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!

I can't either Fellatio most of the time. Especially at its worst. I can't even get out of bed, nevermind anything else but there are attacks sometimes when they aren't to that extent, and I can function and do things which is a good job considering I am the main carer for my DC. Sometimes I even have to rely on my eldest to help do things which I can't. They can be very debilitating and dreadful, but not always thank god. Symptoms can vary.

This may out me since I may have mentioned it to a few lots of people in RL

While I was in labour with DD, who was 8lbs 12 so not small and I was actively pushing and in agony as you are, dh was sat on the other side of the room, sat down, and moaning he was in the worst pain ever due to a toothache. Myself and the midwife both stopped, looked at each other, looked at him, I growled, and the midwife suggested he come over and hold my hand, pat my head and other type of birth partner stuff. He is not normally such a twunt.

I'm a bit like curlyhaired in that I have an awful cold at the moment, I've been feeling terrible for several days, don't feel like doing any work, but think that saying to people "I'm ill, I've got a really bad cold" sounds really feeble. However I have to be stern with myself and not tell people it's flu as about three years ago I did have flu and was in bed for several days, it was bloody awful!

Yanbu. This thread is brilliant.

I think I have the opposite of this...

I ran a half marathon on a stress fracture, thought it was muscle strain.

Broke two bones in my foot, didn't complain until I couldn't walk at all.

Had whopping cough, thought it was hayfever.

Lost part of my vision, thought it was all a fuss about nothing (until I properly freaked out when doc said it could be ms)

Have asthma, totally out of control for a year, refused to believe it was actually asthma until doctor persuaded me to have stronger drugs for 3 months and it got better.

Mind you, I only need to be near a sick person and I freak right out. yuck.

I also agree with the earlier poster who said lot of it was in the mind... I had a cough and sore throat for three days, carried on like normal. Had some bad news and suddenly I feel really poorly. (not flu, but the achy shivers etc.) I can totally see the link between physical and mental health.

Lost part of my vision, thought it was all a fuss about nothing

Is there such a thing as hyperchondria ?

A friend who doesn't have kids once said she thought that her bad toothache was probably comparable to childbirth. I pointed out that I once had a root bleeding into my tooth for several days so could understand how bad toothache could be, but that some births are so painful that you can actually pass out from the pain and bit know where you are. She is still convinced that toothache is pretty similar to childbirth.

To be truthful I'm the opposite of a hypochondriac, to the point of sheer stupidity. I leave things hoping they'll get better rather than "bother the doctor when someone else might need them more", which deep down I know is stupid.

I've had a kidney infection so bad that I couldn't lift my leg off the floor because of the agonising pain. When I eventually saw the doctor she called an ambulance and I was admitted to hospital for IV antibiotics.

I also suffer from lung problems and last year I was quite unwell. I eventually phoned NHS 24 they sent a doctor followed by a rapid response unit and then an ambulance and I said are you sure I'm that bad that I need to go in? I was of course admitted and was kept in for a week till I was stabilised. (And even then I wouldn't let them wheel me out to the ambulance - I held the paramedic's arm and walked out slowly because I was too embarrassed!).Even when the paramedics said I was to go to "acute admissions" I didn't "get it" - I thought they would examine me, maybe increase my medication and send me home!

I think I maybe take the phrase "mind over matter" to the extreme.

I dunno, even as a great big hypochondriac, I found giving birth to be a piece of piss.

And I've worked through migraines (had them for years but none since having kids, yay!) as once they start for me, the only thing that stopped them was time. They've been so painful that I would gladly cut off my head with my bare hands, but when its a choice between working or lying awake in a dark room in pain, and having to deal with the work anyway the next day, it seemed a no brainer to me.

I guess I do generally agree with the OP though wrt other people, it just bugs me that people may see my health concerns and write me off as a drama queen.

I have been called a hypochondriac by family and friends because theres "always something wrong with me", I never used to be paranoid about my health just low level ill a lot, but I never bothered my GP with a long list of reasons why I am dying.

Then when I do need to see him, it turns out that I have a list of actual things wrong that are now affecting my anxiety, so now even if its not at the front of my mind, I'm always worried about my health.

So actually after being somewhat irritable last night I'm not sure where I stand on the hypochondriac scale, as others think I'm a hypochondriac, but I'd say until recently I was the opposite, downplaying being ill a lot, and now I'm just worried about an actual diagnosis. (Dont worry, i'm not dying or anything :) )

Do you see what I mean?

Isn't hypo under and hyper over?

The literal rough translation is 'low cartilage condition', though I'm no linguistics expert.

I also have no idea why that relates to the reality of the condition, unless once upon a time someone thought it had something to do with cartilage.

I hear you. DH's family are always iller and more poorly etc, and always always have something wrong with them.

I've had flu twice. Second time I was in my late twenties, delirious, phone in front of me and couldn't work out how to ring my mum. A day after I initially passed out a friend rang and I apparently made no
sense so she rang mum who came over, got me to GP etc. Bedbound for a week.

As for the toothache vs labour, I've had a fast induced labour with baby pulled out and tearing and an impacted wisdom tooth which got infected. I'll take the labour anyday.

Thats for 'hypochondriasis', with a hypochondriac being a person who suffers with hypochondriasis, just to get more specific.