Врачи признали случаи, когда пациенты самостоятельно ставили себе точные диагнозы

When Reddit user Musikcookie took to the popular 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: 1. "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." 2. "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.  Turns out she had been having multiple focal seizures." 3. "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." 4. "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." 5. "I knew my partner had leukemia about a week before I could convince him to go to the doctor. He was bleeding and bruising really easily and had petechiae. I wanted to go to urgent care where I knew the CBC was done quickly onsite, but he instead wanted to wait to go to his primary care doctor." 6. "I had a patient who came into the emergency department with vague mild abdominal pain whose friend had recently died of colon cancer. She was convinced she must have it too." "I told her cancer wasn't contagious like that, but she was so insistent that I ordered a CT scan in order to reassure her. Lo and behold, she had a huge colon mass. Very bizarre case." 7. "I'm a phone triage RN for a family practice. We had a woman in her early 60s, who we talked to often, call one time in a near panic attack, convinced she had terminal cancer." ➡️ Do YOU have a story about correctly diagnosing yourself? Let us know in the comments 👀 8. "'I’m going to die' — a spot-on diagnosis from a woman right before she went into cardiac arrest. That was eerie." 9. "[This is about me as a] patient, but I work in healthcare. I had pain in my right leg, specifically my glute. It progressed to lightning-like pain down my leg, pins and needles. I assumed I had fluid or a mass crushing my sciatic nerve, and after a week of rapidly increasing pain, assumed it was an abscess." "Before my second surgery, my specialist refused to believe they drained that much from me, and I had to show photos as proof. He said and I quote, 'If there had been that much you’d be in the Guinness Book of World Records.'" 10. "Not the patient himself, but his mom. This child was 18 months old and was admitted due to constipation. We were giving him medicines for that and it was getting better but the mom started to insist we get an MRI of his brain." 11. "Rural paramedic here. Several years ago had a woman call with feelings of impending doom. No pain, no symptoms, just 'I feel like I'm about to die.' Vital signs were all normal, on scene exams all normal. But she wanted to go get checked out, so into the ambulance and away we go." "We went to the hospital, and she started getting really sweaty, but there were no other symptoms/exam changes/vital sign changes. We dropped her off, gave our report, and went back into service... A couple hours later, we went back to the same hospital. I asked if they ever found anything with the previous patient, and I found out she passed away. CT showed a ruptured aortic aneurysm, and they didn't have enough time to transfer her or the resources to operate at that facility. The bizarre thing is, ruptured aortas usually (as in, every other case I've seen/heard about/read about) have other symptoms such as high heart rate, low blood pressure (or both), dizziness/lightheadedness, pain...this woman had none of those." 12. "A woman came into maternity triage and said, 'My baby is playing with my bowel.' Your bowel doesn't have somatic nerves, so... not really a thing." 13. "Hansen's disease. I saw a patient for the first time to establish care. [He was a] 52-year-old man from Brazil. He came in with his nephew, who was my patient already. He had contractures of the bilateral hands and feet, decreased sensation, and lesions with areas of what appeared to be necrosis." 14. "As a child, I didn’t have many friends so would read my great-grandma's medical dictionary. My grandma developed a chronic cough that her doctor said was bronchitis. I was nine at the time and told [her it] sounded more like congestive heart failure because it primarily happened when she put stress on her heart, and her sputum was clear." 15. "Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist here. I essentially self-diagnosed Lymphoma after realizing the association between consuming alcohol and having specific pain in my neck, shoulder, and arm." 16. "When I was in med school, there was a guy in his early 60s, fairly healthy, who kept coming into the hospital with vague symptoms of feeling like 'he’s dying.' Tons of blood tests, imaging studies, etc. didn’t show any problems." 17. "I had a brittle diabetic who felt like she was reinfected after an amputation which had already healed months before. Just said her bones hurt deep. Clinically, it was very benign looking." 18. "I had a patient come in when he lost the strength in his right leg. He took baby aspirin for the heart. The first thing he said to me was, 'I think I need more blood thinners.' On his ECG, he had atrial fibrilation, which usually requires… more blood thinners." 19. "This isn't weird so much as impressive. I had a 15-year-old girl diagnose herself with Turner Syndrome. She was learning about it in science class and thought it described her pretty well, so she brought it up to her pediatrician, and sure enough, [she had it]." 20. And finally: "Working in toxicology I once had a patient who treated her anaphylaxis unknowingly (and successfully) with a line of cocaine." So, what do you think? If you're a medical professional or a patient, I'd love to hear your stories about self-diagnoses that turned out to be real. Leave your comments down below! Or, if you want to write in but prefer to stay anonymous, feel free to check out this anonymous Google form. Who knows — your answer may end up in an upcoming BuzzFeed article!  Please note: some comments may have been edited for length and/or clarity.