You Googled?

You have symptoms.

Do you need to stay home and nurse them? Or should you go to be seen?

You could call your doctor's office, but hey, it may be hours, days, or never before you hear back. They will just tell you to go to the urgent care or emergency department anyway. You're not quite sure if you're dying or not.

Someone has the answer. Google.

Google always has an answer. Depending on how you view the information, you may have a common cold or be 2 days away from death. 

Now, do not get me wrong. Researching on the internet is not always bad. It may guide some, who can handle the information and decipher it, down the correct path. 

Danger comes when one convinces themselves they have something they do not and try convincing others (insert medical professionals) that they also have something they do not. 

Googling symptoms can cause anxiety if you find exaggerated information about a condition. For example, you may have a sore throat then read about the complications of a sore throat that happen to some but not a large percent of the population. Now, you're at the doctor's office more than once for numerous concerns that are created in the mind. Now you have inadvertly spent more money. It can cost anywhere from $180 to a couple thousand of dollars going in to be seen and having tests ran. 

So, while looking up your symptoms online may be helpful, one has to be careful not to get into a hypochondriac-type state. You don't want to demand unnecessary tests, think you have symptoms you really don't and end up with a googled-disease. 

So, Google with caution. 

Jackie the Health Coach