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People Share 30 Helpful Signs You Should Immediately Go To The Hospital The worst headache of your life, which came on very quickly. (Also known as a 'Thunderclap headache'). Even with no other symptoms, this needs to be looked at immediately. Could be any range of things, but what they're most concerned with is a ruptured aneurysm.

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Cecily Holland 2 years ago

ANEURYSM. Been there barely survived that

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As an ER nurse (and this is in no way medical advice, just one man’s thoughts), I always tell people to listen to the part of your brain that’s telling you that things are off. You know how you feel every day and no one else does, so you’re the only one that can be trusted to understand when something just does not feel right.

Also, if you are awoken from sleep with chest pain, get your a*s to the ER.

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Miss Frankfurter 2 years ago

As a nurse, a really high five. You may get stared at, as in well, why are you at the ER just because something doesn't feel right. As in previous post about a cardiac patient "I don't know. I just don't feel right" should be listened to.

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According to labor and delivery Nurse Holly, time is a mystery when it comes to labor.

"There’s no definitive time when or how long someone will be in labor. I’ve known patients that will have contractions for 2 weeks before the baby is delivered," she told Bored Panda.

"On the flip side, I know patients that came in for a headache and a little abdominal pressure and delivered their baby 30 minutes later."

People Share 30 Helpful Signs You Should Immediately Go To The Hospital A "feeling of impending doom". Really, it's actually considered a clinical sign and can indicate impending stroke, heart attack, or other things. Can also be a panic attack but if it comes out of nowhere and isn't associated with a known anxiety disorder, don't be afraid to take it seriously.

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Strawberry Pizza 2 years ago

Me, with anxiety: welp guess I'm dying 24/7

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People Share 30 Helpful Signs You Should Immediately Go To The Hospital Speaking from experience here, if you suddenly feel no pain after feeling what has to be some of the worst pain imaginable, it means your appendix has burst, and you need to get to the hospital IMMEDIATELY, otherwise, you WILL die.

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Monday 2 years ago

Not just your appendix either. It could also be a sign a portion of your bowel has died.

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People Share 30 Helpful Signs You Should Immediately Go To The Hospital When you throw up and it looks like coffee grounds.

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Kira Okah 2 years ago

Internal bleeding

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Nurse Holly told us about what she and her colleagues look for when seeing to patients. "As a labor and delivery nurse, we look for frequency of contractions and cervical change to give us a better idea as to how your body is responding to labor," she said.

"Time is always the million-dollar question. The best advice I can give, keep in contact with your providers during these times of questionable labor. Utilize their on-call service, let the provider know what you are experiencing. The provider will ask follow-up questions to help you make an informed decision on the next step."

People Share 30 Helpful Signs You Should Immediately Go To The Hospital You took a new medicine and your throat is closing up. Anaphylaxis can kill you.

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Miss Frankfurter 2 years ago

Call 911 and if you can't talk bang the phone on the table, or something else hard. That is a universal sign to dispatch that you are in serious trouble. It's lights and siren time. (Don't know the numbers for other areas of the world)

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People Share 30 Helpful Signs You Should Immediately Go To The Hospital Signs of stroke.

Face or mouth drooping

Arm weakness

Speech slurred

Time to call an ambulance

So think FAST

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165points

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MaddaPanda 2 years ago

Everyone should know that you should be able to raise both arms and smile. If not, call an ambulance.

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Honestly, (the following all together) lack of appetite, frequent urinating, vomiting, severe fatigue. Everyone thought my sister had the flu, but my mom took my sister to the hospital anyways.

She had diabetic ketoacidosis. Her blood sugar was 717. She was almost in a coma. She was diagnosed with Type 1 Diabetes at 8 years old.

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Kelly Jo 2 years ago

My mom went through that for a month. Lost 68 lbs within 5 weeks.

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Sadly, it is understandable why some people refuse to go see a doctor even when their health is on the line. It’s a problem that many Americans have to deal with. Some of them are uninsured; and even the ones who are might not get their entire hospital fees covered.

