ChatGPT Diagnosis
By Amber
@AmbiePam (117693)
United States
April 18, 2026 7:44am CST
First, I want to preface the fact I am not advocating anyone to trust ChatGPT over a medical doctor, but it certainly shows they can be a help. See, a woman in Wales had had problems that included dizziness, fainting (which resulted in a fall that put her in a coma), seizures, and muscle weakness. She was constantly told her symptoms were due to anxiety and epilepsy.
I’ve had two doctors (a long time ago) throw anxiety and depression at me for real physical problems, and that is such lazy medical care I won’t go any further. Anyway, one day, out of desperation she put her symptoms into ChatGPT, and they said it was a rare genetic disorder (I forget the name). She brought that to her doctor, the doctor ran a test, and the diagnosis was confirmed.
Just shows you persistent pays off, and AI can do incredibly helpful things. A note to anyone sick but the doctors say it’s in your head; keep looking for answers if you know it’s not. Psychological problems are just as real as other physical problems, but not being heard on what you know is a false diagnosis is such a helpless feeling.
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15 responses
@MarieCoyle (57269)
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7h
Sometimes, doctors are quick with diagnosis and then it's wrong. It's like they want to slap a label on you--''Hey, you have xyz'' write a bunch of prescriptions, and get you out the door. Been there, done that, it doesn't work that way. I have yet to use the ChatGPT and probably won't, at least for now. The path to wellness is often a rocky one, I think. But in the case you describe, it appears to have worked for that lady.
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@Juliaacv (55585)
• Canada
7h
Some doctors just do not test enough to come up with a proper diagnosis.
I know that while my brain tumour was growing, I experienced terrible headaches, and was bounced back and forth from the family doctor to an eye doctor for about a 2 year period.
I was misdiagnosed in the hospital twice.
Diagnostics were not as advanced as they are today, but surely a doctor can reach out to other physicians for suggestions for testing. I would still trust a doctor over gpt any day.
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@GardenGerty (168580)
• United States
Just now
I got an anxiety diagnosis thrown at me about four years ago as cause of dizziness. I took the pills. They did not help.The dizziness, or an infection in my ears and sinuses, comes back almost always every spring. It has been better the last two years and my regular doctor has looked and investigated thoroughly.
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@DaddyEvil (172144)
• United States
8h
Doctors that diagnose every problem as "in your head" are quacks! But don't trust ChatGPT, either.
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@Marilynda1225 (90103)
• United States
5h
My daughter has used ChatGPT to analyze her meals for the day and it gives her a detailed pros and cons of what foods are good, what not so good, and the why. Hearing the why has been very beneficial instead of just having someone say don't eat that.
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@JudyEv (377831)
• Rockingham, Australia
7h
I have to have a small procedure soon and Chat has given such a lot of background information - stuff that you don't really feel you want to bother a doctor with. We use it for all sorts of things. It's just a really fast way of getting information as long as you're sensible and check stuff if you think it looks at all dodgy.
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@snowy22315 (206175)
• United States
7h
I personally think AI can be and often is, a great boon to the medical field. They just have so much information at their disposal.
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@rakski (151961)
• Philippines
6h
The AI actually can give you a good perspective of what going on medically with the symptoms you provide. One time I try downloading the laboratory test results that the doctor will read and explain. So I did that before I went to the doctor and the AI explained those numbers that we do not understand.
It is nice that we have other informational before we go to doctors too so we can ask more questions
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@aninditasen (18157)
• Raurkela, India
6h
Nowadays some doctors use the wrong way to get a degree. Therefore they make wrong diagnosis.
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@Shivram59 (48887)
• India
7h
I have never used AI. Nor had I seen any doctor who uses it. Ten years back my younger sister was suffering and a doctor diagnosed her just by her pulse. He told us she had cancer and he was right.
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@LooeyVille (67)
• United States
6h
Each patient has to be his or her own advocate and direct and guide the doctors.
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@luisadannointed (10618)
• Philippines
7h
Cool! I think for that kind of thing is cool but never ask for any medication or something, it is proper and safe to talk to a real doctor.
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