Diseases You Don’t Know You Have Until It’s Too Late

[@Trudence2]

Stage 3 ovarian cancer survivor here. I went to several doctors, was told I had depression, IBS, constipation, menopause, etc. I was beginning to give up and thought it was all in my head. Finally I couldn't stand it anymore and I went to the ER. When the ER doctor performed the ultrasound and he called another doctor in I knew it was cancer, their faces told me without them saying a word. My first reaction was relief. Someone finally believed me! I had surgery, chemo and numerous blood transfusions, but I'm alive! That was 16 years ago last month. I'm doing well! Don't give up, be the squeaky wheel, be heard!

[@xlr555usa]

Rock On

[@NotesNNotes]

Your first reaction being relief is completely understandable When I got a couple of my diagnosis people were apologetic I was grateful someone finally heard me

[@susiemiller2621]

Rule out a busted MTHFR or DAO gene. Research 'the dirty super 7 genes' to see what resonates. This knowledge empowers you to stay in remission❤

[@natalielombardi-schubert4603]

My cousin had the exact same thing happen to her. I'm thankful that both you and her are survivors

[@grumpus_hominidae]

I don't know you, but I'm glad you're still here!

[@HughJanus-o3e]

For the Hypochondriac in all of us

[@GrizzTurner]

I know. I damn near threw up 1:25 in

[@richardsteffens6159]

Oh god, get it out, GET IT OUT!

[@TheClosetFloor]

Wait!? What!? I think I have this "hypochondriac" you speak of. . . . What is it again? /s

[@marialouise3450]

@@TheClosetFloor ''People with illness anxiety disorder, sometimes known as hypochondria or hypochondriasis, fear that they have a serious medical condition or that they're at high risk of becoming ill. They may also misinterpret typical body functions as signs of illness.''

[@Bacopa68]

Just don't start watching the Chubby Emu channel. I'm not a hypochondriac, but that channel will give you the creeps.

[@bjorsam6979]

On rabies: A few people have survived rabies. The treatment involves inducing a coma and putting the patient on life suppport, buying the immune system time to deal with the virus. People used to call rabies hydrophobia because it *appears* to cause a fear of water. The reason is that the infection causes intense spasms in the throat when a person tries to swallow. Even the thought of swallowing water can cause spasms, making it appear that the individual is afraid of water.

[@benwalter4842]

Rabies is literally the scariest real life viral infection. The fictional zombie virus is actually based on a genetically modified bio weapon version of this virus.

[@rachelann9362]

Some semi-recent studies that has come out fairly recently that suggests there may be a genetic component to the survival rates. Hard to say if it helped those people leave. Most of the people they have tried that protocol have actually lived. I think about maybe 3 or 4 total that ive seen. AnywayThey were doing blood tests in an area that has NO access to rabies vaccines, and will have rabid animals in the area. Some of the people tested had IGM and IGG immune cells to the rabies virus. More testing needs to be done, but it may lead to far better vaccines and maybe even a treatment. How we get the rabies vaccines we have now is helpful, but it’s not going to do anything to someone already stressed out from an infection as our body needs to REACT to the vaccine and then mount a response. If we can flood someone with cells like they started to do with C Panini, treatment may be possible.

[@watamatafoyu]

​@@rachelann9362 This reminds me of the survivors of the black plague, many of them never showed symptoms or recovered well after a battle. This implies they just had natural resistance or immunity.

[@rachelann9362]

@ oh yes! There was a study done on a town in England that had some AMAZING survival rates through multiple black plagues that ravaged through the area. I believe they found some genes that are implicated in a specifically high rates. The town had been absolutely devastated in the 1600s, but they were quarantine CHAMPs, both with each other and from other towns. For over a year, merchants outside would leave supplies distanced far away. Townspeople left money by dropping money in vinegar. Some 75% of that town passed away in that outbreak, but the survival rates for subsequent outbreaks were greatly reduced. They found a gene that is linked to some natural strong immunity to HIV that was also very, very predominant in the town. CCR5-Delta 32. Those in the town that can trace their ancestry to member of the Town at the end of that first big plague had a much higher rate of having the mutation. They don’t know if that gene helped with the plague, but it’s not an unreasonable idea that it may have helped, or another such type of gene mutation helped. Something like sickle cell in African Americans actually provides some protection from Malaria. And I’m sure there’s more. Those genetics unfortunately do make you more prone to auto-immune disease, but such is the way of biology and nature. Interestingly, much of our defenses to viruses were inherited from Neanderthals. They died out as a distinct species at around 40,000years ago, people arrived in the americas around d 33,000 years ago. I’m sure that contributed to the issues that killed off large amounts of indigenous folk with the very early explorers-there was a SHARP decline in population in the Americas around the 1300-1600s, starting in North America. Personally, my theory is on the Vikings that landed on Newfoundland and lived there for some 100 years starting around 1030. Some VERY large cultures collapsed shortly before colonists landed on the east coast, like ones that had massive cities with some million or so people. I believe it was a couple hundred years before. Anyway, the reason I mention that is the population that landed in the Americas that turned into the indigenous peoples had very little to no interbreeding with Neanderthals, unlike Europeans, and it very possibly had to do with how virulent viruses were to them-they weren’t exposed to it before and weren’t able to develop their own type of immunity like the Europeans did with the help of Neanderthal genetics.

[@andrewedis9907]

Emphasis on a "few"

[@coltonmaas]

I didn't know I had existential dread, now it's too late

[@dragontos]

same lol

[@carnitagroves7758]

😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@hanavesela5884]

There is never too late to get new neuroses. 🤗

[@purrito4424]

Life is 100% fatal. Have a happy day!

[@SaiakuNaSenshu]

Was about to say it's time for existential dread

[@lauramanuel7619]

My step dad had a silent heart attack. His Fitbit (or something similar) was catching really weird pulse readings and my mom being a nurse took his EKG (she happened to have one on hand) she rushed him to the ER and then had to fight to get it taken seriously because the heart attack was “silent”. Thankfully mom won out and he got rushed into the cardiac cath lab for a stent. My mom catching those weird readings and then making the doctors take his symptoms seriously saved his life.

[@angelachouinard4581]

It's bad enough when doctors don't listen to lay people but nurses are trained medical professionals!! They get dissed by doctors so often. Glad for your step Dad.

[@Zubstep1315]

had she not been a nurse…

[@Tuti23-yt1vw]

In my hospital we respect nurses and no one dares insult a nurse.

[@angelachouinard4581]

@@Tuti23-yt1vw Very glad you work inn such a good place.

[@Lucky9_9]

@@Tuti23-yt1vwThat's the problem. There is so much disrespect in society now. 😢

[@allisonn9036]

Dental hygienist here. THANK YOU SO MUCH for spreading the word about the oral-systemic link. I appreciate it truly from the bottom of my heart. I am so mind blown how many people do not know about these things and want to help as many people as possible!

[@brianstiles1701]

My best friend Don died of a brain aneurism at the airport. Witnesses said he started having a seizure that lasted a few moments, by the time paramedics arrived he was already gone. The most "alive" person I ever knew was reduced to a vegetative state in seconds. What's interesting is that he was the one who told me what an aneurism was, and he always said that was how he wanted to go. I wish he'd waited longer, 39 was too soon.

[@Roylamx]

Wow, reminds you to be careful what you wish for!

[@rndmbs]

He died doing what he loved

[@MrLightYear95]

my grandpa had a severe brain aneurism about 20 years ago. lucky to be alive but he made a full recovery. Between that and a massive heart attack when he was 48, hes tough to kill.

[@idontwantahandlethough]

@@Roylamx THAT'S the lesson you take from that story?

[@C.dieslevonankwek7]

Had a family friend that was talking to his wife on the phone from his desk at work, this was the 80's so not a cell phone. She said she had a weird headache and she was dizzy, then he heard her hit the floor with no response. Raced home and found her dead, they had a 1 year old baby boy in the highchair that was fine just crying. Never know when it's your time, make your life count and love your people

[@isuckatguitar6252]

A lot of us women do take our symptoms seriously yet medical professionals brush us off as it being normal pain, normal discharge, we're exaggerating etc etc. I've lost a few friends over the years who were not listened to.

[@rachaelgrande3097]

yes! also, there are screening tests available for ovarian cancer, its just hard to get insurance or dr approval unless you have something like lynch syndrome, and if you do, you get approved for yearly transvaginal ultra sounds and blood work like ca125 to look for it.

[@ricdavid]

Honestly I thought he was about to bring that up, then didn't. It's very much a known thing that women need to be a lot more aggressive with taking charge of their own health. I'd say one of the most important thing for women who feel like something's wrong and get told they're fine is to get a second opinion. Or a third one.

[@thebec8853]

God, YES!!!!!

[@rachaelgrande3097]

@@ricdavid also helpful to even have health insurance, something that is truly a luxury.

[@seanlanglois8620]

My girl goes through this type of stuff. When she goes to the Doctor's for issues, complaining about chest pains for a couple of years before they did the actual test to find out oh, her heart wasn't in the right rhythm.

[@OhmIsFutile]

2:55 High blood pressure/hypertension 5:10 Gum disease 7:51 Polycystic Ovary Syndrome (PCOS) 9:20 Ovarian cancer 10:17 Pancreatic and other cancers 11:14 Prostate cancer 11:46 Neurological diseases/Huntington's disease/Alzheimer's 14:18 Aneurysms 16:20 Thrombosis 17:36 Heart attacks 19:14 Rabies 21:32 Prion Diseases 23:23 Screening and other related medical advances

[@KomenJolokia]

Thank you

[@jessicanielsen6134]

God bless you. My anxiety is too high for me to watch the video, but my anxiety is too high to skip the video

[@vanguard9067]

Thank you.

[@technopancake85]

Which one is in the thumbnail?

[@OhmIsFutile]

@@technopancake85 I don't think it's any specific one.

[@sirleebutler]

it’s worth mentioning that one of the reasons that ovarian cancer and other female reproductive diseases and disorders are not caught early is because doctors do not believe women when they report their symptoms, especially pain symptoms, and especially especially if the patient is fat. weight gain is a major symptom of PCOS, so patients are routinely told that their issues are due to weight, rather than that the weight is a result of an underlying issue.

[@mumenRhyder]

The amount of times I've been told to lose weight after complaining about severe pain. I finally got my PCOS diagnosis but im very irritated that doctors, who are supposed to help, give the same advice I get from people online who just want to fat shame me 🙄 fortunately my new obgyn is awesome

[@sirleebutler]

@@mumenRhyder i’m so glad you’ve got a better doctor now! and training and trends are changing with regards to doctor attitudes, but not fast enough.

