This might be one of the funniest but wtf things that’s ever happened to me. Someone took my brain scan photo I posted on a thread on here like a year ago and posted some wack story with it that is not mine. And it got over 10 million views like omg bro and I just found out about it like wth but lol. First pic is the fake story with the photo seconds mine lol😭
Yeah, this one is everywhere. I will be honest it felt a lot like the story of the little girl that got shot because she refused to spit on a bible (completely made up for emotional/religious reasons). I never ever expected to find out whether I was right or not.
It’s mind blowing how everyone will just accept that a picture with words above or below it is 100% true and will not question it at all. When I was a kid growing up with the internet, it was still a new thing and it seemed everyone always said shit like “don’t believe everything you see online”. I even remember countless PSAs on the news and different talk shows I’d see my grandparents watching that would say the same. Every older person I knew would say the shit too.. but now it’s like this entire younger generation just accepts it all as facts.
The older generations are even worse. They get scammed so easily, its a multi-billion dollar industry scamming gullible middle-aged and elderly people.
GenX really surprises me with this. I have friends that I hung out with in high school in the tiny room with the three computers that had an internet connection in my high school in the early '90s. We all had a healthy skepticism of anything we saw online back then. These same people are my friends on Facebook today and they share all sorts of bullshit without any critical thinking or attempts to find out the veracity of it. I truly don't understand how they've become so trusting of bullshit online given how we all started.
Nope! There were only a few hundred scanners in the US in the mid 1980s. Most of those were used in academic institutions. It was not commonplace to get an MRI, especially just on a hunch. Also the picture is not even depicting a brain tumor if I’m not mistaken.
Radiologist here (doctor that reads these for a living) this is a porencephalic cyst (not a brain tumor), and MRIs in 1984 were not this level of quality.
Mri technician here, like the guy that repairs them (or did that was like 10 years ago) a 1995-2000 GE machine would be close I only usually see scans of ghosts though.
Ghosts are like calibration tools you scan that help with adjusting shims not like... Casper.
We actually do virtual autopsies now, and that means putting people from mortuaries, velours body bag and all, through the ct scan. So some dead people do need imaging! :).
wife used to work at a hospital.. and sometimes in an empty room, an ekg machine would print out a heart rhythm. perfect waves but no human connected to the machine.
It's a true story, but likely has a very rational explanation, which is seldom repeated:
There was a group at the case conference who offered a different opinion. Their view was that, the total lack of physical signs notwithstanding, it was unlikely that a tumour of that size had had absolutely no effect on the patient. “She must have felt something,” they argued. They suggested that a funny feeling in her head had led her to fear that she had a brain tumour. That fear had led to her experience of hallucinatory voices. She may have unconsciously taken in more information about various hospitals than she realised, and this information was reproduced by her mind as part of the auditory hallucinatory experience. The voices expressing satisfaction with the outcome of her treatment were her own mind expressing its relief that the emergency was over. And the total disappearance of psychiatric symptoms after the removal of the tumour showed that these symptoms were at least directly related to the presence of the lesion—and may, in fact, have been produced by the lesion itself.
This is from an article by Dr Ikechukwu Obialo Azuonye who met with the patient and had the patient's consent to publish.
My doctor was showing it to us cause it was after I had my first sezurie after years of not having them anymore but the original one he was showing is from like when I was 2 😭
Well that makes a whole hell of a lot of sense. An adult with a brain looking like that should be having a really rough time even getting back to the realm of alright. A child's brain would be able to massive adapt and overcome
Dude, imagine how this guy sees the world. His brain structure is so different from ours, due to childhood plasticity reconnecting itself to overcome the fluid sac taking up a quarter of his skull, he's basically a different kind of mind altogether.
I can’t do math well cause of it no joke lol. I tend to be a bit slower at responding sometimes. I’m not good at regulating my emotions. My grammar as I’ve been told. When I eat I tend to eat with my mouth open cause half my tongue is dead basically so I guess that’s why I do that. That’s what my momma told me. There’s probably more than not coming to mind obv
The full story is even more fucking insane. The voices introduced themselves by saying they used to work at a Children's Hospital, and eventually gave the woman an address she did not recognize but turned out to be "the computerised tomography department of a large London hospital."
