Doctors, What Are Patients Faking? | Professionals Stories #80

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[summerdais]

Ugh. I've been accused of faking more than once. Newsflash, I wasn't. I would end up getting diagnosed at a later date. One that bugs me is when I had seizures after a TBI. I don't remember seizing and would be out of it afterwards. I came around one time with a broken nose that no one could account for. I suspect that someone performed the hand drop mentioned in the video, but I will never know. Anyhow, I ended up on antiseizure medications for a while, which did a great job of managing the seizures. They slowed down and eventually stopped. I haven't had one in a couple of years.

The stories I could tell. 😢🤬

[baliyae]

I liked the thumbnail on this one. House is one of my favorite shows. And it’s appropriate because one of House’s favorite things to say on the show is, “Everyone lies.”

[TheyForgotMySalad]

I understand the frustration of patients who say they don’t need an Rx refill when it’s clearly time for them to get one if they’d been taking their Rx correctly. However, the first thing a doctor’s mind should go to shouldn’t be that the patient is being willfully noncompliant. Check your patients insurance carrier before making any assumptions. It may be that they simply cannot afford their medication(s) and are trying their best to squirrel them away by only taking them every other or every third day.

[youarehere]

I was finally diagnosed with gastroparesis after many, many years. The thing that I hated the most, and still hate, is how many people think I'm faking even though I'm dry heaving uncontrollably. I also had a gastroenterologist decide I was faking and told me to go away. If I didn't have the gastroenterologist I have today I wouldn't be here today. Yes, a lot of people fake. But that just makes life difficult for those of us with odd symptoms that *aren't* faking.

[dacrunch]

The mention of someone having a high BAC saying they don't drink isn't unfounded. There are (admittedly an extremely low number) cases where certain peoples bodies create alcohol from specific foods.

[melkiorwiseman]

A possible answer to 8:48 is, "Auto-Brewery Syndrome". That's an unfortunate condition where the food in your stomach doesn't digest properly and instead ferments into alcohol which then enters your bloodstream. In some cases, it can be controlled by changing your diet. I'm not sure how rare it is or how easily it can be treated.

[The_Dudester]

I have a number of medical allergies, among them: Novocain. Throughout the 80's, I had doctors tell me "No one's allergic to Novocain." When I coded on the table and had to be jump started with the paddles, the doctor took me seriously. Unfortunately, I was in the military and couldn't sue the daylights out of him.

[birkinsmith]

I remember reading about someone who had bowel surgery and was complaining of terrible pain in the days following it. They were told they were either over-exaggerating it or just plain lying.
They then started vomiting up nasty-smelling black gunk.
Turns out that that gunk was FAECES and that during their operation, the surgeons had sealed up their bowel.

They were a lass, btw. Gotta say, I've read/heard alot of these horror stories and -like- 80% of the time, it's happened because Docs take the bitches be crazy attitude.

[Athlynne]

My gallbladder tried to kill me last year, so I sympathize. Apparently, once it was taken out, it was so far gone that, like, every specialist on my case felt the need to visit me and tell me how "gross" my gallbladder was upon removal, full of stones and covered with them as well. LOL

[izzywolflover]

Druggies like the ones in these stories are the reason I had such a hard time getting the doctors to believe me when I said there was something wrong with my back. Ended up needing emergency back surgery or loose feeling in my legs forever.

[NeoTuck]

When I was a kid I was playing with some handicraft supplies that involve tiny little metal beads. At one point I had the bright idea to stick one of the beads into my ear and listen to it roll down the ear canal and thump against the eardrum. I did this a few times until one got stuck it would not roll back out.

Panicking at my own predicament as well as feeling shame I decided to lie to my mother in hopes of getting medical treatment. I didn't want to say I knew what it was so I told her I feel something "blue" in my ear.

I was five years old

[Kageoni]

I was the patient. Sunday started off normal lied down with my toddler boys for afternoon nap. Become uncomfortable and sore all over and developed intense chills. After taking DayQuil and then an hour later exorcist level vomiting I called 911. I was unable to focus for very long and didn’t feel safe to drive. I am also a single mom with no one to watch my boys at times. The EMTs came and after asking me to answer a few questions worked real hard to convince me to stay home it will pass. That night after getting my boys to sleep I tried taking a hot bath to help with the chills, it made them worse I was shaking and chattering my teeth so bad it hurt and then my hands swelled a bit and turned purple grey. I still went to bed and couldn’t sleep as the fever and chills kicked my a$$ all night so after I got my boys to school I went back to bed getting worse. Finally after they got home I was able to get my parents to watch them, we all figured it was a kidney stone and a virus. Figured they help me with the pain and either say flu or Covid. Oh boy were the EMTs and I so wrong. What had started out as a mild UTI that I was going to schedule an appointment for very quickly turned into a bacterial infection so bad I would have lost all kidney function if I hadn’t gone in. I was hospitalized 3 nights and 2 days they tried to convince me to stay one more but I needed to be with my boys. Doctors in the ER were flabbergasted by the EMTs handling of the situation because the one of the attendings came in and said my blood labs were incredible and not in a good way. So glad I trusted my self or my boys could have lost me.

[katalyst]

Another story: I was accused by a nurse of faking a shoulder dislocation because it "didnt look dislocated". I pushed my finger through my shoulder all the way to my clavicle and was like oh yeah? Cuz this doesnt seem normal to me

[docjnsna]

So the window wiper handle I can almost believe.
While working in south America 20 years ago many of the hotels had a squeegee in the showers to clean up the water. I once had one tip over and rest against my leg. I had this vision of slipping and having that thing impale me. It never happened but I always put them outside the bathroom while I showered after that.

[MeowMeowMarshmallow]

I get bad migraines, like passing out if i try to stand, throwing up if I roll over. One time Dr used dilauded. It was such a relief I cried. Naive to drug seekers at the time. Couldn't figure out why next Dr wouldn't do the same when it actually worked. It truly was the only time I ever had relief!

[thisistheaccountname]

It's all these people faking stuff that's gets everyone else treated by the doctors and staff like their faking conditions.

[lilscratchnsniff]

I actually have alice in wonderland syndrome(I hate the name bc it makes me feel like ppl think im lying bc it juat sounds cool, so i call it Todd's syndrome instead) and i can confirm it can be extremely distressing, frustrating, and existential.

[Lllmmlammm-ehuc]

I was getting mild geometrical visuals while on an antipsychotic in a psych ward. The psychatrist said i was lying because Im "not the kind of person to hallucinate." When I got discharged, the hallucinations became much more vivid

[nilesgregory]

My dad was the one whoa ccused me of faking, I pleaded for him to bring me to a doctor and after 4 months of extensive medical tests we finally got an answer. I have Adrenoleukodystrophy just like my dad and now 2 months later I'm a part time wheelchair user but I'm on pain meds and physical Therapy to keep my strength. if I hadn't pleaded with him I would still be stuck in bed.

[beagleissleeping]

Doctor asked my father, "Are you saying yes because you're going to do what I told you or are you saying yes just to shut me up?"
Smart doctor.😉