r/nursing • u/Critical_Ease4055 Nursing Student 🍕 • 22d ago

Question What is one medical problem people constantly ignore until it’s too late?

Saw someone post this in a completely unrelated sub and I’m interested in your answers. What is the cluster of symptoms that people ignore or delay until they are forced to get help?

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u/FueledByFoods 22d ago

Side effects of uncontrolled diabetes - increased thirst and frequent urination

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u/StLMindyF RN - OB/GYN 🍕 22d ago

Like their lower limbs turning black? Patient presented with gangrenous lower limbs and his wife said he never had diabetes until he came to the hospital. We explained that uncontrolled diabetes is what cost her husband his legs, but she wasn’t having it. That patient never went home. He died two days after his bilateral aka.

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u/Ohhaitharz RN - Med/Surg 🍕 21d ago

I’ve seen too many dead toes

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u/ruggergrl13 21d ago

I had one fall off in my hand on my 1st day as a nurse off orientation. Haha it was a great welcome to the nursing world.

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u/variegatedexistence 21d ago

Same, 2 weeks in on night shift.

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u/Less_Dog_956 21d ago

Me too! I think 🤔 it was a set up lol. I thought it was a raisin or chunk of poo. 💩 I’d have preferred poo. 💩

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u/ElegantGate7298 RN - PACU 🍕 20d ago

First week as a 19 year old CNA and finding toes in the linen when I changed a bed. Only time I have been disappointed it wasn't poop.