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(#20) The Importance Of Routine Eye Exams
From Redditor /u/NoMansLight:
Get your damn eyes checked! Doesn't matter if you have 20/20 vision (or think you do), you should get a yearly checkup from an optometrist.
I have never had a problem with my vision, and just last week my wife made an appointment with the optometrist for the both of us. Well, it turns out I do have 20/20 vision and good peripheral vision (for now), but the optometrist also discovered I have a rare disease. Pigment dispersion syndrome, most often found in people between 20 to 40 years old. A clear indication of this ailment is Krukenberg spindles on the cornea. Pigment from your iris sloughs off and floats freely in the aqueous humor, and it can get lodged in the drainage system of your eye, thus causing increased interocular pressure - when this happens it's called pigment glaucoma and can lead to permanent blindness.
So despite otherwise good eyesight, there's a possibility I'll go blind at a pretty young age, there are no signs of open angle increased intraocular pressure, the kind caused by pigment glaucoma, and the damage is permanent. Get your eyes checked!
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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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(#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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(#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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(#13) The Funky Knee Trick
From Redditor /u/I_Hunt_N00bs:
My right knee had been slightly funky for a couple of years. I originally noticed it after I did a bad tackle playing soccer and landed on my knee. I presumed it was just going to be a glitch that I would have to deal with for the rest of my life. It didn't hurt or anything, but what was funky was you could put your fingers on the inside of my knee and as I compressed and extended my knee you could feel something clicking past tendons and soft tissues.
After a number of years it seemed like there was a bit of swelling around my knee, and during some downtime from work I decided I should finally see a doctor about it. I told him about the clicking and when I showed him, his face isn't something I'll forget - it was full of disbelief, and he said, "Well, that's not something I have ever felt before," then sent me off for an X-ray and ultrasound. Turns out I had an osteochondroma (an abnormal bone spur) on the inside of my knee, and the tendons were literally slipping from one side to the other as I bent my knee back and forth.
The reason I should have looked into it sooner is because before I got a chance to see the specialist and book a surgery to have it removed, the spur punctured something in my knee. It caused a lot of swelling and excruciating pain. I went straight to the emergency room, was admitted straight away, and they were considering operating that night.
In the end they sent me home after four days of rest and observation, and I got it removed a couple of weeks later with no major issues.
At the time, the specialist noted sometimes these things can be genetic and appear in other places in the body... I have a weird clicking in my right foot at the moment that I have no explanation for, and it's starting to get slightly painful. I should probably go see a doctor.
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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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