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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 to find out what ailments they suffer from. As the

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  1. #1 Worst Episode
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    Mystery Diagnosis Season 1 Episode 1 - Grasping for Straws
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    #1 - Grasping for Straws

    S1:E1

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

    Director:Unknown
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  2. Mystery Diagnosis Season 1 Episode 3 - Not A Normal Newborn
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    #2 - 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.

    Director:Unknown
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  3. Mystery Diagnosis Season 1 Episode 4 - Isaac's Nightmare
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    #3 - 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).

    Director:Unknown
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  4. Mystery Diagnosis Season 1 Episode 6 - Blood & Fire
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    #4 - 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).

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  5. Mystery Diagnosis Season 1 Episode 7 - Desperate for a Cure
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    #5 - 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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  6. Mystery Diagnosis Season 1 Episode 8 - Blood Brothers
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    #6 - 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

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  7. Mystery Diagnosis Season 2 Episode 2 - An Unquenchable Thirst
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    #7 - 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.

    Director:Unknown
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  8. Mystery Diagnosis Season 2 Episode 3 - Lethal Diet
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    #8 - 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.

    Director:Unknown
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  9. Mystery Diagnosis Season 2 Episode 4 - Falling Through the Cracks
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    #9 - 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.

    Director:Unknown
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  10. Mystery Diagnosis Season 2 Episode 5 - Eaten Alive
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    #10 - Eaten Alive

    S2:E5

    A baby's hair appears brittle, and she is slow in developing after a case of whooping cough. Following a tube-tie procedure, Jackie contracted a flesh-eating disease. A boy develops nosebleeds, a sign of something much more terrifying.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  11. Mystery Diagnosis Season 2 Episode 7 - Fatal Secret
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    #11 - Fatal Secret

    S2:E7

    Roman was a baby when his parents noticed his head always tilting to one side and his eyes rolling back into his head when he looked up. Could the cause be just one condition? Sharon was an active varsity diver but after a car accident, she developed an unquenchable thirst that would soon take over her life. Peggy lived a healthy and active lifestyle, until one day when the mother of two experienced coughing, joint pain, and swelling.

    Director:Unknown
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  12. Mystery Diagnosis Season 2 Episode 8 - The Stabbing Sensation
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    #12 - The Stabbing Sensation

    S2:E8

    Nicky was a healthy five-year-old boy until terrifying symptoms landed him in the hospital, fighting for his life. Kristine was a super mom until crippling abdominal pains would change her life forever. Jackie was active until mysterious pains wracked her entire body, eventually becoming so bad that she had to drop out of school.

    Director:Unknown
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  13. Mystery Diagnosis Season 2 Episode 9 - The Man With Rocks in His Chest
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    #13 - The Man With Rocks in His Chest

    S2:E9

    A baby boy suffers from the same symptoms that killed off male offspring on his mother's side of the family, Could doctors figure out what it is before it's too late? A man in his late thirties experiences a constant, painful burning sensation in his chest, making breathing difficult, but an initial trip to the ER reveals nothing. A woman lives with joint pain, redness in her eyes, and a blood test revealed an elevated anti-nuclear antibody.

    Director:Unknown
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  14. Mystery Diagnosis Season 3 Episode 2 - The Man Who Turned Orange
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    #14 - The Man Who Turned Orange

    S3:E2

    A doctor makes an unexpected discovery when he operates on a young woman; doctors try to reach a diagnosis when a marathon runner experiences mysterious fatigue.

    Director:Unknown
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  15. Mystery Diagnosis Season 3 Episode 7 - Frenetic Genetics
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    #15 - Frenetic Genetics

    S3:E7

    An infant shows diverse symptoms; an ER nurse gets a diagnosis of lymphoma, before another symptom reveals her true illness.

    Director:Unknown
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  16. Mystery Diagnosis Season 4 Episode 1 - The Girl Who Couldn't Eat
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    #16 - The Girl Who Couldn't Eat

    S4:E1

    Doctors wonder why an apparently healthy baby fails to achieve its developmental goals; on the other hand, a woman who seemed to be in good health suddenly becomes ill.

    Director:Unknown
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  17. Mystery Diagnosis Season 4 Episode 2 - Bizarre Visions
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    #17 - Bizarre Visions

    S4:E2

    A woman experiences chronic stomach pain and diarrhea attributed to irritable bowel syndrome; another faces extreme fatigue and night sweating while pregnant.

    Director:Unknown
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  18. Mystery Diagnosis Season 4 Episode 3 - The Woman Who Craved Pickles
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    #18 - The Woman Who Craved Pickles

    S4:E3

    A baby boy could not keep any food down; an X-Ray revealed that he had been born with a diaphragmatic hernia. A woman who suffers from extreme fatigue has strange cravings for pickles; when her heart nearly stops, doctors try to find the cause of her problems.

    Director:Unknown
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  19. Mystery Diagnosis Season 4 Episode 5 - The Purple Puzzle
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    #19 - The Purple Puzzle

    S4:E5

    An abnormality on the ultrasound alarms parents expecting a baby; a biology teacher has a series of strange symptoms.

    Director:Unknown
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  20. Mystery Diagnosis Season 5 Episode 7 - The Sickest Patient in the Hospital
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    #20 - The Sickest Patient in the Hospital

    S5:E7

    A man who recently underwent an operation begins to suffer from swollen legs, insomnia, and sudden attacks of vomiting; a father discovers a strange lump on his tailbone.

    Director:Unknown
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  21. Mystery Diagnosis Season 5 Episode 8 - Terrifying Tumours
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    #21 - Terrifying Tumours

    S5:E8

    When Heather and Toddy bring their baby home from the hospital, a strange rash soon appears on the baby's skin and it begins to suffer frequent fevers.

    Director:Unknown
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  22. Mystery Diagnosis Season 6 Episode 3 - The Baby Who Wouldn't Stop Crying
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    #22 - The Baby Who Wouldn't Stop Crying

    S6:E3

    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.

    Director:Unknown
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  23. Mystery Diagnosis Season 6 Episode 4 - The Girl Who Couldn't Wake Up
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    #23 - The Girl Who Couldn't Wake Up

    S6:E4

    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.

    Director:Unknown
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  24. Mystery Diagnosis Season 6 Episode 5 - The Girl Who Couldn't Move
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    #24 - The Girl Who Couldn't Move

    S6:E5

    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.

    Director:Unknown
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  25. Mystery Diagnosis Season 6 Episode 9 - The Boy Who Could Break
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    #25 - The Boy Who Could Break

    S6:E9

    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.

    Director:Unknown
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Worst Episodes Summary

"Grasping for Straws" is the worst rated episode of "Mystery Diagnosis". It scored /10 based on 0 votes. Directed by Unknown and written by Unknown, it aired on 3/7/2005. This episode scored 0.0 points lower than the second lowest rated, "Not A Normal Newborn".