Dom F Scab is one of the internationally most recognized Spanish electronic… Read Full Bio ↴Dom F Scab is one of the internationally most recognized Spanish electronic musicians in the field of analog synthesis, despite being mostly unknown in his own country.

His presence forces us to remember that there is a good number of followers of this kind of ambient and sequential electronic music in Spain, and that during the 70’s the country had one of the pioneer european bands: Neuronium.

Despite of the influence of synthesists from the 70’s, such as Neuronium and other obvious references like Tangerine Dream and Klaus Schulze, Dom F. Scab finds his own way of creating a contemporary and personal style.

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@Chloe1OxHP

I've been binge watching your videos for a few days, Doctor Mike, and I'm literally learning so much by.. doing nothing? 😂 This is the absolute best side of YouTube, in my opinion.

Long story short; my Mum passed away in April 2012 at 39 years old as she had complained of excruciating stomach pain. Our local GP, over the course of 3 months, diagnosed her with IBS (Irritable Bowel Syndrome) and prescribed laxatives.

On the fourth month, she admitted herself to the hospital and they confirmed, within 3 hours, that she had been living with a vicious ovarian cancer in it's final stage.

That triggered a phobia of doctors that would last almost 10 years. On top of that event, I had also been living with the knowledge that I felt I was in the wrong body and had been since around 7 or 8 years old.

Thanks to your happy, soothing, funny, entertaining, and genuinely informative videos, I have since overcome that phobia and am around 14 months away from having my first appointment with a gender clinic in the UK to begin hormonal therapies and treatment, as well as plan a bottom surgery (a vaginoplasty for those unaware or curious; it's fascinating) for a future date.

Thanks for sharing so much amazing content with the world.

You're the best 💓

@jamielambert4549

2y↑18

Ok story time!

I was born a big baby. At 19 Im still overweight though I always walk away from the doctor with all my tests pointing to be being healthy.

Now starting in elementary school, really for as long as I can remember I had constant stomach pains. My parents almost never believed me. When I was little, very little, I got a test dont for Diabetes, which was negative. Keep this in mind, and my stomach pains.

When I got older, one day they took tests /again/ for Diabetes. Well, tried to. They took my blood and did the wrong test after barely being able to get enough because my veins are deep. They sent me to a specialist because after going to two different places they were unable to get blood. This specialist, after half an hour of trying to get blood, deemed me healthy looking and sent me home after I winced in pain. After half an hour of poking and digging.

A few years later, I'd be in high school now, 10th grade, I went to the doctora for severe stomach pain. It was like the ones I always got but /worse/ and more constant now and they were exhausting me. Doctors jumped to the idea of diabetes. ( when I was younger and theu were less severe they blamed them on whatever virus was going around )

So now They're trying to get blood again, and I go to one olace and they can't get blood. And with my history they make an appointment at the hospital for them to do an untrasound on my arm so they can find a vein first try.

I come in and a nurse looks at me first. Promises she'll only poke me ig she finds a vein. And she does in thr middle of my forearm. It hurt more but she got the blood.

I came out negative for diabetes again. So they decides to test me for allergies.. Turns out I just have a sensitivity to dairy..
And maybe if I wasn't over weight and they didn't assume my /stomach aches/ were /diabetes/ maybe I could have found out my aversion to dairy sooner than the 10th grade.

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@DoctorMike

2y↑2.3K

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@thefoundation5404

2y↑14

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@thefoundation5404

2y↑11

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@TheAntony1977

2y↑7

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@tntkid4553

2y↑3

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@erinrachelcat

2y↑31.6K

Yep. Almost died at 13 because a male doctor insisted my pain was caused by cramps. In fact, my appendix was bursting. My mom insisted they operate and it saved my life (it was a close call though).

@neozk_official

2y↑1.9K

no it's not close call it's too close of a call

@prakhar7042

2y↑377

@NEO ZK _ Official bruh

@katsukibakugo9536

2y↑1.3K

I’m 13 and my period cramps feel like death is creeping up on me. That’s scary..

@neozk_official

2y↑182

@Pythagorean Theorem bruh?

@epicbagpipenoises3714

2y↑143

@NEO ZK _ Official bruh

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@arcadesmiles9464

2y↑1K

One of my friends kept getting told by multiple doctors that her syptoms were just because of mono. Turned out she had cancer. Shes okay now, she got a good doctor who found the cancer and treated her, but its gross to think she couldve died because the other doctors were so set in their diagnosis that they werent willing to accept anything else

@gsivl8578

2y↑28

I have gastroparesis and the doctors kept telling me that there was nothing wrong with me and that I was overreacting. They said my symptoms of acid reflux, and vomiting all could be resolved if I just swallowed my vomit or something.. also diagnosed me with an eating disorder when I didn't have one. When people keep telling you the same thing you start to believe it, glad they figured what it was, although it took a year to diagnose me.

@arcadesmiles9464

2y↑17

@g sivl im happy youre okay now, its always so upsetting when doctors try to fight you on a diagnosis, before i was diagnosed with fibro, the doc i had told me verbatim "it is not as bad as you are making it. You are exaggerating and you need to stop." Meanwhile, i had been crying in pain for 10 hours straight, unable to move or walk. I threw a fit and they gave me an mri and a cat scan and found some cyts on my spine which are pushing on the nerves around them, causing my pain. She didnt even have the guts to come back and tell me she was wrong. She didnt come back at all. A nurse came in and said i could go home and i had to ask her what they found. Even she was bewildered by the fact that my doctor refused to come and tell me my diagnosis because she was wrong and fought me on it every step of the way. I still sit and think about how her ego was more important to her than her job or professionalism. Its not hard to tell someone you were wrong, but in my experience, doctors tend not to.

@321GhostRider123

1y↑6

I had a multible disc prolabs on my lower back for about 6 years befor i could convince my doc to get me a MRI to confirm it. Every time i got there she keept telling me this can't be, you are to young to have that, it's probably just the muscles. Yeah and it's my muscels fault i had such pain i could only crawl on my hand's and knees trough my apartment... sure.
Btw curently i have depression and everything that comes with it and i can't realy work cause of this, guess what my doc. (not the same) says, "you are to young to stop working". Well guess i need to jump in front of a train to prove it... so sad you realy have to prove everything befor people belive you... especialy if it's a doc. for mental health, how can a doc. say well he is donw bad but he is to young for this???

@chrismcree3245

@g I have gastroparesis also. I've had it many years and have learned to treat it mostly until I got covid. I had mostly gastric problems and a lot in the 2years since. I can't seem to convince a couple of doctors it's not the gastroparesis. I finally had to say gastroparesis doesn't cause a fever an infection does.

@motionless_horizon

1y↑1

I’m very glad to hear that she’s okay now and that she got treatment!

I have Myasthenia Gravis (among other chronic illnesses) and when I was still undiagnosed, I had a neurologist who I’d never seen before. He walked into the room and without even asking why I was there or what my symptoms are, he said “given your history with self harm, and the very quick weight loss, plus your age, this is obviously an eating disorder. The weakness is a mix of malnutrition and a psychosomatic illness. Go to an eating disorder recovery clinic.”

I was seeing a GI specialist for 4 yrs at that point and had intestinal paralysis documented in my chart.

Only got diagnosed almost two years later after entering a myasthenic crisis and nearly being intubated because my diaphragm became too weak.

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@beee462

2y↑2.5K

When I had appendicitis, the ER doc just said it was a burst cyst without even examining me. Since I have had a burst cyst before, I knew that was wrong. It took a female resident to come in, actually listen to me and for the first time since getting to the ER (several hours have passed at this time), palpitated the area above my appendix. The pain was so severe, I launched off the bed. She promptly left to get me some pain meds and to let the doc know that I needed to be schedule for emergency surgery. I'm still mad at that first doc today and it's been over 20 years.

@nillabean1146

2y↑101

and you have every right to be

@kamieaston3016

2y↑145

Bruh my mother went in for a sore throat a while back.

Doctor said it was Tonsillitis.

My mother laughed, and said:
Doctor, I have no tonsils.

