self diagnosis.

wexie · 12-06-2014 10:27PM

endacl wrote: »

Harsh response:

People who self diagnose tend not to diagnose disorders. They diagnose excuses.

I'd imagine it wouldn't be an overly popular opinion.
But there may be more truth to it than a lot of people would like to admit.

endacl · 12-06-2014 10:29PM

wexie wrote: »

I'd imagine it wouldn't be an overly popular opinion.
But there may be more truth to it than a lot of people would like to admit.

While there has been a rise in the diagnosis of ADHD, for example, we've seen a corresponding decline in the diagnosis of BOLD.

:rolleyes:

wexie · 12-06-2014 10:32PM

endacl wrote: »

While there has been a rise in the diagnosis of ADHD, for example, we've seen a corresponding decline in the diagnosis of BOLD.

:rolleyes:

It's glandular

12-06-2014 10:34PM

endacl wrote: »

Harsh response:

People who self diagnose tend not to diagnose disorders. They diagnose excuses.

I don't think its that it just they want to weave a more acceptable explanation/story for what they are suffering from and in their mind a psychical illness is more acceptable than haveing a mental health issue its ironic because they are only adding to the stigma themselves by the way they behave.

FullblownRose · 12-06-2014 10:34PM

When you have experience o eople with a disorder and experience of people faking a disorder to excuse their bad behaviour and thus tarnishing the image of the people who genuinely have the disorder (and who are incapable of behaving in such a manner ) you will not think it is harsh. when fake diagnoses are brandished as excuses for behaviours inconsistent with the genuine disorder everyone who works with people with the disorder is insulted and all efforts to raise awareness are effectively spat upon.

ElizaT33 · 12-06-2014 10:38PM

The Backwards Man wrote: »

I'm a self-diagnosed sex bomb

Yeah - running backwards from it all the time ...!:D

FullblownRose · 12-06-2014 10:44PM

larrlin24 wrote: »

It's called Health Anxiety/Hypochondria. I have general anxiety but when I'm really stressed, I get out of control symptoms and diagnose myself with everything under the sun. I spend all my free time googling my symptoms and obsessing over them. I wouldn't wish this disorder on my worst enemy. Not sure you should really be judging people for it..

Nobody is judging hypochondriacs like you who have their own distinct disorder. I have a hypochondriac friend and i make sure not to expose her to health related stuff that might affect her. The post is about self diagnosis and people sometimes choose to do that to suit their own ends. Not sure you should be judging people who question that behaviour.

Larianne · 12-06-2014 11:22PM

Capt'n Midnight wrote: »

The worst problem with self diagnosis is that you get medical students' disease

I got that!
Thought I had MS at one stage. It was just fatigue from stress of exams.

miss no stars · 12-06-2014 11:30PM

FullblownRose wrote: »

So do ye know anyone who has diagnosed themself with something in particular? I know it's not hard to look up symptoms online 'cause you don't want to bug your GP or don't have time or funds to visit your G.P and you could end up matchingthe symptoms for Ebola or Lassa Fever or something when you ony have a bad 'flu!. I am thinking along the lines of a disorder more than an illness.

I do- know more than one person who self diagnosed a disorder.. (I guess that much's obvious or I wouldn't be posting about it)

I diagnosed myself with two things, one later confirmed by GP, the other I mentioned to my mum who said "oh yes, that's what you were diagnosed with years ago".

stimpson · 12-06-2014 11:32PM

The Backwards Man wrote: »

I'm a self-diagnosed sex bomb

I heard you have a short fuse.

FullblownRose · 12-06-2014 11:46PM

In fairrness some things are obvious. My daughter was diagnosed with Asthma two years after she started wheezing and many bottles of liquid Ventolin and huried dashes to the a and e department later. I went to the g.p and tod the G.P my daughter has asthma. He readily agreed that she is asthmatc. She presented as asthmatic and had been treated as such until then and the diagnosis was only given when I verbally brught it up.

Similarly you know if you are depressed oranxious you dont need a doctors confiration of this to know how you feel.

35cent · 13-06-2014 12:14AM

It's stupid. I always seem to have cancer when I do that so I stopped. I have family members that are doctors so I don't even need to do it.

HalloweenJack · 13-06-2014 01:06AM

I diagnosed myself with narcissistic personality disorder at one point. I really thought that was me at that point (I was about 20), and it was, but then I grew up a bit more and moved away from what I'd originally considered to be the key factors.

Later, I diagnosed myself with bipolar disorder. I have had pretty severe bouts of depression and I've had equally inexplicable bouts of mania but the more I've researched it, the more I think I'm overstating the changes and I don't think I really have it, just some other type of depression.

hatrickpatrick · 13-06-2014 01:30AM

I diagnosed myself with a blocked hydrocephalus shunt as the cause of my excruciating headaches from 2005-2007. I did this only after extensive research, while pretty much the entire medical community told me it was stress, diet, exercise, migraine, muscular, allergies, you name it but it absolutely 100% definitely had nothing to do with my shunt.

Lost consciousness around Christmas 2007 and was finally brought in for a CT scan, lo and behold the feckin' thing was blocked and thus my brain was being crushed by water pressure. For almost two feckin' years.

Since then I have had literally no time for the "see a doctor" sentiment any time medical questions come up. I figured out what was wrong with me beyond reasonable doubt within about five months and I suffered horribly (many days I couldn't even get out of bed because of the blinding headache) because the medical community was too f*clong arrogant to consider the possibility that they might have been wrong.

