Google, blessing or curse?

fayrose

OK, so another strange thing has happened.

Most of my health horrids have turned out to be symptomtic of rheumatoid, and lately osteoarthritis.
These include, amongst all sorts of things, thyroid oddities and blocked salivary glands causing me to look like Hammy-the-Hamster and of course all the usual stiffness, lumpy joints, pain etc.

In the past few weeks my fingernails have started to flake and split, something that's never happened before. So, I googled the cause of this and ..... I'll be luckly to survive the night :sad:

Anyone else done this and worried themselves sick?

If not ..... DON'T :roll:

Turbogran

Oh yes Fay done it many times and wonder sometimes why i'm still here

mellman01

Google is bloody great but google instant is utter crap so much so I use Bing now.

Dottydoodah

I dont do it but my daughter drives me nuts. Over the years she has had every terminal ailment and disorder known to man

bubbles

I think we all Google or Bing or Yahoo, to find answers and or side effects, or treatments etc. Yes, I have scared myself witless on more than one occasion, but, nurses don't make great patients anyway and some knowledge is often a curse, not a blessing.
Now, I throw away any papers that are stuffed inside the medicine boxes and only if there is something I am super curious about, or something obscure, do I search for it online.
You have to filter out the good from the bad and read any explanations, from a reputable source.

mellman01

Yep I agree the web is a place you can put the willies up yourself that said it's good if you know what you have and can check things out, just mind the US sites as they normally want to sell you some junk r other as a cure all.

dreamdaisy

I rarely google anything medical, so much of the 'information' out there is anything but. It is a hypochondriac's paradise, isn't it? I cannot be bothered with it. I read the leaflets that come with meds, then forget them. I ask my GP or rheumatologist questions if needed and try to remember the answers. That's enough for me! DD

tkachev

I googled about THR's when I was due to have the op 2 years ago and it was an American site all about sueing the surgeons and how they'd never been the same since the GA and how bad the op was. Needless to say I was terrified.

Then I came on here......and I have been through the op.

Elizabeth

tkachev

and Fayrose I had black toenails within weeks of starting R.A and they fell off , I get warts all the time and have a veruca, my hair needs washing everyday otherwise I look like a biker. Yet I am always told i look well!

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julie47

I have googled.......and scared myself...

Now I get OH to do it......and only tell me the non scarey bits.

If he doesn't say anything........well then I worry again

juliepf x

fayrose

I had a feeling I wasn't alone.

Thinking about it though, even if some of the horror stories are true, I really don't want to know. Enough is enough eh?
I'll just get on and hope for the best.