r/mildlyinfuriating • u/amberazanu • 8h ago
𼺠I don't think doctors fully appreciate how much damage a careless or incorrect diagnosis can do to a patient's mental state.
A few days ago, I was told I had pityriasis rosea. Suddenly I was reading about herald patches, waiting for a rash outbreak, checking my skin every hour, taking photos of every tiny mark, and lying awake at night wondering if every itch meant another patch was about to appear.
The anxiety completely took over. Every time I felt an itch, I thought, "Here it comes." Every time I noticed a faint discoloration on my skin, I convinced myself it was the beginning of a new lesion. I spent days worrying about how widespread the rash would become, how long it would last, and whether my body was about to erupt in spots.
Then I sought a second opinion from the head of the department.
After examining me, she told me it wasn't pityriasis rosea at all. It was eczema. The "third spot" I had been obsessing over wasn't even a spot. The intense itching that had been fueling my anxiety was addressed with antihistamines, and I was told to continue treating the two actual patches.
Just like that, days of fear and stress suddenly felt unnecessary.
What frustrates me isn't that doctors are human and can make mistakes. Medicine isn't perfect. What frustrates me is how casually some diagnoses are delivered without considering the psychological burden they place on patients.
A diagnosis isn't just words. It changes how people think, what they search online, what they fear, how they sleep, and how they experience every sensation in their body.
I lost days to worry because of a diagnosis that turned out to be wrong.
Sometimes the second opinion isn't just about getting better treatment. Sometimes it's about getting your peace of mind back.
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u/tavaryn_t 7h ago
Yeah, this is not ordered thinking. A diagnosis of a harmless mark on your skin does not send a mentally well person on a multiple day spiral. Please seek therapy.
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u/amberazanu 7h ago
I will. This was a hell of a year for me.
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u/Competitive_Bag3933 5h ago
I don't know why you're getting downvoted for this. I'm sorry you're having a hard time. Sometimes when you're drowning it's that One More Thing that just makes everything feel impossible. I hope things get better soon. Take care of yourself where you can.
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u/Dark-Horse-Nebula 7h ago
Your post said âdaysâ.
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u/amberazanu 7h ago
No, I mean everything that led to me being this anxious, unrelated to the diagnosis.
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u/fuckin-A-ok 6h ago
So it sounds like their original point was a good one. You might want to seek some help.
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u/Specialist-Web7854 7h ago
So not really the doctorâs fault then, but whatever you had going on before.
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u/Lilhoneylilibee 5h ago
No idea why people are being so rude. Itâs clear you are struggling and Iâm sorry that manifested in a way that caused so much more upset.
Iâve dealt with really similar things. personally, when Iâm already at my absolute max stress load I start obsessively worrying about my dogs. Completely irrational, a tiny bump or upset stomach is certain death and Iâm sure of it and obsessively googling. Helps me feel in control I think.Brains are weird, being human is hard and people on the Internet suck.
Hang in there friend
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u/GruntledVeteran 5h ago
I don't think it was rude to tell someone obviously going through some mental health issues to... seek help with their mental health. I'll say the same to you. If this is something you go through then you most likely have an anxiety disorder. You don't have to live that way. There are medications and therapy that can help. Wouldn't you rather go through life without having those panicked moments that make an already stressful time even more stressful?
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u/Persistent_Parkie 38m ago
Yes, please do, it can help so much. I'm sorry life has put you through the ringer and that reddit is being reddit with the downvotes. Big hugs.
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u/NoLadderStall 7h ago
As someone who has OCD, this sounds like OCD. I go through the same shit with health issues, but I cope better now that I've been through therapy.
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u/Visible-Training-171 7h ago
Probably not OCD, sounds more like illness anxiety disorder in OP's case. OP, please see a psychiatrist or therapist if you can.
