meds until they got the pics back. Then sent me home with meds, went to a better hospital next day and ended up staying there for 3 weeks.
My doc thought I was faking because he couldn't find anything wrong with the knee I was complaining about. Turned out it was displaced pain from a pinched nerve in my back. Happens a LOT.
I’m having exploratory surgery in a week (maybe my 8th op?) and the surgeons will proceed to do anything they need to if they find anything.
For my entire life I’ve had pp issues, from urethral diverticulums to excess scar tissue growing after surgeries. For the past 5 or so years I’d been in CONSTANT pain until when my urethra grew excess (and wrong) cells, and so the growth was removed. For 4 weeks I was pain free (best month of my life!) until the growth came back. (I am female)
It’s hard to see as it blends in with the rest of down there so a lot of doctors say they “can’t see it” when directly touching it
I’ve been told countless times I’m faking it. It made me afraid of going to the hospital because I didn’t want them to tell me this anymore. I was starting to believe it was all in my head and I didn’t want to take up recourses.
From this mixed with depression, anxiety, CPTSD and other things, I’ve been put into psychiatric hospitals.
Doctors, please believe patients with complex, chronic, or unexplained pain. From being in pain almost my whole life, I felt that because my I’ll symptoms were almost invisible, I was crazy! It’s not a nice feeling, and I hope nobody else goes through this.
Lol as a kid I was told to stop faking my hearing loss because my test results weren't matching up, but actually I was pretending to be *better* than I was. I had been tested so much as a kid (my hearing loss was first diagnosed when I was only a year old) that I knew the lists of words by heart and could recite several of them in the correct order because the doctors were stupid and would always pick one of the top few lists. We had them write in my dossier to pick from the other lists and my results became even poorer, but at least they started matching up to the beeps and the tests with the headphones started matching up with the tests with those hard headphones on you skull (which are super annoying because they always get stuck in your hair 😂😂😂)
Disliked for the absolutely botched editing job halfway through.
Always reminds of the time my doctor himself was sick and I had to see a different one. I just had a sore throat but was in a lot of pain nonetheless. She basically did nothing, didn’t properly examine my throat or anything else. Instead she asked if I had any upcoming exams (I was still in high school back then) 🤦🏼♀️ I was pretty offended as I would never waste a doctors time with a fake illness. The best part was that I lost half the day because she didn’t show up to her practice before 12 that day. In my country it’s common that you go to the doctor early in the morning at 7 or 8 am depending on when they open. You can still make it to school/work that way if it’s not too serious which I was planning to do as well. But because she came in so late I didn’t make it of course. The next logical step would have been to give me a doctor‘s note so that I would be able to proof to my school that missed school because I went to the doctor. But of course I didn’t receive that, she only gave it to me after I asked and with a big eye roll. When confronted she told me I didn’t seem sick and would owe her an apology. Luckily my doctor reopened the following days and when I went to visit him he prescribed some pretty strong meds and told me to stay home the rest of the week. I hardly ever get ill and when I do it’s usually pretty mild. I also tend to only have one symptom if I do get ill so it’s just never super bad. I kinda understand where she was coming from but that didn’t change the fact that I had been experiencing a sore throat for days and that swallowing hurt pretty badly and that it didn’t get any better. My doctor always does proper exams, he listens to your lungs and heart, he looks at your throat and your ears, he checks your lymph nodes and takes your blood pressure and pulse no matter how sick or not sick you seem. I don’t know how many people actually fake being ill but I just hope that there are more people like my doctor out there who take their patients seriously especially if they don’t know them. 🤷🏼♀️
I have tinnitus(car accident busted my ear drum) My foster mom swore up and down it was just an earache. The pain and ringing used to be so bad I literally couldn’t function. 15 years later I get sent to the doctor because there was a buzzing so loud in my ear I couldn’t hear. The audiologist looked at my test and was shocked no one had brought me to the doctor since I was 8. I’m 28 now and have to wear hearing aids to have a normal non huh conversation
I started puking multiple times a day and having severe stomach pains when I was 15. They tested me for gallstones and when they found none began continuously accusing me of faking it. Cut to me at age 28 and I’m in the hospital, close to death, because my gallbladder had been dead, inside me, since my problems started. One emergency surgery and several years of pt later, I’m still not back to full health.
I spent over ten years, and ended up having to spend over £500 on a private assessment with a specialist to get a diagnosis of Ehlers Danlos Syndrome hypermobility type. I have never faked a symptom in my life but because it is not something that shows up easily on tests and the following issues like Gastroparesis, stretchy gut, gallbladder infection& stones.... I am treated like I fake things every time I see hospital staff :( some are lovely but often I get a doctor who just doesn’t believe me.
