79 Ordinary Symptoms That Left Doctors Shocked and Speechless—What They Discovered Will Astound You
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I’m much better these days, and very happy and at peace 🥰.
He asked me what I thought about the violence I suffered at home. I said there was no violence because nobody was phisically hitting anyone.
He stared at me and wrote something down.
When I was postpartum, I kept hearing one of my cats “crying like a demon baby”, and couldn’t figure out when she learned to make that sound. Turns out I was in psychosis.
After a month on a new-to-me brain medicine, I finally asked my pharmacist “how long before the voices & music go away?”.
She very quietly & professionally freaked out.
Had me call my doctor, who also very quietly & professionally freaked out.
I thought it was just a new side effect that would go away once my body was adjusted to the new d**g. Apparently not …
The doctor said as long as they’re not bothering me, if the d**g worked she’d keep me on it. I knew it wasn’t any more real than tinnitus, so we continued it.
ETA:
These were most noticeable in a quiet environment. The voices were like a quiet TV news broadcast in the next room – it’s happening but I can’t make out what they said. Music was big band or swing.
The medicine was an antidepressant, don’t remember which one, likely an SSRI or combo SSRI/SNRI. They can take weeks to have full effect, which is why I waited a month hoping it was just an adjustment issue.
On the flip side of this, I’ve explained to multiple doctors that visual hallucinations are very very common among people who are blind or have extremely low vision. As long as the hallucinations do not interact with me, I just changed the lighting in the room or go take a walk.
I’m perfectly aware the woman drinking the teacup full of ants isn’t there, I see her much too clearly.
Told my doctor i hadn’t slept more than 4 hours a night in two years and genuinely thought that was just adulthood.
I told things about how my parents spoke to me or insane s**t they did. I considered most of them as fodder for funny stories. My therapist was not laughing, to say the least.
How much ramen I eat a day…enough to put the noodle business in shambles.
How s******l a person can be for an extended period of time without acting on it.
When I was 19 and in psychiatry, I explained to the therapist they assigned me that I never had any plans for the future because I never thought I would survive till adulthood. To me that was the most normal and natural thing in the world, but for some reason it made the therapist real sad…
My right shoulder used to pop out a bunch but it would always go back in and not hurt too much. Then one time it popped out, went back in, but stayed painful. So I finally went to the doctor. When they asked me how long it had been going on I said my mid-teens (I was late 30s at the time). They were horrified. I honestly just thought everyone’s shoulders popped out from time to time.
I was seeing a therapist for depression and anxiety, and she asked me to keep a record of my negative thoughts for a week. When I showed it to her she looked horrified and was like, “Wow. There’s some pretty dark stuff here.” Well, yes, that would be the major depressive disorder…
Stepped on a toothpick and a piece of it broke off in my foot. Went to a podiatrist first thing in the am. Was waiting on doorstep when they opened.
After he numbed my foot up and extracted the tiny wooden tip, was writing a script for me. I inquired about a tetanus shot. He said he didn’t think it would be necessary.
I said ” Picture this: My boyfriend puts the toothpick he was using in a dirty ashtray, meanwhile, my cat who was sitting in the window, licking his b**t, takes note of said toothpick”.
“A bit later, my cat retrieves the used toothpick from the dirty ashtray and probably spends a few minutes chewing on it and batting it about before leaving it on the kitchen floor.”
“The kitchen floor that is covered with a filthy carpet, oil and ground in grime.” (I had just bought the house and hadn’t had time to replace the flooring.)
Whatever rx he was writing was ceremoniously ripped up in favor of a much stronger rx and I got my tetanus shot.
The amount of times I’ve made a therapist or doctor cry as I described what I thought was a normal childhood. Apparently it’s not normal for your parents to write letters about how much they hate you before disappearing for multiple weeks having only left $100 on the table. But don’t worry they returned once they thought me and my siblings were grateful again.
Not so much explained, but last year I had my gallbladder removed after 7 years of constant pain. I’d been back and forth to doctors about it countless times. Multiple visits to A&E, multiple scans and tests, multiple GP appointments etc etc. Every time I was told I had a polyp but that wasn’t what was causing the pain and I had no stones, so nothing was done. I just got worse and worse over time to the point I was grey all the time and barely eating, and pain had completely overtaken my life. I was genuinely s******l over it. Still no one cared until a new GP saw me and referred me to general surgery because the polyp had gone from 2mm to 1.5cm and I outright asked if they would be happy to be held responsible if it turned out to be malignant because a rapidly growing mass is a pretty f*****g big red flag.
The surgeon I saw was horrified I’d been left like that for so long and agreed it was probably best to remove it. 6 months later he did the procedure and found that the polyp had been growing into my bile duct, partly blocking it. The walls of the actual gallbladder had become so thin as a result of constant inflammation they were one hard sneeze away from straight up splitting open, and it was full of sludge and small grit like stones. It had also become stuck on the outward facing side of my liver with scar tissue and had to be peeled off of it. He apologised to me afterwards because I should never have been allowed to get that bad. During the following up I explained that I have chronic pain and so basically just got used to it. I live with pain every single day, so over time the gallbladder pain just blurred in with the rest of it. I got on with life like that. Went to work, visited friends, took part in hobbies etc etc. The look on his face while he digested that was one of the few times I’ve seen genuine empathy from a medical professional when talking about chronic pain and what it’s like living with it. I lived in spite of it because I had no other option. I went 7 years like that because for a good 2 years I stopped trying to get help for it because it became clear to me no one was interested and I wasn’t going to waste my time just to get accused of d**g seeking. His apology was genuine and I hope it opened his eyes a little into the fact that just because a patient isn’t screaming and crying, it doesn’t mean they aren’t in pain. Some of us just have a lifetime of practice at hiding it.
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