[@trumpetmom8924]

My PCOS symptoms got so much better when I lost weight, but I recently put it all back on due to stress. What bugs me about it is that uninformed doctors will tell you that you don’t have PCOS because you don’t have cysts. But it’s not only cysts that make for the diagnosis. If you have 3 of the other symptoms, especially high testosterone levels snd irregular periods, you should be diagnosed even without cysts. I have had several ultrasounds for cysts over the years which found none. It wasn’t until my husband and I were trying to get pregnant for the first time (17 years ago now) that I saw a reproductive endocrinologist, who confirmed that I do have PCOS, despite never having cysts. He said it’s a bad name for the condition.

[@habanniro]

i've personally been able to get my PCOS mostly under control without meds (all the pills and pads i tried made me really sick) by losing weight HOWEVER i do hate that drs tell every patient to just lose weight like they always assume that's the issue , and it might very well be, but if it's not? losing weight is a difficult loooong task, if your condition wasn't indeed caused by overweight but something else, you can die while trying to lose it. I used to joke with my mom that one of these days i was gonna die of cancer because the dr refused to test and screen me for anything past "lose weight"

[@chloepekel]

Went to a gyno about my periods and other issues. Said I just had a heavy flow. About 3 years later I find out these were all signs of cervical cancer. Im lucky though and will be fine after surgery.

[@RoryMcC42]

Despite having a family history of prostate cancer (Dad, Brother), I still had to push my doctor to agree to a PSA test. I don't understand why they were so hesitant to do a simple blood test. My PSA levels came back high, leading to a biopsy and ultimately the removal of my prostate. So please, please insist on getting it done. If I had listened to my doctor and waited any longer, I wouldn't be here to share this with you-that’s how close it came. Thank you, Joe, for shedding light on this important issue.

[@DisposableSupervillainHenchman]

No prostate? That’s rough. Doesn’t that kill your ability to get an erection?

[@RoryMcC42]

​@@DisposableSupervillainHenchmanIf it is caught late and because of where the prostate is, some nerves may need to be cut to ensure they get all the affected tissue, it could affect the ability to have an erection. However, there are procedures available to repair the nerves afterward. This is why early detection through a blood test is so important-it can help prevent these complications.

[@JRCP144]

​@@DisposableSupervillainHenchman You can still use ED medications if your prostate is missing or damaged.

[@DisposableSupervillainHenchman]

@@RoryMcC42 Good to know. I hope there’s more breakthroughs in the future with treatment. Like targeted gene therapies or something. Hope you’re still bangin’ away my friend!

[@henriettewisti7728]

Good for you for self advocating - way too many men would just gaslight themselves and brush it off, and that can be fatal. Its vital we normalize men seeking help and taking their health seriously. Im glad you were able to get the help you needed.

[@superhitpix5955]

If you are poor, like myself, maybe you too have experienced this; once I lost insurance through my work and began receiving government insurance - I suddenly was a lot healthier in my doctor's eyes.

[@senismarsenis9678]

Hehe, good one

[@RexXer-is-here]

🤣🤣..

[@saundraschaefer]

Yup.

[@johnunderwood9575]

Funny how that happens, right? (I'm sure it's just a coincidence...). Perhaps its a blessing in disguise, as Doctors in our current healthcare system, are the leading cause of death.....

[@superhitpix5955]

@johnunderwood9575 Statistically, living is the leading cause of death

[@kurtlindner]

Catherine was at least fortunate to be able to pull over, often just moments after an aneurysm you're just gone, thankfully the kids weren't taken as well.

[@adarmus4768]

This happened to a mate of mine. His car swerved off the road into a church.

[@SaintPhoenixx]

@@adarmus4768 Not an aneurysm but my dads boss once had a stroke while driving a Porsche down the M1 in the UK. Luckily it was at 2am so the road was quiet, it was called in by someone driving past who noticed a car parked against the central barrier. Ambulance turns up, takes him to hospital, he survived with no injuries. They figure he must have just gently coasted to a stop against the barrier. The only side effect was a slight slur when he spoke but he was back at work shortly after.

[@CapriciousKitty]

​@@adarmus4768Dude got a sign from God 😭

[@Coyoteonthemoon]

​@@SaintPhoenixxAmazing he kept lucid enough to stop the car. Someone or something had his back and said it wasn't his time.

[@troy3423]

@@SaintPhoenixx He's lucky in many ways. It sounds like his stroke wasn't that bad. A lot of people who have a stroke need to be in hospital for quite some time

[@benjamoskardi]

I suffered a cerebral aneurysm almost 4 years ago...I am so lucky to be alive... the rupture knocked out my vision completely and caused my legs to not work... it was terrifying...I drove myself to the hospital during the hemmoragic stroke... my vision and legs had come back by then...I think from propping myself up against the bed and giving the blood an opportunity to drain out of my head... it was bad... The treatment for a ruptured aneurysm is amazing... they pack the vessel with platinum wire! No kidding... it's amazing... The aneurysm is one of the best things to ever happen to me... my appreciation for life is real and profound... Thanks for all you do Joe!

[@JF-cn3cz]

I had to nurse my friend back from his aneurysm And now it's his turn to repay the favor. Doc said I have one and I have to go under the needle here shortly

[@jonathanyun7817]

Thank you for sticking around and congrats on getting through🙏 y'all show those aneurisms who's boss 💪

[@benjamoskardi]

@JF-cn3cz you'll be fine... if they treat you before there is a rupture the recovery should be not bad..

[@spuriousgeorge7233]

Congratulations on making it through, that sounds like a terrifying experience to have

[@BeGioBijoux]

My father lost his first wife to an aneurism, before he even met my mom. I’m 40 now. Looking back, she was lucky not to witness who he truly was.

[@raven782069]

Im a woman in the USA, and alot of my doctors dont take my symptoms seriously, i have shortness of breath when walking short distances. Im tired all the time. And yet kn9w one listens to me I'm 44. Im scared ill die before i find out why. My heart also has irregular heartbeats.

[@StelleenBlack]

Have your hormones checked. I started perimenopause at 44. I have been on HRT for a year, but I had similar symptoms. Good luck. ❤

[@jelly.212]

Whoa 😮 get it checked out immediately. Find a good doc.

[@marthadopkowski8311]

Have your thyroid checked. Your symptoms sound like low thyroid (which can also cause weight gain.) REALLY suspect it if you have also developed brittle hair and nails.

[@kasa9884]

See your primary care doctor about a thyroid panel blood work and your gynecologist about your reproductive hormone levels. See an electrophysiology specialized cardiologist about your irregular heartbeat, get a full work up including a Holter monitor, EKG, cardiac ultrasound, stress test, and ask about dysautonomia conditions, particularly Inappropriate Sinus Tachycardia, and Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome. Best wishes!

[@JessicaWarner77]

Get your blood tested to see where your potassium and magnesium levels are at.

[@TheVirtualFashionista]

Woof, that one hit a little close to home. In early 2021, I ended up in the emergency room because the left side of my face suddenly went numb. I was told it was just Bell's Palsy, and would clear up in a week or two. Nope. Two weeks later, the left side of my face still numb, I went back to the ER. This tie, they decided to do a CT scan... and they found a tumour behind my left ear. It's the size of a chicken egg, and it's literally wrapped around my vagus nerve and carotid artery. They won't even biopsy it because it's in such a terrible location that they're afraid that even the smallest nick could cause me to bleed out and die. But, that's where it gets weird. Several years of regular CT scans later, there's no sign of any growth. The tumour isn't getting any larger. It isn't moving around. Texture/density isn't changing. It's just... sitting there. Existing. Inside me. That's when my specialists told me that it's (probably) benign, and has (probably) been there my entire life. Just... there. Inside my head. And I had no idea. Even weirder, while they've labelled it as a vagal schwannoma, there's a chance that it might actually be a teratoma - that is, a tumour composed of like... random other body parts, like hair and teeth and fingernails. Teratomas are rare, but they do tend to be hereditary, and my grandmother was found to have one when she had surgery later in life, so... could be that. I still haven't really come to terms with it. Just knowing it's there freaks me out. But there's nothing I can do about it, so I just have to... live with it. I named her Caryn, because she's absolutely NOT cancerous, but she is a bit of a pain in the neck. *drum-snare*

[@xyz7572]

Teratomas are freaky as heck! There are different types, as well. If it’s been there all your life and isn’t growing at all, it could also be a fetus-in-fetu. That’s when the teratoma was in fact created while you were still inside your mom, because it was going to be your twin, but you accidentally enveloped it so now it’s been inside you as a mini-fetus-tumour ever since. I know there was a young boy who got brain surgery to remove a tumour, and when they opened it up, a tiny mini-hand fell out 😅 So, Caryn might actually be worthy of a name of her own lol. In some states in the US you probably wouldn’t even be allowed to get surgery to remove her 😂

[@tcf_iceland]

You should just blame everything on Caryn! If you forget something - Caryn lost the memo, if you're in a bad mood - it's because Caryn was being nasty or mean, if you are anxious or self-concious - Caryn AGAIN!! 🙄 That bat is always whispering something in your ear, telling you that your hair looks bad or you are not good enough. Because you are a wonderful person (I assume, even if I don't know you) but we all have self doubts and it can actually help to deal with mental health in this way. For the rest of us we have to imagine a Caryn, yours is right there 😁❤

[@TomMorrison-cc6xw]

Sigh. Having a right frontal cortex biopsy on Friday. Should probably not have watched this.

[@KDeanie]

You had facial paralysis and they didn’t immediately give you a scan?!?!!? I went to the ER with facial paralysis and they labeled me a stroke alert (a healthy 29 year old with no slurring and totally lucid at the time, like basically no signs of anything wrong except the droopy face). Seems crazy to me for an ER to overlook that!

[@syntheticjesso]

Lol, I named my thyroid Raphael before having it removed entirely. After the ninja turtle. Because it was a mutant, and very rude with how it kept choking me. I got the surgeon to take a picture after removing it, and Raphael was GNARLY. I don't miss him.

[@ZaharaV999-tl1er]

Thanks for making the thumbnail consist of nearly every symptom I've had over the past few months that I've been stressing over. Really appreciate it.

[@jenerin905]

There's always time to make a change! I have an autoimmune disease and I almost died about 5 times in my early to mid-20's (pretty sure in a different timeline, I actually did!). I had everything medically from sepsis (which is an unbelievably scary and fast thing that sometimes comes on out of nowhere), a DVT in my arm, a tear in the wall of my small intestine, to allergic reactions to medications. I was in so much pain that I made peace then with the thought of dying. It's okay. Luckily, I recovered and I'm much healthier and I have a beautiful family. As I get older, more illnesses/symptoms creep up, but we deal with them and make sure we let those we love how special they are. That's what all this crazy world is about anyway. Everyone is going thru something, so let's make sure we share our love, compassion, and kindness.

[@mattgilbert7347]

Yeh now I'm absolutely fkin terrified in a cold sweat

[@barongerhardt]

@@jenerin905 I had the same fun in my early 20s then got revised hard in my early 30s. My adulthood has been defined by planning for and waiting for the next thing that will knock me out of the workforce for months to a year. The blessing of such experience is intimate knowledge of how to navigate the medical system for my loved ones.