I just want to be home with my family.
Hey there. You're not alone. This is super common for EDS (I have it too!)
There are indeed doctors who are familiar with EDS and understand and believe the symptoms. My recommendation is to just straight up ask them if they're familiar with the treatment of ehlers danlos syndrome. That's how I found my primary care physician, who lives with a relative who has EDS! So she takes my pain and other symptoms very seriously. She's actually really helping with my jank neck.
I had a ovarian cyst as a child, extreme pain.. and the doctor said I was just backed up, they stuffed me up with laxatives even though I was saying I had diarrhea.. it took another hospital to diagnose me correctly.. by this time my ovary had already died and also had to be removed.
My auntie went to the doctors with flu like symptoms and they sent her home after being told she just had a “common cold” died 2 days later of pneumonia
I had a biopsy done on my temple and a piece of my artery removed a month ago.....i had to be put under and everything.....that night I was in a lot of pain but my husband told me that the dr said I shouldn't have any pain and if i do to take ibuprofen.....i called them the next day and told them I was hurting......the nurse told me the dr says to take 1 Tylenol and 2 ibuprofen because I wasn't in bad pain.....i was completely amazed that this person would actually tell me if I was in pain or not.....a month later and the pain is worse but because of the virus I haven't been able to get a referral or see a dr about why I'm having terrible headaches and swelling in my temple and eye
This is where you go to the ER, even despite the virus. Swelling in the temple and/or eye can cause *permanent* loss of vision, and the headaches means there's a LOT of pressure, almost certainly deforming your eye. I'm gonna go out on a limb and assume your vision is affected, everything in that eye looking blurry or fuzzy. If not, you're lucky, but don't expect that luck to last if the swelling gets worse, which it probably will if it's not treated.
If it's visibly swollen, there's zero chance you'll be turned away, that is an emergency on the same level as a compound fracture (where the broken bones are piercing the skin). Skip urgent care, you go straight to the ER. Get someone else to drive you, if possible.
I am so sorry! Hope you're better
This sounds like either a blod clot or irritated blood vessels. What treatments have you tried?
I went to the local ER twice because I had pain in my lower chest to the point I wanted to just lay down and wait for it to pass got sent home with gastric flu got a second opinion who gave me an ultrasound turns out my gallbladder was passing stones for years and they recently started getting stuck in my pancreas
I've had "chronic migraines" for quite a few years and we thought it was genetic because my grandmother has had them her whole life. Went to the ER a few months ago because I went to sleep at 4pm with a pounding migraine bad enough to already go but didn't want to because I didn't like being put on fentanyl when I went last year (still have three hours of my life unaccounted for because a fentanyl/benadryl cocktail had me staring at reruns of Modern Family unresponsive the whole time, according to the nurse) and woke up at 7pm feeling like someone had smashed in the back of my head with a baseball bat. When I got there and explained I didn't want the same treatment as last time because I'm pregnant they didn't believe that I'm pregnant. They made jokes the entire time they were giving me tylenol and made me take a piss test. This was a red flag because I knew it wasn't needed, considering I'd been there for the same thing before. Found out about half an hour later they were testing to see if I was actually pregnant and needles to say I was not happy to be told that I was literally profiled as a faker of pregnancy to get out of being treated properly.
I was passing out in college and was always breathless. College Doctor says I'm faking it, yells at me that woman don't belong in college and that I was using up his valuable time. I withdrew into myself. Still made my A's, but felt exhausted and suicidal the entire year. The next year in one of my classes, another student said "your skin is grayish, my brother was gray like that, and needed open heart surgery, please go to a cardiologist". She gave me her brother's cardiologist info. I made an appointment and when I walked into his office for the first visit, he took one look at me and said sit down. He ran tests and I was in the next day for open heart surgery, I had a birth defect that had gone unnoticed.
As a kid, I developed a neurological condition that ended up requiring neurosurgery, and my parents were told by no less than four doctors I was a faker
Aww the person who stated they are depressed and then feel fine ...could be bipolar....always see a professional. They are trained in their expertise. Hopefully competent, but it's worth the shot instead of continuing your suffering,
anesha20 no that’s depression. bipolar isn’t how people say. its manic episodes then depressive episodes. what she/he was describing was depression
@@bigbeefy1 I'm aware of the criteria for bipolar disorder. I based my response off the description "fine one minute and terrible the next" sounds manic to me. There are also criteria that need to be met. Either way they still need help.
Could also could possibly be adhd
When you have adhd, it comes with something called secondary depression
It’s like normal depression, but is caused by under stimulation.
You can help bring yourself out of it by stimulating your your brain with an activity you like for a while. which can be difficult as putting the effort to do something is the last thing you can bring yourself to do when depressed, so having the assistance of loved one can help a lot.
