Give it a few minutes.

Hey I have done the same thing too. The internet does not help use mild hypochondriacs.

I'm sure pretty regularly that I have a brain tumor or a blood clot. People will be sorry when I actually drop dead. Too bad I wouldn't be around to tell them I told you so.

Always start with the diagnosis with the lowest chance of death.

Words doctors fear: "I read on the internet that..."

I had chronic pain in my right hip for over a year. After seeing three different doctors and a chiropractor with no relief but much lighter in the wallet, I ended up at a physical therapist ( the real kind). I described the problem, they showed me a simple exercise that took three minutes a day, and had instant relief. After doing two months of doing this exercise, it was gone for good.

The problem was a strained/weakened hip muscle from a twisted ankle. The weak muscle caused pressure on the nerves in the leg. The exercise fixed the problem.

Doctors are mostly clueless about most health problems. If they can't prescribe a pill, they have no idea what to do.

Goddesses don't get cancer!

Ever since I was diagnosed with MS, I have been hyper-aware of any changes going on with me. So whenever there's a new one, there I go, looking it up and preparing for the end. So far I've had a heel spur, a prolapsed uterus, a hernia, heart problems and a detached retina. Not.

I'm really not a total hypochondriac. There has always been something going on, just not what I thought it was. The detached retina, for instance is one of those "floater" thingies. It's just larger and more of a nuisance. It's like a windshield wiper passing in front of my eye whenever I blink.

One thing about the internet, no matter what your problem may be, just ask about it and see all the people who have the SAME EXACT PROBLEM! Even if the problem is looking to the internet for health advice.

A few years ago I had a bad pain in my hip that didn't seem to want to go away. It felt like it was deep in my hip socket. Eventually I went to a really good massage therapist who figured out it was an adhesion or something between two muscles or ligaments or something deep in my hip. She did her magic to loosen them up and after about 4 sessions I was totally healed. She also gave me stretches to do to keep it from happening again. Apparently sitting in a chair all day working on a computer, while seeming quite lazy and easy on the body, is actually not what human bodies are designed to do!

I always think I'm dying of something, which is why I never tell the docs anything. : ) Someday I will probably pay for that.

Sounds like you may need to incorporate a few walking breaks each day into your routine. For any of you who wants to laugh for 90 minutes about this subject, I suggest:

http://www.amazon.com/Grays-Anatomy-Spalding-Gray/dp/B00000IREC/ref=sr_1_2?s=movies-tv&ie=UTF8&qid=1314979080&sr=1-2

Ppear, shoot me an email

I have had diabetes twice. Only to experience a miraculous cure by the time the Doctor could do his tests. In light of this overwhelming evidence I am having to reconsider my atheism.

BTW both cases occurred before broadband internet access.

If it's tendoonitis in your hip, you might try jury-rigging a standing desk. Unless you're concientious about your sitting posture you could be sitting in a number of weird ways. Standing can help prevent some of the problems caused by sitting that AK mentioned.

I love this. I rarely get sick or have any physical afflictions so when I do I assume I am dying immediately. Last year I was sure my bad cold was TB and my headache was the onset of meningitis.

Amy I assume you are sitting all day? I'm a runner and my hips hurt a lot when I sit all day; I've learned a lot of at-home cheap physical therapy shortcuts. If you sit on a tennis ball and roll out your hip that helps a lot. (Two tennis balls stuffed in a sock is even better.)

I have had diabetes twice.

Ah, same here, despite my bogus "normal" A1c results! One day my doc will realize I was right, meanwhile I'm self-treating with low carb.

...diabetes....

Or, as Wiford Brimley puts it, "DI uh beets."

For several years, I thought I was suffering from chronic psychosomatosis. Finally, I went to the doctor. He diagnosed it as severe hypochondriasis. He prescribed a three-part placebo regimen, and, I have been in perfect health ever since. Best $2,000.00 I ever spent.

-Jut

Ha! A few weeks ago I was pretty sure I had a kidney infection that was going to kill me. I'd never peed blood before, and peeing blood was one symptom of my father's prostate cancer. Antibiotics cleared that UTI right up.

I'm glad you're not dying, Amy.

Don't stand with all of your weight on one foot.

Remember:

Life is a sexually transmitted disease and the mortality rate is one hundred percent. -- R. D. Laing

And then there are diseases that you can honestly diagnose with some basic health care equipment and monitor and maintain on your own.

Hi B.P., diabetes, weight.

People feel stupid only when their symptoms turn out to be something minor. My mother's gas turned out to be colon cancer. Better to go to a doctor and feel stupid than self-diagnose and die.

At my new job everyone has an elevator desk. Most of the young guys do their programming standing up. Arthritic old me sits down, but I have the desk raised to sternum height. I rest my forearms on the desk. It's heaven.
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phunctor

Idiot With A Working Internet Connection At 3 AM

I thought you were describing my comments :)

At least you go to the doctor. Men tend to pass off severe internal pain as "just a bit of a twinge". We're tough - and we like to be martyrs...

I just entered a prolonged and thorough remark, and when I attempted to distribute it my FireFox freaked out.