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Dean Cain Claims He Could Have Had ‘Biggest Sexual Harassment Lawsuit In Hollywood History'
is breaking his silence on a dark chapter from his past. The 58-year-old actor, best known for his role as Clark Kent in "Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman" (1993–1997), revealed that he was the victim of shocking sexual harassment by a show business executive during his career. While Dean Cain stopped short of naming names or giving specifics, he described the harassment as 'historic' in scale and impact. Dean Cain Reveals He Was Sexually Harassed During 'Lois & Clark' Fame In a new interview with Variety, Cain didn't hold back, admitting, 'I could have had the biggest sexual harassment lawsuit in Hollywood history," adding that he has 'never before told a reporter' about the disturbing ordeal. The harassment Cain endured also took a personal toll. According to the outlet, the ordeal strained his relationship with then-girlfriend Gabrielle Reece, the volleyball star and model he was romantically linked to in the '90s. Cain's revelation comes as part of a wide-ranging conversation reflecting on his career, including his iconic four-season run as Superman in "Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman." The show aired 87 episodes before coming to an abrupt and unexpected end in 1997, despite enjoying strong viewership. Cain revealed he had already written scripts and was preparing to direct episodes for a planned fifth season that ultimately never happened. Cain Says He Was Advised Not To Sue Warner Bros. Adding to the sting, Cain admitted he also considered suing after realizing just how financially shortchanged he may have been. 'I didn't know enough back then about residuals,' he explained. 'Warner Bros. buries the bodies deep and makes it look like it's lost money. There's no possible way.' The actor went on to reveal that he was advised not to pursue legal action at the time, despite pointing to George Clooney's successful lawsuit against "ER" as an example. 'I should have sued,' Cain said. 'George Clooney did it. He sued on 'ER' and got a big payout for his participation. I was advised not to because, 'You don't want to bite the hand that feeds you.'' Dean Cain Reveals Racist Slur He Faced After Being Cast As Superman Cain's candid revelations didn't stop at financial frustrations and behind-the-scenes tensions. He also opened up about the racism he faced when first stepping into the iconic red cape. The 58-year-old actor, who recently slammed David Corenswet's "Superman" reboot as 'woke' before even watching it, recalled the ugly backlash he received after being cast in 1993. 'I remember a fan going, 'We wanted Superman, not Sushi Man,'' Cain told Variety. The remark was a jab at his Japanese American heritage, his biological father was a Japanese American serviceman, but Cain insists he wasn't offended. 'For the love of God, he's a Kryptonian. He could be green. Does it matter?' Cain said, pointing out how Hollywood's obsession with 'firsts," from him being the first Japanese American Superman, to Henry Cavill as the first British one, and David Corenswet as the first Jewish Man of Steel, misses the bigger picture. Cain Pushes Back On 'Immigrant' Label For Superman Cain added that while Superman has always represented the American ideal, including immigrant-friendly values, there still need to be boundaries. 'Superman has always stood for 'truth, justice and the American way,' and the 'American way' is immigrant-friendly, tremendously immigrant-friendly,' he said. 'But there are rules. You can't come in saying, 'I want to get rid of all the rules in America, because I want it to be more like Somalia.' Well, that doesn't work, because you had to leave Somalia to come here." He added, "There have to be limits, because we can't have everybody in the United States. We can't have everybody, society will fail. So there have to be limits.' James Gunn's 'Superman' Becomes Highest-Grossing Solo 'Superman' Film In The U.S. While Dean Cain continues to air his grievances about Hollywood's 'woke' direction, James Gunn's "Superman" is proving unstoppable at the box office. The reboot has officially soared past "Man of Steel"'s domestic earnings, pulling in more than $291 million in the U.S. alone and becoming the highest-grossing solo Superman movie of all time. Globally, the DCU installment has already raked in over $500 million since its release just a few weeks ago, and it's showing no signs of slowing down. Solve the daily Crossword
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Another genius just discovered Yellowstone is dangerous and accidentally burned himself
Park fans, here's your schadenfreude. Folks, we've got our first nominee for 2025's "Darwin Award Runner-Up" courtesy of Yellowstone National Park. On Monday morning, a 17-year-old male managed to achieve what millions of visitors somehow avoid every year: accidentally turning his foot into a lobster thermidor near Lone Star Geyser. Our arrogant Einstein was hiking in the thermal area — you know, the part where there are boardwalks and trails — when his foot decided to play peek-a-boo with the ground, breaking through what park officials diplomatically call "thin, breakable crust." Spoiler alert: It broke. The result? Significant thermal burns to his foot and ankle, a helicopter ride to the hospital, and the distinction of being Yellowstone's first thermal injury victim of 2025. Congratulations, kid. You've made it into the record books faster than your foot made it into that scalding water. How not to become tomorrow's cautionary tale