diagnosing your illnesses on the internet.

does anyone else who is ever so slightly a hypochondriac ever google any symptom you have and then get into a mass panic that you've got a freaky terminal illness or something? why do i keep on doing this?! i know it's stupid!!!

Reply 1

BlackHawk

17

Just to let you know, those sites are not intended to diagnois illness, they are to be used as a guide only. Most come with a disclaimer. Only a qualified doctor can make a diagnosis after giving you a full examination. So quit worrying.

Reply 2

SamTheMan

17

mademoiselle84

does anyone else who is ever so slightly a hypochondriac ever google any symptom you have and then get into a mass panic that you've got a freaky terminal illness or something? why do i keep on doing this?! i know it's stupid!!!

Of course loads of people do it. That's what the worldwide web is for. Say you get migraines after eating (or something weird like that :rolleyes:

) well why not look it up before going to a doctor. There are a few things that might not make you want to see a doctor but still stay on your mind...

However I have a few friends who are now doctors or dentists (interns in the case of the doctors) and they go on about how fed up they are about old people telling them this or that, that they read on the internet. When you worry, you can believe all kinds of things and make the wrong diagnosis.

Then again, some doctors make misdiagnoses all the time, but at least you can count on their experience to detect something they've already seen. Just a list of random symptoms written on a website can make you believe anything.

Reply 3

Riddy

mademoiselle84

does anyone else who is ever so slightly a hypochondriac ever google any symptom you have and then get into a mass panic that you've got a freaky terminal illness or something? why do i keep on doing this?! i know it's stupid!!!

yep I had a lump in my neck, its still there and looked it up I thougt I had hodginsons Disease cancer, the lump was in the exact right place for it too. I went to the docs he said it was a swollen gland so I came out with antibiotics. He was wrong cause its still there!

Reply 4

zooropa

mademoiselle84

does anyone else who is ever so slightly a hypochondriac ever google any symptom you have and then get into a mass panic that you've got a freaky terminal illness or something? why do i keep on doing this?! i know it's stupid!!!

Err...no.

Reply 5

Xx Tomásíona - Mháire xX

14

SamTheMan

Of course loads of people do it. That's what the worldwide web is for. Say you get migraines after eating (or something weird like that :rolleyes:

) well why not look it up before going to a doctor. There are a few things that might not make you want to see a doctor but still stay on your mind...

However I have a few friends who are now doctors or dentists (interns in the case of the doctors) and they go on about how fed up they are about old people telling them this or that, that they read on the internet. When you worry, you can believe all kinds of things and make the wrong diagnosis.

Then again, some doctors make misdiagnoses all the time, but at least you can count on their experience to detect something they've already seen. Just a list of random symptoms written on a website can make you believe anything.

except for the friends who are doctors and dentists part........ ^_^ :biggrin:

Reply 6

thatguy

Riddy

yep I had a lump in my neck, its still there and looked it up I thougt I had hodginsons Disease cancer, the lump was in the exact right place for it too. I went to the docs he said it was a swollen gland so I came out with antibiotics. He was wrong cause its still there!

Lol me too.

Although I have another lump on my head now...

Reply 7

SamTheMan

17

Riddy

yep I had a lump in my neck, its still there and looked it up I thougt I had hodginsons Disease cancer, the lump was in the exact right place for it too. I went to the docs he said it was a swollen gland so I came out with antibiotics. He was wrong cause its still there!

I think you mean Hodgkins Disease and I don't know much about that but it seems a bit excessive as that's a serious disease. The statistics hardly make it likely you'd have something like that.

I had a swollen gland I got worried about. It was just a remnant of mononucleosis/glandualr fever but I read all kinds of horror stories. You can imagine you have the plague if you read some websites and glands can mean all kinds of things. If you have a worrying gland, you usually get a blood test anyway. But I'm not saying those websites are useless, certainly not. They're really useful. You just shouldn't take them too seriously.

Reply 8

Lecter

12

I once diagnosed my self with testicular cancer, then i released you are supposed to have two testicules!

Reply 9

Harv616

9

Iv done it :biggrin:

Well sort of, i found out i was stupidly underweight and i should put some on :rolleyes:

p.s. anybody got any easy ways to gain weight? :redface:

Reply 10

Lecter

12

BhArJ

Iv done it :biggrin:

Well sort of, i found out i was stupidly underweight and i should put some on :rolleyes:

p.s. anybody got any easy ways to gain weight? :redface:

semen, according to biology teacher, 5000 calaries per squirt!

Reply 11

Caster Troy2

It not only diagnosed myself with a brain tumour using the net, but I followed step by step instructions and removed it.

Reply 12

Helenia

20

sayed_samed

semen, according to biology teacher, 5000 calaries per squirt!

I think that's physically impossible.

I once managed to diagnose myself with a heart attack using NHS direct's flow chart thingy when I had a random lower chest/abdo pain. Fortunately I was perfectly aware that I wasn't having one!

Reply 13

SamTheMan

17

Caster Troy2

It not only diagnosed myself with a brain tumour using the net, but I followed step by step instructions and removed it.

You can also try self-circumcision if you feel you've diagnosed yourself with a foreskin malformation.

Reply 14

Lush Law

15

sayed_samed

semen, according to biology teacher, 5000 calaries per squirt!

Lol..ummm, then how come all your prossi's etc and people partial to giving head aren't always big heffa's!

I don't think that semen will contain many calories, to be honest.

Apparently it's good for spots, although I find that hard to believe. Never worked for me :eek:

Reply 15

SamTheMan

17

red_roadkill

Lol..ummm, then how come all your prossi's etc and people partial to giving head aren't always big heffa's!

I don't think that semen will contain many calories, to be honest.

Apparently it's good for spots, although I find that hard to believe. Never worked for me :eek:

Maybe because they don't ....., you know. Of course that figure is ridiculous :rolleyes:

though.

As for prostitutes, I know for a fact, that they don't.... Not that I've tested but I'm knowledgeable in that area :wink:

As far as I know, it's condoms for everything. Whether that's the case 100% of the time, I would have to start walking around King's Cross in the evenings, to find out.

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