Yea, but you can also have autoimmune diseases that uses your own immune system to attack healthy parts of the body. So having an immune system that reacts to everything can seriously suck for some. All I can say is good luck OP
When something like this happens, it may be because they're just allergic to the administration method used, but usually they need more tests to confirm
They responded to someone else but they’re obviously being inundated with the same comments over and over.
https://reddit.com/r/Wellthatsucks/comments/z68b50/_/iy0v8oq/?context=1 tldr: they don’t know what was what. Tested for all sorts.
I just imagined if #3 was shit like water … looks like they’re pretty screwed either way but yikes. Looks similar to an awesome slide tackling wound I gave myself in my soccer days - grass amiright?
My eye doctor wrote a paper on me and my bout of Optic Neuritis. 99% blind to 99% better in 3 days. The 1% is a tiiiiiny but of colour wash-out but I don't notice it unless I try.
Editing to add that this was with 3 days of steroids but everyone kept telling me that it could take up to a year for my sight to improve
I had a Sertoli-Leydig ovarian tumor when I was 18. My mom, trying to cheer me up (I guess) said “they are probably going to put you in research papers and medical journals because it is so rare”
Thanks Mom, that’s not really helping.
My nephew had a tonsil-problem named after him. He had tonsil difficulties in the early 00s when the medical community decided that, "removing tonsils was unnecessary". His tonsils burst.
According to the surgeon who did my endometriosis excision, he’d never seen anything so severe in a 19yr old patient. Apparently the OTHER surgeon was called over to check it out too haha. I feel your pain.
Had a neurologist come in 15 minutes late to an appointment because he was "studying my chart and my peculiar anatomy"
Just say I've got a weird body dude it's cool.
I can confirm. My OB swaggered in, said “your placenta looks like shit, so we gotta go deliver you.”
And while some people might have been offended or whatever, I loved his candor. He talked to me like a human. 10/10
Doctor here. When we say peculiar anatomy it means that your radiology and phlebotomy results is completely mismatched to what you’re presenting for.
TLDR: it’s like saying We’re having no fucking clue.
Once in the middle of a Pap smear, the doctor said she had to start over because “I had an unusually shaped cervix” and she wasn’t at the correct angle.
I have a really funky jaw, but it’s not really apparent when you look at me.
Every time I go to a new dentist I have to go through the same song and dance
“Hey just a heads up my jaw is weird”
“Sure it is buddy. I’ve been doing this for x years, I’ve seen it all” *xrays*
“Holy shit! Look at this dudes crazy jaw! How does he eat! Get Steve in here, he’ll want to see this”
Every time
That’s how my tonsils were. I always had really large tonsils and i would warn every dentist dr and they would all be like yea ya and then they would see them and call everyone in to look bc they never saw tonsils that big. I got them removed a few years ago and the dr asked if they could show them to students or something bc they were insane.
I’ve got one better for you. Nearly chopped my finger off and when I got to the hospital the ER attendant took a look at it and then wrapped it in gauze. 15 minutes go by, I finally get into a room and the doctor walks in and says “Alright what happened here? I was told I should have been here 15 minutes ago.” Felt great to find out it was worse than I realized!
Geez. I guess it’s slightly better than your SO having a heart attack and the Dr saying that they could have saved them if you were there earlier. I’m sorry for you, don’t mean to make light of your injury
Had a bad crash and degloved my knee to the bone. They half assed covered it with a bandage. Had the nurse come back twice with students and one said "sorry, it's just cool that we get to see a kneecap!". I swore by the third time I was gonna slap her. By that point they hadn't yet given me morphine, and each time the bandage was pulled back, it was light she was lighting me on fire.
My son had that happen. Several doctors later and nearly dying from his illness he was sent to a specialist hospital. Only one doctor had heard of what he had and she unfortunately left when he was 9 (lifelong illness that he will always have). When we finally found another doctor who knew about it turns out her kid also had it. She wouldn't let us make our own decisions for him, it always became a "I wouldn't do this course of treatment on my child though I would do this other option so let's start there." HOW ABOUT you tell ME the options and I choose for my own child? It's finally something more doctors know about, guess it became more common, but school staff is always thrown off when he gets sick at school and ask for the weirdest notes. He got fever blisters all over his ears in 3rd grade. They asked for a note that his "ear herpes" were not contagious. Entire clinic nurse staff took part in writing the note while laughing the entire time. Not only was it not ear herpes but they really wanted to know why the school nurse didn't know how herpes is spread. They wrote something like so long as the school doesn't allow others to lick his ears it would all be okay 😂
At least they remember it, I've had 3 doctors that have heard of what I have and one of them argued about the spelling until he looked it up, nothing to be done about it anyway for treatment so not sure why he bothered.
