People Are Sharing The Symptoms That Didn’t Seem Serious...Until They Were

Recently, radical shared the wellness issues they ignored — oregon were brushed disconnected by doctors — that yet grew into much superior issues down the line.

Because knowing your symptoms earlier it's excessively precocious makes each the difference, the stories inspired galore much to stock their ain experiences successful the comments. Here's what they had to say:

1. "Women acquisition antithetic symptoms than men. My cardiologist acknowledged this, but the recommended vascular surgeon blew maine off. He entered the room, determined to 'educate' maine astir my 'condition' without ever asking maine immoderate questions oregon examining me. Telling maine that this concern was not an exigency and that I should conscionable spell home. Then, the recommended neuro-vascular surgeon agreed with the cardiologist. I had to person a stent enactment into the close carotid artery that was much than 70% occluded astir instantly to forestall a stroke!"

(Cont'd) "I had unusual symptoms connected and disconnected for years. They came backmost astatine the opening of December 1 year, stayed, and got worse. I had dizziness, bosom racing, bosom palpitations, shortness of breath, and fatigue. Then caller symptoms presented themselves: oculus pressure, a regular baseline headache, and a whooshing my close receptor that yet was audible successful my near receptor arsenic well. Plus a ace terrible lawsuit of encephalon fog."

"Even with each of these 'odd' symptoms, I was asymptomatic for a carotid artery issue. I didn't person slurred speech, assemblage numbness, oregon look drooping. I didn't person manner issues. I'd been eating cleanly for 2 decades. I didn't smoke, my bloodwork was good, I didn't person diabetes, and arsenic soon arsenic I was diagnosed with hypertension astatine the property of 33, I was connected medicine to modulate it. Please wage attraction to your symptoms and don't ever let a pompous, clueless doc to effort to marque you consciousness similar you're crazy. I didn't, and it saved maine from having a changeable oregon perchance dying!"

—Anonymous, 56, Female, Pennsylvania

2. "I was precise fatigued, overworked connected graveyard shifts, and stressed retired successful my idiosyncratic life. Started conscionable feeling 'off,' similar thing was incorrect with my wellness and wide intelligence acuity. Started processing a rash connected the undersides of my arms to the wrist, and connected my legs from the ankle to my shin. Started bruising easily. Watched a movie with my fiancée, wherever she rested her caput connected my chest, and ended up with a monolithic bruise connected 1 broadside of my chest."

"I yet went to the doc and told him thing conscionable feels wrong. Got wide humor enactment done connected a Friday day and fell asleep. Slept for astir a time and a half. Woke up to a twelve missed calls from my doctor, including from his idiosyncratic cell, and tons of voicemails telling maine to spell to the ER immediately. Went instantly aft I woke up."

(Cont'd) "Turns retired they weren't rashes and random bruising. That's erstwhile I learned however to archer the quality betwixt a rash and micro-bruising (petechiae). Press down connected the rash/bruising. If the unit causes the humor to vanish and the tegument to crook white, it's a rash. If it doesn't, it's micro-bruising, arsenic nary magnitude of unit volition origin the humor excavation to vanish from a bruise."

(Cont'd) "I spent the adjacent 3 years doing humor enactment erstwhile a week, ending up successful the infirmary for attraction doubly more. I've had tons of specializer appointments, hematologist, rheumatologist, and aggregate crab specialists for testing. No cancer, thankfully. I've been diagnosed with astir 10 antithetic autoimmune disorders, including immune thrombocytopenia (ITP), which is what caused the archetypal issue."

—Anonymous, 38, Male, Canada

3. "I had symptom successful my face. It felt similar sinus problems, truthful I treated it arsenic specified for months with nary relief. It got truthful atrocious my receptor started hurting. I went to an ENT and a dentist. Finally, a doc said I had a slipped disc successful my jaw."

4. "My dada was having utmost fatigue and dizziness to the constituent that conscionable taking an casual level stroll was exhausting for him, and helium felt perpetually similar helium was going to faint. He was referred to a cardiologist, and it turns retired helium has a beauteous terrible signifier of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. It's familial — turns retired a fewer different household members person it, and I got familial investigating that shows I person the gene."

"It tin make astatine immoderate age, truthful to beryllium safe, I spell present (as good arsenic my kids) to regular cardiology exams. Especially for women- since bosom illness is the fig 1 wellness contented that kills women- ever advocator to spot a cardiologist if you person symptoms similar that; women are sadly underdiagnosed erstwhile it comes to bosom issues."

—Anonymous

5. "A coworker of excavation had a lump successful her armpit for astir a year. It wasn't painful, truthful she thought it was conscionable inflamed from a cold. Turns retired it was metastasized signifier 3 bosom cancer. She present tells everyone to spell get that mammogram."

6. "I had twinges successful my breast. It felt similar the nervus twitches I got aft getting bosom implants and aboriginal getting them removed. But it wasn't technically pain, and didn't hap precise often. I conscionable thought they were inactive from those surgeries. I had them for implicit a twelvemonth earlier getting my archetypal mammogram. Yep. Breast cancer. Stage 1, convey goodness, but erstwhile they archer you not to disregard symptom successful your breasts, cognize it tin beryllium precise subtle."

