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It’s incredibly easy to freak out about your health. A slight cough. A tiny bump. A strange rash. Even feeling slightly off-key. All of these things can force even grownups (or was that especially grownups?) to panic. Even more so if they start googling their symptoms.
When Twitter user Mark shared his personal embarrassment after he went to the ER when his leg turned blue from his jeans, others joined in with their own medical freak-out stories. We’ve collected some of the best, so scroll down, upvote your faves, and read on for Bored Panda's in-depth interview with a psychologist. And be sure to share your own moments of panicking about your health in the comments.
After you’re done reading through this post (which, hopefully, helped you calm down), have a read through our article about one mom’s post going viral after she explained the importance of having your sick kids stay at home. Oh, and check out our post about the most absurd patient stories.
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kurisutofu 5 years ago
Since I was 15, I decided farts were disgusting and to never fart ... 15 years later, I went to the hospital to check why I had sharp pains to my heart, it was scary. The doctor showed me the scan and there was a big white part. He told me "you know what that is?" I was scared it was something serious and he didn't know how to tell me. I said I didn't know. He said "that's air ... A lot of air in your stomach. So much that your stomach expands and pushes against your organs. Nothing dangerous but uncomfortable. Do you fart sometimes?" And then when I said I didn't and that even now, I can't unless I'm in the toilet, he explained that it's important to fart and I have to do it ... All that to say, don't be afraid of farting.
I’m Foxxy and I know it 😉 5 years ago
I had that happen after I had surgery for an ectopic pregnancy. I was in absolute agony I was so worried that something went wrong until I sat up to call the nurse and I farted. The pain almost immediately went away.
knittin' kitten 5 years ago
Yup I had one sadly too 3 years ago. Wish that I could say that helped me extra farts and pain for days. Sorry for your loss by the way.
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Mandy Shelden 5 years ago
Gas pain is quite common after abdominal surgery. The surgeons have to puff up the abdominal cavity with air to get a clear viewing field-->some gas gets trapped when they close up-->you wake up feeling terrible. Get up and moving as soon as you can and fart it all out. You'll get your dignity back when you go home. :)
Grumble O'Pug 5 years ago
This might have happened to me after eating a bar of halva before study hall at boarding school. I had to run out thinking I was going to throw up. In my dorm room I think the walls shook with the fart I let out. Felt fine afterward.
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I’m Foxxy and I know it 😉 5 years ago
haha this reminds me of my first camping trip with my dad and brothers. We were eating banger sangas and I said that the bread tasted like citronella and that my tongue was a bit numb. They looked at me like I was an idiot and losing my mind. That was until my dad had his seconds and tasted it too. It turned out that the citronella had leaked all over our chopping board so when my dad was buttering the bread the citronella seeped in.
Geoffrey Holland 5 years ago
How would you not notice a bunch of sticky goop all over your pots and pans? She must live in filth.
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Becca Gizmo the Squirrel 5 years ago
When I was a new baby my mom took me to the Dr because I wouldn't stop screaming. The doctor took my socks off and I was fine. There was a ring around my fat baby ankle where the sock was way too tight. She has told me she let me go sockless til I was getting ready to start walking and needed shoes because it scared her so bad.
Adrienne Early 5 years ago
It's actually super common (and super scary) that babies are screaming because of hair being wrapped around fingers and toes, cutting off circulation. So always check the baby over, don't assume it's just colic!
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Chantel Atwell 5 years ago
My grandma, as a brand new mom, was checking on her sleeping baby girl when she noticed her skin was blue! She immediately picked her up and slapped her thinking that her baby wasn't breathing and this would make her cry/breathe - well, she cried, but there was nothing wrong with her. It was the blue nightlight making her face blue.... :-| Needless to say, my grandma got rid of that night light and never used a blue one ever again.
tuzdayschild 5 years ago
26 years later and you know they are still talking about you at that hospital.
Bella Langston 5 years ago
Better to ask a "stupid" question than not and have something go terribly wrong.
Pretty Pangolin 5 years ago
Apparently I was screaming bloody murder and my mom discovered I was being jabbed by a safety pin (this was back before diapers had Velcro).
Becca Gizmo the Squirrel 5 years ago
That was probably common, unfortunately.
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Elizabeth James 4 years ago
I called 911 at the age of 14 because the still in diapers baby I was sitting pooped orange. That was the day I found out that carrots are the same color at both ends of a baby, once the EMT stopped laughing.
Marlene Ricker 5 years ago
Don't be so hard on yourself! I think every mother has at least one dumb Mom moment with their babies. We were new at this baby stuff when our first born arrived. By the 2nd child, we were so much more relaxed and these dumb Mom moments either decrease or end totally.
While the internet is wonderful (it’s full of pictures of cats and dogs, after all), it’s not a very nice place for hypochondriacs—people who excessively worry about their health. It’s incredibly easy to read too much into your symptoms and make mountains out of molehills.
