Mitochondrial Disease Patients Face Difficult Road to Diagnosis

Webdog · Mar 27, 2018

The most common misdiagnosis is... you guessed it... psychiatric disorder.

https://www.mailman.columbia.edu/pu...isease-patients-face-difficult-road-diagnosis

Columbia University said:

An estimated 75,000 Americans live with genetic conditions that result from failures of the mitochondria
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Columbia University said:

On average, patients said they saw more than eight different physicians prior to getting a diagnosis. More than half (55 percent) reported being misdiagnosed on their way to a mitochondrial disease diagnosis, and of these, nearly one-third (32 percent) were misdiagnosed more than once.

The most common misdiagnosis was for psychiatric disorder (13 percent), followed by fibromyalgia (12 percent), chronic fatigue syndrome (9 percent), and multiple sclerosis (8 percent).
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Columbia University said:

In all, survey participants reported more than 800 symptoms. The most common of these that motivated patients to see a doctor was weakness (62 percent), followed by fatigue (56 percent), difficulty walking (39 percent), droopy eyelids (33 percent), and impaired coordination (32 percent).
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MErmaid · Mar 27, 2018

The “Hit and Miss” approach of the Doctopus!!

It takes a Doctopus 8 misdiagnosis to get 1 correct diagnosis!

Favorite Top Doctopus Quotes:

“I still get paid whether it’s a “hit or a miss”, so it’s really not a problem at all!!“

“Upon leaving your first visit, please be sure to book 8 more visits, because you will need each one, if you expect a correct diagnosis!”

“So why eight? Isn’t this obvious? After 8 times, I simply have run out of arms!”

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