So, I’m searching medical web sites for my symptoms to try to ease my worries. Lots of people have written in to share their opinions and symptoms. But, there is always the majority of annoying people who have to repeat the obvious: “Go see your doctor”. Fuck off, will you? Does every second person really need to say this? We all know we should go see our doctor—duh! We most likely will. But for now, we want to look some shit up and see if it’s something we should freak out about or if it’s something we can deal with on our own.
People don’t need you to tell us to see the doctor. The waiting rooms are all full. Maybe we don’t want to waste half the day on every whim? We are grown adults. Every second comment on these sites is a broken record. “Go see your doctor!” “Go see your doctor!” “Go see your doctor!” God, you people are fucking annoying as hell. Either contribute to the conversation in a helpful way or fuck off with your two-cents drivel.
—Guess I’ll go to the doctor
This article appears in Apr 11-17, 2019.
I’ve used patient forums with a great degree of success to investigate prescriptions & their debilitating side-effects. I hesitate to investigate an illness on the internet. Unfortunately, self diagnosis usually leads to self-torment (as in ‘what the fuck’s wrong with me?!) because many symptoms cover thousands of diseases from minor to major. Take it from a former hypochondriac – make a fucking app’t. with your doctor & end senseless speculation.
You signed it “Guess I’ll go see the doctor”…..yes…I guess you better!
I spent years (as a result of a combination of Anxiety, a simple condition that simply was never diagnosed but was causing weird symptoms and side effects from pills that according to my doctor had none) searching Dr. Google for a diagnoses.
You know where that got me? 3 years of my life worrying myself damned near to DEATH when there simply wasn’t anything seriously wrong. At all. But you couldn’t tell me that!
Oh no…the web was telling me I was dying so I must be! That was 10 years ago and here I am…still kicking. The minute you start looking up complex symptoms it’s always going to come back to the same things : Cancer, Heart Disease, Antiserums, Cancer…cancer…cancer..cancer…AND MORE cancer when you probably have no such thing.
Now. STOP looking for a quick fix on Dr. Google and go see a real doctor. YES the emergency rooms are clogged and yes it’s a royal pain in the ass but if you spend as much time starting that professional diagnostic process as you do trying to figure it out on the interwebs, you’d be in, diagnosed, and out by now.
Just do it.
Go see a doctor!
Looking up symptoms on the internet is the best way to convince yourself that you’re dying.
Googles “hypocrite”