i once had a weird pain in my chest, i went to the doctors the next day and he told me i had a collapsed lung. kinda shocking but the night before i said to some friends, i think my lung is f***ed and it was. but i didnt exactly think it would be true. spend a few weeks in hospital because the air leak didnt fix then had to have surgery to fix it and well, 5 collapsed lungs later im like, constantly shitting myself daily thinking it may happen again.

and on the subject of bad doctors... when i went into A&E for the 2nd lung collapse a doctor did a procedure wrong on me. he put a tube between my ribs to put the chest drain in (to get the air out) and he put the tube in wrong and i woke up (in out of coniousness cos of morphine) and my armpit had swollen the size of a small football and the shit hit the fan. i had surgical emphazhema and my skin nerves and feeling are still trying to repair themselves. i had to beg the doctors to take a look at it because they thought i was panicking, but I was completely right to.

and now my confidence in health care is really bad, i make sure every doctor is telling me what they are doing, and if i have any worries i scream like a little girl and tell them, NO EFFING MEDICAL STUDENTS NEAR ME, OK!

I went to the doctor. She said that my heart&breathing were fine. And then, they used this machine to take the percent of oxygen in my blood, and it was about 97-98%, and anything over 95% means you're okay.

take note of your posture. how you stand or sit.

this is one of the things that doctors can not help you... people who live with you will look at you and judge what it is that is straining you and causes pain.

little story:

my ankle started aching. BAD. i could not walk. so i go with my father to the orthopedic to check me out... we go in the elevator, up to 2nd floor, into the office, my dad staying silent all the time. doctor examines me, finds nothing, tells me to stay put for some days and rub some cream and if the pain returns, he will xray me. so me and dad, leave the doctors office, into the elevator, down... my father ever silent.

after a couple days rest, pain is gone... but as soon as i start walking, the pain returned.

so off i go, with my father, to the orthopedic... up the elevator again, my father staying silent all the time. doctor examines me, tells me that he can not do anything but send me for xrays, since he can not tell that something is wrong with my ankle. so we leave the doctors office, into the elevator... ...

... at which point, my father looks at my foot, points at it and tells me "stop doing that."

i looked at my foot... i had it tilted outwards straining the ankle... i was doing that, all the time, without noticing it. i stopped doing it and in one day the pain went away and never returned.

there are cases where your body is ok, but there is something that YOU do that irritates it...

these are the cases where the doctor can't help much.

you must learn about yourself.

and follow my previous advice, as well.

Im a hypocrite - that count?

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i scream like a little girl and tell them, NO EFFING MEDICAL STUDENTS NEAR ME, OK!

Ah, the small pleasures of life.

I'm not a hypochondriac, but I do get ill easly, I just have to look at a man with cancer and I catch it.

Quote from george_tsiros :

take note of your posture. how you stand or sit.

this is one of the things that doctors can not help you... people who live with you will look at you and judge what it is that is straining you and causes pain.

little story:

my ankle started aching. BAD. i could not walk. so i go with my father to the orthopedic to check me out... we go in the elevator, up to 2nd floor, into the office, my dad staying silent all the time. doctor examines me, finds nothing, tells me to stay put for some days and rub some cream and if the pain returns, he will xray me. so me and dad, leave the doctors office, into the elevator, down... my father ever silent.

after a couple days rest, pain is gone... but as soon as i start walking, the pain returned.

so off i go, with my father, to the orthopedic... up the elevator again, my father staying silent all the time. doctor examines me, tells me that he can not do anything but send me for xrays, since he can not tell that something is wrong with my ankle. so we leave the doctors office, into the elevator... ...

... at which point, my father looks at my foot, points at it and tells me "stop doing that."

i looked at my foot... i had it tilted outwards straining the ankle... i was doing that, all the time, without noticing it. i stopped doing it and in one day the pain went away and never returned.

there are cases where your body is ok, but there is something that YOU do that irritates it...

these are the cases where the doctor can't help much.

you must learn about yourself.

and follow my previous advice, as well.

Yeh i can relate to this. If i sit at my computer for a long time, because i cba to move my DFP pedals, my feet are usualy leaning on them. And, when im relaxing i dont have them flat, i kinda have one tilted (like i was wearing high heels) and the other, angles and resting on its side against the pedals and my feet are fecking sore after. Same with me back. After about 30 mins of leaning forward typing on my comp, my left shoulderblade feels like its burning and someones pricking me thousands of times. I lean back or sit straight, im fine.

wheel4hummer: Yeh i had that done at the hospital. I cant remeber the exact number but they said theirs nothing wrong with mine. And i had the same done today at the docs but it was on a smaller machine, yet it still took the same readings (i think) and the doc said i was fine.