[@ZaharaV999-tl1er]

​@@jenerin905 Damn, you are an absolute BOSS.

[@nosir5596]

I skimmed the video and didn't even see the image from the thumbnail pop up, does he even cover what that diagram was symptoms of?

[@emmalou191]

i had a friend in year 6 of primary school, so we were about 9/10 years old, who had a brain aneurysm whilst playing football at the park afterschool. Ever since ive been terrified of that happening to me. He was so happy playing football with his mates and then suddenly dropped to the floor. its absolutely terrifying how life can be taken from you so quickly and witnessing that really made me appreciate being alive, which is a pretty deep thought for a 10 yr old to be having 😭 RIP petro

[@chickensalad3535]

Was this in Virginia?

[@chrisdardis4794]

I didn't have high blood pressure till I watched this video. Thanks Joe.

[@Please_Dont_Call_It_Frisco]

I find that I sync with Joe's most terrifying videos far to often to sleep well at night. Yet, I find myself surprised that it's happened once again. My own vanity almost killed me last week. I have been getting Botox and dermal fillers since I was 40. Fillers in particular are quite painful and leave swelling and bruising. Last week, I found myself looking at a strange mottled bruise in my temple after the procedure. I almost sucked it up but looked it up for peace of mind. My mind was not eased as I read about what had occurred. Vascular occlusion in my temporal artery. Thank goodness for hyaluronidase, which dissolves filler and saved me from rotting skin/muscle, and possible blindness and/or a fatal blood clot. Shudder.

[@johnshite4656]

@@Please_Dont_Call_It_Frisco I can't even understand Botox. Was it necessary, or was it cosmetic? I think women who do that tend to ruin their bodies, I just don't get it. So ironic. What was appealing about it?

[@Please_Dont_Call_It_Frisco]

@@johnshite4656 the desire to be attractive is buried deep in our genetics, filed under “procreation of the species”. The problem wasn't with Botox, which is injected as a thin liquid. The problem was the dermal filler, which is thick, thus the arterial occlusion risk. I'm trying not to be offended by the "women who do that..." comment. A huge portion of Botox and dermal filler patients are men. 🙂 There is little correlation between Botox and plastic surgery. One is a 5 minute procedure and the other is surgery, most often involving general anesthesia with significant recovery time. The appeal is what you would think. It smooths wrinkles and leaves a person looking younger. Why do people use makeup or hair styling products, buy fashionable clothes or book first class airline tickets? These things make you feel good for whatever reason. I've seen people go too far with Botox and filler, but they are both temporary and if the person is doing it for themselves, and have realistic expectations, I don't think it's terrible. Some people are trying to fight the clock, and they will never win or be happy. Aging gracefully is subjective. 😁

[@mikacakes]

My father was diagnosed stage 4 terminal last week, we are still reeling. He has subungual (under the nail) melanoma which is very rare but shockingly awful. It shows zero symptoms from stage 1 to 3, often people have a dark mark on their nail but he did not have any obvious marking at all. It burrows it's way down slowly over a period of 10 or more years and the second it hits a vein it races into your lymphatic system and spreads to everything within weeks. By the time you show symptoms it is too late and you have less than 6 months to live. It's absolutely terrifying to know that you can have active cancer for years and show zero signs right up until the point where it is killing you.

[@projectrobot8159]

❤

[@anniealexander9911]

❤ my father was diagnosed, and died, with metastatic melanoma in one month. The original melanoma grew under the skin so was not visible. Looking back the 1st symptom was personality changes. His doctor said he was just depressed and sent him home with no follow up. He then was in phone with his GP while having what looked like a stroke. The melanoma had spread to his brain and was causing brain bleeds. He was paralysed down his right hand side and couldn't talk properly. His last 2 weeks he was showing severe dementia and then lost consciousness. His melanoma will be due to the decade he spent in the merchant navy 50 years before where he would run out of sunscreen and get sunburned. It was a major shock. For him, if it was going to happen, I'm glad it was fast, but the way it all went down was brutal. If I can give one piece of advice to anyone with a family member who gets a stage 4 diagnosis, especially via admission to an emergency dept, is to really keep on the medical team. We found our dad was not being checked on because he was immobile and quiet, then mute, so he was becoming dehydrated, he lost a lot of weight in just 2 weeks. We spoke to the head nurse and had him added to the change over in staff meeting to ensure that each new shift knew about his status. If need be go to your MP/local representatives as they can pick up the phone and speak to the top bods. Good luck

[@gidyspy]

wishing all the best to you and your dad.

[@tricorvus2673]

High blood pressure here. Debilitating headaches for months. Crying pain. Had to go home from work. Finally went to urgent care. Where they practically yelled at me to get to the Emergency Room. I missed having a stroke by inches. I’m 60. So yeah. Missed a month at work while we tweaked my brand new meds. But I’m alive.

[@frostflower5555]

How long did you have high blood pressure till you got the headaches?

[@paulman1970]

"You can do all the right things, but there's still a host of things that can go wrong in the human body." Indeed.

[@daynawhitehead7611]

Genes vs uncle Gene

[@jenerin905]

And this is why we all need to make sure we live life to what each of us deams "the fullest". Tomorrow isn't guaranteed, which is why life is truly precious. ❤

[@sportbikeguy9875]

The problem is, who decides what "everything right" is.... Lots of evidence lately to suggest ultra low carb, meat based diets are fixing peoples life long illnesses. And even more evidence showing how all the old studies saying meat causes cancer and high cholesterol is bad were funded by the grain industry

[@elvisneedsboatsbennett2455]

I am a woman with PCOS and I had to have a hysterectomy because of endometriosis. My doctor found cysts the size of nickels and my doctor just said don't worry about the cysts until they ruptured. He did not rest it in any way until the endometriosis caused me to go to the hospital from blood loss. Then the hysterectomy had to be done. It is not taken seriously. My 25 year old daughter also has PCOS and her doctor only prescribed birth control pills. Her father has an aneurysm and luckily his mother found him collapsed on the floor of his home. He was in a coma for weeks, but luckily survived. My grandmother died from ovarian cancer. My cousin had a heart attack while she was in her forties. They don't spot heart attacks in women often enough because the symptoms are different from men and only men have been studied for EVERYTHING. My other grandmother had colon cancer while also suffering from frontal lobe dementia.

[@conlon4332]

I just watched a video about fertility and it talked a lot about both PCOS and Endometriosis. Apparently birth control pills can actually be good treatments for both of them. The other main treatment for PCOS is actually fertility pills, the ones that make you ovulate more, as the cause of PCOS is not developing a follicle that both grows an egg and also produces estrogen and progesterone, and then the ovaries start making testosterone instead. If you make a normal follicle that solves it, or just replacing the hormones. I guess the best treatment depends on whether you want to get pregnant or not. Endometriosis is treated by preventing ovulation, which can be done with birth control pills or other medications. KZbin doesn't like links, but the video is called "The Pregnancy Doctor: Pregnancy Is Halved Every Year After Age 32! If You Want 2+ Children, DO THIS!" and it's by the channel The Diary Of A CEO. If you don't understand anything I just said, I probably didn't explain it very well, I highly recommend watching the video or at least skipping to the relevant parts, it explained PCOS better than I've ever heard and several people in the comments said it explained it better than their doctor ever had. She said that if you have either of these conditions you should seek fertility advice as soon as you decide you want to get pregnant, rather than trying first, so that's something you should tell your daughter I guess.

[@50Theonion]

7 yrs ago I was diagnosed with a brain aneurysm and I've never been the same after having a stent put in my brain. It was only caught because after 8 days with an odd, somewhat dull headache (not like the migraines I suffered from) and my Dad finally convinced me to go to the hospital. The Drs were so very skeptical until my Dad mentioned how both my mother and grandmother died of aneurysms before the age of 50. Only then did I get a cat scan and sure enough...my life changed forever

[@72802]

8 days?? God I’m so happy that you survived through this. I hope the best in your life.

[@lostcuz-bj5gb]

How are you not the same?

[@Ppppuppypower]

Hey Joe! I ended up with diabetes, which I knew since I was 8. At 27 I found out I have heart disease. And just last week at 44, I learned I now have lung disease (never smoked or drank in my entire life)! Can't wait till I find out what's next!

[@karlsokalski4234]

After a certain age (too bad it happened so young for you) every trip to the doctor is the chance to find out there's another thing you never heard of that can kill you.

[@Ppppuppypower]

@karlsokalski4234 which for me is 2 to 4 times a month. And people wonder why I'm anxious all the time. lol.

[@barongerhardt]

@@Ppppuppypower That stress could lead to more problems. So worry about that and not those other things. /s

[@Ppppuppypower]

@barongerhardt lolol. Wise words from the KZbin comment section! Much appreciate the change of perspective... lolol.

[@HeatherWP]

Stay healthy my friend. Do your best to take care of yourself. I know all to well how it is to be dealt a bad hand.

[@knpark2025]

Remember House M.D.? Remember how Greg House got pissed whenever his patients didn't tell all of their family's medical history? This is why. My mom has a piece of platinum in her brain because her sister had a brain hemorrhage (which she survived and recovered from, thankfully), and she wondered if she had something similar in her brain. A test showed she did have one; hence the piece of platinum in her brain to stop a potential medical emergency. Family history matters. It may be a matter of life and limb.

[@trashcatlinol]

Trying to get this yhrough to the oldest family members who insist that's all private, and even rhe doctor isn't allowed to is a herculean feat. I got diagnosed with arthritis at 32. I was chewed out royally for suggesting my aunt get checked for it because she was having the same wired symptoms I was having since high-school. Excuse me, but if I can prevent anyone getting to the point I did before I finally got diagnosed, I will. I would only wish that pain on my worst enemies.

[@space.tel-e-grams]

it's always lupus

[@astererratum6546]

Unfortunately, my family history is unknown. I was adopted when I was born and my family history is pretty much a mystery.

[@treehuggingbuddhist]

or not.

[@bugjams]

People who were adopted: Guess I'll die!

[@hamishm9213]

My sister has PCOS, it's managed now but before they found it one of the cycts got to the size of her fist. They told her she was overreacting, the ultrasound showed nothing, it took explority surgery to find.

[@SnapshotOfASoul]

My mother had a brain aneurysm, she got surgery to get it clipped (they sort of just cut off bloodflow to it, I think?) and after the surgery her entire personality changed. She went from a normal, but depressed mother figure to someone with violent rages who tried multiple times to do things like get into accidents, throw me down the stairs, and she even parked once and made me take all of my money out of my bank account in front of her car, with the explicit threat of running me over. She'd disappear for a week or two and come back, having gone to Vegas or other American destinations. She would rage and scream at all hours, would threaten us, and would fly into rages at the slightest provocation for YEARS. It was horrible. She never got help, because nobody would admit that the surgery changed her. Nothing's helped but time. She's now just angry in a less energetic way, as she's older now. It's a coin toss to see if she'll fly into a screaming fit or not over something as simple as saying the wrong thing. She also used to get horrible dizzy spells that were disabling and never solved. They just stopped happening at complete random. We think her surgery went wrong, but we have no way to prove it other than these anecdotes. I know it's horrible to say, but sometimes there's more risk in having had discovered the aneurysm than just having an end come naturally. I would have lost someone I actually loved, not a monster in her skin.

