and give some symptoms that cause concern? Or, is it that you have to wait, but present symptoms from time to time and hope/wait that they might make a connection with the symptoms presented over time and come to the conclusion themselves/if they don't it means you don't have it?
Am I just being overly dramatic? probably
I don't to go hugely into symptoms for fear of outing myself, but some things over the last few months keep pointing to it as a possible.
Some of the meds I have been put on are used for people with MS to manage some of the symptoms (the ones that are similar but have been attributed to another cause) and so DH said unusually for him, rather than 'don't be so stupid' that he had thought similar. He also said that he wondered if there was any point in a diagnosis if the meds I am on are managing things ok, does it matter what the official 'diagnosis' is? I agreed with him to an extent at first, as it didn't really matter, it probably wouldn't at that stage change the treatment much, but, some symptoms are 'breaking through' the meds and so now I wonder if I should talk to the GP or just wait and see if it all gets worse.
I don't want to go in there and the GP laugh and say ' you been talking to Dr Google?! don't be daft!' or be seen as a hypochondriac as I have also read all sorts about opinions relating to some medical conditions reported, if some symptoms seem non-organic and they are sometimes considered to be thought of as mental illness related etc.
If I listed the symptoms would I a) seem like a hypochondriac or b) be taken seriously as someone with a multitude of adding up symptoms that might be something more serious that it currently seems?
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Can you just say to your GP 'Test me for MS'?
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2BodlyGo · 18/03/2013 20:09
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