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Makarand writes "According to this article in the San Francisco Chronicle the ever-expanding
wealth of health information online is keeping hypochondriacs constantly worried. With websites devoted to every major and
esoteric illness and search engines coming up with many disease possibilities
when you type in a symptom, it is becoming very easy for the health-anxious
to believe that they have a disease. Many continue poring through the easily
available medical information even after their doctors have given them
a clean bill of health."
I came home sick from school today and caught my mom masturbating with a carrot. What should I do?
People stupid enough to diagnose their own health problems based on shit they see on the web should either 1. Die from misdiagnosis or 2. Fail to breed because they become basket cases. I mean really... The web is a nifty little toy for communicating with friends, buying commodity items, and reading the AP wire or checking the weather, but health stuff? No way. That's insane. Of course, these are the same people who seek legal advice on Slashdot...
Excellent satirist comment. This was at plus 4 and should be at least plus 5, not the plus 1 it's currently at.
Now we don't have to vote for a fake Bush Lite Progressive like Kerry!
After all he killed innocent communists during the war in Vietnam!
It's true! You're sick! You're dying at this very moment! In fact, everyone on the planet has got it! We're all doomed! Oh the humanity!
was blaming a virus anytime you are to dumb to find the real problem.
of America (GNAA) Maintained tHat tto paranoid conspiracy start a holy war 80s, DARPA saw BSD slings are limited,
...Is to kill yourself.
You are all diseased.
You are the all singing, all dancing crap of the world.
I suggest you all wash your hands and go to bed before you infect the rest of us.
Ben
Work Safe Porn
Not only that, they call it practicing medicine for a reason. If it is anything more than a simple ailment, the patient is nothing more than a test subject. There is too much "Let's try this" going on. People have too much faith in science. We just don't know as much as we think we do.
"I have endometriosis and severe dust mite allergies"
Probably not. More likely stress related, or most commonly weight/diet related.
If you're more than 10 pounds over your IDEAL weight coupled with little or no exercise, then you're probably experiencing symptoms related to your weight.
Sorry, its true. Your doctor won't tell you this because (a) it'll piss you off (b) he makes money from you coming back (c) you're unwilling to exercise/cut back on food because (1) there's so much stress in your life (2) you can't stop eating because you have something-glycemia.
Always an excuse. Cut back your calories by 1/3, and exercise every day until sweat is pouring out of your body.
It will take you about 5-6 months of this regimen, but your health will improve 10 fold, and without medicine. Your alergies will be "less severe", all the "exhaustion" you feel will go away.
Here's my final tip.... when you feel exhausted, that's when you need exercise most.
My advice will piss you off and you won't take it. Or you'll say "I exercise". No, you don't. 15 minutes walking around the block is an exercise for an 80 year old. For someone your age, stress your body. Force it to work. Get stronger.
It will change your life.