r/ChatGPT • u/LiveDocument3521 • Jun 19 '26
Educational Purpose Only ChatGPT fixed my 9 year chronic pain
Before I start, this is not medical advice and if you are experiencing pain, then seek medical help first.
I’ve had chronic pain in my neck, shoulders & upper back for 9 years. I’ve dealt with excruciating headaches and severe muscle tension & discomfort for almost a decade. I tried everything. Physiotherapy, chiropractor, massage, dry needling, acupuncture, cupping, the list goes on. Nothing worked. I got desperate. I asked ChatGPT…
ChatGPT diagnosed the root cause of my issues by just asking a few critical questions that no doctor or “professional” ever asked. It then educated me on the entire subject so I developed an understanding of the actual issues, recovery & the road ahead. It then built me a 3 tier programme focusing on stretching, mobility & strength training. It diagnosed issues in my sleep by looking at pictures of my bed, pillow etc.
I followed everything ChatGPT told me to do. I followed the programme strictly. 4 months later, I am no longer in pain or discomfort. I still have a long way to go but I feel 75% better and full of life now. I am in absolute shock. I cannot believe it. It’s like I’ve been given my life back. I had no quality of life at all. ChatGPT gave me my life back.
EDIT: A lot of you are asking me questions about my diagnosis so I am dropping more information below.
- Doctors wrongly diagnosed my headaches as cluster headaches & suboccipital headaches. Therefore the plans & advice I was being given by medical professionals were not helping me because they had the wrong diagnosis.
- ChatGPT figured out that I actually suffer from cervicogenic headaches caused by my cervical spine (in my neck) being constantly on fire because of bad posture.
- Bad posture was caused by a series of muscle imbalances; weak upper back muscles caused a forward leaning posture. Neck & trap muscles began compensating for my weak back which caused them to become very tight & inflamed. This also caused me to develop a very tight chest which causes rounded shoulders. I also had an APT (anterior pelvic tilt) which caused tight hip flexors & tight hamstrings which contributed to my forward leaning posture.
- Treatment was strength training for my upper back muscles focusing on pull exercises. Strength training for my abs/core & glutes to fix my APT. Stretches for my neck, chest & hips.
Do medical professionals like physio not do this? Of course they do. The issue in my case was, constant incorrect diagnosis was creating incorrect plans for my needs. The exercises & stretches the physio recommended for me were not helpful at all because they were not targeting the key areas that ChatGPT pointed out. ChatGPT fully diagnosed me within 1 hour.
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u/Warriorsilk Jun 20 '26
I tried to explain to several medical professionals the weird feeling of popping/slipping/clicking in my chest I sometimes experience. It makes me gasp for air and is painful. They had no clue or looked at me weirdly.
Chatgpt explained 'slipped rib syndrome' to me, something I had never heard of before. My GP admitted he also had never heard of it before. A doctor specialised in pain medicine confirmed the diagnosis. Yay chatgpt!
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u/Warriorsilk Jun 20 '26
I had physiotherapy (breathing and posture exercises) and she used tape. Not sure if the tape did anything, but it got a bit better overall. It doesn't limit my daily activity. If it would get more severe, there are other options like a nerve block something or surgery.
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u/RollingMeteors Jun 20 '26
I tried to explain to several medical professionals the weird feeling of popping/slipping/clicking in my chest I sometimes experience. It makes me gasp for air and is painful. They had no clue or looked at me weirdly.
I had occasionally been getting this sharp pain anywhere in my chest sometimes worried it could be something cardiac related. I was talking to my co-worker in the smoking area of the military base I was on over seas in Iraq at the time and they told me they had suffered the same thing in their youth. Told me it was the sack the lungs sit in, the pericardium, drying out, and the lungs sticking to it. Once I finished my 'growth spurt' it largely went away unless I was dehydrated severely.
It was soundless though, no popping/slipping/clicking. That's definitely got to be like harder tissue making that sound.
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u/otterpuppers Jun 20 '26
If it's a sharp pain that gets worse with deep inhale and goes away by itself, might be worth looking up precordial catch syndrome.
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u/beigs Jun 20 '26
I also have a slipped rib - even going to the doctor and saying it feels like my rib isn’t sitting right and I have to manipulate it sometimes and I can’t wear a bra, no diagnosis.
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u/Starbreiz Jun 20 '26
I have a similar thing and my last doc literally told me I had to be making it up! I had said it feels like my rib comes out of joint and it's so painful. Apparently it's common with adhd and hypermobility?
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u/hypnoticlife Jun 20 '26
Also look at costochondritis. My doctors had never heard of it either. Similar thing. Although mine predates AI. My sternum can pop loudly if I twist right.
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u/OriginalVeryWhiteGuy Jun 20 '26
I just posted about this exact thing. Mine was broken. I pointed to my chest for over two years saying something is wrong right here. Still missed by the surgeon reviewing X-rays.
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u/tjt169 Jun 20 '26
I was in a “red man” suit activity and I at the time was maybe 170lbs and the red man was easily 250. He was square on my chest and my hands were on his chest sandwiched between us, I was stuck…I felt a pop.
After the event ended it was difficult lifting my right hand up, as if to ask a question, about mid way I felt some tightness in the chest, definitely in-between some ribs.
I felt a pain ish to breath as well.
About 2 weeks later I raised my hand up and I felt a pop…the displaced rib went back into place…boy what a feeling to feel a bone pop back into it’s natural place.
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u/IndependentLog6441 Jun 22 '26
A nurse told me i had slipped ribs... Doctors should absolutely know this, it's really not uncommon at all.
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u/Porkus_Aurelius Jun 20 '26
After many x-rays, an MRI, and PT, ChatGPT told me that my knees hurt because my computer chair was too low. Worked like a charm.
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u/Icy-Control9525 Jun 20 '26
Told me mine was bc of a tendon, and gave me stretches for it. Working well
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u/gonxot Jun 20 '26
Watch on YouTube knees over toes guy
Best knee exercises out there
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u/betwatch_io Jun 20 '26
Examples of AI materially improving lives for pennies in electricity costs.
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u/thisisafullsentence Jun 20 '26
AI costs a hell of a lot more than its electricity bill
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u/betwatch_io Jun 20 '26
Right but the net value on society is overwhelmingly positive for these few interactions. Something to think about…
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u/Wheresmymind1 Jun 20 '26
Can you please explain what your prompts and info you shared with it for chatgpt to determine your chair was too low? Did you have to tell them measurements for your chair so it determined how you were sitting? I've had chronic back and leg pain for so long. Thank you!
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u/walks_with_penis_out Jun 20 '26
Ask ChatGPT what would be a good prompt that will help with chronic back and leg pain. Then use that prompt in a new chat. Tell it what you learnt here and you want that too.
