Medical Student Syndrome
While Medical students are learning medicine they read lists of symptoms for different diseases daily. Although they are completely healthy, they feel that they are suffering from the symptoms of specific diseases and they have it.
For example: If a medical student is reading about swine flu he may feel its symptoms and do unnecessary laboratory tests to confirm his wrong diagnosis.
Now the disease included millions of non medical students who can easily search in the internet about any disease and believe in having its symptoms.
If you suffered from this syndrome before share with us your experience through writing your comment here.
66 comments:
I'm a pre-med student 2nd year and I have this already, i guess i'm pretty much screwed ... I thought I had everything from testicular cancer to Necrotizing Fasciitis so far lol, hope it goes away soon enough
i thought i saw a pussycat
its not always a wrong diagnosis. i read about reynaud's phenomenon and thought i might have it so i went and chatted to one of the consultants on the ward and it turns out i do !!
lol. i am one of them. now i'm studying CNS module and when i have headache i starts to think about all those increase intracranial pressure symptoms. haha..
In our times we called it a Third year syndrome--as when u start clinicals you learn of symptoms and start correlating it to urself.Avery real disorder indeed in the later years of medical school.
many of us av entertained the diagnosis of Hogkins Lymphoma in a collegue
Yeah that is true, actually i remember that happening to a close friend of mine.She thought she had mental disorders while having psychiatry clinic.
i am in 5tyh year of medicine and yeh i felt this but little as no time to think more and hope all symptoms from this syndrome be as psychiatric only
I am in the last year of med school. I don't usually think that i am sick but when someone of my close relatives and friends comes to me with a symptom i always think of the worst. Once my dad had the flu and his voice was kinda hoarse and i was thinking of lung cancer that could affect the laryngeal nerve.
i'm a medical student
5th year
i have a bad mood and depression
what's the solution?
I'm a 4th yr medical student,,, and I always feel that every single disease I read about or see in hospitals will affect me :s I dunno y I started feeling that the future is soo dark after I started my medical schooooool ,,, ewww that really sucks :(
of course I used to think that way too
but not to the limit that push me going to clinic or doing labs !!!
i had it even before when i was a med student
6th and last year of medicine... Luckily never had it...:)
in the 2rd year of my medical study
after helminiths lesson. i thought i had enterobius vermicularis and i applied for diagnosis.
m a 3rd yr stdnt. my problm z dt i gt symptoms dt seem rather prominent in relation to da module dt m doin at dt current tym. currently m sufferin frm wot i thnk cud b early onset of chronic renal failure. :(
my grandpa has this syndrome. Anyone he hears that is sick he says , oh i may have these syndromes too
In my 5th year in Med skul,I started constant severe headaches which did not respond to medication.After havin lectures on Cranial tumours,I was convinced I had a brain tumour.I was so scared,I almost went for a CT SCAN.I later found out d headaches were due to constant strainin of my eyes while reading.The headaches finally stopped when I started using glasses.I always laugh at my self now for ever thinkin I had a brain tumour.Its funny now but trust me it was realllyyy SCARY then
When i was in about 4 years of medical school, every symptons we studied in psychiatric diseases make us feel suspicious of have the disease. LOL!!!
damn right MSS. i thought only i got such feelings :)
medical student couple syndrome also prominent.
Somatic illness... :)
medical student sometime hane psycosomatic illnes syndrome
me too..when i learned hematology in year 2,..suddenly i kept feeling shortness of breath and feverish..then i was diagnosing myself leukemia....i did a blood test an everything was normal...i'm glad that i dont extremely asked for BMA...hahah..such a silly thinking..
actually i dont compare with myself rather with my friends....hehe
specially noticeable in the psyquiatric classes
OMG I'm lerning neurology now... that's a real nightmare :/
:D
yeh its tru every medical pass tru this but usually interpret it a tru disosder therefore evey medical personnel shld be psychiayrically stable otherwiz it creats so many serious problm.
fuck medicine
AHHHHHH
me to when i was medical student....
since 3 yrs ago,when i finished medicine,i threw away those bad sensations...i am freeee....:)))
it could be ridiculous sometimes lol
a friend of mine though he had aqcquired an STD
and he was virgin :P
in my medical school , 3 medical students was diagnosed to have lymphoma, luekemia and liposarcoma , this is not MSS , COME ON.. we are diagnosing ourselves early ..