Apparently, some people missed the memo that Yellowstone's thermal features aren't nature's version of a hot tub. Those wooden boardwalks snaking through the park aren't just rustic decoration – they're literally the difference between enjoying your vacation and becoming a human soup dumpling. The boardwalks serve a dual purpose that even a caffeinated squirrel could understand. First, they protect the delicate thermal formations that took thousands of years to develop; they can be destroyed faster than your dignity when you explain to the ER doctor how you got burned. Second, and more importantly for your continued existence, they keep you from discovering that the ground beneath Yellowstone is basically a geological game of "The Floor is Lava." Except the lava is real, it's scalding water, and you can't respawn. Here's your crash course in not being an idiot: Stay on the boardwalks. Yes, all of them. No, you're not special. No, that Instagram shot isn't worth permanent scarring. Yes, I will pop out from behind a bush and yell at you. The thin crust around hot springs is nature's cruelest practical joke — it looks solid enough to support your weight right up until it isn't. What lies beneath? Water hot enough to cook you like a Christmas ham, which is exactly what has happened to more than 20 people who thought they knew better than the National Park Service. Don't touch thermal features, don't let your kids run wild on boardwalks (unless you enjoy explaining to your insurance company how little Timmy became a thermal casualty), and definitely don't bring Fido (pets are banned from thermal areas for reasons that should be obvious). The moral of this story? Those warning signs exist because people like our teenage protagonist prove that common sense isn't actually that common. Don't be the subject of next year's "another moron burns himself" article. Your skin will thank you, your wallet will thank you, and the rest of us won't have to read about your poor life choices in the morning news. Stay on the boardwalks, people. It's really not that complicated. Solve the daily Crossword
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Another genius just discovered Yellowstone is dangerous and accidentally burned himself
Park fans, here's your schadenfreude. Folks, we've got our first nominee for 2025's "Darwin Award Runner-Up" courtesy of Yellowstone National Park. On Monday morning, a 17-year-old male managed to achieve what millions of visitors somehow avoid every year: accidentally turning his foot into a lobster thermidor near Lone Star Geyser. Our arrogant Einstein was hiking in the thermal area — you know, the part where there are boardwalks and trails — when his foot decided to play peek-a-boo with the ground, breaking through what park officials diplomatically call "thin, breakable crust." Spoiler alert: It broke. The result? Significant thermal burns to his foot and ankle, a helicopter ride to the hospital, and the distinction of being Yellowstone's first thermal injury victim of 2025. Congratulations, kid. You've made it into the record books faster than your foot made it into that scalding water. How not to become tomorrow's cautionary tale Apparently, some people missed the memo that Yellowstone's thermal features aren't nature's version of a hot tub. Those wooden boardwalks snaking through the park aren't just rustic decoration – they're literally the difference between enjoying your vacation and becoming a human soup dumpling. The boardwalks serve a dual purpose that even a caffeinated squirrel could understand. First, they protect the delicate thermal formations that took thousands of years to develop; they can be destroyed faster than your dignity when you explain to the ER doctor how you got burned. Second, and more importantly for your continued existence, they keep you from discovering that the ground beneath Yellowstone is basically a geological game of "The Floor is Lava." Except the lava is real, it's scalding water, and you can't respawn. Here's your crash course in not being an idiot: Stay on the boardwalks. Yes, all of them. No, you're not special. No, that Instagram shot isn't worth permanent scarring. Yes, I will pop out from behind a bush and yell at you. The thin crust around hot springs is nature's cruelest practical joke — it looks solid enough to support your weight right up until it isn't. What lies beneath? Water hot enough to cook you like a Christmas ham, which is exactly what has happened to more than 20 people who thought they knew better than the National Park Service. Don't touch thermal features, don't let your kids run wild on boardwalks (unless you enjoy explaining to your insurance company how little Timmy became a thermal casualty), and definitely don't bring Fido (pets are banned from thermal areas for reasons that should be obvious). The moral of this story? Those warning signs exist because people like our teenage protagonist prove that common sense isn't actually that common. Don't be the subject of next year's "another moron burns himself" article. Your skin will thank you, your wallet will thank you, and the rest of us won't have to read about your poor life choices in the morning news. Stay on the boardwalks, people. It's really not that complicated. Solve the daily Crossword
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2 days ago
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24 Times Patients Said "Actually, I Think I Know My Body Better" And Literally Saved Their Own Lives
