Google & self-diagnosis = bad

[wishfulthinking]

I hate going to the doctors. Hell literally has to freeze. So I typed in all the symptoms I was having, and googled it. Bad mistake. Got myself to the doctors within an hour. According to google, I might have a rare pictuary gland tumour.

The blood tests will be back in a week, but so far I have low blood pressure. They did the pumpy thing on my arm twice, and then took my pulse by my wrist. By then I was a wreck. They couldn't get any blood out of me in the first jab, and the second jab the blood came so slowly, I nearly passed out.

Repeat after me: DON'T GOOGLE MEDICAL CONDITIONS.

 

[zeb1094]

I hate going to the doctors. Hell literally has to freeze. So I typed in all the symptoms I was having, and googled it. Bad mistake. Got myself to the doctors within an hour. According to google, I might have a rare pictuary gland tumour.

The blood tests will be back in a week, but so far I have low blood pressure. They did the pumpy thing on my arm twice, and then took my pulse by my wrist. By then I was a wreck. They couldn't get any blood out of me in the first jab, and the second jab the blood came so slowly, I nearly passed out.

Repeat after me: DON'T GOOGLE MEDICAL CONDITIONS.

It's probably a cold! Or as my doctor says, "It's all in your head."

 

[rgraham666]

*HUGS* for wishful.

I don't need to google my symptoms. I know exactly what's wrong with me.

I'm nuts.

 

[zeb1094]

*HUGS* for wishful.

I don't need to google my symptoms. I know exactly what's wrong with me.

I'm nuts.

See, it's all in your head. Just like my doc tells me!

 

[BlackShanglan]

What I really fear is the SO Googling medical conditions. Some day I will come home and the SO will have passed away merely from contemplating the manifold possibilities and imagining all of their ramifications.

Shanglan

(And yes, I do still love you and think that you're the most amazing thing ever. )

 

[wishfulthinking]

Yeah, there is a first and last time for everything

No, I rarely get sick. This year - twice! The doctor thinks it is work stress. Which is entirely curable - new job. I love the work, but the atmosphere is poison.

Rob - don't worry, insanity had the first google ranking - we make a nice pair


Shang - is the SO googling for explanations to explain your behaviour?

Zeb - yep

 

[rgraham666]

I'll tell you one thing, wishful.

Your current AV does wonders for my stress.

 

[Aurora Black]

I have a strong aversion to doctors, and for that reason (believe me, I have my reasons) I don't visit a doctor or go to the hospital unless things are really bad.

 

[zeb1094]

I'll tell you one thing, wishful.

Your current AV does wonders for my stress.

I'll second that emotion!

Hubba hubba!

 

[BlackShanglan]

Shang - is the SO googling for explanations to explain your behaviour?

Mostly just the lack of manipulative digits and the presence of a calcified keratin-like substance in their place. The SO is most puzzled.

 

[arienette]

I hate going to the doctors. Hell literally has to freeze. So I typed in all the symptoms I was having, and googled it. Bad mistake. Got myself to the doctors within an hour. According to google, I might have a rare pictuary gland tumour.

The blood tests will be back in a week, but so far I have low blood pressure. They did the pumpy thing on my arm twice, and then took my pulse by my wrist. By then I was a wreck. They couldn't get any blood out of me in the first jab, and the second jab the blood came so slowly, I nearly passed out.

Repeat after me: DON'T GOOGLE MEDICAL CONDITIONS.

I know how that goes. I worked myself all up because I thought I had cancer or something, but as it turned out I was hypoglycemic. I'm the same way with doctors, I refuse to go; plus I don't have medical insurance.

 

[carsonshepherd]

Yeah, I thought I had a brain tumor, but it was just sinus pressure.

Googling has taken the place of the medical books that hypochondriacs have traditionally used to diagnose their own illnesses. Ahhh technology.

 

[Guest]

Let's see...

You hate going to the doctors. Hell literally has to freeze.

You typed in all the symptoms you were having, and googled it.

You then got yourself to the doctors within an hour.

OK, so you worried about nothing, but you GOT TO THE DOCTOR WHEN YOU OTHERWISE WOULDN'T HAVE GONE. Google motivated you to do the right thing.

Sounds like a good thing really.

 

[arienette]

Yeah, I thought I had a brain tumor, but it was just sinus pressure.

Googling has taken the place of the medical books that hypochondriacs have traditionally used to diagnose their own illnesses. Ahhh technology.

It's pretty sad when the word "Google" is a household, daily-used word.

 

[wishfulthinking]

I'm glad the av is helping stress levels.

yes, Rob, they were pretty serious symptons, so google got me to the doctor when nothing else would

calcified keratin-like substance

Like toe funk, extra flavour

 

[neonlyte]

I'm glad the av is helping stress levels.

yes, Rob, they were pretty serious symptons, so google got me to the doctor when nothing else would



Like toe funk, extra flavour

It's helping to raise my erm... stress level


Googling when you know you illness can be even worse, for some strange reason one is drawn to the gloomiest possible forecast

 

[zeb1094]

Why google when WebMd is there waiting to be used to find things out about those esoteric deseases we all seem to create in our heads?

 

[scheherazade_79]

Repeat after me: DON'T GOOGLE MEDICAL CONDITIONS.

I always used to be phobic of doctors in case they told me I had some terminal illness, so I started googling my symptoms whenever they appeared. It kind of backfired when, in the space of just one year, Google diagnosed me with advanced heart disease, Aids, leprosy, motor neuron disease, pneumonia and cancer in almost every part of my body.

I now prefer to do the grown up thing and visit the doctor.

 

[carsonshepherd]

I now prefer to do the grown up thing and visit the doctor.

On the other hand... last year, I found on the internet a simple treatment for a skin condition that none of the doctors I went to knew anything about. They gave me pill after pill and I only got worse. I started this treatment I'd read about and was better within two weeks.

 

[Pure]

an adage

that doctors are taught, is especially relevant to the problem you do a google search for:

when you hear the sound of pounding hooves, think 'horses', not 'zebras.'

 

[BlackShanglan]

Google & self-diagnosis = bad

Unless it convinces me that I have a persistent and lingering flu and not any of the other nightmare scenarios my brain will spina without even needing the aid of google.

 

[Guest]

Starting in 1969, "Marcus Welby M.D." was a TV series that had the two doctors (played by Robert Young and the future Mr. Barbara Streisand) spending the hour curing one patient (this was before HMO's and PPO's but was still unrealistic).

The next day, doctor's offices were full of patients certain they had the same disease they'd seen on TV the night before. It got so Doctors watched the show so they'd be up on the "disease of the week" they'd be flooded with the next day.