# Help wean me off WebMD and other medical sites

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**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [November 23, 2011, 1:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-wean-me-off-webmd-and-other-medical-sites/603865 "2011-11-23T13:21:05Z")\
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**Author:** ![AK84](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/85e7bf/32.png) [@AK84](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AK84)\
**Post date:** [November 23, 2011, 1:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-wean-me-off-webmd-and-other-medical-sites/603865/1 "2011-11-23T13:21:05Z")

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Since I have had recurrent bouts of ill health since May, I have been become addicted to WebMD had other medical sites. With a result that some of the afflictions that I am suffering from are, heart attacks(sometimes twice a day!) strokes, dengue fever, colon cancer, and AIDS. And I have all the symptoms. Further more, I also have found that the tests given to me by doctors, like Stress test and Echo can be wrong hence useless right?

It’s not really helping my GERD, Anxiety and now urticaria, which I do. Worse, wiki states that you can suffer a heart attack due to urticaria.  
Help!

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**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\
**Post date:** [November 23, 2011, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-wean-me-off-webmd-and-other-medical-sites/603865/2 "2011-11-23T13:52:20Z")

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Is [this](http://www.webmd.com/search/search_results/default.aspx?query=hypochondria&sourceType=undefined) search any help?

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**Author:** ![AK84](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/85e7bf/32.png) [@AK84](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AK84)\
**Post date:** [November 23, 2011, 1:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-wean-me-off-webmd-and-other-medical-sites/603865/3 "2011-11-23T13:54:57Z")

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Er, no and I’ll probably end up worrying that hyperchondria can lead to stress induced something or the other.

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**Author:** ![billfish678](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7bcc69/32.png) [@billfish678](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/billfish678)\
**Post date:** [November 23, 2011, 1:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-wean-me-off-webmd-and-other-medical-sites/603865/4 "2011-11-23T13:57:37Z")

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Dr House:

I think you have Lupus.

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**Author:** ![MareIt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ea666f/32.png) [@MareIt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MareIt)\
**Post date:** [November 24, 2011, 12:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-wean-me-off-webmd-and-other-medical-sites/603865/5 "2011-11-24T12:29:33Z")

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First, it is NEVER lupus.

Second, I have had the opposite reaction to webmd than you. I realized that my symptoms could mean absolutely nothing or that I have half of the diseases in the world. I went with believing that they are meaningless especially after we ruled out the scary things like MS and the like.