Most of us have fallen prey to this at least once or twice in our lives, even if we’re not hypochondriacs. Human beings tend to look at the worst in most situations, so when we see that our symptoms may be caused by cancer, we immediately fear the worst.
This leads to lots of stress, sleepless nights, promises to be better people and trying to make amends. Then we head on over to the doctor, they tell us that we’ve got a slight cold or something utterly benign. We finally relax and forget our promises to be better people. Until the next time that we open up Web MD that is.
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Blue Cicada 5 years ago
That. Is. Hilarious! So glad that your father found a sensible solution. My cousin was deemed socially delayed because he would not interact with a puppet during his pre-kindergarten screening. When his mother, a nurse, asked him why he wouldn't engage in conversation, he said "I talk to real people, not stupid puppets!" She pitched a fit and demanded did he start on time, and not be held back.
Shadow 5 years ago
So glad this didn't happen to me! I definitely would have been held back in school, I was terrified of talking inanimate objects as a child. This was made worse as the local mall, rather then having Santa (who was scary enough), they had Woody, a GIANT TALKING TREE!!! That thing creeped me out soo bad!! The eyebrows, eyes and lips moved on this thing and even was I got older it still made me want to run in the other direction! woody-5e3c...101ea0.jpg 
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Alexander Brior 5 years ago
“Where the hell did that bruise come from?” is one of my signature phrases.
I’m Foxxy and I know it 😉 5 years ago
Just curious, wouldn't banging into the table wake you up from sleep walking?
Giovanni 5 years ago
My brother used to sleep walk, they are surprisingly difficult to wake up.
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Catlady6000 5 years ago
Um, she was in middle school, therefore about 14 or younger. She was probably terrified
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Louise Gerathy 5 years ago
Yep when I first discovered beetroot chips, loved them and ate a huge pack. Next day I thought I'd had some kind of haemorrhage!!!!! Literally thought I was dying
ChickyChicky 5 years ago
Nope, never happened to me. Never went to the ER for that when I was 20 years old. ;)
D. Pitbull 5 years ago
YUP... and also remember that some... food colourings... don't... "digest"... so... if you poop blue... just... take a moment and contemplate "What have I eaten over the last 24 to 48 hours.... Blue Licorice? Check..."
Christine M Quigley 5 years ago
Same reason you don't eat beets before getting a colonoscopy, or drink anything with red dye, like red Gatorade..
Karynne Williams 5 years ago
OMG! same thing happened to me! I yelled at my roommates for not warning me! I love roasted beets now.
Rachael Wilkinson 5 years ago
Lol, watch the Portlandia Beets skit. Not sure What it's called but Google that and you can't miss it.
Bored Panda reached out to M.V., a psychologist working in the healthcare system in Lithuania, to hear her professional opinion about hypochondria and why some people tend to panic when checking what their symptoms might mean online.
"First of all, when people read about symptoms on the internet, they exhibit 2 fallacies: they personalize the information they get and they draw conclusions too quickly."
She continued and explained exactly what she meant about personalization. "Firstly, when a person feels pain and other unpleasant sensations and doesn't know what causes them, they feel anxious. That's why they try to find a logical explanation for what's happening and how they can feel better."
"That's why they become open to any and all information. When they read information online, their anxiety won't let them rationally evaluate the situation. They become suggestive. You can see that in how some of the symptoms manifest only after reading them."
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WillemPenn 5 years ago
LOL! I've been there with my cats. Turns out when a cat eats grass, the digestive system pulls out all the chlorophyll and they come out the other end looking like (to me at least) a whip worm.
AzKhaleesi 5 years ago
Omg something similar but a different orifice. When prego with my first child I went to the classes and read all the books. Fast forward 9 months had my baby girl and during her first diaper change I saw something that resembled only what I can explain as rubber cement coming out of her va jay jay. I freaked out hit the button a million times. Luckily my nurses were so sweet and kindly explained that it was just my hormones exiting her body. I was like well you'd think that would be in the class or at least one sentence in ANY of the books I read. Kinda important if you ask me. Lol now she is 18 and healthy as a horse and I tell all my friends that are pregnant with a girl ... "If this happens it's OK!!!" lol
Spikey Bunny 5 years ago
But still should mention it to the doctor just in case...
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Kasey Earls 5 years ago
My husband freaked out once because he thought he had little worms in his poop. They were small and white according to him and he decided to take a stool sample to show his doctor. I wish I had been in the room with him when the doctor told him that they weren't worms and asked him if he had eaten any quinoa lately. Indeed the sprouted quinoa he had eaten had been digested and my husband had mistaken it for worms. I still give him a bad time about it.
Missy Callahan 5 years ago
Yep...my cat barfed up what looked like a vast amount of worms. Minor panic until I realized the daisies I had in a vase were all chewed up.
