Doctors and nurses of Internet: What self-diagnosis of a patient suprisingly turned out to be right?

My mom is a nurse supervisor at a nursing home. Multiple times, patients have walked up to her and said goodbye, that they’re going to die that night. Even though these residents have been perfectly mobile and “with it” they have always been right.

I read about a woman who had a voice in her head that kept telling her that she had a brain tumor. She eventually got tested and it turned out that she did have a tumor and it was causing the auditory hallucinations.

Long time ago a patient of mine in the mental health unit had a delusion that he had a bleed in his brain. Kept on it for a month. One night he actually did have a massive spontaneous intracerebral bleed. Poor guy died after that.

I was the patient in this case, but back in February I had all the symptoms of pneumonia and the doctor kept trying to tell me I had the flu until the test came back negative for the flu and the x-ray of my lungs showed I did in fact have pneumonia.

I’m starting to think she was actually testing me for covid though.

My sister had a lump behind her ear that was causing her pain and was growing. My mom used to be a nurse and she thought it didn’t look right, it wasn’t just a cyst so she kept monitoring it and started to become worried that it might be cancerous. For a whole year my mom went back and forth with doctors asking them to take her seriously and one doctor finally agreed to go in and biopsy it. Lo and behold my sister had stage 1 cancer, and it was a rare form at that.