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(#22) A Small Itch
From Redditor /u/Auntie_Ahem:
A week before my fourth Halloween, I am playing on my Cat in the Hat scooter, fall on the pavement, and get a good scratch on my knee. 24 hours later it starts itching pretty bad. Another 24 hours later, I can't sleep; it's itching like crazy and getting red and hot to the touch. Mom thinks I'm being a drama queen (in her defense, I was a bit of a dramatic threenager) and doesn't really look at it too closely.
24 hours later it aches so bad I can't walk and the itching and redness is worse. I end up in the hospital for a week with cellulitis that's so bad I come very close to amputation and/or death. I have no clue at the time, but my mom told me it was bad enough they told her to have relatives come visit just in case it was their last chance to do so.
Doctor tells my mom that if I had come into an office on the first or second day, I may have gotten by with just a strong injection of penicillin and a week of oral antibiotics.
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(#18) Gradual Fatigue
From Redditor /u/PhenotypicalWalrus:
Not me, but my mother. There were several years where it was clear her energy level was declining and she was getting more tired and irritable. It was definitely something gradual but noteworthy.
I remember the first time it was brought up to the doctor. They felt it was just related to age or menopause, but within a year my mother was so tired she could hardly get out of bed.
Turns out her thyroid was basically shutting down over the year or two this built up. By the time we had a diagnosis from an endocrinologist, she essentially had no thyroid function.
Same thing recently happened to my older sister two years ago, so anytime I seem less energetic than usual, my family goes into full-blown freakout trying to make me go get blood work done.
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(#4) Pepto-Bismol Won't Solve This
From Redditor /u/whereswalda:
Anything that is persistent. If it's not going away, it's not "just" anything: it needs to be looked at.
Persistent, raging heartburn. I was young and dumb and uninsured, so I put it off. I put it off for nearly three months, by which point I was subsisting on plain yogurt and lentils and still having extremely painful bouts of heartburn and vomiting. I had lost a lot of weight and was consistently exhausted and in pain.
I finally went to the doctor - it was a raging case of H. pylori infection. It was cleared up with antibiotics, but my doctor warned me at the time that I had probably caused irreversible damage to my stomach and digestive system by waiting so long. She was right - within a year, the heartburn was back, along with the nausea and vomiting. I essentially gave myself a chronic disease by ignoring the initial infection.
Moral of the story: if it keeps coming back, don't ignore it. What could have been treatable before will turn into something worse.
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(#6) A Shrinking Mole
From Redditor /u/notsolittleliongirl:
My dad has a lot of moles, and my mom forced him to go to the dermatologist because he hadn't been in years. She was worried about a few of the big moles that she thought might be getting bigger. The dermatologist pointed one out and asked if that was one they were concerned about. My mom said that one actually seemed like it was getting smaller, so she wasn't concerned. The doctor informed my parents they were doing a biopsy right there and then, and he cut a 1.5-inch-long chunk out of my dad's back.
It was melanoma. The really bad skin cancer. It turns out, if a mole is getting smaller, it's probably because the immune system has a reason to attack it.
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(#24) A New Twitch
From Redditor /u/brom_ance:
Five years ago my mother noticed her pinkie would twitch. She was a truck driver at the time and didn't want anything interfering with her income, so she ignored it. Fast-forward to three weeks ago. Completely bedridden, spasms, weakness, unable to walk, eat, use bathroom without assistance. Multiple system atrophy, P-type. Looks like Parkinson's, but quicker symptom onset and much shorter lifespan. She'll be gone in five-ish years.
Please, if something isn't right, get it checked.
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(#23) Stress Can Kill
From Redditor /u/echelon1776:
When my dad passed suddenly, my mom's colitis flared up so bad that her colon rotted and perforated. She went into septic shock and it killed her three months after he passed. They were both in their early 50s. If a major stressor happens in your life, and you have stress-induced flare-ups with Crohn's or colitis, even if you feel you're fine and don't need them, PLEASE ask your doc for some temporary meds to help you get through it. If my mom wasn't so stubborn, something as simple as anxiety medication could have prevented it getting that bad.
And also, I encourage everyone to research the signs and symptoms of sepsis. Infections are no joke.
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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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