@ste887

2y↑66

had the same experience as a 9 year old, severe pain in lower right quadrant of the abdomen that came on in waves, like a really serious case of nausea, parents took me to the doctors after not eating for a week, doctor said i was faking to get time off school, another week passes managed to eat half a digestive biscuit in the whole week, another visit this time to the hospital "oh he must be doing it for attention, there's no need to test him if it was serious he would be making more of a scene" at the 20 day mark had a fever that wouldn't go down, was curled up on the floor of my bedroom screaming in pain,

rushed to hospital by ambulance, they tried fobbing the parents off with the "oh he probably just doesn't want to go to school tomorrow" mum said that i hadn't eaten in nearly 3 weeks and as a kid who loved his food there was something seriously wrong, parents told nothing was wrong. wasn't till my mum made a huge scene shouting at the doctor at the emergency room, demanding i got at least a scan or a doctor to actually do a physical exam she would make life very unpleasant. they gave me a ultrasound to calm my mom down, and ill never forget the panicked look on the radiographers face when he rushed out of the room and was shouting down the phone at the doctors at admitting, less than 30 mins later i was being wheeled into surgery, ruptured appendix, that had infected 40% of my small intestine,

as a result have a huge scar from my right side to my belly button where they had to remove a significant chunk of my digestive system, all because they wouldn't take the complaints of a child seriously. now later in life suffering some pretty severe digestive issues all because my symptoms were waved away as attention seeking or a attempt to get out of taking a test at school. its a shame there weren't any of those no win no fee medical negligence lawyers back in the 90s, cos would have got a pretty sizeable payout considering their neglect left me less than 24 hours between being alive and being on a slab in the morgue and with serious issues even to this day 2 decades later.

ever since then i have zero trust for the medical system, especially as that has been proven time and time again thanks to a recurrent shoulder dislocation i have which is getting waved off as a problem physio can fix, yet i've been doing physio for years and the problem isn't fixed, but a surgery to put in 6 stitches would likely fix the issue, but nope here's a sheet of exercises and more opioids, it will get better eventually.....honest

@Cosmopean

2y↑26

Reading all these stories and comparing them to my amab (and not out at the time) experience of appendicitis (went from ER waiting room to emergency surgery in one and a half hours on a holiday) makes me so incredibly angry at the medical system. Basically unless you're biologically male and white, you're screwed.

@imsobeautiful.1632

2y↑9

when i was getting tested for COVID the doctor told my mom we should immediately go to the emergency room to get my appendix checked and you know what my mom did? Nothing. We drove home and she completely ignored it. From time to time my side hurts (the same side the doctor was concerned about), but everyone says that if it was an appendicitis then I'd be dead by now so i guess my mom saved some gas in her tank. if it really was an appendicitis then i'd be dead and she would die soon after from the guilt. tsk.

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@Rose-nb5bw

1y↑129

My appendix ruptured when I was 12 and the doctor told me it was just period cramps. My appendix was ruptured for a week, and I had made 3 trips in to see him before he finally checked anything. By that point several other organs were infected and I was in surgery for 8 hours. I flatlined during surgery for 6 minutes. I still struggle with the aftermath. I now have severe period cramps… so the doctor predicted the future 😂

@phoppy4292

2y↑461

I remember I was 14 and I went to the ER for really bad abdominal pains. The doctor sent me home after he pushed my stomach a few times and told me it was period cramps. I was actually passing a gallstone. 2 months later I go to the ER again for the exact same reason and they found out I had over 200 gallstones in my gallbladder. They lost a clip during surgery and every now and then it moves and feels like someone is stabbing me below the ribcage

@ellamay6405

2y↑146

uhhhhh can't you sue them for medical malpractice?

@enderbirds3814

2y↑104

And like uh… get the clip removed??????

@quandaledingle4606

2y↑32

@Ender Birds they lost it idk if they gonna find it

@phoppy4292

2y↑48

@Kay Elmdey I tried and it's not a strong enough case

@phoppy4292

2y↑52

@Ender Birds been trying to get it removed for a while, my hospital is really busy and wait lists are super long

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@sydneyrouse

1y↑246

While still in the OR after my c-section I felt extremely nauseous and they had me smell alcohol. I didn't throw up, and the nausea went away. Hadn't heard of this trick prior, but was thankful for it!

@cmpvariety1764

1y↑2

Wait, how does smelling alcohol stop nausea? I believe you I think it does but I'm curious how it works.

@sydneyrouse

1y↑12

@CMP Variety I have no clue 😅 I don’t know about it until they did it, so it wasn’t a placebo in my case!

@cmpvariety1764

1y↑5

@@sydneyrouse3973 see I can't test it because I have chronic migraines and strong odors like alcohol will cause one to get started on me pretty quick. It probably does work though, if you say it works it works I just don't know how.

@chrismcree3245

1y↑5

I've used it many times with patients and had good results has never worked for me personally though. Since I had covid in December 2020 I've had much gastrointestinal distress, I've lost100+lbs from mostly nausea and vomiting.

@kaylanovacek8973

3y↑3.5K

Thank you for acknowledging that doctors often dismiss what women have to say about their health/pain. You seem like you're a genuinely kind doctor.

@angelfloress5063

2y↑25

Mike the white knight!

@pohorex6834

2y↑82

It isn’t just women, it’s men too, too often have I went in and been called a hypochondriac when I quite literally had 3 broken fingers and a dislocated wrist, with the doctor saying it’s impossible to dislocate your wrist. Yea, I’m gonna have to disagree right there chief

@kaylanovacek8973

2y↑72

@Pohorex while I respect your experience, and it sounds like you had a real shitty doctor, it is proven that doctors are more likely to dismiss women when they raise concerns about their health.

@jeremiahfix5529

2y↑5

Honestly the conundrum is propensity of somatization which MDs can’t do much for, it’s unfortunate conundrum that could lead to overlooking red flag symptoms

@VaIaks

2y↑16

@Kayla Erickson I can understand it. However, I've been dismissed with pneumonia 3 times, a broken arm, leg, and wrist 2 times. It's definitely possible for both, just more common for one more than the other.

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@woodsygirl86

2y↑185

The second she mentioned the bruise on her leg that wasn't there several hours before, I was like "Was it flesh eating bacteria?" and then a second later it's confirmed. I thank Cabin Fever for making me look up Necrotising Fasciitis, because now I'm so much more thorough about keeping cuts, scraps, and any other injuries, clean while also watching out for signs of infection.

@rhov-anion

2y↑147

Twice got badly diagnosed due to my gender. First time was massive lower stomach pain, literally the worst in my life, I was screaming/begging for my mother to kill me (and I have chronic pain issues so my pain tolerance is high by necessity) ER doctor insisted I was only cramping and being a drama queen. Thankfully my mother stood up for me, demanded they bring an obgyn, who realized this was serious, turned out an ovarian cyst the size of a softball had ruptured, I ignored it because pain is the status quo of my life, and it was infected.

Second time, I had known for 12 years that I had epilepsy, but suddenly my seizures were increasing. I had recently moved to Oregon, and this new neurologist told me that because my EEG was normal, I didn't have epilepsy at all, these were nothing but panic attacks, and refused to renew the medication that I literally needed to survive. FYI, going off epilepsy medication cold turkey can cause even someone without epilepsy to have a seizure. (They can be prescribed for mental health or chronic insomnia.) I argued that this was insane, three neurologists IN the past had treated me no problem, and cold turkey was literally a death sentence. I had to argue that panic attacks (which I do have) don't happen when you're asleep, or bored cooking dinner, or having a lovely family dinner, and panic attacks don't happen so suddenly that you collapse and break your arm. TWICE!

I admit, I raised my voice in anger. It was horrifying to me, having an increase in seizures only to be told my prescription would not be renewed. Brain damage was a very real likelihood!!! So I got upset, was told to get out of the office and never return, and rather than send me to another neurologist in the network, I was assigned to see a seizure clinic that my insurance refused to cover, and they refused to let me see another neurologist in the entire freaking city of Portland. I then lost my insurance and had to supplement my epilepsy pills with my sister's spare pills, since I had no neuro to prescribe new pills, and anyway I couldn't afford $800/month for my pills without insurance. Thankfully, Oregon Health Plan became a thing, I got an awesome neurologist who not only got my seizures 100% under control with cannabis (5 years seizure free) but also takes an interest in my mental health, and he even read a novel I published after my brain was repaired enough to write again.