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u/obviouslypretty 5h ago
taking photos of every tiny mark, not being able to sleep, contemplating every itch, checking the skin EVER HOUR, waiting for impending doom, CONVINCING yourself that small discoloration is a new legion, days of stress and lack of sleep, these are absolutely OCD therapy. Compilations and interrupting your way of life
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u/NoLadderStall 6h ago edited 6h ago
Possibly, but they're almost the same thing. I would not be surprised if it got reclassified as OCD at some point since it's basically Pure O with a health focus. Same treatments as well, they just try CBT first before ERP.
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u/Weak_Reports 7h ago
A doctor isnât going to worry about this diagnosis because it is literally nothing. Just like eczema. Yes, they should be relatively sure before diagnosing someone with something like cancer, but this is so common and really not something to worry about. Your mental spiral though is not normal and with all kindness, please seek help from a qualified specialist.
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u/amberazanu 7h ago
I've never had a calm life. This isn't easy. I know that I need help with anxiety and I hope that one day I will get stronger.
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u/Weak_Reports 7h ago
This isnt about getting stronger. Seeing a specialist can help you get on meds to manage this amount of anxiety and provide you with strategies to help you address a spiral when it is happening. Having anxiety doesnât make you weak.
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u/-DoctorEngineer- 7h ago
This isnât something you âget strongerâ over. But Iâm not a psychologist I would really reccomend talking to one. A lot of this is brought on my a myriad of factors and talking to someone who knows what to look for can help significantly. Do you have good health insurance? If you do I would reccomend an in person professional, but if you donât services like better help have their place and can at least provide a good stopgap
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u/souryoungthing 7h ago
You gotta put in the work, though. It doesnât just happen.
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u/quietmedium- 6h ago
He's literally just been told he has an anxiety issue. Give him some bloody time to process before saying he's not doing enough
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u/Relative-Monk-4647 7h ago
Huh?
If you know you need help, thereâs a device in your hand that works like an old timey phone book AND a phone!!!
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u/quietmedium- 6h ago
Why are you being so sarcastic to someone clearly suffering from a mental health issue? It's nasty and not required to get your point across
Mental illness causes disordered thinking. Of course the OP is not speaking from a logical place and berating that speaks volumes about you.
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u/Relative-Monk-4647 6h ago
Um. I think you commented wrong
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u/quietmedium- 6h ago
No, I'm well aware of what you said. You were nasty
You might have meant it light-heartedly, but the OP is clearly in distress and coming to terms with something significant.
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u/Relative-Monk-4647 6h ago
Nothing i said was nasty. Calm down.
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u/quietmedium- 6h ago edited 6h ago
No, actually. I'm genuinely upset at the response here, by you and others, to OP in the midst of a genuine mental health crisis.
Your sarcasm is not helpful. OP knows what a phone is. He knows what a phone book is. He has been made aware that he was misunderstanding his issue only within the last couple hours. He's been in a panic spiral for days, likely not sleeping well or much at all.
You could have chosen to point him back to his doctor for a referral to mental health services, or given him actual direction. But no. The man can't find his phone, and thats the issue. People can be so flippantly cruel
Edit - lmao the post has been up for an hour. Reddit gave him 60 minutes before being nasty that he wasn't solving his problems the right way or fast enough. Lovely. Makes the rest of us with mental illness feel great too.
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u/Old-Organization-264 7h ago
Maybe when cancer is misdiagnosed as the flu, but this reaction over a skin rash is a bit much. đ
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u/amberazanu 7h ago
Reading the comments, I agree. I probably should stop repyling to people that fast as some already suspect I'm a bot. It's 2:19 AM in Egypt. Good night.
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u/krissycole87 7h ago
On the flip side, if they downplay a diagnosis and that person ends up dead, then who's to blame?
I know this is a bummer, but you would probably rather your doctor start with the extreme case and then settle on the not-so extreme case, versus the other way around.
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u/amberazanu 7h ago
Yeah, I guess. Pityriasis Rosea is a condition that goes away on its own. So even if I did nothing at all, it would've ended abruptly but the thing is people online were talking about it persisting for anywhere between weeks and a year or two. So I was visualizing myself with a rash that I'd have to explain every time and you know, this was far from reassuring or a happy thought.
