The Blog for Hypochondriacs. After all, if it tingles, it must be cancer.
Monday, August 28, 2006
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Aren't comments great? :) I love em. It's good to know we aren't alone in whatever struggle we have. Probably makes it easier to wake up in the morning knowing we aren't the only ones....
You're right about what you said in another post, that people who don't have hypochondria also have 'symptoms' all the time - it's just that they won't let their minds get carried away with what it might be. A friend of mine told me he gets a numb feeling in his legs sometimes at night. That would set me off but he was fine about it. He Googled around and decided that if it was something Big then there wasn't a lot he could do about it.
That amazes me too. I have a friend who started running on a treadmill. He said that after about 10 minutesd one of his legs would start to go numb. He just shrugged it off. I kept thinking, "go to the hosptial now!!!"
Of course, those are the people who have heart attacks and take Rolaids for it.
I guess that's the opposite of a hypochondriac - someone who totally ignores their symptoms, denies the possibility that there might be something wrong, and ends up sick or dead. "Oh that weird looking mole is probably nothing." "Those shooting pains down my arm will probably just go away."
I couldn’t agree more. If it tingles it’s definitely cancer.
Hypochon boy turned me on to your site. I found myself cracking up at your entries, especially Fire Ants on a Mutha#%$&# Bike!!! I recently started my own hypochondriac blog in hope of curing myself by seeing how ridiculous I am. (theperfecthypochondriac.blogspot.com)
I liked the way you summed it up…“these are the aches and pains of being alive, not being sick…the way in which I've blown it out of proportion is what makes me a hypochondriac.” I’ll have to keep that in mind when I’m having my next stroke.
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Aren't comments great? :) I love em. It's good to know we aren't alone in whatever struggle we have. Probably makes it easier to wake up in the morning knowing we aren't the only ones....
Blessings to you, Dave!
You're right about what you said in another post, that people who don't have hypochondria also have 'symptoms' all the time - it's just that they won't let their minds get carried away with what it might be. A friend of mine told me he gets a numb feeling in his legs sometimes at night. That would set me off but he was fine about it. He Googled around and decided that if it was something Big then there wasn't a lot he could do about it.
That amazes me too. I have a friend who started running on a treadmill. He said that after about 10 minutesd one of his legs would start to go numb. He just shrugged it off. I kept thinking, "go to the hosptial now!!!"
Of course, those are the people who have heart attacks and take Rolaids for it.
I guess that's the opposite of a hypochondriac - someone who totally ignores their symptoms, denies the possibility that there might be something wrong, and ends up sick or dead.
"Oh that weird looking mole is probably nothing."
"Those shooting pains down my arm will probably just go away."
Are these people then hyperchondriacs?
I couldn’t agree more. If it tingles it’s definitely cancer.
Hypochon boy turned me on to your site. I found myself cracking up at your entries, especially Fire Ants on a Mutha#%$&# Bike!!! I recently started my own hypochondriac blog in hope of curing myself by seeing how ridiculous I am. (theperfecthypochondriac.blogspot.com)
I liked the way you summed it up…“these are the aches and pains of being alive, not being sick…the way in which I've blown it out of proportion is what makes me a hypochondriac.” I’ll have to keep that in mind when I’m having my next stroke.
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