Calling out all hypochondriacs

Yep, I have been like it for over 20 years..lots of fun :ohwell:

My foot has been sore and I'm pretty sure its super AIDS.

I have a bad, bad habit of being Dr. Google, MD. I'm always convinced I'm dying of something.

Yea, I have been there and done that. Told my Doctor that I had something wrong with me and didn't know what, he said that I was fine and that my bloodwork was perfect. I continued to come back complaining of low energy, joint and muscular pain, not being able to concentrate, he told me to keep working out that my bloodwork was perfect and to just push through it. Then 6 months later I had a 5 mm kidney stone, which was stuck and had to have surgery to remove. I didn't know they could put that many items up a small hole. The breakdown of the kidney stone was 100% calcium, which led to more tests, which led to the discovery of two growths on my parathyroids. Made things a little more interesting when I notified the Dr. that my aunt died of parathyroid cancer, so I had surgery to remove the bad parathyroids, still have 2 good ones, and I feel so much better. I went through 2 years of hell and not getting anyone to listen to me about how bad I felt, and now I feel great.

I diagnosised my own cervical cancer. Made an appt with the OBGYN about it and proceeded to get a long lecture about google, web md and wasting her time. Needless to say I was fine and merely had a minor issue that required no treatment at all.

I'm not a hypochondriac, but two of my three younger brothers are. One of them is a raging alcoholic though. "I have GOUT" - no you don't, you idiot, it's called alcoholic neuropathy. "I have DIVERTICULITIS/LOSIS" - no again, you're ruining your digestive tract with a diet of 90% 101 proof alcohol and 10% fast food. :noway:

i can see it in my dr.'s eyes that she knows i'm a hypochondriac. i wonder if she's actually notated it. the only thing that keeps me from seeing her as much as i'd like is the $20 copay and "the look" she gives me....with a smile of course.

HOWEVER the one time there was a bump on my hand and i knew for sure it was a blood clot (but not really) and she kept saying something about some kind of bulging vein or something and no biggy. so when it got larger and my hand started feeling funny and cold i went back again A YEAR LATER and she finally sent me to a specialist who scheduled surgery and took that huge blood clot out. yep i was right from the beginning.

the fact that she knows i'm a hyponchondriac makes me not want to go to her sometimes b/c i feel like she doesn't take me seriously....and i'm ALWAYS serious about my sicknesses lol

I'm the exact opposite of a hypochondriac, I will go without going to the doctor for something that I SHOULD go to the doctor to all because I'm afraid I'm acting like a hypochondriac.

My mother is a hypochondriac. Severe. She was a RN for 25 yrs, so it's weird that she has always been a hypochondriac.

Anyway, I've seen her through some REAL medical issues and I've seen her go through some very NOT real medical issues.

I'm too aware of her being a hypochondriac that I don't go to the doctor unless a limb is hanging off my body )this has never happened).

consider yourself lucky you're not a med mal attorney... half the time i take notes during my doctors appointments. lol.

---> def. hypochondriac. Especially when I can't sleep @ night, Web MD is not my friend.