Ep. 93 | Gut Check/Sleeping Beauty

MrBallen’s Medical Mysteries

Wondery | Ballen Studios

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4.7 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 15 July 2025

⏱️ 44 minutes

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“Gut Check”: When a 16-year-old girl starts experiencing constant and severe stomach pain, her first concern is the effect it’ll have on her social life. But when she discovers how bad the problem really is, she realizes that her social standing is the last thing she needs to worry about.

“Sleeping Beauty”: A high-achieving teenager’s grades start to plummet when she becomes inexplicably sleepy and lethargic. But as time goes by, the problem starts to be more than sleeping through English class – eventually, she can’t remember entire months of her life. And she has no idea how to make it stop.

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0:00.0	Wondry Plus subscribers can listen to new episodes of Mr. Bollins Medical Mysteries early and ad-free right now.
0:06.0	Join Wondry Plus in the Wondry app or on Apple Podcasts.
0:14.9	Being a teenager is not easy.
0:19.3	Between school and friends and a changing body, it can be a lot to handle, especially if your changing body starts to go haywire.
0:26.6	Today we have two stories about high school students dealing with terrifying health conditions.
0:31.6	Our first story is about a girl who fears that her constant bouts of nausea will ruin her social life.
0:38.3	But it's not long before she has much bigger problems to worry about.
0:42.3	And our second story is about another teenage girl who finds herself constantly falling asleep.
0:47.3	However, this is far more than sleeping through an alarm,
0:50.3	because when she wakes up, entire months have gone by, and she has no memory of what happened.
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