" I intend I was just clumsy . It ended up being myoclonic seizure . "
Recently, Reddit useru/Prudent_Tip4118asked the good people ofr/AskReddit, “What is the oddest thing you thought was ok/normal and ended up being a medical problem?” Here are some of the most-upvoted replies:
Psst — the mass answering these interrogative are not aesculapian professional ; we can not assert their answer , and this list is dead not meant as a diagnostic tool . A symptom appearing on this list does not mean it is always a sign of the condition the person said they got diagnose with , either . Please address to your physician if you ’re worried about your wellness .
1.“Until I was 16 I thought everyone got stomach cramps a few times a day. Turns out I’m lactose intolerant.”
u / go_eat_worms
2.“I’d have these really minor facial twitches, like a single small muscle in my upper lip or eyebrow. Nothing even severe enough to be visible to others. However, they’d last for a few weeks straight, even while I was trying to sleep. I didn’t think twice about it. They always went away on their own, after all! After I suddenly went blind in my left eye and got diagnosed with multiple sclerosis, I connected the dots.”
u / hillbilly - world
3.“That pulled muscle was actually a collapsed lung. After days of hot baths, massages, trying to relax-nah, nothing helped. No wonder.”
u / bmbmwmfm2
4.“I felt a random sharp pain above my right ear and noticed my tongue curling slightly. I thought it was just old age. Luckily, my doc recognised it instantly as something wrong with my tongue. The cancer has been cured for seven years.”
u / cwsjr2323
5.“Not sleeping or eating for days but still feeling great and having more energy than your average athlete. Turns out I have bipolar!”
u / honkifyouresimpy
6.“My family told me I would randomly ‘space out’, although I never remembered. We all thought it was normal. Turned out I was having ‘absence seizures’. We only found that out at a routine doctor’s appointment, just conversing with the doc, when I guess I just came to and the doctor said she wanted to get a bunch of tests done. Been an epileptic for almost 17 years now.”
u / Loves_me_tacos125 ·
7.“As a kid I had anxiety and my heart would race. Fast. It felt like a hummingbird in my chest and would abruptly pause and resume a normal pace after a few minutes. At age 23 I had a bad reaction to a tricyclic antidepressant called imipramine and was rushed to the hospital. They ran an EKG and that rapid heart rate was a congenital defect known as Wolfe Parkinson White syndrome.”
" essentially I had an accessory or second electrical organization in my sum that would induce a ' unretentive circumference ' on occasion and my heart rate would rocket . It was cure by a subroutine using radiocommunication waves to form scar tissue paper around the accessory thickening because the impulse could not deport through the tissue .
No problem since . "
u / Ambitious_Doubt_1101
8.“It took my lungs collapsing at 17 years old before doctors realised I wasn’t breathing in deeply enough to expand the bottom half of my lungs for basically my whole life. They asked why I never complained about shortness of breath. I never knew breathing was supposed to be easier than what I was experiencing.”
u / honeybeebzzz ·
9.“I thought I pulled a muscle playing with my dogs one day. One week later I finally go to the hospital because the pain is getting worse. It turns out I suffer from a genetic blood clotting condition and had a two-foot log clot in my leg and multiple pulmonary embolisms in my lungs. The doctor was legit surprised I was alive.”
u / EchoRespite
10.“I thought I was constipated for a few days. It hurt like hell. It turned out to be diverticulitis and a perforated colon. My wife called the ER and they brought me in without triage and sent a chaplain. I lost a foot of my large intestines and almost died.”
u / VR6SLC
11.“Apparently your belly button isn’t supposed to hurt. It was an umbilical hernia.”
u / elenaalia75
12.“I thought I had bad period cramps. Then I thought I had acute food poisoning. Turns out I had ovarian torsion and my ovary was slowly dying over the course of a few days.”
u / somaticconviction
13.“Depression. Apparently losing all hope and being numb to joy isn’t just a part of growing up.”
u / PhreedomPhighter ·
14.“I had massively heavy periods in my 40s. I thought it was just perimenopause. Turns out it was adenomyosis.”
u / therealzue
15.“You know how you get all congested after exercising, and wheeze for a bit before everything settles down again? No? Yeah, that’s because most people don’t have exercise-induced asthma. I was in my 30s before I knew that was a problem and not normal.”
u / GreyFoxLemonGrass ·
16.“I kept telling my OB I was worried about my legs/ankles swelling in the later part of my pregnancy. They dismissed it — and told me all pregnant people experience it. At 39 weeks I was sent to the hospital for extra monitoring on the baby due to an irregular test. She ended up being fine but my blood pressure was crazy high. I was induced that night and then given an emergency C-section due to severe preeclampsia.”
u / acenarteco
17.“I used to drop my makeup all the time when I was getting ready in the morning. I thought I was just clumsy. It ended up being myoclonic seizures.”
u / SnooChocolates4588
18.“When I was about 19, I randomly heard on NPR that it takes the average person around 20 minutes to fall asleep and I went ‘oh sh*t’ because apparently, my bar for having sleep issues was way, way too high. To me, a good night’s sleep meant I fell asleep within two hours of going to bed and it wasn’t “trouble” until I hit three hours. And once I communicated this to my doctor and was finally able to treat my crippling insomnia with medication, my depression and anxiety suddenly got way more manageable as well.”
u / Twodotsknowhy
19.“Sharp, excruciating pain in my hand. Thought it was arthritis, it runs in the family. Nope. It was a bone tumor, thankfully non-malignant, slowly eating its way through my hands.”
u / dannicalliope
Shout out tou/Prudent_Tip4118andr/AskRedditfor having this discusstion.