Healthcare professionals have one of the hardest jobs, and there is a reason they call medicine a "practice," but sometimes, as a patient, you get a diagnosis and something in your gut tells you, "No, something else is wrong." It's important to take medical advice, but it's also important to advocate for yourself, your symptoms, and your treatment plan. These 24 stories from the BuzzFeed Community show just that, where patients got a second opinion, and boy-oh-boy am I glad they did. 1. "My husband was having chest pains and breathing problems. I rushed him to the ER. I was told by the head ER doctor that he was faking it and only wanted pain meds. The resident in training mentioned the gallbladders. The head yelled at us to leave. A couple of days later, we rushed him to the ER. Emergency gallbladder, his was the worst the surgeon had neurotic. If we had waited, just by another couple of days, he would have died." —desert_moonfire 2. "My father is a doctor. His friend is a doctor. They went skiing and took his kids and my older brother and sister (I was too young to go). My sister fell over, screaming in pain. BOTH doctors checked it out and said it was just a sprain and to ski to the bottom of the mountain. My sister refused, and then one of the ski field medics came over. He insisted on taking her on a stretcher. Friends, following an X-ray, it turns out she had broken her FEMUR." —edgycrab59 Related: 3. When I was 11, I had excruciating abdominal pain and fainting. Because these episodes generally happened at school, because I never went anywhere else, every doctor told my parents that I was faking and just didn't want to be at school. I got my period when I was 12, and it was extremely painful, heavy, and irregular. Some months, I would get it three times. After this, every time I went in for fainting and pain, I was told it was just my period, and it was normal. So I stopped going. I learned to deal with it & accepted that my pain was normal. At 14, I was leaving my grandparents' house after 3 days of pain, but didn't say anything because I was used to it. Suddenly, the pain was unbearable & I was screaming, crying, and vomiting. I went to the hospital, and they finally took my pain seriously. Turns out, I had been getting regular cysts on my ovaries and fallopian tubes for years. This particular time, one big one had grown a tail and wrapped around itself, causing this worsened pain. —vibrantbee63 4. "My best friend went to the hospital with extreme stomach pain. They kept telling her it was probably period cramps. She insisted that it was much worse. They then went on to tell her she was probably overreacting. The next day, she went back screaming in pain. Her appendix was about to rupture when they finally took her." —madisonaustin 5. "I spent years with severe cyclical abdominal pain, and was only ever told to take anti-inflammatories for menstrual cramps. Even had two emergency room visits because I thought something was rupturing. I was sent home, and they said it was nothing. Fast forward a few years, and I had stage 4 endometriosis that wrapped around most of my lower quadrant organs. The number of conditions written off as 'just your period' is shocking." —emcatt 6. "As a fat person, and particularly a fat woman, I have so many experiences of being dismissed or misdiagnosed just because of my weight. The worst was a few years back when I was having horrific back and abdominal pain, so bad that I was puking my guts up and crying on the bathroom floor for hours on end on multiple occasions. I went to the ER and was told it was a back spasm caused by excess weight. They gave me a muscle relaxer and sent me on my way. These episodes kept recurring and were getting worse each time. I would have rated each of these experiences at least a 9/10 on the pain scale, but I thought it was just something I was going to have to live with since doctors just kept telling me it was back spasms, telling me to lose weight, and giving me more muscle relaxers… until finally, one of the MANY gallstones that was *actually* causing the issue dislodged and got stuck in the bile duct, giving me pancreatitis that the ER doctor said almost killed me 🙃." —hannah27 7. "My friend was having really bad pain in her upper arm. Went to the doctor, and he gave her pain pills. She still kept having the pain, and nothing helped. Went back to the doctor and happened to see the physician's assistant. She ordered bloodwork, and the doctor got mad about it and yelled at the PA about wasting resources in front of my friend. When the results came back, she had leukemia!" —luckyangel30 8. "Not as serious as some of these, but last year, I started showing signs of thyroid issues. I brought up some of my symptoms to my doctor, but she said I was too young for thyroid problems and didn't need a test. I told her I would still like a test, just in case. Surprise! Thyroid problem! After a couple more tests to rule out Hashimoto's, it turns out it's hypothyroidism, and now I'm on medication and feel mostly better." —lanamarie Related: 9. "My best friend had rods put into her spine (scoliosis) as a kid. At college, she noticed a sore spot on her scar, between her shoulder blades. Then, it popped. She went to the on-campus health center and was told, "You're in college--you were probably drunk and fell over." She went to the local hospital and was quickly diagnosed with a raging spinal infection that necessitated a PICC line for heavy-duty antibiotics and surgery to remove her rods. Fun times." —bookfanatic1979 10. "I was 37 weeks pregnant with my second child when I started suffering from excruciating pain that radiated from my lower back all the way around to the front of my abdomen. After about four hours of debilitating pain, I had my husband take me to the