googlequeen
24-01-15, 01:58
Hi everyone. :)
I'm happy that I found you and I'm VERY surprised in my Google diagnosis frenzies I never thought to Google "health anxiety forum" :)
For the last 4 months of my life I have been battling with an "episode" of health anxiety. I have had health anxiety for the last 15 years and when my body is good I am good, but if anything weird happens I am googling those symptoms and finding that the symptoms I have match nearly every incurable condition known and yet unknown to man and I go into free fall.
In the first 2 months I was positive that I had motor neurone disease, demanded MRI, CT scans, blood work and an appt with the neurologist. Then for a month I was positive I had MS because they were looking for MND and not MS........ I managed to find another incurable disease this time..... scleroderma, again I have been to my doctor who says I don't have it, but I demanded to see a specialist, she says I don't have it, but because I have a Google degree I feel I know better.
What do you do to convince yourself the doctor (one doctor and a specialist) is right when you have convinced yourself you have something sinister. I'm not sure what to try anymore. I always feel as though I havnt told them everything, there must be something I forgot and that's why they havnt diagnosed it.
I would love any input.
Thanks so much xxx
I'm happy that I found you and I'm VERY surprised in my Google diagnosis frenzies I never thought to Google "health anxiety forum" :)
For the last 4 months of my life I have been battling with an "episode" of health anxiety. I have had health anxiety for the last 15 years and when my body is good I am good, but if anything weird happens I am googling those symptoms and finding that the symptoms I have match nearly every incurable condition known and yet unknown to man and I go into free fall.
In the first 2 months I was positive that I had motor neurone disease, demanded MRI, CT scans, blood work and an appt with the neurologist. Then for a month I was positive I had MS because they were looking for MND and not MS........ I managed to find another incurable disease this time..... scleroderma, again I have been to my doctor who says I don't have it, but I demanded to see a specialist, she says I don't have it, but because I have a Google degree I feel I know better.
What do you do to convince yourself the doctor (one doctor and a specialist) is right when you have convinced yourself you have something sinister. I'm not sure what to try anymore. I always feel as though I havnt told them everything, there must be something I forgot and that's why they havnt diagnosed it.
I would love any input.
Thanks so much xxx