Fifty-Three Things Wrong

Frequently people with complicated past medical histories come into the emergency department for care. If they have an organized list of their problems, it is really helpful. We want to keep their past history in mind as we evaluate the new problem that brought them to the emergency department today.

At other times, people are hypochondriacs or just weirdos and their list is really not helpful. It can be fascinating reading, however. Here is one such list. I reproduced it as exactly as I could.

Currenty told I have the following wrong

1. Prostate Cancer
2. Broken back and I spent 2 days in VA hospital and told nothing they could do due to many breaks
3. Diabetes type 1 was on 12 units of insulin and now at 25 units. Started type 2 in 2003 and became type 1 in 2009. one injection in am and one in pm.
4. Degenerative disc disease
5. Peripheral neuropathy
6. nerve neuropathy
7. Osteoporosis vertebroplasty
8. Both eyes operated on for cataracks
9. Fatigue
10. Feet go numb and once turned blue due diabetes.
11. Multiple age indeterminate compression deformities diagnostic code abnormality
12. Several calcification within pelvis which likely represent phleboliths.
13. Ureteral calculi cannot be excluded sub acute end plate deformity at L1, L2, L4, L5 with associated enhancement
14. Enlargement of prostalic.
15. L3 and L4 bilateral neroforaminal stenosis.
16. Degenerative changes causing central canal and bilater neuroforamind stenosis at L4 and L5
17. post operative changes of left laminotomy at L5 and Sl.ss
18. Mild compression deformities at L5, L2, LI.
19. cant walk too for before getting tired
20. Right hand drops things. Left does it too but not as much as the right
21. Very bad time going to sleep and sometimes have nightmares and wake up sweating around the neck.
22. Side effects of meds I took caused me to loose my wife and son. Now separated.
23. Anger sometimes very bad when I take the meds.
24. Urinate a lot due diabeties and have to wear depends. Have to eat 5 to 6 meals a day due hunger pangs and get weak if I don’t eat to point I feel like I may faint.
25. Diabetes started 5/13/03 type 2 and 2009 turned to type 1.
26. Wife MS started 4/20/09 and had to spend a week in hospital
27. ED since I got diabetes.
28. new meds don’t work.
29. Use cane to walk straight.
30. Handwriting iffy to bad at times.
31. Spondylolysis
32. compression at SI nerve root
33. Somatoform disorders
34. Lumbar spasms
35. peroneal neuropathy
36. Partial thromboplastin
37. Spurs at C4, C5, C6
38. disk ogenic end plate marrow signal changes at C5, C6and alio for a minal narrowing
39. always feel tired and fatigued
40. Incurable lymphedema
41. Cellulitis
42. PTSD
43. Congenitial interbody fusion
44. Bright flair signal in left frontal sub cortical whit matter in brain.
45. Bulging at L4, L5 level of the ventral surface of the thecal sac.
46. lumbosacrale spine
47. 3 nodules in lungs
48. Diffuse asteopenia.
49. When I lose sleep for two or more days I become very weak and may take another day or two to get better. One week I got 7 hours of sleep for the whole week. Almost dropped dead from that series of lost sleep.
50. Hit many times with hyperglycemia and hypoglycemia. Last 3 yrs none occurred.
51. blood glucose once hit over 500 now average 90 to 200 no matter what I do Meds make the numbers all over the place.
52. once slept for 24 hours another day 23 hours felt very weak and out of it.
53. PTSD