Refusal of medical attention due to the blind assumption of someone faking it should be a fire-able, jail-able offense. If I was in charge of a medical facility and a patient died or suffered permanent life-altering damage due to a doctor refusing to treat them because they thought they were faking, I would fire them on the spot, seek what legal charges I could press, and immediately dispatch a burn notice to every medical facility I could reach. Any medical "professional" who doesn't do the one and only thing they're supposed to do does not deserve their position and should have it stripped away as violently and thoroughly as possible.
All those that weren’t faking and actually had something wrong with them should sue the hell out of those doctors.
Usually this doesnt happen but tgis time you screwed up tts
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The last time I was this early for something it was a funeral
@@derekdeans9523 oops
Did you get food though?
@@dragonmaid1360 definitely
I’ve had sciatica for most of my life, starting in later childhood. My doctors never believed me, stating I’m “too young” to suffer from something like that, despite my insistence for literal YEARS that I’m constantly uncomfortable at best and in horrible pain at worst. When I was 16 I fractured my spine, and that event has amplified my nerve pain significantly even after I “recovered.” In fact, i didn’t even tell anyone I thought something was wrong after I was injured and didn’t see a doctor/find out what was going on until nearly a MONTH after the fact because i knew they wouldn’t take me seriously. It took me blacking out at school from being in so much pain to finally be taken to the ER where it was found out, and I STILL had to argue with doctors and nurses for over an hour before I could convince them that I was in so much pain I couldn’t move. I literally spend every day of my life now in some degree of pain and have complained relentlessly about this but nobody has ever so much as discussed treatment with me, they just refuse to believe me. My parents do and advocated for me until I became a legal adult but it didn’t help much. I moved to a new city fairly recently and am considering trying my luck with a new doctor but I’m not sure I can afford to. I don’t understand why I have to live like this, it would be so easy if someone would just believe me and help me. Unfortunately the only people who have up to this point in my life are people who can’t help me.
Not to mention I had severe migraines growing up and doctors didn’t take that seriously either, despite my parents’ and my insistence that these were not just headaches. Thankfully they’ve become manageable with medication after having some work done on my jaw (it was out of place and was causing pressure that increased the severity and frequency of my migraines, I didn’t know this until I noticed some gradual improvement after starting treatment to have it moved into place). The healthcare system has fucking failed me so far and it makes me sad to know I’m not the only one this is happening to
He called her a junkie because the results said she was dirty for marijuana?? That doesn't make any sense. Junkies do heroin....
Bruh, you can be a junkie for unhealthy food, and drugs. Smh
@@half-heart9932 if they're talking about a specific thing I guess. Like saying "I'm such a sugar junkie" or something but the word on it's own means heroin addict. I don't see a fat bitch eating eating cake and think "junkie". That doesn't make sense.
Alright, fam. You do you.
I totally feel for you my MOTHER nearly DIED because the er docs wouldn't believe her it took a nurse that mom knew to tell the doc that she wasn't faking. MRI was ordered her brain stem was so deep in her spinal canal (Something like that i'm only 12) she was literally AN INCH from death! my mother has this thing where her brain stem presses down into her spinal canal (Please tell me if it's spinal cord what i know comes from medical shows)
In my sophomore year of high school, my social anxiety got to a point I couldn't stand it (was later diagnosed with autism) and I decided to fake mono to stay home for a break from school. I looked up the symptoms and faked them - pretended I was too tired to walk on my own, drinking a ton of liquid so my parents would notice, claiming my glands hurt. They didn't believe me, but took me to my pediatrician, who also didn't believe me because mono wasn't going around. I cried and insisted, so he reluctantly said he would test for it. A few days later, my doctor sheepishly called me and said the test came back positive. He felt so bad for doubting me, he excused me from gym (my most hated class) for the remainder of the school year. Weird. No one in my school had mono at the time, and I WAS faking it. Mind over matter, I guess.
Have had SO MANY medical specialists insist I was faking. Had SO many surgeries that proved them WRONG. I wonder what it is about me that causes doctors to question my veracity? I wonder if I should have sued back at the beginning of this. Moving frequently has not helped- at all.
The reason you had so many specialist insisting you were faking is because before they saw you they had 10 other patients who legitimately were faking because they wanted drugs. It still isn't fair that the doctors didn't believe you, but you should also be blaming the fakers for making the medical world harder to navigate for those with actual problems.
