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If you have a general practitioner that you go to for your normal illnesses, start there. If the ER doc didn't tell you to make an appointment with a specialist, maybe start smaller.
Stop googling. You didn't study this stuff. And my guess is it won't help with anxiety either.
That's probably great advice. I'm not a doctor. But at any rate, I'll go see my GP just to be safe. Probably should stop being so stressed, too but obviously that's easieraid than done.
They might be a free market slave waiting for affordable care.
I disagree. Wanting to know, researching and googling isn't a bad thing. Sure, googling does always make the problem seem larger than it is, but other thanthe anxiety there are no ill effects.
Do go to your doctor. Let them take a look at you, and ask for concrete tests. I know a family friend who felt off and had gained weight quite rapidly with no change in lifestyle. She went to the doctor who brushed it off and 6 mo. later she died from a cancer the size of a large infant. The doctor said she should stop worrying about her weight. True story.
Most definitely, this won't haooen to you, but remember - doctors are human too. They're also lazy and like to not spend their budget on tests. And then stuff like this happens. It was totally avoidable. The doctor just needed to take a fucking look. She'd have noticed somethig was off. Now she has no job. I'd say I was sad for the doc, but it wasn't even incompetence that caused this avoidable death, but rather pure laziness.
Morale of the story: Looking out for yourself is not a bad thing. Try not to worry, see a doctor, inquire and ask for a check-up. It takes only a little bit of their time. If they say all is fine without doing jack-shit, call them out on it. Hell, be a Karen if need be - it's your health on the line, not your kid's football match causing you to get home 5 minutes later than usual.
Odds are you'll worry much less when you know you for sure your're fine than when you have no clue what causes your ailment.
Well, I disagree with you.
Anxiety, for some of us, is a bad thing in itself and not a negligible side effect. It may not be for you. And consequently I would not have advised you to stop googling medical problems.
But I felt that OP's anxiety was not helped by excessive googling. And it was in this spirit that I advised OP against it.