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Anonymous wrote:I have a friend who takes her kids to the doctor for every sniffle and ache. But she has a phobia of germs, I think. She likes to nip things in the bud. She was shocked to learn not everyone is like this. When the kids were little and things would go around our kindergarten class, I was comfortable caring for them at home for a few days with tylenol and rest, then going to the doctor if a fever persisted a few days. She would NEVER do that. She'd go on the first day. I thought the doctor would teach her over the years but I guess they like customers as much as any other business.

There are so many people on these threads, adult women who go to the doctors like it's their job. Hang nail? Time to book an appt. It's very odd.

Anonymous wrote:I have had severe health anxiety that pops up every few years for the last 25 years. Mine are things I can catasrophise such as cancer, heart, liver, brain or kidney issues. I’ve got zero germophobia or issues about colds/flu etc.

After our son moved off to college and we became empty nesters I finally had time to take on the problem. I started seeing a psychiatrist and its helped a lot. My psych thinks its because I grew up in an alcaholic and physically violent household.

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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.

My friend is just like this. The Dr wanted to test something small "just to be sure" and she assumed it would be cancer. Before she even went in for the minor procedure, she researched which facility had the highest ratings and called an out of state research hospital to find out if they had openings and when they could start treatment. Then a few days later the test came back negative.

The other thing is she refuses almost all prescription medication, but does her own "research". She had surgery with stitched up wounds and refused to take the antibiotic because some alternative would be "safer". Then a few days later it got infected and she had to take the antibiotic plus something else since it got so bad.

She takes advice from "quacks" who present them selves as a Dr (and hide that it's a chiropractic Dr) and has 20 bottles of alternative medications from the health store that cost a fortune.

Reminds me of the Tim Minchin song lyric "Do you know what they call 'alternative medicine' that's been proved to work?
Medicine."

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.

Any biopsy HAS to by LAW be sent into the lab for a biopsy. Doctors don't have a choice it's a requirement. Tell her that.