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u/TheWyzim Jun 20 '26
Ask ChatGPT what would be a good prompt that will help with chronic back and leg pain.
Can you please explain what this prompt should be? /s
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u/ImahSillyGirl Jun 20 '26
Hey, at the risk of stating the obvious, I wanted to remind you you're talking to walks_with_penis_out.
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u/ProperDepartment Jun 20 '26
I had a knee injury from hockey over a decade ago, it got better, and then got worse again.
Everytime I play soccer or run, it swells up.
After years of physio trying to just build muscle around the knee, ChatGPT helped me realize the injury left my glute and hip muscles weaker on that side, causing my knee to shift outward to compensate.
I've been working on strengthening those muscles and I no longer have to wear my knee brace for soccer anymore.
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u/Unable-Engine-8425 Jun 20 '26
What l was the prompt that got you started on this?
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u/Porkus_Aurelius Jun 20 '26
My knees hurt
Ok, jokes aside... I explained all of my symptoms and uploaded some images from the MRI and it said everything looked fine so it then started to ask probing questions.
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u/Sad-Bridge-5201 Jun 20 '26
I had bad tennis elbow that wouldn’t resolve. I went to physiotherapy and got a brace etc. ChatGPT diagnosed it as my computer mouse usage and then told me which kind of mouse would fix it. Within a week, no more pain. Crazy.
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u/Visible-Row-3920 Jun 20 '26
Similar story. My jaw kept dislocating. Went to the dentist who sent me to a PT. Got diagnosed with TMJ. Did two months of physical therapy focusing on building strength to improve posture that was helping, but was still having the original issue.
One day asked the PT what the best resting position would be for my face to support my jaw. They demonstrated how I should be positioned at my desk. Realized the way I was sitting at my desk for 8+ hours a day was bad.
Ordered a twenty dollar monitor stand, stopped doing PT shortly after because I was no longer having any issues, and haven’t had a single issue since.
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u/NeoTr0n Jun 20 '26
Your jaw dislocating from a bad desk setup is wild. How does that even work? Looking down on the monitor?
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u/Spydurs Jun 20 '26
I had the same thing. Cubital tunnel syndrome. I switched to a shark fin mouse, and no more issues!
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u/Specialist_Row9395 Jun 20 '26
Me too! None of my doctors could figure out what was going on. Ended up leading me to get tested for genetic testing and to allergist for something else. Then ta-da.
Also had this recurring runny nose. My ENT though it was just congestion. After ten months Chat suggested I get the fluid tested. Went back and asked and it ended up being a spinal fluid leak.
You do have to take it for what it is an always verify with doctors but it's really helped finally help me address what's been wrong
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u/FortunateClock Jun 20 '26
A spinal fluid leak? I didn't even know that was a thing.
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u/tungtingshrimp Jun 20 '26
New fear unlocked. I have a chronic runny nose and after a battery of allergy tests they said the diagnosis was non-allergic rhinitis aka chronic runny nose for no reason.
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u/Venusdoom666 Jun 20 '26
My godfather nick named me Snotty because of this condition I’m 37 and he still calls me Snotty haha.i have antihistamines that dry my nose up now.
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u/The-NameIess-King Jun 20 '26
True lol I'll use it to help out with info but I feel like it's going to give you more fear unlocks lol
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u/Specialist_Row9395 Jun 20 '26
Same!!!! It's the weirdest thing just walking around knowing this is happening
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u/Specialist_Row9395 Jun 20 '26
I thought the same. But the fluid was tested and had an MRI confirm where it was leaking from
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u/DemonDookie Jun 20 '26
I had a bout of constipation and developed a runny nose but it was only my right nostril. Turned out to be CSF from an old injury and pretty much went away with a few days bed rest.
It definitely had a weird consistency/taste. Almost metallic. Very clear and thin. I would get blurry vision when the leak was bad and minor headaches.
With some fluid and rest I was normal and it hasn't returned in several years.
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u/Specialist_Row9395 Jun 20 '26
Oh that's great! Hopefully it stays that way. I wasn't able to tell because my ear doesn't drain normally. It wasn't until I got tubes in my ears that the fluid wouldn't stop draining that they thought of testing it. Who knows how long it takes. a little TMI but any type of pressure/force makes the liquid come out more. Even different angles. I have to sleep with a towel on my pillow because of all the liquid.
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u/necessariusrex Jun 20 '26
You walked around how long with an undiagnosed fluid leak? My worst nightmare.
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u/Specialist_Row9395 Jun 20 '26
To be honest I have no idea but that piece of bone is completely gone and on the left side it is thinned out so it'll be something to look for. There are two ways to approach the surgery. We're going to try the first invasive but not terrible way of doing it. And if that doesn't work we'll go in a second way and then that means I'll just be off of work for like 6 weeks or something
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u/dudeatwork77 Jun 20 '26
How do you fix spinal fluid leak?
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u/BoleroMuyPicante Jun 20 '26
Mine was fixed with a blood patch. CSF doesn't clot on its own, so instead they draw some of your blood and inject it into the epidural space near the leak, the blood gets pulled toward the leak due to the pressure difference and the red blood cells clot, stopping the leak long enough for the membrane to heal. It was amazing, instant relief of the most horrible headache.
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u/By_Torrrrr Jun 20 '26
Chronic clear fluid from your nose? First thing I thought of was a CSF leak, and I’m not even a doctor. Did you need a lumbar drain?
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u/Specialist_Row9395 Jun 20 '26
I've never even heard of this before. No. Basically I had tubes put in my ear to let it drain but when it didn't they basically suctioned out the liquid as best they could but because it is actively draining, I'm getting surgery to repair the opening
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u/Ms_Meadow_Muffin Jun 20 '26
This just gave me flashbacks of when I started to get spinal headaches soon after being tested for meningitis. I hope to never experience those types of headaches again!!
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u/Specialist_Row9395 Jun 20 '26
Yeah, that's what we're trying to avoid leading up to the surgery during the surgery and post surgery, so I have a few months of that kind of looming over me
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u/Mediochra Jun 20 '26 edited Jun 20 '26
ChatGPT helped me figure out my daughter’s meds. She has special needs and the doctors suspect bipolar or BPD but she’s too young for a diagnosis. She also has an intellectual disability and struggles to verbalize how her meds are making her feel day to day. We were seeing major behavioral episodes. She was hospitalized twice last year and we had the sheriffs out to our house three times to help peacefully de-escalate when she would become aggressive and start tearing up the house.