Spikey Bunny 5 years ago
My cats eat all my flowers! I can't have orchids anymore... I'm so afraid them getting poisoned!!!
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Molly Block 5 years ago
LOL!! Okay, kinda off topic, but once I saw a red loop coming out of my dog's butt. Got a stick, inserted it into the loop, and pull gently. It was the plastic rind off of a slice of bologna. You know how Oscar Mayer had the red ring around it that you pulled off of the slice? Pup apparently ate a slice with the ring before my mom could snatch it away from her! When that plastic loop came out, pup was SO DAMN HAPPY!!!! (We'd seen her straining for a couple of days to poop, but didn't know what was wrong until I saw the red loop on the 3rd or 4th day). :-D
Pretty Pangolin 5 years ago
I've heard that banana strings have the same effect - haven't tested it first-hand.
Spikey Bunny 5 years ago
It's true. Bananas do scary things. I was warned about bananas when my kids were babies. I nursed them both and rarely purchased "baby food". I just mashed up home made real people food like bananas, sweet potatoes, rice, chicken, and all the normal simple things I could think of back then. Turns out, my son is allergic to Corn Syrup (well, they said "intolerant"). Anyway, you wouldn't believe that it was in almost all commercial baby foods and toddler food 25 years ago!!! (He could never have Catsup as a little kid and still won't eat it now that he's grown.)
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Clinton Yew 5 years ago
Is this the same with adult? I'm practically freaking out looking at my "creation" in the toilet right now...
Anggi Santika 5 years ago
Yeah, if it's not digested well it will come out more or less like a wilted version of what you eat. Omg.. I can't believe we are discussing about poop.
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glowworm2 5 years ago
It was kind of her to check though. You can never be too sure. I'm cracking up at "demon kitten" though.
Marlene Ricker 5 years ago
All kittens are demons. That's why I only adopt cats who are older. The demon-ness is gone by then. All kittens are just so cute. It's the cute trap!
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The Girl on Fire 5 years ago
A lot of people say that their self harm scars are from their cats, myself included. It was good of her to be concerned.
Shadow 5 years ago
I was one of those kids that always had these huge black bruises on my arms and legs. I had several teachers walk up to me, point at a bruise on my arm and ask "how did you do that?" my usual reply would be to look at where they were pointing and exclaim "Oh wow!! Look at that bruise!!! I wonder how I managed to do that?!?!" All the while poking the bruise. I eventually stopped bruising so easily and the questions stopped but I've wondered if things might have happened differently in today's society where everyone is so quick to call the authorities on people.
Living_Shadow 5 years ago
With those kinds of kittens you have to leave it alone at the first sign of it getting annoyed. You cannot keep handling it or try to pick it up.
Savannah Manis 4 years ago
This is one where someone else thought something was wrong, not the actual person, but still funny.
Pretty Pangolin 5 years ago
I've got some nasty-looking bruises on my forearms from medication. But I scratched them and some of the skin came right off. Nobody has questioned them but they look really bad. I'm making a resolution to leave them alone because I'm due to donate blood in a couple of weeks and I don't want them thinking I'm a meth freak.
The psychologist then told Bored Panda about the problem with making hurried conclusions. "When a person applies an illness' symptoms to themselves, they tend to make hurried conclusions and either accept or reject the fact that they have a particular illness. Often, after personalization comes confirmation when one's imagination creates a dreary scenario of how the supposed illness will progress. This further encourages people to read about that specific illness and its harm to the human body."
"When someone hoards information about an illness, they also imagine what it will be like living with the illness. Most often, the person imagines losing their health and starts feeling very strong negative emotions. That leads to a fear of death which even further reduces their ability to rationally evaluate their condition."
She added: "It's likely that destructive emotions only accelerate how quickly the person shows symptoms. The person feels bad and might even feel worse until their understanding of the illness is denied in an objective manner (i.e. consulting a doctor or having tests done)."
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Suzieq 5 years ago
Nothing wrong with you. It's more like the urine smells like something that is sweet. White sugar doesn't have a strong smell, but most of the things with lots of sugar in them have a distinct smell. Eat a big bowl of really sugary cereal and pay attention to the smell when you urinate
Lavendar rose 5 years ago
Yup, mine smelled like maple syrup before I was diagnosed.
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Nia Loves Art 5 years ago
We wash their feet (or hands or whatever is being printed) it just can stain a bit.
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Suzanne Haigh 4 years ago
How come when a kid's foot is purple from painting it is not obvious?
The psychologist told Bored Panda about the proper way to deal with panic upon reading too many terrifying descriptions of what your symptoms might mean. "First of all, you should evaluate the reasons for your symptoms and monitor how you feel until you meet with your doctor. You also ought to critically assess all of the health-related information you get from your surroundings (including your family members and friends) and the internet."