—Anonymous, 49, Female, Arkansas

7. "I had unstoppable vaginal bleeding that was highly heavy. I was told it was a cervical polyp and my age, and to 'get utilized to it' since it was dismissed arsenic perimenopause. I was dizzy from this changeless symptom and bleeding, and I tried to get the polyp removed, but my doc said I was overreacting. They told me, 'The adjacent 5 years are going to beryllium pugnacious for you with this attitude.' They would not adjacent reexamine me."

"I went to a caller doc who examined me, and it was a cyst — not a polyp — successful the opening of my cervix. It made my assemblage consciousness similar I was having a non-stop miscarriage for 18 months, since it was causing it to dilate. I had it surgically removed and americium present backmost to mean periods. Ladies — get 2nd and 3rd opinions if necessary. Don't beryllium dismissed similar I was for being 'that age.'"

—Anonymous, 46, Female, US

8. "For astir 3 months, I had a precise dull symptom down my close eye. Nothing ace melodramatic oregon painful; it wasn't a headache, since over-the-counter meds didn't truly bash thing for it. One day, I americium sitting astatine my table and thought, 'I should truly get this looked at.'"

"Went to the ER to find that I had a treble aneurysm, and 1 was astir to burst! I was sent to a specializer that nighttime astatine different infirmary to person it stented. I tin really consciousness the stent from clip to time. I was incredibly lucky. Oh, and my gramps died 5 years anterior to a encephalon aneurysm."

—Anonymous, Nevada

9. "In my precocious 40s, I got into upland biking and thought it was weird I was exhausted aft riding for astir 1 minute. My fittingness didn't look to beryllium improving successful enactment with however often I would spell cycling implicit the adjacent fewer years. If I exerted a batch of effort erstwhile it was acold outside, I would extremity up coughing for a time oregon 2 from profoundly breathing successful acold air. I sometimes had episodes of utmost sweating; my look would flush red, and I would beryllium retired of enactment aft walking up 1 formation of stairs. I thought it was nary large deal, mean stuff, due to the fact that I was astir 50. I hadn't had a yearly carnal successful a decennary oregon more."

10. "I had utmost fatigue for 3 years. It was during COVID, and everyone was location each the clip (spouse and I are some teachers, and we person children). I was pushed from doc to doctor. My labs were ever 'normal.' I was told it was due to the fact that I worked excessively much, my kids' schedules were excessively demanding, that I needed to suffer weight, exercise, devour healthier, and meditate. One doc adjacent had maine bash a 26-hour narcolepsy slumber study. Come to find out, I had Papillary Thyroid Cancer that had dispersed by the clip it was found."

"I yet recovered an endocrinologist who listened to maine and figured retired that 'normal' laboratory ranges were not 'normal' to me. I had a full thyroidectomy and partial cervix dissection, and past had radioactive iodine therapy. Now, astir 2 years later, I'm cancer-free. Have to ticker it though, with the operation of factors surrounding my PTC, it has a precocious recurrence complaint (28%)."

—Anonymous, 42, Female, Michigan

11. "I ne'er got my period, and would spell anyplace betwixt 2-7 months without it. At the time, I thought it was awesome, but I had nary thought it was a large reddish emblem that thing was wrong. When I did get my period, it was awful, but I thought it was my body's mode of making up for it. It didn't click that thing was incorrect until I started taking commencement control, and I could prime up connected patterns: nausea, fatigue, thorax pain, backmost pain, pelvic pain, migraines, headaches, fevers, and atrocious breakouts. I spent years begging a doc to perceive to me, and, agelong communicative short, I person endometriosis."

—Anonymous, 23, Female, Arizona

12. "Just recently, my uncle started having issues with code and good centrifugal function. He chalked it up to accent from enactment until this past Sunday, erstwhile helium mislaid power of his code and the relation of his close arm. My aunt brought him to the ER, reasoning it was a stroke. They did a scan and recovered a wide connected the near broadside of his brain, on with a batch of swelling. He has country to excise and biopsy the wide adjacent week. If your centrifugal skills, speech, oregon quality to determination ever get worse, bash not hold it out. Go consecutive to the exigency room."

13. "I walked astir with terrible heartburn, indigestion, and tummy symptom for astir 2 years. Tried each signifier of an antacid and anti-gas medicine I could take. Woke up 1 greeting successful specified terrible symptom – was chilled to the bony and drenched successful sweat – vomiting, diarrhea, and successful and retired of consciousness. I opened the store doorway and called 911."

"I told them I would beryllium lying connected the sofa successful the surviving country and to conscionable travel connected in. They told maine astatine the infirmary that it was not the worst ever, but the worst lawsuit of pancreatitis he'd seen that year, on with gallstones and liver damage. When thing hurts – don't disregard it!"

—Anonymous, 66, Female, Texas

14. "At 29 years old, I had thorax symptom that progressively got worse implicit time. I had a stressful job, truthful I chalked it up to a engaged clip astatine enactment due to the fact that I was young, healthy, and fit. I began experiencing shortness of enactment erstwhile walking up a elevation oregon up a formation of stairs."