yes, i thought i have hypothyroidism, anemia, depression. all the diff dx for hypothyroidism that i was studing,
on my last yr of med school
that's right
hehehe here we call it 5th(last year) medical student syndrome,,,,
i'll start my last year after 3 weeks i dunno wut gonna happen with me,,,but hope nt like the student on the pic,,lol
yes yes yes
i have this syndrome, i m always afraid about beeing a victim of cancer and now about having scleroderma it is my phobia now
i think medical students must be stronger and mor realistic than every one els..and bad thoughts and imagination couldnt affect his mind...iam hazha a medical student in iraq
maybe true.. this syndrome, could be due to information need.. when i was medical student (2 years ago), i felt similiar things. but no more... don't worry, it will be ok lol
i have a temporomandibular disjunction ,and every time i had pain in my left jaw i think i have heart disorders.its not so easy beeing a doctor :))
Lolz,thank GOD i knew about MSS b4 entering medical skul,so when i want to start imagining i have any symptom coz i read it,i just tell myself,this is MSS...lolz,but funny enough i had Iron Deficiency Anaemia during my heamopoetic module and that was just after my CVS module..lol,and i was actually starting to feel renal colic during my renal module,thank GOD the module dint take long would have visited d xul lab..lol.
yeah ... sometimes when read the symptoms of certain disease i feel like i have this symptoms...
sooo true lol..its freakin me out..whenever i learn abt new symptoms and diseases..fuhh..(@~@)
that's so true! at the end of every pathology lecture I end up having tons of diseases! lol!
I'm graduating now, never really had it apart from the time I thought I had a small chance of having the mumps when I had to go for a booster MMR shot. The public health nurse was more certain that my flu-like symptoms and slightly enlarged salivary glands were mumps. Tests were negative.
im a second yr. medical student, Our topic in systemic pathology is about neoplasia..... and I become so much obsessed on t I have a colon cancer... due to the sign and systoms were discussing... I undergone a lot of test like occult blood, colon ca markers such as CEA and all of this test turn to be negative... and im about to undergo colonoscopy, yeah somehow it could be preventive measures not a medical syndrome perhaps. because ca is so silent that you dont know it you have it.
I'm a medical student and after studying depression i suffered from all symptom and sign and took medical treatment without any response till doctors diagnosed me mss and now I'm free
absolutely I have it
I'm 5th year student,,
and when I had ENT course I stared to feel pain n my ear & I Suffer of loss of hearing,then when I took Ophthalmology I had eye Pain!, then Orho, I swear that my Joint hurts Me All the Time!! and here we go! continuously!
I don't Know how to get rid of All That!!
i'm too suffering
My friend has this syndrome, when we learn endocrine metabolic, he always feel the DM symptoms, when we learn about musculoscletal diseases, he told me that he got some knee pain and need xray to confirm it.LoL
is it a kind of people called " nosophobia "?
i am on my 3rd year and i have no weard simptoms, but i did find a lot on new information about thyroid gland and guess what? i runed the tests and i have a hyperactive thyroid and also an auto-imune disease (hashimoto) :P so i diagnosed my self corectly :)
Taking Endo,Repro, Embryology and Genetics has been a real eye opening experience in understanding the cause of my micropenis. But, honestly, you'd be squinting looking at it.
micropenis
yup
im a 5th medical student and after i've took a cardiology course so i start to feel somthing wrong with my heart and after such tests i discover that i have a mitral prolaps..
so its not always a MSS
I realy thnk i suffer frm a neurologic disease, i've a blunted speech n am always excited wen i begin to speak..n i speak so fast n unclearly dat no1 is able to undrstnd me..many words pose me a problem 4 pronunciation..al ths startd since i lft college..im also vry unsociable....i realy feel ive schizophrenia..
I need help
i felt so..the first year ...
then i felt even worse when i started to study the microbiology..:)
i am a 4th year medical student and i hv different type of syndrome. i alwys think that most of the complaints are only psychological problems not a serious disease.everytime my friends or fmly complain about their ds i always say it's nothing,it just a normal ds,dont think too much it will be ok soon..yeah, and the worst thing was i hv breast tumor few months ago and im not scared at all. i went to an operation and i think it's cool cz i can experience the surgical procedure myself..
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Numerous large Cafe au Lait spots - I think I am a carrier for neurofibromatosis type 1. Also, had to test our blood sugars. Mine was high so the endocrinologist taking the session asked me if I had been experiencing symptoms. Weight Loss, check, Polyuria, check, fatigue check. Thankfully that's because I can't cook, drink too much diuretic coffee and don't get enough sleep. It makes you doubt though...
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