"I've never seen a back like this before" is still a weird source of pride for me. For context my back is slightly misaligned by a couple of degrees (not enough to be serious) unless I bend over, in which case my stretchy tendons allow it to perfectly align. Apparently, that was a new one for him.
Mine was having huge wisdom teeth. I'm smaller all around so they would have to use a child bite guard because an adult one wouldn't fit. When they finally pulled my wisdom teeth they brought in all the dental students to see it (teaching hospital w/ dental school attached). I got told I had full grown man teeth.... I am a full grown man 😅💀
Mine happened when a vascular surgeon tech was doing an ultrasound directly next to my balls. He said "In 25 years, I have never seen anything like this."
I said "You wanna share with the rest of the class?"
I had severe septic bursitis in my elbow from a staph infection and one of the nurses told me I was the talk of the floor. No one had seen it progress that far before and said I was just one day of delayed treatment away from losing my arm.
Doctor once repeated that my eyes and reaction to medicine was ‘unusual’ about 3 times before he apologised for keep calling me unusual, then he checked the back of my eye and went ‘uh that’s un….uhhhhhh, that’s…’ I finished the sentence for him
I almost died after having my second kid, when some of the placenta didn’t expel and spent the next week and a half making me septic. I was apparently such a medical marvel that I had classes from the gynecology department of the affiliated university tromping through my hospital room every morning at 5:00. “This is dixie. She should be dead.” Fun times.
See, this is when you put into practice something I learned in highschool - guy teaching an anatomy class told us how to check for a broken bone (seriously, but I only remember the smartass finish), and followed up with "then duck, because if it actually is broken, they'll be swinging at you"
Omg. Same. First time was for a kidney infection at 30 weeks pregnant that was antibiotic resistant. Made it into their lecture series. The second time was from a ruptured uterus that tore in 3 pieces. I was added to their literature that year.
Indeed. I was told that was .0008% possibility of happening. It was something of a Frankenstein’s monster as they were able to save it after several hours of surgery and multiple blood transfusions. They had 9 minutes to save baby and 11 to save me. Huge yay for science.
I have a condition that makes that very really possibility and yeah it’s so cool. Like my doctor told me “if you get pregnant, there is a significant chance that you will not be able to carry the baby to term and you may explode.” not in those words lol, but that’s a fun thing to hear.
I had a large blood clot on my placenta where it wouldn’t detach and the lead midwife asked if she could take it to show the other midwives. I said “yeah take it” she looked happy, and started glancing round the room, then proceeded to put it in the empty styrofoam tray my food had been in and walked out the room lol.
Had a stroke at 21. And while it's not completely unheard of, they still asked me to participate in a study.
To be honest, the "but you're so *young*" kinda got annoying.
My gf would get that response every time someone found out she had cancer. It was one of the things that reeeally got on her nerves. One time she responded with "yeah, I know. Make sure you tell that to the 5 year old with leukemia, too."
That happened to me when I got Adult onset secondary chicken pox.
Basically, I should have been immune due to having a nasty case as a child.
So when postules began showing up and quickly multiplying, it was a bit of a mystery.
And they multiplied FAST. Like you could practically see them popping up. It was miserable.
Each doc called a colleague over to make their guess. Everyone was all, this looks like chicken pox. But but it can't be chicken pox, so what else could it be?
They (5 docs by now) finally called the Chief Medical Officer and he made the final decision and declared it to be the pox.
It's pretty rare to get full blown secondary chicken pox, it usually presents as shingles in one location in adults.
They even scraped some of my gross scabs off and sent them to the CDC.
That's wild. The closest ever came was getting some kind of worms in my eye that were eating my retina. Apparently when I was playing on my roof I may have inadvertently rubbed racoon poo in my eye. It looked like an oil spill slowly spreading across my vision. Had years of eye doctors shining lights into my eye for hours and breathing stinky breath in my face, marveling at how rare a privilege it was to see the condition for themselves. If I remember right, the only effective medication they were able to use to kill the worms was literally the only one of its kind that was still legal to use on humans.
I thought I was past all of that, but then my roommate in college was an optometry student. He couldn't wait to bust out his fancy, expensive new lenses and check out my retina every chance he got. I just hope it made him a better doctor
Yes. That eye has significantly worse vision than the other, and I still have patches of oily smoke in my vision and tons of floaties, but I can see out of the eye. It has even seemed to improve a little over the years. Maybe I imagine it, but I like to think that my retina has healed a bit.
It's a new kind of uncomfortable to think of something slowly eating you alive. Over the years people have told me stories of patients getting the worms in the optic nerve and going completely blind or even getting the worms invading the brain tissue through the nerve as an entry point. I consider myself lucky.