As Dr. Andrew Carroll, a doctor from Arizona, explained to Bored Panda sometime earlier, insurance companies do not have their clients’ best interests at heart. At the core of how they operate is money, not the desire to help someone in need.

“Unfortunately in the US, since the insurance company is the payer for a patient’s care, they are heavily involved in the provision of that care. Their job is not to pay for healthcare but avoid paying for healthcare. It is a terrible system,” Dr. Carroll explained to us.

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People Share 30 Helpful Signs You Should Immediately Go To The Hospital Losing the ability to see color in one or more eye, sign of major issue in brain.

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Piglet 2 years ago

Surely it's 'one or both', not 'one or more'?

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People Share 30 Helpful Signs You Should Immediately Go To The Hospital If your pee is so dark that it looks like Guinness, go to the hospital immediately.

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Aran Lindvail 2 years ago

But it can be colorful with no medical issue, depending on what you ate! E.g. beets, some fungi, blueberries, excessive vitamin pills will lead to weird but harmless urine colors.

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People Share 30 Helpful Signs You Should Immediately Go To The Hospital You were bit by an animal. ALWAYS ASSUME IT WAS RABID. if you don’t get rabies treatment within something like 48 hours you could cross the threshold into guaranteed death.

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Andy Acceber 2 years ago

It's a horrible way to die.

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“We are trained very early, almost like soldiers, to work hard and long hours, deal with extremely stressful conditions, and work through the emotional turmoil of death, debility, and the effect those things have on the patient and their families,” the healthcare professional shared how tough the job of medical staff can be.

However, for Dr. Carroll, being a doctor is his calling. And it has been one ever since he can remember.

“I love what I do because I could not see myself doing anything else. I’ve wanted to be a doctor since I was 5, since I myself had a major medical issue. I remember the care and compassion my doctors when I was that age showed me, and helped me get through my very tough time. I wanted to do that for others, and so far I think I have done so,” he shared with Bored Panda.

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People Share 30 Helpful Signs You Should Immediately Go To The Hospital If one of your pupils is fully dilated to the point you can barely see your iris, but the other eye is normal. Get your butt to the E.R Stat.

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Ella Blackwood 2 years ago

I wish they would tell us what these are symptoms of.

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#14

When everything you type is suddenly jibberish. Went to the ER thinking I had a stroke, came out of the hospital a week later with an MS diagnosis, going quickly prevented the damage to my brain from getting worse.

Same vein, if you look down at you feet and electricity shoots up your body in a wave of tingles, that's your spinal cord being eaten by your immune system, see a doctor.

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Monday 2 years ago

What do you think a spinal cord would taste like?

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People Share 30 Helpful Signs You Should Immediately Go To The Hospital You were told 48 hours ago that you had gastroenteritis ("stomach flu") and you did everything the doc said and not only don't you feel better, you feel worse.

There are a lot of things it could be, but gastroenteritis is probably not it, and some of the other possibilities are potentially lethal.

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Hseed 2 years ago

My father almost died on this diagnosis. He was told he had gastroenteritis, he didn't get better so we forced him to ER (he was quite stubborn) and he ended up having a exploded appendix and the infection spread to his whole abdominal area. Doctors said an hour late would have been lethal. So yes, please. Do what the post says.

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“Insurance companies make it difficult though, and nearly force cold, inhumane, and compassionless rules on patients when they are most vulnerable,” the doctor said.

There are financial incentives for US insurance companies to keep the system as it currently exists, Dr. Carroll says. “It will be very difficult to reduce the administrative costs without overhauling the payment system altogether.”

Insurance providers simply do not have a patient’s best interests at heart. "Unfortunately, these payers tend not to have altruistic intentions towards their members. They cater to the advantage of the employers paying for the benefits, who want to try and spend the least amount of money they can." What this means is that an insurer can, for example, make cost-effective decisions on their clients' part that might not actually be best for their health.

