Have you been misdiagnosed before?

hi marisriel,,it so sad to know your experience, before i bring my son to the doctor and he told me that my son is suffering from acute tonsilitis and he needs to have a surgery...he even give me a refferal slip for admission to the big hospital..i immediately called my husband to go straight to the big hospital..it was really very frustrating after so many test and waste time, money they ask me to return the next day..but my mother in-law insist to go another doctor..and we found out that it was not an acute tonsilitis no need for surgery..

I'm so sorry to hear this has happened to you, and to the person misdiagnosed with MS, too. It's very upsetting, for certain!Yes, I have also been misdiagnosed, recently, and am still in recovery from the situation. Had someone recognized what was happening sooner, it may have saved all of the flesh on the front of my right leg below the knee. It turns out that I have a very rare autoimmune condition called Pyoderma Gangrenosum. However, the doctors initially thought it was an infection, and I was hospitalized so they could clean it out with surgery and put me on IV antibiotics. They did several debridements, which aggravated the condition, and it spread and spread, consuming the flesh similar to those "brown recluse spider bite" photos that have circulated around the internet. The P.G. gradually ate away the front and both sides of my shin and calf. Had it been recognized sooner, I'd have lost much less flesh, and would probably be walking again by now. As it is, I've also developed DVT due to being mostly bed-ridden for so long (I was hospitalized for over a month), and so much tissue was destroyed that the veins that grew back are weak. This causes them to burst and bleed if I try to put too much weight on the leg too fast. I'm very gradually learning to walk again, and having to go very, very slowly. I use the wheelchair most of the time, but am graduating to crutches more and more. The surgeons were whispering about amputation when a dermatologist finally came by and recognized the condition for what it was. He's my hero!! He saved my leg! It might not be much of a leg at the moment, but it's still mine, and I'm quite attached to it!

When I was 18 years old, I was experiencing numbness on my right side, this also included, blurred vision, headaches etc. I went to the doctor's and he preceeded to ask me questions from which he was reading from a book. I have hay fever, so he prescribed me with allergy medicine. I was not getting any better, and now I was not able to walk. I went into the hospital for diagnosis and after many tests, it was determined that I had MS. I was told when I left the hospital that I was in remission, and that the symptoms would come back and be worse in 15 years. Well nothing has happened to me yet, I think that was another misdiagnosis. I really do not trust doctors too much, some of good, but you never know who you will run into.

That just enrages me. I have not been misdiagnosed yet, but I had a doctor who prescribed me a medication that she was not well informed of. She never warned me about the symptoms and I had bad ones. My friend was rushed to the ER for misdiagnosis when she didn't even have to go and was charged for the visit after waiting 6 hours to see a doctor. Did this happen in the US?