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Mystery Diagnosis

Season 6

2008 · 13 episodes

  1. 1. The Woman With the Giant Lump

    2008-03-24 · 60m

    A very active 41-year-old bodybuilder realizes that a strange lump has grown in her jaw while training for a competition; a boy has infrequent bowel movements.

  2. 2. The Woman Who Couldn't Stop Rocking

    2008-12-01 · 60m

    A woman starts failing after a family vacation; another woman, who has suffered from stomach pains for years, has problems with swelling during menstruation.

  3. 3. The Baby Who Wouldn't Stop Crying

    2008-12-08 · 60m

    A baby develops a mysterious set of symptoms, including a bulging forehead and eye color changes. A teen suffers severe hand pain during swim practice.

  4. 4. The Girl Who Couldn't Wake Up

    2008-12-15 · 60m

    A young woman experiences bizarre episodes where they sleep for almost the entire day after a car accident causes them to develop Kleine-Levin syndrome. An 11-year-old suffers a terrible headache.

  5. 5. The Girl Who Couldn't Move

    2009-03-02 · 60m

    A young student begins to suffer from paralyzing pain in his back. A couple adopts a girl and they find a huge and swollen lump on her shoulder. Initially suspected to be severe neurofibromatosis, the efforts of doctors to relieve the child's condition by conducting an amputation of the affected arm only makes things worse when bone begins overrunning the site of the amputation, revealing her condition to be the lethal and progressive disease fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva.

  6. 6. The Boy Who Kept Swelling

    2009-03-09 · 60m

    An 18-month-old baby suddenly starts screaming one afternoon in the pool, and begins exhibiting extremely painful symptoms when exposed to sunlight, with porphyria later found to be the culprit. A mother of two children begins to suffer a series of very debilitating headaches.

  7. 7. The Boy Who Stopped Walking

    2009-03-16 · 60m

    Rachele Lacount and Mike West are delighted that their baby has started to walk and talk, but suddenly they realize that something is wrong with his right eye. Since middle school, Cherryl Marshall struggled with taming her obscene body odor.

  8. 8. The Boy Who Bit Himself

    2009-03-23 · 60m

    Parents notice their 7-month-old son has troubling physical impairments, then begins violently harming himself, culminating in a horrifying incident where the child bites off his own lower lip; he is later diagnosed with the genetic condition Lesch-Nyhan syndrome. A woman traveling the world starts experiencing unusual back pain and tingling in her feet that rapidly develops into a spreading paralysis; following the successful use of plasmapheresis, the cause of the dangerous condition is identified as Devic's disease, an inflammation of the spinal cord.

  9. 9. The Boy Who Could Break

    2009-03-30 · 60m

    Bob was an outstanding middle school teacher who never got sick a day in his life until he was stuck by night sweats, headaches, light sensitivity, and blindness in his left eye. Diane and Howard have a baby boy with a mystery illness. Eventually, another doctor sees the newborn and diagnoses a rare and fatal disease, seen less than 100 times.

  10. 10. The Black and Blue Baby

    2009-04-06 · 60m

    Holly is overjoyed at the birth of her second baby, Hannah Hannum, but soon realizes that she has Down syndrome; Carly and Nathan have just gotten married, when Carly falls extremely ill with strong nausea.

  11. 11. The Baby Who Couldn't Stop Eating

    2009-04-13 · 60m

    Doctors try to understand diseases that are often misdiagnosed, including a case of a newborn who has a cleft in the chest, and is later diagnosed with Marfan syndrome after they begin exhibiting the telltale signs of the condition as they grow older, and another who shows very worrying symptoms.

  12. 12. The Girl Who Fell Apart

    2009-04-20 · 60m

    Marylyn and Randall House become alarmed when their young daughter's motor skills begin to deteriorate; Amanda Gray experiences extreme fatigue after the birth of her second daughter.

  13. 13. The Girl Who Fell to Pieces

    2009-04-27 · 60m

    After passing out during a soccer game, Allie Isaacson suffers excruciating pain in her legs; Molly Bigford experiences a miscarriage with her first pregnancy and high blood pressure with her second.

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