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My doctor shares your doctor's pain. She said people come in now with a print off from the internet and think they have tropical diseases when they have the flu or something.
However, where it does come in useful is when your condition is something that is fairly new in being something that is diagnosed. For example, when I was first told I had polycystic ovaries it was something new for the doctors (it still is really) and they were finding their feet as far as treatment. I used google and found a number of message boards people with polycystic had started up to find other people with it and to talk about the treatments their doctors were trying with them. It was there that I found someone whose doctor in the states had theorised there was a connection to it and insulin resistance. I printed that out and showed my doctor and they looked into it, made some calls to people and agreed to give medication a shot and now down the road it is accepted that insulin resistance and PCOS go hand in hand. I wonder how much longer it would have taken for that to be common knowledge on both sides of the pond without the internet.
Also, I don't know if anyone else does this but whenever I am perscribed a new medication I put its name into google before I take it so I read what other people that have taken it are saying about its side effects.
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