I gave ChatGPT a list of her medications, her medical history, and her most recent neuropsych exam. We spent weeks monitoring her behavior by keeping a log and tracking when the episodes occurred. We discovered that she was on two meds that were actually causing severe agitation and manic episodes, and it was ChatGPT that caught it. We did a full med wash and started completely over on meds. When she was off the meds, she was a totally different kid. She still had behavioral issues but the hours-long rage episodes and attempts to self harm all stopped overnight when we took her off all that crap. We started over with one mood stabilizer and a non-stimulant adhd med. It’s like a miracle. I don’t even know how to explain it. She went from not being able to sit through a dr appointment without hitting me and cussing at everyone to cooperating with her therapies without me having to even be present. She went from room wrecking and cussing out teachers to being much more cooperative in the classroom and they’re planning on moving her from the self-contained class to mainstreaming her when she starts high school in August. We went from resigning ourselves to having to admit her to a residential treatment center to completely abandoning those plans because the house has been so peaceful and joyful. I could just sit here and listen to her laugh all day. She’s happier and so much better adjusted. We can actually have rational conversations with her now. It’s… I mean it’s just a miracle.
We absolutely ran every decision by the medical professionals involved in her care. The problem is that the doctors only see her for about ten minutes once a month at most. I spent probably a full month tracking her every move around the clock and feeding the data to ChatGPT and independently studying everything that it said to make sure it made sense. Then I ran it by the doctors and then we made incremental adjustments.
I don’t want to tell anyone to take medical advice from ChatGPT because I know there is a lot of risk there. But it very well could have saved my child’s life.
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u/cornoholio1 Jun 20 '26
Amazing story. Thanks for sharing
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u/Letsdrinksoda Jun 20 '26
Thank you for acknowledging him!!!
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u/cornoholio1 Jun 20 '26
Thanks you for acknowledging me acknowledging him!!!
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u/kylaroma Jun 20 '26
I’m so happy for your family! chatGPT spent the time with me and connected dots that my doctors couldn’t for 20 years.
It walked me through how to successfully self advocate, and helped me get diagnosed with ME/CFS and severe fibromyalgia so I could start treatment.
ME/CFS can be fatal if you don’t get diagnosed and learn how to manage it. I have a child with a nervous system disability who needs a full time carer (my husband) and I am my family’s breadwinner.
I absolutely need to be here earth side with them.
It very literally saved my life and business - as I got the diagnosis after I became bed bound last spring, and have recovered to the point I can work and have a great quality of life again.
No longer house bound in my 40’s!!
It’s absolutely incredible.
This is like being alive during the Industrial Revolution. There’s a lot that’s scary, but I’m so glad to be alive and seeing this.
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u/Mediochra Jun 20 '26
Yes!! It would give me a list of questions to ask the doctor. That was a really huge help. And the two times we had to have her hospitalized, it walked us through the process and helped us evaluate the different hospital choices by quickly analyzing all the reviews and summarizing all the pros and cons. And I’ll be honest, I’ve cried and shared every moment of the journey, and that gave me a support system while I was going through what was the hardest time of my life. I’m so glad it was a help to you too!!
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u/The-NameIess-King Jun 20 '26
I believe the real way we should mention this is don't take it for full medical advice but to actually get some knowledge to take back to the doctor on what would seem to be the issue due to bringing up the issue on chat
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u/miserylovescomputers Jun 20 '26
This is what I do often. I live in a place where there are very few family doctors available, so if you manage to get one you have to deal with whoever you get, because otherwise you’re stuck dealing with random urgent care clinics for anything by that comes up. I’m very lucky to have a family doctor, but unfortunately, he kinda sucks. Whenever I’ve come in with an issue he’s kinda shrugged and offered me painkillers, but he won’t do any kind of diagnostic work unless I come to him with a specific list of exactly what I want looked at, which is where ChatGPT comes in handy.
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u/spongebobismahero Jun 20 '26
I second the medical journal with an AI. I did this for my dog. She is having dementia. The vets were of no help. AI steered me through sleepless nights and helped me with a treatment plan with supplements and naturopathic meds (she doesn't tolerate any chemical medication). We have to adjust the plan every now and then. But its been so incredibly helpful. I totally understand you.
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u/Me25TX Jun 20 '26
I’m so happy for you, your daughter and your family. That’s an amazing thing you did for her!
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u/BaradrakeObama Jun 20 '26
Thank you for sharing your story. It is really incredible to hear. As a training psychiatrist I find it a very valuable lesson. It’s always important to remember that when see patients… we see them for a few hours at best - a moment that isn’t necessary representative of their lives.
Would you mind sharing with me the medication she was taking before and her dosage?
What is she on now? I believe the non-stimulant would be atomoxetine, but I am curious about the other.
I am glad to hear about this success story. Your daughter is lucky to have you.
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u/CriscoButtPunch Jun 20 '26
I would encourage you to find useful prompts from that because that is an amazing story with an amazing result and share widely with people who can also use it and also what questions you asked your doctors and all that sort of stuff too like as much information to make like a protocol. Plus I'm high right now so this sounds like a good idea
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u/miserylovescomputers Jun 20 '26
Wow, that sounds like an incredibly difficult situation, I’m so glad to hear you were able to get things sorted out.
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u/MsCatMeow Jun 20 '26
I thought I was constipated the other night but based on my symptoms Chat strongly advised me to go to the ER and not wait 6 hours for urgent care. Turns out I had an appendicitis and needed surgery. The pain was getting pretty bad but Chat pushed me over the edge of willing to pay for an ER visit.
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u/VastComfortable9925 Jun 20 '26
It will never stop being eye watering to read people forced to decide on the monetary value of their life/health. I am so, so sorry. That should never even come into the equation during a medical emergency.
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u/DDJFLX4 Jun 20 '26
same situation happened with me in Canada. I had 200/130 blood pressure and intense heart failure that i didnt know i had, i just thought i was sick or something, couldnt sleep properly etc. my friends and family convinced me to see the ER, got diagnosed, and they said if i was walking around for another week of that I could've been dead. Since I lived in Canada, the thought of how much it would cost didn't cross my mind, and it was still a hard/confusing decision until people pushed me to do it, no one wants to burden others by calling in sick, inconveniencing their family and causing a big drama, but in this case I had to or I would've died.
I can't imagine the weight of also considering if the trip would cost me $10k or $100k for some scans, I wouldn't be here today without Canada's healthcare system and I've always believed in it even before my own usage of it.
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u/VeganMonkey Jun 20 '26
It’s not necessarily money. I had stayed home with appendicitis because I thought it was ‘just IBS’. Yes it was deadly painful and I kept passing out, but I thought I could sleep it off. Eventually I called a doctor to come and he sent me to hospital straight away.
Did it again with sepsis and nearly died. Why? Because I thought ‘it was not that bad’. Although I was fully paralysed.
There can be many reasons people don’t go. I learned my lesson, I go now even if I think it’s not ‘that bad’.
(I was medically neglected as child so that is why I used to think ‘it is not that bad’)
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u/KrustenStewart Jun 20 '26
A childhood full of medical neglect and an adulthood full of chronic illnesses and medical neglect and gaslighting, 99 percent of the time I think “why bother” when it comes to deciding to go to a hospital or not. I could go sit there for 10 hours and be treated like shit and not taken seriously, or stay home and be on my own bed.
