Flu Or Fatal: People Are Sharing Their Wildest Misdiagnosis Stories

I know you were all terrified and that is rare for a kid to have colon cancer. So happy that he is doing good now.

My mom's brain tumor was misdiagnosed as a stroke. Neurologist was adamant it was a stroke. I wasn't so sure. I was thinking "I didn't think stroke lesions were fuzzy (on the MRI)". Several months later she goes in for a checkup and MRI. Doc later calls and says " I don't know how to tell you this, but we found a brain tumor". The cancer ultimately took my mom's life, but she kicked the statistics in the nurgles. I still think we had a legal case against the neurologist, but my dad decided at the time to not pursue it. I still miss my mom and it's been over 20 years.

Glad it all worked out in the end! I'll see myself out

Maybe it wasn’t cancer after all.

S h I t !!

I hate when doctors just assume it's "fat".

My BFF had Non-alcoholic Cirrhosis of the Liver. She died from it a few years ago. The first time she went to the hospital to have fluid removed, they took 22 liters. After that, it was normally 15 to 18 liters. Every week for 8 months until she passed. They didn't diagnose her until a week before she started treatment. Apparently, it's not an uncommon occurrence.

Years ago, one of my students a girl in her twenties) started to feel very tired. She was a healthy woman, so the doctor said she probably needed iron. A month later she collapsed in the street and was taken to hospital. Most of her pancreas had "disappeared". She didn't take alcohol, the pill or any medicines. The doctors still don't know what happened, although they suspect it was something self immune. She now has to carry a little device connected to her body which injects insulin all the time. For the rest of her life.

There are some serious, widespread biases from doctors towards 'fat' people. Many illnesses/conditions that contribute to weight gain or look like weight gain or make someone resistant to weight loss get missed. The patient is told that they have to try harder to be 'less fat' and then things will resolve themselves. When the patient explains their diet and exercise habits, they are suspected of lying or some minor thing will be seized upon as what the patient is doing 'wrong.' (e.g. Oh, your biggest meal is dinner? Well, that's your problem. If you ate a light dinner and focused more on breakfast, the pounds would melt away. Oh, you put milk in your coffee? Well that explains it! You have to stop doing something so fattening._

Oh dear God in heaven this is nuts and sounds like a good case for malpractice.

I started having seizures at 19. I went to the family doctor and he asked: "it only happens around other people, right?" I later saw a neurologist who immediately knew it was epilepsy.

OMG I could not even IMAGINE. My daughter is epileptic... I wouldn't know what to do with no answers.

That's pathetic, incidentally one of the best Medicines for epileptic seizures is a marijuana derivative, so doubly effed up of them.

Wouldn’t they do drūg tests to actually confirm she was on drūgs? What kind of medical professional doesn’t back up their insane theory?

More c r a p doctors

My grandmother had high blood pressure. She seemed very confused, so everyone thought dementia. I took her blood pressure and it was very low. Looked at her meds and she was taking 3 different ones. Near as i can figure out, they were trying different ones and instead of stopping the previous and trying the next, she took them all. Dialed back and she stopped being " confused"

This is one of the reasons they have cracked down on them. For instance now when you have surgery they will give you 15 or 20. I had surgery last month and can only take Tramadol for pain because I'm allergic to codiene and oxycodone. Out of the 15 pills given I only took 7 or 8. I took the last one the day of the post-op when the stitches came out because I knew that was gonna hurt.

In today's world, doctors use a program that quickly informs them of ALL opioids/benzo/controlled substances the patient has been prescribed by any doctor. Helps stop d**g seekers from getting multiple scripts from multiple doctors.

This is why I have refused pain meds for my chronic pain from fibromyalgia and Sjogren's. I've had it all my life. I'm now 62 and I manage my pain without mind-altering d***s.

Also, check your prescription before you leave the doc's office. I'm allergic to several meds, and my doc's P.A. wrote me a prescription for one of the meds for post-op pain. I found my doc and asked about this. I never saw that P.A. again.

I 'outgrew' asthma too, I used to use a nebuliser most days. Then I started having breathing problems when running cross country about 5 years later, when I was about 9. I thought it asthma but my mum said it could be, though she did take me to the doctor. He diagnosed me with exercise induced asthma and prescribed ventolin.

I had a doctor who would continuously blame random things on "my asthma." I had never been diagnosed with asthma, had no symptoms of asthma, and I don't have asthma now. Came out of left field.

And one of the symptoms of not being able to get enough oxygen.. is anxiety.

My childhood doctor refused to diagnose me with asthma, in spite of being up all night because I couldn't breathe living down, because I hadn't gone to the ER.

I’d been suffering shortness of breath and eventually went to A&E. After just a few very basic tests I was diagnosed with a ‘panic attack’. I’d been out of breath for weeks but that didn’t seem to matter. Eventually, because I was hypertensive, I had a CT scan and some respiratory tests and I was diagnosed with pulmonary stenosis and pneumonitis. Also found a fractured vertebrae I’d been walking around with for 7 months- just thought I was a wuss with a pulled muscle!

I read a true story about a little girl named Alexandra who had cystic fibrosis. The book was written by her father after her death. When she was six or seven, her lung collapsed. It had happened before, and Alexandra knew immediately what was wrong. Her parents took her to the hospital, and her regular specialist was off that day. The person subbing refused to believe that a little girl could possibly know that her lung had collapsed. Even with her parents advocating for her, the doctor refused to consider it. That little girl had to suffer needless pain for over 24 hours because the doctor refused to listen.

Sometimes you know your body better than anyone.

I also had frequent tonsillitis, and had them removed in 1969. Do they not do that now?

I'm trying to work out why a doctor would prescribe antibiotics for tonsillitis. 70-85% of the time isn't viral, not bacterial, and antibiotics would not make a blind bit of difference.

My ex-husband fell ill with a kidney stone, a really nasty one, but where it lodged was near his appendix and the doctor was certain it was appendicitis. It was the worst pain he'd ever felt. They removed his appendix, only to find it completely fine. Then they realized it was a kidney stone. Oddly enough, he recovered from the surgery, and the kidney stone never bothered him again, so he didn't really mind all that much about it. LOL

There are some pre-existing diagnoses (BPD or d**g-seeking behavior, for example) that will make the medical establishment blame =everything= on those conditions.