"You should also avoid coming to hurried conclusions on the basis of just your symptoms since similar symptoms could point to very different health problems. Also, remember that diagnoses should only be made based on test results conducted by doctors."
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Giovanni 5 years ago
For those who would like to know, if you have a stomach bleeding your vomit looks like coffee grounds (because the blood gets partially digested)
Alex Bailey 5 years ago
Exactly. Unless the blood is fresh but then it looks blood-red and not wine-red (my spouse vomited blood once). The difference is obvious when you see the real thing. Same for beetroot pee - it's too pink to be blood.
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Louise Gerathy 5 years ago
I had a red wine vomit incident... bathroom looked like I had murdered a family of beetroots
Just another Day In The Glade 5 years ago
Makes sense tho, she probably freaked cause she was drunk
Bex 5 years ago
One night in grad school, my bff and I made homemade Chinese and pre-drank a very large jug of red Sangria before we headed out to the bars. We never actually made it to the bars, bc somehow we messed up the Chinese and spent the entire night vomiting purple rice everywhere (bathroom sink, toilet, bathtub, in the beds...) 20 years ago and my stomach still turns at the smell of red Sangria, but damn, that was some pretty purple puke, lol
Pretty Pangolin 5 years ago
Oh dear - my barfing debut was 5 glasses of white wine on an empty stomach. I don't remember anything from then until the next morning. Fortunately I was someplace safe.
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Pretty Pangolin 5 years ago
Yes, I'm trying to come up with a joke about someone carrying around a tiny matchstick-sized stool...
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Sara Samul 5 years ago
Yep, this happens frequently, don't feel too bad! As a nurse I've seen many parents freak out about their child having odd colored stools, adults with odd colored and smelling urine and stools that all turned out okay after realizing they've been living on red popsicles and/or jello, eating beets, asparagus and kool-aid. Some of things should cone with a warning label that excessive ingestion could cause discoloration of your urine and/or stools. But it never hurts to get it checked out if you've recently had abdominal surgery.
Pensive 5 years ago
My dad and I had dinner one night with a friend of his whose wife is Thai. Her English was still rudimentary at the time, but she knew how to get her point across: I complimented her on a dish she'd cooked, and she said, 'Not eat much.' When I asked why not, she replied cheerfully, 'Very much go to toilet.' Thank heavens for the warning - that stuff was delicious!
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Orillion 5 years ago
Please tell me you weren't driving yourself to the hospital when you think you're about to have a heart attack. If you would have gotten one behind the wheel, you put even more people at risk.
Hollie Newton 5 years ago
Is getting someone else to drive you not an option?! It doesn't need to be an ambulance
Trash Panda 5 years ago
How much bad advice to people take away from WebMD? My ex-wife used to go on the site and after a few minutes of searching, she was suddenly an expert in one malady or another. A little bit knowledge (used ignorantly) can be a bad thing.
deanna woods 5 years ago
When I was in either 5th or 6th grade, I had my doctor freaking out because my lips were all sparkly. As my mom and I were living the exam room, I remembered I was wearing glitter lip gloss.
María Hermida 5 years ago
Didn't it cross your mind that if you had "oxygen deprivation" you would feel like s**t, unable to breath properly, and you would collapse in a couple of minutes? No time to look up anything in Google, get the car, etc... Honestly, people, try getting a hobby and relaxing a little.
Ironically, Web MD agrees with the conclusion that the internet exacerbates hypochondria. Talk about being self-aware! “Hypochondriacs researching an illness used to have to scour books and ask doctors for information. Now a universe of information is available with a few mouse clicks.”
According to Dr. Brian Fallon, a professor of psychiatry at Columbia University, hypochondria costs billions of dollars each year in unnecessary medical tests and treatments.
Meanwhile, Dr. Arthur Barsky from Harvard Medical School states that hypochondriacs aren’t pretending to get attention. “They’re absolutely not fakers or malingerers. They really feel the distress they're talking about. It's just that their feelings don't have an obvious medical basis."
"What hypochondriacs have trouble accepting is that normal, healthy people have symptoms," Barsky explained. That means that hypochondriacs are super-aware of bodily sensations that most of us either live with or ignore. So what an upset stomach or a headache is to most of us, to a hypochondriac, they’re signs of cancer.
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AzKhaleesi 5 years ago
How do you not feel the tingling and the un-comfortableness of a watch too tight before going to the nurse? That's strange.
Pretty Pangolin 5 years ago
Yes, the other day my foot was purple and numb...because I'd been sitting on it for too long watching videos.
