Any hypochondriacs?

[78222]

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I was a bit of a hypochondriac before medschool, now that I've started, I have gotten ten times worse. Every tingling sensation is a nerve lesion, every pain a sign of internal hemoraging. I am also sure I have half of the genetic diseases we've discussed

 

[Law2Doc]

I was a bit of a hypochondriac before medschool, now that I've started, I have gotten ten times worse. Every tingling sensation is a nerve lesion, every pain a sign of internal hemoraging. I am also sure I have half of the genetic diseases we've discussed

Yeah, lots of med students go through this. Nothing is ever just a cold anymore. The worst are the diseases where some percentage of those infected are asymptomatic -- then even if you feel fine you still could be dying.

 

[Blake]

Can't say I am.

 

[Kimka83]

Me too. Serious hypochondriasis (is that even a word ?). I think it is sort of funny how ridiculous I am being.

 

[DoctorFunk]

Definitely. I had a sudden, stinging pain in my chest a few months back that lasted about a second, and I spent the greater part of that night hoping that I wasn't suffering a heart attack at age 25. Doesn't help that my family history of heart disease looks like a chapter from Pocket Robbins.

 

[indo]

I was a bit of a hypochondriac before medschool, now that I've started, I have gotten ten times worse. Every tingling sensation is a nerve lesion, every pain a sign of internal hemoraging. I am also sure I have half of the genetic diseases we've discussed

Stomach ache or ulcer? Sideache or liver distress? ha

I had a migraine that felt a little different than usual so I gave myself a cranial nerve exam in the mirror.

 

[baylormed]

Do you mean it will get worse during medical school???

I guess that's what the counseling center is for. 😀

 

[willow18]

So I managed to spill some staph or strepto something on myself and some of my books during one of our micro labs and it dried before I could exactly where it went. Nothing happened, but for a while there, every little irritant felt like a cytokine/Complement component/T-cell/PMN whatever.

 

[yobynaes]

lol, i think im a bit hypochondriac all my life, being the child of doctors, you know. Im also certain it will get worse with my increasing medical knowledge once i start med school.

 

[Ypo.]

I was a bit of a hypochondriac before medschool, now that I've started, I have gotten ten times worse. Every tingling sensation is a nerve lesion, every pain a sign of internal hemoraging. I am also sure I have half of the genetic diseases we've discussed

They keep saying it hits during second year, but it hasn't hit me.

But I tend to border on the "Oh, I'm losing massive amounts of blood from this bullet wound? I hadn't noticed. Thanks for letting me know" type.

 

[Law2Doc]

They keep saying it hits during second year, but it hasn't hit me.

You may have one of those hypochondriac diseases that affects the cognitive areas of the brain first, making you oblivious to whatever other hypocondriac ailments may be ravaging your body.🙂

 

[Gunz580]

I used to be a hypchondriac, but it went away after I started getting more general knowledge. I always knew nothing was wrong, but in the back of my head the better safe than sorry side always took over the rational side. The only time I ever thought something really was wrong was when, I felt stabbling pains right around my left pec major. Thought it may have been my heart, so I had it checked out. Turns out, it was super inflammed, and I was good a couple Ibproufen later.

 

[ForbiddenComma]

Nah, I'm pretty reasonable about this sort of thing, and I make good use of my medical knowledge. For instance, I know for certainty that a slight puffiness of my cheeks is being caused by Cushing's secondary to a pituitary adenoma and eventually I'm gonna get tunnel vision when it impinges on my optic chiasm. Also, when my back was hurting the other day, it was due to pancreaitis probably from that adenocarcinoma that's obliterating the pancreatic duct. But that probably won't kill me -- what will kill me will be my asymptomatic berry aneurysm that's gonna explode like a water balloon. When the thunderclap headache hits, I hope I have a couple minutes to dictate some semblance of a will before I collapse.

Anyway, these are all reasonable conclusions to make off my health. Right? Thank you, med school!

 

[Gimlet]

But that probably won't kill me -- what will kill me will be my asymptomatic berry aneurysm that's gonna explode like a water balloon.

This is the exact thought that goes through my head every time I have a headache since I first learned about berry aneurysms.

 

[78222]

Nah, I'm pretty reasonable about this sort of thing, and I make good use of my medical knowledge. For instance, I know for certainty that a slight puffiness of my cheeks is being caused by Cushing's secondary to a pituitary adenoma and eventually I'm gonna get tunnel vision when it impinges on my optic chiasm. Also, when my back was hurting the other day, it was due to pancreaitis probably from that adenocarcinoma that's obliterating the pancreatic duct. But that probably won't kill me -- what will kill me will be my asymptomatic berry aneurysm that's gonna explode like a water balloon. When the thunderclap headache hits, I hope I have a couple minutes to dictate some semblance of a will before I collapse.

Anyway, these are all reasonable conclusions to make off my health. Right? Thank you, med school!

I am glad you have accepted things. It's not the metastatic cancers spreading through my veins, nor the secondary cancer I am sure is exploding in my prostate, nor the esophageal varices just waiting to explode that worry me. It's the priaprism that could happen anytime, anywhere.

 

[lilnoelle]

I'm more concerned about my kids than myself.... I'm sure they've got tons of different diseases. They both have eczema, so every skin disease "that is usually misdiagnosed as atopic dermatitis" I'm sure they have. Part of the problem is my husband's family. His family's list of diseases include diabetes type 1, asthma (my family too) multiple sclerosis (3 individuals in his family, including his sister), and his parents both have rediculously high blood pressures and cholesterol levels.
Then I did a family tree on my side of the family. I thought we were healthy! And then I found out that my mom and all five of her sisters have fibermyalgia (I knew about my mom) I also found out that three of my aunts have had thyroids removed, two because of cancer. So now I'm pretty sure I have GERT (a problem both my mother and brother have) and eventually I'll end up with fibermyalgia and thyroid cancer.

 

[Callogician]

It's all about using murphy's law instead of parsimony...

LLQ pain ---------------------> situs inversus + appendicitis
Fever/lethargy----------------> septic meningitis
Foamy urine-------------------> focal segmental glomerulosclerosis w/nephrotic syndrome.
five lb weight loss ------------> gall bladder cancer
Parasthesia ------------------> Guillian Barre
Subtle autonomic symptom----> seizure disorder
Forgetfulness -----------------> Early onset Huntington's
Flushing ----------------------> Carcinoid tumor mets to liver
+ ant. cervical node-----------> Hodgkins
Headache --------------------> Ruptured Berry aneurysm with subarachnoid hemmorhage (as mentioned)
Rash--------------------------> SLE
Chest Pain--------------------> Oh...you're so F*cked