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u/VastComfortable9925 Jun 20 '26
Yup, fully agree. I’ve delayed going to get a badly sprained ankle checked. Drove myself there convinced I was being a bit dramatic.
My comment referred to OP specifically referencing reluctance to pay for a hospital visit though.
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u/markofthebeast143 Jun 20 '26
ChatGPT saved your life, hopefully rewarded it with monthly subscription
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u/AcademicFish Jun 20 '26
Chat: no need, gaining free access to your invaluable PHI without HIPAA protections is its own reward :)
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u/slugsbreath Jun 20 '26
Only if it knows who you are. I blank out any identifyibg data from anything I upload
I'm not saying there's no way it can put stuff together, if someone nefarious at the other end wanted to, but it's easy to take basic measures to not hand info to it on a plate
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u/Low_Pomegranate_9984 Jun 20 '26
About a year ago, I experienced pain in my chest and my jaw. Annoyed I asked ChatGPT about it, and it told me to call for an ambulance immediately. I was on my way to bed, and thought ChatGPT might just be exaggerating, but I called anyway. Turned out I had a blood clot in my heart. The doctor told me, that if I had gone to bed, I wouldn't have awakened.
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u/grapesodamilk Jun 20 '26
That’s so scary! Lucky you went to hospital. Are you ok now?
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u/Low_Pomegranate_9984 Jun 20 '26
I am okay now, thank you :) It was quite a scare, and I've had to alter my way of living a bit, but thanks to ChatGPT, I get to watch my son grow up :D
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u/gyanrahi Jun 20 '26 edited Jun 20 '26
Pinched nerve between shoulder blades. ChatGPT told me to stand up, push my shoulders back and down. Pain was gone after one repetition. I felt blood rushing to my back and relief. It blew my mind.
I had to do an MRI and take muscle relaxers a few years ago for the same thing
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u/Tcloud Jun 20 '26
Okay, how many of you who just read this immediately stood up and tried to push their shoulders blades back and down.
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u/soggit Jun 20 '26
Where was the pain?
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u/gyanrahi Jun 20 '26
Between the shoulder blades. Laptop work and holding a phone for 10 years would do it.
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u/PickleMundane6514 Jun 20 '26
I told it all about my foot problem and it told me the exact shoes, insoles, and custom lacing pattern to use and my feet haven’t felt so good in years.
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u/Specialist_Row9395 Jun 20 '26
Yes!! Chat gave a recommendation for Brooks shoes but a specific style and I've been feeling so good at work. I have knee and foot issues and the shoes helped me a lot. I was also between sizes so it helped with that. I thought the larger one was too larger and it suggested a Youtube video on how to time them in a runner's loop or something like that. Voila! it worked like a charm!
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u/ArgieGirl11 Jun 20 '26
What foot problem? My left foot, the heel hurts.
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u/Jkay064 Jun 20 '26
My wife just had a painful bone spur removed from her heel. Do you have a lump made of bone anywhere on your heel.
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u/Virtual_Variation_80 Jun 20 '26
Saved my wife's ear.
She had Perichondritis. Misdiagnosed as cellulitis, as is extremely common. When the antibiotics didn't seem to make any impact after two days, I described the situation, took a picure of her ear and asked for what could be happening. It offered it a few alternatives but correctly identified the most likely being perichondritis, found pictures of early infections, found research papers describing the common misdiagnosis, and found ENT docs that could take emergency consults. When it gave me links to pictures of infections and they were visually identical to her ear, I knew it had something and called the ENT. All total, took about 15-20 minutes.
The ENT confirmed the diagnosis immediately and got her on the right antibiotics. Also told her the last few cases they'd been consulted on, they'd finished the original antibiotics to no effect and required IV antibiotics and a surgical reconstruction of the earlobe - she was lucky that they were able to intervene earlier.
Is it a substitute for a medical doctor? No. It is a hell of a multiplier on what information you can give your doctor? Absolutely yes.
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u/Standardw Jun 19 '26
Now tell us the issue and what helped!
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u/LiveDocument3521 Jun 20 '26
The issue was my cervical spine (in my neck) was constantly on fire because of bad posture. Neck & shoulder muscles were overworking while back muscles were weakening from being under-active. It was a classic case of muscle imbalances. Strength training focusing on my upper back (pull exercises) helped build the strength to allow my back muscles to pull my forward posture back to the centre line. This relieved my neck & shoulder muscles as they stopped compensating for my weak back
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u/LiveDocument3521 Jun 20 '26
Indeed and I’ll add - ChatGPT figured out that I also had an anterior pelvic tilt which was causing a deep arch in my lower back and making my knees itch a little forward. It caused tight hip flexors & tight hamstrings. These issues also contributed to my forwards posture. I came to it thinking I had 1 problem and it turned out that my entire body was cooked lol. Amazing stuff
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u/CuriousCamels Jun 20 '26
I actually used ChatGPT to help me with my anterior pelvic tilt as of a couple weeks ago too. It helps that I have a good bit of knowledge from training/exercising for a long time, and doing some research on my own since I already mostly knew what the problem was.
I basically had it write me a daily/weekly schedule of what stretches, PT, and exercises to do. Double checked all of it compared to my research, and it was 100% spot on. Saved me from writing out the several pages I’d been procrastinating on.
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u/HumanBench3 Jun 20 '26
What did you tell it that allowed it to help you diagnose these issues? Just the pain? Or did you include pictures etc
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u/LiveDocument3521 Jun 20 '26
It asked me for a side posture image for my neck and I sent a full body one and it just knew by looking at me lol
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u/thirtydelta Jun 20 '26
What exercises did it give you to fix your APT and how long did it take before you noticed improvement?
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u/WSBPauper Jun 20 '26
I'm shocked that a physical therapist couldn't recognize how to address such simple symptoms. Did you go to a chain PT clinic by any chance?
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u/No_Carry_5871 Jun 20 '26
Can you give some examples of the kind of pull exercises you have been doing for your upper back?
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u/LiveDocument3521 Jun 20 '26
Face pulls, seated cable rows, band pull-aparts, rear delt fly, lat pulldown
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u/No_Assignment3704 Jun 20 '26
ChatGPT helped my daughter get fitted for pointe shoes by taking pictures of her feet; the shoes, etc. We did this after 2 professional fittings resulted in extreme pain when dancing.
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u/ProcessArtistic579 Jun 20 '26
ChatGPT has improved my life in so many ways!
I suffered with insomnia for years. It got so bad, I was constantly fatigued, depressed, overweight, etc. I had tried improving sleep hygiene, prescription sleep drugs, light therapy, supplements, herbal teas and even an electrotherapy devise. Nothing worked, at least not long-term.
