New Years Resolution To Stop Looking Up Health Sites 1 Year And I Am Still Here

[gordie1]

1. I am going to stop looking at the internet for all symptoms of diseases I have thought I have had anything from aortic dissection to cancer and pulmonary embolism through having indigestion and back pain and chest pain caused by anxiety and hyperventilation. The internet is the worst thing to do if you live alone and think there is something wrong. I have had 24 hour tapes, numerous ECGs that have all come back fine apart from atrial fibrillation which cardiologist says is nothing to worry about once I start the warfarin.

[Sqad]

LOL....now you are talking sense gordie...well done. Can you convince other ABers to do the same...;-)

[lilacben]

That is great news. You will feel and be so much more healthier if you keep it up.
Good on you.! xx

[stewey]

Prior to the computer-age, people who did what gordie-1 describes were said to be suffering from "Reader's Digest Syndrome". Remember that? Anyway, gordie-1, I wish you a healthy New Year.

[Bluestone]

Lol Sqad! What would you do with your time if ABers stopped coming on here to ask for your advice? :))

Gordie, I used to do the same, but with a great big A-Z health encyclopedia.
Now I just hassle Sqad.... :P

[excelsior-1]

gordie1

i wish you a very happy, and more importantly, healthy new year

[Hopkirk]

We used to use a BMA Family Doctor book.

It was probably better, as the answers were considered. The internet can bring up all sorts of ill informed or badly worded documents.

[pdq1]

Thats right, if you have a pain just ignore it. With a GP appointment sometimes taking a month you could be dead before its seen to.

[Bluestone]

Bloody hell, pdq1!

Since when did GP appointments take up to a month?

[ummmm]

There are walk in clinics.

[boxtops]

They shouldn't - the targets are that you should be able to see a health professional in 48 hours (but it won't always be a doctor).

[Bluestone]

Most practices have a system where you can ring in the morning and get an appointment that very same day.

[atalanta]

Reminds me of an episode in "Three men in a Boat" ( funniest book in the world) where the author gets hold of a medical encyclopedia, reads it, and decides the only disease he has NOT got is housemaid's knee. He is baffled to think he has everything else, but just not Housemaid's knee. He thinks he should present himself at a medical school as a patient for the students to practice on. Once they had seen him, all their exams would be a doddle !

[pdq1]

My wife rang up her surgery for an appointment with her normal GP before Xmas and told he was full up for the forseable future. In the meantime she has gone down with this horrible virus, unable to walk or eat, fell over in the bathroom and got a black eye and only just recovering. A call out would probably mean seeing a registrar with little knowledge of her past conditions.

[Sqad]

Atalanta...LOL...your post reminds me of my finals.
It was the clinicals and one had a long case and about 6-8 small cases depending upon how you got on.

I was directed to my long case by the examiner and told that I had 20 mins to take the history examine him and then come to a diagnosis.

I went up to the "bloke " and said "Good morning, what is the matter with you?"

He replied "I have Addison's Disease"

I quickly put my hands over his mouth , looked furtively around and then said,"You should n't have told me, I have to find that out."

After 20 mins the examiner came up and said "Well, have you made a diagnosis?

"Yes sir," I replied" Addison's Disease "

"Very good my boy" and as we moved on I gave the patient a sly look and he smiled and winked at me.

[Buenchico]

Am I the only one who came to this thread because I was intrigued to see what followed "New Years Resolution To Stop Looking Up..." (which is how it appears in 'Latest posts')?

I was trying to work out whether the sentence would continue with:
(a) . . . to the heavens and cursing my luck;
(b) . . . chimneys, looking for Santa; or
(c) . . . Scotsmen's kilts.

;-)

[owdhamer]

I sincerely hope you are never ill amber,I doubt you could handle it.

[Hopkirk]

So, your qualifications should be in doubt Sqad?

[Sqad]

Hoppy....LOL....they always have been ;-)

[Hopkirk]

I'll get your pension stopped.

[Bluestone]

pdq1, sorry to hear that your wife is ill.
However, although her "usual GP was full up for the foreseeable future", I'm sure she could have seen someone else. They are all qualified, you know.