@toloreinfrostofficial

1y↑16

What a ride! Glad that it got figured out, I would've reacted the same way, some doctors just frickin suck.

@RobinTheBot

1y↑12

You know the worst part? There's no way without a lawsuit to inform these doctors of the severe mistakes they made. They never gave guilt. They just arrogantly go on, telling the story of a crazy woman they had to ban for the office just because they cut her off from some drugs.

@margaretbush

43w

What? How does having a normal EEG mean you DONT have epilepsy? Do they not know that epilepsy is a neurological condition? I have epilepsy and they say that to me because neuron active didn’t increase.

@occheermommy

1y↑63

So true story about doctors treating women different than men. My mother in law went to doctor with a sore back. They basically told her she was fine and she could take aspirin. My father in law goes to the same doctor a month later because he was actually hung over but his work required a note if he missed work. This was like 30 years ago. So he told the doctor his back hurt and asked for a note for the day. The doctor gave him pain meds and took him off work for 3 weeks.
It has been proven that women have a higher pain tolerance than men because we have to go thru childbirth. So why do male doctors act like we run to them crying when we get a pin prick. If we say it hurts it’s because it hurts. I have fibromyalgia so this hits home for me because getting a doctor to actually treat it is difficult. Most want to tell u it’s in your head.

@Mechagodzillayee

1y↑1

Oh women don't even know pain until they get their toe stubbed and know real pain

@erikamichael115

20w↑1

That makes me so mad I deal with this bs from doctors all the time and your story is wild they need to just believe us when we say we are in pain

@occheermommy

20w↑1

@@erikamichael115 exactly.

@lil_infinite_arts

2y↑156

I’ve never had appendicitis but I did end up having a year late allergic reaction to a medication that caused my mouth to go numb, not being able to swallow or talk, caused me to drool, and I couldn’t control my arm from acting like a miniature seizure. The nurse saw me and said it was all in my head or trying to get attention due to me being on meds for depression. She never asked me any questions or and real info walked in and looked at me asked my mom to step out. We left after that with my mom thinking I was making it all up. A week later I ended up in the hospital not being able to breath at all only for my psychiatrist to tell us I was having an allergic reaction to the medication Geodon or something like that

@danialrafid

1y↑9

Moms think doctors know everything and are always right 🤦‍♂️

@ashleighADDICT8029

1y↑2

My grandma's the same way, what the doctor says is law. She follows it to a T. They told her to eat spinach to help get her iron up and all she ate FOR A YEAR was spinach. Did more harm than good, she ended up raising her iron to dangerous levels. 😅doctors aren't always right and people like my grandmother need to realize that. My grandma is obviously an extreme case, idk how many people would go as far as she did but still.

@labaccident2010

52w

I took geodon as a kid…hated it, had side effects. No fun.

@karratkake

1y↑108

Fun fact: when my appendix got removed, my doctors originally thought it was a twisted fallopian tube, because I was on my period that week. I insisted that it wasn't and I was almost certain it was appendicitis, but after doing an ultrasound, they didn't see anything wrong with it.
Turns out it wasn't my uterus, but it was a rare case where my appendix was only infected on the inside, and showed almost no cosmetic damage. If I hadn't kept insisting that it was my appendix, it would've ruptured in a matter of hours following the surgery.
Moral of the story, not all abdominal pain is period pain :)

@flawlix

2y↑3.7K

Actually, anecdotally, a number of women who have experienced both appendicitis and bad menstrual cramps have said they ignored the appendicitis at first because they either (1) assumed it was period cramps, or (2) their period cramps were so much worse that they assumed it couldn’t be anything serious. But the part about doctors ignoring them also is true.

@john-paulsilke893

2y↑127

My wife had hers rupture and it stayed like that for four days before they finally operated. She obviously almost died and had to have her stomach left open for more then a week with daily deep washing of her internal organs!!! I found out they essentially use a surgical version of bleach that they pour into such wounds and either sop up with surgical sponges and/or suction! 😳

@AleksandarIvanov69

2y↑9

People most often go in denial, cause how much easier it is to assume something usual than something unusual and disruptive.

And in those cases, blaming their own cowardice on doctors is such a dishonorable act...

@patronustrip

2y↑75

I ignored bladder infection once for three days straight cause I thought it was my normal usual cramps. I understood it was not only when during the night it got higher and behind my back.

@marvandthe4topz

2y↑110

@Aleksandar Ivanov doctors also ignore when they say it’s not like any menstrual cramps they’ve had. And only one person in the situation is a medical professional that’s responsible.

@findingagain

2y↑34

I had bad cramps and started feeling embarrassed in the hospital bed because it started fading with the ibuprofen I took hrs ago and anything appendicitis related didn't show up on scans (still acute.) I was ready to admit I was wrong and just go back home even though I literally could not move to breathe without pain earlier. The doctor/surgeon did a "test" pushing on my right side and when it hurt on the left they decided to go through with surgery. 😅 Told me after surgery that I would've probably been back in a few days anyways if they sent me home.

Apparently it's something gyn clinicians know too?? I mentioned it one day and my nurse casually went "Yeah, that will do it."

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@sydneykehr8040

2y↑33

My mom had a ganglion cyst and she wanted to do the book trick but I convinced her to get it surgically removed. Also the alcohol scent (and also bleach scent) do help with nausea. It’s a common tactic used amongst midwives to help pregnant women with nausea during labor.

@suchnothing

2y↑289

Your left and right ears really do have different functions though. The left ear takes in sound from the left side, and the right ear takes in sound from the right side. It allows you to have an idea of what direction a sound is coming from.

@CyanideXCloud

2y↑63

Ah, technically correct... The best kind of correct.

@Squid728

2y↑12

Big brain moment
Love it

@TheBrain2K

2y↑8

I do feel like there is a difference though...
I use one of those single-ear bluetooth headsets pretty much day in day out.
When I have it in my right ear, there is basically zero effort required to follow what is being said on a phone call or podcast I am listening to, even in noisy environments.
If I put it in my left ear, it feels like so much more effort required just to parse the speech and it's much easier to loose track and I'm unable to sort of quick-rewind in my head to re-analze what was said a second ago...

@Wheelz627

2y↑4

That's not functioning differently. That's hearing sounds from one side or the other. A function both ears have.

@suchnothing

2y↑2

@Zac Hernandez you can't hear from the left side with your right ear, because the left side will always be on your left, and the right side will always be on your right. Oh, you're gonna turn your head to hear what's happening on the right with your left year? The right side is now the left side. 🧐🧐🧐

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@blackthorn956

1y↑5

I have horrible back pain and saw tons of doctors growing up, also as an adult.
Was told nothing was wrong with me, but they never did any tests.
People kept thinking I was lying about my pain, so I saw a specialist when I turned 30, who took one look and said I got scoliosis. I had never heard of this in my whole life and somehow everyone missed it.

Nowadays at 36 I finally get taken seriously and for the first time I have painkillers good enough where I can function ok for 4-5 hours or so.

I'll never know why 20 doctors before that were so dismissive of me, one of them even slapped me hard on my back and said you'll be OK, bro

@kileydion7511

2y↑22

I was having terrible cramps in my stomach but I was also on my cycle so I didn’t think anything of it. These “cramps” lasted three days during which I couldn’t sleep or stand. My mom finally convinced me to go to the ER and after everything looked normal on an ultrasound we almost didn’t do a mri. After doing the mri they found out my appendix was super close to rupturing.

@getjiggywitityk

2y↑12

Actually, someone who I went to elementary school with could make vapor come out of their mouth without drinking water. They got in trouble in 8th grade twice, accused for smoking. It's really odd how that happens. I've always wondered what made actual "vapor" and how it ends up out of their mouth.