My mom is disabled. She cannot walk or even stand. One of her doctors asked to her to stand up so she could be weighed and she told him that she could not stand. He told her to stop faking it and that he knows that she just wants the attention. My mom has been this way for over a decade now. Pretty sure she's not faking
Ok, it's not popular but I'm going to say it anyway. Don't do the hand over face "faking it" thing. If you are wrong, you can seriously hurt them. Like, broken nose level of injury. I work in ems, I've seen it happen. Sternum rub works wonders.
I had a doctor that never believed or cared about symptoms I described but would come up with the craziest, unlikely diagnosis guesses.
A big one was when my hands started shaking after starting a new anti-depression medicine. I mentioned both the shaking and medicine to her, sure it was just a side effect. Her conclusion? I had Parkinson's (which was ridiculously unlikely due to my age). Sent me to a (quack) neurologist (he is a whole other box of worms) that she just LOVED sending me to for tests. Nothing. I mentioned it to my psychiatrist (the one who gave me the meds) and it turns out to be a really common side effect of that medication. It was good I told them because the tremors could have become permanent if I had kept taking them. That would have seriously made things hard for me to complete my art degree with a specialty in ceramics!
17:04 Ohhhh that makes my blood boil! I specifically want to be a therapist/psychologist so I can help depressed or suicidal patients. I hope that person loses their license!!!
As someone who has been indirectly accused of faking hearing loss for years, I finally got diagnosed with Auditory processing disorder. Years of asking for hearing tests because I couldn't hear, and when I finally learned that APD was a thing, they repeatedly asked if we were sure I wanted to be tested. YES I want to be tested. I was seriously asked by my high school gym teacher for a doctor's note that verified that I COULDN'T HEAR. Not to mention doctors not mentioning the curve in my back until I went to a new one after puberty so it couldn't be fixed and ignoring my stomach and head pain until the headaches turned into migraines because 'growing pains'
Age over 50 and pain 10 out of 10 is a tell-tale sign. Most people (95%) never say pain is 10 out of 10 unless they are having a major problem (95% of the time), it is they need a bigger high than their previous provider could deliver before they went to prison.
"I stubbed my toe, can't take anything but except sometimes a morphine drip help."
"OMG MY KNEE TESTICLE IS BROKEN!"
This story was the other way around, I fainted at work and smacked my head and neck off a metal table then had seizure like activity. I hate making a scene though so as soon as I got up I laughed it off to my supervisors and finished an 8 hr day. Apparently a couple women in the room thought I was faking cause of my response once I woke up. They didn’t think that after I went to the er and found out I had a concussion and sprained the bones from the base of my skull to my mid upper back, (cervical spine sprain) and then almost fainted again and had to lose my job because of another faint and then so many neurologist appointments. Take people seriously y’all.
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I appreciate the Doctor Who said that you should never doubt your patient. I have Epilepsy . I had a cluster of seizures when I was four. When I was about 20 or 21, I had two seizures in one day. I did not have any others until, I had left the hospital after being monitored for about five days. The doctor even brought his medical students in and told them that I had non-epileptic seizures. They did give me Ativan because I kept startling so easy. I know when they are coming now and can prepare myself before it happens but when it happens very unexpectedly, I am very confused and frightened afterwards. When they gave me the diagnosis, even after all the symptoms of a seizure, completely bitten tongue, almost bitten through, concussion from falling backwards after stiffening, and then shaking repeatedly, hitting my head on carpet covered concrete, and then been told that it was just anxiety, causing them, it was very hurtful. I knew something was very wrong. Eventually, the neurologist did give me Dilantin, but it did not resolve them. Until I was taken home by my mother and aunt because they were worried and confused and realized, I probably shouldn’t be alone, was diagnosed with intractable epilepsy without status epilepticus. we tried Keppra, Dilantin, but they never could regulate the dose where it was safe. And they still haven’t been able to control them. Luckily, the neurologist at home took me seriously. He assured me that Eeg readings can turn out normal all the time, and the symptoms were more of a clear picture of what was happening. Because of Insurance , I am seeing another neurologist, and she is very kind and understanding. Because my family is able to describe the events, she knows that I am genuine, abnormal, electrical discharges in my brain. They have tried more medication, but because of balance issues, and a couple of Stevens-Johnson syndrome reactions, a lot of the notification is more of a danger than it is useful. One medication I take still makes me dizzy, but it controls the bigger seizures so I just kind of deal with it.
