How Reddit Saved Bear Silber's Life [Video]

A frequent Redditor known as Bear Silber recently has Reddit to thank for helping him diagnose a severe health problem that even his doctor couldn’t figure out.   The story begins 5 years ago, when Silber first got ill.  He couldn’t find a doctor to understand why he was getting sicker, and his condition started to seriously deteriorate in 2010.  That is, until he stumbled upon a Reddit post which was joking about a man’s physical condition — but Silber recognized the physical abnormality and searched the thread to find out that the particular condition was called Cushing’s Syndrome.

He took the information about the syndrome to his doctor, who proceeded to laugh at him and lament “self-diagnosis” by ignorant patients.

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