Hey Pandas, What Was Your “Damn I’m Smart” Moment?

It wasn't just one moment, but a culmination of several moments in my medical history. So, I have a great doctor. She's kind, caring, and compassionate, and is always willing to listen to my concerns, respond to my symptoms, and answer any questions I might have about my healthcare. She's been my PCP for seven years now, and over those years my health has declined. I had been experiencing a downturn in the past nine months or so, and she hadn't been able to find what the problem was (I probably should add that I have a medical background in that I was a CNA and completed a pre-nursing program at a local college, and my grandmother was a nurse). So I started researching my symptoms and found something that aligned with the symptoms I'd been experiencing. I told my doctor and she exclaimed, "You need to go to the ER NOW! I saw this in your blood work and thought it was because of 'blank', but I see now it's actually a side effect of the medication you've been taking, and it can be life threatening." Now, this isn't the first time this has happened. It's happened at least three other times in various situations such as what medications I should be taking, what tests I should have done, and why I got ill so often. I basically have to research everything and suggest to her what I think is wrong, then she has an "aha" moment and we go from there. It freaked me out a bit because this last thing should have been very obvious to her, as a doctor. But, anyway, I figured all of these things out myself with just intuition about what was going on. Of course, I did research using Google, but I had to develop a starting point. So I realized I seem to have a certain affinity for medical diagnosing, at least when pertaining to myself.