ER, where I was then redirected to L&D since I was so close to my due date. When I got there, a nurse hooked me up to a heart monitor, informed me that I wasn't in labor (which I already knew), and told me that it was just normal pregnancy back pain. Well, it most certainly was not 'normal' since two weeks after my DD was born, I was in the ER with gallstones, which resulted in surgery to remove my gallbladder." —stuckinak 11. "A couple of years ago, I got out of bed, heard a very loud pop/snapping noise, and was immediately hit by tremendous pain in my foot. It didn't go away after an hour, and I couldn't stand, so I rang my doctor, and they reluctantly sent an ambulance, and the EMT said it was probably just a trapped nerve. They took me to the hospital 'just to check,' and assured me it was probably nothing, but an X-ray revealed that I had fractured my foot. They gave me a mumbled apology and a foam shoe thing to cushion my foot to heal, no painkillers. Happened again last year, but this time, the EMT believed me because I was screaming and crying in pain." —retrocrebbon 12. "I got out of bed one night, my knee gave out, and I went down. I heard the pop, but I can't remember how I verbally reacted. I got myself back in bed, and my ankle quickly bruised and swelled. I had to drag myself to go to the hospital. They did X-rays and an exam before they determined it was just a sprain. A couple of days later, I was hurting even worse. I shaved my legs and went back to the same hospital. When they got me back, they looked at the first X-ray and said it was broken." —osubuck182002 Related: 13. "I was a teenager, and I had been seeing a gyno for over four years without a single test or exam done. I bled for months on end and was extremely miserable 97% of the time. He had no problem pumping me full of Depo Provera several times a month. It didn't help. I was just a couple of weeks away from going away to college when I got a second opinion. I had accomplished more in one appointment than in four years. I had a D&C a couple of days later. I had more that happened following my arrival to college. It was embarrassing and humiliating. I ended up having another surgery almost two months after the first. It was mostly exploratory, only to determine I had endometriosis throughout my abdomen, and my appendix needed to be removed." —osubuck182002 14. "One morning, I woke up with excruciating pain under my shoulder blade. I saw my primary care and they told me it was muscular and gave me muscle relaxants. When those didn't work and I found myself constantly nauseous from the pain, I went to the ER about 48 hours later. They refused to even X-ray me, but gave me Vicodin and told me to 'do some stretches.' The next day, I begged an ortho office to take me. They knew as soon as they did an X-ray that I had slipped a disc in my neck between C6 and C7, immediately sent me for an MRI, and had me back in their office all in a matter of hours. The disc in my neck was bulging so much that it was pressing on my spinal cord, causing me to not only have the pain in my shoulder blade but also numbness and tingling as well as no reflexes in my right arm when tested. They immediately scheduled me for surgery the next day. I now have two fused vertebrae and titanium plates in my neck. I could have been paralyzed and still have no idea how it happened." —catielanouette 15. "I was in a severe car accident when I was 18. I had a follow-up with orthopedics due to where the car had hit me. I told the doctor that I took all my pain medication, but my foot was still hurting. At this point, I was not allowed to walk more than a mile a day. He took my foot, bent it down, and I was screaming in pain. He literally looked at me, and said nothing was wrong and to come back in six weeks. So I came back in six weeks and saw his physician's assistant. I told her that I was still having foot problems, and I couldn't put any pressure on it without being in pain. She ended up doing an X-ray of it, came back to me, and said, 'Yeah, your foot is broken...' And at that point, it was too late to do anything." —dancingdeadd 16. "A few years ago, I was having really nasty chest pain. It would come and go every couple of weeks, last for days at a time, and always get worse after physical activity. I could also feel a 'bubbling' sensation in my right side every time I bent over. I had made multiple visits to urgent care, where I was always told that everything was normal on tests and images. Fast forward about a month, and I was still having the pain. I went to a different urgent care, saw a different doctor, and had an X-ray run. They called me about half an hour after leaving the office to say that I had a pneumothorax (essentially, a partially collapsed lung). One round of steroids and a lot of rest later, I was back in action. But if I hadn't listened to my gut and gotten it checked again, who knows what would have happened!" —fillionfan4002 17. "I went to the ER with severe abdominal pain, chills, vomiting, etc. I go in thinking it's my appendix. After 8 hours in the ER, I got an MRI, bloodwork, and an ultrasound, only to get sent home with anti-nausea medication and told to follow up with my primary for food poisoning. I read my discharge papers on the way home. I work in the medical field and knew that my bloodwork indicated an infection, and the MRI showed inflammation in the gallbladder and liver. I ended up back in the ER two nights later. I sat in the waiting room for seven hours, barely able to walk, only to get rushed in emergency surgery after a second ultrasound to get my gallbladder removed. It was double the normal size. My