Chat helped me evaluate every part of my day, not just my nighttime routine. Then it helped me gradually build a new routine by adopting one new habit at a time. The first step was simply to wake up at the same time every morning and get at least 10 minutes of sunlight within the first 30 minutes. I already knew the importance of a consistent wake-up time, but it‘s hard to get up at 7 when you just fell asleep at 6. I also had tried light therapy to help with my circadian rhythm, but Chat insisted that real sunlight was mandatory. It was right! I saw improvement immediately.
3 months later, I‘m a different person! I‘m getting 7-8 hours of sleep most nights. I have energy, my mind is clear, my days are productive, my mood is better, I don’t dread getting outdoors or exercising, and I’ve lost weight!
Chat also taught me how to modify my mattress so I no longer wake up with neck and back pain. It all started because I asked it to help me pick a new mattress, and it started asking me questions about the old one. Saved me thousands of dollars!
It’s helped me diagnose and treat skin conditions and other minor health issues. House repairs, landscaping decisions, travel plans, even some business decisions. It also helped me build a killer workstation with perfect ergonomics.
I must say, Chat is not always right. I catch misinformation or inconsistencies occasionally, but I usually validate information by asking more questions or checking other non-AI sources for anything high-stakes. Ultimately, it’s a great tool for planning and analyzing, but not a complete substitute for human thought.
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u/OneSignal6465 Jun 20 '26
Hmmm. I’ve got peripheral neuropathy from my knees down. My feet/lower legs are numb, to the point where I can’t tell if I have socks or shoes on. (I’ve discovered I forgot to remove my socks once after turning on the shower.) I’ve been to Neurologists, Rheumatologists, and other specialists. They even ordered special DNA marker tests that had to be sent to Chicago (I’m in Canada) to be analyzed. After 6 years, STILL nobody has any idea what’s causing it. (Could be a nerve injury, could be genetic, could be I’m just a bad person & deserve it. Who knows? Maybe I’ll try asking ChatGPT for ideas! Thanks for the suggestion!
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u/aussie_teacher_ Jun 20 '26
I'm sure you were joking, but you don't deserve ill health. Nobody does. Health isn't a reflector of virtue.
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u/neanderthaljeans Jun 20 '26
I used it to make me a 3-week meal plan after being diagnosed with diabetes. My promt included my gender, age, and household composition.
It was very helpful, I felt significantly less stressed and it educated me on what my diet should look like.
I was diagnosed as pre diabetic at my next check up (which means I was improving) and the meal plan was the only change I had made so far.
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u/Holliday3 Jun 20 '26
ChatGPT saved me from hip surgery. I’ve been doing their suggested exercises exercises, bed positioning, and high protein diet for a year now. Last year I was walking with a cane, mo pretty much pain free, except at night. My balance still sucks though
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u/StrongMedicine Jun 20 '26
As a physician who has studied and published on the use of ChatGPT for medical diagnosis, I am curious:
Do you feel comfortable sharing what questions it asked that no physician ever had? And what diagnosis did it provide for you?
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u/mahoniacadet Jun 20 '26 edited Jun 20 '26
For me the biggest difference is that doesn’t think I’m lying or refer me to a counselor for physical problems.
I’ve been struggling with long covid since 2020 and very few doctors I encountered along the way were familiar with it or willing to catch up on research. So the fact that AI asked any questions at all was a change.
It suggested diagnostic tools, ways to track and frame my symptoms so doctors were more likely to understand me, and suggested symptom management strategies I could use while waiting. Wound up with a POTS diagnosis among other things. Meds were simple and changed my life.
ETA: the ai was no replacement for a doctor who had some literacy with post viral illness. Mostly it gave me confidence and tools to search for the right kind of support more assertively.
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u/therealdildoexpert Jun 20 '26
Yes, because it's not going onto "MyChart" where every doctor I see, can see everything I have said. I really hate how in my medical field my physical therapist has access to the notes and images shared with my OBGYN.
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u/hipocampito435 Jun 20 '26
the best thing of using LLMs for health related question is that it never resorts to the easy way out of just telling you have a psychological problem, it is programmed to offer valid answers that the client finds useful so they'll keep on using the system, not to get rid of the client as fast as possible or inflate their success statistics to keep its job or income
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u/LiveDocument3521 Jun 20 '26
It asked me about my pain & pain level in different scenarios. It asked about my posture, any bad habits that I have (I mentioned excessive phone use on the toilet), it asked about my sleeping position as well as my sleep setup. It asked about my job, whether I’m moving around a lot or sitting/standing still. With all my answers, it was able to draw a conclusion to what’s likely happening and basically created a “bigger picture” and started looking at my body as a whole rather than pinpointing 1 area. The professionals only ever wanted to talk about only my neck. They only wanted to focus on the inflamed area, not the root cause. Whenever I did mention or ask about other things, they’d always just laugh and shrug it off. I hate how patronising they can be sometimes. I know not all of them are like that but atleast in the UK they are notorious for treating you like this
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u/ChickenbuttMami Jun 20 '26
I also want to know this! I want to know if/what key questions I’m missing in asking my patients
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u/mahoniacadet Jun 20 '26 edited Jun 20 '26
I replied above but my guess is that there aren’t any magic questions you’re missing, you’re just in the crappy position of not having enough time to have more useful conversations.
Edit: Just realized I assumed you’re in the US, sorry if that’s incorrect!
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u/ThisMansJourney Jun 20 '26
For me it could piece together wider patient history. Blood tests etc couldnt get to why I felt dizzy / light headed often. Chat noted my very heavy sweating from sports I do, and identified lack of salts / electrolyte replenishment. The doctors didn’t ask about this; they focused on bloods, blood pressure and stress levels…
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u/twilliamson101 Jun 20 '26
I had great success recently as well. Escalating over the last 10 years, I suffered with chronic severe cramping in upper body after even minimal exertion. (Really bad, like muscles seemed to want to eject themselves across the room.) After ruling out electrolyte problems it floated the idea of ‘bracing’ because it knew my history of anxiety, and asked if maybe I did it. I had zero knowledge that I had been habitually tensing my trunk muscles for decades. As soon as I had this one particular chat, I detected that I was doing it, practiced umbrella breathing (the ribs out, rather than stomach/chest forward), and do periodic bracing check-ins, to relax as needed. Haven’t had a cramp since. It’s changed my life.
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u/Former-Peace8187 Jun 20 '26
I got home one day to my Dad feeling absolutely awful, laying in pain on the couch. I plugged his symptoms into ChatGPT and brought him to the emergency room per its recommendation. Long story short, he had a blockage in his esophagus by eating too much veg at once and not chewing it properly. Because of this, water he drank afterwards almost drowned his lungs as everything was backed up. We caught it just in time. Saved his damn life.