During the first visit to the ER, the first question, they asked me was if I had been sexually abused as a child. I answered honestly, and I think they made up their mind from that. I am completely blind in when I and legally blind in the other. The maximum amount I can see is 5 feet in front of me and in order to read the print has to be very large or , I have to use braille or speech software. The person who witnessed my seizure that led me to going to the ER. The first time was my roommate and best friend since childhood. She is totally blind and her mother is a nurse and they knew what was happening. However, I suppose because of her disability, they believed she had no idea what was going on. The way they presented it, it felt as if they believed I was faking. I was frightened, confused, and they happened sporadically. But because they went so much on their diagnostic Machines, they just made me feel as if I was doing it for attention or something. I wasn’t. I don’t like attention put on me. It is very uncomfortable and honestly very embarrassing. I was bullied quite horribly from kindergarten to sixth grade, and even when I went to the school for the blind because of symptoms of autism like Monologue on a special interest or not understanding social cues. In high school this wasn’t the case except for a couple of people. But by then I learned to use my wet to deal with bullies.
The frustration, pain, anxiety, and emotional pain was very intense. I now have trouble with my memory, certain fine motor skills, I am now considered legally deaf without my hearing aids, but because my audio pathways are very well developed from previous use, they are , well compensated for with Hearing Aids. Unless I am in noise, I do OK even without them, but it takes a lot of concentration and louder than normal speech. Later on, we discovered that I have been having milder seizures on my life. I was accused all throughout school of not paying attention when I was just missing information because I was having String seizures I was even yelled at during high school in my algebra two class because I would miss certain parts of the formula and they believed I was just not listening carefully. I would randomly become disoriented and it was put down to my eye condition, retinopathy of prematurity is known to cause disorientation more so than normal in people that are legally blind or visually impaired. There were so many signs and they were all missed and put down to my vision. It was the same with Asperger’s also. It wasn’t as well known during the 90s and the autism was completely missed until I was about 21 and had to go to the psych ward because of suicide attempts just trying to get away from all of it. Please, please always take your patience, seriously. Unless there is no infectious disorder, most people aren’t trying to pull one over on you. There are those who do it to get out of legal issues, but that clearly wasn’t the case with me. During high school, I was literally terrified when I had a soft drink in my backpack because you weren’t supposed to take one into. Class if that says anything. Luckily, my current neurologist is willing to try other medication’s and does not get irritated when I have side effects that aren’t tolerable. Our whole family reacts strangely to medication‘s.
I am getting proper care now, but it is taken over 34 years to achieve it. No one should have to live like that. Please take people seriously.
For the very last story, people that aren't drug addicts don't usually down an entire massive bottle of Nyquil and pop a bunch of aspirin on top of it... Just an observation... unless you were trying to commit suicide? I don't think you were but it's hard to tell why else you would have done that
EMT here. I’ve learned to tell if patients are faking, and it’s always hilarious to give my partner a look because I can tell he knows exactly what I’m thinking.
Smelling salts always get fake seizures. I’ve had them myself and they are a force to be reckoned with.
While I’ve never put an IV in, doing the whole “we need to put an IV in blah blah” works too.
We never tell the patient we think they’re faking. That’s not our job. We just tell the doctor what we think is going on. We say they are “Factitious” (real medical term for faking shit), and the patient doesn’t know what it means so it’s discrete enough. The funniest call I’ve ever gotten was a 40ish year old girl that thought it would be a good idea to fake an allergic reaction. She didn’t do any research and kept clutching her throat, but speaking clearly with “I can’t breathe”. While this should be taken seriously, no stridor or any abnormal lung sounds were found inferior to the trachea or in the actual “wind pipe”. No other signs. No hives, snotty nose, not so much as puffy eyes. We did all the breathing tests and counted her respiration’s and nothing was abnormal. We knew she was bullshitting but couldn’t tell her that because she could just say we were wrong and legal shit blah blah. So we just kept to ourselves till we got to the ED. Told the doctor who said she was a repeat offender for similar, and had no allergies pertinent to the scenario. The things some people try for attention.
I’ll also add that she couldn’t tell us what her symptoms were. Just the dramatic throat grab. No cyanosis or redness.
over half these vids are of people not faking, misleading title for the vid
Jesus christ, the one about treating the patient’s pain according to how they describe it is so real. I wish more doctors did this. I’m prescribed a 50mcg fentanyl patch and 10mg percocet for breakthrough pain every 6 hours. I was just in the hospital for 2 months and they wouldn’t even give me the meds that have been prescribed to me by my pain management doctor for the last 2 years. Instead they gave me a 10mg hydrocodone every 6 hours and a 2mg shot of morphine every 4 hours. Nothing for extended pain relief. A single 10mg hydrocodone hasn’t been more effective than a tylenol for me for at least 10 years. I’ve been stable on the patch and percocet for 2 years now, but they refused to give me those. Before my doctor switched me to the percocet I was taking 8-10 hydrocodone a day just for breakthrough pain, that’s on top of an extended release pain med. After two weeks in I finally convinced them to at least change the hydrocodone to percocet which was a little more effective for controlling my pain, but that stay in there still ruined my sleep pattern to the point where I haven’t been able to get back to normal yet and I’ve been out for a month now.
