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[Starla76]

Does anyone else scare themselves silly with Dr Google?

Every new symptom of peri gives me health anxiety!

I have had:

- one night sweat a few years ago but over the last two years hot flashes (no sweating) that send me dizzy, nauseous and off balance/weak
- palpitations
- itching under arms but now my bottom 
-dizziness and nausea
- general feeling of being off balance
- wheezy
- extreme emotions - snappy, emotional, anxiety attacks
- periods still regular but now technically last a couple of days but really go on for about 10 days of blood/mucus when I wipe
- diarrhoea or more bowel movements during my period
- just general tiredness and not feeling myself, feeling unfit and almost out of body sometimes
- and my new favourite - flem and having to clear my throat!

Can anyone else relate as I'm driving myself mad! 

[Salad]

I love Dr Google 

Nothing irritates me more than when discussing Menopause in the media they limit the symptoms to "hot flushes" and "stopping periods" - if only they talked about the long long list of other symptoms then we might not worry so much.

Thank goodness for forums like this where we can feel more normal 

[CaroleM]

GP's love 'Dr google'.  I once looked up some symptoms, turned out I should have been suffering from yellow fever!!!!! Only one problem, I'd not been in an infected region for over 20 years 

[Starla76]

Thanks guys it's so bizarre what hormones can do to your body and mind!

[Ju Ju]

I'm sure Dr Google isn't good for health anxiety, but I have found that choosing sites with care, I have been able to get information, reassurance and know when I need to get something checked out. It was useful for finding out about a condition I was tested for and had never heard of before and that there was support if necessary.

When I was a teenager and a young twenty something, my parents wouldn't have a medical dictionary in the house, because they insisted it made you into a hypochondriac. I suffered from extremely painful period pains (think labour pains). Mum insisted I was making a fuss about nothing, though she changed her mind when she actually witnessed the onset of pain. She rushed me to the nearest hospital, a chest hospital! Fortunately a nurse who had experienced painful periods and was able to reassure me and how to deal with hyperventilating. Had I had access to information, I would have found I had a condition that had a name, was not life threatening or uncommon. Most important of all it was not my fault or caused by by the bad traits my Mum insisted I had.

[CLKD]

Ju Ju - my Mum told me not to bother going to our Doctor as he would tell me to have a baby - I was 13  and SUFFERED for years until an ex-boyfriend of hers saw me in dreadful pain, his wife too me to the Pharmacist for medication.

Dr Google don't know owt!  If I want to know anything I go into one of the NHS web-sites ........ which also don't say a lot usually