justsomeantifas:

let me fucking tell you a thing about self-diagnosis.

I have kidney stones, that if not medically removed, would kill me, and this has happened several times.

I’ve had them since I was 16, I’d go to doctors, they’d say, oh it’s your period, I’d go to another doctor, they’d say, oh it’s a UTI

it was not until I googled and searched up my particular symptoms, that I figured, hey, it might be kidney stones.

So I told a doctor, I’m like, hey I might have kidney stones, and so they’re like, lets do an ultrasound, nothing showed up. And so the doctor was like, I guess not.

And I’m like fuck, I wonder what it could be then, until I googled it, and found out that sometimes kidney stones don’t show up in ultrasounds.

If I didn’t google that particular information I would have died, because they wouldn’t have taken a cat scan and found MY GIANT FUCKING STONES blowing my kidney the fuck up.

Self-diagnosis SAVES LIVES, it saved my life, and it saves millions of others.

If people know there is something wrong with their bodies, and doctors continuously blow them off, if those people don’t look into it, or have someone help them look into it, they can very easily end up dead.

Doctors are NOTORIOUS for blowing people off.