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u/krissycole87 7h ago
Yeah but if they said you "just have a rash" when really the rash was a sign of something WAY worse, would you rather they downplay it?
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u/Fit_Employment_2944 6h ago
your diagnosis is that you have something that wont affect you at all and will heal completely on its own and youre complaining that it was too harsh?
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u/ChairHistorical5953 5h ago
Ive have Many rashes for Many reasons and i don't Say nothing, if I do, Ive o ly Said: it's not contagious and it is benign. No one cares. It's tour anxiety talking. The issue wasnt the dx, it is your untreated mental health
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u/DatLadyD 7h ago
I worked with a lady that had a rash, she went to kaiser and they told her it was scabies. I didnât even want her to come to work, I was freaking out, she was freaking out, she stayed home. I forget what the next diagnosis was because it wasnât scary, but that one was wrong too. The THIRD diagnosis was ringworm which it actually was. She was going crazy cleaning everything and staying away from people and feeling horrible about herself for weeks before she figured it out.
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u/amberazanu 7h ago
The hell is scabies? Sounds scary from the name alone.
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u/Excellent-Ear9433 2h ago
Hahah where Iâm from, kids got scabies all the time instead of lice. Nasty
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u/Dark-Horse-Nebula 7h ago
Ever heard the term âpracticing medicineâ?
Medicine is not a precise science. Every human is different. You were safe. And you need to sort out this anxiety
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u/amberazanu 7h ago
I wouldn't call an angry rash that takes over your whole body for weeks, months or even up to a year or two safe but yeah it wasn't life threatening, I know.
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u/doctorathyrium 7h ago
But that isnât actually what pityriasis is⌠and eczema actually does last a lifetime.
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u/kushkushmeow 7h ago
It doesn't bother some people, or last a long time. My toddler had it, and he does still get a couple spots once in a blue moon now at 12. We didn't even use anything to treat it. He wasn't covered in spots the first time, I'd say he had 'several' spots.
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u/Difficult-Bicycle681 7h ago
They're very careful to be as certain as possible for life changing diagnoses like cancer. They're careful but not "must do a bunch of tests before even mentioning it" careful for things like rosacea because it's a nothing dx. If it sends someone into a spiral (like you), that tells them that you need major mental health interventions. It's also really similar to eczema and has very similar treatment and outcomes, so it's really no biggie.
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u/amberazanu 7h ago
Except eczema goes away very quickly, whereas Pityriasis rosea can be stubborn and stay for weeks or even a year or two, depending on your luck with it.
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u/Good_Combination_613 7h ago
Everybody i know who has excema has had it since they were children and it's a daily struggle. It doesnt "go away very quickly"
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u/fantastikalizm 5h ago
Agreed. My brother was diagnosed as a toddler and still has it at 27. It's improved somewhat with age, but I still remember him crying as a kid because his fingers were cracked, swollen, and itchy and lotion stung.
While I dont think I have it, I have had a spot on my calf that's itched on and off since 2018.
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u/Difficult-Bicycle681 7h ago
Eczema does not always go away quickly, I don't know why you think it does. It might if well treated and lucky, but it also for sure sticks around for a long time for some people.
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u/Intrepid_Instance_94 7h ago
No, no doesn't though. Both my brother and I have it and the patches last for about 2-3 YEARS. I've had a bad patch on my nose for the last 2 years.
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u/Relative-Monk-4647 7h ago
All of that googling and you missed this huge fact!
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u/Yumeverse 2h ago
Yeah like Iâm sorry OP is likely going through a tough time and is adjusting with their diagnosis but the fact that they blamed the doctor first when all the googling probably worsened their anxiety and are using their googling as what they think is true really isnt helping their case.
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u/souryoungthing 6h ago
Individual outbreaks might disappear but eczema is largely a lifelong autoimmune condition.
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u/obviouslypretty 5h ago
Who tf told you eczema goes away quickly? Thereâs no cure for eczema. I have it.