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When you have tiny little red dots all over your body. This happened to my wife. We learned she has almost no platelets in her blood anymore and it starting to come out her capillaries. She was rushed to the hospital and was there for a week. Later was diagnosed with smoldering myeloma and went through a 3 year experimental chemotherapy to keep it from going full blown blood cancer.

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Flash Henry 2 years ago

Yikes

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People Share 30 Helpful Signs You Should Immediately Go To The Hospital For women on birth control: serious shortness of breath (as in a relatively healthy person being winded just walking to/from car) and unexplained pain in your legs, mainly inside thighs. Blood clots/embolisms. They can kill you VERY fast if they break loose and travel.

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Rick Seiden 2 years ago

Happened to my daughter within weeks of her 18th birthday. It would have killed her if left untreated.

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Any kind of sensation, localised to one side of your body. This had been happening to me for over 8 months, and I just done the old...... "Ehhh it'll be fine" and went on about my business. Turns out it was a brain tumor. Luckily all seemed to be benign and I've had it removed..... But sometimes..... You just don't know what you're living with..... Sometimes it can be something pushing on your thinky meat.

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HotDog Water 2 years ago

thinky meat!!

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People Share 30 Helpful Signs You Should Immediately Go To The Hospital I had a headache for a week and was getting confused at work.

2 brain tumors and hydrocephalus led to immediate intake

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David Woollands 2 years ago

We had a colleague at work that seemed confused and generally not themselves. She was struggling with simple tasks and was usually very smart and had a fun and bubbly personality. Turned out to be a brain tumour!!

37points

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People Share 30 Helpful Signs You Should Immediately Go To The Hospital When you're dehydrated and still throwing up

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Kira Okah 2 years ago

Yes, absolutely

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#21

People Share 30 Helpful Signs You Should Immediately Go To The Hospital Growing pain in your back near your kidney? Stones. Go to the hospital before the pain gets unbearable.

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Helenium 2 years ago

I had gallstones. Because I was anorexic. No one noticed my massive weight loss. When I was in agony crying in pain throwing up they said I’m doing it for attention and would get me a doc. I went to doctors who said it’s hormones. Six years. Finally my idiot parents who I no longer speak to got a doctor who gave me Valium. Hospital scan. Gall stones. My sister on the hand. She had wind. Whisked her right up the hospital no problem

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People Share 30 Helpful Signs You Should Immediately Go To The Hospital Skin/white of the eyes turning yellow. This probably caused by accumulation of bilirubin in the blood which can be caused by severe liver failure.

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Mohammad Ammar 2 years ago

Doesn't this also happen with jaundice?

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#23

People Share 30 Helpful Signs You Should Immediately Go To The Hospital Sudden onset abdominal pain and vomiting. Appendicitis doesn’t always present as pain in the lower right quadrant. If it bursts you’re f*cked.

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Monday 2 years ago

You can always do at home what the docs tell you to do at their office too. Stand on your tiptoes and slam yourself down on your heels or jump a couple of times. If the pain radiates outward from your abdomen it's probably appendicitis.

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#24

If life gets good. Really, really good. Like too good- like you realize you’re one of the most powerful people on the planet. Like you realize you’re smarter than everyone else. And that you’re God’s favorite. And you know because he told you so. Himself. With his words. In your head.

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IlovemydogShilo 2 years ago

Is this what's known as Donald Trump Syndrome?

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#25

People Share 30 Helpful Signs You Should Immediately Go To The Hospital Sudden hearing loss. The faster you get to the hospital the better the chances of reversing it (statistically)

In my case I left it two weeks and I’m now living with tinnitus.

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93points

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Orange Is Aging 2 years ago

Is tinnitus curable? Now that I think about it, I’m not quite sure!

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People Share 30 Helpful Signs You Should Immediately Go To The Hospital Sudden or gradually increasing numbness or weakness in either or both legs.

Recent urinary retention or incontinence.

Numbness / lack of sensation around the saddle region (groin and inner thighs).

All of these are signs of spinal cord compression and suggest an issue called Cauda Equina which can result in paralysis of the lower body or reduced strength and control.