"I yet decided to spell to the ER erstwhile my bosom was racing, and I astir blacked retired going to my third-floor apartment. The doc couldn’t judge I drove myself oregon walked successful connected my own. I was experiencing thorax symptom and had aggregate humor clots successful some lungs. Don’t disregard persistent thorax pain."

—Anonymous, 35, Female, Virginia

15. "Constant symptom successful my hands and ankles. Everyday. For years. I thought it was conscionable owed to presumption oregon overuse due to the fact that I constitute and paint. No, I was wrong. It was rheumatoid arthritis. At the beginning, my doctors told maine it was metabolic, but thing I did made it better."

16. "I was exhausted each the time. By the clip I got home, each I could bash was flop connected the couch. I thought it was due to the fact that I was moving excessively overmuch and that it was conscionable portion of getting older. Then I started feeling afloat aft lone a fewer bites, and dropping weight. I was bruising but couldn't adjacent callback having bumped into anything."

"Still missed the classical reddish flags! I had regular bloodwork, and my achromatic humor compartment number was wildly high. Long communicative short, I ended up being admitted to the infirmary that precise time and was diagnosed with a chronic signifier of leukemia. I look backmost and consciousness foolish that I excused distant truthful galore informing signs. Please instrumentality this arsenic a cautionary tale!"

—Anonymous, 47, Female, Ohio

17. "I had trouble sleeping. Other symptoms for galore years were headaches, musculus pain, anxiety, panic attacks, and hives. I had slumber apnea. The C-PAP changed everything. Beautifully saccharine sleep. All symptoms instantly improved and went away."

18. "Over astir 4 days, I had tummy discomfort. Not pain, but a mild fever that came and went, constipation, small appetite, and 1 time a precise unusual pine-tar-like odor from my armpits. Doc said, 'Get thee to an ER,' but I delayed going arsenic I had to prime up a household subordinate from the airdrome the adjacent day."

"When I went to the ER, they wanted to bash 2 CT scans, but aft the archetypal one, they said, 'Nope. You are going consecutive into surgery.' Turns retired I had a uncommon signifier of diverticula successful the mediate of the tiny bowel that was wholly blocked. They had to region 5 inches of my intestine. I was fortunate the happening didn't burst unfastened — it would person been sepsis and apt killed me."

—Anonymous, 74, Male, California

19. "I'd been having shortness of enactment anytime I walked, but was good if I sat down. After a fewer days, it got progressively worse until I was virtually crawling down the hallway 1 nighttime to spell instrumentality my canine extracurricular to pee. I threw up humor and crawled backmost wrong and managed to get connected the sofa and felt conscionable fine, arsenic if thing had happened. I thought possibly it was COVID."

"The adjacent day, my lad convinced maine to spell to a walk-in clinic. They ran immoderate tests and instantly sent maine to the ER. I had been bleeding internally the full clip from a duodenal ulcer, which required a humor transfusion. Don't beryllium an idiot similar maine and disregard symptoms, particularly erstwhile they're glaringly obvious."

—Anonymous, 70, Female, Washington

20. "I ever had achy periods, but everyone told maine it was normal. Because of this, I conscionable benignant of ignored the symptom each period and told myself to get implicit it. It wasn't until I was 33 and trying to get large that my hubby and I went to a fertility doctor. His tests came backmost normal, and I was told aft a vaginal ultrasound that I had an abnormal uterus."

21. "I had atrocious nausea for astir 8 months. I threw up each greeting and couldn't fig retired what was going on. Tests came backmost negative, and my fare didn't look to impact it. When I got treble vision, I didn't deliberation it was related to the different symptoms. I thought I needed a caller medicine for the imaginativeness issues, truthful I went to the doctor."

"That doc sent maine to the ER for an MRI. Turns retired I had a benign encephalon tumor, which was causing the nausea and the imaginativeness problems. I had country 36 hours aft the archetypal diagnosis. If they hadn't caught it, I astir apt would person collapsed oregon had seizures. So truthful gladsome I didn't disregard my eyesight adjacent though I ignored the nausea."

—Anonymous, 27, Female, Washington

22. "Starting successful precocious March 2025, I started noticing immoderate foods didn't sensation right. This went connected done April and into May. Then I started noticing that my bowel movements were getting airy successful colour and started to float. Finally, successful June, I had humor tests ordered by my PCP, and we recovered retired my liver and kidney functions were retired of scope and I was becoming somewhat jaundiced. Went to the ER and was admitted astir immediately."

23. "My pharynx was sometimes sore and my dependable a small raspy implicit astir of a summer. I speech for a living, managing radical who enactment remotely, and I thought it was conscionable that I'd been talking a ton each day. I went to a doc who said, 'You mightiness privation to spot an Ear, Nose, and Throat doc,' but I didn't."

"Eighteen months later, I was diagnosed with signifier 4 pharynx crab and had a full laryngectomy, past the implicit chemo and radiation routine. Cancer-free 3 years later, but I mislaid a batch of relation permanently, and mightiness not person if I'd gone successful earlier. I had been a performing vocalist my full life. No more."

—Anonymous, 60, Male, Chicago

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