UndertheOcean
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Sun Feb-22-09 04:55 PM
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Man , never search about health problems on the Googles , you end up scaring yourself |
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I went on a roller coaster ride yesterday which was kind of jerky at the end , ended up with a sore neck and upper back , which is much better today .
So anyway , for the heck of it , I enter "roller coaster" and "back injury" in Google , only to find hundreds of pages about the possibility of being permanently disabled by those rides....... and top it off , full blown symptoms might not appear right away.
I bit if I google "sneezing" and "death" , I will find some hits about the possibility of dying from a sneeze.
Scared me out of future coaster rides for sure.
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Sun Feb-22-09 04:58 PM
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1. i love roller coasters, when i was young i used to worry about the ride breaking, now |
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i worry about if i'm going to have a heart attack on one.
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Sun Feb-22-09 05:05 PM
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2. I did that very thing last night |
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and learned that the low grade nausea, shakes, occasional dizziness, lack of appetite and stomach pain I have had for the last week actually have a diagnosis - low blood sugar and possibly a stomach inflammation. Which was a relief. Tomorrow it is time to go to the doctor.
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Sun Feb-22-09 05:32 PM
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11. how did you learn that? |
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Sun Feb-22-09 05:08 PM
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I'm in a masters program right now for counseling psychology and I'm taking a psychopathology class. The other day I was reading up on all these various psychological disorders, thinking, "I can relate to that!"..."I can relate to that one, too!" Too funny.
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Sun Feb-22-09 05:28 PM
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Psych classes are kinda like Psychic readings. You can read yourself into any damn one of the disorders, if you have a mind too.
That was one of the fun parts of school. Coming back from class and diagnosing all my roommates. The Crazier the better.
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Sun Feb-22-09 05:11 PM
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4. No shit; a year ago I had 4 of the 5 top net-listed symptoms of throat cancer; |
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Sun Feb-22-09 05:11 PM
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5. I've done that in the past |
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Scared the shit out of myself..I could have that.I've done that before.Well sometimes it does that... :yoiks:
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Sun Feb-22-09 05:20 PM
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6. I've heard Med School does that to people too. |
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They are learning about these different diseases and suddenly everybody in the class thinks they have the symptoms...
I have had the same Google experience you describe. I end up scared sh*tless thinking it is WAY more terrible than it actually is. The only exception I make to that, however, is reading online patient reviews on prescription meds. I swear you will learn a LOT more about what any given med will do than anything you will ever get from patient inserts or your doc.
If anything, I have had the experience of finding a commonly reported side effect in the online forums, and having a Doc tell me she's never heard of that. I was hallucinating on Ambien. Now, we all know it is possible, but at that point in time my doc claimed she'd never heard about it. (I see a diferent doc now, btw.)
YMMV.
Laura
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Sun Feb-22-09 05:20 PM
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7. I've done that too. I was convinced I had MS. |
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I had all sorts of weird symptoms after having my second baby ... We never did figure it out, and it all cleared up.
I was terrified for awhile, though.
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Sun Feb-22-09 05:22 PM
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8. My mom was in nursing school in the late '40s |
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and she said they all managed to scare themselves half to death just reading their textbooks. Any time somebody got a stiff neck they thought they had polio. You don't need the Internet to scare yourself into fits of hypochondria, apparently.
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Sun Feb-22-09 05:29 PM
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I learned that I was suffering from vampirism.
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Sun Feb-22-09 05:33 PM
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12. I did it, and actually had a happy ending |
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I was researching treatment-resistant depression that was recurring. Long story short, it turns out my original diagnosis of depression was wrong, and it turned out I actually have bipolar disorder. Both diseases, while similar, respond differently to treatment.
Since I've been treated for bipolar disorder, I've actually done a lot better. Had I done this reasearch a decade earlier, I may have saved myself a lot of grief.
Do your research. Stay informed. But don't use it as your sole source of info.
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