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Parmeisan 5 years ago
This one reminds me when I was in the hospital for something actually serious that they hadn't quite figured out yet (sudden kidney failure, unknown cause) and one of the doctors or nurses saw my back and started trying to figure out how multiple bruises fit into things. So, uh... actually that's because I went paintballing last week and one of my "friends" shot me point-blank in the back several times. :p
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Lenka Smetanová 5 years ago
Not in hospital, just me as a kid in school. They send me to school psychiatrist with principal and my class teacher. Start telling me that injuring myself is bad and If I need some help with my mental health I should go and tell it they would help me.... Well they was just about to find out that I dont trim my cats claws and we played a lot, so that cuts on my hands are from her and not from some knife or something
Toni Carroll 5 years ago
One day, I was picking daughter up from school and another mother kept looking at me. Finally, she handed me a card. It was for an abuse hotline. I asked what it was about and she said it for all the bruises on my face. I had to explain that I was at a Halloween party the night before and I had my face painted. It didn't wash out very well and left stains.
Spikey Bunny 5 years ago
Very sweet of that mom for trying to offer you help - quietly!
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NMN 5 years ago
I bruise easily and did lots of martial arts. My ex would make me cover my bruises cos he didn't want ppl thinking it was him. My angiologist was baffled but that's just how I am
Parmeisan 5 years ago
I go rock climbing and I am *constantly* slamming my elbows, knees, and other parts of my limbs into rocks... someday I'm quite certain that I will forget to warn a doctor and will have to have a serious conversation about my bruises...
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Keley Babs 5 years ago
Yes EXACTLY!! It makes for a great laugh. But what's NOT funny is when we miss those signs and can't help those who need help.
María Hermida 5 years ago
If doctors and nurses confuse denim stains with actual bruises, I think it's high time you looked for another doctor.
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JillVille 5 years ago
My daughter has a brown birthmark on the bottom of her foot that looks like a burnt piece of rice. When she was first born, I tried washing that spot off for days before realizing it was a birth mark. To this day we tell her she's got dirt on her foot - she's 20.
Chancey 5 years ago
I still tell my daughter that she spilled hot chocolate on her leg. She is 26!
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Darcey Young 5 years ago
I spent so long trying to wash my coffee coloured birthmark off my abdomen as a child... and I remember staying with a friend and her mum making me go back upstairs and "get washed properly" before I got in the outdoor pool. She was mortified when I told her it was my birthmark!
NJ 5 years ago
I have a blue-ish birthmark on my back. Went on a beach trip in high school and my best friend (a guy) got upset and told me I could tell him anything and if my boyfriend was hurting me he was gonna beat him up! Couldn't for the life of me figure out why he was saying that til I calmed him down and he said he saw the "bruise" on my back 😂
Geoffrey Holland 5 years ago
Your mother didn't know that birthmarks usually show up at birth?
Parmeisan 5 years ago
New moles can be a sign of cancer; she may have thought it was that. Which would explain why she took the baby to the doctor because of it... although not why she was afraid to wash it.
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Snack Attact 5 years ago (edited)
Does no one wash their new cloths before the first wear?? I thought this was common knowledge
Pretty Pangolin 5 years ago
I pre-wash everything - you never know what has been sneezed on, dropped on the floor, etc. I used to work in apparel wholesale and we had one batch of garments that arrived with nutshells in the pockets...and another batch that had bugs!
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I always prewash jeans now I learnt the hard way after it stained my canvas bag xD
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Katy F 5 years ago
Since when do tongues turn black after drinking pepto bismol? I dont get it :/
Marcellus the Third 5 years ago
Wikipedia lists it as a known side effect, to do with sulfur in your mouth. This depends person to person, from your mouth flora & acidity etc. When I drink red wine, my tongue goes deep purple much more than others.
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Molly Block 5 years ago
I remember reading on the box label years ago that when using the Pepto-Bismol chewable tablets, they CAN/WILL turn your tongue black-ish.
Christine M Quigley 5 years ago
I never recommend Pepto for diarrhea, or any GI problem. It contains a derivative of aspirin in it, and it can turn a stool test positive for blood. If you're allergic to NSAID's, you should never take it.
Remy Sonia 5 years ago
I AM allergic to NSAIDs! If this is true... THANK YOU! Now time for me to refer to Dr Google for more information.
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Sara Samul 5 years ago
I've never seen the tongue change color after taking Pepto, but your stool can turn a really dark green or even black after taking Pepto! A black tongue can also be due to a yeast infection in your mouth, good thing to know is if you can brush the black off of your tongue with your toothbrush it most likely is not a yeast infection.
BUMMERS 5 years ago
It doesn't turn your tongue black, it turns your poop black. So, unless your poop got on your tongue...
NMN 5 years ago
Read other's comments and you'll get it. For me neither happen btw, my poop doesn't turn black. Instead of me replying to yours as "So, unless you have an internal bleeding..." I read and learned that the poop thing is a possible side effect for some ppl
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Zoe's Mom 5 years ago
..and that, dear Francis; is why he is now her ex!!! hee hee
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Spikey Bunny 5 years ago
Chronic constipation can be very serious! If you can't have a BM it can become impacted and the doctor may need to go up there and remove it for you!
