14 DAY TRIAL // Most of the time, it's doctors who make patients feel terribly confused whenever they start talking about one medical condition or another whose name no person in their right mind could possibly manage to spell.
As it turns out, patients too can give doctors good enough reasons to spend at least several minutes scratching their heads and trying to figure out what's what. Just read on if you doubt this really does happen, be it only every once in a while.
Long story short, news from China says that, not too long ago, a married man living in this country went to see a doctor and complained that he was experiencing severe abdominal pain and that traces of blood were present in his urine.
According to Metro, the man reported several other peculiar symptoms, among which fatigue and swelling in his legs and face. The doctor failed to figure out what was wrong with this patient based on his description of the things troubling him.
Hence, he ordered that a CT scan be carried out. When the results came out, the doctor, his colleagues, and the patient all had a surprise of a lifetime. In a nutshell, the patient was found to have not just ovaries, but also a uterus.
Information shared with the public says that, after collecting and analyzing DNA samples, the specialists in charge of seeing this case through also discovered that the patient's genetic code was that of a female. Simply put, this man was actually a woman.
“He was wearing men’s clothes and had short hair so we didn’t think that he would be a female at the beginning,” the chief of the First People’s Hospital of Yongkang commented on this bizarre medical case in a recent interview with the press.
What's interesting is that, by the looks of it, the patient's private parts were that of a woman. Thus, the cramps, the fatigue, the swelling, and the blood were just natural things that pretty much all women experience on a monthly basis.
Despite having female genitalia, and fully functional ovaries and uterus, the patient reportedly had no idea that he was a woman. This is despite the fact that he was happily married. Doctors say that, all things considered, the supposed man probably lied about being intimate with his wife.
This is not the first time that a man visits a hospital and ends up being told that he is actually a woman. A similar incident occurred in China last year, when a 66-year-old patient was told that the only reason she looked like a man was because of genetic abnormalities causing hair to grow on her face and infertility.