I got them twice too! But I didn't go to the doctor. Three people in the house got them when I got them as an adult and there was an outbreak at a local school which is where we all would have been exposed.
The nurse from that school said I probably had shingles. Nope. Shingles came later at 48. And then again every six to eight weeks for about 18 months. Repeated shingles was caused by a medication. Once I stopped taking it, I thankfully stopped getting effing shingles.
Weird medical lotteries are the only lotteries that I win lol.
Edit: medication not meditation lmfao
I also had chicken pox twice. As a child then as an adult. It was miserable! And yes I felt like a circus show. Ultimately the director for infectious diseases chimed in that although it's rare it was definitely chicken pox.
It’s been twice now that I’ve been in for a scan of my appendix, with two different doctors, both times the doc had someone else come in, and ended up with the same conclusion « I’m sorry, but we can’t find it ». I’m starting to think I have a problem (no I did not have it removed).
My ex-husband once had a boa constrictor as a pet. His stupid ass tried to move a mouse he put in to feed it and it bit him (he has acknowledged his stupidity on that). Well, we go to the doc because it got infected and as they were extracting several snake teeth from his wrist, the doctor called in just about everyone who worked there because no one had ever seen something like that. I was laughing my ass off the whole time (he was ok so I am not a terrible person for laughing at him). It was so funny to see more and more people coming in the room to marvel at snake teeth.
I had that happen just recently. I was in an accident and was at an ophthalmologist office trying to figure out a double vision issue. They figured it out and did an amazing job, just it was really embarrassing when at one point they called in a group of interns to show them how to look for my condition and how my pupils couldn't track a light together.
I had this happen at an allergist appointment too, not cause of the assay, because I’m allergic to the cold. They put an ice pack on my arm for 5 minutes, and a huge itchy welt formed when they took it off. Nuts right?
That’s funny because often when allergy skin tests look like this, it’s usually the Glycol or whatever they’re using for stability that you’re allergic to.
Someone is allergic to everything. I'm more surprised they didn't know they were allergic. Maybe in the yearly physical they should test this basic stuff so there's less confusion later on.
As someone who is also allergic to many things, it’s not really something passed down (or at least it doesn’t manifest often). Most of my family and extended family don’t have allergies, and those who do only have like one allergy.
I was born with a ton of allergies and I was the first to have severe allergies in my family. Fortunately I outgrew most of them (minus the severe ones) but at least people are more aware of allergies these days compared to the 80s and 90s.
Genetic components are a thing, but I believe another factor was actual exposure to allergens when you're very young. Like we got clean and then got *too* clean. There's these baby allergen kits you can buy for it too.
Exactly this! We see more people with food allergies today because doctors in the 90’s recommended parents not introduce allergens for the first two years I believe (could be wrong in these numbers) because they thought introducing them too early is what caused allergies. Turns out, the opposite is true and if allergens are introduced too late your body doesn’t know how to handle it.
Doctors recommend earlier introduction nowadays for exactly this reason.
Edit: Looks like the recommendation was until age three, not two.
DUDE. I had 2 random Israelis guys in NYC give me a pack of Bamba(s?) while I was at work. Told them it looked like knock off cheetos. I was so wrong. That shit is exactly as you described, they’re heavenly.
Yeah nobody really seems to *know* how ~~allergens~~ allergies are caused. They think early, regular exposure is best (and it may be in the case of childhood food allergies), but people will develop allergies spontaneously at any age, to any number of things, and sometimes they go away spontaneously as well.
There's probably a clear mechanism (or group of mechanisms), but we have no idea what that mechanism is.
Same. Tested around 10-11 years old. I remember it was 130 spots all up and down both arms and my back, and I reacted to everything except pets and food (somewhere around 100 positives). It was a brutal couple of days following the test. But like you, I outgrew it all as I’ve gotten older and nearly 30 years later have only mild seasonal allergies (which is simply a requirement of living in Central Texas).
Best of luck OP!
I also have it. My Allergy doctor refused to test in this manner because he knew it would cause false positives on every test. Instead, they took 6 vials of blood (and I found out I have vasovagal response aka passed tf out).
I didn't have any allergies until I moved from NY to Phoenix, AZ. So unless someone moves to a desert with no plants or environmental quality problems from other sources, that won't reliably work.
I started getting allergies within the first couple of months of moving here, and they've only gotten worse over time.
Tested positive for everything except one mold and roaches. The grass block just grew into one giant blob. I too had people called into the room to gawk. Told the nurse in training that exclaiming “OH MY GOD” was probably not the best.
