Anonymous
Post 04/19/2026 22:40     Subject: Anyone else with a hypochondriacal partner?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:When they sneeze and tell me they feel like they are coming down with the flu, I ignore


When do you not ignore?

I’ve found that doctors will be happy to send me/my partner for expensive tests ‘just in case’. To me, these aren’t things to worry about, but to my partner, it means he has the *worst possible outcome* whatever that is.

Ex, a simple planters wart. Dr removes, says they are 99% sure it’s a wart but just in case, let’s send for a biopsy. To my partner this equals ‘the doctor is concerned, they ordered a biopsy and it is probably cancer!’

Now take this example and repeat it over and over.


I can top this. Acquaintance got treated for rabies because the “dogs running around” in the developing country he visited “looked bad.” He hadn’t even touched one, let alone received a bite. He has a concierge doctor who humors this stuff from him.


Lol. Yeah, we spent three years dealing with "pancreatic cancer" that was undetectable to every medical professional from DC to Boston. Those losers at Hopkins had no idea what they were dealing with! The humouring was pretty unreal in terms of procedures lacking diagnostic criteria.


I feel like if you are a man and you think you have pancreatic cancer because you once felt a twitch somewhere in the abdomen you will be given years of of expensive tests and doctors will humor you and provide loads of support. Be a woman with an actual burst appendix and a sneering (old, white, male) ER doc will try to send you home with TUMs (ask me how I know...).
Anonymous
Post 04/19/2026 22:27     Subject: Anyone else with a hypochondriacal partner?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:When they sneeze and tell me they feel like they are coming down with the flu, I ignore


When do you not ignore?

I’ve found that doctors will be happy to send me/my partner for expensive tests ‘just in case’. To me, these aren’t things to worry about, but to my partner, it means he has the *worst possible outcome* whatever that is.

Ex, a simple planters wart. Dr removes, says they are 99% sure it’s a wart but just in case, let’s send for a biopsy. To my partner this equals ‘the doctor is concerned, they ordered a biopsy and it is probably cancer!’

Now take this example and repeat it over and over.


I can top this. Acquaintance got treated for rabies because the “dogs running around” in the developing country he visited “looked bad.” He hadn’t even touched one, let alone received a bite. He has a concierge doctor who humors this stuff from him.


Lol. Yeah, we spent three years dealing with "pancreatic cancer" that was undetectable to every medical professional from DC to Boston. Those losers at Hopkins had no idea what they were dealing with! The humouring was pretty unreal in terms of procedures lacking diagnostic criteria.
Anonymous
Post 04/19/2026 16:52     Subject: Anyone else with a hypochondriacal partner?
Our GP went concierge and I encouraged my husband to enroll because he goes to the doctor all the time. We're getting older, and fretting over his health is his hobby.

It isn't mine, which makes me seem heartless, but I'm not interested in the minutia of his symptoms.
Anonymous
Post 04/19/2026 15:39     Subject: Anyone else with a hypochondriacal partner?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I rarely get sick or have an ache or a pain, my wife has a structural or systemic crisis daily. When I do get sick she takes on my symptoms on represent them as her own, it makes me want to divorce her.


lol What's todays?


Bit her cheek at dinner and now has fast growth oral cancer. Because why else would she have bitten her cheek if it wasn’t a tumor that had grown in her mouth? It wasn’t the tortilla chips the waiter brought to the table, it’s a tumor and I have to make sure the kids marry good people because she won’t be around.
Anonymous
Post 04/18/2026 14:41     Subject: Anyone else with a hypochondriacal partner?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:When they sneeze and tell me they feel like they are coming down with the flu, I ignore


When do you not ignore?

I’ve found that doctors will be happy to send me/my partner for expensive tests ‘just in case’. To me, these aren’t things to worry about, but to my partner, it means he has the *worst possible outcome* whatever that is.

Ex, a simple planters wart. Dr removes, says they are 99% sure it’s a wart but just in case, let’s send for a biopsy. To my partner this equals ‘the doctor is concerned, they ordered a biopsy and it is probably cancer!’

Now take this example and repeat it over and over.


I can top this. Acquaintance got treated for rabies because the “dogs running around” in the developing country he visited “looked bad.” He hadn’t even touched one, let alone received a bite. He has a concierge doctor who humors this stuff from him.


Ok that’s hilarious. And yes, there are many plenty of doctors who will run plenty of tests or treat things that don’t need treatment
Anonymous
Post 04/18/2026 14:05     Subject: Anyone else with a hypochondriacal partner?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:When they sneeze and tell me they feel like they are coming down with the flu, I ignore


When do you not ignore?

I’ve found that doctors will be happy to send me/my partner for expensive tests ‘just in case’. To me, these aren’t things to worry about, but to my partner, it means he has the *worst possible outcome* whatever that is.

Ex, a simple planters wart. Dr removes, says they are 99% sure it’s a wart but just in case, let’s send for a biopsy. To my partner this equals ‘the doctor is concerned, they ordered a biopsy and it is probably cancer!’

Now take this example and repeat it over and over.


I can top this. Acquaintance got treated for rabies because the “dogs running around” in the developing country he visited “looked bad.” He hadn’t even touched one, let alone received a bite. He has a concierge doctor who humors this stuff from him.
Anonymous
Post 04/18/2026 12:06     Subject: Anyone else with a hypochondriacal partner?
I made an irrational statement and then ask if they disagree. They don’t respond, which leads me to believe that they agree with my rational statement..
Anonymous
Post 04/18/2026 11:07     Subject: Anyone else with a hypochondriacal partner?
Anonymous wrote:When they sneeze and tell me they feel like they are coming down with the flu, I ignore


When do you not ignore?

I’ve found that doctors will be happy to send me/my partner for expensive tests ‘just in case’. To me, these aren’t things to worry about, but to my partner, it means he has the *worst possible outcome* whatever that is.

Ex, a simple planters wart. Dr removes, says they are 99% sure it’s a wart but just in case, let’s send for a biopsy. To my partner this equals ‘the doctor is concerned, they ordered a biopsy and it is probably cancer!’

Now take this example and repeat it over and over.
Anonymous
Post 04/18/2026 10:43     Subject: Anyone else with a hypochondriacal partner?
Anonymous wrote:I rarely get sick or have an ache or a pain, my wife has a structural or systemic crisis daily. When I do get sick she takes on my symptoms on represent them as her own, it makes me want to divorce her.


lol What's todays?
Anonymous
Post 04/18/2026 10:04     Subject: Anyone else with a hypochondriacal partner?
I rarely get sick or have an ache or a pain, my wife has a structural or systemic crisis daily. When I do get sick she takes on my symptoms on represent them as her own, it makes me want to divorce her.
Anonymous
Post 04/18/2026 03:42     Subject: Anyone else with a hypochondriacal partner?
Why would anyone ever get with a man like this? And if it's new, try to get them treatment for their anxiety.
Anonymous
Post 04/18/2026 03:11     Subject: Anyone else with a hypochondriacal partner?
When they sneeze and tell me they feel like they are coming down with the flu, I ignore
Anonymous
Post 04/18/2026 00:29     Subject: Anyone else with a hypochondriacal partner?
Anonymous wrote:Do you humor them and act concerned?



You should be kind and help them resolve it.
Anonymous
Post 04/17/2026 23:30     Subject: Anyone else with a hypochondriacal partner?
No.
Anonymous
Post 04/17/2026 22:57     Subject: Anyone else with a hypochondriacal partner?
Do you humor them and act concerned?