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Been feeling sick for a few days. Not "I've got a cold" sick, and not really out if it sick, just vaguely sick. I've also had a pain in my lower right side for several days, which is part or most of the problem.
On Wednesday or Thursday when I realized the pain wasn't going away I had a bout of hypocondria where I wondered if it was my appendix, and I went online to read about apendicitus. I was relieved to note that symptoms usually were a duffuse pain, not a specific pain. I had a specific pain, so it must not be that. Also when I read that one way to detect apendicitus was a "barium enema" I became firmly convinced that I could not possibly have anything like that.
Now I'm more concerned that it's something serious. Maybe my liver. Maybe I have pre-diabetes or type 2 diabetes. Not that it runs in my family but you know, I'm a bit overweight and don't exercise much (at all).
Or maybe I'm being a hypocondriac again, but I need to see a doctor, if only because I haven't seen one in more years than I can count. You know, I'm the sort of person who never feels sick -- I haven't even had more than a very minor cold in several years, haven't taken any sick time in probably as long as I've worked at my current company.
Actually I need to see a dentist too, but that's a very specific problem that I know is not my imagination. ^_^
On Wednesday or Thursday when I realized the pain wasn't going away I had a bout of hypocondria where I wondered if it was my appendix, and I went online to read about apendicitus. I was relieved to note that symptoms usually were a duffuse pain, not a specific pain. I had a specific pain, so it must not be that. Also when I read that one way to detect apendicitus was a "barium enema" I became firmly convinced that I could not possibly have anything like that.
Now I'm more concerned that it's something serious. Maybe my liver. Maybe I have pre-diabetes or type 2 diabetes. Not that it runs in my family but you know, I'm a bit overweight and don't exercise much (at all).
Or maybe I'm being a hypocondriac again, but I need to see a doctor, if only because I haven't seen one in more years than I can count. You know, I'm the sort of person who never feels sick -- I haven't even had more than a very minor cold in several years, haven't taken any sick time in probably as long as I've worked at my current company.
Actually I need to see a dentist too, but that's a very specific problem that I know is not my imagination. ^_^