Seconding Worrying: Not Helpful
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dylan.dibber1
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Hmm, thinking I should post this anonymously, but what the hell:
I think the low point in my life as a hypochondriac was a few years ago on my birthday. I had just finished university and had been working over the summer while living at my parents place. They have some big medical books, and I'd sort of randomly read through a bunch of nasty diseases and conditions in my spare time while watching TV.
Well, one weekend on my birthday it looked like my girlfriend and I were getting back together after a year of being split up when I suddenly had a powerfully strong pain in my testicle. Flashback to the medical book and a condition known as torsion of the testis, wherein the testicle becomes twisted and blood is cut off from the testicle. It rarely rights itself on its own, and prompt medical attention and surgery are required if you want much chance of saving the testicle.
Weeeeeelll, it was around midnight and we were out in the middle of nowhere. I was in no state to drive and my girlfriend had a broken leg, so we had to get her mother to drive me to the hospital. I don't remember what the explanation was -- something about a migraine perhaps? -- anyway, they rushed me through the emergency ward when we finally got there, and they promptly allayed my fears.
My ex-girlfriend and I never did get back together, though
I think the low point in my life as a hypochondriac was a few years ago on my birthday. I had just finished university and had been working over the summer while living at my parents place. They have some big medical books, and I'd sort of randomly read through a bunch of nasty diseases and conditions in my spare time while watching TV.
Well, one weekend on my birthday it looked like my girlfriend and I were getting back together after a year of being split up when I suddenly had a powerfully strong pain in my testicle. Flashback to the medical book and a condition known as torsion of the testis, wherein the testicle becomes twisted and blood is cut off from the testicle. It rarely rights itself on its own, and prompt medical attention and surgery are required if you want much chance of saving the testicle.
Weeeeeelll, it was around midnight and we were out in the middle of nowhere. I was in no state to drive and my girlfriend had a broken leg, so we had to get her mother to drive me to the hospital. I don't remember what the explanation was -- something about a migraine perhaps? -- anyway, they rushed me through the emergency ward when we finally got there, and they promptly allayed my fears.
My ex-girlfriend and I never did get back together, though
JennFiction
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Hey Alexis...
Wow...how embarrassing! Migrane, eh? I have a brother that is a paramedic and he got a call one time to go and get this guy who had the same problem...it happened while he and his girlfriend were, uh...well, you know. Anyway....he said that is the most painful thing that can ever happen to a man...this guy was in so much pain he couldn't breathe. I'm glad yours wasn't that bad! So you haven't been a hyperchondriac that long then eh? I have been one since I was really little. My grandmother was one, and she passed it on to me. My mom too, has almost all the pages in her medical books dog-eared. I guess we are all a little wacky.
Cheers! (hmmm...saying that makes me want a beer, esp. since I just came from campus where the heat index is well into the 100s today...we are in for a bad summer :crying: )
Jen
Wow...how embarrassing! Migrane, eh? I have a brother that is a paramedic and he got a call one time to go and get this guy who had the same problem...it happened while he and his girlfriend were, uh...well, you know. Anyway....he said that is the most painful thing that can ever happen to a man...this guy was in so much pain he couldn't breathe. I'm glad yours wasn't that bad! So you haven't been a hyperchondriac that long then eh? I have been one since I was really little. My grandmother was one, and she passed it on to me. My mom too, has almost all the pages in her medical books dog-eared. I guess we are all a little wacky.
Cheers! (hmmm...saying that makes me want a beer, esp. since I just came from campus where the heat index is well into the 100s today...we are in for a bad summer :crying: )
Jen
Don't be too hard on yourselves. Just remember, a hypochondriac thinks he has something he really doesn't. We all have symptoms, REAL symptoms, and there's a difference between being a hypochondriac and someone that really does have symptoms of something that potentially "could" be a sign of something VERY serious, so don't be so hard on yourselves.
If this was a forum of whiner's that always thought they had colds or other benign things, then that would be a different story, but what we all have is REAL and when you read (no matter how incorrect it is) that "twitches are a sign of a serious motor neuron disease such as ALS", wheteher it's on the internet or in some outdated medical book, then you have every *beep* right to be scared! Being scared for a viable reason is REASONABLE, where as a true hypochondriac makes un reasonable assumptions.
Hang in there... NO ONE has EVER gotten worse from BFS or developed anythig other than BFS since this stuff was first discovered. THAT should be some pretty concrete evidence that it is benign, but as one doctor buddy of mine put it, "some benign things aren't very benign". So yes, BFS can be a pain in the ass sometimes, but it certainly isn't going to render you helpless like ALS or anything...
If this was a forum of whiner's that always thought they had colds or other benign things, then that would be a different story, but what we all have is REAL and when you read (no matter how incorrect it is) that "twitches are a sign of a serious motor neuron disease such as ALS", wheteher it's on the internet or in some outdated medical book, then you have every *beep* right to be scared! Being scared for a viable reason is REASONABLE, where as a true hypochondriac makes un reasonable assumptions.
Hang in there... NO ONE has EVER gotten worse from BFS or developed anythig other than BFS since this stuff was first discovered. THAT should be some pretty concrete evidence that it is benign, but as one doctor buddy of mine put it, "some benign things aren't very benign". So yes, BFS can be a pain in the ass sometimes, but it certainly isn't going to render you helpless like ALS or anything...
JennFiction
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Hey Aaron...
So true! I am already feeling better about my mental health, at least!
)
~jen
So true! I am already feeling better about my mental health, at least!
)~jen