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About Me:
Female, 29, Gaithersburg - MD, member since Feb 2008
Moved to MD about 1 year ago for work. Will be looking for a new job this summer, hope to move to someplace cooler. No offense, suburban sprawl....
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Circular Thinking
May 07, 2008 05:26PM
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The bottom line is, I don't need more medical tests to know that something is wrong.
To put it another way, I feel changed. The way I experience the world is not the same as it was before last Fall. Before, burning, or painful, or tingling sensations would be an internal alarm to warn me that some part of my body was in peril! Now, that is just part of the everyday.
While I can identify my symptoms, and classify them as real and physically based, I can't do anything to combat, treat, or reverse them. Therefore, I can not totally do without the establishment of medical professionals. Sigh.
The aforementioned medical professionals continue to assure me that I have nothing to worry about. At the worst, I may have a touch of carpal tunnel, a dash of depression, a pinch of anxiety, and a hyper-vigilant level of personal awareness.
My symptoms come and go, but never not leave me the same as they found me. My doctors dismiss me on account of my various tests showing no abnormalities.
Rather than go through another negative test, or another uncaring doctor, I'll wait. My symptoms have quited down again, so the urgency is less on the surface. I should wait until this condition either clears up as mysteriously as it onset, or until it presents itself in a much more obvious way. Of course, if I continue to get worse, then ultimately, my condition will reveal itself on some test.
But then again...
The bottom line is, I don't need more medical tests to know that something is wrong.
The bottom line is, I don't need more medical tests to know that something is wrong.
To put it another way, I feel changed. The way I experience the world is not the same as it was before last Fall. Before, burning, or painful, or tingling sensations would be an internal alarm to warn me that some part of my body was in peril! Now, that is just part of the everyday.
While I can identify my symptoms, and classify them as real and physically based, I can't do anything to combat, treat, or reverse them. Therefore, I can not totally do without the establishment of medical professionals. Sigh.
The aforementioned medical professionals continue to assure me that I have nothing to worry about. At the worst, I may have a touch of carpal tunnel, a dash of depression, a pinch of anxiety, and a hyper-vigilant level of personal awareness.
My symptoms come and go, but never not leave me the same as they found me. My doctors dismiss me on account of my various tests showing no abnormalities.
Rather than go through another negative test, or another uncaring doctor, I'll wait. My symptoms have quited down again, so the urgency is less on the surface. I should wait until this condition either clears up as mysteriously as it onset, or until it presents itself in a much more obvious way. Of course, if I continue to get worse, then ultimately, my condition will reveal itself on some test.
But then again...
The bottom line is, I don't need more medical tests to know that something is wrong.