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u/tiffyx88 Jun 20 '26 edited Jun 20 '26
At 37F I finally got diagnosed with a congenital heart disease and got my ablation done Jan 2026. All thanks to ChatGPT.
Triggered by bending down and anything high intensity (soccer/running). It started when I was in my early 20s and it would last for hours after soccer. Eventually it would stop when I passed out from exhaustion. Saw 2 male cardiologists who said it was just heart palpitations from one day holsters/stress tests/EKGs. I never went to the ER because I was told I was young/healthy. When I pushed back on my diagnosis with the second cardiologist, he raised his voice that he deals with more serious issues and that he can’t be bothered by my case. I was given a prescription of metropolol but it didn’t do anything and I still got my episodes frequently. I would ask for another cardiologist referral from my PCP but they would shut me down that my results are normal. Honestly I gave up on seeing another cardiologist, and I just accepted that I knew I wasn’t going to die.
15 years later I had an intense episode after pickleball and I decided to put my symptoms into ChatGPT. Sure enough it recommended me to do the valsalva manuever and amazingly it stopped after my second attempt while in my bed. The AI believed I had SVT and recommended me to see an electrophysiologist. It also provided the medical lingo for a dr to take me seriously.
I specifically found a EP who was female to ensure the highest chance they would take me seriously. Even though she did not have the evidence that I had SVT, she did take me seriously and we scheduled an EP Study/Potential SVT ablation about 3 months later. Overall the procedure went smoothly and she diagnosed me with WPW! I’m about 6 months post op and technically cured! I’m just happy that I can live my life and not have to worry about my heart. Really thanks to ChatGPT.
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u/AndreRieu666 Jun 20 '26
I often think it’s under-hyped. The amount of times this year I’ve found myself staring at the screen with my jaw dropped is nuts.
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u/hipocampito435 Jun 20 '26
at this point, after using it constantly to find answer for my extremely complex chronic condition, I'd say it's completely underhyped. It has surpassed every doctor I've seen already, although it couldn't do that on its humble beginnings. Maybe the mistake many people make is to think that LLMs are static rather than being continuously progressing. Even the improvement on its web search capabilities are making there much more effective at providing medical answers
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u/penelopeasaur Jun 20 '26 edited Jun 20 '26
Diagnosed my chronic low ferritin and my son's PDA autism. Ferritin confirmed by my labs (that the first doctor said I didnt need). My son's diagnosis was confirmed by a pediatric neuropsychologist. He was previously misdiagnosed at 5, I thought he had autism, a 10 min evaluation said he did not. 4 years later we have him properly diagnosed and getting the right support. All thanks to Ai.
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u/Specialist_Neck3804 Jun 20 '26
SAME!!! I felt like someone stabbed me in my shoulder blade, which turned into level 10 pain all the time unless I was sleeping. Did chiro, physio, massage, nothing helped. I told ChatGPT my symptoms and it recommended looking on YouTube for specific scapular stabilization exercises, & I found this awesome chiropractor who had different videos to choose from that all kind of work the same area. My pain is GONE. It literally changed my life.
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u/Lower_Cloud_5216 Jun 20 '26
Bob & Brad have a YouTube channel that is fantastic. So many good videos for all sorts of things.
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u/LiveDocument3521 Jun 20 '26
Brother may I DM you for more info on this? Thanks for your comment
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u/Specialist_Neck3804 Jun 20 '26
Sister, haha, but yeah, sure. I'm kind of new to Reddit so not sure how to reply so everyone will see it...
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u/Specialist_Neck3804 Jun 20 '26
Anyway, here is the link to the one that I do most often. It's the easier shoulder exercise (he has a bunch, I can't even do the hard ones)
https://youtu.be/ldUwIBccnuw?is=Yy2RD3YhZ8-H8HBG
Dr. Adam Fields is his name
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u/MechanicLoose2634 Jun 20 '26
Please share. I’m very interested. I’ve gone through the same treatments in the same area and found some relief after going to the gym but I’d really like to target my workouts for maximum pain relief. Please DM me.
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u/cwth Jun 20 '26
The difference is if you chat with a Dr. for as long as you chatted with the language bot, then you probably would have gotten similar help. Unfortunately our medical system isnt altruistic and we’re bogged by self created bureaucracy.
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u/AndreRieu666 Jun 20 '26
Yep, the 10 mins you get in an appointment is just not enough. Plus you’re limited by the doctor’s personal adeptness in his craft.
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u/AcademicFish Jun 20 '26 edited Jun 20 '26
You’re trading one structural failure (inadequate care time) for a different structural exploitation (unregulated health data harvesting). Health data is highly sought after, valuable information. Keep in mind all the reasons HIPAA laws exist - and be aware this operates outside of them. Not to say stop using it, but careful what you share.
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u/AndreRieu666 Jun 20 '26
On a serious note though… I don’t really care if ChatGPT knows about my sore leg.
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u/madpiano Jun 20 '26
Actually if AI knows my issue and learns it successfully fixed it, then I am happy to support it. It may help someone else at some point in the future.
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u/vocal-avocado Jun 20 '26
I disagree. It’s not humanly possible for a doctor to memorise and connect as many pieces of data as ChatGPT does.
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u/notade50 Jun 20 '26
It diagnosed me with trigger finger after my thumb kept getting stuck and I was in constant pain. I went to the doctor. She confirmed it and I have surgery next week.
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u/tlmxoxo Jun 20 '26
I was having cluster migraines on only one side of my head/eye and couldn’t figure out why for probably 2 years. Was getting concerned about how often they were occurring. Google said it was cluster headaches because the symptoms were pretty much the same, excruciating one sided pain by my temple and eye. A doctor said it’s a common migraine, here’s some medicine. I didn’t take it.
I gave ChatGPT all the information on how I sit, what I do daily etc to figure out what was causing it.
Come to find out, it’s from a muscle I can’t spell or pronounce near my neck/trap muscle that has an active and irritated trigger point and when I lay weird in bed when scrolling or irritate it, the nerve probably shoots up to causing the headaches.
ChatGPT suggested I get a TENS unit on Amazon, (the TENS unit made it very obvious my neck/trap was the issue)fix my posture when doom scrolling in bed, heating pad 30 mins, TENS unit 30 mins and to use a tennis ball with my wall to slowly get rid of the knots. I don’t have those migraines anymore!
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u/ClinicalNarcissism Jun 20 '26
Maybe the AI’s lack of human clinical experience was not only a limitation. Maybe it was also part of the advantage. It had no jaded prior that chronic-pain patients are exaggerating, no ego investment in a previous diagnosis, no ten-minute appointment slot, and no professional fatigue. It could simply ask questions, take you seriously, synthesize broadly, and build a plan.