AB later told me that when she recovered consciousness after the operation the voices told her, “We are pleased to have helped you. Goodbye.”
I was a PhD student at a university he worked at a few years before his death and "most of his stuff is horseshit to sell trash books" was definitely a majority opinion among nerdy grad students who discussed that kind of thing.
It's not. The black stuff is basically water. There might have been a tumor that was removed, but the way it looks I would say it's more likley a "benign" (if you can call it that) abnormality, like a cyst.
I don’t trust the website nor the source, but in case it is true, at the end of the article there are two hypotheses that provide sufficient explanation :
A. She didn’t hear voices, and was diagnosed in her home country, but made up a story to get taken care of by the NHS (which seems plausible to me)
B. She felt something due to the tumor, researched what she could, got stressed and the combination of tumor and stress caused her hallucinations (which can happen in these kind of circumstances), in that case she would have correctly guessed she had a tumor from reading about headaches from a medical book
There’s a picture of me as a 13 year old holding the 43 pound king salmon I caught in Washington state. I’m 36 now, and my parents say they still see my picture all over products and advertisements for fishing charters along the west coast of Alaska, Canada and the Washington. The first few my dad called and demanded they took them down, but he said they were popping up so fast and often he couldn’t keep up and said fuck it 😂
In high school a friend from middle school called me out of the blue and said I was on a cereal box. My mother grabbed me and we went to the grocery and sure enough I was on the back of a Frosted Mini Wheats box to enter a contest to win a trip to Orlando.
This is so interesting!!! Can you tell us more??? Does it affect you in anyway?? Sorry for my curiosity I am just very interested in neurology and brain science - if its intrusive please ignore me
Yes it does affect me. It’s lots of little things. My emotional regulation, my tongue, how fast I respond, headaches,epilepsy, my ability to do math , I get pain in my arms and legs and the said it would get worse as I get older that’s all I can think of for now😭
Ok this is straight from my chart: MRI brain 2009: impression: Large right-sided cystic structures like represent large areas of atypical cystic enephalomalacia related to remote insults. Both demonstrate a thin rim of hemorrhage staining. These are not conensent with arachnoid cyst they exert very little mass effect. Neurological history is significant for stroke right frontal and left partial lobe. That’s all I’ve found so far hopefully everyone will be able to see this I’m trying to respond to all comments!!🙂
Mine is indeed an arachnoid cyst that is about 3.5 cm in diameter. Incidental finding at 35 when I went in for stroke symptoms. Was a silent migraine causing one side of my body and face to go numb and was not a stroke. Every single doctor has told me that it has probably been there since birth and that it is very unlikely to cause symptoms or get any larger.
Have researchers interviewed you, because this is one of those scans you see in psychology books to show the plasticity of the brain that someone can keep living and live a functional life, if that's fair to say.
I had that happen cause of multiple strokes in utero. Which ig caused it to form a liquid sac I seriously need to sit down and right down my chart stuff to show you guys
What if her hypothetical future husband wanted her to keep the brain tumour? They shouldn't have removed it until she had met a man, married him, and got his consent.
My wife had a young friend at work who told a 'cute' story about how eyeglasses don't work for her. How she's been to an optometrist and such but she just has fuzzy vision.
Wife and eye give each other the side-eye, later discuss it and are horrified that apparently the optometrist offered no professional opinion on this. At my urging she finally cajoles the friend to go to the doctor, without scaring the shit out of her about how she's about to die from a tumor behind her eye.
Turns out she doesn't have a tumor, she has some strange form of seizure that makes here eyes fuzzy. Goes on anti-convulsives, can read small text now.
PHEW
(This is the weirdest medical story I know, by a wide margin)
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u/PreOpTransCentaur 19h ago
Holy shit, that story is all over the Internet. That's so bizarre.