[@nettewilson5926]

That was so unfortunate: yes, her “cure” was worse than just dying outright. What a horrible fate for herself and you.

[@SatumainenOlento]

😱😱😱 Oh, this is horrible!

[@thetruth1862]

I am so sorry to hear this

[@JarthenGreenmeadow]

"We think her surgery went wrong" I mean they cut off the blood flow to part of her brain. Did you think there would be no side effects? "I would have lost someone I actually loved, not a monster in her skin." She's a human. Who cares about the rage? "there's more risk in having had discovered the aneurysm than just having an end come naturally" The only monster here is you tbh. You'd rather have her die simply because you dont like her new emotional states? Shame on you. Thinking about yourself when it is your mother who truly suffers.

[@MystaGiggles]

@@JarthenGreenmeadowIf it’s true her own mother tried to kill her and threaten her, how is she supposed to feel? Is she simply supposed to ignore and forget that happened? Yes, the mom’s human but so is her daughter whom she attempted to harm. Aside from that, who tf are you to tell someone how they should and shouldn’t feel. Her and her mother are the ones who went thru it, not you. Get your self righteous ass on.

[@StrongMed]

Joe, I love your videos, but as a physician who strongly believes in evidence-based medicine, there are some misconceptions here. First, the links between gum disease and the illnesses you've mentioned are an association, not causation (though worthy of more research). Second, most laypersons and even some doctors find this hard to believe, but there is shockingly limited evidence that cancer screening prevents death. For example, there is not good evidence that screening the general population with PSA testing or colonoscopies improve overall mortality - though they are more likely to do so if screening is used in a more targeted fashion (e.g. PSA testing in black men, colonoscopy screening in people with family history of colon cancer). Interestingly, the evidence for screening sigmoidoscopies is better than colonoscopies, despite colonoscopies viewing more of the colon.

[@tinycatfriend]

thank you for saying this! i like joe's videos, but i spot these mistakes from him quite often. i'm not even in the medical field, just a zebra patient who loves to learn things.

[@trumpetmom8924]

Yes. But I will give my anecdote: my dad had elevated PSAs for a while and this past January for reasons I don’t remember, his doctor had him get an ultrasound (it may have been to examine his prostate, but I’m not certain). That ultrasound didn’t find prostate cancer, fortunately, but it DID find a kidney tumor. He had the kidney removed in April and it was cancerous; thankfully it hadn’t spread. So now, other than continued monitoring at regular check-ups, my dad is currently cancer-free. Because his doctor looked deeper into his elevated PSA results.

[@StrongMed]

@@trumpetmom8924 Obviously I don't know anything about your dad's medical history, and I'm glad that he is well. But his ultrasound was almost certainly ordered for a different reason. There is no reason to order an ultrasound of the kidneys (or full abdominal ultrasound, as may have been the case) as part of the work-up of an elevated PSA. They are two unrelated issues.

[@ndawn90]

To be fair, he did say it's a "Canary in the coal mine," which is true even with an association. And just because something hasn't been yet proven to be causative doesn't mean it's not causative. He also did say that he wasn't a doctor and just got this information from what is publicly available, and as you well know many studies are locked behind a paywall or firewall where the public can't read or access them. And this channel is targeted towards the average person, not only people with advanced degrees. The point of the gum disease segment for a layperson is to take care of their oral health, which is a good thing to do! Even if gum disease isn't causative of cancer, it's still a good thing for people to brush and floss. This is the problem with being so strongly "evidence-based medicine" only all of the time - you tend to miss the forest for the trees. Is there any evidence that crystals have any healing benefits whatsoever? No, there isn't. But if you have a patient who has anxiety, and holding a crystal helps them calm down enough to go to their doctor, or enough to lower their blood pressure, *THAT'S A GOOD THING*!! If hearing that gum disease is related to cancer is enough to get someone to take their oral hygiene more seriously, *THAT'S A GOOD THING TOO*!!! Even the placebo effect actually works, and for the people who see that benefit it doesn't really matter where that benefit actually came from. Statistics mean nothing to the individual. The, "Well Ackthually..." for the layperson is usually just confusing and discouraging, not helpful in any way.

[@sewwes8129]

He said he wasnt a doctor....and this is all still good info to know...im motivated to floss more...and one other person just commented if he didnt push his doctor for psa testing (doctor didnt want to even though they do have family history) he wouldnt have been alive today. And early ovarian and breast cancer screen does infact save lives..

[@lukag3155]

If you read book "23 Former Doctor Truths" you will exactly know what is he talking about here. Modern industry is killing us quietly.

[@altrag]

Haven't read the book, but it's website has some serious flat earther vibes. "Taken down from Amazon because _they_ don't want you to know!" type shit. Good luck to anyone who decides to spend money on it.

[@JonMartinYXD]

@@altrag The fact that a 11 hour (as I write this) comment has nearly four thousand likes yet only two (about to be three) comments screams bot promotion to me. Doing a search for the book brings up the same cookie-cutter comments again and again "nobody talks about this book" (really? I find _many_ people talking about it), "rabbit hole of industry lies", "whatever the FDA says, I try to avoid it", etc. It is clearly being pumped by a significant faux-grassroots marketing campaign. What little I have seen about what the book actually says is not good. Dangerous health misinformation and we already have too much of that. So yeah, everyone keep your critical thinking caps on, do not buy the scam book, and be wary of the misinformation that is going to be spread by the suckers who did buy the book.

[@royaldarkness8453]

Not sure if that book is legit or not. Not help when this look like chain bots comment here I noticed in other video

[@JonMartinYXD]

@TwelveLetter956 Bot that is somehow suppressing comments. The book is dangerous health misinformation and my reply pointing out the red flags doesn't show up.

[@JonMartinYXD]

@@royaldarkness8453 It's not legit. It is a scam being pumped by bots upvoting it and somehow torpedoing comments against it.

[@planescaped]

My mother slipped and smashed a pot with her orbital bone while going outside at 3am to put nuts out for squirrels about 6 years ago. Woke me up at 3am telling me I had to drive her to the hospital while bleeding heavily from her eye, that was fun... Damage was superficial, but the scan to see if she broke a bone in her eyesocket found she had an aneurysm in her brain that would have killed her. So that pot saved her life, lol.

[@formaldehyde420]

Amen to that flower pot 😭😭

[@idontwantahandlethough]

What a considerate flower pot!

[@StefinSeattle1]

What did the doctors do for her? My mom was diagnosed with an aneurysm several years ago while being scanned for something else and she was told that it probably wouldn’t kill her and that was it. 😕

[@annaandre9131]

​@@StefinSeattle1My father gets tested every year to measure the size of the aneurysm. As long as it doesn't get larger, he has to keep his blood pressure low and his salt intake minimum. In case it gets larger (over a specific limit) he will need surgery.

[@starseedlightworker6539]

Squirrels also saved her life =)

[@skittlemuffin]

This came out just as I was about to go to bed. Nothing better than the good ol existential dread right before you sleep.

[@jessicamarino7448]

Same. Sweet dreams to us both!

[@_Anim0sity_]

same have a good night

[@melanezoe]

Exactly why when this popped up, I didn’t watch it. Enough trouble sleeping as it is. Saved it for sunshine time.

[@stilnaughttelling6587]

Was sleepiness a symptom of any of the diseases?

[@absinthealice]

Works every time. 😂

[@SuperChaoticus]

Pacreatic cancer is the worst. I took care of my grandmother as she faded from it. If I end up with it, and it's too late, I will not allow myself to go through what she did. Things will end on my terms.

[@fmleverynameistakenx]

as a doctor, thank you so much for bringing awareness to the silent killer, hypertension. people are scared of cancer or neurodegenerative diseases, but often don‘t take their high blood pressure as seriously, especially when they have no symptoms. i have seen countless patients after a stroke or heart attack. they are often surprised about the situation and proclaim that they never had any health issues and never took any medication. meanwhile i see that they have had a diagnosis of hypertension for years or even decades - they just didn‘t register it as a disease or something they should take medication for. of course us health professionals are to blame for not educating these patients in the first place, but media figures like you spreading awareness goes a long way, so thank you for that.

[@HeatherWP]

I have a neuro degenerative disease. I’ve got low blood pressure and tachycardia. These were the first signs of what was wrong. For over a decade these symptoms were ignored. Ignored because the medical world is so focused on high blood pressure that they seem to believe low blood pressure is a great thing. Regardless of symptoms. Both should be addressed equally.

[@CeeMartinezSaysHi]

Anytime I have a slight pain in my calf I'm certain it's a blood clot springing free to end me 🥺

[@skfr1992]

Same omg

[@alyshamcalpine2238]

you and me both omg 😩

[@LightBlueVans]

omg me too. kinda always paranoid about an aneurysm too. i know that’ll get me one day (yes it is irrational…. or is it?!) ETA OH GOD i posted this comment before i got through the intro oh god

[@tommysaraullo1992]

Why can't I put a message on the main page... I can only respond to direct messages.. like your's....

[@jo-vf8jx]

I’ve got two blood clots in my upper arm. I didn’t know I had them until my whole arm swelled up. Swelling is what will alert you first if you do have a blood clot. but I do have the constant worry that they will break free and cause heart attack. I am on blood thinners and I just turned 42.

[@krystalreverb]

I was diagnosed with PCOS after collapsing in Logan Airport in Boston while dropping a friend off to fly home. I collapsed in the terminal and was transported by ambulance to Mass General, where a nurse I will never forget in all my life shouted down a doctor to get me into the ultrasound room. Apparently my ovaries were so riddled with cysts she was baffled to understand how I didn’t end up in the ER sooner. I had to explain that period pain was normal in my family and nobody thought anything of it before. I was put on hormonal birth control immediately and the cysts stopped bursting every week and a half but it left me with long-lasting fertility issues and I likely wont ever be able to have my own children after all the damage and hormonal mess. My partner and I have been together for 15+ years and we already decided we didn’t need children to be happy, but now I’m scared of cancer.

[@marionapina]

I know this is no one’s place to talk or suggest, but if you’re comfortable with the idea, you could look into getting a hysterectomy- I wish you all the best ❤

[@JennaGetsCreative]

All of these vague symptoms "that you might want to pay attention to" are things that women go to the doctor for all the time and are dismissed.

[@LonelyCinderella123]

Women... always the victim. Sorry, but this happens to men as well.

[@doeteeth]

​@@LonelyCinderella123 what a weird thing to say in public.

