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My Stomach has been killing me for a week, and i am scared to go to the doctor. Convince Me.

― anthony, Tuesday, 23 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Go to the doctor, Anthony! (Sorry, I'm terrible at this type of thing...)

― Dan Perry, Tuesday, 23 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Go, go. In the majority of cases, it's nothing too bad and is almost always treatable. The worry alone is probably exacerbating the whole thing. Go and put your mind at ease.

― Saskia, Tuesday, 23 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

What the above have said. Knowledge about your ill > no knowledge.

― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 23 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Go on, go on, etc. It will almost certainly not be anything awful, and the doc may give you pills or something to make the pain go away quickly.

― Martin Skidmore, Tuesday, 23 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Be strong big man! A moment's courage and it is done.

― DavidM, Tuesday, 23 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

You might have appendicitis, which is easily fixed if you get to quickly, but if ignored you will be very ill for the rest of your life and may die very rapidl quite soon, in great pain.

― isadora, Wednesday, 24 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Or... You might develop a retrosecal appendix which becomes difficult to diagnose because it doesn't respond to rebound pain like ordinary appendicitis. It may then become necrotic and eventually burst, leading to a 7 hr operations and sub-lethal septicaemia which keeps you in hospital for 6 months on-and-off so that the doctors can cut you open every few days to drain the absesses which are eating your guts away. Then, over time, you could develop strange food allergies which can't be diagnosed for 10 years which make you throw up all your favourite foods, leading you to adopt veganism even though you always thought that vegans were neurotic Philistines.

Either that or you could just go in and find out - At worst, it would then be 20min operation and out in two days.

Isadora - you're forbidden from playing with my appendix scar this weekend! (oh year, Anthony, if you go down route one you get a 50cm appendix scar, as opposed to a 5cm one).

― debaser, Wednesday, 24 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

leading you to adopt veganism even though you always thought that vegans were neurotic Philistines

darling, we all are neurotic philistines!

and go to the doctor anthony you chump. if he/she says nothing's wrong with you, drink some peppermint tea and all will be well.

― katie, Wednesday, 24 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

why don't you give us all more details of your symptoms and we can guess what's wrong with you? it'll be cheaper than going to the doctor and more fun (for us at least). i used to love trying to get the diagnosis before the doctors on ER.

― angela, Wednesday, 24 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Its always Munchausens syndrome.

― Pete, Wednesday, 24 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

two years pass...

i havent been to the doctor since i have lived in london. in fact, i dont have a doctor. how does one go about getting a doctor? i think, i need to see one

― *@*.* (gareth), Thursday, 2 December 2004 13:12 (twenty-one years ago)

two years pass...

Gareth, you open the phonebook and look under Doctors.

― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Saturday, 10 February 2007 13:07 (nineteen years ago)

He could be dead by now!

― I Tried to Use My Cock as a Bong (noodle vague), Saturday, 10 February 2007 13:14 (nineteen years ago)

:-( I tried to email but the message bounced. Does *@*.* not work or what?

― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Saturday, 10 February 2007 13:39 (nineteen years ago)

RIP Dude

― I Tried to Use My Cock as a Bong (noodle vague), Saturday, 10 February 2007 13:48 (nineteen years ago)

I thought this thread would be about the post-Neighbours sub-ITV dreck the BBC insists on showing every weekday afternoon.

― to scour or to pop? (Haberdager), Saturday, 10 February 2007 14:02 (nineteen years ago)

No Mac No Credibility

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Saturday, 10 February 2007 14:04 (nineteen years ago)

xpost

Only students be watching that shit, Louis.

― I Tried to Use My Cock as a Bong (noodle vague), Saturday, 10 February 2007 14:08 (nineteen years ago)

I know, it's terrible. When I'm older I plan to develop a healthy disregard for studentkind (with a few honourable exceptions).

― to scour or to pop? (Haberdager), Saturday, 10 February 2007 14:12 (nineteen years ago)

I went thru that phase and then reached the "mostly harmless idiots whose presence means I get v. cheap beer in my local" phase.

― I Tried to Use My Cock as a Bong (noodle vague), Saturday, 10 February 2007 14:15 (nineteen years ago)

five years pass...

Most memorable words said over me by a doctor this week: "Still oozing..."

― saltwater incursion (Dr Morbius), Friday, 8 February 2013 15:44 (thirteen years ago)

one year passes...

Could any of my five fucking doctors' offices call me at my office number during the day, since they all fucking have it, I don't have a fucking mobile phone and never will, and never pick up messages from my home phone?

― images of war violence and historical smoking (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 12 February 2014 01:01 (twelve years ago)

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