Samantha Hurrell 5 years ago
Surely people know their normal cycle and would know if that was even a possibility.
Geoffrey Holland 5 years ago
I hope you started making his sandwiches with 12 grain bread instead of white. 😁😂
glowworm2 5 years ago (edited)
This has happened to me too. Didn't go to the ER, just my doctor--had a huge turd inside of me. My medication causes constipation, but I don't know that because I've been on the stuff for so long, I thought it was normal. Also had an ultrasound once too for the same reason--nothing was found though.
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Rissie 5 years ago
Well. Clothing shouldn't give off that much dye anyway. Can't be very healthy :)
Dorothy Parker 5 years ago
You should always wash new clothes before wearing them. Dyes, formaldehyde and other chemicals are used in manufacturing. Textile manufacturers are huge environmental polluters.
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Ruth Beaty 5 years ago
Please people, wash clothing before you wear it! You don't want to know what they do to fabric to make it pretty (think formaldehyde, for starters) and you don't know who's touched it!!
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Ceredwyn Ealanta 5 years ago
Oddly, I've had the reverse of that. It hit in Russia - It was about -20C outside, and the place I was staying heated to a ridiculous 35C or so inside, so the temp difference was about 55C over a few seconds. My whole body came up in itchy, painful hives, and I felt awful until I got cold again.
Flash Henry 5 years ago
Every summer for as long as I can remember, as soon as the temperature goes up past 75F/24C, I break out in a hideous heat rash. I hate hot weather.
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tuzdayschild 5 years ago (edited)
I get that sometimes. If it's really cold outside, I get hives. I never knew anyone else who gets this. Good to know.
Catlady6000 5 years ago
I just started that this year. And if I sweat, it itches, a lot. Like, scratch with a wire brush itchy
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Felix-Marie Badeau 5 years ago
It's called cold urticaria. For some folks, like myself, it can make you very ill. But it's totes going to be my excuse for moving to a warmer climate ;0)
AB Chichester 5 years ago
I have this (Cold Urticaria) and also the opposite (prickly heat in the summer). As long as I take an anti-histi an hour or so before I go out in the cold or sit in the sun, I'm fine. If not, it burns and itches like crazy!
knittin' kitten 5 years ago
My sister in law is also allergic to the cold. She lives in near Ottawa Ontario (super cold winters) my brother is stationed at the army base near there. She gets the worst rash too.
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Karen Johnston 5 years ago
Same thing happened to me with a birthmark on my face. Finally had it removed at 50. Done with people staring.
Donna Leske 5 years ago
Karen, I was born with one on my back (mine was a hemangioma). Parents had it removed at 3 mo., it must have been a whopper because I have quite a scar!
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Stormschance 5 years ago
Yeah, my mother did the same with my birthmark when I was a kid. How, all of a sudden she forget it had always been there I'll never know.
Sam Petter 5 years ago
I freckle pretty easily and one happened to show up right under my lip and on two separate occasions adults in my life have spent upwards of two minutes trying to get it off.
Jenica Thomas 5 years ago
I have a freckle on my lip and have had countless people motion at their faces trying to indicate that I had something on mine lol
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That happened with a mole on my foot. My mom thought it was a sore and kept picking at it until she realized it wasn't coming off.
Lauren Ringel 5 years ago
If the baby wasn't mobile yet and it did not fade, I can understand why a mother would be concerned. Probably a first time mom. My mom had 5 kids and by the time her 5th, me, came around, I was pretty much on my own while she supervised. I got lots of bruises, cuts, scraps, gashes. We had a close family friend who was a plastic surgeon with 9 kids of his own! ;o)
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Lisa loves cats 5 years ago
I was wearing boots with red fabric and they dyed my socks blood red after I had gotten them in the snow...
hunger games 5 years ago
I once had galaxy socks that dyed a portion of my foot the color of a bruise and later someone stomped on my foot and when I got home later I freaked out because I thought I had a broken foot and the worst bruise I've ever seen
CrunChewy McSandybutt 5 years ago
What gets me about this kind of post is that these people don't stop to consider that there would be a lot more symptoms. Gangrene? Oh, believe me, you'd know something was amiss long before the foot turned green.
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Magpie 5 years ago
WHAT!!!! wearing jeans!!! I am no skier and know that is a recipe for cold injury.
Lisa loves cats 5 years ago
When my school went on a skiing trip in canada we would only wear sweaters and snow pants and we come from a big skiing place
Load More Replies... WillemPenn 5 years ago
I am a skier and we did it a lot in the 90's because we thought it looked cool. But I'm old now and DGAF how I look as long as it keeps my butt dry.
