WebMD browsing is an unfortunate pasttime of mine... It is my longtime and loathed hobby of unearthing all the mysterious diseases I must be silently and rather painlessly dying of.So yesterday I found a new disease that I have in addition to my rheumetoid arthritis.
Lupus.
My "symptoms" match quite a few diseases to speak of, so I'm fairly certain I'm ailing from several -- Lupus is an autoimmune disorder that mostly women get. It causes joint pain (my hips hurt), unexplained hair loss (I leave an afro behind in the shower most mornings) and mouth sores (I have a small canker sore on the inside of my right cheek) -- so although I have not yet experienced the butterfly facial rash and scaly scalp issues, I must have it.
Ok, so I probably do not have Lupus....
but I might.
I suppose I feel that if I unearth the sources of these silent stealers of my health and blatant theives of my sanity via internet self-diagnosis, then all is within my realm of control and I can be at peace again...
Until of course my stomach aches for more than a couple of hours. Come to think of it, I have not been feeling right in my midsection for almost an hour now. And NO, it could not possibly be the 3 donuts I ate in rapid succession this morning. It is stomach cancer. At the very least, a bleeding ulcer.
Hmmm...
3 comments:
oh, i can totally relate. i'm dying of everything too...thanks for the lupus tip. i think i have it now.
ahh, yes. No problem, from one hypochondriac to another, it's the least I can do ;)
rx : stop reading
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