Been self diagnosing and self treating most problems as a result for years, and it's seved me amazingly well.

PizzamanIRL · 13-06-2014 01:34AM

I never self diagnose. Searching online helps you prepare for the worst though. I had a sore ankle which according to Google was actually a skull fracture.

obplayer · 13-06-2014 01:50AM

Chap I used to work with as a computer programmer (Cobol; anyone remember it?), kept coming in wheezing and coughing. We all said 'GO TO THE DOCTOR!'. No he said, he had a home medical manual and knew what the problem was. A couple of days later his wife phoned to say he had been taken to hospital with a collapsed lung. It was pneumonia. I then found myself saying something truly nasty and horrible....'I hope he can read a Cobol manual better than a medical one.'

FanadMan · 13-06-2014 02:28AM

I self diagnose regularly and my doc just agrees without question........psoriasis is acting up - steroid cream. Sleep not happening - sleeping tablets. Getting very anxious - vallium. Mind you, I've been dealing with all that crap for years and by now my doc just takes my word for it.

jacksie66 · 13-06-2014 02:32AM

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Karl Stein · 13-06-2014 02:44AM

Youtube and a good woman saved me from having a life-long disability after being given a dumbass diagnosis from a dumbass doctor.

ruthloss · 13-06-2014 08:14AM

Karl....Fixed your face for you did she?;)

Karl Stein · 13-06-2014 04:04PM

ruthloss wrote: »

Karl....Fixed your face for you did she?;)

Sarah Connor?

Nah, snapped Achilles tendon diagnosed as a pulled muscle even after I told him I heard a snapping sound as did others near me when playing kickkety ball.

My partner at the time did a bit of research and found this, carried out the test and off I went for surgery.

gugleguy · 13-06-2014 04:07PM

Facebook is the best self diagnosis tool. If you're on facebook. Look at your wall.

Degringola · 13-06-2014 10:01PM

As someone who only very rarely ever got a headache, I started getting blinding ones. Wouldn't last for ages but between them I had a permanent dull one. After extensive research, I could come to no other conclusion but that it was a brain tumour.
Finally worked up the courage to go to doctor and told her I had a brain tumour. 2 minutes later she diagnosed me with blocked sinuses. Never get headaches now.

mezuzaj · 13-06-2014 10:12PM

FullblownRose wrote: »

I know of people who diagnosed themselves with disorders and others who diagnosed their child with disorders.

Any1 else know of people who have done this and what do you think?

Yes and there are many many many others who have died from stupidity.

Lets all follow Steve Jobs path.. See where it gets us.

GO TO A DOCTOR...

Splendour · 14-06-2014 08:37AM

hatrickpatrick wrote: »

I diagnosed myself with a blocked hydrocephalus shunt as the cause of my excruciating headaches from 2005-2007. I did this only after extensive research, while pretty much the entire medical community told me it was stress, diet, exercise, migraine, muscular, allergies, you name it but it absolutely 100% definitely had nothing to do with my shunt.

Lost consciousness around Christmas 2007 and was finally brought in for a CT scan, lo and behold the feckin' thing was blocked and thus my brain was being crushed by water pressure. For almost two feckin' years.

Since then I have had literally no time for the "see a doctor" sentiment any time medical questions come up. I figured out what was wrong with me beyond reasonable doubt within about five months and I suffered horribly (many days I couldn't even get out of bed because of the blinding headache) because the medical community was too f*clong arrogant to consider the possibility that they might have been wrong.

Been self diagnosing and self treating most problems as a result for years, and it's seved me amazingly well.

This is why a lot of people self diagnose-they have no choice when Dr.s haven't a clue what's going on. I find Doctors great if you've got a 'run of the mill' problem but if your symptoms are outside of that they really don't pursue a diagnoses. Hence I think there are so many people diagnosed with M.E./chronic fatigue etc. It's basically a label they use when the don't know what's wrong. I know chronic fatigue is real because I've suffered with it for over 10 years but I also know there has to be a reason for it. I believe chronic fatigue is a symptom not a diagnoses.

BTW, well done hatrickpatrick, good for you getting yourself well. Takes a lot to do this when energy levels are low and the medical community aren't with you!

corner of hells · 14-06-2014 09:17AM

I'm available to do amateur surgery if any one is self diagnosing this morning.I'm an electrician by trade , do a bit of fishing as a hobby and have a ready supply of brandy , sure what could go wrong.

CathyMoran · 14-06-2014 09:37AM

A family friend had died from a particular illness and I always followed a charity that promoted awareness of the symptoms. A few years later I experienced the same symptoms, went to my local GP who dismissed me, went to A&E who also dismissed me...finally I got an appointment with a wonderful gastroenterologist who finally tested me for oesophageal cancer. That was 2006 when I was 32 and I did have it. Am lucky to be still here:)

FullblownRose · 14-06-2014 12:03PM

Diagnosing other people with disrders is another one :0 If anyone has seen Calvary, the butcher (Can't remember his name despite him being one of the main characters) said of his wife who was having affairs and a bit of an odd person ''I think she's bi-polar..or coeliac, one of them anyway''

And oddly enough he was quite manic at times himself.

gugleguy · 14-06-2014 12:25PM

FullblownRose wrote: »

Diagnosing other people with disrders.... .

Quite Symptomatic actually of some personality defecit in people who talk about others in that way. And they don't confine it about a single individual.

osarusan · 14-06-2014 01:17PM

My hand is bigger than my face, so I've got cancer.

self diagnosis.

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