Fun fact

[Endoxifen]

It's definitely a bit early for this post and I'm not even applying this cycle, but what's everyone's fun fact. Mine is that I have two kinds of synesthesia (feel tastes as shapes and associate numbers, letters, and words with colors) and I have hypermobile joints, so I can do advanced yoga poses with only minor internal bleeding!

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[dcpl]

hello ,

Great thing you can do ever.thanks for sharing

 

[bioboy23]

Collagen defect buddies?

 

[Pepe18]

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[CyrilFiggis]

agree with @Pepe18. If you share during an interview with an attending that you have hyperreflexia he might still recommend you for acceptance, but also recommend you for a thyroid study, electrolyte panel, CT and a neuro consult.

 

[bioboy23]

agree with @Pepe18. If you share during an interview with an attending that you have hyperreflexia he might still recommend you for acceptance, but also recommend you for a thyroid study, electrolyte panel, CT and a neuro consult.

I always wondered, would it be a bad thing to mention health issues in interviews? It doesn't hinder me from doing anything at all but when I was being diagnosed with it, it gave a much better idea of the patient point of view. It may even be a good thing to write about in secondaries but I don't want them to question my future fitness once I am a physician.

 

[Endoxifen]

I've never actually been diagnosed, but considering that I can touch my palms to the ground with no effort, I pry have it. Regardless, I doubt it will have any negative impact when interviewing. It's sort of just a weird fact.

 

[Endoxifen]

Do you mean hyperreflexia or hypermobile joints?

If I recall, the last I read hypermobile joints are found in 20% of people (I myself am a 7 on the Beighton scale) and the vast majority of cases aren't related to recognized collagen defects and are benign (EDS and the like are rare). (I'd personally be interested in seeing if obesity, especially in childhood, causes joint laxity that increases the prevelance of hypermobility)

Whoops! I meant hypermobile joints. I was just reading about hyperreflexia for the MCAT last night, so it was on my mind! Lol

 

[WinnDi]

double jointed ... boring I know.

 

[bioboy23]

Do you mean hyperreflexia or hypermobile joints?

If I recall, the last I read hypermobile joints are found in 20% of people (I myself am a 7 on the Beighton scale) and the vast majority of cases aren't related to recognized collagen defects and are benign (EDS and the like are rare). (I'd personally be interested in seeing if obesity, especially in childhood, causes joint laxity that increases the prevelance of hypermobility)

Have you been diagnosed with H-EDS?

 

[Pepe18]

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[Endoxifen]

That's kind of why I mentioned the prevelance of benign hypermobile joints. EDS has sort of become another gluten sensitivity type thing where many people self diagnose themselves with chronic EDS pain. And an EDS diagnosis is inappropriately given to those who just have hypermobile joints. So I'd be wary of mentioning a connective tissue disorder in front of professionals without having an actual diagnosis (I'm not saying you would say that, but just a head's up). EDS patients suffer frequent, painful joint subluxations and may be at risk for early death from vascular problems if they have certain subtypes

I can also put my palms to the floor, foot over my head, my knees hyperextend, I have a positive wrist sign, etc...I actually meet many of the diagnostic criteria for Marfan's except for the need to have either lens subluxation or vascular dissection before an official diagnosis is made. But honestly, chances are that I don't actually have Marfan's because it is rare. When you hear hoofbeats, think of horses not zebras

Oh yeah, it's definitely benign in my case. I have no intention of making it out to be anything more. My original comment about "minor internal bleeding" was a joke.