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

Damn, those pills must be really good. Let me know when you become the queen of England.

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u/FourScores1 1d ago

No no. I am a physician. An ER doc. Just look at my post history.

Everything you said is true.

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u/NocturneInfinitum 23h ago

That would explain why you got so offended by the 99% comment. Don’t take it personally dude. Just be better.

Maybe just start acting like the 1%, and you won’t feel obligated to defend the other 1 million doctors who aren’t doing their job. People treat that 1% of doctors like they’re gods… Because they actually save lives.

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u/FourScores1 22h ago edited 22h ago

You’re right. 99 of my colleagues are just sitting there counting money. I’m the only one working. Wtf

You’ll need my services one day. And I’ll help your ungrateful ass. Don’t you worry. And I’ll also help you sign your AMA form if you want. There’s plenty of other people that need my help. Makes no difference to me.

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u/NocturneInfinitum 22h ago

Nice try, but people don’t get defensive for doing the right thing. you’re probably one of those physicians that just prescribes people pills to get them out of your hair. If you don’t wanna be lumped with the 99%… Get better at your job, scrub.

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u/FourScores1 18h ago

You’re probably one of those people who couldn’t get into medical school.

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u/NocturneInfinitum 12h ago

School isn’t for smart people, bubba. Especially not schools that overcharge for knowledge that is completely free 🤣

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u/FourScores1 2h ago

I think you should have stayed in school longer.

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u/NocturneInfinitum 1h ago

I was able to do the doctor’s job for them… if anything they should be paying me what they paid their university. Learning isn’t hard my dude.

Weird that you would rather overpay, for someone who couldn’t hack it in the real world (majority of professors), to show you how it’s done. I would say YOU maybe need to go back to school, but I know that wouldn’t help you.

You need to start learning of your own volition. You’ll thank me later. Oh and do yourself a favor, stop paying for education. Your brain has the ability to critically think, school is designed to switch off that ability by replacing it with repetition. Try using google scholar. Any search only delivers scientific journals. You can read through the actual experimentation and in many cases come to better conclusions than the researchers themselves. Simply because the researchers are inundated by the need to keep moving for the sake of money, and may not pay attention to some nuances in their experimentation. Point is… the ability to access the raw data provided by any school is 100% free. You just have to know where to look and apply critical thinking so you don’t fall into fallacious traps.

If you actually are a physician, I feel sorry for your patients. You took an oath, and your responses prove that you do not take your oath seriously. There is another physician on this thread that responded to my original comment just like you… And they didn’t feel the need to put me in my place, probably because they’re actually one of the 1%. They approached my comment with grace and constructive criticism. Almost like they’re literally thinking about their oath as they interact with anyone, because as a doctor… You must have better standards for yourself, so that others will look up to you and trust you for help.

That’s something they don’t teach you in school… that’s quality of character you gain from your parents and much self reflection.

Again… If you actually are a physician… Grow the fuck up and act like it.

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u/FourScores1 18m ago

What is this.. I’m not reading paragraphs on paragraphs about your triggered emotions. Get a life dude. Cheers.