It's just IBS. It's just depression. Maybe Chronic Fatigue Syndrome.

[tlc-x]

Share your crazy stories of being told it's just IBS or depression or whatever else the doctors think it is, when really it's more serious than that.!​

My doctor thought I had depression because i'd just cried my eyes in front of her. Fine then, ignore the fact that i'm in agony here!


I want to hear your stories of battling the hospital/doctors

 

[ormsklad]

mine was stress and being overweight

 

[Astra]

I was booked in for a frontal lobotomy at one stage!

And my old GP told me it's cos I eat too many Mars Bars!
He's dead now, Rest in Pieces!

 

[tlc-x]

A frontal lobotomy!! That's scary. Is that even legal in our country?!

 

[Astra]

ha ha no Tash, I'm joshing!
xxx

 

[tlc-x]

Ohh.. oh dear! I'm so gullable hahah! x

 

[Rebecca85]

I was told I 'just have a tummy ache, everyone gets those' after being in hospital on morphine for the pain.

 

[robbo87]

A day before I was admitted into hospital with a really bad flare up as i was in the process of being diagnosed, one of my symptoms was ridiculous mouth ulcers which a doctor who I saw diagnosed as Oral thrush. I was so ill and thats all he could come up with. Have refused to see that doctor ever since.

 

[Miss Underestimated]

My family doctor suggested I see a psychiatrist, since it was impossible that my "infection" would keep returning and all my tests were normal.

It was a "bug" it was "a tummy flu" I was covering up an eating disorder...

 

[hangingon]

back when things first got really bad for me everyone thought i was having a breakdown from the stress of senior year of highschool and not knowing what i wanted to do afterward.... turns out it was a severe flare, c-diff and paracarditis caused by sulfa-drugs... i told them i wasn't just crazy.. luckily my GI at the time agreed with me

 

[LindaS]

I was told once it was stress from midterms, that it was my period and that I had anorexia.

 

[Tiffany]

I was told I had Food poisoning over and over again... I really gotta watch what I eat! lol

 

[vickie_x]

I was told I had depression, anorexia, appendicitis (three times), oral thrush, viral infection, bacterial infection, IBS, period pain... All just in the 4months I spent trying to be diagnosed x

 

[SawyerAshton]

IBS
Gastritis
Diverticulitis
Lupus
Lymphoma
Chronic Fatigue
Fibromyalgia
Ebstein Barr
A "Virus"

These were all in the span on 3 years.

Currently on the right path and hope to have a true answer in 2 days.

 

[tlc-x]

I've had two doctors and a nurse think I was pregnant. I had to convince them that there is NOOOOO chance that I am pregnant, but they still wanted to check.

 

[fosterschick]

im still t the IBS daignosis , even though this flare has been going on since may , i have low iron and protien and red flags on my amylase, i have lost weight and bleed , all i have has one barium enema and one small bowel enema and they are basing that because there are no strictures.... its still ibs !!! im seeing a gastro doc on 24th so hoping he will be more helpful xx

 

[Rebecca85]

Oh yes that old chestnut... When I went to A and E at my local hospital the first time, they wanted me to provide a urine sample for them. Because I had been vomiting I couldn't produce one (too dehydrated), they refused to treat me until I had! The triage nurse literally walked off! I am presuming they wanted to rule out pregnancy/labour because within 2 minutes of me choking down enough water and producing a sample, they had the senior doctor there who said it could be appendicitis, and arranged for me to be admitted at the city hospital.

 

[fosterschick]

hehe i get this one everytime !!! im sterilsed !!!!!xxx

 

[upstateNYgirl]

My PRIOR GP suggested my brain was manifesting pain from previous trauma. He even went so far as to suggest that the pain and trauma most likely behind the pain was sexual abuse or rape...luckily for me I have never been a rape or sexual abuse vicitm...but REALLY is that your best guess at a diagnosis????

Just bc your computer doesn't regurgitate a diagnosis when you type in symptoms, doesn't mean we aren't sick!

 

[Stillindenial]

I had one GP tell me with all seriousness that IBD and IBS are the same thing and the cure for both is Deanxit! But he did tell me on the way out that this was just "friendly advice".