Hypochodriacs. Do you know any?

[JulieNKC]

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I think what most of us are referring to is far different than what you had. Yours was an ongoing specific issue; to me a hypocondriac is someone who always has something mysterious and undiagnosed going on with them, often the latest ailment that has made the news.

I'm glad they finally figured out what was going on for you!

I agree.

Thanks!

 

[PotterWatch]

My friend who was a hypochondriac didn't have an on-going but undiagnosed condition. One week she had sprained her back, the next week she had a bunch of asthma attacks, the next it would be bronchitis, then a twisted ankle, then a sinus infection, and so on, and so forth. All things that are completely unrelated and all things that are diagnosed on symptoms only so that they can be faked or exaggerated. Now that she is on facebook, she posts the most unflattering pictures of herself posing with her IV pole (when she was on IV meds her whole pregnancy), or of the bandage where she just had blood drawn, or anything to show that she is just so desperately ill. Now I know that some people do get very, very ill when pregnant but I just found it hard to believe with her. Everything about her various illnesses gets posted in words and pictures. Normal people don't do that. We might gripe about having the flu or complain that the pollen is really bad this year or things like that, but we don't post pictures of the bottle of medicine we got from the doctor or give every single detail of our illness. I put up with it for seven years and felt really bad for her for at least the first three years, but there is only so much sympathy I can have for a person and she ran me out of it.

 

[Avalon1984]

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That was always my thought too with my mom. I felt like telling her: How about the people that really have the disease you so desperately try to have?????

 

[Oregon Blues]

Just one thing to consider:

I was constantly sick and the doctors let me know it was all in my head. Then I finally found a doctor (took 6 years) who believed me and what do you know? It really was all in my head. In fact, it showed up really nicely on an MRI.

 

[Zonoma]

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x2: Parasagital Meningioma

 

[Beekissed]

On second thought...I'll not say that.

 

[rebelcowboysnb]

Ive known lots.. Its just part of being in the EMS system. My job is only to treat symptoms an get them to people with the training to do a real diagnosis. It does not mater if its the first time of the thousandths time this same person called us.

 

[TheJuan-n-Only]

My mother is one...badly!! To the point that she has taken so many meds over her life that now her liver is actually bad due to all the meds!!

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[kuntrygirl]

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So sorry to hear that.