Man , never search about health problems on the Googles , you end up scaring yourself

[UndertheOcean]

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.

[AlCzervik]

1. i love roller coasters, when i was young i used to worry about the ride breaking, now

i worry about if i'm going to have a heart attack on one.

[FKA MNChimpH8R]

2. I did that very thing last night

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.

[grasswire]

11. how did you learn that?

A trip to the ER?

[Shine]

3. HA! I can relate.

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.

:rofl:

[quakerboy]

9. Oh jeez

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.

[abq e streeter]

4. No shit; a year ago I had 4 of the 5 top net-listed symptoms of throat cancer;

it was reflux...

[Sky Masterson]

5. I've done that in the past

Scared the shit out of myself..I could have that.I've done that before.Well sometimes it does that...
:yoiks:

[davsand]

6. I've heard Med School does that to people too.

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

[Arugula Latte]

7. I've done that too. I was convinced I had MS.

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.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

8. My mom was in nursing school in the late '40s

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.

[quakerboy]

10. I did that once

I learned that I was suffering from vampirism.

[no name no slogan]

12. I did it, and actually had a happy ending

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.