What disorders did you diagnose yourself with in Nursing School?

[BostonTerrierLover]

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?

[Meriwhen, ASN, BSN, MSN, RN]

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 :)

[sharpeimom]

brain cancer

premature menopause (i just knew my sweats, mood swings, and headaches were early menopause. turns out all my weird

symptoms were caused by an allergy to a common preservative. very melodramatic drawn out s-i-g-h...)

[Elvish, BSN, DNP, RN, NP]

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.

[Despareux]

My poor kids. Glad I'm not the only one.

[Ginger80]

Hmmm, quite a few actually:

headache= brain tumor/aneurysm

sore throat=throat cancer

pain in leg= DVT

constipation= bowel cancer

period coming 2 days earlier than usual= having to have hysterectomy

eye twitching= MS

It's quite embarrassing as I am normally a rational person. But my imagination gets carried away when it comes to my health.

[SHGR, MSN, RN, CNS]

Alteration in nutrition: more than body requirements.

and,

Sleep pattern disturbance.

[Vespertinas]

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.

[nerdtonurse?, BSN, RN]

Headache was either a brain tumor or a TIA

Upset stomach was infarcted mesenteric artery and I was going to have an illeus momentarily

Chest pain was a MI (the 3 pots of coffee I was drinking during an all night study session had nothing to do with it, of course...)

That was all during LPN training. By the time I went for the RN, I was like, "yeah, right, whatever."

[BostonTerrierLover, BSN, RN]

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!

[SummitRN, BSN, RN]

delerium, dementia, insomnia, and senioritis....

[BostonTerrierLover, BSN, RN]

I also suffered a few bouts of Opthorectumitis,. . . thats a crappy outlook:yeah:and narco narcolep . .Nar..leps. .

[RN2LuvU]

Anal Warts, but thank God it turned out to be Follicalitis!!!!!

Crabs, turned out to be Razor Burn!!!!

Herpes, turned out to be contact dermatitis!!!!!!

Ammenorrhea(thought cancer), turned out to be pregnancy!!!!

Yes, before you say it, I had a really bad coping Mechanism, and Yes, they were very embarrasing MD Visits.