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87points

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Aimee Lou 2 years ago

Um, the Cauda Equina is actually the name of a part of your body. It describes where your spinal cord ends and splits into a bunch of nerves. TIL there is something called Cauda Equina Syndrome.

25points

#27

One very high blood pressure on one arm, and one very low blood pressure on the other arm, coupled with pain radiating from the shoulder/chest to your back could be a sign of aortic dissection. While it is very rare, it is also life threatening.

Additionally,

Chest pain/pressure - “an elephant is sitting on my chest”

A sudden change in mental status - “do you know where you are? Do you what today is? Do you know who the president is?”

Shortness of breath with chest pain (especially if you had recent surgery) - this could be a sign of a blood clot or if it moves to the lungs, a pulmonary embolism.

More often than not, you need to go to your doctor or an urgent care. However, I can’t tell you how many times a night I say, “it’s a good thing you came in, you made the right choice”

Pro tip: keep a handy list of your meds, and allergies and bring a phone charger

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Miss Frankfurter 2 years ago

Amen to all of that, especially meds. But really, everyone with a chronic health issue, takes prescription meds, has allergies, please get a medic alert bracelet. Cant tell you how many times that saved us critical time finding all that out with simply looking on the bracelet and us making just one phonecall.

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People Share 30 Helpful Signs You Should Immediately Go To The Hospital When that wound you got on your foot by stepping on a rusty nail smells like rot.

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BAN CAPITAL LETTERS 2 years ago

you should probably get it checked out before it starts smelling like rot. getting cut/pierced by something rusty is bad if you're not up to date with your tetanus shots

89points

#29

If you are completely melopaused and you start bleeding like a period, it is not a period and you need to go to the hospital asap.

Also, if you have been electrified but you feel fine, still go to the hospital because blood clots are no jokes.

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72points

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Valerie Lessard 2 years ago

Menopaused and electrocuted?

48points

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People Share 30 Helpful Signs You Should Immediately Go To The Hospital If you have chest pain and especially if it's combined with sweating, nausea/vomiting, left arm pain, and/or a sense of impending doom.

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FlamingoPanda 2 years ago

This is generally for men for heart attacks. Women seldom get the chest pain, they more commonly have abdominal pain with a heart attack and are more likely to brush it off as reflux or indigestion.

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If you have pain in your right side of your stomach and someone pokes you and it’s incredibly painful, you might have early signs of appendicitis.

Source: had same symptoms last week, was uncomfortable but my mum jabbed her finger into my side where I screamed in pain so she packed me off to the hospital where I had an emergency appendectomy that night.

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Linda HS 2 years ago

Mine burst but the doctor didn't believe me when I was complaining about pain. I was agonizing and he told mom and dad that he believes I was pregnant instead! I was 16 and virgin and he insisted to perform a vaginal exam…One of the worst moments in my childhood! Ended up in the hospital, with a burst appendix and septic!

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Shortness of breath (in worst case every five steps out in the cold) and combined back and chest pain(for me it felt like my chest was caving in, somehow connected inwardly with my spine). Women get other symptoms than men when having a heart attack, so if you have this combination of symptoms, go to the ER immediately and get yourself checked out. I luckily survived, but they found out about one and a half month after that I had a heart attack and now part of my heart is basically dead.
Also, I was 31 at that time. It can happen to everybody.

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Miss Frankfurter 2 years ago

Heart attacks are actually worse in "younger" adults, like 50 or younger. Haven't had the time to build up what we call collateral circulation. Over the years, as you get older the heart actually "builds" small blood vessels in your heart, that if a blockage starts to happen that collateral circulation kind of acts like a bit of a back up supply route. Younger people haven't built that up yet so if a blockage happens it can be much worse than for much older people.

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People Share 30 Helpful Signs You Should Immediately Go To The Hospital If your newborn spits up bright green. Solid sign there is a major intestinal blockage (even without any other symptoms) and there is a small window to get that corrected before death. I have forgotten alot from my STABLE class, but I do remember that.

