I've always been a believer in researching any symptoms of illness or diagnosis that you may have. In today's world of easy access to information via the internet, there's really no excuse not to be educated on literally any subject you can type into Google.
That said, information can turn into the enemy. You plug in your symptoms or the diagnosis and the next thing you know, you're faced with a list of possible illness, disease or affliction. Everything from a common cold to
Sometimes, research can be frightening. As intelligent as we believe ourselves to be, we did not go to school for the required kajillion years to get a PhD in medicine. We may misinterpret what we're reading. We are not going to understand all of the terminology used.
All we can do, really, is try to be informed, proactive with our health and then take that to a doctor when we need them to find the answers. Oh, and don't stress ourselves with the worst possible scenario. There's plenty of time to do that whilst staring down the Excalibur sized needle coming at us.
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