Medical professionals on Reddit share unbelievable stories of patients who accurately diagnosed themselves, highlighting the power of self-awareness and sometimes, a bit of luck.
Ask Reddit page to ask doctors,'What was the wildest self-diagnoses a patient was actually right about?' Medical professionals of all types (and some patients, too) wrote in some truly wild answers. Here are some of the most fascinating: 'Patient here. I told my family GP (who I’d seen since I was a kid, and who worked with and saw both my parents as patients for years) that I thought I had reactive hypoglycemia. I told him my symptoms.
He was doubtful, but told the nurse to get me a Coke, and made me chug it. Sent me to roam around the hospital for a little bit, then get bloodwork and come back. A woman in her 40s came in and told me she was having seizures. I asked how she knew, and she said her right hand would periodically stiffen. There was no loss of consciousness or other symptoms more associated with classic seizures, but I ordered tests anyway. I work as a medical lab tech. We had a patient who came in insisting that her neighbor was poisoning her. Everyone dismissed her assuming she had some kind of paranoid psychosis. She remained in the ER on a psych eval. I ran all the standard labs on her and they were normal, but this patient would not budge. She was admitted to psych on a hold. At that point, one of the hospitalists said, ‘Why not?’ and ordered labs to test for several heavy metals and ethylene glycol. Her ethylene glycol level was 32. THIRTY TWO. I don't know if she was legitimately being poisoned by her neighbor or if it was self-induced, but damn, that patient taught me a very important lesson that day. I'm a nurse, and just had a patient who came in for a colonoscopy due to constipation and pain with bowel movements. He told me prior to the test he felt like there was something 'catching' on the left side of his abdomen when he pooped. He was like, 'Maybe I have a big polyp there or something.' Sure enough, he ended up having a 2.5 cm polyp that we removed from that exact are
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