A mother has revealed how her son’s three years of chronic pain and countless visits to medical specialists was finally solved after her prompts inChatGPTunearthed the correct diagnosis.
Courtney reportedly first took her son to the dentist when he started chewing things, with his parents concerned he was having issues with his molars or cavities.
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This dentist appointment kicked off three years of visits with 17 different doctors in all manner of specialty fields.
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“Our sweet personality … (child) is dissolving into this tantrum-ing crazy person that didn’t exist the rest of the time,” Courtney toldToday.
The dentist suggested Alex see anorthodontistspecializing in airway obstruction. While the orthodontist identified that Alex’s palate was too small for his mouth, making it tougher for him to breathe at night, the expander she placed in his palate only helped briefly.
“Everything was better for a little bit,” Courtney remembered. “We thought we were in the home stretch.”
A short time later, Courtney noticed her son had stopped growing. They reportedly visited a pediatrician, who suggested thepandemichad impacted Alex’s growth, referring him to physical therapy due to imbalances between his left and right sides.
Around the time he was due to start physical therapy, Alex had been experiencing headaches, with a visit to a neurologist determining the youngster had migraines. He also saw an ear, nose, and throat specialist to see if his sleep problems were due to his sinus cavities.
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“We saw so many doctors. We ended up in the ER at one point. I kept pushing,” Courtney told the outlet.
“Nobody’s willing to solve for the greater problem,” she added. “Nobody will even give you a clue about what the diagnosis could be.”
Frustrated Courtney was at the end of her rope when she said she made an account with the AI-powered bot program ChatGPT to share her son’s symptoms and the information she had gathered from his priormagnetic resonance imaging.
When ChatGPT suggested Alex was suffering from tethered cord syndrome, “it made a lot of sense,” his mother admitted.
“She said point blank, ‘Here’s occula spinal bifida, and here’s where the spine is tethered,' ” Courtney recalled.
When Alex was finally diagnosed, Courtney said she experienced “every emotion in the book, relief, validated, excitement for his future.”
source: people.com