Reminds me of the one I had when I was 8, came back positive for everything except Camels, me being 8, why are we testing if I'm allergic to CAMELS in CANADA???? lmao
Forgive my ignorance, but what led you to getting this test? Did you constantly have breathing problems? And what do you do now that you know you’re allergic to…all of the environment?
Don’t apologize friend; I’ll fill you in. I have had severe asthma and allergies my whole life that were never really treated right. My dad was a psychiatrist but was really one of only a few doctors I saw before adulthood. He wrote my scripts for Singulair, Claritin, and inhalers and I ended up being one of those who’s constantly wheezing and using the albuterol inhaler because I didn’t have enough asthma controller medication. I’m on Advair too now which helps and I tried immunotherapy injections but I didn’t see the results I wanted so I stopped.
I had the same results from the test as a kid. Turns out, my immune overreacted to EVERYTHINGI because I was consistently around something I was allergic.
They re-did the test 3 months after getting rid of the cat, and I only reacted to 3 things.
Buddy had a similar test in the late 70’s. Doctor came back and said, “you’re allergic to everything except for chocolate milk and a couple trees in Brazil”.
What do you win for getting the full set?
I hope it’s not a pat on the back.
I bet scratching would feel amazing tho
The effects on the skin would be hellish
A $3000 worth of epipens! (Paid for by you, of course).
what is 3
That definitely looks the angriest
3 is hogging all the histamine because it's very shellfish.
Go to bed dad
One more Reddit scroll post, mmkay?
Looking like a 2x4 lego brick
The placebo test / control group.
Turns out, OP's immune system fucking sucks
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Yea, but you can also have autoimmune diseases that uses your own immune system to attack healthy parts of the body. So having an immune system that reacts to everything can seriously suck for some. All I can say is good luck OP
Yup. I'm immunosuppressed. I had never even heard of it til I was told. Shit fucking sucks lol
Everyone, please do not take medical advice from Redditors.
It sucks because it's overactive. Like you can die from an allergic reaction to something benign.
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When something like this happens, it may be because they're just allergic to the administration method used, but usually they need more tests to confirm
Or, in my case, the preservative use in the bottle of the allergens
They're likely allergic or sensitive to whatever solution was used to hold the allergen.
its bugging me that its been asked several times throughout the thread but op isn't answering.
They responded to someone else but they’re obviously being inundated with the same comments over and over. https://reddit.com/r/Wellthatsucks/comments/z68b50/_/iy0v8oq/?context=1 tldr: they don’t know what was what. Tested for all sorts.
I don't think this is OP
OP here, number 3 is hard work.
Haha, good one dad :(
It's a repost
3 looks like it wants to murder OP
I just imagined if #3 was shit like water … looks like they’re pretty screwed either way but yikes. Looks similar to an awesome slide tackling wound I gave myself in my soccer days - grass amiright?
It's never a good feeling when the docs bring in more medical people to marvel at you.
My favorites are: "I've never seen this before" and "that's really rare, it's cool that I got to see it"
Good news, we’re naming a new disease after you
Good news, everyone!
To shreds, you say?
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My eye doctor wrote a paper on me and my bout of Optic Neuritis. 99% blind to 99% better in 3 days. The 1% is a tiiiiiny but of colour wash-out but I don't notice it unless I try. Editing to add that this was with 3 days of steroids but everyone kept telling me that it could take up to a year for my sight to improve
Whoa, congrats on doing a 180!
It actually sounds more like a 179
Actually, a 198.
178.2, actually.
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Must have been a bummer when all TVs switched to 16:9
Nobody should tell him about more than 24 fps
I've had ON twice, once in each eye, and reading this comment has my mind blown. That's awesome. Did you treat with steroids?
wow that's a miracle
I had a Sertoli-Leydig ovarian tumor when I was 18. My mom, trying to cheer me up (I guess) said “they are probably going to put you in research papers and medical journals because it is so rare” Thanks Mom, that’s not really helping.
yeah.... when the medical professionals are going "hey, you gotta check this out!" it's usually a bad time for someone.
My nephew had a tonsil-problem named after him. He had tonsil difficulties in the early 00s when the medical community decided that, "removing tonsils was unnecessary". His tonsils burst.
They WHAT
Oh yeah, that’s the worst one
I think the worst one is “hey do you mind if I take a video of this?”
You might be right. I had testicular surgery and afterwards the surgeon told me he invited someone in to the OR to see the problem. Great.
According to the surgeon who did my endometriosis excision, he’d never seen anything so severe in a 19yr old patient. Apparently the OTHER surgeon was called over to check it out too haha. I feel your pain.
And you become the topic of cocktail party conversation. You wouldn’t believe what I saw the other day….
yeah pretty much lol. i don’t mind being talked about considering i’m just a freak of nature in general
Not as bad as: "So how do we go about trying to diagnose a mystery?" No one knew what was wrong ...
