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Originally Posted by 33girl
My favorite quote on this is from somebody's LJ icon:
"If television's a babysitter, the internet's a drunk librarian who won't shut up."
Any time I've looked up a diagnosis online, I've become convinced that I'm going to die unless I bathe myself in bleach and eat nothing but brown rice. It's like the Brady Bunch episode where Peter had 2 pages of the medical book stuck together and thought he had sleeping sickness and was going to die. It's ridiculous.
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Yeah, it's easy to freak yourself out. Back when I had my mystery leg pain, all I could do was research on the internet because none of the doctors knew what was wrong.
Oh, and if you
might have a serious chronic illness like MS, don't do research until you know for sure. Seriously, that funny shaped freckle looks like melanoma, your left arm feels funny and tingly so you're having an MI, You moved the wrong way suddenly the other day and now you have a disk herniation that needs surgery. Outside medical journals and reputable sites (I only trust
http://www.medlineplus.gov, webmd.com is run by drug companies) there's a lot of biased shit to wade through.