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The Best Episodes of Mystery Diagnosis

Every episode of Mystery Diagnosis ranked from best to worst. Let's dive into the Best Episodes of Mystery Diagnosis!

The Best Episodes of Mystery Diagnosis

Mystery Diagnosis is a television program that airs on the OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network. Each episode focuses on two or more individuals and their struggles...
  1. Background image for The Woman Who Couldn't Cry
    9.3/10(6 votes)

    #1 - The Woman Who Couldn't Cry

    S5:E9

    Doctors can't pinpoint the cause of the array of debilitating ailments a woman has been suffering from for more than 50 years.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  2. Background image for The Woman With a Knife in Her Head
    9.3/10(6 votes)

    #2 - The Woman With a Knife in Her Head

    S5:E10

    Amanda Coveler, a woman who successfully gives birth to a second daughter after two miscarriages, faces challenges after giving birth.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  3. Background image for The Woman Who Kept Falling Down
    9.2/10(6 votes)

    #3 - The Woman Who Kept Falling Down

    S5:E3

    A baby boy has bouts of vomiting and diarrhea from the day of his birth; a young woman experiences blackouts after she hits puberty.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  4. Background image for The Girl Who Couldn't Be Touched
    9.0/10(5 votes)

    #4 - The Girl Who Couldn't Be Touched

    S5:E1

    Trisha and David Kielb's baby is born, but soon afterwards the heart stops, turning their joy into fear; a woman experiences excruciating headaches.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  5. Background image for Blood & Fire
    8.8/10(5 votes)

    #5 - Blood & Fire

    S1:E6

    A 12-year-old girl experiences abdominal pains and severe headaches until she is diagnosed with a retroflexed odontoid and Chiari One malformation; a firefighter and paramedic is diagnosed with acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS).

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  6. Background image for The Girl Who Gagged
    8.8/10(5 votes)

    #6 - The Girl Who Gagged

    S5:E2

    A woman has shortness of breath, chest and joint pain, extreme fatigue, and a cough; strange symptoms appear in an energetic kindergartener.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
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  8. Background image for The Girl Nobody Believed
    8.8/10(5 votes)

    #7 - The Girl Nobody Believed

    S5:E5

    A husband is rendered helpless by back pain. An overweight girl experiences dizziness and shortness of breath with any physical exertion.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  9. Background image for The Headache That Wouldn't Go Away
    8.8/10(5 votes)

    #8 - The Headache That Wouldn't Go Away

    S5:E6

    Lavelle Fernandez and Roddy Palma's baby girl inexplicably turns blue 30 minutes after her birth; Laurie Scott suffers from excruciating headaches that won't go away.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  10. Background image for A Family's Desperate Search
    8.8/10(5 votes)

    #9 - A Family's Desperate Search

    S10:E5

    Since birth, Ricky is plagued by respiratory infections and a bizarre inability to grow. Noel is a healthy, active man until mysterious spasms start taking over his life.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  11. Background image for Too Young To Be Sick
    8.7/10(6 votes)

    #10 - Too Young To Be Sick

    S10:E7

    Harry's body starts to undergo a mysterious transformation. Sadie finds herself on the brink of starvation after her doctor dismisses her complaints.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  12. Background image for When the Body Shuts Down
    8.6/10(5 votes)

    #11 - When the Body Shuts Down

    S10:E4

    When Kylie is born struggling to breathe, doctors aren't sure whether they will find a cure. Also, athlete Michael is left fighting for his life when a sore throat turns deadly.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  13. Background image for Why Is Emily Screaming?
    7.8/10(5 votes)

    #12 - Why Is Emily Screaming?

