How many of you do this??

[KatieBurgh]

You get a symptom to something. Immediately or as soon as you can you go and Google it?? I do it all the time!!! I'm gonna need to stop doing this to myself.

I think i'd be ok if i didn't find out every symptom for every major disease known to man. It's like hypochondria isn't bad enough, but i read symptoms for something and i start thinking i have sympoms of something else that i'm reading. Such a vicious cycle. I think i'm gonna stop googling everything. It'll be best.

If you feel like it, post and let me know how many of ya'll are doing the same thing.

best wishes,
Katie

[Jeremy]

I do the google all the time. I feel an ache and next thing you know i am googling and finding out all the horrible things I am about to convice myselft that I have.  I have dealing with this for years but I finally went to a doctor and he prescribes some meds.  They seem to be helping.

Good luck and avoid the urge to google.

[miika]

I`m guilty

[mbabynz]

Very guilty of it but guess what i have sort of stopped googling :bigsmile:only when i come on here i google :)
mbabynz

[michelle]

I've done it and learned a lesson from it, I was online reading up symptoms for hours and hours days and days, weeks and weeks, until anxiety hit me hard!  This was before I was diagnosed with GAD.  Although I occassionally go to the medical sites, I have to stop myself.  I do not want to end up like that again!  Michelle

[mbabynz]

Hey Michelle i read that u have gad if you don't mind can u tell me what meds you are on.I'm suffering quite bad with it and I'm just about to change docs the last doc put me on xanax and ativan but thats all i feel i need something more to help like an anti depress maybe try arapax or something similar.im doing cbt and its not helping much hence the need that i might need something cause of chemical imbalance in the brain  hope thats OK and how are you doing now?
cheers
mbabynz

[michelle]

At the beginning I was against meds.  This runs in my family and one of my sisters was over medicated.  So for 2 years I denied any, until anxiety got the best of me.  I was on paxil and a very low dose of kilonopin.  Now I  am on effexor and kilonopin.  Anyway I am still an anxious person and think I will always be,  my doctor wants me to try another one in place of the kilonopin, but I have this issue with trying new pills.  In the past another doctor had me on neurontin.  Yes as anxious as I was OH MY!  The paxil and kilonopin did work.  Everyones brain is different and I believe reacts differently.  But our symptoms are mostly all the same here. I also get anxious, I do not want to be a zombie or blow up like a balloon, I bet alot of us here fear those things also.  I tell my family and friends if I try a new med and are not myself you better tell me!  And they will. write back soon.  It is funny I get anxious even over meds.

[michelle]

mbabymz, I have been alittle more anxious the past month or so.  I have been on the effexor for about 7 months.  I was on the paxil for 6 years, they thought it was time to change.  I probably was getting tolerant to it.  See that is what I fear.  I drink too much caffeine and should exercise that would help a great deal.  I do cbt also, If you don't mind how old are you? I am 34.

[alexiel]

hahaha i so do this! this past year alone i thought i had diabetes, TMJ, tumours, heart murmurs, heart problems, lung cancer... the list goes on.

the only legitimate thing that was wrong with me was that my old house had black mold. i had terrible headaches for months (this is why i thought i had TMJ or brain tumours) and the doctor kept telling me i was fine. i found the mold in a crawl space (lots of it! :S) and we moved immediately. i asked my doctor if that was what was causing my pain and he said more than likely. we moved and i have not since had headaches like those. thank god!

the power of suggestion sucks. i know how hard it can be to trust doctors, you feel as though they are not taking you seriously, you feel as though they are not testing enough, etc... i have recently been able to overcome my hypochondria (i think, i hope) and i hope you can too.

[mbabynz]

hey Michelle I'm 35 (cripes) i have just been put on arapax so fingers crossed this is the one.i took my 1st 1 this morning and went into major panic omg what am i doing i cant stand taking meds even pamol sends me into a spin i was never like this until GAD came along.major problems on the med situation so i hope it gets easier.its hard to see if there is any end to it all or just some relief would be nice .
take care all
mbabynz