Thankfully my last 3 weeks were in an in-patient care facility where they actually got me the proper meds to control my pain. But the time in the hospital was absolutely miserable between the pain and the lack of sleep because of pain. I’d really like to see them stuck laying in a shitty hospital bed for weeks on end with my level of pain and then tell me with a straight face that I don’t need the medications that are prescribed to me. Fucking ridiculous.
And yes, there are concerns about what those medications will do to my liver long term, but every LFT I’ve had done has come back normal and I’ve been prescribed opiates for 12 years now. The amount of acetaminophen is why my doctor switched me from hydrocodone to percocet. I’m hoping my state will eventually legalize medical marijuana and I can transition off the opiates entirely. But I honestly don’t know how effective marijuana would be for controlling my pain. I just don’t like the idea of being on opiates for the rest of my life.
@Lenia Carter Ya there’s been quite a few times where my insurance required prior authorization which delayed me getting my pain meds refilled for a couple days and I’d go into withdrawals and it was absolutely horrible. It made me feel like a damn junkie. I wasn’t able to sleep because it felt like I had static electricity running through my bones which kept me from finding a comfortable way to lay in bed. I’d get cold sweats, and all of that was on top of my pain being completely uncontrolled. I’d love to get off the pain meds and onto marijuana, but I’m definitely not looking forward to tapering off of them and dealing with all that comes with that. I’m sure it won’t be pleasant lol.
Up until a couple of years ago, I used to have to go to the ER every two to three months because of huge kidney stones. Everyone kept acting like I was faking it until they would do a CT scan. I didn't appear frightened or in obvious pain because I knew what the problem was. Turned out that my migraine medication was causing the monster stones. Stopped taking it and haven't had but a couple of small ones since.
I am constantly nervous doctors will think I’m faking, that while in full labor with my son, I asked for some ibuprofen. The nurse just laughed at me.
this just happened to me. i have been ill since august. nausea, vomiting, severe stomach and abdominal pain. i went to the emergency room 4 times in one month. every single doctor thought it was part of my panic disorder and depression. my PCP said with all the tests coming back fairly normal it must be psychosomatic. another urgent care dr told me that same thing. 3 days ago, a GI doctor diagnosed me with gastric intestinal metaplasia. i have precancer in my stomach.
i cant wait to tell my PCP what they found. so much for the "mentally ill girl" faking. i am actually really physically ill. ive lost 45 pounds in 3 months. i am planning to go to the administration and request a hearing on the treatment of mentally ill individuals who also have physical health problems. i endured 3 months of absolute hell because everyone chocked it up to mental issues.
Please review your videos before posting them! Literally the least you can do.
It is a sad state of affairs when you go to a hospital for help but are dismissed. They should have lie tests . A friend of mine lost her sister
She was having bad pains in her gut. Went to ER, they sent her home with pain killers. The next day she was dead from sepsis. UNBELIEVABLE
In October of 2021 (last year) shortly after I saw my endocrinologist, I started having symptoms of adrenal insufficiency. Fast forward to January 2022 and I saw my endocrinologist again and his first thought of what was causing my symptoms (abdominal pain, persistent vomiting with anything but TINY amounts of liquid, dizziness with anything but being horizontal and a horrible craving for salt to the point of having a few packets of soy sauce every couple of hours) was adrenal insufficiency. He sent me for Stat labs for my cortisol level and come to find out that my cortisol level was just about non-existent. He started me on hydrocortisone and within a week and all but the dizziness with being anything but horizontal as the untreated adrenal insufficiency has straight up fucked up my already pre-existing dysautonomia to the point of now I can only tolerate being in a vertical position for about 3 hours total a day.
I also no longer trust the hospitals in my area as a result of the hospital that I typically use could not get my steroids or insulin (yeah, I also have diabetes) correct for the life of me.
I had a seizure for the first time and the paramedics thought I was on drugs.
The voiceover had a stroke at the end of the ectopic pregnancy story
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There’s also APD (I have)
Where physically your ears are fine but you brain is unable to properly process what you hear every time
I feel that kidney cancer one
I had 2 Doctors dismiss the pain and swelling above my left knee as growing pains and a trapped nerve, until a third doctor sent me for an x-ray. As you might already have guessed, it was cancer. Thankfully this was only a few months
All eggs are fertilized outside the uterus.
