I'm not talking about people who won't pick up an insect or touch an animal worrying they'll pick up something but people who get a headache and think they have a brain tumor or get a pain in their stomach and think it's their appendix? I'm terrible for it, in and out of the doctors for scans and tests the whole time!
2006-08-23 23:39:30 · 13 answers · asked by Lisa D 2 in Health ➔ General Health Care ➔ Other - General Health Care
I WILL TELL YOU WHEN I GET BACK FROM THE HOSPITAL LOL
2006-08-23 23:48:05 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hey Lisa!
You and my partner would get on like a house on fire! He never takes the cold! it's either the flu or a chest infection, he never has a sore head but a blinding migraine, and when he gets heartburns ... It's a terrible bout of indigestion. He just sits or lies and look at me with puppy eyes, muttering "Can i get a glass of water please" because he's too weak to get it (So he says). Now he cut his finger last week, only a little cut, and spent the week worrying he had damaged tendons or others. He keeps complaining about his arthritis ... What he calls arthritis are natural pains due to teh fact that he doesn't exercise enough so of course ... When i make him walk ... He gets sore and blames it on arthritis. Now i've got over cancer, do have arthritis and i still get up and go, do what i have to and you know ... I've long warned my partner about the little boy who cried wolf! One of these days it will be something serious and by then ... Will i hear him out? I mean how can i differentiate between hyponcondriac and ill health?
So far he's had his stomach and bowels checked, had a few scans as well ... He now reckons that they may not tell him the truth! All they say is that he's OK could do with losing a bit of weight and exercising but will he do it? Hell no!
2006-08-24 06:51:13 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes I'm terrible I've had to stop checking out my symptoms on the net as i always have the worse thing on there lol ,in the past I've been rushed to hospital with a suspected heart attack (indigestion) stayed up all night with appendicitis(Drank some bad cider) and been in premature labour (Wind) I also have a really sore throat at the moment so far I've convinced myself I have septic tonsillitis throat cancer and an abscess waiting to burst on my windpipe I know how silly i am i just can't help it my partner Say's i should put on my gravestone
"told you i was ill"
update from yesterday i went back to the doctors today and i do need antibiotics so see I am sometimes right it wasn't just a sore throat :)
2006-08-24 08:40:56 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I get accused of this all the time by my friends and family. I have mild panic attacks sometimes, and I think I am having a heart attack. When ever I don't feel good, I instantly start reading medical books and looking up symptoms of all sorts of diseases online. I know how you fell, its horrible to be scared like that all the time. But honestly, there is probably nothing wrong with you.
2006-08-24 06:47:35 · answer #4 · answered by wileycoyote_the_supergenius 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I don't know about being a hypochondriac, but I in the passed 3 years have gone to the doctor for small things and usually end up getting surgery for weird unusual stuff. I am getting my own surgery resume happening these days. I can laugh about it now.
2006-08-24 06:47:33 · answer #5 · answered by scotchmist_au 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Are hypocondriacs those people who nick thigs, cos i,ve got a load of stuff that i don,t know where it came from. I,ve got all manner of stuff. Do you know anyone who wants to buy 14 dustbins,or 6 garden gnomes? I,ve also got a womans hat , a pair of odd shoes (one size 4 and the other a 9) and a cigarette holder. any offers?
2006-08-24 07:02:58 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I have never questioned patients when people call them hypochondriacs. Most have a physical reason for hurting. Eventually it surfaces. My aunt who suffered headaches for years was called hypochondriac and in the end they found out she was infected with hook work pork type. It was all through her body and brain too. Nevery can tell.
2006-08-24 06:48:06 · answer #7 · answered by T 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My husband used to be that way. He learned to think negatively from his parents and family, who will go to the doctor for a hangnail. It took him getting a very serious illness and coming so close to dying that everyone was surprised he lived, to cure him of the hysteria. Now he sees himself as healthy and fit because he is.
Did you know that if you see yourself as a sick person, you will be a sick person. Our health is under our own control. I hope you decide to embrace life and stop hiding from it via your 'illnesses'. What are you afraid of?
2006-08-24 07:41:01 · answer #8 · answered by a_delphic_oracle 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My gran was like that, she had a whole pharmacy in bathroom, you can go and see someone for it, a physiologist, I recommend you do because it can really get out of control, good luck xxx
2006-08-24 06:49:02 · answer #9 · answered by megan a 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Maybe hypochondriacs are right, and all the rest just wrong... after all those horrible things exist.
2006-08-24 06:43:00 · answer #10 · answered by phenotype 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
THIS QUESTIONS MAKING MY HEAD HURT IM SEEING SPOTS IN FRONT OF MY EYES NOW AND I FEEL FAINT.
MY FINGERS HURT THROUGH TYPING THIS ANSWER AS WELL
2006-08-24 06:49:44 · answer #11 · answered by ward1703 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