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[libby1]

I have started this thread because we all seem to be getting odd symptoms and worrying about them.

So I suggest we post them on here instead of googling them and frightening ourselves 

It doesn't matter how silly they sound, if they cause you any worry - post!!!

I will start the ball rolling. For the past couple of weeks I have had odd aches in my right outer labia, no lumps, bumps or anything different. Very weird! And yes I have googled it, stupid woman!

Hugs to all fellow worriers 

Libby
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[grumpy2008]

Googling is definitely the fast-track way to anxiety and paranoia 

Libby, could you have a slight infection of some kind?

As for me.... I'm terrified that my recent inability to have a smear done (turns out I had a bacterial infection) means I will never, ever be able to have a smear ever again. I'll heal over. It'll put paid to any sex life.

And I have a rescheduled smear appointment in mid Jan. Eek. Don't want to think about it! 

[Ghiro]

Googling is definitely the fast-track way to anxiety and paranoia 

The internet has been my 'downfall' even when being directed to it by a doctor - who as it turned out gave me a wrong diagnosis.

Some GPs point you at the internet - my daughter has been told by her GP ' go and look this/these up and come back and say what you want' .

ghiro x

[libby1]

Can't believe a gp would ask you to check the internet! That's awful!

Grumpy, how does an infection stop you having a smear?

Libby
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[littleminnie]

Slightly off topic. I think the leaflet that comes with medication, listing the side effects  scares you to death.  They leaflets have started saying 'one in ten will get one of these symptoms, '4 in every 100 people will get one or more of these symptoms'.etc.  I know they have to inform you about the possible side effects, but it doesn't half put you off. 

[Dyan]

I had this weird feeling in my head this morning.
It felt like a tightness round my forehead,I felt wobbly and my vision seemed blurry.
Now it feels like I'm getting a headache

[CLKD]

Grumpy I read that as though you had already healed over  ........ didn't you get a followup appt.?

As for googling, one has to see who is funding the 'topic pages' as in any 'advice' which is 'out there', be it the daily media or on the internet. 

Me - I'm weird anyway 

[Ghiro]

Libby

Just to ask will this thread will turn into something similar to googling if you give someone an answer ? - maybe not directly but by quoting your own experience.

I could give you another possible reason for labia ache which may then worry you.
 
No offence to anyone meant.

Ghiro x

[CLKD]

I ache in different places on  a regular basis, so much so that I googled MS last week  but nothing fits my symptoms so it must be something much worse ......... hey ho! not enough symptoms to go to the GP but enough to have me make a list 'cos I'll forget otherwise    ......... I trip and fall sometimes, I forget words or peoples' names  perhaps it's all 'within normal limits'?

[Dyan]

CLKD- me too! I feel like I'm going to trip and fall over.
Also forgetting things too.

[CLKD]

Yep - no longer weird but 'usual' 

[grumpy2008]

I have actually thrown medication away after reading the side effects on the leaflet, but they have to cover themselves for fear of litigation.

Spot on! It's worth glancing at the leaflet, but keep in mind that the side effects (or the worst of them) are rare.

Regarding the labial ache, I had that a couple of years ago and I went on to develop a sebaceous cyst

I had one of those a long time ago - very uncomfortable but thankfully quite harmless 

Libby & CLKD - haha, well it did panic me a bit! I couldn't have the smear (despite a rather ham-fisted attempt by the nurse, THREE times!) because I was sore and swollen. Plus, she couldn't find my cervix because it is apparently 'tilted'... something I didn't know despite having been through childbirth  . Anyway, I haven't 'healed up', but it's funny what you panic about in such a situation. I've had antibiotics, CLKD, and have a new appt for the smear in Jan. Bit miffed that I wasn't given a proper follow up though.

This thread is definitely less anxiety-inducing than Google - remember that the worst case scenarios always come up first on Google because those are ones everyone clicks on first! Google just isn't very supportive 

[libby1]

Girls, it's just a thread to share worries not diagnose or worry anyone. That is absolutely the last thought in my mind.

It's just that I know many of us get weird aches and pains and it's good to share, isn't it? Because everyone else thinks we're all mad anyway 

Libby
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[jules]

I think its a great idea... googling can be frightening.. sharing on here is different, kind of comforting i think, to realise weird symptoms being experienced are not just peculiar to yourself !!!!

Dyan i too have the tightening feeling in my head that you described, it petrified me the first time it happened and i waited all day for something dreadful to follow... needless to say it didnt    I actually had it myself today, its a really strange sensation isnt it.

I get aches and pains in places i never thought possible sometimes the whole of my body aches down to my fingers and toes, I can hardly move, all my muscles feel bruised and sore.... there are very few days when i feel what i class as "me"

To be fair the list of "weirdys" is endless !!  and all very scarey and confusing  thank goodness for this forum.

love to you all ..... and a merry and symptom free Christmas 

[littleminnie]

Exactly Mrs P. Pour me a drink please.