Hahaha wait I actually kinda belong here! I started having to go in for a LOT of ear issues- I mean a lot. I was getting ear pain like every other week. My doctor when checking it out kept telling me it was just a bit of fluid behind my ear. It wasn’t a bit. At all. It got so bad three days later that I debated going to the hospital. Lo and behold two days after that I can’t hear out one ear, so another doctors appointment, she looks at my ear and just goes “Wow.” Looks at me “I don’t know how you did it, but it looks like your eardrum was perforated and looks infected.” Long story short: doctor ignored constant fluid building behind my ear, my eardrum ruptured, and she is now chalking it up to allergies though allergy medication does not help. Cant wait for the next infection cuz she refuses to refer me to an ENT specialist :)
12:48 the Chiari malformation? My mom has a mild form of that. Causes near daily migraines.
I had these severe headaches and was throwing up for no reason...doctors told me I was just a teenager and was depressed and my mom was just “overprotective” ....I was 10.....yah i had cancer quite literally everywhere along my spine and brain and if I was left for much longer my intercranial pressure would have gone so high I wouldn’t be writing this...never listen to doctors if you have a gut feeling or know there’s SOMETHING WRONG!
I have heart palpitations often, Tried telling my doctor but his response was ''you're too young to have heart problems''... bruh.. Now I can't exercise, move too fast go up stairs too fast.. stand up too fast or get too excited as my heart goes absolutely ballistic and wrong.
Tried another doctor but same result without them even listening to my heart or recommending any scans.. yay..
The doctor who changed the cast reminds me of some troubles of the Japanese health care system. Old people will get drips at hospitals just because it makes them happy. This doesn't require it, but leads to beds being used up--the beds are a famously bad situation (ambulances may drive a long time finding hospitals with space). One wonders if the aging population often goes to the doctor for company. It's handled by the system, but those who work in it know the heavy burdens on it. But, they would rather do than not. It's nice, but...
I cant go to the doctor without fear of being told it's nothing. For the past year I have been getting pains in my knee for no reason and it can hurt to walk. I dont want to go to the ER cuz it's not important, but if I go to my doctor she will prity much tell me to shuck it up. So now I kinda just live with pain in my leg while I walk half of the time
Not quite the same but a funny story still. When we were teenagers my sister suddenly couldn't move her neck. She was big into punk rock/metal so looking back one wrong head bang or mosh pit could have caused it as she admitted to me she liked to stand at the very edge of the mosh pit section on concerts and see the utter chaos which included them sometimes pulling in the edge of the no moshing section. For those that don't know a mosh pit/moshing is pretty much aggressive dancing in a tight crowd where you might, for example, body slamming the person in front of you and its sadly not uncommon for a mosh pit to become a giant arena with injuries. IDK why my mom let my sister do this at 16!
Anyways she isn't paralyzed but can't move her neck. They decide she needs surgery. Apparently a nurse poked her neck. Naturally a faker would assumed they should be in pain and scream. My sister said she just looked at the nurse confused and, in front of a scared teenage patient, yelled "OMG! She's not faking it!" My sister told me the story after and how scary it was to have the nurse act so scared that this teenager might not be faking needing surgery. We're Navy daughters, BTW, so it was likely in a military hospital where I refuse to believe they didn't find a lot of "Navy brats" needing legit care from being rowdy teenagers acting out because a parent was away so much. Sure there were fakers for the same reason but I have doubt in a beach city in the 90s with lots of surfers, skateboards, and rockers that it was the majority. Though this was the hospital that told my dad his foot pain was from his blankets being too heavy to avoid having to compensate him for an obvious work injury...
One of my first days on the job as a new EMT, doing an inter facility transfer on a very crazy and troubled 13 yo who tried to commit sui by swallowing a handful of Zoloft and Trazadone and was stabbed 7 times, a week earlier in a fight. during the ambulance ride turns to me and says she feels like she is dying and starts pretending to go unconscious. Vitals unchanged. My experienced aemt trainer immediately recognizes she is faking it and VERY sternly says if she doesn't snap out of it we will have to put a tube down her throat and pump her full of medicine through an IV. She stopped the act immediately. Blew my mind. I felt like an idiot because I started setting up a non rebreather and tried to do a sternal rub on her to wake her up. In my mind I was thinking treat the patient not the vitals monitor. Will never forget that call. Always expect the unexpected
Did anyone else experience the glitch between the written and spoken words?
I had a problem as a kid where I'd keep getting strep throat and the doctors would think I was faking it and it never showed up on the first test but lo and behold they kept sending a kid with strep back to school and calling them out halfway through the day when the longer test proved it
The sound is totally out of synch with the text.
I had a fake doctor once, saw him on the news being arrested
My doctors assume im faking it and im in a lot of pain rn. We have kept going back over and over again (about 2 years of this now) and i have been in a lot of pain the whole time. I wish they would listen to me. The pain is horrible stomach pain and i was told i dont poop enough. I do considering every day i take 3 caps of miralax every day (makes you poop) and sit in the bathroom for 4 hours until i cant feel my bowels anymore. Im done with this i just dont want to feel pain anymore.