    S1:E5

    A baby who cries and holds her cheek; a woman who gained 100 pounds in three months and developed severe acne; and an avid athlete struggling to catch his breath. Featuring trigeminal neuralgia, polycystic ovary syndrome and alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  14. Background image for The Girl With Half a Face
    7.8/10(6 votes)

    #13 - The Girl With Half a Face

    S7:E7

    Nicole is a teenager who feels excruciating pain in her jaw and her face starts to sink, with her affliction later found to be the result of Parry-Romberg syndrome. Kevin thinks he has food poisoning, but he starts to lose motor coordination.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  15. Background image for The Girl With Holes in Her Jaw
    7.7/10(6 votes)

    #14 - The Girl With Holes in Her Jaw

    S7:E3

    Over the first several years of their life, a young girl experiences bouts of debilitating pain and degradation to her bones caused by lymphangiomatosis.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  16. Background image for Fight to the Last Breath
    7.4/10(5 votes)

    #15 - Fight to the Last Breath

    S10:E1

    A man tries to ease his wife's sinus pains, while a woman faces her own mortality when she experiences a series of debilitating symptoms.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  17. Background image for Grasping for Straws
    NaN/10(0 votes)

    #16 - Grasping for Straws

    S1:E1

    Doctors are baffled by a woman's mysterious respiratory problem. Featuring Cushing's syndrome, gout, carcinoid cancer.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  18. Background image for Like Mother, Like Son
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    #17 - Like Mother, Like Son

    S1:E2

    A child with celiac disease is intolerant of gluten; a woman has her left frontal lobe removed to stop seizures; another woman suffers from fatigue and mood swings. Featuring celiac disease, mitral valve prolapse (MVP), epilepsy.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  19. Background image for Not A Normal Newborn
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    #18 - Not A Normal Newborn

    S1:E3

    A child with Hurler's disease undergoes a stem-cell transplant procedure; a woman is diagnosed with myasthenia gravis; A father has seizures and fainting spells due to a heart arrhythmia. Featuring Hurler syndrome, myasthenia gravis, cardiac arrhythmia.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  20. Background image for Isaac's Nightmare
    NaN/10(0 votes)

    #19 - Isaac's Nightmare

    S1:E4

    A young boy's body is not producing antibodies to fight infections; a cancerous tumor must be removed; a woman loses the ability to walk. Featuring common variable immunodeficiency (CVID), gastrointestinal stromal tumor (GIST), reflex sympathetic dystrophy (RSD).

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  21. Background image for Desperate for a Cure
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    #20 - Desperate for a Cure

    S1:E7

    A 5-year-old has a persistent fever and stomachache. A man crippled with a neck tilt. A woman falls ill after traveling abroad. Featuring Crohn's disease, cervical dystonia, brucellosis.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  22. Background image for Blood Brothers
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    #21 - Blood Brothers

    S1:E8

    Two brothers suffer the same heart problem. Joanne suffers from joint pain, mouth ulcers, genital sores, skin lesions, and vision problems. Featuring Barth Syndrome, Behcet's Disease

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  23. Background image for A Puff of Smoke
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    #22 - A Puff of Smoke

    S2:E1

    A baby is irritable, has trouble nursing and stops gaining weight. When the infant begins suffering repeated seizures and eventually begins sustaining rapid-onset cerebral ischemia, they are diagnosed with moyamoya disease, and must be treated before they suffer lethal brain damage from the repeated ischemic incidents. A man initially diagnosed with hypoglycemia finds out he's got a tumor in his lung. A woman battling coughs, hives, and muscle weakness, was revealed to have an elevated eosinophil count.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  24. Background image for An Unquenchable Thirst
    NaN/10(0 votes)

    #23 - An Unquenchable Thirst

    S2:E2

    A baby drinks excessively, projectile vomits and stops growing. A professional baseball player's wife struggles to get pregnant due to a brain tumor. An old man is robbed of his eyesight.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  25. Background image for Lethal Diet
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    #24 - Lethal Diet

    S2:E3

    Parents deal with a son with sinus infections and unsteady feet; a woman gains weight and has oily skin, hair loss, body cramps and irritable bowel syndrome. A reverend has trouble sleeping.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  26. Background image for Falling Through the Cracks
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    #25 - Falling Through the Cracks

    S2:E4

    A man has suffered from vertigo and ear infections since childhood. A 16-year-old girl has headaches and neck twitching, that led to preeclampsia. A girl has a serious heart condition and stops growing and gaining weight.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

Best Episodes Summary

"The Woman Who Couldn't Cry" is the best rated episode of "Mystery Diagnosis". It scored 9.3/10 based on 6 votes. Directed by Unknown and written by Unknown, it aired on 4/7/2008. This episode scored 0.0 points higher than the second highest rated, "The Woman With a Knife in Her Head".