to get annoyed at hypochondriacs?

[Ilovesunflowers]

A cold does not = flu.
A sore throat does not = tonsilitus.
Going out in the cold weather does not give you a cold.
You are not dying when you have a cold. You will feel like shit for a few days but you aren't that ill.
You do not need to go to the doctors for everything. Sometimes just waiting to see if something clears up on its own is the best course of action.

Rant over!

@onlywantsone.

Daughter had swollen tonsils with white dots on doctor said after examination " I could prescribe antibiotics but to be honest they only work properly if taken at the first sign of illness. If i prescribed them it would speed up the recovery by around 8 hrs". So we decided not to get them.

singledadof2 Wed 19-Dec-12 22:54:54
@onlywantsone.

"Daughter had swollen tonsils with white dots on doctor said after examination " I could prescribe antibiotics but to be honest they only work properly if taken at the first sign of illness. If i prescribed them it would speed up the recovery by around 8 hrs". So we decided not to get them."

I think you misunderstood: all the doctor meant was that this particular illness was going to clear up on its own, so there wasn't much point. With something like pneumonia you might just die instead. With an untreated kidney infection you might sustain permanent kidney damage. Definitely isn't true that either pneumonia or kidney infection doesn't yield to antiobiotics unless they are prescribed at the first sign of illness.

The thing is, it may well be a cold and not flu that you have, but there are different grades of cold. I had a cold a couple of months back - felt a bit under the weather for a couple of days and had a runny nose but that was about it. I currently have another one - it is an absolute stinker. Feel crap, nose like a tap, no appetite, shivery (freezing feet nearly all the time no matter what I do - what is THAT about?!), sore throat, zero energy.

Luckily I am now off work for Xmas but if I hadn't been I would have felt dreadful in work and would have been sneezing and coughing and dripping snot everywhere. Yet I couldn't have put on a sick note "bad cold" or I would have been a laughing stock. So I would have struggled in, just got through the day, and given about 20 other people my germs.

I reckon THAT is the real reason why people big up a cold (for want of a better phrase). "Cold" just sounds lame although they can be bloody horrible when they're bad.

The doctor was just fobbing you off singledad.

YADNBU. I'm constantly accused of being a hypochondriac by my family and it drives me fucking mad. I have had chronic pain for 12 years now, it's getting worse and I have other health issues. I'm just starting to be able to start the ball rolling on getting a diagnosis on it all and my family believe that I'm imagining things. Thanks guys, you're one of the main reasons I've been putting off seeing a doctor about it, but sure, I have hypochondria

Annoys me intensely when people type (anywhere - on here, FB etc) - "Poor me. Got flu :("

No, dear, you fecking haven't got flu. Know how I know? Because you wouldn't be online telling us all if you did. You'd be sweating in your bed wondering if you were about to die.

There is an immense difference between even a very heavy cold and flu.

Doesn't stop me worrying that every cold I have is double pneumonia, though

OMG YANBU at all

And actually if Facebook/MN posters could just stop the outpouring of sympathy when someone claims to have 'flu' or a 'migraine' when it's clearly a cold or a headache that would help loads.

you should meet my mother , last telephone conversation we had she blurted out "i will be in a wheelchair by christmas ", wtf is all that about , previous week she was jumping on buses christmas shopping.... it makes me so angry, when some people are really ill .

I had to laugh the other day when someone posted they had 'half a cold and the snots and sniffles'.

They then went on to say they had to put the xmas decs up and make a lamb stew.

Someone suggested they 'use the lamb another day'??

I am at some on this thread. Especially over migraines. Do some of you actually know much about migraines and the different types there are? You could be having an attack (which I currently am) and yet still have your eyes open, or shock horror, be on your phones internet or what have you.

There are different stages of a migraine, too. I suffer with Hemiplegic migraines, and get warning signs of an attack coming on but yet I can't actually take my migraine recovery medication until the migraine is acute. Sometimes I don't even get headache, and end up with just numbness and tingling on one side with vision disturbances, confusion and barely able to string a sentence together. First time it happened, I thought I was having a stroke, but maybe that makes me a hypochondriac

Colds/flu I can understand. But let anyone tell me when I am suffering a migraine attack that I just have a headache or I couldn't do x, y or z, will be told to go and educate themselves before making such a stupid remark.

Ok, I also suffer badly with chronic health anxiety but come on, this was obviously a fairly lighthearted rant at the over-exaggerators rather than a pop at anyone with mental health issues. Or at least that's how I read it anyway.

Eeebygum.

One would think if that were the case people minimising the condition you experance and understand the effects of, by winging at the slightest minor head ache would doubly piss you off

Do not forget hypochondria is in itself an illness, and some people suffer from it REALLY badly!!