@wargames42

3y↑3.3K

"WOMEN don't mistake appendix pain for period cramps, DOCTORS do."

You're half right. Our doctors frequently do blow us off or ignore us, especially those of us who have horrific cramps, but a lot of us DO mistake more serious things for period cramps. When you're used to hearing that things like appendicitis are the worst pain ever, but the pain you're experiencing is on par with what you deal with every month, you're not going to think it's anything to worry about.

I have endometriosis. I could 100% see myself not realizing I had appendicitis.

@RKerns

3y↑78

then theres me, who thinks every period cramp i get is appendicitis lol. Minor pain in the right side can be so many things. Probably the best advice i got from a doctor to tell the difference is to get up, hop on each leg and hop on both. If you can do that, you're fine. Now i do it whenever i get pains. Other things i read is that it hurts to breathe/cough, you can't... er... 'pass gas', it hurts to walk (ie stretching your abdomen), and that applying pressure and taking it away causes alot of pain.

@jacquelynsmith2351

3y↑57

This is 100% the reason I got birth control pills. It reduced my pain 99%... until it didn't, and I had to escalate to an IUD. I don't think I have endometriosis, but I have 2 sisters who do and another with PCOS, so I can't discount it. When I had a kidney stone, the only thing that told me it wasn't a cramp was that it was a week too soon.

@ecocentriclife

3y↑26

@Jacquelyn Smith This is also why I went on birth control. My registered nurse in college told me that there is no real biological necessity to actually have a period each month, so I could take the standard week of placebo pills and have one if I wanted to... or not. I 100% chose not.

@chrisucl

3y↑11

Very good point. But that's why patients need to be examined. Appendicitis has signs such as guarding and rebound tenderness on examination and also other symptoms like going off food, nausea and vomiting, fever etc

@chrisucl

3y↑15

@Ecocentric Life actually its advisable to have four periods a year for a healthy womb lining or you can risk endometrial hyperplasia and cancer.

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@bolognaanimations3505

2y↑35

I remember that my ears used to get clogged with ear wax and it caused me hearing loss and discomfort. I told my parents about it and they were telling me to use a qtip, and I told them no because I knew that it was just pushing it back further. I practically took them to the store to buy hydrogen peroxide for me and it worked so much better than the qtips screwing it up.

@silentj624

2y↑50

I had a ganglion cyst for most of my teenage years. It was painful off and on and after a while the pain persisted for too long and I asked to have it removed before I would be off off my mother's insurance. This was before the 26 year age limit. The idea of somebody smashing it with a book would give me murder charges.

@celestialuna2152

1y↑7

My doctor thought I exaggerated my chest pain (btw it was rational because I was a 16yr old female) and said that it was a pulled muscle. At this time I was also having severe body oder and ph problems I was told were part of me not being clean or just my puberty. Turns out the pain and ph disruption was caused by my mediastinal teratoma tumor that collapsed my one lung and ruptured the sack on my heart. After getting emergency surgery and almost dieing did he then realize I had a high pain tolerance and to not ignore a female patients symptoms just because you think we're weak and won't because u never know whats going on inside a person who might look and act as a stereotypical teen girl I almost died because of it.

@sadiemcnabb4444

2y↑66

The rubbing alcohol one did actually temporarily soothe my extreme morning sickness. Not long enough to be a real solution, but even 2 minutes of relief was welcome during 9 months of non-stop puking.

@leylia4236

1y↑11

my crohns was called period cramps for almost 10 years and now its too severe to do anything with lol and im only 22! got diagnosed last year on my 21st birthday, was finally sent to the hospital and they thought i was dying due to my appendix bursting and almost sent me into emergency surgery but no it was crohns disease, like my bio father

@Joe___R

2y↑6.9K

The easiest way to prove the brain is the most important organ is that medical science has figured out ways to at least temporarily replace every organ except for the brain.

@angerycats2082

2y↑63

How about the heart or smth.

Yes ik the brain is important but how are you gonna get blood pumped through the body

@reidcarr9987

2y↑566

@weeb cat heart transplant have been done a lot

@mr.nobody9968

2y↑71

@Reid Carr Exactly. But it is really an important organ.

@angerycats2082

2y↑37

@Reid Carr oh my bad them but its still rlly important

@reidcarr9987

2y↑39

@weeb cat definitely

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@awkwardpaulie

1y↑6

So glad I had my appendix removed when I was 10. My cousin threw me onto the ground, I landed funny, & then there was pain.
Told my mom it hurts but she said it’s bc I was rough housing. After taking a bath like an hour later, she angrily took me bc I couldn’t stop crying.
I no longer share anything with my mom, especially anything health related bc she kept dismissing it.

@jacquelinekenknight9280

2y↑4

Right after Christmas 2013, I had the most unimaginable pain. I can’t describe it. I thought I was dying. My boss called 911 but by the time I arrived at the ER, my pain has subsided. They told me I had bad gas and sent me home.

Later that week my doctor examined me and ordered a scan of my gallbladder. It was full of gallstones and functioning at 12%. It was removed Jan 9th. I’m still so frustrated by that ER that did nothing and sent me home.

@_HaL0

44w↑3

Around June 2021 started having severe chest pain. My mom got me an appointment at Nemours Childrens Hospital. They said it was muscle spasms. Around August that year they started getting worse. Afraid it was my heart, my mom scheduled another appointment with Nemours with a different doctor. He diagnosed me with severe pectus excavatum. Turns out my sternum wall was pressing on my main arteries. July 14, 2022 I went in for MIRPE. Since then, I’ve had a fricking metal rod inside my chest to correct the depression.

@yowutis

2y↑18

Funnily enough, I had hear of an old nursing trick for post-op patients was to have rubbing alcohol rubbed in the nostrils to reduce nausea. Luckily haven't had the opportunity to test it recently.

@Erica_Rose56

1y↑3

The rubbing alcohol is actually accurate. It doesn't work on everyone, but it was actually added to the PA EMS Protocols to give patient's an alcohol prep pad when they're nauseous.

@maddogdisorder

3y↑1.3K

Literally almost died for appendicitis. Went to emerge three times and was only admitted the last time because a nurse argued with a doctor tooth and nail over admitting me. There was no sympathy either. I couldn't stop shaking and they kept asking me to stop to draw blood and I tried so hard but it was like massive uncontrollable shivers. Even after the ultrasound they thought it was a ectopic pregnancy and didn't believe me when I told them I was a virgin (highschool at the time) now I have a massive scar running from my palvic bone to about an inch or two below my belly button and drainage scars where tubes were left in for some time after the surgery. Not fun but super thankful for that female nurse! She literally fought for my life

@sophianiemiec4691

2y↑123

The doctors also nearly killed my sister when she had appenditis! She was 4 and she couldn't walk by the time she was admitted. It was so scary and she was in hospital for 3 weeks. My parents and another doctor had to fight for her life. Doctors should really start taking things like those more seriously before they kill/nearly kill more people. I hope you're doing well after the whole ordeal because I can't imagine going through something like it myself :)

@Queen-bq9gg

2y↑17

This happened to me like 3 times I went to the hospital with appendicitis but I never even had it, I just had a really bad pain in my stomach but I’d have other symptoms of appendicitis like they said a blackout and such, never had it though.

@bonjovi2792

2y↑42

My doctors wouldn't believe that I couldn't be pregnant either. They kept asking and asking and asking and I was like, NO, just do something! I had a large ovarian cyst.

