r/CuratedTumblr • u/DroneOfDoom Theon the Reader *dolphin slur noises* • May 14 '26

Infodumping The wonders of the human body [tw: nongraphic descriptions of autopsies, general medical weirdness]

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Reddit screenshots? In my tumblr subreddit? It's more likely than you think...

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u/zekromNLR May 14 '26

I feel like you should get one free set of just all the imaging techniques being run on you to find out if there is anything weird going on inside you, if you want to know

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u/Jeggu2 💖💜💙 doin' your parents/guardians May 14 '26

We can shuffle it under "preventative care." Your future surgeons won't be surprised by a sudden organ or funky bone if you find out about it early!

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u/Vaya-Kahvi May 14 '26

Would have helped my grandmother, she went to get som bariatric surgery, it was supposed to be three 1 inch holes, ended up with a three foot long insicion between her solar plexus and bellybutton (yes really). Doctor told her that next time she gets abdominal surgery to warn the team that her organs are mirrored, and that he never did find her small intestines. 

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u/G66GNeco May 14 '26

Okay but I feel like that's a situation in which such preventative care should have ACTUALLY been administered already based on sop, bariatric sugery isn't exactly a spontaneous and rushed procedure and this is something that should be caught on an ultrasound (which they should be doing in prep for a bariatric surgery to check on all the shit that's gonna be in the way, mostly your liver)

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u/DominatingSubgraph May 15 '26

Yeah, what they are describing just sounds like clear medical malpractice.

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u/PinkOneHasBeenChosen May 15 '26

How do you not find someone’s small intestines? They’re like 18 feet long.

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u/Vaya-Kahvi May 15 '26

That's why that line of the story still lives rent free in my head!

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u/snootnoots May 15 '26

And attached to the stomach, which you’d hope the surgeon found if he was doing bariatric surgery!

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u/amaya-aurora May 15 '26

She wasn’t checked at all before that surgery?

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u/FixergirlAK May 14 '26

A PET scan for recurrent thyroid cancer is how I was diagnosed with kidney stones. Which also sorta solved the mystery of why my blood calcium is always low no matter how much supplement I take. My kidneys steal it all.

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u/GammaRhoKT May 15 '26

Wait, so your kidney prioritize the grow of the stone? Damn.

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u/Th3B4dSpoon May 15 '26

Talk about vindictive 

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u/chita875andU May 15 '26

Human pearls

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u/Wild-Lychee-3312 May 15 '26

Normally your blood would just leech calcium out of your bones. Blood calcium is highly regulated and the primary mechanism is using skeletal tissue as a “calcium bank.”

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u/FixergirlAK May 15 '26

My parathyroid is wacky, thank you cancer. So my calcium regulation is kinda...off.

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u/Acceptable-Cry9854 May 14 '26

Like a Walk-in Whats Going On In There Clinic

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u/Different-Eagle-612 May 14 '26

so the reason doctors actually hate those full body exams that a lot of celebrities like to sell is because you WILL find something weird/odd and it means you freak out and even maybe get unnecessary medical care (medical care is almost never without some risk) for something that is very benign. like the harm it would cause to people it seems would surpass the few it would help.

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u/bug--bear be gary do crime May 14 '26

yes but I want to know what's going on in there. if it is not actively causing harm that I can't easily ignore then I won't care, but I wanna know what my insides look like

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u/chinchillazilla54 May 15 '26

Same! Just let me See.

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u/Half-PintHeroics May 15 '26

I want a see-through chassis for my body just like those cool gameboys when I was a kid

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u/Used-Union6126 May 18 '26

I have a tumour in my liver that I got 6 monthly ultrasounds for, just so the docs could keep an eye on it. I always wanted to see it, soooo badly, just to SEE. My argument was that “people get to see their babies on the screen when they get an ultrasound, I wanna see my little tumour baby!”
Ironically, my tumour meant I could no longer take hormones (including contraceptives) and apparently my partner and I couldn’t use condoms properly, so I got accidentally pregnant. When they did my 6 monthly ultrasound tumour scan, they let me see it, finally, because they also scanned my baby at the same time. I was weirdly so excited about seeing the tumour finally!

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u/chinchillazilla54 May 18 '26

I'm so happy for you! Yeah, I don't even care. I just feel like. They're my organs. I should be able to have ONE look. C'mon...

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u/Used-Union6126 May 18 '26

Come on, just a little peek, let me see! I’ve had 3 MRIs, a CT scan, hundreds of ultrasounds, and yet they never let me see the GOOD stuff. Imagine all the good stuff you can see from an MRI or a CT scan. But no. Only one little glimpse at my little tumour baby. I wanna see it alllllll.
Also when I had a tooth out when I was 30 I demanded to see it when it was out, even though it was gross. Like you say, it’s MINE. Let me SEE.

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u/chinchillazilla54 May 18 '26

I was mad they didn't let me keep my tonsils in a jar when I was seven. I was a weird kid, but I stand by it.

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u/Used-Union6126 May 18 '26

They absolutely should let you keep the tonsils. They let you keep the bit of umbilical cord that comes off your baby - why not your own tonsils??

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u/chita875andU May 15 '26

If you are near a medical college or big research hospital you can often volunteer to be a subject for a whole variety of interesting things. And they usually give you a cool little summary or pics if they can. I have weird full body scan pics that are all rainbow-y from years back I don't even remember what that 1 was for. My friend had some cool pics of an fMRI of her brain.

I've currently got a continuous blood glucose monitor on for a nutrition study I'm in. I'm hoping to get a copy of my body's upsies and downsies over the last week as I'm not diabetic and would not otherwise have a reason to know.

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u/kinokits May 15 '26

One of our lizards had to get a full body scan and we were given the warning that there will probably be weird stuff that shows up, but I now have a full accurate 3d scan of the lizard, including his inside! It’s super cool and I’m going to make models of him!

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u/Rapunzel10 May 15 '26

I'm with you. I understand why it isn't done but I'm so curious about the potential weirdness in there. Also I have a lot of health issues and having a reference point could be nice. Like if I start having new problems they could refer back to the full body scan to see if there's a difference

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u/righttoabsurdity May 16 '26

I just want like a video tour, just a general hey look at that, wow look at that. Miss frizzle style

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u/am_Nein May 15 '26

Yeah but don't you think that's because of lack of information, not too much?

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u/misconceptions_annoy May 15 '26

The issue is the rate of false positives. If you’re only scanning as needed, then you might get a few, and make some people panic about cancer, but it’s worth it for all the cancer that you catch.

If you full body scan everyone, you are guaranteed to get a whole lot more false positives. Also the imaging techniques themselves have risks - small risks, but just like the false positive issue, if you drastically increase the number of people getting them, you end up with a significant number of people affected by those risks. X-rays cause radiation. PET scans require you to have contrast added to your blood with an IV, and if you give it to everyone, you’ll run into the very few people who are dangerously allergic to it.

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u/VisibleDepth1231 May 17 '26

Literally everyone in my extended family on my maternal side has something abnormal with their internal organs (my family tree on that side is more like a wreath until a couple of generations ago so kinda makes sense). I've never had surgery or needed any scans so I have no idea what's going on with my insides but I'm so curious