One Simple Dietary Mistake Sent her to the Emergency Department: Medical Mystery Case SOLVED!

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[ViolinMD]

Did you figure out the diagnosis before I revealed it in the video?!

[jowiens]

I spent 22 years horrific years of my life trying to get an autoimmune diagnosis. In the end, it wasn’t a doctor who figured it out, it was me. Be your own advocate! Unfortunately, my journey with the medical community did not improve after getting a diagnosis. Women, in pain, without obvious reasons, is not taken seriously. Must be hysteria. So my faith has been deeply shaken by doctors.:(

[bazoozoo]

The fact that doctors do not ask about diet before going into lengthy investigation of 'unusual' symptoms is mindblowing

[lauren]

As soon as you said the part about her not touching most of her food I yelled "SCURVY!" at my monitor, lol. Glad I was right and didn't embarrass myself in front of my cat

[jamesko]

Initially, sailors were fed dried meat during long voyages, and they never got scurvy. In order to reduce costs, they started to feed sailors grain instead of meat. This is when they started to get scurvy. Carbohydrates prevent the absorption of vitamin C and that is why they got scurvy. Interestingly enough, this is why people who have been on a carnivore diet for decades never get scurvy.

[ChaiLatte]

I'm shocked the doctors even bothered to keep looking. Most I've seen will order a few tests and when they are normal, they just give up. I'm glad they didn't give up on this lady.

[CMDPromptify]

The wildest thing about this story was that the patient a) wasn't told it was all in her head and sent home, and b) not accused of being drug seeking and sent home

[DeniseSkidmore]

Never had a doctor be that curious about health. Generally if you're not dying they do one test and then tell you to go home and exercise. Your friends keep asking if you've seen the doctor and you've seen 12 useless ones. You occasionally get a sympathetic specialist that says your other doctors should really care more about that but it's outside their field, have a nice day.

[Cosmic-Cat.]

Nearly died of heart disease and NAFLD. Plus had a myriad of gastric problems.
Not once was I asked about my diet, or given any dietary advice.
I discharged myself against all protestations from the doctors and have spent the last 3 years figuring it all out.
Grateful for my life! ❤️

[IusedtohaveausernameIliked]

Two years ago I came down with a rare and painful disease called "polymyalgia rheumatica". I saw a doctor who sent me to a rheumatologist who sent me for regular blood work for over a year (the myalgia typically lasts for 1-5 years). They checked all kinds of things. I also had some rather bad arthritis to go with it (I never had that before). I was also at the same time diagnosed with osteoporosis (I'm a 60 year old very active male who has been weightlifting since I was 17 so that was a surprise). I continued to have problems with my shoulders, even after the rheumatologist declared the myalgia to be resolved. They sent me to a physiotherapist who got me going on a bunch of exercises for my shoulders.

I'm Canadian and I got what I thought was rather good health care. I saw my regular doctor and the rheumatologist several times, as well as several phsyio sessions. When I asked the rheumatologist why I got the myalgia, he just said that I was "unlucky". I was dissatisfied with that, especially since I still had significant shoulder pain and arthritis in my hands even though he had declared the myalgia to be resolved. I asked the physio what injury they were treating but they couldn't tell me.

On my own I figured out that there must me a missing factor here. I thought that it might be diet related. I was eating a relatively balanced healthy diet but I also ate quite a lot of sugar as well. I exercise a lot so I thought that sugar was no big deal as long as I wasn't getting fat, and I wasn't. How wrong I was. Out of desperation I decided to eliminate sugar (and all drugs) from my diet just to see what happened. What happened was that my shoulder pain, which I thought was never going to go away, went away. And so did the arthritis in my hands. I haven't been tested for bone density recently but I'm willing to bet that that is improving as well. I'm now back to lifting weights and doing active things and other than the usual little aches and pains of a 60 year old lifelong athlete, I'm feeling really good.

I'm convinced that all these problems are related to systemic inflammation caused by too much sugar intake. That's a self-diagnosis but I'm willing to bet that it's correct.

The thing is that out of the many health practitioners that I came across during my care for the myalgia not one of them ever asked about or talked about diet. Maybe they just assumed that people aren't willing to change dietary habits or maybe they are trained not to deal with "lifestyle" issues and "stick to the facts". It's a shame because in my case I'm convinced that diet was the most important thing to address and yet it was completely ignored. I had to figure it out on my own despite having first world medical care, including highly trained and highly paid doctors and specialists. I think they even tried to help me but somehow diet was not even considered. And that's a real failing of modern medicine. I don't think that mine is an isolated case.

[wandervoltz]

It's fascinating how doctors will perform these tests before asking, "Hey, what are ya eatin'?" Nutrition is far more important than we think.

[mtnmagic]

I had this but not to her severity. When i suggested this to my Hematologist he blew me off and told me, " noone gets scurvy anymore. ". So i went home and started adding back into my diet the fruits and veggies other doctors had told me not to eat. Guess what? Back to normal in a couple of months!

[craigwoollett]

finally a young doctor with communication skills

[maritasue]

Many, many years ago (1959-1961) I volunteered at a poorly funded public hospital in the children’s ward, usually reading to kids or running errands for the overworked nursing staff. Occasionally, because of lack of staff, they asked me to do something that probably wouldn’t happen today; help with a patient. In this case, an 18 month old child was admitted with scurvy (and his mom charged with neglect) because she had never fed him ANYTHING other than grocery store milk in a bottle, and was leaving him alone for hours while she partied. That poor baby was prescribed a balanced diet of puréed veggies, fruits and meat, but he wasn’t having it! My job was to cuddle him on my lap with his arms pinned while the nurse spooned in the puréed peaches, etc. He couldn’t go to a foster family until he tolerated being fed; fortunately that only took a couple of days.

[annhodge]

My husband is chronically ill and is frequently in the hospital. Never ever has a doctor asked so many questions and been so thorough. Investigating every aspect of his symptoms in order to diagnose him correctly.

[jblilbear]

I think this experience emphasizes the need for doctors to ask about a sick person’s diet. People think they eat a balanced diet but it’s imbalanced. Doctors also tend to say, “Watch your diet.” Or when they have a patient who’s losing weight, “Keep what you’re doing because it’s working.” Without even asking what their diet really is.

[gatita]

I think this video just saved my life. I’ve been having severe leg pain and all of these symptoms for a while. I was near my wits end.

[MichelleEvansApostol]

As a hospital dietitian, this story made me all the more sad that a) the admitting MD didnt ask basic nutrition questions immediately (hows your appetite? Any food allergies/restrictions?), and b) the nursing/PSW team didnt flag her poor intake earlier. If either of these had been done, a consult to the RD could have saved her from days of unnecessarily tests and pain.

[poonyaTara]

When my twins, who were preemies, were in the NICU it was a cafeteria staff member who first realized and told me I needed more ascorbic acid/vitamin C in my diet. After I got the orange juice she had told me to get she explained that a lot of first time moms believe the lie that babies won't drink breast milk if the mother drank or ate a strong source of acid, like oranges. She had worked there so long that she had figured out how to tell if a person wasn't getting enough vitamin C just by looking at them. I had worked in a post-op unit in a previous career, so I knew how strong those impressions can be having figured out how to recognize a woman in an abusive relationship just by looking at her eyes. When you have the experience of reading people that way you know what you know. It's amazing how long that skill lasts after you quit using it regularly.

[AKnipp]

Please do more medical mysteries just like this! You could even make it a whole series on its own. Just like House!