“I thought I was just clumsy.
It ended up being myoclonic seizures.”
just speak to your doctor if you’re worried about your health.
“Until I was 16 I thought everyone got stomach cramps a few times a day.
Turns out I’m lactose intolerant.”
u/go_eat_worms
2.
Nothing even severe enough to be visible to others.
However, they’d last for a few weeks straight, even while I was trying to sleep.
I didn’t think twice about it.
They always went away on their own, after all!
u/hillbilly-man
3.
“That pulled muscle was actually a collapsed lung.
After days of hot baths, massages, trying to relax-nah, nothing helped.
u/bmbmwmfm2
4.
“I felt a random sharp pain above my right ear and noticed my tongue curling slightly.
I thought it was just old age.
Luckily, my doc recognised it instantly as something wrong with my tongue.
The cancer has been cured for seven years.”
u/cwsjr2323
5.
“Not sleeping or eating for days but still feeling great and having more energy than your average athlete.
Turns out I have bipolar!”
u/honkifyouresimpy
6.
“My family told me I would randomly ‘space out’, although I never remembered.
We all thought it was normal.
Turned out I was having ‘absence seizures’.
Been an epileptic for almost 17 years now.”
u/Loves_me_tacos125
7.
“As a kid I had anxiety and my heart would race.
No problems since.”
u/Ambitious_Doubt_1101
8.
They asked why I never complained about shortness of breath.
I never knew breathing was supposed to be easier than what I was experiencing.”
u/honeybeebzzz
9.
“I thought I pulled a muscle playing with my dogs one day.
One week later I finally go to the hospital because the pain is getting worse.
The doctor was legit surprised I was alive.”
u/EchoRespite
10.
“I thought I was constipated for a few days.
It hurt like hell.
It turned out to be diverticulitis and a perforated colon.
My wife called the ER and they brought me in without triage and sent a chaplain.
I lost a foot of my large intestines and almost died.”
u/VR6SLC
11.
“Apparently your belly button isn’t supposed to hurt.
It was an umbilical hernia.”
u/elenaalia75
12.
“I thought I had bad period cramps.
Then I thought I had acute food poisoning.
u/somaticconviction
13.“Depression.
Apparently losing all hope and being numb to joy isn’t just a part of growing up.”
u/PhreedomPhighter
14.
“I had massively heavy periods in my 40s.
I thought it was just perimenopause.
Turns out it was adenomyosis.”
u/therealzue
15.
Yeah, thats because most people dont have exercise-induced asthma.
I was in my 30s before I knew that was a problem and not normal.”
u/GreyFoxLemonGrass
16.
They dismissed it and told me all pregnant people experience it.
She ended up being fine but my blood pressure was crazy high.
I was induced that night and then given an emergency C-section due to severe preeclampsia."
u/acenarteco
17.
“I used to drop my makeup all the time when I was getting ready in the morning.
I thought I was just clumsy.
It ended up being myoclonic seizures.”
u/SnooChocolates4588
18. u/Twodotsknowhy
19.
“Sharp, excruciating pain in my hand.
Thought it was arthritis, it runs in the family.
It was a bone tumor, thankfully non-malignant, slowly eating its way through my hands.”
u/dannicalliope
