Time to take a break from Dr. Google

Dr. Google can kill us all off in our heads in a matter of seconds or minutes (depending on the speed of your internet provider). I have new ailments that I have been asking Dr. Google about. I also have continued to ask Dr Google about my other ailments. I have totally grossed out myself and made myself decide I will end up in chronic pain in a wheelchair in a matter of weeks.

I am not showing your actual links because that would mean finding the disgusting things again and going through it all so you will have to suffer with my descriptions.

• I found a picture of a woman with uncontrolled lymphedema in her arm. On one side she looked light a normal slight build, slender woman. On the other, her arm looked like it belonged to someone weighing about 400 lbs. 
• Then I found some pictures of what rheumatoid can do to one's feet since my feet really hurt recently. They showed all these x-rays of feet wit plates in them, turned up toes, collapsed arches, etc. 
• Then I found pictures of flesh eaten through to bone by rheumatoid.
• Then I found articles on the latest conflicting research on breast cancer screening and its value for older women.
• Then I found a comment page on people coping with fibromyalgia
• Then I found a list of sayings by people on 'you know when you have rheumatoid...' and realized I could agree with all of them.
• And more.

The more ailments you have the faster and easier you can kill yourself off.I need to step away from Dr. Google (and I need a trip to a Caribbean beach). But getting away from Dr. Google is easier and cheaper.

Evil Dr Google

I have posted about the evils of Dr Google before. As you can see from the image above (stolen borrowed from Facebook), I am not alone. My doctors are working on another mysterious medical ailment for me and I have an appointment in a couple of weeks to figure out what it is. When I know what it is I am sure I will blog about it. All I can say now is that its related to all the pain in my body that does not seem to be limited to my back.

While why I wait for that appointment, I am spending too much time on Dr Google seeing if I can self diagnose myself. This is a very BAD thing to do. I need to stay away from Dr Google in the meantime. It is so tempting to hop online and see if I can figure out what it is before the doctor does. Dr. Google is EVIL. I need more patience.

Stepping away from Dr Google

It is time to step away from Dr Google. Dr Google can diagnose me with life threatening ailments all too easily. I do not believe Dr Google went to medical school, nor does s/he have a good bedside manner. Dr Google tells it like it is with no sugar coating. Dr Google says things like 'the prognosis for patients with (fill in the blank) is generally poor with low quality of life expected' and 'there is no known cure for (fill in the blank), treatment usually focuses on management of symptoms'. Dr Google sucks.

How well do I know Dr Google? Too well. I get a minor ailment - cold fingers which turn white. This is Raynaud's syndrome. Nothing that can be done about it except possibly taking blood pressure medication. Generally a benign lifetime ailment which strikes people in their 20's and 30's. So I'm a little unique that I got it later in life (but I am only 37 right now - I decided that is a good age - I was 29 for a long time). But if you ask Dr Google it can be related to Sjogrens, lupus and rheumatoid arthritis. My mind then tells me Dr Google has just diagnosed me with one or all of the above.

Then there was a little sore in my mouth which turned out to be a nothing - just a weird piece of scar tissue. Dr Google (with a little help from the dentist with no bedside manner) had me convinced it was cancer.

Then I start adding up symptoms and I have many more ailments. This one plus that one plus that one plus that one tell me that the combination means something new that I will stuck with. I can take any symptom checker on the planet and end up terminally ill in less than ten minutes.

So why do I spend so much time with Dr Google? Dr Google is far easier to reach than any other doctor. Dr Google lives on my laptop and smart phone. Dr Google is accessible 24/7. Dr Google doesn't have a secretary screening calls or putting email into spam folders.

I need to step away from Dr Google and wait for my annual physical in June. I refuse to go to my PCP any sooner unless I am dripping blood. I have no new life threatening ailments. I will be fine, unless Dr Google tells me otherwise.