[@TheHuntermj]

It's because all of the vague symptoms usually mean nothing unless in conjuction with significant risk factors. If the doctor treated every vague symptom with medication it would do more harm than good.

[@JennaGetsCreative]

@@LonelyCinderella123 Women die on hospital floors screaming in agony with ruptured ovaries and ovarian torsion as the nurses call them drug seakers and dismiss concerns as "just period cramps."

[@JennaGetsCreative]

@@TheHuntermj They are vague, yes, but also up until shockingly recently medical studies were never done on women so the vaguer symptoms that are more common in women aren't recognized for what they are.

[@ZhovtoBlakytniy]

My aunt just passed away in September from a two year battle with a bunch of cancers at once. She had lung, bone, breast, ovarian and stomach cancer. They replaced some bones in her legs with rods. They told her she might not make it till this Christmas, but she caught pneumonia and that took her a few days later. My uncle took her anywhere she wanted to go in her last weeks, so I'm glad she got to have some relatively nice times with her family in the end.

[@absinthealice]

My condolences to you and your family. I'm glad she was surrounded by people who love her and spent time doing fun things with her. ❤️‍🩹🫂🕊

[@stefanvernica]

took me nearly 11 years to get diagnosed with PCOS, finally had a good doctor to order one extra test and i got a diagnosis. always be your own advocate

[@Riomojo]

I was asserted that I have 5 months to live from Esophageal Cancer although I do not believe so. Either way you will truly forever be my favorite KZbin creator

[@PrimateProductions]

I'm so sorry to hear that.

[@lizziebjl]

I had a friend that succumbed to this disease. I’m so sorry. ❤

[@RedboneUnincorporated]

I'm so sorry. I hope they are wrong.

[@Gengh13]

Extended fasting, Dr. Thomas Seyfried, anti-parasitics, apricot seeds are some things you might want to research if you are motivated to stay.

[@PinataOblongata]

@@Gengh13 Yeah, if they want to waste their dwindling time on nonsense.

[@PsRohrbaugh]

Before you want to get your whole body scanned and tested - know that false positives are a thing, not to mention ambiguous results which might require more invasive testing like biopsies (which comes with their own risks). So don't freak out and trust your doctor.

[@sirleebutler]

and with prostate cancer, treatment is often worse than doing nothing. we’re slowly learning that our detection mechanism is too good, and we aggressively treated a lot of cancer in older men where if we hadn’t treated, the men would have had better quality of life before something else ultimately killed them.

[@TheMightyZwom]

I once read the average healthy person has about 300 non-cancerous tumors in their body. Checking all of them would be a nightmare, a waste of resources and probably riskier than doing nothing. So... Get checked up, but don't overdo it unless necessary.

[@melissastory1993]

But don’t trust your doctors so much that you don’t seek a second opinion when things don’t seem right. I’ve been through 6 doctors to get a diagnosis for a condition that to everyone who knows about it is sooo obvious, and I have family history of. The last doctor told me she was referring me to someone, but she wasn’t sure if it was the right person, but I don’t even know if it is because it’s been 2 years and I still haven’t got an update. One doctor told me “There isn’t a cure, so you don’t need a diagnosis”

[@PsRohrbaugh]

@@sirleebutler Yes, I remember reading "most people die WITH prostate cancer, not FROM prostate cancer". I don't remember the exact age, but they're really only concerned if you have it before say, 65.

[@gabrielsfilms2086]

dont trust your doctor, those assholes suck at their job

[@saundraschaefer]

I've had chest pains that feel like heart attacks since my teens. Got written off until this year (almost in my 40s) because I finally found a dr. who took me seriously. Turns out I have tachycardia and my resting heart rate has been jumping into the 140 range randomly. The rhythm is also slightly off, but only at random times... Would have been nice to know, and treat, for the last few decades! Being a woman patient sure is marvelous.

[@sfidler5101]

I have Tachycardia too after my last spinal operation. They put me on Diltazium 180mg. Has helped.

[@Afrose-u4v]

SURE RIGHT OH LORD 😢😢😢😢😢

[@CraftnMomma]

There is a 60 minutes I think (something along those lines) about a girl who did survive Rabies. She got it from a brown bat. I think she is the only official case of survival where she wasn’t treated immediately and was already very symptomatic and on the edge of death well before she was even diagnosed.

[@vincebrazier8160]

Came here to say this.

[@vincebrazier8160]

I heard it on Mr. Ballen's Medical Mysteries.

[@delicateghoul]

The reason she survived is her medical team induced a coma, a sort of "nuclear option" to prevent rabies from destroying the brain by manually taking it offline until the disease dies off in the body. There's been a few other cases where rabies patients were put in a coma and didn't survive, so she's still a bit of a medical mystery Edit: while she did survive she suffered neurological damage and had to relearn how to walk and talk

[@Bob_Does_Stuff1]

True. If I'm not mistaken, there were about 20 people who survived Rabies after symptoms appeared. It's still extremely rare, and the survivors are never in good shape after that.

[@GilraenTook]

@@Bob_Does_Stuff1 Ooh, your estimate is way higher than the 6-8 I'd heard. Definitely never in good shape after, though :( A lady in my home county in Florida died of it recently because she couldn't afford the vaccine after being bitten by a bat. We've had signs up since saying to avoid wild animals and to get vaccinated if you're bitten by one, though only half of that sort of helps.

[@o.mcneely4424]

A family friend’s husband had a pulmonary embolism and died in his sleep. He was an extremely healthy guy in his early thirties, ate well, worked out, didn’t smoke or use drugs, nothing that would normally cause such a thing. And yet, he and the family went camping for a history event, everything was completely fine, but the next day he didn’t show up to morning colors, and his mother in law found him in his tent. It was about a decade ago and I still can’t get over it. 😞

[@sirleebutler]

i lost two friends to pulmonary embolism in the last three years. both women in their 40s. it’s devastating.

[@mumenRhyder]

I think blood clots are the scariest thing I've ever had. I'm always thinking about i could just keel over and die Without any warning signs

[@trevormustey4418]

So sorry to hear that!, I was 35 when I had an accident at work and during recovery I got an extensive DVT in my uninjured leg which in turn caused a P.E that nearly took my life, I'm 62 now and still struggle with the damage that it caused.

[@thehummingbirdbandit9542]

I have chronic low blood pressure, and it is ALSO a danger - I've had persistent tachycardia since I was a kid. My heart is just working harder to get my blood to my extremities. It's amazing how much blood pressure affects your whole body.

[@davidrutitsky9518]

Correlation is not always causation. The increased risk for heart disease, cancer, etc. from gum disease could have to do with the fact that people who don't take care of their teeth, often don't take care of other aspects of their health as well.

[@sunshine3914]

Still, infection from any part of the body can kill ya.

[@juliaspoonie3627]

This! And something so common as gum disease is easily found in people with various other diseases as well. It’s like counting covid deaths and also counting people who just happened to have covid but died from cancer or a car crash. Always look at the details of studies, including who financed it, how many participants were involved and if they made the right conclusions.

[@marthadopkowski8311]

Chemotherapy can also cause tooth decay and gum disease. Also, diabetes can cause it. It isn't always due to poor dental hygiene. Please be kind. ❤

[@petalpotionsart]

"This woman was my first cousin." the way I absolutely gasped

[@rachel_sj]

My uncle died suddenly from an aneurysm in October 2013. My cousin was at home and had to call EMS and rush him to the emergency room. There was nothing we could do except for get every relative to the room he was staying in. He died right in front of all of us. I still think about and miss him…

[@aaronh1372]

​@rachel_sj was this your first uncle?

[@frostflower5555]

@@aaronh1372 I would think it is? or did you mean by marriage?

[@MrFateorfaith]

My uncle died of pancreatic cancer two weeks ago. He was also diagnosed that same week. I'm still dealing with that, so please visit the doctor.

[@Cavemanner]

I hate to say it, but honestly there isn't much that can be done for pancreatic cancer even if it is caught early. The pancreas is one of those organs that is absolutely vital, as it produces so many different hormones that control general bodily function, so it can't be removed and inhibiting its function with more aggressive non-invasive treatments is usually lethal anyway.

[@kevincronk7981]

I have a friend who died from pancreatic cancer this year. He caught it early and his family is very wealthy so they were able to spare no expense or effort to try to treat it. Despite all of that, there was still nothing that did any good at all. Truly one of the worst diseases a person can possibly get.

[@andrewdavidson665]

Sorry to hear about your friend but yes, pancreatic cancer is brutal. Many years ago, I had a family member who wasn't feeling quite right (not awful just not quite right!) and his wife got him to go to the doctor. They found the cancer and he was dead less than two weeks later. I've never seen a decline like it before or since.

[@mattlassen5948]

This is the same disease Steve Jobs died from. He was able to battle it for 8 years $omehow.

[@nahanchinotron]

@@andrewdavidson665 The same thing happened to my uncle. Feeling under the weather only to find out he had cancer all over and gone within two weeks. He spent his last hours in a lot of pain, huddled into the fetal position and praying for it all to end.

[@lrp71]

My mom seemed very healthy, but was experiencing pain and discomfort that doctors dismissed. Finally, she was in so much pain that she went to the ER, where they diagnosed her with pancreatic cancer. She got the best treatment we could find, but nothing worked. When her cancer failed to respond, she went off chemo and into hospice care. In the end, she lived less than a year after her diagnosis. Even then, the nurses were incredibly impressed by how long she managed to hang on. They said she must've been remarkably strong. Pancreatic cancer is a truly horrible disease.

[@melissastory1993]

Love how I’ve gone to see doctors about either symptoms like these or to inquire about getting checked when I have a family history of something, only for them to tell me “don’t worry about it” and then send me home. My dad died of colorectal cancer and they’ve told me to not worry about it. 🙃 I went in one time because I couldn’t get my heart rate under 150 bpm, I couldn’t hold anything down (even water), I was in so much pain that I laid down on the floor crying in an urgent care waiting room (gross), and I started hoping it would be lethal just to be out of that pain. The doctor finally saw me 2 hours later, she yelled at me for crying, then told me it was probably just the flu, gave me 2 ibuprofen, and sent me home 😑 It was the middle of the summer and no one else I knew had been sick and no one who’d been around me got sick after… and I’d had my flu shot and I’ve had the flu lots, it wasn’t the flu. I felt like I’d eaten an explosive full of shrapnel and it went off in my insides. I’ve basically accepted now that it’s not unlikely that I’ll end up dying of something that should’ve been diagnosed the first time I sought treatment/diagnosis, and then I’m going to come back as a ghost (if they exist) and haunt all the doctors who’ve done me wrong.

[@blue_jm]

Your story sounds a lot like mine.