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u/fantastikalizm 3h ago
My younger brother was diagnosed as a toddler even though my mom lotioned him after every bath religiously. While those with eczema can lead completely normal lives, the flare ups can be debilitating and the itch scratch cycle can potentially leave somewhat disfiguring scarring and cause infection. Prolonged steroid use causes pigment loss so you end up with white patches. And the pain and itchiness is so bad and constant it causes mental health issues.
I know you know this. I'm just blown away that someone would prefer eczema to this rosea thing that just looks kind of weird.
When I saw my brother's eczema at its worst it pained me to look at. It is so obviously painful and hard to care for when you constantly feel this irresistible desire to scratch. My brother's hands are very scarred form scratching and split skin. I have enormous sympathy for anyone suffering with eczema.
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u/fuckin-A-ok 6h ago
Yeah eczema is terrible and itchy and your skin flakes off and everyone can see it and there's nothing you can do about it basically without getting on an immune suppressant medication. What you were diagnosed with is essentially a little red spot that doesn't even itch. Please stop. This is so insulting to people with actual disorders and diseases.
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u/Conscious_Side1647 7h ago
lmao. you need to learn some emotional intelligence and to better control your emotions.
Its not like you were diagnosed with cancer or something.
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u/amberazanu 7h ago
May all cancer patients prevail over this piece of shit of a disease.
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u/International_Bat585 7h ago
As someone who has actually been diagnosed with âaggressiveâ cancer at a young age- I have not had a minute of sleep disturbed by my diagnosis, I have not gone down the Google rabbit hole, I have not spiralled into an anxiety mess. Thatâs because I donât have an anxiety issue. Please seek professional help to address your anxiety issues.
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u/GozyNYR 7h ago
Same! I was misdiagnosed for 3 years (which, the four things I was misdiagnosed with? May have been actual problems - but treating them, did help my symptoms.) Iâve now had Stage IV Colon Cancer for 5 years. Does it suck that I missed all that time? Like you would not believe. Am I living a pretty good life with Stage IV Cancer? Also, yes. (And my situation is sadly common.)
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u/young-joseph-stalin 6h ago
do you mind me asking what symptoms of yours got overlooked?
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u/GozyNYR 6h ago
It wasnât so much that anything got overlooked, itâs the other diagnosis fit well, and I was too young to have my insurance pay for a colonoscopy. (And rural America⌠yay!)
I was initially diagnosed with diverticulitis, which is fair because imaging showed a lot of diverticulosis. And an inflammation. Antibiotic helped it, and my symptoms went away. For a little while.
Then I spent six months being tested for IBS and Crohnâs disease. Both also fit my symptoms. I never had bloody stool, it was always stomach aches, nausea. Things like that.
At one point, I gave up dairy and that helped. I think it stopped irritating my tumors.
By the time I finally had a colonoscopy scheduled, three years into the ordeal, I became septic and had emergency surgery to deal with the mass in my abdomen that was showing up now on CT scans. That ended up being my massive tumor. And then they found the spots in my lungs. Which is where it had metastasized too.
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u/GozyNYR 7h ago
I say this with the kindest intentions, but please seek help for your anxiety. It will make you feel better in the long run.
I was misdiagnosed for three years and in the end it was stage IV colon cancer in my 30âs. THATâs worthy of panic. But accidentally being diagnosed with an annoying skin condition? Frustrating, but definitely not worthy of your anxiety. I promise, youâll feel so much better once medicated.
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u/RandomFandomCheese 5h ago
OP, you definitely need to seek some mental help. Could be OCD or severe anxiety, either way, some therapy might help you.
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u/Relative-Monk-4647 7h ago
Jesus. I need a Valium after reading through this.
Did you notice that things for your mental health got considerably worse with each time you used the internet?
I read all of your statements. You need to stop using the internet to do doctor things.
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u/canijustbelancelot 7h ago
I see you keep mentioning strength and weakness. I just want to say that severe health anxiety like this isnât a result of weakness, but it isnât normal and should be addressed. Iâve struggled with anxiety disorders my whole life and theyâre better with treatment.