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ohjojo (me/mine) 2 years ago

It's a good idea if you have an infant to do a lot of reading.

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People Share 30 Helpful Signs You Should Immediately Go To The Hospital Wife had a pain in her shoulder and told me about it. Said it was uncomfortable but not a big deal. I told her to send her doctor a message. Went in for an appointment immediately. She had internal bleeding from an ectopic pregnancy and had about 12 oz of blood floating around in her.

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24points

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BigFish Artwire 2 years ago

Imagine if we all went to the GP for pain in places... I'm glad Wife caught it on time and she was fine, but it's weird to go immediately to see your GP for every random pain you get

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If you are a menstruating human, and your lower abdomem becomes so painful you can't sit or bend, you might have a burst cyst, and at worst, internal bleeding and need to call an ambulance, and NOT drive yourself to the ER, because you can black out from the pain.

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Valerie Lessard 2 years ago

Yeah I had a burst cyst and was told to just "tough it out"

20points

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High fever and a stiff neck is a massive indicator of meningitis which can quickly be fatal if not treated. Most common in college type age groups which makes it less likely the individual will want to go to hospital as well. Don't wait on this one; if you tell any doctor or nurse that you have these two symptoms then you will be treated with very high priority.

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Monday 2 years ago

For my fellow hypochondriacs out there, if it's stiff when looking up and down it's a meningitis indicator, but if it's stiff left to right it's usually something else like a strained muscle.

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Over a fairly short period you start feeling very tired, just worn out with no apparant cause. For me it was a shorter than usual walk with the dog and I was completely shot after climbing the 4 steps up to the front door.

Some people also experience bleeding gums and/or cuts/scrapes which take a long time to stop bleeding if at all.

Into the ER and you might then go directly to the leukemia ward. Maybe not - but get checked out.

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24points

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Lady Cadaver 2 years ago

Leukemia is no joke. My mother was complaining she was quite tired and started to get these unexplainable bruises all over her body. She used to look after my daughter when I was at work, so we both thought it was from her playing and crawling around on the floor with the little one. Then one afternoon, while speaking to my mom, I looked up and her whole mouth was full of blood. Like she had taken a huge gulp of blood and just swirled it around in there, her teeth, everything was covered in blood. She was immediately admitted for Acute Myeloid Leukemia and after a year and a half of in and out of hospital, she was sent home and was gone within a month. Within her first week home, she collapsed and never walked again. After her second week, she ate less and less and lost all color. By the third week she was not eating at all. And the fourth week she lost control of her bowels and we noticed the internal bleeding. Please do not ignore sudden, unexplained bruising or fatigue.

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If a mole on ANY part of your body starts changing colour or shape or both, get it seen to ASAP. Please. Not me but a girl on music course I was on years ago was laughing with her friend saying " I hope I'm not going to have a bad today. My mood mole is black". When I and another woman inquired as to what she meant, she showed us a mole on her arm and laughed saying that this was her Mood Mole. She said i'ts like mood ring in the way it keeps changing colour. I asked her how long had this been happening. She reckoned about a few months. We told her to get to a doctor' as soon as possible as it could be a melanoma. She did. She was then was sent straight to hospital where a biopsy revealed that she did have skin cancer and because it was detected relatively early with treatment she could beat it. Thankfully she did. She was only in her early 20s at the time. I am so glad she made it she's a beautiful person.

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Karis Ravenhill 2 years ago

I have a mole that's been changing shape for years, sometimes gets super itchy, crusts, scabs, then the scab falls off and the mole is a tiny bit bigger/changed shape. I asked my doc to look as I was worried about skin cancer, she just said "yes it looks unusual, just keep an eye on it". Bitc*, what the hell you think i've been doing for months? That's why I'm here! Getting really sick of doctors who never listen.

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If you think somethings infected. ie dog bite / other. Lost a toe after I stepped on a small nail at a house I was helping renovate, didn't think much of it untill it started leaking pus a few days later because I didnt think much of it.