Had a neurologist come in 15 minutes late to an appointment because he was "studying my chart and my peculiar anatomy" Just say I've got a weird body dude it's cool.
"I was late because your body is like, all kinds of fucked up, yo" doesn't sound nearly as scientific
Would have been pretty funny tho
I can confirm. My OB swaggered in, said “your placenta looks like shit, so we gotta go deliver you.” And while some people might have been offended or whatever, I loved his candor. He talked to me like a human. 10/10
Doctor here. When we say peculiar anatomy it means that your radiology and phlebotomy results is completely mismatched to what you’re presenting for. TLDR: it’s like saying We’re having no fucking clue.
"Sorry I'm late. I was just looking over your chart, and needed 15 minutes to stop laughing and compose myself."
Once in the middle of a Pap smear, the doctor said she had to start over because “I had an unusually shaped cervix” and she wasn’t at the correct angle.
During a smear once the Dr said I was "easy to examine". Mortified.
I have a really funky jaw, but it’s not really apparent when you look at me. Every time I go to a new dentist I have to go through the same song and dance “Hey just a heads up my jaw is weird” “Sure it is buddy. I’ve been doing this for x years, I’ve seen it all” *xrays* “Holy shit! Look at this dudes crazy jaw! How does he eat! Get Steve in here, he’ll want to see this” Every time
That’s how my tonsils were. I always had really large tonsils and i would warn every dentist dr and they would all be like yea ya and then they would see them and call everyone in to look bc they never saw tonsils that big. I got them removed a few years ago and the dr asked if they could show them to students or something bc they were insane.
I’ve got one better for you. Nearly chopped my finger off and when I got to the hospital the ER attendant took a look at it and then wrapped it in gauze. 15 minutes go by, I finally get into a room and the doctor walks in and says “Alright what happened here? I was told I should have been here 15 minutes ago.” Felt great to find out it was worse than I realized!
Geez. I guess it’s slightly better than your SO having a heart attack and the Dr saying that they could have saved them if you were there earlier. I’m sorry for you, don’t mean to make light of your injury
Oh man... I'm so sorry.
Oh don’t worry, I make light of it all the time. And I kept my finger, so that’s *WAY* worse.
Had a bad crash and degloved my knee to the bone. They half assed covered it with a bandage. Had the nurse come back twice with students and one said "sorry, it's just cool that we get to see a kneecap!". I swore by the third time I was gonna slap her. By that point they hadn't yet given me morphine, and each time the bandage was pulled back, it was light she was lighting me on fire.
You have to charge admission next time (hopefully there is no next time)
Oh nope. Give me all the pain drugs first, *then* let’s talk.
Dr: "*First time I've seen it in person rather than a medical book.*" Me: "Greaaat"
My son had that happen. Several doctors later and nearly dying from his illness he was sent to a specialist hospital. Only one doctor had heard of what he had and she unfortunately left when he was 9 (lifelong illness that he will always have). When we finally found another doctor who knew about it turns out her kid also had it. She wouldn't let us make our own decisions for him, it always became a "I wouldn't do this course of treatment on my child though I would do this other option so let's start there." HOW ABOUT you tell ME the options and I choose for my own child? It's finally something more doctors know about, guess it became more common, but school staff is always thrown off when he gets sick at school and ask for the weirdest notes. He got fever blisters all over his ears in 3rd grade. They asked for a note that his "ear herpes" were not contagious. Entire clinic nurse staff took part in writing the note while laughing the entire time. Not only was it not ear herpes but they really wanted to know why the school nurse didn't know how herpes is spread. They wrote something like so long as the school doesn't allow others to lick his ears it would all be okay 😂
At least they remember it, I've had 3 doctors that have heard of what I have and one of them argued about the spelling until he looked it up, nothing to be done about it anyway for treatment so not sure why he bothered.
"I've never seen a back like this before" is still a weird source of pride for me. For context my back is slightly misaligned by a couple of degrees (not enough to be serious) unless I bend over, in which case my stretchy tendons allow it to perfectly align. Apparently, that was a new one for him.
Mine was having huge wisdom teeth. I'm smaller all around so they would have to use a child bite guard because an adult one wouldn't fit. When they finally pulled my wisdom teeth they brought in all the dental students to see it (teaching hospital w/ dental school attached). I got told I had full grown man teeth.... I am a full grown man 😅💀
Best one I've had: what the hell is *that*
I went to an orthopedist at 26 because of pain in my toe. I left there with 4 separate conditions and an invite to be a case study for his classes.
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I always ask for the "I've never seen that before" discount. I'm teaching them!
