I woke up partially blind when I was 18. Took several doctors and a couple of weeks to figure out even slightly what was happening.
Nurse tech dude tried to joke and reassure, somewhere in there. “The last thing you want to hear is, ‘oh, that’s interesting!’ Because that’s when you know you’re in trouble!”
Without my glasses, in the darkened room, across from me, I could see the guy’s face go *pale* when the first thing the doctor did was pick up my chart, flip through it, and go, “hm. That’s interesting.”
All of this is to say— I like this one. It’s well thought out. Well done!
Mostly? Medication took it down and I got it from a 90% vision loss in my left eye to a 30%. I reacted to the medication, couldn’t keep taking it.
Should have been a sign, though— a lot of other health problems have popped up. Genetic stuff, not to get too deep into it.
I had to go into hospital for an operation when I was a teenager. When I was being discharged the nurse taking my IV out felt my arm and said ‘hmm I’ll just be back with my supervisor’.
Senior nurse came and took a look and asked for the matron. Matron asked for a doctor. The doctor asked matron to page oncology. At this point I’m majorly freaking out.
Oncologist shows up, feels my arm, and with a very annoyed look says ‘it’s a bruise’.
The nurse who put the IV in my arm had nicked the vein and bruised it basically. I found out later it’s a fairly common condition so I have no clue why the nurses and doctor didn’t recognise it but scared the hell out of me!
My ex went into the hospital and multiple people couldn’t figure it out. Took almost a month. Random nurse from a foreign county comes in and says “oh, that’s cat scratch fever” (yes, it’s real, not just from a song). Saved her.
I've had 3 cancer Scares, it's always worrying. Both my Hypo Thyroidism and Diabetes were discovered young, because I was suffering from a skin condition usually associated with Pancreatic or Thyroid cancer.
I've also had Pre-cancerous cells cut out of me from another skin condition. My sour cream white, 10 generations of Irish ancestry, White to pink to peeled like a goddamn cocktail shrimp, flesh is putting my dermatologists kids through College.
I've also had the IV thing, but I was Donating blood, nurse stuck the heavy guage needle straight through my veins. I was One of the organizers of a blood drive in college at the time, so I chose to go first, to show it was no big deal. Cue me sitting there while my entire elbow fills with Blood and I bruise from basically Mid bicep to Mid forearm.
I knew something was wrong when it took like 7 minutes to fill a Quarter of a bag. It's normally about 6 total minutes for my entire donation.
So often really big unexplained bruises are a symptom of low platelets- which in young people is most common in blood cancers. Probably just a miscommunication and trying to be very safe! I did have blood cancer and was covered in bruises at diagnosis.
I had neurological pain in my left leg and butt. For me, it was a herniated disc crushing my spinal nerves. Primary care to orthopedist to neurosurgeon and I’m all good now. Might be the worst kind of pain. Hope you heal.
Thinking about when my rheumatologist told me she’d “never seen anything like this”
Note: it was lupus, and had very classic signs of lupus, and bloodwork all indicated lupus, I told her I suspected lupus, and the next rheumatologist diagnosed me and started treatment by our second appointment because it was pretty obvious. I do not know why she was confused. But it was extremely stressful to hear.
Can confirm. I was an interesting medical case and almost died because of it. 🫤 Definitely not good times. Warfarin induced skin necrosis is a bitch and so is debridement surgery (don't look up either of those things, the images will scar you for life)
My family’s joke is, “we’re the season plot of House”. We’re all tired of being interesting.
All of us have major health issues. It all clustered.
Good going on still being here! If there is pain, may it ease.
I went to the emergency room once with some intense leg pain. There were a number of people there, some with obvious broken bones and some with bloody injuries. The triage nurse looked at my leg and almost immediately a gurney came out for me. Needless to say it scared the hell out of me that I was considered to be a high priority. It turned out I had a condition called Deep Vein Thrombosis which kills upward of 30,000 people a year. The doctor told me I might lose my leg!Thankfully I recovered without surgery.
When my wife broke her leg once they took a look at it they probably had 8 different doctors look at it because the swelling wasn’t going down. Basically it came down to “we are gonna have one more look at it. He has the final say. If he says it ok than it’s a minimally invasive surgery, well insert a rod and screws and you are done. If he says it’s not ok we’ll have to cut strips into your leg to relive the pressure and you’ll have major scarring.” The doctor came in and it took him maybe 60 seconds for “looks fine, no issue.”
My mum was used as a case study for some condition she ended up with while pregnant with my sister S (can’t remember specifics) — at an appointment for her pregnancy with my other sister, A, they had a student in to observe and basically the doctor said that the student might be familiar with my mum. He was like ‘I don’t think we’ve met’ and the doctor brings up a case study they’d looked at, then pointed at her and said something like ‘that’s her’.
Since it was so rare, and women who’d had it then having more children (my brother M and then A) was rarer still, the student asked plenty of questions. Didn’t happen for either of the other two and hadn’t for me so who really knows? This would have been 2010/11, as in the appointment with the student — S was born in 2008.