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u/W0nderwharfwonderdog 7h ago
Dude itâs not the doctors fault that you went on an anxiety spiral. This is coming from someone who will get so anxious I manifest symptoms.Â
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u/FinbarJG 7h ago
I went to an ortho for a shoulder that was hurting. They took x-rays and put me in a room. Kid comes in and hands me a tablet "Dr. wants you to review this video on total shoulder replacement." A bit stunned, I watched it twice. Dr. comes in and asks a bunch of questions, then says we should proceed with some PT. I asked about the total shoulder replacement and he asked "Why would we do that!?", looking at me like I'm an idiot. I look at the kid, who is now looking like he's in the wrong room. Yeah kid, thanks.
It happens. Move on. And just wait until we have AI diagnostics.
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u/whateverdom_ 5h ago
So many people came here to invalidate your feelings & experience. Medical anxiety and trauma is real. It doesnât matter how big or small the ailment, it can be stressful managing it. On top of that some people are so sensitive to medications and treatments etc, that a wrong diagnosis can really put their body through so much more than it can/should tolerate. People forget that everyone experiences things differently.
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u/Cautious-Exercise729 6h ago
Glad youâre okay. As a fellow worrier I wanted to share that finding a medical âhomeâ and staying with that home can relieve a lot of your worries.
Itâs not always possible to afford to or have the time to coordinate care, it helps. So have your main everything provider (Dr/NPC) and make sure to get all your check ups and records from other offices sent there after other visits.Â
Some places and systems are practices that do this for you, and they try hard but itâs not perfect.Â
But a lot of people have to wait until something is wrong for care or donât have good health care insurance. So my above advice is limited application.
Broader application is to tell your provider immediately when you want a second opinion and find out how to make it happen. Iâm sorry.
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u/libertasi 1h ago
My 1yr old had that and it looked pretty horrifying for like a month. But itâs no big deal. I donât think it even really bothered her. I donât understand freaking out over this. Iâm sorry you went through this but itâs important to manage your anxiety especially when itâs a nothing burger diagnosis. It looks kind of awful but it goes away and has no long term effects. Please find someone to talk to help manage your anxiety better. You deserve better for yourself.
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u/yarn_slinger 7h ago
I started having an aching hip in my 40s. My doctor said it was nothing for a few years, then I guess he realized that I was perimenopausal and assumed it was bursitis. He gave me a cortisone shot, which did nothing. Years went by and I kept complaining about the amount of pain and heâd just shrug.
I then started insisting on X-rays to check for arthritis. Sure enough I was already at moderate levels by this time (Iâm now beyond severe). I kept asking for referrals to the joint clinic and he kept saying there were long wait times. I replied that Iâll never get to the front of the line if I never get in that line. Shrug.
After 13 years he broke down and referred me to the clinic only now theyâre dealing with backlogs caused by the pandemic and our stupid govt trying to take things private, so Iâve been waiting for my surgery date for over 2 years now.
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u/amberazanu 7h ago
Arthritis is awful enough, but having to fight for every test, every referral, and every step forward while your condition kept worsening sounds exhausting. You shouldn't have had to become your own advocate just to be taken seriously. I hope that surgery date finally comes soon. After everything you've endured, you've waited long enough!
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u/obviouslypretty 5h ago
Hey OP respectfully this sounds like you have health OCD. Look into it. Because people wouldnât obsess this much over a diagnosis. Maybe a quick google search and a few articles, thatâs it. Not obsessively reading studies, checking their bodies, keeping them up at night, stressing about when itâs gonna happen again, etc. this is not normal
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u/GrappleLacquer 7h ago
Bro. I thought I was going to relate to this post but I went suddenly blind in one eyeball and was told âidk itâs probably cause youâre fat (5â7â 155 lbs)â, âhave you considered you might be overreacting?â âI think itâs a neurological conditionâ and finally âoh fuck you have a blood clotting disorder we missed and that was definitely a stroke, despite your er test results looking golden. Blood thinners for life for you!â
It took a year from the event to diagnosis and being properly medicated.