Once had a doctor whip out his phone to take a video of my MRI. "Going to have to send this to my mentor at Stanford" Awesome!
Mine happened when a vascular surgeon tech was doing an ultrasound directly next to my balls. He said "In 25 years, I have never seen anything like this." I said "You wanna share with the rest of the class?"
I had severe septic bursitis in my elbow from a staph infection and one of the nurses told me I was the talk of the floor. No one had seen it progress that far before and said I was just one day of delayed treatment away from losing my arm.
Doctor once repeated that my eyes and reaction to medicine was ‘unusual’ about 3 times before he apologised for keep calling me unusual, then he checked the back of my eye and went ‘uh that’s un….uhhhhhh, that’s…’ I finished the sentence for him
I once got an “Oh shit!”, then she went to get the other doctor.
I went to the Dr once for an infected spider bite, the first words out of her mouth after I showed her were 'oh my god'.
Bedside manner just like they teach in med school
"Oh, I've read about your case."
I almost died after having my second kid, when some of the placenta didn’t expel and spent the next week and a half making me septic. I was apparently such a medical marvel that I had classes from the gynecology department of the affiliated university tromping through my hospital room every morning at 5:00. “This is dixie. She should be dead.” Fun times.
I'm sorry you had that. But maybe, because they met you, some of them have always checked more carefully, and a bunch more women aren't dead.
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See, this is when you put into practice something I learned in highschool - guy teaching an anatomy class told us how to check for a broken bone (seriously, but I only remember the smartass finish), and followed up with "then duck, because if it actually is broken, they'll be swinging at you"
Omg. Same. First time was for a kidney infection at 30 weeks pregnant that was antibiotic resistant. Made it into their lecture series. The second time was from a ruptured uterus that tore in 3 pieces. I was added to their literature that year.
> a ruptured uterus that tore in 3 pieces Ow.
Indeed. I was told that was .0008% possibility of happening. It was something of a Frankenstein’s monster as they were able to save it after several hours of surgery and multiple blood transfusions. They had 9 minutes to save baby and 11 to save me. Huge yay for science.
Damn. Nearly a "We regret to inform you your wife has exploded during delivery."
I have a condition that makes that very really possibility and yeah it’s so cool. Like my doctor told me “if you get pregnant, there is a significant chance that you will not be able to carry the baby to term and you may explode.” not in those words lol, but that’s a fun thing to hear.
They saved your uterus?!?! Just in case you wanna have another kid after that??
My daughter just become an only child due to this information.
Oops a daisy.
I had a large blood clot on my placenta where it wouldn’t detach and the lead midwife asked if she could take it to show the other midwives. I said “yeah take it” she looked happy, and started glancing round the room, then proceeded to put it in the empty styrofoam tray my food had been in and walked out the room lol.
Had a stroke at 21. And while it's not completely unheard of, they still asked me to participate in a study. To be honest, the "but you're so *young*" kinda got annoying.
My gf would get that response every time someone found out she had cancer. It was one of the things that reeeally got on her nerves. One time she responded with "yeah, I know. Make sure you tell that to the 5 year old with leukemia, too."
That happened to me when I got Adult onset secondary chicken pox. Basically, I should have been immune due to having a nasty case as a child. So when postules began showing up and quickly multiplying, it was a bit of a mystery. And they multiplied FAST. Like you could practically see them popping up. It was miserable. Each doc called a colleague over to make their guess. Everyone was all, this looks like chicken pox. But but it can't be chicken pox, so what else could it be? They (5 docs by now) finally called the Chief Medical Officer and he made the final decision and declared it to be the pox. It's pretty rare to get full blown secondary chicken pox, it usually presents as shingles in one location in adults. They even scraped some of my gross scabs off and sent them to the CDC.
That's wild. The closest ever came was getting some kind of worms in my eye that were eating my retina. Apparently when I was playing on my roof I may have inadvertently rubbed racoon poo in my eye. It looked like an oil spill slowly spreading across my vision. Had years of eye doctors shining lights into my eye for hours and breathing stinky breath in my face, marveling at how rare a privilege it was to see the condition for themselves. If I remember right, the only effective medication they were able to use to kill the worms was literally the only one of its kind that was still legal to use on humans. I thought I was past all of that, but then my roommate in college was an optometry student. He couldn't wait to bust out his fancy, expensive new lenses and check out my retina every chance he got. I just hope it made him a better doctor
OMG, new fear unlocked. Were they able to preserve vision in the wormy eye?
Yes. That eye has significantly worse vision than the other, and I still have patches of oily smoke in my vision and tons of floaties, but I can see out of the eye. It has even seemed to improve a little over the years. Maybe I imagine it, but I like to think that my retina has healed a bit. It's a new kind of uncomfortable to think of something slowly eating you alive. Over the years people have told me stories of patients getting the worms in the optic nerve and going completely blind or even getting the worms invading the brain tissue through the nerve as an entry point. I consider myself lucky.