Mo Poppins 5 years ago
I was surprised at just how disgusting I felt in wet jeans. And this was just my legs. A wet butt in denim (that never dries) is miserable.
Sam Petter 5 years ago
had a similar issue my first week of classes-- thought it was just weird vein issues until I read the care label.
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Alexander Brior 5 years ago (edited)
When I’m in the shower, there’s one mark on the wall that I always think is a spider. It always gets me multiple times per shower.
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jo Philbin 5 years ago
But all that sweat though... At least socks soak some of it up
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glowworm2 5 years ago
There'd be far more symptoms than simply having black feet if you thought they'd have to be cut off.
tuzdayschild 5 years ago
You don't think about that when you're panicking.
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Jenica Thomas 5 years ago
Yup, they're the worst for me. But any colorful cereal, even just a few bites, does that to me lol
Load More Replies... Sara Samul 5 years ago
The internet (google, webmd and the like) can be such a dangerous place, most often they are going to tell you that you are going to die in the next 30 seconds!
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Marcellus the Third 5 years ago
This is an incomprehensible tweet. Sickle cell means a specific gene is broken, which gives a partial malaria-immunity by chance if you have one faulty gene, so there's some populations where it is on average beneficial even though it has a high mortality (in those with two faulty copies). Meaning it's far MORE COMMON (not exclusive) in black populations... And then there's enough lily-white people that turn out to be 1/8 or 1/16th black.
Luna Lovegood 5 years ago
I agree. It's not even exclusively from black populated areas, just the general area of the world. My grandfather is Sicilian, had the trait, and the trait runs in our family. My mom and several of my siblings have the trait even though we are most decidedly white.
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Nyree Huh 5 years ago
...... the country i live in is in the mediternian , we're white, Sickle cell traits are common here, so common that before you are married by law both you and your partner are forced to be tested and submit the results. A whole section of our main hospitals are dedicated to it.
Loretta 5 years ago
...why do you have to be tested? Why before marriage? What happens if you test positive? You can't marry or what?
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Lynda Momalo 5 years ago
The beet stories made me think of this great one by Allie Brosh: http://hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.com/2010/02/boyfriend-doesnt-have-ebola-probably.html If you've never heard of Allie, you have an amazing treat coming and will probably go down the rabbit hole at the website for hours. Bonus: This is the story that has the most accurate pain chart ever. (The chart is actually now available for sale!)
Spikey Bunny 5 years ago
Outstanding!!!! I'm taking this new chart to my pain doctor next time!!!
Load More Replies... Crochet lady 5 years ago
My very white looking children needed to be tested for both Sickle Cell and Tay -Sachs disease. They have a mom who is biracial and a Jewish dad.
Blue Cicada 5 years ago
I know of a white family (they describe themselves as Northern European) who was devastated when they found out that their child had sickle cell syndrome. They said they didn't have any known black people in their family, so the sickle cell must be proof of some infidelity in a recent generation. The geneticist explained that the genes can be passed on for generations, that most white people don't know all of their ancestors, that populations in the Mediterranean often carry the trait (so they might have an unknown ancestor from Southern Europe, the Middle East or North Africa, not just Africa) and that people in their family history may have lived with the symptoms without knowing the cause/name of the disease.
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Nea 5 years ago
Quite amused to see how quickly people run to hospitals. But still better than running too late
Parmeisan 5 years ago
100% this. I'm twice lucky to be alive because I went to the hospital in time. Listen to your bodies, people. And it's better to be embarrassed than dead. (I know this is somewhat less useful advice for the unfortunate American pandas. You have to also weigh the risk vs crushing debt. Sorry.)
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TeeMarieTisMe 5 years ago (edited)
I'm a pretty paranoid person to be honest but some of these baffle me. Why is that so many people wouldn't try WASHING their hand/foot/leg first just in case? My first response to purple on my foot would be "hmm my body part is not usually this color, lets see if something got on it...nope not washing off? Ok maybe now we need to contact the doctor."
Shadow 5 years ago
Not to mention the questions of, does this oddly coloured body part hurt, tingle, is numb to touch, cold, hot... etc.?
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Nicholas Yu 5 years ago
One time my (now ex) wife woke me up in a panic because she was about 8 months pregnant and couldn't see her stomach below her belly button. She swore a bug was biting her stomach. I pulled up her night shirt expecting to kill something...only to find a tip of a Doritos tortilla corn chip was caught in the fold of her shirt and was jabbing into her skin every time she rolled onto it. I'm laughing now as I type this....
