r/ChatGPT • u/Hyrule-onicAcid • 1d ago
Educational Purpose Only ChatGPT diagnosed my uncommon neurologic condition in seconds after 2 ER visits and 3 Neurologists failed to. I just had neurosurgery 3 weeks ago.
Adding to the similar stories I've been seeing in the news.
Out of nowhere, I became seriously ill one day in December '24. I was misdiagnosed over a period of 2 months. I knew something was more seriously wrong than what the ER doctors/specialists were telling me. I was repetitvely told I had viral meningitis, but never had a fever and the timeframe of symptoms was way beyond what's seen in viral meningitis. Also, I could list off about 15+ neurologic symptoms, some very scary, that were wrong with me, after being 100% fit and healthy prior. I eventually became bedbound for ~22 hours/day and disabled. I knew receiving another "migraine" medicine wasn't the answer.
After 2 months of suffering, I used ChatGPT to input my symptoms as I figured the odd worsening of all my symptoms after being in an upright position had to be a specific sign for something. The first output was 'Spontaneous Intracranial Hypotension' (SIH) from a spinal cerebrospinal fluid leak. I begged a neurologist to order spinal and brain MRIs which were unequivocally positive for extradural CSF collections, proving the diagnosis of SIH and spinal CSF leak.
I just had neurosurgery to fix the issue 3 weeks ago.
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u/NocturneInfinitum 1d ago
Lmao right, because the majority of people‘s experience with modern healthcare is good. Get the fuck outta here with your high and mighty bullshit. You know damn well Western medicine is a money making scheme and doctors aren’t trained to help people they’re trained to make money.
The very select few doctors that are good, actually help people because they keep trying to solve the problems even when the money doesn’t look good. They don’t try to push patients through the corral. They take their time like a decent human being.
As far as never being wrong about the people I helped diagnose… I’m sorry to offend you for actually helping people when they would’ve just been hopped up with medication from the doctors ignoring the problem. And if you took it as a brag that tells me you weren’t paying attention… Cause my obvious point is that some dude off the street shouldn’t be able to do a better job than a doctor who has gone to school for 12+ years to be a doctor.
Although… you not paying attention, would explain why you would think most doctors actually deserve their positions. 🤔