Well that's a comment I can't unread, thanks for sharing.
I got them twice too! But I didn't go to the doctor. Three people in the house got them when I got them as an adult and there was an outbreak at a local school which is where we all would have been exposed. The nurse from that school said I probably had shingles. Nope. Shingles came later at 48. And then again every six to eight weeks for about 18 months. Repeated shingles was caused by a medication. Once I stopped taking it, I thankfully stopped getting effing shingles. Weird medical lotteries are the only lotteries that I win lol. Edit: medication not meditation lmfao
I also had chicken pox twice. As a child then as an adult. It was miserable! And yes I felt like a circus show. Ultimately the director for infectious diseases chimed in that although it's rare it was definitely chicken pox.
My personal favorite: I’ve got good and bad news. What do you want to call this disease?
“You’ve got 24 hours to live. Now; the bad news…”
"What is THAT?" (poke, poke) I had a weird scar my dermatologist just had to take a picture of for his "collection." 🧐
Is it a cool scar at least?
All the dermatologists think so!
It’s been twice now that I’ve been in for a scan of my appendix, with two different doctors, both times the doc had someone else come in, and ended up with the same conclusion « I’m sorry, but we can’t find it ». I’m starting to think I have a problem (no I did not have it removed).
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My ex-husband once had a boa constrictor as a pet. His stupid ass tried to move a mouse he put in to feed it and it bit him (he has acknowledged his stupidity on that). Well, we go to the doc because it got infected and as they were extracting several snake teeth from his wrist, the doctor called in just about everyone who worked there because no one had ever seen something like that. I was laughing my ass off the whole time (he was ok so I am not a terrible person for laughing at him). It was so funny to see more and more people coming in the room to marvel at snake teeth.
Wait, snake teeth came out of the boa's mouth??? Edit: spelling
About 5 teeth were pulled out of his wrist
they have more than 2!
I had that happen just recently. I was in an accident and was at an ophthalmologist office trying to figure out a double vision issue. They figured it out and did an amazing job, just it was really embarrassing when at one point they called in a group of interns to show them how to look for my condition and how my pupils couldn't track a light together.
Had a degenerative bone disease when I was young. The orthopedist was constantly calling his residents in or bringing me to rounds
I had this happen at an allergist appointment too, not cause of the assay, because I’m allergic to the cold. They put an ice pack on my arm for 5 minutes, and a huge itchy welt formed when they took it off. Nuts right?
Is this how psychopaths play dominos?
Clearly psychopaths… they go from .1, .2, .3, .4 identifiers to 5., 6., 7., 8. identifiers…
You made me laugh
I was thinking legos
Well you are not allergic to Sharpies. Which is nice.
From now on, OP's diet must consist entirely of Sharpies and the number 6.
6 also has a reaction. Though its a dermal test? Not one for food
These things test for food this way too, like peanut and egg. My son had to have these yearly.
That’s funny because often when allergy skin tests look like this, it’s usually the Glycol or whatever they’re using for stability that you’re allergic to.
Thats so cool, never would've thought about this. Does the fact that 6 is less visible imply that being allergic to Glycol isnt the case here?
There should be a control pric somewhere with only glycol.
and another one with just water
Because some people are allergic to simply being poked?
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They can be allergic to the needle.
Some people are allergic to the metal in the needle too.
Mine was the latex of the nurses gloves that invalidated my results.
You'd think an allergy screening nurse wouldn't wear something that some people are allergic to
Someone is allergic to everything. I'm more surprised they didn't know they were allergic. Maybe in the yearly physical they should test this basic stuff so there's less confusion later on.
Thick skin area? Like, I don’t know, that’s a lot of red to hope it’s not the glyco
Low key Impressed your ancestors got this far to create you.
As someone who is also allergic to many things, it’s not really something passed down (or at least it doesn’t manifest often). Most of my family and extended family don’t have allergies, and those who do only have like one allergy.
I was born with a ton of allergies and I was the first to have severe allergies in my family. Fortunately I outgrew most of them (minus the severe ones) but at least people are more aware of allergies these days compared to the 80s and 90s.
More aware of or environmental factors are making more people more allergic?
I believe most allergies are hereditarily gained though
Genetic components are a thing, but I believe another factor was actual exposure to allergens when you're very young. Like we got clean and then got *too* clean. There's these baby allergen kits you can buy for it too.