@bunnyslippers191

2y↑45

I finally persuaded a friend of mine with abdominal pain to let me take her to the urgent care center. They examined her, told her she needed to go to the ER because they were pretty sure it was something they couldn't handle at the urgent care center and they had called the ER to expect us and she should be seen immediately. I had been pretty sure she had a hot appendix from the beginning, but that sealed the deal for me. The triage nurse was not impressed at all. She claimed Urgent Care never called the ER and made us wait. We waited until all the people ahead of us had been seen, then we waited until everyone who came after us was seen. They made us wait for a gal who came in after us and who had a sprained ankle and they made us wait until after a guy with no money and no medical insurance and who came in after us got a cast cut off his arm. Finally, after we had been there for 4 freaking hours, everyone who came in after us had been seen, and gone home and we had sat in the waiting room with no one else there and all the exam rooms sitting empty for 30 minutes the triage nurse let us go back to see the doctor. My friend had appendicitis, was admitted, and surgery scheduled for 11 am. At 8 am they drew blood, discovered her appendix had started leaking the pus and infection into her abdomen, and moved her surgery time to 9:30. The triage nurse had told the ER doctor my friend was obviously drug seeking and had nothing wrong with her, but she had to send my friend back to be examined per state law and hospital regulations.

@irkenpony17

2y↑21

I went through 3 hospitals before a children's hospital finally took me in when my appendix yeeted, I was about 16 when that happened, I actually almost died because I thought it was a pain that would go away and lol it didn't till my mom saw I wasn't ok.

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@projectmicky1226

2y↑5

Yeah. It’s not just male doctors. Female ones have been excusing severe anemia apparently for me for over a decade. One female nurse practitioner recently found it-but I didn’t go for anemia I was going for severe neck pain. I personally viewed my X-rays from the hospital and she didn’t mention the foraminal encroachment, the bone spurs, c7 ribs, or stenosis. Claims my neck will feel better when my other pain goes away…only. There’s no recommendation for my actual pain. Zero. She said nothing. Referred me to a hematologist and called it a day. Gave me some ibuprofen. My over the counter is stronger than what she gave me and I wasn’t even seeking pain meds, just a reason my whole body randomly hurts, including my stomach and chest off and on. 😒 Gonna give up like my moms side of the family and die of a million things at once never checked

@magscat3161

2y↑26

I just had a C-section a few weeks ago. When I told the anesthesiologist that I felt nauseous she placed a rubbing alcohol pad on my nose while she prepared some IV meds. It does work.

@chrisbrooks6697

The rubbing alcohol thing is absolutely true. I was having a lot of nausea after my back surgery and due to the anti-nausea medication making me so dizzy I had a panic attack, and some other complications, they called my surgeon in. He handed me an alcohol package and told me to sniff it. I had the exact same look on my face as you and he said "just try it". I did and my nausea was gone instantly. It's very temporary though.

@arche2460

2y↑3

Was seeing an Ortho earlier this year for degenerative disc disease. During an appointment in April I was telling him my hips bothered me a lot and tried to show where by pressing my fingers a bit into the joint- which on the outside looks like the groin area. I thought it was maybe Sciatica, but the doctor was like "Your sciatic nerve doesn't go into your groin area and looking at this one X-Ray your hips look fine." He made no attempt to offer an alternative possibility or maybe suggest getting hip images done. Saw my primary care about my hips last week, got X-Rays on Monday, and was told on Wednesday I need surgery bc the head is impinging the cup/socket and there's tissue growth causing my hip to twist. Also, my hip socket doesn't face the right way (retroverted). I got a referral for an ortho and I hope I don't have to see the same doctor. Might even request a female doctor specifically when they finally call me to make the appointment.

@amyburch1094

2y↑6

Literally the alcohol thing is so valid. I had nurses give me alcohol prep pads when I was nauseated after surgery and it was great!

@zambranaml

2y↑4.5K

On the doctors-don't-listen-to-women thing, I'd been trying for about ten years to get my uterus removed due to severe PMDD, but my physical symptoms weren't deemed serious enough. FINALLY got a doctor who determined something looked wrong inside and agreed to remove it. Operation was supposed to be laparoscopic but the fibroids were too large. Second choice was a c-section-type scar. What I woke up with was an incision that ran from pubic to AROUND and OVER THE TOP OF my belly button! I woke up to both doctors informing me that I'd had a "massive uterus" and "the ultrasound didn't do it justice." If a doctor had only listened to me earlier, I'd have had a 1.5-hr surgery instead of 4, a quick recovery instead of one taking over a year, and I'd have been spared years of PMS/PMDD symptoms equivalent to the kind that makes women throw their babies off bridges. Now I'm getting a hernia because of the surgery, so I'm having issues with moving, and new pain! Yea, doctors need to trust women's' instincts more, that's for sure.

@csih2119

2y↑16

and what did you tell them beforehand?

@laulavinia

2y↑138

Even the normal amount of PMS is really really hard. I can't even imagine going to bunch of doctors, geting dismissed on top of PMS/PMDD symptoms you have... I hope you get better.

@zambranaml

2y↑80

@Lau Lavinia It's been almost miraculous to be relieved of it because I'm ME again. It's almost like reverse PTSD as "normal"/healthy clicks into place again.

@nate4463

2y↑5

Dang

@zoeslone2547

2y↑57

@Calvin Ak that shes in pain Calvin.

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@1curvis

2y↑3

Tysm to all docs, nurses and everybody in the NHS. You saved my dad’s life. He had covid and it was super bad. His oxygen level was at 72 but it was meant to be 90-98. If it goes below 90, you have to get to hospital ASAP.

@Star_Pups

2y↑13

The rubbing alcohol thing for nausea is actually in our protocol books for EMS in the state of Maryland. Had to use it a few times for patients and myself

@croom332

1y↑1

I actually remember kids in middle/high school being able to "vape" with just their mouths, just not produce as much vapor as this guy. It was the cool trend to do at the time because it looked like you were vaping. I could never figure out how to do it but a few kids at my school got pretty good at it. One kid who would do it all the time did it in front of a teacher intentionally so they'd think he's smoking but when they obviously confront him he has nothing lol. They'd take a sip of water and sort of hyperventilate with their mouth closed and after a few huffs a little bit of vapor would come out. This dude in the video did it way faster and made way more vapor than I remember though.

@moemoeforyou

2y↑15

I had surgery last week. I was still coming out of anesthesia and was so nauseous! I told the nurse I felt like I going to throw up and age immediately gave me alcohol wipes to smell. It took my nausea away immediately.

The gave me a handful of wipes for the car ride home. They worked every time!

@JensMorrison

2y↑3

My dog has super sensitive feet, and doesn't even like them touched. It doesn't mean someone did something wrong to her. She's just really sensitive.

@jonpanofsky2994

2y↑1.5K

The rubbing alcohol thing is totally true. I had surgery on my gi system and while hospitalized if I ever felt nauseous, the nurses brought me an alcohol pad to sniff, and it worked each time. Still does now!

@perrobravoperocastrado2286

2y↑16

“I had stomach on my gi system…”

What?!?!

@jonpanofsky2994

2y↑24

@In cognito it was a typo, I fixed it

@antjeschenk8055

2y↑25

I agree!! I used this trick with my husband. It worked like a charm and he could finally sleep and not puke!

@madelinetaylor5514

2y↑30

There have actually been a couple studies done in ERs showing this works!

@mitrajitchandra

2y↑6

We can trust only jayus.

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@mo1mcafee

2y↑4

Just want to say, the rubbing alcohol for nausea actually does work. I work in the operating room, and we do this very often to help with post op nausea.

@miaarcher9984

1y↑12

The alcohol pad for nausea actually does work! At least it did for me! After a surgery I woke up and felt very sick, so a nurse gave me an alcohol swab and told me to smell it, I didn’t feel nauseous anymore!

@thugnificendo

1y↑39

I laughed way to hard at that little patient joke.... I like puns

@Chloe1OxHP

@nip3004

1y↑1

I love how his brain goes to heating the water up to produce vapor rather than lowering the pressure.

@jermm2183

3y↑9.2K

“I like the brain, I think the brain is magic”
- the human brain

@estiejellybestie89

3y↑60

Dang i just commented that lol

@cupcakeblush4537

3y↑70

Thats why some people dont use it

@thatissofetch.2140

3y↑23

Wow that makes sense lmao

@JeremiahsChannel1117

3y↑14

Brain what if I smell sweet?

@EatMyShortsAU

3y↑25

It is magic because it can think - My bias brain.