About the cast guy…..the drs are actually doing harm bc a cast on for longer than it needs to be the muscles in that area will atrophy and the skin will degrade. First do no harm.
Story at 21 mins. 3 years later! If you had a cancerous tumour on your kidney for 3 years you wouldn't be alive to get that diagnosis! The cancer wasn't related to the earlier pain! I kept having dreadful, dreadful period pain, and years later I gave birth! That's right, totally unrelated.
The Opioid epidemic is making so many doctors scared and makes them suspecious of everyone and sadly people that are truly in pain get treated like drug seekers bc of this stupid epidemic.
I was born with a very rare kidney/liver disease and in my short 33 years I have undergone 3 seperate kidney transplants and 1 liver along with 10 combined years on dialysis in between. Due to the dialysis in FUCKED my body in so many ways, mostly I ended up with 3 very pain bone diseases, I am in severe constant pain daily and bc of that am on a high dose of Opiates, and because I'm kind of young and have been dealing with this since birth I have learned to keep a strong composure even at the worst times because sitting in the ER screaming and yelling at nurses and doctors who are just trying to help me isn't going to solve anything so bc of my quiet nature I get accused of faking soo often even though I have a fucking medical record thicker than 50 texts books, because of the way I've been treated the last few years by ERs I literally don't go to the ER unless I feel like I am on deaths door, Last year I let Pnumonia go for 2 days longer than I should've bc I thought it was just the flu and a bad cough and didn't wanna get the third degree from condisending doctors and nurses who will be like "I can get you some Tylonol?" and if I tell them that it doesn't work on me bc of my past and I need something stronger I am automatically a drug seeker, this Opioid epidemic has taken my disease from difficult to unbearable.
I used to fake being sick to get out of school. School was fine. I just wanted a few hours at home alone. As an adult I still need time alone.
22:48 I also feel like I have to prove things to the Doctor. It's not a fun feeling. :/
Strep throat causes a distinctive bad breath smell kiddos. They can tell before they give you the throat culture.
Its weird, countries with free healthcare(finland) people dont do yearly physicals. People look at me kinda weird when I tell them I go to the doc 1 a year to get a checkup, bloodtests, the works. ITs odd.
Seriously couldn't watch the video. At first it was annoying to see the ones where the doctors assumed they always knew best, and then it was the audio being ahead. At least watch the video before you post it for obvious editing mistakes
Pseudoseizures are completely real I get them they are a mental stress body response, saying someone with these is faking will most likely stop asking for help after being injured during an episode.
Ahh reminds me of the time a doctor thought I was faking an allergic reaction. My throat was trying to close up so I pushed the dose of benadryl to the limit of ODing. Well when that failed I went to the ER. They waited so long to see me that the benadryl kicked in and I went from choking on air to passing out.
Do you even listen to your own videos before uploading? Very unprofessional.
I had some pain while pissing might've been a day or two but when I told my stepdad he said "drink more water" can't remember if this was before or after the fact I pissed blood anyways went to the hospital and turns out I had a bladder infection
Damn that first one could you imagine if it was in the US? To constantly go to the ER and get x-rays and casts then come back he would have to be incredibly wealthy or in incredible debt.
I will never understand American fakers....like..do you WANT to be homeless??
I had really bad knee pains and my mom took me to the doctor. First physical exam (my mom couldn't see) and I grasped in pain when he touched the bad knee but only grasped when he started to move my good knee's knee cap but he said i was having the same pain reaction in both knees. He order an xray (which didn't show anything but some small issue) and when the results got back he did another physical exam that went just like the first one but this one my mom saw and asked for more exams. I did mri scan that showed the problem but he dismissed it and said that I'm faking it to my face. My mom took me to other doctor who diagnosed me with a knee cap deviation and later a micro rupture meniscus caused by the prolonged and untreated agraveted knee cap problem. I had surgery to fix it 3 weeks ago after several different and unsuccessful treatments
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Meanwhile I couldn't even see the eye chart abd they wouldn't admit I was disabled.
I wasn't faking it dummies.
My doctor thought I was faking the constant intense stomach pain and was making myself vomit....it literally hurt to eat and it made me throw up.....went for a second and thrid opinion and turned out I have a severe imbalance in my stomach causing pain and ulcers....on a special diet noe
Vyvanse 30mg is a safe starting dose for an adult, no lower than recommended minimum. Straight outta Davis Drug Guide, ya'll. Guide says also that it can be given to improve attention span..., not out of line to be requested or prescribed. No scary boogyman Wild West doc in that story, from what I can tell.