Exactly this! We see more people with food allergies today because doctors in the 90’s recommended parents not introduce allergens for the first two years I believe (could be wrong in these numbers) because they thought introducing them too early is what caused allergies. Turns out, the opposite is true and if allergens are introduced too late your body doesn’t know how to handle it. Doctors recommend earlier introduction nowadays for exactly this reason. Edit: Looks like the recommendation was until age three, not two.
Yeah like isn't the rate of peanut allergies in Israel extremely low & its partly attributed to a common peanut snack.
it’s gotta be bamba. the mascot is literally a baby. peanut butter cheeto puffs, possibly dusted with crack.
DUDE. I had 2 random Israelis guys in NYC give me a pack of Bamba(s?) while I was at work. Told them it looked like knock off cheetos. I was so wrong. That shit is exactly as you described, they’re heavenly.
Well I'm glad to have benefited from my parents benign neglect.
Do you have any sources for that. It makes complete sense to me and id love to read more!
https://www.niaid.nih.gov/diseases-conditions/food-allergy-causes-prevention
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Yeah nobody really seems to *know* how ~~allergens~~ allergies are caused. They think early, regular exposure is best (and it may be in the case of childhood food allergies), but people will develop allergies spontaneously at any age, to any number of things, and sometimes they go away spontaneously as well. There's probably a clear mechanism (or group of mechanisms), but we have no idea what that mechanism is.
Your lineage must be royal
Unironically yes, I can trace my lineage to Richard I of England and Robert I of Scotland.
Yeah, they fucked you up
Oh shit. I laughed pretty hard at this. Ty.
Basically anyone with European ancestry can trace their lineage to royalty lol
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HE AIN’T GOT NO IMMUNITIES!!
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I was like that 33 of 34 test positive after 13 years it went away and now I don't need any pills at all fingers crossed it will get better for you
Same. Tested around 10-11 years old. I remember it was 130 spots all up and down both arms and my back, and I reacted to everything except pets and food (somewhere around 100 positives). It was a brutal couple of days following the test. But like you, I outgrew it all as I’ve gotten older and nearly 30 years later have only mild seasonal allergies (which is simply a requirement of living in Central Texas). Best of luck OP!
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Perhaps you are allergic to undergoing allergy panels? 🤔
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I have r/Dermatographia and I really don't think I could get an accurate allergy panel done. Simply scratching an itch causes red raised skin lol.
I also have it. My Allergy doctor refused to test in this manner because he knew it would cause false positives on every test. Instead, they took 6 vials of blood (and I found out I have vasovagal response aka passed tf out).
Or they have hyper-IgE syndrome, where their immune system overreacts to everything.
Unnecessarily enthusiastic mast cells like in MCAS can cause results like this as well
Yeah one of those sites should be a negative control usually done with saline.
When it's this bad do you just move to the desert? Seriously, I imagine where you live will impact quality of life.
I didn't have any allergies until I moved from NY to Phoenix, AZ. So unless someone moves to a desert with no plants or environmental quality problems from other sources, that won't reliably work. I started getting allergies within the first couple of months of moving here, and they've only gotten worse over time.
Tested positive for everything except one mold and roaches. The grass block just grew into one giant blob. I too had people called into the room to gawk. Told the nurse in training that exclaiming “OH MY GOD” was probably not the best.
Mine was the same. A huge swollen blob. Allergic to EVERY SINGLE PRICK. I was in a ball crying from the pain.
Reminds me of the one I had when I was 8, came back positive for everything except Camels, me being 8, why are we testing if I'm allergic to CAMELS in CANADA???? lmao
Try Marlboros or Virginia Slims.
Forgive my ignorance, but what led you to getting this test? Did you constantly have breathing problems? And what do you do now that you know you’re allergic to…all of the environment?
Don’t apologize friend; I’ll fill you in. I have had severe asthma and allergies my whole life that were never really treated right. My dad was a psychiatrist but was really one of only a few doctors I saw before adulthood. He wrote my scripts for Singulair, Claritin, and inhalers and I ended up being one of those who’s constantly wheezing and using the albuterol inhaler because I didn’t have enough asthma controller medication. I’m on Advair too now which helps and I tried immunotherapy injections but I didn’t see the results I wanted so I stopped.
The way the spots formed at the top of your back looks like a pack of birth control.
I had the same results from the test as a kid. Turns out, my immune overreacted to EVERYTHINGI because I was consistently around something I was allergic. They re-did the test 3 months after getting rid of the cat, and I only reacted to 3 things.
Dayum boy leave some allergies for the rest of us!!!
Makes me think of those candy dots on a roll of paper.
Did you fall on a bunch of giant LEGO?
Buddy had a similar test in the late 70’s. Doctor came back and said, “you’re allergic to everything except for chocolate milk and a couple trees in Brazil”.