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@AOT_Beatrice

2y↑1

I had a doctor try to excuse away my lower back pain as period cramps even though it was a totally different pain than what I normally have during my period. I had a uti. Not quite as dramatic as an appendix bursting 😆

@realvague

I am licensed Pharmacist in Oklahoma, and YESSS smelling alcohol can absolutely help nausea if it is anxiety induced! The more you know Doctor Mike.

@cayleighisclueless150

1y↑47

I actually met someone who could produce water vapor from their mouth on command. They did a lot of weird breathing and mouth movements, but it was a small amount, not a ton like that. Still cool though.

@triforce9286

1y↑4

I knew someone who could turn their saliva into a mist, they'd blow their cheeks up real big, then compress with their hands, some tongue clicking, then they open and a small fog rolls out

@triforce9286

1y↑1

The video looked like vape though

@filgiupo4853

1y↑1

It’s pretty easy when you learn how to do it, it works pretty well.

@blakemcnamara9105

True story: my mother's side of the family had an old-fashioned family doctor and one time my grandfather went to him for a lump on his hand. He apparently came home and said, "That stupid jerk told me to hit it with a book". Well he did and it went away. Sometimes intuition is the right course of action.

@jasargyle9682

When I worked as a surgical nurse, one of the consultant anaesthetists SWORE by sniffing an alcohol swab for relieving nausea. I don't actually think it worked, but it made the patients feel better when I had run out of medications to ease the nausea.

@laney3167

2y↑3.9K

I got necrotizing fasciitis when I was 9 years old in my foot inside my cast when I broke it! I thought it was a normal amount of pain for a break so I waited for it to heal, but when pools of blood soaked through my cast, I was rushed to the ER and had it immediately taken off. The most I remember from that experience would be my skin practically being melted off, but I was very fortunate and luckily I didn’t have to have anything amputated. Now I just have a fun story and some sick scars and nerve damage which I am VERY thankful for!

@henrystark3746

2y↑41

Cool

@cedricbernier3874

2y↑49

@Henry Stark bruh

@OfficialAtlasReal

2y↑121

Oh dang, that must have been pretty scary

@dirtbikeandreddead3286

2y↑65

At least you're ok and it didn't hit you in the long time run

@goofy4643

2y↑1

nice

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@kathrinsides2838

2y↑1

My pain doc literally didn’t know about some of my pain because I didn’t think it was worth mentioning. It was in the same general area as my other pain, and I didn’t see a reason to complain about it because I am used to being dismissed. It took me from the age of 17-28 to even be diagnosed for the first time.

@EmmaJohnsonShenanigans

What did you have?

@DesertBloomBettas

the alcohol thing to stop nausea works. awhile back I had a trip to the ER in the back of an ambulance, and I was super nauseous, and this is something the EMT's had me do - they gave me alcohol wipes to hold under my nose. can confirm.

@GeoGamerArtistVlogger

I've actually tried the sinus trick at 6:38 and it WORKS. I don't know if I should be relieved that I can breathe or horrified that I can physically feel the mucus sliding down the back of my throat.

@CMullly

2y↑2

I think the reason things like Keto and other diets are as miraculous as people say is because they go onto a strict diet from a very loose diet. So just the change of having a strict diet will have major benefits compared to not having one.

@Zorianus

32w

I actually did ignore appendicitis because I thought it was period cramps. It never crossed my mind that I should go to the doctor until my mom insisted that I get it checked.

@duo4780

2y↑1.5K

“My stomach is so painful doc”
“Yeah that’s period cramps”
“But I haven’t started my periods yet”
“I’m the doctor I should know”
“I’ve never been to see you before, you don’t know my medical history, I haven’t had a period before”
“Who went to medical school out of the two of us?”
“Well right now it looks like neither of us”

@gpani22

2y↑20

@kellyebageon

2y↑9

Lol

@xbrandi12345x

2y↑6

Haha! You're fun!

@ellia9368

2y↑2

BAHQHQHAAHHAHAHA

@user-rk7rl7tm5w

2y↑2

Is that an actual conversation?

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@boopdoop2251

2y↑13

My mom and I have both face male doctors minimizing our problems or concerns just because we’re women.Thank you for addressing that. I wish more men could see that if they aren’t part of the problem then there is no reason to be personally offended over an issue of discrimination women face being brought up. Not all male doctors are like that, of course. Unfortunately, some still are and it should be talked about.

@chrissy9

2y↑1

I recently spent 3 months in the hospital. I went to the ER for intense pain in my leg. I had leg lengthening surgery on this leg when I was a child. The ER sent me home with a prescription for pain meds and to follow up with doctors, which I did. A week later friend and family member checked up on me, I was septic. I was rushed to the hospital. I woke up/was lucid a month later. I had necrotizing fasciitis. I was lucky to be alive without having an amputation. I’m still recovering though.

@rionpardo9561

1y↑1

I actually had Necrotizing Fasciitis, my mom didn't believe me when I told her I was in a lot of pain, my sister managed to convince her to take me to the hospital, the doctor ran tests and then found out I had necrotizing fasciitis and that I needed surgery...however they didn't do the surgery and flew me to a different hospital to do it instead. Afterwards the same hospital that refused to preform my surgery also denied my wound care and no other hospital would do wound care on me either so I ended up having my wound care at home where anything could have gone wrong...luckily my wound healed nicely and the follow up doctor said my mom, who has ZERO medical degree, had did a great job packing my wound.

@patricklangston8610

2y↑4

I've been using qtips for so long and haven't had an ear infection since I was like 13, turned 28 today. I have pretty reasonable sized ear canals and they aren't completely stuffed with wax, so I go in through the middle without touching the walls and then scoop the walls in the direction away from my ear canal. Seems to be working for me. Maybe it's just one of those things where widespread improper technique causes them to just say don't do it at all.

@Almondnutszzzz

1y↑1

Story time: The weirdest thing that happened to me was when my mom was putting my hair in a ponytail like years ago and I started to fell nauseous so I went to sit on the toilet next thing I know I am on the floor and my mom goes “I think you just fainted” went to the ER just to find out that I have “hair-grooming fainting” or something like that now the other reason I went to the ER was also because my heart was beating weirdly but it was fine and I am also fine😃

@passiontheory8307

2y↑1.7K

Women DO sometimes ignore appendicitis pain thinking it's period cramps. A girl in my college psych class took the whole class in pain thinking it was just her cramps. When it didn't let up after 12 hours she went to get it checked out. Told us all when she came back that if the pain had fluctuated and let up from time to time she would have died because it felt less bad overall then her regular cramps.

@dominiquemartello8864

2y↑68

That was me, except with a kidney stone. I just kind of vibed until I lost all my fluids from vomiting and couldn't walk anymore :/

@DeathnoteBB

2y↑37

I might be dumb but I heard recently that periods are not supposed to be as painful as everyone has them. I heard sometimes it’s caused by uterine fibroids? I’m not a doctor just another uterus-haver concerned for us!!

@AaaaNinja

2y↑4

Appendicitis doesn't feel like period cramps it feels like an abscess if you know what an abscess feels like.

@dominiquemartello8864

2y↑21

@DeathnoteBB For me at least, my extreme cramping is caused by endometriosis :(

@downhomesunset

2y↑7

This is why I take birth control constantly and only have a period once a year!

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@MrZzToOoFlyY

2y↑2

My mom had necrotizing fasciitis she was sick with an infection and kept messing with the cat, he was in no mood to be bothered so it was her fault but when he placed his teeth to say back off he broke the skin and because she already was unknowingly sick it turned dangerous fast. They removed the palm part of her hand and did skin grafts from her legs and were able to save her hand, she got lucky. I was really young so i dont remember much, but she put us on the bus and said see u when u get home from school I am just going for a check up and then our aunt had to stay with us for two weeks while she was in the hospital. The visiting nurse would come to administer antibiotics at home and change the dressing, my sister saw it one day and freaked out ran outside and puked in our clothes line, I on the other hand was right up there watching everything and looking at it and asking the nurse a million questions lol, she was shocked seeing it didn’t scare me.

