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Anyone ever seen this or had this before?
Ear, Nose & Throat (ENT) | Last Active: Jun 4 4:49pm | Replies (10)Comment receiving replies
You’re welcome.
Yep. At least you recognize it makes it worse.
Plenty of people I’ve responded to or other people who have responded to me on this forum whom take offense when someone doesn’t jump on their anxiety bandwagon and or do not add to their Google searches with “it could be this”.
I get backlash by actually doing what you are supposed to do with a health anxiety sufferer which is to encourage opposite action.
This is a Mayo Clinic sponsored forum so you are going to get many health anxiety sufferers whom find this forum through googling. And they think it is a more legit space because it is under the Mayo name. While it is monitored better than most forums, you still have health anxiety sufferers whom encourage people to doctor shop or perhaps their doctor missed something.
I don’t fuel a fire. The body is complex and amazing. Working for us at all times. Not every sound, skin reaction needs our attention or catastrophic thinking.
Work on your health anxiety and the reasons behind it. Get out and enjoy life!!!
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Until Long Covid I would have agreed with you 100%.
Now, I think we are faced with something different. The so called “experts” don’t know anything, and we are left adrift.
I work with my Primary Physician in trying to find a key to what has destroyed my health and what might make it possible for me to have a life again.
Your comment “Get out and enjoy life!” Is an affront to those of us who can barely get through the day.
The person who wrote seems to admit an obsession with health issues, so perhaps this comment does not apply to the writer.
Many of us on Mayo Connect are just trying to survive another day.