Wrong diagnosis

These days patients have to spell out their symptoms as most doctors are always in a hurry and don't bother to look at all aspects of a patient's condition. Good to know that your mother-in-law is now on her way to recovery.

When we are not comfortable with the diagnosis of a doctor, we try to go to another doctor to ask for a second opinion. Not all doctors can be right all the time. So just to be safe, go to a doctor that has really high credibility and not just because he is a former classmate, a cousin or what not.

hi porcospino. first off, hopefully, your mother in law is better now. i'm praying for her speedy recovery. it is sad that she was misdiagnosed. i'm glad this has not happened to me or to my loved ones and i pray it doesn't happen at all.

Hello porscospino. Yes my brother had wrong diagnosis. He had a blood problem. But no doctor had the right diagnosis. They went from leukemia, lupus, cancer, allergy. It was a rough time, my brother and my mother didn´t give up, looking for the correct diagnosis. They visited at least 5 doctors. He was allergic to mosquitos. And thanks God he is already medicated, and he uses repellent lotion, and problem solved. Thanks God, thanks God, thanks God. I wish your mother in law get healthy again soon. Blessings for both of you porcospino... dainy

hi porcospino I can understand the trauma and pain of being wrongly diagnosed. Why? I am in this ill health because of the wrong diagnosis on me. In 2000 when it all started all doctors I consulted said and believed something like amoebic dysentry or even piles or mere upset stomach. And their wrong diagnosis continued for 5 years... Then by luck I was at a different city where someone recommended a hospital-institute. It was here in 2006 that I was told for first time that it was Ulcerative Colitis and the doctors also said if it was diagnosed early in 2000, I would probably have got cured but now, it is for life. And you know about what else followed in the next few years. I dont know if it was my good luck or my bad luck that all the 22 doctors I consulted during the 2000-2005 period said all ailments but no one diagnosed it to be Ulcerative colitis. I think it has been my good luck as today I dont trust any doctors in my state.

I've heard about things like this, a few times. Actually, I don't like to go to the hospital, to be frank I really hate it. Many people go to the hospital to be healed but I think many become worst instead and die. I am glad your MIL is fine now.

It is shocking that she has pneumonia and her own doctor didn't diagnose that. In 2007 I had the happy news of pregnancy. I went to a private dating scan at 11 weeks, a private gender scan at 16 weeks and a National Health Scheme hospital detailed scan at 20 weeks pregnancy. All seemed great at my 20 week scan. I booked in for a home birth and carried on having regular midwife appointments. I was unwell at 36 weeks and got sent into a National Health Hospital for testing. They sent me for a scan and the lady doing it said the machine isn't working properly. She went next door to get a colleague. Her colleague looked at the screen and told me my baby has extra fluid on his head. I asked what did that mean and she said it could be one of a hundred different things. She made a phone call and asked me to go upstairs to see the midwife. The midwife told me that my baby wasn't life compatible and she was sorry. She booked me to see the fetal medicine specialist at the city hospital. Going there my baby boy got the correct diagnosis: spina bifida and hydrocephalus.

Porco, it is good that your mother in-law is safe now in the hospital. Next time, whenever we are not feeling well but if the doctor still said nothing wrong with us, it is always better to go get a second opinion. Sometimes, second opinion can really save life and make a lot difference. I always practice this way, whenever i sense something is wrong with the first doctor diagnosis. We can't depend on one doctor to make an important decision. Hope your mother in-law will be fine and back to her home again.

Wrong diagnosis is often made by doctors. But now a days, there are so many facilities to confirm a diagnosis, so a doctor must not make such a mistake whereby the life of the patient is endangered. She has been diagnosed as a case of pneumonia. So your doctor ought to do a chest X-ray and at least a blood test for TC,DC,ESR. All these simple tests could prove the severity of the case and he could then start the right treatment. A post-prandial blood sugar estimation is also important for such cases. I think doctors must be sincere while discharging service to their patients for which they are paid.

I hope you mother in law is better now. It's a shame that the doctor didn't suspect anything. I have been misdiagnosed too and been treated with things that I didn't even have for a long time... as a result I will never be able to have my own children. I feel that I was silly not going around and asking second and third opinions. It's a pity that insurance only allows us to go to a certain doctor, and if we want to get a second or want to be treated as a human we need to go to private doctors.

My mom got the diagnosis. Her doctor mentioned about her cancer is benign and so my went home and rest, not until, a few months, she elicited again her symptoms, but again, it is more intense. It's too late, when we learned but her cancer is on it's terminal stage. That was back then when we don't have sophisticated treatments and advanced modalities fro cancer treatment. There's no one to be blame about this but we should have a second opinion. Thanks

I was suffering from pain of gastric ulcer. Pain was untolerable. I consult an MBBS doctor working in rural area. He suspected perforation in my intestine. He advised me to admit in a private clinic. A sergeon, though he is not supposed to see me, saw me, ordered a lot of tests, inserted pipe into my nose and prescribed me amoxyciline and iv ranitidine. These two medicines were not working and had been harrasing a lot. To stop the pain, a nursing boy would come at 12pm and injected me a pathedin. For only six hours I could sleep and so could my mom with me. No recovery of pain. And rather I got infected with jaundice. Already few thousands were drained down from my purse. But the sergeon was unable to stop my pain. He advised me to see a medicine doctor. He prescribed me ceftriaxone and within few hours I told my mom, '' Im ok and lets go home ma.'' she told that we should go tomorrow at morning. Next morning I asked for release and so the manager prepared a bill. I asked for some discount. But he refused after threatening me. I borrowed a little amount from one of my kins. Can you assume how I was wrongly diagnosed and maltreated by money hungry doctors? First and second doctor had money for their brokery from the clinic.

When you go to a hospital,then the results said you got prostatitis,but the problem is that you are a woman,i'm sorry about it,i don't know how will you think this issue,but it really did happen.I even begin to think the doctor is not a angel now,merely an occupation,a tool for making a living.