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The Medical web

 


WhistleTurning
Have you ever looked up your symptoms on the web. If you are feeling poorly is your first port of call to look on the web just to see what you have got. The medical sites on the web can be rather daunting, but read with care can really help you sort out if you need to seek advice quickly or in the near future etc. My wfe is a great convert to this sort of approach and to gain insite into any condition she (or other ) may have. Must point out at this point we are NOT hypocondriacts. As an example a friend was complaining aabout seeing dots in his right eye and when the light was low seeing flashes in his periferal vision. Onto the web we went and reading a few sites with common sense came up with "floaters" (bulles in the eye) which when they brush the retina cause the flashes. Solution was that help should be sought, and the likely hood of it being serious was quite large (1-10000), so nothing to really get worked up about. Guy saw his GP, was referred yo an Opthalmic specialist and checked out as we thought with these floaters and no damage to the retina.

Concluding I suppose use all resources with common sense to find solutions to problems
Wolf1918
I often use the medical web pages to look up symptoms before talking with my doctor. And on the other hand when I am given a new prescription, I'll visit the medical pages to check for side effects and drug interactions.

With all the new drugs out these days you have to be proactive about your own health care. Even if I ask my doctor about side effects or possible interactions, I'll still check on the Internet.

I don't really consider myself to be overly paranoid but it just seems like every month or so some new drug that was prescribed to thousands of people is now in the news as causing extremely bad side effects or even killing people.

It's a case of C.Y.A. Cover Your A er ... backside.

Chad
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