When you fall ill, what do you do?

Are you the type that goes to the doctors with no pushing or the type to google everything about it and rationalise leaving the doctor out of it, because you don't want to have to take your pants off for an ear infection.

 

I used to see a doctor , but now I dont. Unless its really bad and serious...
And I definately dont google my symptoms.

 

I rarely go to the doctor. My doctor has the hots for my mom and asks me more questions about her than my symptoms.

I'm the type that whines to my mom. She is a nurse so she always has meds in the house. She helps me out or she calls my pervy doctor and he just calls in a 'script. Or I just puke my guts out, stay holed up underneath 20 pounds of blankets and drink OJ. haha

 

I usually just try to though it out but if it's bad my mom but I don't like to worry her and then if I HAVE to I'll go to the doc... I don't like doctors even though my mom was a nurse.

 

huh, I actually never thought to google my symptoms lol I'm too impatient to read through all that bs, I'd give up and just curl up to the toilet like everyone else.

 

When I usually fall ill, I procrastinate a lot and resolve to drink less.

 

I never google my symptoms and I get very annoyed when my husband does.
I just take of myself and if anything were to go on for too long, I would see a doc. The only thing I generally get that needs a doc is a lung infection. Antibiotics are a must have in that situation.

I didn't take my kids to the doctor when they had chicken pox either. I knew what it was and took care of them myself. They are both still alive and are now immune to chicken pox.

 

If I am ill I don't go to the doctor unless--well, there really is no unless, haven't been to the doctor in a long, long time. I mean if I felt as though I was dying and needed help ASAP then I would probably go.. Though my gyno I see more than my parents...

 

I never go unless its serious, been a long time too since i have been to one.

 

I research everything. I like knowing "doctor talk", so when they talk like a doctor in front of me I can talk back. I like having it be relationship and knowing whats wrong with me so i can decide best about my options.

 

I can't remember the last time i've been sick with something besides a cold or just a virus or something. And in that case I just suck it up and wait it out. Maybe take a decongestant or something like that.
But the googling symptoms thing reminded me of a few years ago when I took some Benzedrine (baaad idea), I ended up throwing up a lot at the end of the night. My mom heard me throwing up and woke up and saw how huge my pupils were and was like "did you take any drugs?" I obviously had, but I said no. So she googled dilated pupils and was naming off all these things that could make my pupils big and I was just like oh god leave me alone! Anyway, don't take benzedrine.

 

Has anyone gotten a copy of their doctor's records or surgery records and noticed a bunch of crap that they found or things about your health that you had no idea about or that they failed to tell you... It's interesting to read your records and the stuff they write in there, I'm sure they take things that they label you as or their fun notes they make about you.. Yeah, I dislike doctors and am ranting about them...

 

i google my symptoms, and then i call my mom and she comes to my house and takes care of me

 

Thats happened to me a few times, also they don't let you know things unless there's something wrong, like I got a CT and some other thing and I kept waiting for weeks to get the results and never got them until I switched doctors when I moved. It's not only that he didn't tell me, but he told me he didn't have them yet but my new doc said they were in the file like two weeks after the tests were done.

 

I switched doctors several years ago and looked through my file before handing it over...at one point someone had recorded that I gave birth to a baby girl...um, I have 2 sons...

 

I stay curled up on the couch frowning at everything. And occasionally accepting cool sips of water. I hate to be bothered/talked to/looked at when i'm sick. ^_^

 

I avoid doctors like the plague, unless I'm reaaaaallly sick.

Other than that... warm tea, vitamin C, and marijuana can cure everything.

 

I don't mind taking my pants off. I hate pants.

 

I am now starting to see that docotrs dont know anything

 

i don't really do anything different, except eat more vitamin c. if i'm really sick, i might take a short nap in the office at work, but that's about it