If there's one person you really shouldn't lie to, it's your doctor. After all, medical professionals are there to help, not to judge you, and withholding information only hurts you in the end. But while there are some things you know you shouldn't hide from doctors, there are others that you might not even think of revealing, and those may be the most critical. Recently, this topic was opened on a well-known social forum asking medical users to share something and the responses were really revealing. Read on to find out what symptoms and habits you should always report to your doctor.
You should never lie to your doctor and even less stop saying these things
These are 10 things doctors say their patients never mention to them, but they should. They may seem unimportant, but they can save your life.
You spend a lot of time in front of a screen
A medical professional wrote on this forum about a woman who said that she had a headache every night, despite the fact that her medical record was clean and that she maintained a healthy sleep schedule. Even after asking him questions about his lifestyle choices, none of them seemed like a red flag to the expert.
At some point, he just couldn't understand what was happening to him and asked him what he did for fun. She told him that she played a video game. This is how he knew that she was sitting in front of a computer screen 80 hours a week.
You are losing weight without trying
If you've lost more than five percent of your usual body weight in six to 12 months, what you're experiencing is unintended weight loss, according to a medical user on the forum. And this is a common symptom of cancer.
"You should have an age-appropriate cancer screening test," the medical professional explained, citing Pap tests, colonoscopies, mammograms, testicular exams and prostate exams. "And bring a detailed family history of cancer to your doctor, including the type of cancer, when it was diagnosed, and at what stage it was diagnosed."
You are experiencing chest pain
Of course, this may seem obvious to some, but it's worth mentioning because not telling your doctor about that chest pain could be literally life threatening.
A medical professional wrote about a patient of his who swore he never had chest pains. The man also mentioned that "he was able to cut firewood and work on his land without any problem." But then he suffered a massive heart attack during major surgery. What they found was that he had "a very narrow coronary artery that was the only thing that carried blood to his heart.
His daughters were nurses and stated that "he was healthy as a horse and never complained of heart problems." But then, "her other daughter came in saying that she had actually told her that she suffered terrible chest pains every time she did something, but that she didn't want her other daughters to know because they would worry." Sadly, he died a few days later. "If we had known about his symptoms, he probably would have been diagnosed and treated for his heart disease prior to surgery," the professional wrote.
You have pain in your neck and left arm
Unfortunately, many people are unaware that pain in the neck and left arm are common symptoms of heart attacks in women. That is exactly why they should not be ignored, as one medical student observed, when retelling the story of a patient he was dealing with.
“A woman was saying she was having heartburn and just wanted us to give her something to throw up 'to make her feel better,' she wrote. “I thought it was weird so I went through a few more review questions and she said her reflux pain was spreading to the left side of her neck and down her left arm and that she had been sweating for hours. I cut the interview and went to my teaching doctor to tell him everything and what I thought. She was having a heart attack. I had to call an ambulance and take her to the emergency room. "
Don't lie if you pass black stools
It can be embarrassing to talk about your stool with people. But talking about them with your doctor can be key.
"Folks, if you're doing black, bring that up sooner rather than later," wrote a professional medical user on the forum. “A woman has seen nothing but black every time she has a bowel movement for months before she thought to mention anything. We found several gastric ulcers and a hemoglobin level surrounding the drain”.
You have bloody stools
Even if a medical professional is of the opposite sex, don't let that stop you from sharing potentially life-saving symptoms. An internal physician explained that he saw a woman in the emergency room complaining of stomach pain. He took her complete history, did the exam and vital signs. She seemed fine, with a slight fever, he wrote. "I made a preliminary diagnosis of gastroenteritis and presented it to my doctor."
“My doctor (who is a woman) comes to her and asks her why she went to the emergency room for something so minor. It was because she noticed blood in her stool. The doctor comes out and asks me if I asked how I was evacuating. I did, she said it was okay, and asked specifically about the blood. She comes back and asks the patient why she didn't mention that to me. His response: "I didn't think it was appropriate to tell an inmate." Turns out he had ulcerative colitis, needed a colonoscopy and long-term medical therapy and possibly surgery.
You use Viagra
A doctor wrote about a patient who mentioned that he had not used Viagra while his wife was present, but later admitted it when she was not there. This was important because he was having a heart attack and they were going to use Nitropaste, a skin cream that helps increase blood flow to the heart. But mixing that with Viagra could lead to a sudden drop in blood pressure. The reason for the lie? The patient was not using Viagra with his wife.
"Pro-advice", the doctor wrote: "As you tell the family to go out because you are going to do a rectal exam, ask all the questions that they will not answer honestly."
You drink a lot
Your instinct may be to hide what you've been drinking from your doctor, but telling the truth could be the key to figuring out what's going on with you.
For example, a medical user who works in a hospital wrote: “I had a man who came to the hospital and told me that he had seizures every Tuesday like a clock. This is very, very unusual for someone with a seizure disorder. It wasn't until I asked him about his social history that he told me he was a heavy drinker. I investigated further, and it turns out that he drinks alcohol on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday and breaks. I was having withdrawal seizures. "
You take a lot of prescription drugs
Another professional user mentioned a 45-year-old woman who was admitted to the emergency room complaining of seizures and loss of consciousness. She was a nurse who had previously been prescribed Tramadol, a drug used to treat moderate to severe pain, one that is highly addictive. After pushing her for a while, she finally admitted that she was taking 12 of these pills four to six times a day.
"I had been taking three to four grams of tramadol per day," wrote the medical professional. The woman spent days in the hospital while they tried to adjust her dose. "She lived," wrote the doctor. "I was impressed".
You have a strange bump on your skin
One user wrote about a patient who said she felt perfectly fine, but the expert's instinct was to push her harder on anything that might be bothering her, no matter how small.
She had a "strange lump" on her belly that didn't bother her, but could "get a dermatologist to examine it if it ever needs to be removed." It turned out to be a skin metastasis, which occurs when cancer cells in the body spread to the skin. "If you had to guess your life expectancy it would probably be measured in months," wrote the professional.

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