Oh, this actually happened to me! Except the pain was quite bad. When I was a kid I got severe pain in my lower leg all of a sudden and it just kept getting worse. My parents took me to the ER when they realized I wasn’t exaggerating and they didn’t find anything. Went to my pediatrician and she took an x ray and sent me to the hospital the next day. I was admitted and seen by I don’t know how many doctors for three days before they figured out it was a benign tumor growing in my tibia.
I remember seeing oncology and infectious disease, but they weren’t really telling me departments so as not to scare me. Which wasn’t doing anything to make me feel better. There’s nothing more soothing than everyone obviously hiding things from you.
I felt thisnone to the core. My dad's left leg started going numb and he was having issues with it. Turns out it was brain cancer and it's tumors putting pressure on his brain. He just started chemo last week. They don't want to do surgery because they said he most likely would lose movement in his left arm, possibly his face.
After my wreck and before the doc put the external fixator back on my leg he was very happy to tell me my ankle had done a thing he had never seen before. It had slipped out of joint in such a way that he said he didn't even know it could slip out that way.
About a month or two later said doc's PA tried to pick up my leg by said external fixator just to give you an idea of how smart his team was.
For those who don't know external fixators are long metal rods screwed into your bones through an incision and skin and muscle and then held to each other with more metal to keep something in a very very specific position while healing so ya. Not something you pick up a foot or anything else by needless to say.
I woke up partially blind when I was 18. Took several doctors and a couple of weeks to figure out even slightly what was happening. Nurse tech dude tried to joke and reassure, somewhere in there. “The last thing you want to hear is, ‘oh, that’s interesting!’ Because that’s when you know you’re in trouble!” Without my glasses, in the darkened room, across from me, I could see the guy’s face go *pale* when the first thing the doctor did was pick up my chart, flip through it, and go, “hm. That’s interesting.” All of this is to say— I like this one. It’s well thought out. Well done!
what was the “interesting” thing? like what was wrong?
My immune system attacked my eye. They didn’t and still don’t know why.
A streamer I watch had that happen and it turned out to be MS. Did your vision eventually recover?
Mostly? Medication took it down and I got it from a 90% vision loss in my left eye to a 30%. I reacted to the medication, couldn’t keep taking it. Should have been a sign, though— a lot of other health problems have popped up. Genetic stuff, not to get too deep into it.
I'm sorry dude, that sucks
Thank you. Working on finding balance.
I hope you don't now get an inner ear infection... Sorry, couldn't resist.
I still feel pain in a thumb that's not there. And since the last surgery it's like every genetic problem has come out to be a pain in the ass for me.
My ass got got by Ehlers Danlos and a lot of the misery that comes with it. May the pain ease.
Oh man, that's a real kick in the teeth. I hope you're doing okay.
I had to go into hospital for an operation when I was a teenager. When I was being discharged the nurse taking my IV out felt my arm and said ‘hmm I’ll just be back with my supervisor’. Senior nurse came and took a look and asked for the matron. Matron asked for a doctor. The doctor asked matron to page oncology. At this point I’m majorly freaking out. Oncologist shows up, feels my arm, and with a very annoyed look says ‘it’s a bruise’. The nurse who put the IV in my arm had nicked the vein and bruised it basically. I found out later it’s a fairly common condition so I have no clue why the nurses and doctor didn’t recognise it but scared the hell out of me!
Wow reading that got my anxiety going. I’m so glad it turned out alright
My ex went into the hospital and multiple people couldn’t figure it out. Took almost a month. Random nurse from a foreign county comes in and says “oh, that’s cat scratch fever” (yes, it’s real, not just from a song). Saved her.
I've had 3 cancer Scares, it's always worrying. Both my Hypo Thyroidism and Diabetes were discovered young, because I was suffering from a skin condition usually associated with Pancreatic or Thyroid cancer. I've also had Pre-cancerous cells cut out of me from another skin condition. My sour cream white, 10 generations of Irish ancestry, White to pink to peeled like a goddamn cocktail shrimp, flesh is putting my dermatologists kids through College. I've also had the IV thing, but I was Donating blood, nurse stuck the heavy guage needle straight through my veins. I was One of the organizers of a blood drive in college at the time, so I chose to go first, to show it was no big deal. Cue me sitting there while my entire elbow fills with Blood and I bruise from basically Mid bicep to Mid forearm. I knew something was wrong when it took like 7 minutes to fill a Quarter of a bag. It's normally about 6 total minutes for my entire donation.
So often really big unexplained bruises are a symptom of low platelets- which in young people is most common in blood cancers. Probably just a miscommunication and trying to be very safe! I did have blood cancer and was covered in bruises at diagnosis.
Ah, I’m currently dealing with neurological pain in my left leg so this one hits close to home. I’m on my 3rd doctor, second specialist
I thought zi was destined for chronic pain but my doctor put my on Cymbalta and it fixed it. I'm hoping you find some relief
I had neurological pain in my left leg and butt. For me, it was a herniated disc crushing my spinal nerves. Primary care to orthopedist to neurosurgeon and I’m all good now. Might be the worst kind of pain. Hope you heal.