surgeon told me another day that it would have ruptured." —witchboo78843 18. "I had shoulder surgery a few years back. At the time, I was 35. The surgery went well, and I was released the same day. After a few days, I started noticing weakness and slight pain in my left calf, like a charley horse. After a day of this with no relief, no matter how I stretched it or put heat to it, I called my surgeon, concerned because the area I was feeling pain in was warmer than the rest of my leg. I was concerned I had a clot. He had me come in, examined me, and told me it wasn't, and I was too young to fit the profile. Advised me to see my PCP. That evening, the pain was terrible, and I mentioned it to my nephrologist, whom I had a follow-up with for other health issues. He advised me to go to the ER immediately. They found three clots, one in each leg and one in my arm. I spent 2 days in the hospital and was on blood thinners for 6 months." —Nicb1122 19. "I took a hard hit during a hockey game, and immediately after, I could feel that my hip was weaker. I went to my high school's athletic trainer about a day later because I couldn't even walk without being in pain, and they just kind of brushed it off, saying that hip problems are common in hockey goalies (which they are), and they gave me some stretches and drills to strengthen it. Cut to three years later, I was playing college softball, lifting a lot, and my hip was just getting worse. When I did try to stretch it, I didn't actually have any feeling in it. I went to the athletic trainer at my college, and they immediately had an idea as to what it was. They booked me an appointment with an orthopedic doctor who had me get X-rays and a CT scan. I had torn my labrum and needed surgery to repair it. It was torn for so long that they had to shave down a part of the head of my femur to round it back out." —belileemily Related: 20. "I went to a local urgent care for what I thought was a respiratory infection, and the doctor told me it was allergies. He prescribed me an inhaler and told me to take over-the-counter allergy medicine. I went to my primary doctor a few days later and found out it was walking pneumonia." —ejt263 21. "I had this insane depression for about a year and started to develop some weird personality changes. Quickly, I was diagnosed with anxiety/depression/bipolar disorder. I started to develop an intense sensitivity to light and horrible muscle pain. At the time, I was medically getting out of the army and using the VA. My muscle pain/light sensitivity/mood change, and headaches were so intense that I called my doctor several times. She was so annoyed and said it was an f-ing migraine, and my bipolar disorder was causing me to be overly dramatic. I went to two different hospitals the same week with the same result. One morning, I could barely see and couldn't walk. I lost consciousness and went completely blind because my cranial pressure was at 25 when the average is perhaps 15. I was diagnosed with Intracranial hypertension, which basically means your brain mimics a non-existent tumor. I could have fully lost my vision simply because they thought my mental health was making me seek attention." —michellequeiruga 22. "In my early 20s, my knee started swelling, and there was horrible pain no matter what I was doing. I did PT, which didn't help. The orthopedist I saw ran tests and said there was nothing wrong. Since it was swollen, he drew out fluid and injected steroids in that knee, which felt almost as bad as when I broke my leg. Three years passed, and it just kept getting worse, so he finally agreed to take a look surgically to prove nothing was wrong. As I was starting to come out from the anesthesia, he told me my knee was so packed with broken cartilage that he had no idea how I was able to walk. I refused to see him ever again. —ralyn71774 23. "When I was in my early twenties, I broke my hand at the metacarpal bone. A few years later, I fell and landed on my other hand. During the day, it started swelling, hurting, and I couldn't move my fingers - familiar symptoms, so I went to the ER. They did an X-ray, and when the doctor called me in after four hours(!), she didn't even look at me and said that it was just a contusion and to go home. I asked her to please look again at the X-rays since it felt like the last time when I broke my hand. She refused. I asked again, and again, and didn't leave until she rolled her eyes and looked up the X-ray pics again. And lo and behold, she found the fracture, and I got a cast. I know that doctors have tough jobs, and I understand that they have to deal with a lot of annoying people, but it's really frustrating to read all these stories where doctors just disregard patients. —linkamalinka 24. Finally, "A friend of mine, her mom died of breast cancer when she was 4–5 years old. Cut to adulthood, and my friend was so diligent. She started getting mammograms at 18 years old because of her mom; she became a nurse and cared for kids with cancer. She got married, had a few kids, and noticed a hard lump in her breast. She had orange crap coming out of her nipple, and she said the texture felt like an orange. She went to her local doctor, and he said, 'Don't worry about it.' It's due to She had stage 3 breast cancer." —deadzy I'm glad these people got a second opinion and the treatment they needed! Want to share your story? We'd love to hear it in the comments or anonymously in the form below. Also in BuzzFeed: Also in BuzzFeed: Also in BuzzFeed:
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24 Times Patients Said "Actually, I Think I Know My Body Better" And Literally Saved Their Own Lives
