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Woman Finds Hope and Answers on CrowdMed for Mysterious Symptoms
TLDR After experiencing a variety of unexplained symptoms, a woman turns to CrowdMed for help and receives immediate responses and engagement from multiple people who are invested in helping her find a diagnosis. One suggestion is that her symptoms may be caused by a carotid dissection, a tear in the blood vessel that supplies blood to the brain.
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00:00
A woman experiences strange symptoms in her eye, including bulging and loss of vision, which she later discovers is a type of migraine called a scintillating scotoma.
04:33
A woman experiences a variety of symptoms including fatigue, headaches, dizziness, and panic attacks, which she initially attributes to being out of shape and grieving the loss of her husband.
08:27
A woman experiences a variety of symptoms including fatigue, headaches, dizziness, panic attacks, fluttering in her ears, twitching in her hand, facial numbness, and ringing in her ear, but doctors are unable to find a cause for her symptoms.
12:08
Hope, after seeing multiple doctors and spending a lot of money on medical bills, starts doing her own research and comes across a website called CrowdMed for patients who feel their conditions haven't been diagnosed correctly and their doctors aren't listening to them.
16:47
Hope decides to give CrowdMed a shot and submits her case, receiving immediate responses and engagement from multiple people who are invested in helping her find a diagnosis.
20:28
Kyle, a medical detective on CrowdMed, believes that Hope's illness may be vascular in origin and potentially related to her blood vessels or a stroke, while other users suggest alternative diagnoses such as cerebral spinal fluid leak or a strained muscle in her neck.
24:13
Hope's symptoms may be caused by a carotid dissection, which is a tear in the blood vessel that supplies blood to the brain, potentially leading to a stroke.
28:38
Lisa, the doctor, is concerned about the possibility of a carotid dissection and suggests that Hope should ask her doctor for a scan specifically for that condition.
32:57
Hope was able to get approved for the test she needed, and when she gets her results back, there will be an update.
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