[@paigetreon6412]

@@blue_jmsame

[@the-eu8xp]

my aunt died from sCJD (the most common prion disease, by far) earlier this year. i only saw her progression through video calls that my cousin showed to me, my dad, and my grandma, but from that alone it was horrifying. she went from being a little more irritable than usual in January, February she started losing items, getting lost, becoming mistrustful, etc, by March she was hyperparanoid, hallucinating, couldn't recognize anything really, her eyes were healthy but her brain so destroyed it caused her to go blind, she couldn't make sense of words either, early April she would just scream, speak unintelligible sentences, sob or laugh uncontrollably, later on in the month she just stopped, and just stared at whatever was in front of her, i think by that point she was so gone, that she couldn't process, or react to what was happening. the last week of April, she slipped into a coma and just died, no last resolve or anything. the worst part is that, this wasn't avoidable, her disease had no cause other than just random chance, no family history, no infection/risk of infection, a simple mistake during protein synthesis

[@DFSJR1203]

In 1987 I was involved in a racing crash into a concrete barrier at 155MPH. Full face helmets were not required and I got flung forward and I ate the steering wheel which removed over 2/3 of my teeth instantly. The removal was so violent the gums were completely destroyed. I had to have the rest of the teeth removed so I could eat. I was quoted back then a price of $20000 to repair my mouth. So, I just have gone without teeth since then. I was 28 when this happened and I am now 64 and I am having a harder time eating food.

[@scrappydoo7887]

Damn man. I'm happy to see that you are still with us. I'm going in for an MRI in a couple of days due to severe pain all over my abdomen that dr's can't identify so I hope I can tap into the luck you have. May we all live long and fruitful lives

[@kitefan1]

@@scrappydoo7887 Best hopes for you.

[@kitefan1]

Wow. Glad you survived that one. Based on my mother's experience, please go and see a dental surgeon. There has been amazing technology since then. Still pricey if it needs insurance but you might get something from medicare. If you had the $$$ surgery back in the day, you might still be in the same situation because without the teeth the body absorbs the jawbone.

[@scrappydoo7887]

@@kitefan1 thank you 🙂

[@DonMarzzoni]

Zero sympathy for people who do stupid s$%@ especially at high speed 🤷

[@NWEDC]

I have to say, as a foster child that literally has no real family history, including family health history, I feel like this information makes my life a little more exciting. Like, I know I will die, but no idea how, or what even what it could be. I have had tests, and nothing found yet, but, you know.

[@TwisterTornado]

No. It didn't help me. Same reasons. I ended up a heavy drinker, anyway. It's just not a good fixation.

[@johndaugherty3544]

It’s true. I turned 30 in best shape of my life, few months go by and my pancreas stopped working. Took a bunch of tests and became a late onset Type 1 diabetic.🤷🏻‍♂️🤦🏼‍♂️

[@Cavemanner]

Same. I was a super active, healthy teen, but kinda let myself go in my early 20s. At 25 I decided I wanted to join the Army and try out for the Rangers, so I proceeded to spend the next year getting into the best shape of my life, mentally and physically. That next September, when I was literally 2 weeks away from taking the ASVAB, I suddenly lost the ability to keep any food or water down. I had recently moved and was back in the town I had left staying overnight to pick up the last of my stuff, and I ended up glued to the bathroom floor of the hotel room for almost 20 hours straight, going back and forth from taking sips of water to vomiting it right back up. My mom finally convinced me to get in the car so she could take me to the ER, as it had gotten far past the point of me brushing it off as food poisoning. Luckily it was about 2 AM and we drove to a less-busy hospital, so I only had to wait about 30 minutes to be seen, at which point I was delirious and barely able to stand due to dehydration. They put me on a saline drip and ran some tests. I was in diabetic ketoacidosis, and only about 2 or so hours from being in the lethal zone of blood acidity. About 30 minutes later they gave me a firm diagnosis of Type 1.5 LADA and started insulin immediately. There went my goal of joining the Army, and with that went all my motivation to keep bettering myself. That was 2 years ago and change, and I'm just coasting through this life now. I hope you were able to cope with it better than I have.

[@melonmw]

As a neuropsych person, I pretty quickly decided I have no interest in treating neurodegenerative diseases. For one, I just find neurodevelopmental disorders way more interesting. But also the degenerative diseases give me a special type of existential dread- forgetting is scary. And the thought of working with family members who have to watch their loved one turn into a different person, I think I'd just cry every day.

[@mellissadalby1402]

Hi Joe, you can rest easy, I never watch your channel while sitting on the porcelain throne. Some years ago a young lady with whom I worked died of Pancreatic cancer at age 42. Only about 1 month before her death she started to feel a slight pain in her back, which she dismissed as muscle aches. It took her out very quickly. In other news, I liked the "vein joke".

[@grannyweatherwax9666]

Was she in kent, uk, because that happened to my sister in law. It was so quick

[@ThestuffthatSaralikes]

My nightmare disease. So incredibly treatable IF caught in time BUT it’s almost never caught in time…

[@martymcpeak4748]

I took my Brother to the Hospital with an attack of gout, and he came out with stage 4 pancreatic cancer and was gone 3 months later.

[@Cedawood]

I think I read that's the most lethal of cancers if not found early

[@Thyme-on_your_sidedish]

Literally so many people in my family have died with the first symptom being lower back pain. When someone in my family says "my back hurts" it's probably terminal.

[@TheFuschiaDragonfly]

Three weeks-ish ago me and mom came back home from grocery shopping. As she undressed, she noticed tons of small red dots on her forearms and specially on her lower legs/feet. It was as if someone sprayed her with a red dye, or as if she was covered in tons of mites. She was feeling ok, just a little tired and had some back pain, but every kindergarten teacher has them. Then the dots showed up in her mouth as well, and some started bleeding. She testes her blood routineously, and by sheer luck she was awaiting the results of her last one, so she pressed the doctors into delivering the results earlier. Her platelets sat at 88k. Fyi, it usually is 300k, it should be at least 150k and below 50k is alarming. My mom gets tested again just to be safe, and 24 hours later her platelets dropped to 3k. She ran to the ER. Several platelets and immunoglobulins transfusions, and prescribed meds later, she's ok now. Her platelets are back at 300k, and she's staying at home eating tons of proteins and keeping up with her meds. What happened? One of her pupils was sent by his atrocious parents + pediatrician at school with parvovirus b19. This virus does nothing to kids, they just have a fever, a bit of a cold and some diffused red spots. But it's very dangerous for adults, it targets the muscolar system, heart included. My mom caught it this spring, and months later it was still in her system and told her immumitary defences:"Hey, do you know platelets, right? Get rid of them, they're not good" Parents here in Italy send their kids to school no matter how bad they're doing. Mom had to take care of kids freshly fractured that their parents didn't want at home. They whine abt their jobs taking their time, but the truth is if there's a will, there's a way. Not even the grandparents want to deal with the kids, saying their pilates classes are more important and stuff like that. A regional law in my area (Campania) that has just been passed gives parents full permission to send their sick kids at school without any health ceritificate. Doctors told my mom there's a long, recent history of cases like hers. So yeah guys, stay away from ppl with parvo, don't send your sick kids at school and if you feel tired and see many red dots on your skin, get your blood tested immediately.

[@lizard3755]

That's horrifying. If it's possible, your mom should try taking legal actuon against the parents and/or school system. The parents were awful for sending their sick child to school knowing how bad an infection would be for adults, and the school system is awful for having a policy that's not only unfair to sick children but is also unfair to teachers being forced to care for them when they should be able to teach, and could potentially endanger other kids and immunocompromised people who come in contact with them.

[@codahighland]

The amyloid plaque hypothesis for Alzheimer's has been called into question in recent years. It derives from some studies that observed a correlation, but the studies into modifying amyloid expression have been riddled with questionable science. It's not even clear if amyloid plaques are even a risk factor, because they've been found in healthy individuals, and there have been individuals with Alzheimer's that don't have abnormal levels of them. Which is to say, we really don't understand much about it at all.

[@juliaspoonie3627]

Okay this is eerie! My dad died the same way as your cousin Katherine! He was driving our car to my dentist appointment when I was 13. Mom recognized he was suddenly driving weirdly over multiple lanes. He was able to stop and mom drove to one of the highway phones we have here in Austria to call an ambulance. Dad complained about a headache and feeling nauseous but otherwise he seemed fine. He was still alive and talking with me and mom but already unconscious once they arrived at the first hospital. After initial testing they then transferred him to the university hospital in Vienna by helicopter. They tried everything but the brain damage was too severe and he died after a week or so after being in a coma. Mom was told the same thing about the aneurysm which could have ruptured any time in his life. And we were all lucky he didn’t caused a car crash while driving 130km/h on the highway. I remember waiting in the car with my mom for our relatives (so she didn’t have to drive herself), not knowing how bad the situation would be. It didn’t occur once to my teenage self that my dad could die. It was surreal. We didn’t have a good relationship for various reasons but it was still difficult for me as a teenager to lose my dad. I thought for many years it was my fault because we had a fight in the morning. I have a rare genetic connective tissue disorder and we assume dad had it too, making it more likely to develop aneurysms. Getting regular screenings is important in my family. I hope your cousin‘s kids got the support they needed, it must have been so much worse for them without a second adult there and watching helplessly while their mom died. Sending your family love 💕

[@xKeineAhnungx3]

My father had a brain aneurism 10 years ago on christmas eve. He's alive but he's been in a coma for the past 10 years. It happened suddenly and without warning and he's lucky he's still alive. But obviously it's still incredibly hard for my whole family since he's not there like he used to be.

[@AlvertinaVazquez]

Can I ask how do they wash people when they're in a coma

[@ToastenButter]

I had an aunt who dropped dead in her bathroom one morning from a bursted aneurism. She was 50 or so and in good health. Crazy how she’s gone so soon.

[@Smh85]

I had an ex-boyfriend who's mom did the same in her kitchen (from what I remember) from an aneurysm. I met him well after the fact, but he was still sad about it years later because he was a Momma's boy. She was alsi somewhere in her 50s (I believe late 50s).

[@frostflower5555]

My aunt too, while going to visit relatives-just walking through the woods in the village-she was with her grandchildren. Her sister (my mom) had heart failure. I wish they can find a real cure for heart disease and cancer.

[@chickensalad3535]

@@Smh85I don’t think you have to be a “Momma’s boy” to be sad that your mom dead years after the fact, lol. I think it’s abnormal not to.

[@rick-fstop-lewis]

I suffered a 'widow maker' 6 years ago. I never knew I was having a heart attack until my friend insisted I call 911 as I was , in his words, white as the new fallen snow. They found those proteins through the roof and immediately choppered to the Mpls. Heart Institute. I had one stent and a triple bypass. I had been having the attack for 12 hours or so and I just thought I had to poo and couldn't so was embarrassed to call 911. I tried sleeping it off, but that morning my buddy made me call.

[@JeffVanRooy]

That's a good friend!