Healthcare professionals have one of the hardest jobs, and there is a reason they call medicine a "practice," but sometimes, as a patient, you get a diagnosis and something in your gut tells you, "No, something else is wrong." It's important to take medical advice, but it's also important to advocate for yourself, your symptoms, and your treatment plan. These 24 stories from the BuzzFeed Community show just that, where patients got a second opinion, and boy-oh-boy am I glad they did. 1. "My husband was having chest pains and breathing problems. I rushed him to the ER. I was told by the head ER doctor that he was faking it and only wanted pain meds. The resident in training mentioned the gallbladders. The head yelled at us to leave. A couple of days later, we rushed him to the ER. Emergency gallbladder, his was the worst the surgeon had neurotic. If we had waited, just by another couple of days, he would have died." —desert_moonfire 2. "My father is a doctor. His friend is a doctor. They went skiing and took his kids and my older brother and sister (I was too young to go). My sister fell over, screaming in pain. BOTH doctors checked it out and said it was just a sprain and to ski to the bottom of the mountain. My sister refused, and then one of the ski field medics came over. He insisted on taking her on a stretcher. Friends, following an X-ray, it turns out she had broken her FEMUR." —edgycrab59 Related: 3. When I was 11, I had excruciating abdominal pain and fainting. Because these episodes generally happened at school, because I never went anywhere else, every doctor told my parents that I was faking and just didn't want to be at school. I got my period when I was 12, and it was extremely painful, heavy, and irregular. Some months, I would get it three times. After this, every time I went in for fainting and pain, I was told it was just my period, and it was normal. So I stopped going. I learned to deal with it & accepted that my pain was normal. At 14, I was leaving my grandparents' house after 3 days of pain, but didn't say anything because I was used to it. Suddenly, the pain was unbearable & I was screaming, crying, and vomiting. I went to the hospital, and they finally took my pain seriously. Turns out, I had been getting regular cysts on my ovaries and fallopian tubes for years. This particular time, one big one had grown a tail and wrapped around itself, causing this worsened pain. —vibrantbee63 4. "My best friend went to the hospital with extreme stomach pain. They kept telling her it was probably period cramps. She insisted that it was much worse. They then went on to tell her she was probably overreacting. The next day, she went back screaming in pain. Her appendix was about to rupture when they finally took her." —madisonaustin 5. "I spent years with severe cyclical abdominal pain, and was only ever told to take anti-inflammatories for menstrual cramps. Even had two emergency room visits because I thought something was rupturing. I was sent home, and they said it was nothing. Fast forward a few years, and I had stage 4 endometriosis that wrapped around most of my lower quadrant organs. The number of conditions written off as 'just your period' is shocking." —emcatt 6. "As a fat person, and particularly a fat woman, I have so many experiences of being dismissed or misdiagnosed just because of my weight. The worst was a few years back when I was having horrific back and abdominal pain, so bad that I was puking my guts up and crying on the bathroom floor for hours on end on multiple occasions. I went to the ER and was told it was a back spasm caused by excess weight. They gave me a muscle relaxer and sent me on my way. These episodes kept recurring and were getting worse each time. I would have rated each of these experiences at least a 9/10 on the pain scale, but I thought it was just something I was going to have to live with since doctors just kept telling me it was back spasms, telling me to lose weight, and giving me more muscle relaxers… until finally, one of the MANY gallstones that was *actually* causing the issue dislodged and got stuck in the bile duct, giving me pancreatitis that the ER doctor said almost killed me 🙃." —hannah27 7. "My friend was having really bad pain in her upper arm. Went to the doctor, and he gave her pain pills. She still kept having the pain, and nothing helped. Went back to the doctor and happened to see the physician's assistant. She ordered bloodwork, and the doctor got mad about it and yelled at the PA about wasting resources in front of my friend. When the results came back, she had leukemia!" —luckyangel30 8. "Not as serious as some of these, but last year, I started showing signs of thyroid issues. I brought up some of my symptoms to my doctor, but she said I was too young for thyroid problems and didn't need a test. I told her I would still like a test, just in case. Surprise! Thyroid problem! After a couple more tests to rule out Hashimoto's, it turns out it's hypothyroidism, and now I'm on medication and feel mostly better." —lanamarie Related: 9. "My best friend had rods put into her spine (scoliosis) as a kid. At college, she noticed a sore spot on her scar, between her shoulder blades. Then, it popped. She went to the on-campus health center and was told, "You're in college--you were probably drunk and fell over." She went to the local hospital and was quickly diagnosed with a raging spinal infection that necessitated a PICC line for heavy-duty antibiotics and surgery to remove her rods. Fun times." —bookfanatic1979 10. "I was 37 weeks pregnant with my second child when I started suffering from excruciating pain that radiated