@christopherboucher2887

K.. I've done that trick to clear congestion in my nose and it actually did the trick. Either that or coincidental. Another one that works better is holding your breath for as long as you can. When you need to take a breath you can feel your nasal passages opening up and draining to get more air in. I have used that a few times now.

@ignightroad

1y↑1

Had a male ENT make me get tests over two years to tell me a lump was a simple lymph node. He'd been in the field for 30 years. CAT scan, MRI, needle aspiration--whole nine yards. Got a second opinion and the doctor took one look and said 'that's a pleomorphic adenoma, that's a tumor--it has to come out'. Thankfully it was benign, BUT because it took so long to get tested PROPERLY, the tumor started growing into my nerves, and now six years later I still have facial paralysis.
I also went to the doctor several times for recurring BV and as it turns out, my vagina is twisted so can't clean properly. Male doctors told me that I was unhygienic and probably had too many sexual partners (I had 0 at the time). Female gyno took one look, got me an ultrasound, and found the issue within a 10 minute trip.
FEMALES, ALWAYS GET SECOND OPINIONS.

@misomie

2y↑4

The pressure point thing with the forehead and roof of your mouth absolutely works for me. If I ever wake up or can't sleep because my nose is clogged, I'll do the trick and I can breathe again. It'll flush the gunk down so the area feels super clear after.
If holding both doesn't work, I'll instead alternate the pressure.

@marty8722

Misdiagnosis of women is pretty common. I once had awful stomach pain that made me collapse in the college courtyard and call my mom. The first Dr dismissed it as period cramps, the nurse felt my stomach and ordered a sonogram. Turns out my pancreas was twice the size it should be and they pumped me full of meds and got it to stop hurting. I was put on a strict diet for a few days. Later on the Dr came back and apologized for not looking into it and asked it I'd changed my diet recently. I had sworn off meat 2 weeks prior and, since I don't like veggies, I basically only ate pasta and rice. Overloaded my pancreas and almost killed me. Dr told me, "Don't. Do that. Again."

@chaoswarriorx4411

3y↑1.7K

“I’ve seen residents talk like this ‘amongst’ each other.”

I don’t care if it’s intentional or not, I love it

@harrymu148

3y↑52

"yo dave's a little sus" airlock noises

@judesliggoo

3y↑6

STOP

@_JustJoe

3y↑3

😭

@Dara-uf9xs

3y↑6

GenZs as doctors : " so we found something in your brain that be looking hella sus, you might have a brain tumour"
" go live your best life bestie "

@GlitterBombVA

amongus?

@bishielurfer

Based on the case study surrounding the young girl Genie, there may be something to the whole thing about ears processing sounds differently depending on side.

I also know personally I have an easier time deciphering what someone has said on my right side. The left side recognizes there is noise, but I have a much harder time figuring out what individual words are being said.

@jamielambert4549

2y↑18

@LinusAkaPano

2y↑2

Should have had someone with plenty of experience with drug-abusers.. Godlike skills at hitting your veins. They might as well just draw blood between your toes if they have to.

@cyberpunkchaoscollective

As someone diagnosed with diabetes
I could tell from your symptoms that the diabetes test would be negative since high ketones and high blood sugar would cause you to lose a lot of weight since the body is burning up fat to get energy.
And I'm saying this as a person who got diagnosed when my ketone level was over 8 and I had blood sugar 3x higher than normal.
I'm glad you got properly diagnosed in the end tho

@margaretbush

32w

At least it’s not diabetes though……….

@jamielambert4549

32w

@@margaretbush Well yeah, I guess, they could have still ran a test other than for diabetes after the 6th diabetes test- and without poking me 20-30 times

@loco4candy

41w↑1

I was dehydrated and in severe pain because of it so I went to the hospital (didn't find out I was dehydrated until later) and a doctor told me the pain was period cramps

@justmiley22

1y↑1

One time a doctor didn’t scan my full arm, and I went weeks with pain in my arm, this was when I was about 3 or 2 btw, and on my birthday my mum took me back because it started getting worse, and turns out it was broken. My mum said I was running around the whole time in the waiting room before we found out! 😂😅😅

@kencoakley3959

37w

I had a ganglion cyst In my tricep back in 2001. I was clocking in to my job at a movie theater and felt the lump. I panicked and thought it was cancer. When I went to the ER that night, the doctor said before he even saw it , "it's not cancer." Then turned my arm over to tell me it was a Ganglion cyst. I asked him how he knew I thought I had cancer. He told me that when any person feels a lump they automatically think it's cancer.

@tracy9161

2y↑916

Fun fact: I work as an EMT and the rubbing alcohol thing is actually in our county protocols as a valid treatment for patients with nausea!

@Truecrimeresearcher224

2y↑9

How does that work

@djosue2591

How does that work mf

@Nickname2Two

2y↑18

@Brandon Sheppard your body thinks you are drinking so it waits until you get totally wasted to throw up.

@stucknousernames

2y↑5

Like when you drink a bottle of blue raspberry vodka then throw up everything in you, vs when you drink a bottle of disaronno and a quarter bottle of everclear then be drunk for 3 days.

My theory is your gasoline breath, causes you not to be able to throw up. don't know tho.

@quandaledingle7026

2y↑1

@N0 Rotten lmao

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@BobTheAnimeDude

the rubbing alchohol is true in some cases actually. you could also use something like lemon juice. really strong scents inhaled through the nose have shown to can feelings of nausea to disapear, although the reason for this isnt quite certain

@MerelvandenHurk

1y↑46

As for the guy with the "turning water into vapor" video, what I think he did was breathing in vape vapor, holding his breath while drinking the water, making a bit of a show out of it and then exhaling the vapor again. I was curious enough to just try it out with just regularly holding my breath and now I feel silly because I don't know why it wouldn't be possible. xD

@croom332

1y↑1

I actually remember kids in middle/high school being able to do this, just not produce as much vapor. They'd take a sip of water and sort of hyperventilate with their mouth closed and after a few huffs a little bit of vapor would come out. This dude in the video did it way faster and made way more vapor than I remember though.

@desmondjason6195

I can do this, but I flick my tong with my mouth closed and it works

@Mike.The.Jeweler

@Jack W yep i can do it to this day, you mix the air around with your tongue, and compress the air in your mouth, and the lower pressure when you open your mouth again makes it into vapor. Not a lot, but a little wisp

@TheOriginalOri

I had a friend who (without drinking any water or anything) could open and close his mouth and move his cheeks in some weird way that when he'd open his mouth and breath out a very thin and faint bit (definitely not as much as the tiktok) of white smoke would come out of his mouth. He did this in front of me and my friends directly multiple times (though it hurt his throat to do) and we just assumed it was because he smoked a lot.

@curiousanonymous6424

2y↑1

Dr. Mike, in 1988 I had a ganglion cyst on my left wrist and my doctor used his large blue prescription book to smash it. A year later I had another ganglion cyst, this time on my right wrist and this time he decided to have it surgically removed because he had been told "smashing a cyst is not the healthy way to remove a cyst". According to my then doctor, when he was in medical school he was taught to smash the cysts. Thank goodness medical science has improved. Cheers :)

@erinmcconnell5693

43w

LOL at the crushing the cyst with a textbook. My mom was a nurse in the 70s and definitely used that trick on my dad to get him to stop complaining about a cyst in his arm hahaha

@kristineclevinger

2y↑2.4K

My dad used to be a fighter pilot and he can compress the air in his lungs so hard that some of the moisture in his lungs comes out as vapor. Anti-G straining maneuver. Nothing to do with boiling.

@ayyylmao101

2y↑166

That is sick and I'm picturing people who can do that as cyborgs now

@bluehornet197

2y↑28

Yeah sure maybe on a cold day it doesn't and won't happen at 37°C the bodies internal temperature

@Ariplaygames

2y↑5

cap

@Inferiis

2y↑57

well, the tiktok one looked like vaping to me. Water vapor isn't that "thick"

@marvinsaurbier1645

2y↑42

@Inferis The tic tock dude was simply mistaken. It can be done by compression, clearly not by boiling, lol.