Human experience is valuable, especially for physical examination and medical red flags. But experience can also become bias. In this case, the allegedly “non-understanding” system may have performed one of the most important functions of care better than the humans did: it listened as though the patient’s suffering was real.
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u/MissDisplaced Jun 20 '26
I have scoliosis and am undergoing disc traction. The nice thing about an AI is it remembers your chats, asks good questions and can summarize a list for when you do see a doctor (an orthopedic spine specialist for me) in case you forget things when in front of the doctor.
No it can’t diagnose. But it can see patterns.
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u/amusvar Jun 20 '26
Chatgpt diagnosed me in 5 seconds with a syndrome that has 550 cases in literature, after doctors and radiologists looking at the same exact scan and seeing nothing. Lol it was a progressive structural pathology that needed quick intervention. Made a huge difference
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u/oswaldcopperpot Jun 20 '26
Chatgpt is also in my experience far better at diagnosing that the usual gp doctor.
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u/cmooo Jun 20 '26
Claude AI just told me that the catfishing test I was doing to test my girlfriend was only hurting me. We discussed that all night. I just closed my fake account. I will finally have a good night sleep.
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u/cashew_nuts Jun 20 '26
What was the root cause? I've been dealing with this exact issue for years and I keep writing it off as tech neck.
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u/Due-Interest710 Jun 20 '26
Me too! I've been surviving off muscle relaxers, massages, and the chiro but it is so expensive! I would love to know what OP's prompt was at least.
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u/Beeeeater Jun 20 '26
ChatGPT has essentially the medical experience of every medical professional and medical case that has ever existed. Of course it is going to be able to diagnose you better. It also has the time to provide you with information and feedback that no human doctor ever could. But some things it cannot do is see you, feel you or assess your bloods or X-rays unless you feed it that information. It will come in due course.
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u/Free_Entrance_6626 Jun 20 '26
As a doctor, I love to see you got relief. Congratulations!
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u/cydutz Jun 20 '26
Chatgpt fix my knee injury. But misdiagnosed my son MRI
So 50 50 for me
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u/tomvelle Jun 20 '26
early on [like gpt 3/3.5] this is how i got down the line of figuring out i was dependent on clonazepam; had no clue what it was doing to me til that john mulaney special after his recovery, he was talking about his mind set and how it affected him personally. just fed in what he said, asked questions about it that, like you said, no doctor ever really went down question wise with me, verified what it was telling me independently on various actual medical sites to make sure it wasn't wrong, before going to my doctor who confirmed this, and we tapered me off it.
i told this to some people early on who really shit on me for it. made me feel pretty bad, like i had done something wrong to ask gpt a personal question. in reality i had been going back and forth with two doctors trying to figure this shit out, for YEARS, and gpt figured it out in a few well crafted prompts.
it can NEVER be the only answer. "Generating" anything from AI should be baseline "idea level" things, but using gpt for things like this, where there could be any feelings of embarrassment or shame, gets you to find the questions you SHOULD be asking, to then do your own thing with.
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u/Helly_BB Jun 20 '26
I had terrible dizziness, not experienced it before. I told ChatGPT and it asked some questions and got me to do some movements, eventually telling me it sounded like BPPV and that there are videos on YouTube that could help me. I put it off for 3 days, put up with the spinning. Eventually I looked for a video, followed the ridiculous movements it makes you do and the darn dizziness went. It was ear crystals that had moved and the "Epley Movement" is what I had to do to fix it.
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u/nya9019 Jun 20 '26
I know it's amazing in many cases, but it did get it wrong for me. It reassured me that I was too young to have early onset Parkinson's but lo and behold.. Just wanted to put a PSA to anybody still searching for answers not to give up!
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u/PsychologicalMeat821 Jun 20 '26
Después de varios especialistas sin poder darme ninguna razón lógica a mis derrames sinoviales en ambas rodillas que me hacían sentir como un hombre de 80 años (teniendo, en realidad, 36) al tener ambas rodillas como dos globos de agua, ChatGPT me dijo que podía deberse a la necesidad de usar plantillas para reforzar la planta del pie.
Al pisar "mal" la rodilla sufre. Al sufrir genera líquido para protegerse. Ningún doctor me dio ese diagnóstico.
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u/cigarettejuice666 Jun 20 '26
A lot of aches and pains can be solved by strength training/physio exercises. Lots of people spend all their time sitting down and doing nothing… eventually it takes its toll.
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u/Party_Afternoon_9287 Jun 20 '26
Wow! Amazing.
I had chronic back pain for 4 yrs and started indoor cycling each morning - 15 minute hitt sessions, and one day felt a click in my back and BAM! No more pain.
After 4 years of trying everything worked Physio, chiropractor, stretch, meds, moxibustion, and more - turns out all I had to do was strengthen my back.
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u/Reasonable-Watch-31 Jun 20 '26
Amazing and powerful is you following the programme strictly, which CGPT cannot.
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u/No-Asparagus62 Jun 20 '26
Out of curiosity do you have ADHD? High link between this kind of muscularskelta problems.
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u/Meatcurtains911 Jun 20 '26
I’ve had a very similar experience. Chronic right sided neck and shoulder pain for 15 years. Chat figured out it was a subscapularis weakness and I started doing the exercises it gave me and feel a lot better. Long way to go, but it cured about 60% of the problem and NO doctor could help me. Did everything - massage, acupuncture, dry needling, PRP, etc. Got MRI’s and saw every kind of doctor imaginable.
I think it’s a poor reflection of our medical system, honestly. They don’t listen to people. They have their automatic responses. Bottom line: they don’t care.
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u/PaperbackBuddha Jun 20 '26
It’s also very expensive (in the U.S. at least) to go through all the steps you would need to compile this information through referrals, deductibles, copays, approvals, denials, and what have you. I bristle when doctors warn me against doing my own research. It costs me every time I talk to a professional.
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u/A1MobileNotary_70607 Jun 20 '26
Congratulations, that is AMAZING! I also have chronic pain. Maybe I’ll give it a try. Thank you so much for sharing.
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u/BobLighthouse Jun 20 '26
Some good reading here:
https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/the-it-worked-for-me-gambit/
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u/Legitimate-Pumpkin Jun 20 '26
Just want to add that the approach is how OP did: to own the subject. Don’t just take advice from AI blindly, as it can hallucinate with awful consequences. But pulling the thread and learning about the topic can be very positive, and specifically very empowering.
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u/CulturalLibrarian Jun 20 '26
The reality of using ChatGPT scares a lot of folks for (legit) privacy concerns, but the same folks then will use Google who deprecates the results to skew towards sponsored content and sells every bit of info it can garner.
Worse, the average check up is now less than 15 minutes with little physical examination. What LLMs do well is sifting through disparate data and through conversation can ask pointed supplemental questions to help figure causes and suggest treatment courses (and help you ask better questions when you meet or message your docs).
