my dad is! he's made himself an appointment at the doctors for Monday, he made the appointment sometime ago and has just seen it on the calendar. he can't remember why he made the appointment but he's going to go anyway cos he's sure he will have thought of something by then!

surely this is hypochondria!

In our neck of the woods, we would go to the doctors too, cos getting a friggin appointment is a nightmare, so to book your illness three weeks in advance makes perfrect sense to me.

In our neck of the woods, we would go to the doctors too, cos getting a friggin appointment is a nightmare, so to book your illness three weeks in advance makes perfrect sense to me.

lol! I see your point ... I wonder what ailment he will make up .. I will keep you informed!


A friend of mine has recently recovered from a cancer scare ... turns out it was a sore throat ... :wallbash: :wacko:

In case he can't think of anything in time, he could go round all the family and friends and takes notes of their ailments to present to the doc instead.

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I suffered a rather nasty burn to my arm yesterday. Did I make a fuss too bl**dy right I did.

Sorry gotcarried away with posting my nasty burn and never answered the original question.

I think we all have a little hypochondria in us in suspecting worst case scenarios now and then. In my own experience I worried about bowel cancer in what turned out to be a bad case of piles.

In case he can't think of anything in time, he could go round all the family and friends and takes notes of their ailments to present to the doc instead.

that's a good idea Nox ... cos (not that I'm a hypochondriac, of course) I have several ailments he could present on my behalf!

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I suffered a rather nasty burn to my arm yesterday. Did I make a fuss too bl**dy right I did.
Ouch Maz...that makes my eyes water!!:wacko:

I tend not to go to the doctor when I probably should....:blush: I like to let nature take it's course whenever possible as it will help to boost my immune system for the next bug....I hate taking any form of medication as again I don't want my bodies own immune system to start getting whimpy on me....needless to say the only time I've had to seek medical attention for the past eon is because of my knee (twisted it...puffed up...crutches for a week) and my shoulder (a nerve kept trapping and I couldn't use my right arm at all when it did...oh and it friggin well hurt as well!) :wacko:

I don't remember the last time I went to the doctor - or had a day off work ill - I reckon I'm the opposite of a hypocondriac - I pretend to be well when I'm actually ill - is there a name for that??

A friend of mine has recently recovered from a cancer scare ... turns out it was a sore throat ... :wallbash: :wacko:
Reminds me of a woman I once seen in the oral medicine department. She came in crying and I said "Ok Mrs X, what's brought you hear today" to which she replied "I have oral cancer. I know it. I've googled it and everything" then told me she had already arranged for someone to look after her kids etc.
Turns out she had a mucocele on her lower lip - an extremely common and harmless type of cyst.

What on earth is a hypowhatever?

What on earth is a hypowhatever?


Noun1.hypochondriac - a patient with imaginary symptoms and ailments

Oh right, thanks

Oh right, thanks

Rob's a teacher dontcha know!

Really? Hmmmm, that explains the whole dictionary thing :kid:

JB, read a few words out of the dictionary everyday and you'll SOOOO smart you won't have to ask what things are you'll already know!!! That's why I have such a high IQ (intelligent quotient).:ninja:

We're ok ... he's decided to ask about his ears cos he can't hear so well at the moment ... just thought I'd put your minds at rest!

I said he should go about his memory ... but he just looked at me blankly, so maybe his sense of humour also needs a look at!

JB, read a few words out of the dictionary everyday and you'll SOOOO smart you won't have to ask what things are you'll already know!!! That's why I have such a high IQ (intelligent quotient).:ninja:

OK, I will for you :kid:

Both my parents and my mother in law have oscars for playing the part of they hypocondriac extremely well.

My mum was taken into hospital once and my dad phoned me and actually told that that was it, there was nothing they could do for her when in actual fact all she had was a stomach ulcer......I know that is bad in itself but to get that kind of phonecall is just not on. However, I have had that sort of behaviour all my life from my dad, I remember once when I was 17/18 and booked my first foreign holiday to Benidorm with my friends. I came home all excited and thrilled that I would be be going on a plane and gushed out the exciting details to my dad, only to met with that I might not have anywhere to come back to as he he might not be here when I got back! He had a kidney removed when I was 5 so everytime he has back-pain he is convinced it is his other kidney on it's way out. It turned out to be kidney stones.