from my lower back all the way around to the front of my abdomen. After about four hours of debilitating pain, I had my husband take me to the ER, where I was then redirected to L&D since I was so close to my due date. When I got there, a nurse hooked me up to a heart monitor, informed me that I wasn't in labor (which I already knew), and told me that it was just normal pregnancy back pain. Well, it most certainly was not 'normal' since two weeks after my DD was born, I was in the ER with gallstones, which resulted in surgery to remove my gallbladder." —stuckinak 11. "A couple of years ago, I got out of bed, heard a very loud pop/snapping noise, and was immediately hit by tremendous pain in my foot. It didn't go away after an hour, and I couldn't stand, so I rang my doctor, and they reluctantly sent an ambulance, and the EMT said it was probably just a trapped nerve. They took me to the hospital 'just to check,' and assured me it was probably nothing, but an X-ray revealed that I had fractured my foot. They gave me a mumbled apology and a foam shoe thing to cushion my foot to heal, no painkillers. Happened again last year, but this time, the EMT believed me because I was screaming and crying in pain." —retrocrebbon 12. "I got out of bed one night, my knee gave out, and I went down. I heard the pop, but I can't remember how I verbally reacted. I got myself back in bed, and my ankle quickly bruised and swelled. I had to drag myself to go to the hospital. They did X-rays and an exam before they determined it was just a sprain. A couple of days later, I was hurting even worse. I shaved my legs and went back to the same hospital. When they got me back, they looked at the first X-ray and said it was broken." —osubuck182002 Related: 13. "I was a teenager, and I had been seeing a gyno for over four years without a single test or exam done. I bled for months on end and was extremely miserable 97% of the time. He had no problem pumping me full of Depo Provera several times a month. It didn't help. I was just a couple of weeks away from going away to college when I got a second opinion. I had accomplished more in one appointment than in four years. I had a D&C a couple of days later. I had more that happened following my arrival to college. It was embarrassing and humiliating. I ended up having another surgery almost two months after the first. It was mostly exploratory, only to determine I had endometriosis throughout my abdomen, and my appendix needed to be removed." —osubuck182002 14. "One morning, I woke up with excruciating pain under my shoulder blade. I saw my primary care and they told me it was muscular and gave me muscle relaxants. When those didn't work and I found myself constantly nauseous from the pain, I went to the ER about 48 hours later. They refused to even X-ray me, but gave me Vicodin and told me to 'do some stretches.' The next day, I begged an ortho office to take me. They knew as soon as they did an X-ray that I had slipped a disc in my neck between C6 and C7, immediately sent me for an MRI, and had me back in their office all in a matter of hours. The disc in my neck was bulging so much that it was pressing on my spinal cord, causing me to not only have the pain in my shoulder blade but also numbness and tingling as well as no reflexes in my right arm when tested. They immediately scheduled me for surgery the next day. I now have two fused vertebrae and titanium plates in my neck. I could have been paralyzed and still have no idea how it happened." —catielanouette 15. "I was in a severe car accident when I was 18. I had a follow-up with orthopedics due to where the car had hit me. I told the doctor that I took all my pain medication, but my foot was still hurting. At this point, I was not allowed to walk more than a mile a day. He took my foot, bent it down, and I was screaming in pain. He literally looked at me, and said nothing was wrong and to come back in six weeks. So I came back in six weeks and saw his physician's assistant. I told her that I was still having foot problems, and I couldn't put any pressure on it without being in pain. She ended up doing an X-ray of it, came back to me, and said, 'Yeah, your foot is broken...' And at that point, it was too late to do anything." —dancingdeadd 16. "A few years ago, I was having really nasty chest pain. It would come and go every couple of weeks, last for days at a time, and always get worse after physical activity. I could also feel a 'bubbling' sensation in my right side every time I bent over. I had made multiple visits to urgent care, where I was always told that everything was normal on tests and images. Fast forward about a month, and I was still having the pain. I went to a different urgent care, saw a different doctor, and had an X-ray run. They called me about half an hour after leaving the office to say that I had a pneumothorax (essentially, a partially collapsed lung). One round of steroids and a lot of rest later, I was back in action. But if I hadn't listened to my gut and gotten it checked again, who knows what would have happened!" —fillionfan4002 17. "I went to the ER with severe abdominal pain, chills, vomiting, etc. I go in thinking it's my appendix. After 8 hours in the ER, I got an MRI, bloodwork, and an ultrasound, only to get sent home with anti-nausea medication and told to follow up with my primary for food poisoning. I read my discharge papers on the way home. I work in the medical field and knew that my bloodwork indicated an infection, and the MRI showed inflammation in the gallbladder and liver. I ended up back in the ER two nights later. I sat in the waiting room for seven hours, barely