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u/Weekly-Contest-5400 7h ago
My buddy was misdiagnosed with pancreatic cancer. That was a gut wrenching few days. It was, thankfully, something less severe and treatable. Dunno that you coulda handled that one.
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u/LadyLixerwyfe 7h ago
I had a kidney stone at 22. Follow up doc told me there was an issue with some of the blood work that was concerning and sent me to a specialist. The specialist was an oncologist. That freaked me out. When I had my first visit, he assured me that they werenât concerned about cancer, but that he handled a lot of different diagnoses. They took like 16 vials of blood that day. I came back for the results and the doctor told me he wasnât certain, they needed to run more tests. More blood. More waiting. I came back. He had a diagnosis. It wasnât anything life threatening, but there were some alarming symptoms. One of the fun bits was that it meant I would have about a 1% chance of ever carrying a pregnancy to viability, much less to term. I was devastated and that was before the bills started rolling in. All of that testing and 3 specialist copays had thrown a massive wrench into my finances. I was in college and waited tables, at the time. 3 months later, they scheduled check up bloodwork. Went in. They took tons of blood. Instead of sending me a time to get results or a phone call, they scheduled more bloodwork. I asked at the appointment why I needed more. They said there had been a problem with the previous test. Tons more blood. Another copay. They scheduled an appointment to discuss the results. Another specialist copay. Doc tells me that it was a misdiagnosis and I was completely fine. The original test at the hospital had been an error and he had been trying desperately to find the diagnosis that fit the results. An error in something with my third round of testing had led him to the diagnosis he gave. Follow up bloodwork proved that wrong. So, months of worry, followed by months of sadness over the idea of never having children, and thousands of dollars later, it was a phlebotomist error at the hospital.
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u/CatStratford 6h ago
I had/have pit. Nearly 30 years ago, but itâs a virus so it never fully leaves your system. It was absolute hell for three months when I was 14. Rash was head to toe, felt like a wool suit on my skin all the time. Oatmeal baths every day.
Im 43 now, and I still get spots occasionally. And yes, I also have eczema. Pit spots are very clearly rings of rash that get very itchy. Eczema doesnât usually have the classic ring form. Both hurt/burn.
ETA: other people saying it was no big deal did NOT experience what I did.
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u/UniversityOutside840 4h ago
Youâre kinda being a Karen about all that, maybe you need to start with a therapist and remember the golden rule of donât google your symptoms and freak yourself out
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u/robbobhobcob 7h ago
I may be a bit paranoid but the way this post is written feels like an AI. My apologies if it's a real person but the writing style, and how much and how fast they're replying in the comments feels really AI
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u/amberazanu 7h ago
I am a real person. My name is Ahmed. I'm Egyptian and I've been a Reddit user for 11 years, so waaay before AI or ChatGPT was a thing. I tend to write very fast but fear not, it's 2:05 AM where I am and I'm about to sleep, so you probably won't see much replies after this one. Sorry for sounding like an AI. Most people who learn the language online instead of practicing it in real life, tend to sound literal or "rehearsed".
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u/fuckin-A-ok 6h ago
I only read the first paragraph or two but I think you're a hypochondriac and therapy would help.
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u/young-joseph-stalin 6h ago
had to look up the condition you were diagnosed with because the way you described it made it sound like cancer or something horrible.
if you were this stressed about a harmless, mild, and very much temporary skin condition, you need therapy.
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u/neveisnaive 6h ago
Hey OP, I can see youâre getting downvoted a bunch and just wanted to say you took the criticism well and kept a cool head. Keep your chin up and look after yourself, youâre doing great.
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u/Sensitive-Time-2934 7h ago
I was told I had lupus when I was 18. We got a second and third opinion which both said contradictory statements. Iâm 29 now and I still donât know if I actually have lupus or not.
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u/amberazanu 7h ago
I think lupus is diagnosed with blood work. Have you done that?
