I have to give credit to a great Allnurses.com member "Been There, Done That," for inspiring this thread. After reading that great thread, . . . It hit me! Lol, I thought back to Nursing School.
BTDT was totally correct, after being sick off and on my first year of nursing with my first case of the Flu, late life chicken Pox (I was 19!), and a case of Laryngitis I never again got sick. I guess the bugs really did strengthen my immune systems past the normal "non-clinical-population."
But now, what about Nursing School during the Disease Processes, or just Nursing School in general! How many symptoms looked just like some horrid disease process? Now, I know we can't and shouldn't even try to diagnose disease, conditions, or disorders (although I know we are guilty of this in our heads and diagnosing ourselves).
What Diseases/Disorders did YOU think you might have in Nursing School?
Bostons List: DM/Hypothyroidism/ADD/IBS or Crohns/
Alzheimers/General Anxiety Disorder/OCD
Insomnia/and of course: Pyschosomatic Hypochondrias
I'm still to shy to list the group from Grad School, that list is "G" Rated. LOL! But, Thank goodness, it was temporary too!
Lol, No, I have never been Medically diagnosed with any of these, but you catch my drift. . . What did you "Temporary Illness" did you suffer from as a student?
I don't recall specifically diagnosing myself with anything. But psych threw me for a loop, esp learning that most people's first psychotic break occurs before age 25. I remember thinking that I still had four more years left. That and the GAF. My psych clinical group each did our GAF and none of us were very impressed with our scores. I think the highest of us scored in the 70s.
Impetigo- my PCP told me I had herpes, wrote an Rx for acyclovir and sent me on my way. I was infuriated and did my own research and diagnosed this myself and I was right (got effective treatment and everything). I never put 2+2 together to recall that I was on my peds rotation at that time.
ADD/ADHD- I never got a formal diagnosis but why bother, I don't want the meds. I went over all the teachers' comments on my report cards from grade school and they're *classic* (starts 5 assignments/finishes none, needs frequent redirection, problem with due dates). I think at the time when I was in school, the ADD diagnosis bandwagon wasn't in full force yet.
I learned in a child's picture (how eyes flash red), that if only one did, it was a sign of a brain tumor. All the poor children of my family suffered pictures (and you know just one wouldn't be proper research!) but this was of course due to my self diagnosed OCD, and Panic Disorder. Lol!
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Surprisingly, our class held off on a lot of self-diagnosing until we hit Psych Nursing. Then the gloves came off and the clusters came out :)