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Alicia M 2 years ago (edited)

My cat bit me on the wrist. Hardest cat bite I've ever had. In her defense, I had her less than a week and didn't know her well. (This was 3 years ago and she's doing great.)The next day I woke up in bad pain and had red streaks going up my arm to my elbow. I got to the hospital and was fine after antibiotic treatment for infection. I had no idea how common infections after cat bites are and how quickly it can go bad. I also never knew how painful infections can be.

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If you pinch your skin and it doesn't go back down right away. Severe dehydration

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Any kind of cognitive issue... A friend of kine passed away recently because of a brain tumor roughly a year after diagnosed. First signs were word-finding issues.

Lasting pain. Same friend... A year before his brain tumor, he had tumor on the lower part of his spine. His spine hurt for years, never had it checked out until it was late (the treatment for that made his brain tumor untreatable, because the combination of the two treatments would've killed him even faster...

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When you go to the bathroom and your feces are black, and you did not eat something that could have altered the color (for example, beetroot) go to hospital. Black feces may be an indicator of something bleeding in your digestive track.

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RJ 2 years ago

*tract

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#43

When you have a chest cold, but start coughing up phlegm streaked with blood, it's time for the ER. You may have pneumonia.

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Valerie Lessard 2 years ago

It is most definitely pneumonia. It needs to be treated ASAP, if this happens do not listen to any so called medical professional telling you it's just a flu (which is still bad) and do whatever you can to get help.

6points

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If you feel numbness coming from the hands and the feet, moving slowly further to the core of the body within hours. It could be the rare "Guillain-Barré-Syndrom". It causes your immune-system to attack and destroy the nerves. Going to medical care early is very important, because it is lethal.

I heard the story of a woman waking up with this symptoms. The neighbour called the ambulance, because he had a clue it could be the syndrome. 2 days later the woman was intubated, because she could breath by herself anymore and wasn't able to move due to thedestroyed nerves. The rehabilitation can take months and is slow, but the chances are very good when you go to health care immediately

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18points

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Vetus Vespertilio 2 years ago

Most people recover fully, but some have permanent nerve damage.

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#45

Waking up to headaches. If you're being woken up by headaches, see a doctor, insist on a head CT.

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Rick Seiden 2 years ago

I wake up to headaches quite often. I've been to a doctor. Had multiple CTs and MRIs. I just get headaches. There's no treatment because there's nothing wrong. I just get headaches. I'm just lucky that way. But if you're not like me, and you don't get headaches, and you suddenly start getting them or you start waking up with them...then go see a doctor.

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#46

When your feet don’t work like they used to before

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Lizzie Ellen 2 years ago

And I can't sweep you off of your feet...

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#47

When you feel like a lump in your throat, almost like a cold but coughing doesn't feel as relieving as it normally is and if after 3-4 days of cough syrup nothing has changed, PRETEND TO BE TAKEN SERIOUSLY AT ER

My brother in-law went to the doctor for 2 weeks straight and he was always sent home with "bad flu" diagnosys.

Turns out he had Hodgkin Lymphoma. He did 3 years of chemo, thankfully he is ok now.

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14points

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Cold Contagious 2 years ago

I feel like the last sentence of the first paragraph should be "DEMAND TO BE TAKEN SERIOUSLY AT ER".

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#48

It's now been about 24 hours and the foot that was purple is now sort of blackish in color.

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Miss Frankfurter 2 years ago

If your foot goes purple at all get medical help. Black means there's no circulation at all. By then it's probably too late for us to fix.

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#49

Pain anywhere when drink booze.
It is a rare but sure sign of Hodgking's lymphoma.
(Ex paciente here)

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CilaPed

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#50

Unexplained bruising and fatigue. My mother had unexplained bruising and fatigue and it ended it being Acute Myeloid Leukemia. She didn't make it and it was a terrible way to go. Please do not ignore it is you seem to getting bruises and you can't explain them, or you know you didn't injure yourself.

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Lady Cadaver

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#51

I remember this time when I was a kid my parents thought a seal was in my room, when in reality I had croup/croop (however you spell it)