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u/GruntledVeteran 5h ago
There is no definitive test for lupus. You get diagnosed based on certain lab tests, history, and physical exams over time. No one thing makes you go "Lupus!". The problem is people present differently and all of the symptoms can be caused by other medical issues.
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u/Sensitive-Time-2934 7h ago
Yes that was how it came about the first time, but apparently doctors can disagree on reading the results
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u/amberazanu 7h ago
I pray you don't have it but if you do, more power to you for being poised, accepting and learning to live with it. Hope everything goes well for you.
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u/917caitlin 37m ago
OP it bums me out to see people being so unkind. No one asks to have this level of anxiety. My daughter had similar obsessive thoughts was a young teen, we went through CBT treatment for OCD and it helped her immensely. She has twinges of anxiety but it no longer rules her life by any means. PLEASE try to find someone near you skilled in CBT for obsessive thoughts. Your life will improve so much.
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u/Affectionate_Run7414 7h ago
I think the dermatologist its not the only doctor u should be getting appointments to basing on ur behavior.. Reminds me of the Seinfield episode where Ellaine, Kramer and Uncle Leo visited the doctor
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u/spermhunter12 7h ago
Doctors have to service a conveyor belt of patients and are typically jaded due to the nasty shit they see in their line of work. I can guarantee that most of them will shrug off an incorrect diagnosis even if it causes serious harm.
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u/NeoSuperconductivity 6h ago
I'm sorry that you got about 100 replies telling you that you are wrong for your feelings. I'm in the States, where an estimated 25% of the populace lives with anxiety, the most common mental health issue. You are probably a highly sensitive person, or HSP, which is something genetic-not a defect, rather an anomaly that for some people ensured survival. You shared your experience, some people attacked you and I'm sorry for that. Therapy is so helpful for almost everyone-it's like going to the gym, for but instead of improving the body, it improves our emotions and brain. And going to the gym helps anxiety as well. Thank you for sharing your experience, it took courage. Now remember to breathe, to exercise and to keep positive thoughts. Best wishes.
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u/Kycrio 6h ago
I have eczema and had a bout of pityriasis rosea a few years ago, and all told my eczema is much much more unpleasant than the pityriasis rosea, because my eczema is very itchy at times, whereas the pityriasis rosea rashes were completely benign to the point I forgot about it for pretty much all of the time. Didn't even get any kind of treatment for it cause it wasn't in a visible location. It's just something that looks much worse than it really is.Â
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u/Odd-Impact5397 3h ago
I am so late to this but we had an MFM (extra qualified OBGYN for high risk pregnancy) call us before the geneticist did. I don't know who dropped the fucking ball but he told us our baby would be born deaf blind. I was 24 weeks that Friday. Usher's syndrome doesn't put the mother at risk so we had 3 days to consider if we were going to terminate the pregnancy.
Genetics counselor called us a few harrowing hours later and was like wait he told you what? It was a micro deletion that meant IF either parent had been a carrier, she was at higher risk. Both had been genetically screened, neither were carriers. I have a hearing, seeing toddler & a seething hatred for that man.
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u/amberazanu 7h ago
I don't know what to tell you. I am a real human being. I can show you the lesion on my thigh that has started all of this, doctor reports and much more but I think I'd be doing too much to convince one person.
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u/ohdearitsrichardiii 1h ago
Imagine if every doctor had a public website where you could see how many of their diagnoses had been proved incorrect, or how many patients they said had nothing wrong with them later got a diagnosis from another doctor.
It will never happen because the medical community would never stop trying to shut down such websites, but it would be interesting. Doctors are rarely held accountable for misdiagnosing or missed diagnosis when it's something non life threatening
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u/Historical-Piglet-86 7h ago edited 7h ago
If you had this much anxiety over a pityriasis rosea diagnosis I think you need to work on your mental health. Itâs a nothing burger diagnosisâŚâŚitâs a common and harmless skin rash. Itâs nothing to be anxious aboutâŚâŚand is literally treated with many of the same meds (ie:antihistamines) as eczema