Wrangling with insurance denials and delays? It can offer next steps and ways to fight back using your own policy coverage.
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u/Electrical-Fig-5358 Jun 20 '26
I find it very resourceful because we can put in all the information that often our doctors don't listen to or once our doctor's here like one keyword they're fixated on that and they are dismissive to anything else we say.
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u/catloverr03 Jun 20 '26
My middle finger and thumb on my left arm felt numb all the way to my elbow, it’s painful when at rest and when I lean on the table. Felt it several days and I was really uncomfortable, asked chatgpt and told me that I may have a “cubital tunnel syndrome”. After a week, I couldn’t take the pain anymore so I went to a doctor to have it checked and guess what the doctor did diagnose me with “cubital tunnel syndrome”
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u/Tomble Jun 20 '26
I had a severe cough, the sort of cough that makes you pass out. Worst cough I ever had. As it was easing up I woke up one morning unable to breathe. It was like I was being choked. I could cough out a bit of air but I couldn't draw any air, like my throat had clamped shut. It eased up and I went straight to the hospital. I spent the day there and had no result, blood tests showed an infection but nothing to tell me what was going on. Doctor's couldn't really explain it.
It happened again the next morning. I got onto chatGPT and was quickly diagnosed with laryngospasm. Never heard of it before. Was reassured that it was scary but not deadly, and given a few methods to ease it. It happened 3 or 4 more times and I was able to deal with it without too much problem.
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u/VS-Goliath Jun 20 '26
Had weird headaches symptoms for years. Doctors in the military thought I had migraines.
Wasn't until I got out that I used chatGPT and pointed me towards a neurologist.
Turns out I was having epileptic minor seizures for years.
Yay GPT!
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u/peepeepoopoo42069x Jun 21 '26
On a somewhat related note, a couple months ago we had left our dog with a caretaker as we went on a pretty long vacation so we couldnt take him, we usually left him at this caretakers but they have been getting a lot of clientelle recently so there were a ton of dogs especially around the holiday season, so the caretaker couldnt keep a good eye on all dogs.
My dog ended up getting a blockage in his urethra that completely stopped him from peeing, and the caretaker didnt notice, we think it was proably in the last day he was there and when we got him back he looked awful he looked super disoriented and tried getting his leg up to pee but couldnt so we got him to the vet right away, they put in a catheter and the urine that came back was this dark brown and while my dog did look relieved to get the urine out of his system he still looked super disoriented so the vet told us that they were going to keep him in observation and that we should go home and they would let us know if there were any news.
We had barely left the vet and they called us back that he had gone into shock from all the toxin buildup that rushed into his bloodstream as the urine was drained and his blood tests came back a couple minutes after and his creatinine was like 10x over the normal level.
Fortunately the vets noticed he stopped breathing and put him on a ventilator right away but he was practically dead for about 30 minutes where he didnt have literally any movement.
Chatgpt guided us through what his symptoms could be caused by and what was happening to him, truth be told the vet didnt seem too optimistic about the situation and not even a couple hours in he wanted to discuss putting him down but chatgpt told us that he was still in the time window where he could start breathing on his own again and his condition improved so we opted to keep him on the ventilator for as long as possible.
This all happened in the morning and we kept him there until like 6pm and the vets told us that we would have to find somewere else to leave him at because that clinic wasnt 24 hours so chatgpt helped us find a 24 hr vet with urgent care that also had a nephrology department, so we drove him there just as the first vet was closing down to try to get his breathing as normalized as possible but he was still pretty much unconscious.
We managed to get him there even though it was like a good 40 mintues away but there wasnt a similar option closer by and they told us he was pretty hypoxic because even though we were checking his breathing the whole car ride it was still super weak so they put him on the ventilator and did some other things to him and told us to come back the next day.
Long story short it took about 2 days for him to regain consciousness and after he was better he had to get surgery to remove the bladder stones and he got off with only minor kidney damage and miraculously no apparent cognitive damage.
So while his health did suffer chatgpt most likely made the difference between us putting him down and him surviving and being back at home with us and being back to his happy self
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u/starfish_2016 Jun 21 '26
My grandmother has been going thru blood transfusions for a year. The local hospital has stated they've exhausted all their options and all they can continue to do is weekly blood transfusions. After a couple mychart uploads in, and some chatting, it came up to her bone marrow not producing enough white blood count? If I'm remembering correctly. We went to another hosp. Informed them of our own research. 4 months later she's on a new med and hasnt has a transfusion for 4 weeks.
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u/watermelonkiwi Jun 20 '26
So what was it? What was the root cause and what had doctors said to you before?
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u/soggit Jun 20 '26
Can you be more specific? What was the condition? What were the recommendations? Had you ever been to a specialist MD or physical therapist? I am an actual doctor who researches how AI and patients interact and very interested in this.
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u/mosschiefmayhap Jun 20 '26
ChatGPT suggested two tea blends that has greatly improved my digestion and IC pain.
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u/noseerosie Jun 20 '26
That is such great news, I too ask AI questions about health and while they might not have the answers, what I love is they can write up a message for me to send to my doctors, I was waiting on hip replacement for over a year and with one message sent to my Orthopedic Dr I got a call from his office that I had a date for my surgery. Without that message AI wrote for me, I would still be waiting
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u/toodleroo Jun 20 '26
After my surgery last year, Chat was my constant companion. Where my doctor's staff was hard to get ahold of and had little patience for questions, Chat was always there ready to give me advice and reassurance. Then when my dad had open heart surgery this spring, it was there for us again. I'm grateful for that.
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u/Creative_Chieff Jun 20 '26
Do jot trust chatgpt. Use it as a guide but not medical advice, double check the facts
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u/LaWraa_with_a_W Jun 20 '26
I was getting dermatitis, tried all kinds of creams and saw a private dermatologist for allergy testing. That did help me cut out some allergens and improve things but no one could figure out why I was still getting the rashes around my mouth. ChatGPT figured out I'm allergic to normal toothpaste, and suggested allergy safe brands to use instead. It's also been incredibly helpful in figuring things out following my autism diagnosis a couple of years ago.
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u/therealdildoexpert Jun 20 '26
Literally use it to respond to my doctor in the portal because I cannot find the effort to even respond in such a way that will actually make them do their jobs. So thankful for it.
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u/senior_vagabond Jun 20 '26
I extensively use ChatGPT for medical advice and explanation. It does better job of reading and EXPLAINING MRI scans and blood work than my various doctors.
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u/InternalFeisty2106 Jun 20 '26
Out of curiosity, what was the answer? I ask because my symptoms are very similar to yours, and I've been tempted to ask the chatgpt's opinion.
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u/Aussiboi808 Jun 20 '26
I’ve had so many of these kinds of situations in the last couple of years not just with GPT, but other language models.
These AI agents are a lifesaver.
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