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(#7) A Taste For Lettuce
From Redditor /u/lovetheblazer:
I started craving iceberg lettuce like you wouldn't believe. Like I'd wake up in the middle of the night and go to the fridge just to eat handfuls of lettuce. At my worst, I was eating an entire bag of iceberg lettuce a day, no dressing or toppings, just munching on it like it was popcorn at the movie theater.
Finally decided I should drag myself to the doctor for a few blood tests, assuming I was a bit dehydrated or vitamin deficient or something. My hemoglobin was 5 when it should be 13-16, ideally. My ferritin (iron stores) level was 1, which is literally as low as the test goes. I went straight from the doctor's office to the hospital to be admitted for two blood transfusions and an IV iron infusion. The hospital staff couldn't believe I'd been walking around and even working overtime with a level that low for months. Within 24 hours of my blood and iron transfusions, my lettuce craving went away.
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(#3) Just A Chronic Cough
From Redditor /u/nuclear_blob:
Not me, but my grandfather had trouble breathing for a long time. It was nothing horrible - just shortness of breath, heavy breathing, etc. But he had to take care of my grandma. He went to the hospital where he started coughing (a dry cough, unable to stop). They diagnosed him with an aggressive form of lung cancer, and he died within three weeks.
The doctor told us if he had come earlier, they might have been able to save him.
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(#21) Never Ignore Spinal Pain
From Redditor /u/DragonToothGarden:
For two years over 20 doctors told me it was impossible that the very localized, severe pain deep inside my spine was anything other than "childhood trauma and stress from my job manifesting into pain and I needed to meditate and sh*t." I was "too young" for such pain. It came out of the blue while I was a 26-year-old in excellent shape. Plus, expect more disbelief when you have complaints of pain if you are female.
That pain turned out to be an aggressive tumor growing inside a vertebrae that nearly killed me. Had lifesaving surgery in Europe, but because I was misdiagnosed for so long, I'm now in agonizing pain and disabled.
I had to fight for tests, treatment, etc., and this was with excellent insurance. I just "looked too good" on the outside, even when I'd be weeping and unable to stand up (yet then, when I'd show emotion from the pain, I was deemed some weepy, dramatic junkie wanting drugs and attention).
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(#2) Mind The Sores
From Redditor /u/99_red_balloons_:
If it won't go away, get it checked out!
Last year I got what I thought was a blister on my leg. A few days later it had turned into a sore. I thought it was probably just the burst blister that was a bit raw. I was putting antibacterial cream on it, but it just wasn't healing... in fact, it was getting bigger and bigger.
A week after it first appeared, the sore was about the size of a quarter, still raw-looking and had a little black spot in the middle. That made me freak out a little bit so I went to my regular doc. She looked at it and said it looked like a spider bite, so she prescribed antibiotics (five-day course) and sent me on my way. By day three of the antibiotics, the skin around the black spot was starting to turn gray and the sore itself had doubled in size.
I couldn't get hold of my doc, so I went to the emergency room. The emergency doc took one look at it, admitted me, and scheduled surgery for the next morning. It turns out it was a serious flesh-eating bacteria. I had a big chunk cut out of my leg.
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(#14) Tiredness And Leg Pain
From Redditor /u/Prima13:
Not me but my 9-year-old son. Last summer he complained about leg tiredness and slept a lot. Our pediatrician couldn't find anything wrong with him. Fast-forward to January 2017, and suddenly he became constipated and his bladder started retaining enormous amounts of urine.
We took him to the local children's hospital, and they felt that his constipation was keeping him from releasing urine, so they hit him with gallons of MiraLAX mixture to get him moving. He pooped quite a bit, but nothing really changed.
After a week of this at the hospital, my wife lost her mind on the hospital staff and demanded they think outside the box. The neurology department came in and did an MRI, and they found he had a fatty filum at the base of his spine, which presented as a tethered cord. They operated immediately.
Unfortunately, the damage is done. My son no longer has bowel or bladder function because of the nerve damage caused by the tethered cord, so we have to use a straight catheter on him six times a day and keep after his bowels with stimulant laxatives and enemas. We will be entering a clinic in May where they will run a series of daily X-rays and enemas to arrive at the mixture we will need to use going forward.
Poor kid will have to live with this for the rest of his life. My wife and I are sick over it. If the issue had been caught sooner, he might not have had to deal with this. If we had waited longer, it's possible he could have lost the use of his legs.
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(#25) It Started Out As Bloating
From Redditor /u/PM_Your_Naughty_Vids:
My sister, 21 years old, complained of feeling bloated for a couple weeks. Turned out she had pancreatic cancer that had grown too large and damaged the splenic artery, so she was bleeding internally, which caused the feeling of being bloated. We had no idea until she passed away after a night of going out and drinking together for our brother's birthday (the alcohol thinned her blood, ripped the artery further, and she bled to death internally, alone in her apartment that night).
She talked about going to the doctor, I told her it was probably no big deal. I'll never tell anyone that again for the rest of my life.
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The pace of modern life has become faster, people’s life pressures have gradually increased, and news of sudden deaths are not uncommon. According to relevant health statistics reports, more than 1000,000 people in the world suffer from sudden cardiac death each year, this number is much larger than the number of deaths caused by suicide, traffic accidents, and leukemia. Although many diseases have obvious symptoms, many chronic or underlying diseases only occur after a long period of an unhealthy lifestyle.
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