My mum when at my daughter's christening when asked by one of friends how she was launched into everything that was wrong with her to her sore knees to her eyes to the soles of her feet! The thing is my friend's mum has been to h*ll and back with her medical history - a double mastecomy, she had to have part of her gall bladder removed and various other things and she never complains! When I said to mum, her reply was that my friend asked her how she was and she was only answering her!

My mother in law is superb and putting on fake limbs and dizzy spells and boy can she turn on the tears at appropriate moments!

This probably makes me look like a heartless c*w and I would be utterly devestated if anything happened any of them but I just wish they would have a better outlook and stop looking for things to be wrong with them! And they all have really bad diets - ie my mother in law is a diabetic, but she eats endless supplies of cakes, my mum eats far too much salt and has some bread with butter!

I am going to stop now as I am just being a big moanie! Sorry!

I like going to our doctors as they are like kind uncles. I adore them. They are two old men, with twinkly eyes and nice smiles. Its a pleasure to be ill.

I have been there an awful lot lately as i have had 3 chest infections this year, which has meant 3 lots of oral thrush too as the antibiotics were sooooo blummin strong. Im also permanently collecting my presciptions from there.

I have to say on the run up to Chrimble i always worry about getting ill. Im coughing a bit at the moment, so im worried i will get another infection just in time for Santas arrival and my holiday. Im also paranoid about people with colds, and will do anything to keep out of their way whenever possible.

:blush: today I had severe pains in my rather large tummy ... at first I thought it was cos my jeans were too tight (mainly cos they are!) then I realised it was acute apendicitis ... I even packed a bag and wrapped all the Christmas presents in case I got rushed into hospital! :blush:

not that I'm a hypochrondriac ... :laugh:

at least not as bad as my friend who I had to phone up to say I couldn't come round due to my appendix being ready to burst, she said she was feeling bad cos she had deep vein thrombosis even though she hasn't been in a plane recently or got any other symptons other than a throbbing leg! ... honestly some people will say anything for a bit of attention! :glare:

Dol, did you write that in very small print? It's just that I can barely read it and if it's normal size, I'm probably in early stage glaucoma or perhaps a slight brain tumour.

Oh well, not to worry, it'll take my mind off my ulcers.

Lol Fee nearly coughed my tea up then. I am of course suffering from acute bronchitis diagnosed by various google sites.

Well! Gigi had two small spots on her shoulder and it turns out according to netdoctor that she's got chicken pox, measles, german measels and scarlet fever!!

My poor wee lamb :cry:

Sounds more like shingles to me floopy! I expect you'll all catch it now.

But, but, cockney's already got tuberculosis (a cough) and leprosy (scabby feet). However will he manage? :nerd:

Hello floopy

Sorry to hear about Cockney. An old family cure-all for men suffering any number of ailments is A Swift Knee to the Groin Area, to be repeated until complaining stops.

That usually sorts them out :huh:

Y'all are just killin' me!!!!!:w00t: It may bring on an attack of something I haven't decided on yet!!!!:bag:

Urk is deffo a hypo - I think most men are. At the mo he's lying around the house instead of doing a carpentry nixer that a) he's promised the client he'd have done before the start of December and b) that we need the money from. His excuse - his tummy doesn't feel well.

Christ almighty - A pox on all of them. I asked him this morning if he wasn't going to bother his ass to go to work again [he hasn't been since last Thursday] could he change the bedding to a nice clean festive red duvet set. Even got it out of the closet and laid it on the bed for him. Went home for lunch and his reason for not doing it - his tummy doesn't feel well.

I phoned him a few minutes ago and he's meeting an old friend for a christmas drink. 'Did you put the duvet on?' I asked hopefully. 'Eh, no. I wasn't feeling the John West.'

'But you're in a pub drinking?'

'Eh, yeh. Thats the other reason I didn't get to put the duvet set on'.

I feel like leaving the office and going on the razz........

...and he's meeting an old friend for a christmas drink.

They can be so brave when they're ill, can't they?:wacko:

I'm counting to ten as we speak fee!!

too sick to work, but not to go to the pub - I don't fekkin think so.

He's in trouble, so he is.......:ranting: