Medical conditions/symptoms

[Bob The Skutter]

I was thinking earlier about how every time I'm in a teaching hospital around exam time the consultant asks if they can bring in students to check out my heart and lung condition, but they always end up pointing out my clubbed fingers especially. I've even had dentists examining them, and showing students/nurses. Here they are for example sake

And it just got me wondering, does any one else on the board have health conditions or symptoms that seem to fascinate doctors when you're being seen? Or just generally interesting medical facts about yourself?
It they're safe even post pics of them.

 

[trampledamage]

I don't any more but when I was pregnant with little miss trampledamage I got the pregnancy rash thing that I can't remember what it's called. Lots of women get it, not that surprising. Except that I got it from head to foot overnight, I was covered in an itchy rash - and the only cure for it is giving birth. *sigh*

All the time I was in the hospital (I went in early to be induced for other reasons) every time anyone came by it was always "Ooh, can I see your rash?" and only after looking and poking at it did they bother to ask me how I was doing!

 

[Finn]

From now on, every time you go to a doctor or the dentist's office, bring a 8X10 and tell them to keep it so they can look at it in awe when you are gone.

 

[Bob The Skutter]

I don't any more but when I was pregnant with little miss trampledamage I got the pregnancy rash thing that I can't remember what it's called. Lots of women get it, not that surprising. Except that I got it from head to foot overnight, I was covered in an itchy rash - and the only cure for it is giving birth. *sigh*

All the time I was in the hospital (I went in early to be induced for other reasons) every time anyone came by it was always "Ooh, can I see your rash?" and only after looking and poking at it did they bother to ask me how I was doing!

That must have been horrible, how long did it last all in all?

From now on, every time you go to a doctor or the dentist's office, bring a 8X10 and tell them to keep it so they can look at it in awe when you are gone.

I don't particularly mind when I'm at hospital, figure the students have to learn, and if no one is willing to allow them to look at them for real they'll never know what they're looking for in real life.

 

[trampledamage]

I don't any more but when I was pregnant with little miss trampledamage I got the pregnancy rash thing that I can't remember what it's called. Lots of women get it, not that surprising. Except that I got it from head to foot overnight, I was covered in an itchy rash - and the only cure for it is giving birth. *sigh*

All the time I was in the hospital (I went in early to be induced for other reasons) every time anyone came by it was always "Ooh, can I see your rash?" and only after looking and poking at it did they bother to ask me how I was doing!

That must have been horrible, how long did it last all in all?

Thankfully only just over a week - because little miss trampledamage obliged by arriving at that point. The real nuisance was, the rash came the day after I started my maternity leave, so nothing got sorted for the nursery because I couldn't do anything but sit with ice cubes on my hands.

 

[Kestra]

I don't any more but when I was pregnant with little miss trampledamage I got the pregnancy rash thing that I can't remember what it's called. Lots of women get it, not that surprising. Except that I got it from head to foot overnight, I was covered in an itchy rash - and the only cure for it is giving birth. *sigh*

All the time I was in the hospital (I went in early to be induced for other reasons) every time anyone came by it was always "Ooh, can I see your rash?" and only after looking and poking at it did they bother to ask me how I was doing!

That sounds so miserable!

I come from a family of doctors and am surrounded by doctors and don't have anything particularly unusual to report.

I do remember when I first went in for allergy testing. They stuck me with something like 12 or 14 needles, left for a bit, then a nurse came back. She was clearly surprised because I had reactions to all but one. Then another nurse came in to look, then another, then the doctor. He said he had never seen someone react that strongly to so many allergens.

And the oddest thing was, the only one I didn't react to was animal dander.

 

[Bob The Skutter]

I don't any more but when I was pregnant with little miss trampledamage I got the pregnancy rash thing that I can't remember what it's called. Lots of women get it, not that surprising. Except that I got it from head to foot overnight, I was covered in an itchy rash - and the only cure for it is giving birth. *sigh*

All the time I was in the hospital (I went in early to be induced for other reasons) every time anyone came by it was always "Ooh, can I see your rash?" and only after looking and poking at it did they bother to ask me how I was doing!

That must have been horrible, how long did it last all in all?

Thankfully only just over a week - because little miss trampledamage obliged by arriving at that point. The real nuisance was, the rash came the day after I started my maternity leave, so nothing got sorted for the nursery because I couldn't do anything but sit with ice cubes on my hands.

I have a rash that keeps coming back on my leg and that drives me batty when it's itching for hours at a time, never mind a week solid. Good to hear it didn't last long.

 

[T'Bonz]

And it just got me wondering, does any one else on the board have health conditions or symptoms that seem to fascinate doctors when you're being seen?

Evidently, I had active endometriosis while pregnant. My doctor was fascinated as supposedly that shouldn't happen and he wanted to send details in to some journal. I was like , just fix it. I'm tired of the pain.

 

[Bob The Skutter]

And it just got me wondering, does any one else on the board have health conditions or symptoms that seem to fascinate doctors when you're being seen?

Evidently, I had active endometriosis while pregnant. My doctor was fascinated as supposedly that shouldn't happen and he wanted to send details in to some journal. I was like , just fix it. I'm tired of the pain.

I was out of it on morphine and recovering from anaesthetic when they asked if they could write a paper on my appendectomy, and I just agreed, which I don't remember. Apparently wrote a paper on my dads electrocution that nearly lost him a leg too, and my cousins pelvis shattering while giving birth... so either things that don't/shouldn't happen happen more often than you'd think, or my family is just really unlucky.

 

[Kestra]

Okay, pregnancy sounds more and more horrible.

 

[Thespeckledkiwi]

Pretty much whenever I go into a doctor's office, they find another case study for me ...It's pretty cool. The eye doctor and the dentist used to like using interns on me as well.

Right now, I'm trying to get my right arm fixed and after these set of x-rays, it doesn't look likely. The two bones in the forearm are suppose to different bones up to the elbow. Apparently mine decided that it wanted to be one big bone without a split.

 

[Aurian]

Okay, pregnancy sounds more and more horrible.

Do not ever kid yourself... pregnancy is primitive.

 

[tharpdevenport]

Two words: large wang