Erin 5 years ago (edited)
My mother took me to the doctor as a teenager because every single morning I woke up with half of my face bright red and it took hours to fade. She was convinced I had lupus or something. They ran some tests could find nothing wrong with me and scheduled me to see a specialist. I went home absolutely exhausted and fell asleep on the couch and when I woke up, same bright red marks on my face. Then my older brother pointed out that I sleep with my face in my upper arm. Sure enough, my sleeping position combined with my pale Irish complexion was the issue. Mom almost made go see the specialist anyway because she was so embarrassed about the HUGE deal she made of it.
steven 5 years ago
we thought I had testicular cancer as one of my testicles was quite enlarged. Doctor sent me off for an ultrasound and blood tests. Didn't have testicular cancer but I did have prostate cancer
glowworm2 5 years ago
In this case, it still turned out to be something serious though.
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Laura Gillette 5 years ago
Once thought I was coughing up blood, then remembered I had been drinking fruit punch not long before. I had gone to the nurse and everything and she actually said coughing up a little blood when you've been coughing a lot is not even that big of a deal. But it wasn't even blood it was me being a drama queen.
Missy Barton 5 years ago
The first time I had strep throat, I was absolutely convinced that I, a 5th grade virgin non-drug user, had AIDS. Why? We'd just finished that section in health class.
GeneralZod 5 years ago
I once woke after a bachelorette party night of heavy drinking convinced I had been assaulted because of the bruises all over my chest, stomach and thighs. Turns out I spilled red wine all over me and did a c**p job of cleaning it up. I dragged my still-tipsy self into the shower, had some hair-of-the-dog, and all was right in the world again.
glowworm2 5 years ago
I once was freaking out because I had abdominal pain quite a bit. Turns out I was just really constipated--probably due to the side effects of my medication. Another time, I feared I had gingivitis because my gums were bleeding and hurt. Nope, just my wisdom teeth trying to come in.
Nea 5 years ago
Quite amused to see how quickly people run to hospitals. But still better than running too late
Parmeisan 5 years ago
100% this. I'm twice lucky to be alive because I went to the hospital in time. Listen to your bodies, people. And it's better to be embarrassed than dead. (I know this is somewhat less useful advice for the unfortunate American pandas. You have to also weigh the risk vs crushing debt. Sorry.)
Load More Replies... TeeMarieTisMe 5 years ago (edited)
I'm a pretty paranoid person to be honest but some of these baffle me. Why is that so many people wouldn't try WASHING their hand/foot/leg first just in case? My first response to purple on my foot would be "hmm my body part is not usually this color, lets see if something got on it...nope not washing off? Ok maybe now we need to contact the doctor."
Shadow 5 years ago
Not to mention the questions of, does this oddly coloured body part hurt, tingle, is numb to touch, cold, hot... etc.?
Load More Replies... Nicholas Yu 5 years ago
One time my (now ex) wife woke me up in a panic because she was about 8 months pregnant and couldn't see her stomach below her belly button. She swore a bug was biting her stomach. I pulled up her night shirt expecting to kill something...only to find a tip of a Doritos tortilla corn chip was caught in the fold of her shirt and was jabbing into her skin every time she rolled onto it. I'm laughing now as I type this....
Erin 5 years ago (edited)
My mother took me to the doctor as a teenager because every single morning I woke up with half of my face bright red and it took hours to fade. She was convinced I had lupus or something. They ran some tests could find nothing wrong with me and scheduled me to see a specialist. I went home absolutely exhausted and fell asleep on the couch and when I woke up, same bright red marks on my face. Then my older brother pointed out that I sleep with my face in my upper arm. Sure enough, my sleeping position combined with my pale Irish complexion was the issue. Mom almost made go see the specialist anyway because she was so embarrassed about the HUGE deal she made of it.
steven 5 years ago
we thought I had testicular cancer as one of my testicles was quite enlarged. Doctor sent me off for an ultrasound and blood tests. Didn't have testicular cancer but I did have prostate cancer
glowworm2 5 years ago
In this case, it still turned out to be something serious though.
Load More Replies... Laura Gillette 5 years ago
Once thought I was coughing up blood, then remembered I had been drinking fruit punch not long before. I had gone to the nurse and everything and she actually said coughing up a little blood when you've been coughing a lot is not even that big of a deal. But it wasn't even blood it was me being a drama queen.
Missy Barton 5 years ago
The first time I had strep throat, I was absolutely convinced that I, a 5th grade virgin non-drug user, had AIDS. Why? We'd just finished that section in health class.
GeneralZod 5 years ago
I once woke after a bachelorette party night of heavy drinking convinced I had been assaulted because of the bruises all over my chest, stomach and thighs. Turns out I spilled red wine all over me and did a c**p job of cleaning it up. I dragged my still-tipsy self into the shower, had some hair-of-the-dog, and all was right in the world again.
glowworm2 5 years ago
I once was freaking out because I had abdominal pain quite a bit. Turns out I was just really constipated--probably due to the side effects of my medication. Another time, I feared I had gingivitis because my gums were bleeding and hurt. Nope, just my wisdom teeth trying to come in.
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