Doctors, What Are Patients Faking?

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[xdemon]

23:07 - What those parents did should allow them to be charged for gross negligence and child endangerment. Imagine the scenario took a turn for the worst: your child goes in for one of the most routine procedures only for the doctor to come and say they died on the operating table because you as a parent were stupid enough to disregard a simple instruction.

[MachallaNaNaNa]

Coin flips both ways tbh. I have chronic pain, and I've struggled to have it taken seriously. I've even had to tell a couple urgent care doctors, through tears, "I don't want pain meds. I want answers. Please help me."

[QueenSunstar]

Worst fake seizure I’ve seen was the lady making a snow angel on the floor of a train, clearly trying to convince the person she was with that she was epileptic. I looked at her and said, seriously? Then I looked up and utterly embarrassed her with this is clearly a fake seizure. During a real seizure, one tends to swallow their tongue. Cue attempts to swallow tongue. Then I add, you can’t actually swallow your tongue. Lady stopped her theatrics and returned to her seat, totally beat red.

[JackieOwl]

I remember being told by the nurse I was “faking” a leg injury. My mother looked at my knee and decided to take me home anyway. Turned out it was injured, and I still have complications from it to this day

[vampirebottom]

I can feel when I'm being "tested" by ER doctors and/or pain management doctors when I report an above-5 on the pain scale and they ask me what they can give me to feel relief, and I know it's because they get a revolving door of people who come in where the first word out of their mouth is "dilaudid." There's definitely a difference in the vibe of the room when I *don't* name-drop a high-risk med---like it gets way less awkward and things move along much faster.

[kendoruslink]

You know it really sucks for those who actually are in pain but the doctors think they are faking it because of so many fakers

[yellowSR]

Use to get “Alice in Wonderland Syndrome” with fevers and on cold meds when I was younger.

[ettinakitten]

19:00 Is OP *sure* that patient was lying? My first thought was a delusion.

[YourWaywardDestiny]

When I was last in the hospital, the nurses INSISTED that I get a dose of pain meds when they put in an IV. I said no to the insistence. I had a multi-night stay, and this would happen every-other time a nurse would pop in to check on me. I didn't need it any time they offered. Eventually, the doctor came around, saw that I was fit to discharge, and straight up offered to send me home with a prescription for the good shit. I said no again, lmao. To this day, I still don't understand why everyone was so hot and bothered to say I should get on pain meds. I had vague discomfort (that I never personally mentioned in the first place, my mother did off-handedly when I was being scooted into a room) and not life-ending agony. They refused to believe I had _maybe_ a level two pain at the worst of it. Think, like, the beginning of a dehydration headache most the time. That's what they were basically begging to medicate away. This is literally the opposite of most people's reality, and I don't know what it is about me that made them flip the script.

[helookalikaman]

Pain pill seeker.... I have had chronic in the spine, both knees and right hip for nearly 16 years.... They have done every painful test and did everything the doctors asked... for awhile they had me on morph, I didn't like it, too many headaches so I asked to change to a hydro code the headaches stopped and though I was hurting more it was what I could handle.... that is until newbie pharmacist f'd it all up... Labeled me a pill seeker and cannot get any pain meds....

however my cousin is on high doses of opio ds has been in rehab numerous times and had her teeth removed to get more pain meds... nope my cousin is not labeled a pill seeker and is given what my cousin wants.... Many times it is like my cousin is so out of it like falling asleep while eating

[selenarichardson]

My mom is literally the reason they stopped keeping medication in er rooms. She used to take me to the hospital with her and have me watch while she stole all the morphine and needles from unlocked drawers/cabinets. We then had bonding time while she taught me how to inject her back. She complemented me for only a small bead of blood after doing so. Turns out she’s been off and on meth my whole life

[bumblebee]

This is why I don't like going to the doctors. I'm terrified of being told I'm just 'faking it' and the doctor not believing me.

[oneslow]

I drive a Porsche, and one day I was trying to find a parking spot when i see an old lady walking ahead of me. I stop to let her cross, she proceeds to do the whole bump into your car and fall on the ground thing. This lady was probably in her 60s rolling around on the concrete moaning "this man just hit me". While she was playing possum someone asked what happened and i said "this lady is saying I hit her" without missing a beat she sits up and screamed "You did hit me!" Then goes back to laying on the floor. The Cops, the fire department, and an ambulance all came for this one woman and none of them were falling for her BS. She told them that I was recklessly driving though the parking lot and struck her. When they reviewed the security camera it literally showed me going through the lot at at most 5mph, me stop for her, and her purposefully bump into my car and flop on the ground. They sent me on my way. I have no idea what happened to the lady afterwards lol.

[jesuscrust]

This has me worried a doctor didn’t believe me when I said my favorite food was broccoli. I ate wayyyy to much of it when I was little but being overweight it didn’t look it.

[LoneTiger]

Remember the saying _“When you hear hoof beats, think horses, not zebras”_ is not accurate, first think where you are and which 'hoof bets' are common on your location, those hoof beats could be giraffes or camels too depending on your location.

[rosalindsongsmith]

Speaking of seizures and pain meds, I have to deal with something that is pretty frustrating no matter what I do. Thankfully I don’t have seizures very often, but I do have them. I’ve told just about everybody I know not to call 911, because I’m going to be fine. it may look really bad, but I’m not gonna die or anything. But there have been a couple of times when I have ceased in public or around a bunch of people who I didn’t know very well. So of course, they called the paramedics, and I end up in the hospital. a lot of the times after I come out of a seizure, I have what I can only describe as the migraine from hell. The bitch of it is though, I don’t dare ask for anything for the pain. There’s just no way to do that without it sounding like, I’m drug seeking when I swear that’s not the case. i’m guessing assholes like the ones in this video are the reason why.

[bczarrockbeast]

I went to the doctor when i was 20 was having weird nerve pain etc. My father and aunt both have MS so i said is it possible that i may have that as well? He then asked me if i drank milk i said no I'm lactose intolerant. He said then you dont have MS. Went for a second opinion when DR no.1 sent my records to DR no.2 had marked me down as drug seeking behavior. So that one treated me like garbage as well. Went 10yrs just dealing with it until i eventually lost all function in my right arm all at once one morning when i woke up. Went to the ER they did an MRI fearing i had a stroke. They found legions on my brain and a wk later after spinal tap etc. I was diagnosed with MS. With all that said DR's can be real short sited and think everyone is trying to get drugs from them.

[triptorio]

Could you imagine being unconscious and they do the hand drop test and it ends up breaking your nose?

[leehudson]

Man the seizure one’s really bug me as an epileptic

[kitkakitteh]

Pneumothorax is a particular type of pain, after several bouts you learn to recognize it ec before it shows well on an x-ray.

Me in ER: my left lung is collapsing.
ER doc, looks at x-ray: nope, looks fine.
Actual Radiologist: 5% collapse, you're getting too good at this, Kitty. Come here dr.x, let me show you what you missed.
Teaching moment 😂