able to walk, only to get rushed in emergency surgery after a second ultrasound to get my gallbladder removed. It was double the normal size. My surgeon told me another day that it would have ruptured." —witchboo78843 18. "I had shoulder surgery a few years back. At the time, I was 35. The surgery went well, and I was released the same day. After a few days, I started noticing weakness and slight pain in my left calf, like a charley horse. After a day of this with no relief, no matter how I stretched it or put heat to it, I called my surgeon, concerned because the area I was feeling pain in was warmer than the rest of my leg. I was concerned I had a clot. He had me come in, examined me, and told me it wasn't, and I was too young to fit the profile. Advised me to see my PCP. That evening, the pain was terrible, and I mentioned it to my nephrologist, whom I had a follow-up with for other health issues. He advised me to go to the ER immediately. They found three clots, one in each leg and one in my arm. I spent 2 days in the hospital and was on blood thinners for 6 months." —Nicb1122 19. "I took a hard hit during a hockey game, and immediately after, I could feel that my hip was weaker. I went to my high school's athletic trainer about a day later because I couldn't even walk without being in pain, and they just kind of brushed it off, saying that hip problems are common in hockey goalies (which they are), and they gave me some stretches and drills to strengthen it. Cut to three years later, I was playing college softball, lifting a lot, and my hip was just getting worse. When I did try to stretch it, I didn't actually have any feeling in it. I went to the athletic trainer at my college, and they immediately had an idea as to what it was. They booked me an appointment with an orthopedic doctor who had me get X-rays and a CT scan. I had torn my labrum and needed surgery to repair it. It was torn for so long that they had to shave down a part of the head of my femur to round it back out." —belileemily Related: 20. "I went to a local urgent care for what I thought was a respiratory infection, and the doctor told me it was allergies. He prescribed me an inhaler and told me to take over-the-counter allergy medicine. I went to my primary doctor a few days later and found out it was walking pneumonia." —ejt263 21. "I had this insane depression for about a year and started to develop some weird personality changes. Quickly, I was diagnosed with anxiety/depression/bipolar disorder. I started to develop an intense sensitivity to light and horrible muscle pain. At the time, I was medically getting out of the army and using the VA. My muscle pain/light sensitivity/mood change, and headaches were so intense that I called my doctor several times. She was so annoyed and said it was an f-ing migraine, and my bipolar disorder was causing me to be overly dramatic. I went to two different hospitals the same week with the same result. One morning, I could barely see and couldn't walk. I lost consciousness and went completely blind because my cranial pressure was at 25 when the average is perhaps 15. I was diagnosed with Intracranial hypertension, which basically means your brain mimics a non-existent tumor. I could have fully lost my vision simply because they thought my mental health was making me seek attention." —michellequeiruga 22. "In my early 20s, my knee started swelling, and there was horrible pain no matter what I was doing. I did PT, which didn't help. The orthopedist I saw ran tests and said there was nothing wrong. Since it was swollen, he drew out fluid and injected steroids in that knee, which felt almost as bad as when I broke my leg. Three years passed, and it just kept getting worse, so he finally agreed to take a look surgically to prove nothing was wrong. As I was starting to come out from the anesthesia, he told me my knee was so packed with broken cartilage that he had no idea how I was able to walk. I refused to see him ever again. —ralyn71774 23. "When I was in my early twenties, I broke my hand at the metacarpal bone. A few years later, I fell and landed on my other hand. During the day, it started swelling, hurting, and I couldn't move my fingers - familiar symptoms, so I went to the ER. They did an X-ray, and when the doctor called me in after four hours(!), she didn't even look at me and said that it was just a contusion and to go home. I asked her to please look again at the X-rays since it felt like the last time when I broke my hand. She refused. I asked again, and again, and didn't leave until she rolled her eyes and looked up the X-ray pics again. And lo and behold, she found the fracture, and I got a cast. I know that doctors have tough jobs, and I understand that they have to deal with a lot of annoying people, but it's really frustrating to read all these stories where doctors just disregard patients. —linkamalinka 24. Finally, "A friend of mine, her mom died of breast cancer when she was 4–5 years old. Cut to adulthood, and my friend was so diligent. She started getting mammograms at 18 years old because of her mom; she became a nurse and cared for kids with cancer. She got married, had a few kids, and noticed a hard lump in her breast. She had orange crap coming out of her nipple, and she said the texture felt like an orange. She went to her local doctor, and he said, 'Don't worry about it.' It's due to She had stage 3 breast cancer." —deadzy I'm glad these people got a second opinion and the treatment they needed! Want to share your story? We'd love to hear it in the comments or anonymously in the form below. 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