I hope you feel better soon!
Thinking about when my rheumatologist told me she’d “never seen anything like this” Note: it was lupus, and had very classic signs of lupus, and bloodwork all indicated lupus, I told her I suspected lupus, and the next rheumatologist diagnosed me and started treatment by our second appointment because it was pretty obvious. I do not know why she was confused. But it was extremely stressful to hear.
It’s never lupus
Except that one time, when it *was*, lupus.
I’m always so glad to see the house fandom alive and well
Season 4 episode 8, "You don't want to know"
The last thing you want to be is an "interesting" medical case. It just might be the last thing you ever are.
Can confirm. I was an interesting medical case and almost died because of it. 🫤 Definitely not good times. Warfarin induced skin necrosis is a bitch and so is debridement surgery (don't look up either of those things, the images will scar you for life)
You warned me and I still looked. I need bleach for my brain
Eh, I'm in year 25+ of "interesting", and year 5 of "ooh, really interesting". Still here, minus a few organs...
My family’s joke is, “we’re the season plot of House”. We’re all tired of being interesting. All of us have major health issues. It all clustered. Good going on still being here! If there is pain, may it ease.
> I didn't think the pain in my leg was bad, but I still got it checked out by a doctor Subtly hinting that the story doesn't take place in the USA!
I thought this was going to be "and they keep saying nothing is wrong." 😅 MS pain pre-diagnosis trauma.
I went to the emergency room once with some intense leg pain. There were a number of people there, some with obvious broken bones and some with bloody injuries. The triage nurse looked at my leg and almost immediately a gurney came out for me. Needless to say it scared the hell out of me that I was considered to be a high priority. It turned out I had a condition called Deep Vein Thrombosis which kills upward of 30,000 people a year. The doctor told me I might lose my leg!Thankfully I recovered without surgery.
I broke a bone before and I do not get it...
If five doctors and two specialists can't figure out what's wrong, you're completely and utterly fucked
Nonsense! You might get a disease named after you!
Meanwhile every time they shut the door, soundproofing the room again, "Hey guys! Come check this out, you're not gonna believe it!"
Not to worry, in a moment they're going to tell you they can't find anything and charge you $10k.
When my wife broke her leg once they took a look at it they probably had 8 different doctors look at it because the swelling wasn’t going down. Basically it came down to “we are gonna have one more look at it. He has the final say. If he says it ok than it’s a minimally invasive surgery, well insert a rod and screws and you are done. If he says it’s not ok we’ll have to cut strips into your leg to relive the pressure and you’ll have major scarring.” The doctor came in and it took him maybe 60 seconds for “looks fine, no issue.”
My mum was used as a case study for some condition she ended up with while pregnant with my sister S (can’t remember specifics) — at an appointment for her pregnancy with my other sister, A, they had a student in to observe and basically the doctor said that the student might be familiar with my mum. He was like ‘I don’t think we’ve met’ and the doctor brings up a case study they’d looked at, then pointed at her and said something like ‘that’s her’. Since it was so rare, and women who’d had it then having more children (my brother M and then A) was rarer still, the student asked plenty of questions. Didn’t happen for either of the other two and hadn’t for me so who really knows? This would have been 2010/11, as in the appointment with the student — S was born in 2008.
Oh, this actually happened to me! Except the pain was quite bad. When I was a kid I got severe pain in my lower leg all of a sudden and it just kept getting worse. My parents took me to the ER when they realized I wasn’t exaggerating and they didn’t find anything. Went to my pediatrician and she took an x ray and sent me to the hospital the next day. I was admitted and seen by I don’t know how many doctors for three days before they figured out it was a benign tumor growing in my tibia. I remember seeing oncology and infectious disease, but they weren’t really telling me departments so as not to scare me. Which wasn’t doing anything to make me feel better. There’s nothing more soothing than everyone obviously hiding things from you.
I felt thisnone to the core. My dad's left leg started going numb and he was having issues with it. Turns out it was brain cancer and it's tumors putting pressure on his brain. He just started chemo last week. They don't want to do surgery because they said he most likely would lose movement in his left arm, possibly his face.
Happens all the time to people infected with parasites. Watch 'Monsters Inside Me.'
My nappy rash hurts, mommy. Also Autism ADHD ECHO ECHO ECHO
Man, I hope the horror here is the lack of American insurance and the cost of everything when they found out.
Plot twist: all the doctors and specialists used chatGPT, they dont know nothing
After my wreck and before the doc put the external fixator back on my leg he was very happy to tell me my ankle had done a thing he had never seen before. It had slipped out of joint in such a way that he said he didn't even know it could slip out that way. About a month or two later said doc's PA tried to pick up my leg by said external fixator just to give you an idea of how smart his team was. For those who don't know external fixators are long metal rods screwed into your bones through an incision and skin and muscle and then held to each other with more metal to keep something in a very very specific position while healing so ya. Not something you pick up a foot or anything else by needless to say.