My late dad was a hypochondriac. He had fantastic health , fit as a flea for 84 years and was only ever ill in his last year. Even made up his own 'condition' - 'Clack'. He would always say ' l cant eat any quicker,because of mi - you know 'Clack' ' then point vaguely towards his throat.
In my more evil,stressed beyond belief. carer of two very demanding elderly parents, moments, l used to feel like screaming at him 'Theres no such fucking thing'. Thankfully somehow l resisted.
Mum had/has many health problems on the other hand and has a cocktail of drugs on the side all the time - heart probs etc. So dad would go to the doctors and get some paracetomol for some obscure pain or other (he would never ever take them and we often used to wonder if the Drs gave them as a 'quietener' really). But he would line them up alongside mums really serious drugs and throw in a tube of over the counter bought dry skin cream or nasal sprays etc. As if really to outdo mum.

The doctors receptionists were on first name terms with him and they and the doctors would often ring me up in desperation really to say they didnt know what to do with him etc. or why he was there.

l did feel really really sorry for him though when he did become genuinely ill - bowel cancer. Ironically he wouldnt go back to the hospital for follow up appts etc and would never take his medication or go for tests etc. when he had a genuine reason to, He would even tell us he had the all clear etc.after one initial consultation. Only when it was too late did we find out how ill he was and it was inoperable by then. Or maybe it always was and he kinda just knew it. I think he was a candidate to live to be 100 if not for that.

Not really, because I haven't come across anyone who claims to have a migraine when they don't. I am not a medical professional, so it isn't my place to diagnose anyone. If anything, me suffering with this has made me realise how migraines aren't that straight forward.

I am just fed up only of the same shit that gets spout regularly. "Oh, you can't possibly have a migraine otherwise you wouldn't be on here, and would be lay in a dark room..." and so on. That isn't always the case, and I think these people need to know this.

Yes Mamma l often thought that about my dad. It was if he was desperate to be as ill as mum or have some unusual illness or something. Very sad really, although could be very annoying (all the telling lies mainly) and often even very amusing at times and my siblings and l would often laugh about dads 'ailments' though not in a nasty way, affectionately really.

'It was as if' l meant to say.

Eeebygum.

You do realise nobody is talking about you don't you?

We are all talking about people with over exaggerated minor complaints and the dramatics involved in pretending they are not tiny minor things.

You have a real health issue so don't come under than banner

If everyone stayed off work due to a cold or minor illness our workplace would shut down! Except it wouldn't as legally it has to be open but staffing levels would be dangerously low to those staff remaining!

But I could of been one of those posting about having a migraine, to be told that I can't possibly have one as I am on here (which has happened before) and is what quite a few have said themselves upthread. I am merely just wanting to point out that their assumptions are wrong.

And if I did ever come across someone who I knew for a fact only had a headache other than a migraine, I suppose it would tick me off a bit as I would think that they should try seeing what a real, nasty migraine is like but I haven't come across that yet. Just people who think that migraine = bed, dark room, no noise or lights etc.

Nixea: If that as at me, I did say YADNBU, I just didn't explain it was because it creates the idea that nothing is as bad as the 'sufferer' claims.

I have just got a foggy head and let my peevedness get away with me before explaining it properly. I'm a bit pissed off about comments from my sister earlier about it Should know better than to post on things about health when I'm not having a good day!

I have the perfect cure for anyone who becomes irrationally annoyed by Facebook hypochondria.

Come and live with DH for a while. The man is a medical miracle. He has self diagnosed and survived every terminal illness known to man!

Cough - that'll be lung cancer
Cold - Pneumonia and/or another bout of lung cancer or most recently pluracy.
Weight gain due to too many indian curries - that'll be a cancerous growth in the abdomen or a giant hernia. He's also suffered numerous bleeding ulcers.
Stomach ache - cancer
Constipation - bowel cancer
Back ache - kidney failure
Not drank enough water - gall stones and/or kidney failure.

It would be funny expect he genuinely believes he is dying and actually cries about it. I should be sympathetic I suppose but after 5 years of endless "I am dying soon" chats, my patience is wearing thin.

He has another test for bowel cancer on Friday. So far this year he has blood tests to test for cancerous cells, a chest x-ray to test for lung cancer and various other scans/xrays/tests all show that he is perfectly healthy. I don't know why the doctor cannot just diagnose him with depression and medical anxiety and pop him off for counselling instead of all these tests which actually make him worry more.

Last time I had a migraine it was like I was blinded, it's the only version of a migraine ive experienced so I do find it hard to understand people posting online when having one, because I simply can't comprehend it

I've had flu once in my life, I'm 34, again I find it hard to believe the amount of times I'm t

Not at you at all confused, not actually at anyone in fact. Just my tuppence'orth really. Sorry if it sounded like I was getting at you though, I really wasn't :)

Damn Internet! But peo