[@WhiskeyJones-xy4cp]

A few years ago I had organ failure and was on dialysis. I have POTS and take Beta blockers to lower my heart rate and raise my bp (beta blockers work a little differently in POTS patients). After I was off the foley cath, every time I stood up my heart rate skyrocketed and my room was filled with staff. They didn’t understand that I was on Beta blockers for POTS, they were only looking at the numbers from the organ failure. I got told to ‘calm down, relax’ or ‘stop doing that’ so many times I just asked if they’d prefer me in diapers

[@deathstar950]

I'm on my 6th abscess tooth, I grew up poor and without dental insurance, and since becoming an adult it has been my responsibility to have a job with dental insurance to go. When you work a standard M-F and only get 5 days the entire year to take off (*you get 10 days after 5 years; yippee * for appointments, yourself, what ever) and scheduling at the dentist's office, it's next to impossible to get in. You know what's fun is feeling the social rejection, I can no longer smile in public and it hurt's (literally) because I know it's also ruining opportunities. Can't flirt without a full set of teeth either.

[@poolhalljunkie9]

I know exactly how you feel. I have pretty much no teeth left and I'm only 40, I need to get what I have removed because they keep getting infected but I've had partials already and they're basically impossible to eat with. I'm so self conscious about it too. I don't even like talking to anyone because of it. I don't forsee ever having good self esteem again. I've been dealing with bad teeth my whole life too. Got my first toothache when I was 5 or 6 and it started in my early 20s when my adult teeth started going bad. I have a daughter and she had to have 4 removed when she was 2 and I hate it sooo much for her.

[@sunshine3914]

@@poolhalljunkie9 If you’re able to get good fitting dentures, it would be so much better. Unfortunately, you need to have them resized every year or two.

[@frostflower5555]

Is this in the USA? They should get with the times. It used to be like years ago.

[@thecraftycyborg9024]

I have Sjögrens Syndrome, an autoimmune disease that causes gum disease and tooth decay. Gum disease can be *terrifying*. Every time I get an infection in my gums, I’m on oral and topical meds until it clears. The risks are huge. In fact, that’s why folks with hip and knee replacements take antibiotics before dental work.

[@andrewmarshall5714]

When I was initially diagnosed with chronic hypertension it was 220/140 after 30 minutes of rest. The specialist looked at me like "how are you alive?" Apparently if the top reading is above 200, you should seek immediate medical attention. It has been under control for over 20 years.

[@sadfaery]

My grandfather had a brain aneurysm when my mom was a kid in 1965. He survived, but had serious brain damage that left him mentally at about a 7-year old level. He died of cancer 22 years later when I was 10 years old. I had a CAT scan a couple of years ago when I started having severe, prolonged headaches, and thankfully it was just migraines; no aneurysm waiting to happen. And I'm glad that I know that. I'm much less anxious about it now.

[@DubsTheFox]

As a hypochondriac person, this was a blast to watch 👍

[@MaliciousChickenAgenda]

Yeah I’m having great fun with it too 🥴😵‍💫 I now have more things to overthink and get nervous about 😃

[@bedhead4728]

My wife had a emergency c section last year. During which they found she had ovarian cancer. Some small easily removable tumors. They removed it right then. Likely saved her life. Has alot of frequent check ups but that's ok.

[@KirstinJansen90]

22:22 sharing food with someone that has the disease will not transmit a prion disease.... You probably meant eating an infected animal (or human) - and not all tissues contain prions - mostly brain/ spinal cord. Transmission from human to human hardly ever takes place (with the exception of cannibalism)

[@98Zai]

If you are ever forced to copy "Alive", just please don't eat the brain.

[@PetraKujundzic]

Thank you, just watched this. My MIL died from CJD three months ago and she was in our care, at home, for three-four months so there was numerous opportunities to get infected. I know it's very hard to transmit from human to human, but you put my mind at ease a bit before I go reading everything available about it for the second time.

[@georgielancaster1356]

There was a really interesting study about a type of mad cow disease suffered from women and children in New Guinea tribes, because women and children used to share eating the body of certain family members. Cannibalism was pretty common there, but missionaries talked most of the tribes out of cannibalism, because Xtians didn't do that. Some of the tribes were told Japanese didn't count but Japanese, who often got almost no supplies, often ate the back of dead Allies thighs. I could tell you a ton of stories!

[@georgielancaster1356]

Oh good grief! Joe has just mentioned the New Guinea horror! Commented too early.

[@EEsmalls]

I'm sorry for your loss. I had a step sister who died the same way, 3 brain hemorrhages very suddenly. She was only 33. Tragically, her 17 year old son then died very suddenly about a year later.

[@WVgrl59]

When my daughter became ill in Junior High School, it took 11 years to get her diagnosed with a rare bone marrow disease called PNH.

[@AuroraTheRipper]

Under a year ago I got diagnosed with epilepsy, now I got an appointment to a doctor about probably having hypothyroidism. I'm only 23, I can't wait what other bullshit will hit me out of nowhere

[@jo-vf8jx]

My two daughters were both born with hypothyroidism. It’s easy to manage with Synthroid. The only downfall is having to get your blood checked every six months although in the beginning, it was every three months, they adjust your levels as needed by the blood test. My daughters are now 19 and 11. You got this:)

[@mostlyvoid.partiallystars]

@@jo-vf8jxseconding that hypothyroidism is definitely (comparatively) easy to manage and at least in my experience non painful.

[@PinataOblongata]

Yeah, you WILL get hit by other bullshit as you age, and then you'll die. It's just the tax that must be paid for having a body, having a brief but amazing spark of sentience as a weirdly self-aware conglomeration of matter which is nevertheless still subject to entropy, like everything else in the universe. What should be evident from all of this is that it's amazing we evolved and exist at all, let alone get an average 80-odd years, and the only attitude to adopt is to be thankful for every moment you get and every moment you've had so far. What else are you gonna do, piss it away being ungrateful and negative about everything because your incredibly complex system of cells and molecules isn't somehow 100% flawless and immortal? People really need to adjust their expectations. The death and suffering people younger than you will have been though in all of past history, before anaesthesia, before dentistry, before the germ theory of disease, is far greater than you realise - at least you got diagnosed with modern medicine instead of people assuming you were a witch for having seizures and burning you alive, you know?

[@Zikato]

I have hypothyroidism and I take meds everyday for it, I haven’t even really noticed a difference in my day to day

[@lizard3755]

Hopefully this doesn't come off as rude, but if youre AFAB and in a relationship where your partner could get you pregnant, definitely make sure to use birth control. My mom got pregnant with me and didn't find out until the second trimester so she was taking anticonvulsants the whole time. Fortunately I turned out okay and all my health issues were things I inherited, but there was concern I might end up with serious problems from it. On an unrelated note, my mom's favorite dog she had as a kid took the same seizure medicine as her which she thought was awesome.

[@TabulaRasa001]

I have gum disease, high blood pressure, DVT and a family history of 10+ cancers. Thanks for the reminder Joe that an early death is imminently inevitable.

[@KallahKrafted]

Sometimes you beat the odds. My mother was diagnosed with DVT back in the early 90s when she was rushed to the hospital on the edge of death: the clot nearly cut off circulation in her leg and then broke off, cruised around, and failed to kill her when it lodged in her lung. A few years later she had a second clot in her arm (the clot was diagnosed, and then wasn't there later) so thankfully it either broke up and didn't lodge anywhere vital or dissolved on its own. She's still living her best life to this day and will be turning 70 in a few months, despite having to take warfarin for the past few decades. With that sort of family history I had myself tested in my early 30s, after a bit of a tussle with my insurance, and found out that I have a Factor V Leiden mutation (only one copy, so that clearly came from my mom's side) but the doctor said because I hadn't had a clot, or symptoms of a clot, other than losing some weight there wasn't anything I should do. Unfortunately I had my first blood clot at 38, but I'm now 41, and will now be on Eliquis for the rest of my life - but I'm alive and well to tell you that sometimes you beat the odds even when your body throws the worst at you. I know you may have been joking or sarcastic - it's hard to tell in text - but in case you were serious: hang in there, and don't dwell on the worrisome things you can't change.

[@Broooookie269]

To be clear - PCOS and ovarian cancer symptoms are not “mild” to experience, just “mild” enough for doctors to overlook until the disease is out of control

[@dvdemon187]

Lost my grampa to pancreatic cancer. Lost my grandma to lung cancer. Lost my uncle to a heart failure. Lost my aunt to early onset frontotemporal dementia. Knew a couple of people who died from a brain aneurism. I'm actually kinda surprised I'm still here...

[@JENNIFAFAA]

Lost my mom to pancreatic cancer 😢💜

[@michellewilliams4000]

OMG I love you Joe. As a dental hygienist I’ve told my patients for DECADES about the systemic consequences of gum disease, bleeding gums(specifically caused by plaque ie not cleaning between the teeth), and you know what I usually get back? 🦗 🦗🦗🦗🦗🦗🦗🦗🦗🦗🦗🙉🙉🙉🙉🙉🙉

[@pickleshanks]

Everything is just fine, until it’s not, doc. Why fret over something that could _never_ happen to *me* specifically? /s

[@thebec8853]

That actually haunts me. I have really bad untreated ADHD and it is so effing hard to remember to do it that I really don't enough. (And no I haven't given up trying).

[@troliskimosko]

@@thebec8853Alarm

[@myscreen2urs]

For the longest time, I had stopped flossing because of the painful gum bleeding. It was never going away. Only in the last year I've gotten back into it, but I go super gentle and I barely touch the gum. I don't know if I'm flossing correctly but I figure, better to do it poorly them not do it at all.

[@gabrielleevee]

@@thebec8853if you keep your toothbrush in a pot or something put a note on it to floss. or carve a f into your toothbrush.

[@Zrelia]

I lost my mom to pancreatic cancer a year ago. It still hurts and it scares me watching her suffer with it.

[@privacyvalued4134]

3:45 "You need your heart." Thank you for that riveting and useful information. I was under the impression that the heart was an optional organ ever since Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom.

[@AG-yj1jv]

🙈

[@squirlmy]

Sneaky sarcasm, you heartless villian! Oh, wait. You grinch-heart two sizes too small!

[@muleface1066]

Do we, or is that just a lie being pushed by the medical establishment to sell us their 'remedies'? As many times as mine has been broken, and the one time I left it in San Francisco, if I really needed it, I would be dead by now.

[@douglasclerk2764]

The liver's important too - they say life depends on the liver . . .