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@fandomeditzsad9436

I was spring break at my dads house and I started to feel cramps in my chest and sides. It lasted a few hours and my mom (who I texted about it) just said to take some stomach medicine (I have stomach issues) and then my dad asked if it was “monthly paint”. It wasn’t and it ended up lasting 4 ish hours. My mom said it was heart burn but we still don’t know. It was either the cold pizza I ate for lunch or stress. 🤷‍♀

@pambrown8692

2y↑3

Years ago my sister went to the ER with severe abdominal pain. The ER doc kept picking up her chart and moving it to the back of the stack. The nurse would put it first and he’d move it to the back. This happened for hours. Finally at shift change the new doc went into my sister room, asked her what was happening, did an examination, looked at her chart, and she was rushed to the OR. Her appendix was moments away from bursting. The doc who ignored my sister was the same one who 6 months earlier ignored me every time I went to the ER(at least two months of this routine), and told me I was faking my pain, and whatever other symptoms I was having, and that I was “too young to have a stroke”. The night before Easter 2002 I had a stroke, at20 years old. Turns out I wasn’t faking. I was in the ICU for a month. 5 weeks total in the hospital. The doctors couldn’t be 100% sure why I had the stroke. They tested me for everything known to man at the time, but I have my suspicions. I was on a medication for my RA that was found to cause strokes &/or heart attacks. 80,000 ppl suffered. It was taken off the market like 18 months later.

@infinitedeath1384

2y↑2

I'm glad you're ok. I hope the stroke didn't cause any brain damage. Some people are left in a wheelchair without any control of their limbs after a stroke. Seen one person who had it.

@pambrown8692

2y↑2

@infinite death I was lucky in that the stroke was focused in the middle hemisphere of brain. So I didn’t have any long term affects. I was in the hospital for a month so I had to go to PT for a few months just to get my muscles and body working again, but it’s been 21 years, and I’m doing good. Thanks.

@infinitedeath1384

@Pam Brown that is good. I hope your 21 years since has been good. That's pretty much my whole life, I'm 23.

@kazooha524

1y↑1

when i was 17 i went to the doctors bc i had horrible pain & threw up everything i ate, to the point i was even throwing up any water i drank. they sent me home bc they said it was the flu 😐 turns out my appendix had ruptured so when i went in the second time they scheduled me for surgery the next day. thank god my mom was there to insist it also wasn’t period cramps

@DapperThorns

Not exactly life threatening, but one time I passed out ((directly after eating breakfast) and we went to the hospital because I stopped breathing until I came to again. (Thankfully I wasn't out long)

The doctors there took a bunch of tests, mentioned my blood sugar was low (and this was an hour or so after I ate/passed out). They proceeded to say I passed out because I was talking with my mother about her oral surgery.

We were talking about her oral surgery the whole time in the hospital room to distract me, and I didn't once get woozy from it

@hachir5648

2y↑1

I can confirm the fact about humming!! It seems dumb but it actually helped me a lot when I felt like I was about to gag. It doesn't works every time though, like, if you ate something weird or drank too much alcohol or in general you're not feeling well

@Reemayca

2y↑411

I remembered when my sister was in terrible abdominal pain and she was throwing up pretty badly, when we took her to the hospital and did some x-rays, doctor said she just have ovarian infection and brushed her condition off, two months later with her condition still going worse and worse we took her to another hospital and they saw her liver's size was strangely enlarged, further investigation and it turns out she has a rare aggressive tumor Sarcoma soft tissue in her liver growing, she battled hard and strong from 2008 until 2019. Bless her soul she suffered a lot. Moral of the story, doctors should investigate with better care rather than throw vague assumptions just cause they deal with daily normal cases everyday, every patient should be treated as anew case rather than "oh a woman? must be her ovaries!"

@kevinbarnard355

2y↑4

To be fair to doctors, it's hard not to default to an Occam's Razor conclusion. It's so infrequently ever a tropical disease or a rare tumor, that it's easy to dismiss. When something only happens less than 1% of cases, the first instinct is the more common, less serious prognosis. That doesn't help your sister since she WAS that rare case, but the hundreds or thousands of people who complained about a similar situation were likely less sever infections or issues. It's sad, but that's the reason why it's so important to be or to have strong advocates for our health. We need to keep pushing or have someone advocate for us when we aren't well. You never know when it is that more serious small chance case.

@weefyeet6177

2y↑4

@Kevin Barnard Yeah I totally agree with this. The problem isn't that medical doctors who have went through so many years of medical school, training, and experience are dismissive, it's really about being an advocate for yourself because it's not helpful to tend to go to the extreme conclusion when most people suffer simple problems.

@tiffprendergast

Glad she’s ok

@blzkkk145

I'm so sorry for you, I hope she's in a better place, if it exists

@saradaniels864

OMG I am seriously so sorry and I know how it feels my sister died from Cancer!!! Hope your doing well

@OuterSpaceKate

48w

A resident tried to tell me that I was just having heartburn when my gallbladder was riddled with nasty gallstones 😂 I said “I just gave birth two weeks ago, I know exactly what horrible heartburn feels like, thanks.”

@jeremycrump8638

To help treat VGE symptoms for my marines in the desert, the alcohol wipes actually work pretty well for nausea, not long term, but it helps initially. No clue why it works, but helps for the short term when other things like meclizine and Zofran aren't available. Hope this helps someone, but no one will see this comment.

@Doma__CALEIGH

1y↑1

My brother died twice, he's alive 😅 the doctors here are amazing they brought my brother back two life twice

@lemonsqweezy9532

6:40 the rubbing alcohol thing works if your nausea is from hunger. I've tried it. Also tried the sinus thing, didn't work but a different technique where you pinch your nose, create pressure and shake your head violently does. Also salt and vinegar chips and a water to chug help reduce acid reflux symptoms if you're getting that weird painful pukey feeling.

@ering4096

@doctor mike

The humming when someone is throwing up actually works in certain circumstances. It depends on the cause of the nausea. When you have nasopharyngeal spasm due to exposure to something harsh (like fumes or irritating smells) the spasm may give you a gag reflex. An ENT gave me the trick of humming so that I keep my throat busy which prevents the airway from closing and the spasm from happening (or reduce it’s severity). I work in an histology lab and have sensitivity to formalin which we occasionally end up breathing small amount of despite our best efforts to prevent exposure. The humming really worked for me and prevented me from throwing up or passing out from those nasopharyngeal spasm. You may think it’s fake news (and in some case it is) but there’s merit to this one.

@bethanyminar7283

3y↑542

Just throwing this out here, smelling alcohol wipes really DOES help with nausea. When I’ve been admitted, the pregnant nurses would walk around with alcohol wipes to help maintain nausea!

@KC-fj9kc

3y↑43

I was just coming down here to say that this is true. I actually use it myself for nausea because of some gastric issues that frequently cause nausea. It totally works and I’ve read about it being used in ER’s.

@Absbabs88

3y↑2

I've also heard that too, but never tried it myself to find out

@leo_dr8198

3y↑30

Yeah, totally works... the problem is when your body really needs to expell something. This one time I had food poisoning but kept myself from vomiting by smelling alcohol, just prolonged my ailment... but eventually the alcohol life hack didnt work anymore D:

@TheSwauzz

3y↑6

Thank you for sharing! I would advise if someone is often nauseated with no known cause though, they should see a doctor, rather than continue to stave off the nausea over and over.

@M0rbidCuriositea

3y↑4

Yep, always get incredulous looks when I suggest this to patients in the ER. Doesn't work for everyone, but it's certainly worth a try.

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@nicolet.5593

I guess I got really lucky and had a really good Doctor. I had no idea that I was having issues with my appendix. I had been to a GI doc for stomach issues a few months prior so I thought my pain was just related to that, or I commonly had cysts on my ovaries and considered that as well. He did that knee to the chest test and sent me in for a MRI. They had me go in for a surgery quickly after the imaging

@blackchez

The water vapor thing was pretty shocking, but I had a buddy back in grade school who does this, he doesn't understand how as well. The water was room temperature, no dry ice or regular ice... If the video is true, he's the 2nd person I've seen who can do this.

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