[@Mr_Yod]

[@AddieHughesVT]

I have health anxiety... And DEAR LORD THE THUMBNAIL GAVE ME A TAD BIT OF ANXIETY ATTACK

[@MeruXYZ]

I also have health anxiety. Sometimes it gets so bad that I have to do breathing exercises in a dark room to stop from going into full paranoid psychosis. Feels like every breath I take is the last one.. my blood turns to ice, I get dizzy and nearly faint. So I will not be watching this video lmfao

[@mtrujillo9221]

Same

[@TrineDaely]

MOOD

[@Elli0tK1ng]

Same omg I don’t have health anxiety but when I saw the thumbnail I started freaking out 😂

[@Zikato]

I used to have health anxiety until I started actually getting treated hypertension and hypothyroidism

[@jkarnold100]

My god father actually just passed due to complications from HD. ‘Luckily’, he passed peacefully via a stroke while he was sleeping watching the ball game. I say ‘luckily’ because I’ve heard many pass from choking, suffocating, or falling and dying from head trauma. RIP Pops 😢

[@alex57633]

I had a DVT that lead to a Bilateral Pulmonary embolism. Not fun. Don't ignore symptoms! I didn't and it is probably the only reason I am still here!

[@BonJoviBeatlesLedZep]

23:22 this was the scariest part of the video. The FDA is on the chopping block now...

[@Wither1224]

So awful. If the government gets rid of the FDA and Department of Education it will permanently set back America for decades

[@seands650]

Hopefully the problems with the FDA are fixable.

[@bacicinvatteneaca]

Good. That will damage the US empire by making its citizens increasingly disabled and sick. That, in turn, will allow countless countries to free themselves and finally be able to democratically choose to invest in healthcare

[@firemarshal2629]

The FDA is not your friend. We existed before them and we’ll do just fine after them.

[@sunnymckenzie1522]

@@seands650what problems are there? It’s backed by tons of smart and reputable people and research…

[@johnburr9463]

19:35 I got attacked by a pit bull earlier this year and the police, doctors, my wife.... basically everybody was suddenly very worried about rabies. Fortunately the dog had all his shots, so I'm still here to leave stupid comments on KZbin videos.

[@Topazzzzzz]

very cool that a lot of women with pcos dont get diagnosed properly because "oh you have really bad pain/bleed a lot during your periods? thats normal" /s like i know three different women who wouldnt even have known that they have pcos if they hadnt been struggling with getting pregnant

[@TRAVELLEROFWORLDS]

I'm going in for open heart surgery next Tuesday. I have an aortic aneurysm. Most people typically do not have symptoms leading up to this unless their artery tears within itself, (dissection), or ruptures, (impending doom). The aorta is the largest artery in the body. I went in some time ago, 2022, for chest pains. The EKG showed that I had cardiomegaly, (enlarged heart). Later on this year, as things were kept on file/observed, I had more pains. Turns out some pain was attributed to my chest wall, not the heart. I do warehouse work after all. Risky enough at times. After I got a call telling me to rush to the hospital downtown, (they thought I had a tear), I was scanned. Was lucky. Then my cardiologist called. Said its time to operate soon. A few appointments later, I'm almost ready to go in. Lucky I know what I've got ticking inside me.❤

[@tinycatfriend]

wishing you the best!

[@TRAVELLEROFWORLDS]

@@tinycatfriend thank you so much. ❤️

[@YourAlienPaul]

I'll be at my family's house for 10 days. Keeping my blood pressure down will not be possible.

[@capriciousstudent]

I knew colon cancer would be on this list. My grandpa felt like he had the stomach flu one week, and went to the doctor, only to be diagnosed with end-stage colon cancer. He passed away about three months later. He was completely asymptomatic in the beginning stages, and what got him to the doctor was the feeling that he might have caught something insignificant, like the flu. My mother and her siblings had to start colonoscopies earlier than the average person for this reason. The process sucks (drinking “shit your brains out” juice a day in advance), but they’ve already caught and extracted nodules during the colonoscopies. It’s worth the shit day to get checked.

[@joeyhoy1995]

Thanks for using your platform to bring awareness to Huntington's. My grandmother has it. I want my mom to get tested, as my dad swears he's seeing symptoms. It terrifies me. The says I currently have a 25% chance to have it. There's not a day that goes by where I don't think about it briefly. If my health insurance would cover it, I'd get tested, but can't afford it right now. I've had it described as ALS and Alzheimer's. It's really is a horrid illness. Additionally, I do believe I remember hearing about a couple of people who did survive rabies.

[@GENKI_INU]

You can survive rabies. But you MUST to get treatment (vaccinated) BEFORE symptoms begin to appear. Like if you get bit by an infected animal and get vaccinated ASAP, there's a good chance you'll be fine. But if there's even a hint of symptoms, it's already too late to do anything.

[@joeyhoy1995]

@GENKI_INU teach I was mostly thinking about those who have actually survived symptomatic rabies.

[@agxryt]

20:38 theres an old video online of a (incredibly handsome) afghani man afflicted with rabies, trying to do the same thing, and he just ends up spitting it up all over himself. Guy clearly in his late 20's with some head wound, fighting against a virus for control of his body, for something as simple as a drink of water. It then cuts to a couple days later, beautiful eyes staring up into space, foaming from the mouth catatonic. It follows his (very short) progression to death. It's a harrowing video. Not because it's disturbing or gory or violent. But because it looks like something out of a horror movie - black and white filmed, a man who looks like an actor, losing control to an invisible force that isn't even alive. Words, written in the language of life. A cruel set of instructions, written by some wicked eldritch horror, that wormed its way into his brain and overwrote his very survival instincts. Rabies isn't a monster, rabies is a curse. A real life curse. And the BEST way we've figured out to "break it" is to warn our bodies, with a weaker version.

[@twelven3330]

Rinsing and gargling with salt water 3x per week is one of the easiest, cheapest, most effective means to better your oral health. Salt is truly the miracle substance. Sooo many uses other than for flavor/ nutrition.

[@honkytonkinson9787]

Great for the sinuses! I use a nasal rinse whenever I start to feel sick and it usually helps me to cycle through a cold quickly

[@shemo_ghoul]

Exactlyy!

[@michellewilliams4000]

Still gotta clean between- salt ain’t gonna get in there

[@ZhovtoBlakytniy]

Xylitol too

[@elizabethsullivan7176]

And if you don't have enough sodium in your body your kidneys can go haywire, that's why my husband now has to have kidney dialysis 3x a week. Low sodium + high potassium = kidney disease.

[@joelRmontfort]

My stepfather who raised me as his son died from CJD, a prion disease mentioned. It is famous as mad cow disease, but it can also appear spontaneously in humans, although there is also a genetic component. For him it started with memory problems but became apparent with sudden emotional swings. This escalated rapidly to disorientation and what I would describe as a warped perspective of reality. When I first heard that he was acting little strange from my step sister I went to see him, and ended up staying with him until his death. The rapidness of the disease was terrifying. I watched him die, and his mental decline was very bizarre. Especially at the beginning he had all of his mental faculties to describe his experience, but it made no sense, it was surreal. And the whole time he was making jokes even though we knew something was horribly wrong, but the further along we went the less sense the jokes made. Before he went into the hospital and became less coherent he seemed almost elated, was kind of in a manic state. He was talking more than usual and trying to sell me on his weird philosophy. He seemed very alert and present, but was speaking and acting very differently. I will never forget the moment he was explaining to me that "time repeats itself and we will be here in this very moment again over and over, so nothing we do really matters." I was just kind of humoring him and listening to his weird philosophy talk that was very out of character. And then he said that I could kill his dog who is nearby, Ranger, and it wouldn't matter. And I immediately questioned him, what do you mean kill Ranger? He loved his dogs more than anything, and Ranger is his favorite. They all slept in the bed with him. I am permanently traumatized by his response, I'll never forget, it was like a horror movie. "yeah you could kill him right now, and he will be back here again. This will happen again. Go ahead do it, I'm serious. You could kill him right now." I knew something was so wrong with his mind at that point and my heart was just pounding, he would NEVER say that. It just got worse and worse and he became very violent at the end. He was dead within 4 weeks. By the end he was barely coherent. Seeing a 60-year-old man crying as he's losing his mind and he knows he is dying on the lap of his 80-year-old mother is a devastating image that only a prion disease could make me forget. Hope my story cheered you up.

[@fumarate1]

sounds like he was refering to reincarnation.

[@crimsonmckenzie98]

Hard to go to the doctor when you have to choose between turning the heat on, or your family getting to eat this week.

[@paahl1572]

7:26 I work in the trucking industry and when I first started I was horrified by the dental hygiene. I have not messed around with tooth care.

[@ETphonehome813]

When my husband was in primary school, his friend's mother suddenly went blind. No history of eye disease, no other symptoms, just went to bed with full vision and woke up the next morning unable to see anything. It terrified him as a kid (understandably), and he had trouble sleeping for many years. He's much better now, though he still doesnt like to sleep in a pitch black room

[@StillMaya1]

😳😳😳

[@michaelwilliamson4060]

I was having pain and pressure in my chest so I go to the hospital and stay the night. The next day I take a stress test. I didn't know until I get home from the hospital that I had shingles. Hurts like hell. Came back 6 months later and hurt even more.

[@livingod101]

I feel attacked... I was taking a dump

[@nst6563]

Same. I always seem to watch videos like this that give sh_t news while taking a sh_t.

[@grummbeerbauer3527]

I plead guilty, too.

[@hamaljay]

Wash your phone.

[@felixjones9198]

As was I

[@psylocyn]

What kind of monster watches KZbin whilst they shit?! Everyone knows that KZbin is for eating! yelling at randoms on the internet is the proper shitting activity

[@rachelfallonauthor]

If you have mysterious pain in your chest/shoulder area, this might also be a pulmonary embolism! This was my only warning and I knew it just didn’t feel right. I went to urgent care, they said I was fine but I knew I wasn’t. It was Mother’s Day and we had reservations and I tried to ignore it at first for my mom, but I just couldn’t, I went to the ER and yeah, it was a pulmonary embolism. At 24. No DVT, only smoking while on birth control pills. Super early for that to happen, by like over a decade, but lucky me! Except they made me stop taking hormones which meant no BC, which meant no treatment for my PCOS. Wooo. My dad also has high blood pressure, thankfully I didn’t get that. But he stopped taking his pills because he lost his medical insurance. Few months later? He had a stroke, two in fact, one on each side of the brain. He can’t speak correctly anymore, has trouble expressing his thoughts. My dad will never be the same, but I’m just so freaking glad he’s alive. Even if I wanted to kill him when I found out he stopped taking his meds.

[@rdallas81]

Make sure dad stays on his meds! Wow! Scary!

[@markedis5902]

My best friend died of pancreatic cancer. He had a scan 2 months before and there was nothing, went in for a chest infection and found out he had pancreatic cancer. It killed him in 3 months.

[@cyrollan]

One of the worst cancers.

[@frostflower5555]

Like I bring my cat to the vet thinking that her drooling and not being able to eat kibble food was because of her bad teeth and I leave with a mouth cancer diagnosis. It is breaking my heart.She is dying before me and I try to give her some water and food through a syringe but she can't swallow it. I love my little girl with all my heart. I know she is just a pet but she is my darling little girl - my baby girl and I am devastated.

[@iloveplasticbottles]

The onset of puberty can actually cause prostate cancer. So if you're a young man and you have a weak urine stream as well as bladder stones, please go to the doctor.