Is alright to self diagnose a problem that isn't detrimental to my health at the moment?

I’d go see the doc, It may be nothing but best to get piece of mind!
Googling stuff is fine, but in the end you need to go see the doc anyway dont you?
Can you maybe speak to your pharmacist? sometimes they know a heck of a lot about these things too and if you have to pay to see a doc this may be a way to get some free advice?

BB

I put off seeing a doctor because it is too embarrassing to go to the doctor’s office everytime you get a little rash, but it turned into a full blown skin infection and we spent most of year trying to get rid of it. It got so bad, my skin was peeling off and I had to wear bandages on my hands and quit wearing underwear. I sat around in caftans for the better part of 2008.

Definitely go see the doc. (If nothing else, it takes forever to get an appointment with a dermatologist, so you might as well start trying now…)

My thoughts are that by saying it’s not detrimental to your health at the moment, you’ve already made a diagnosis you’re not qualified to make. It could be detrimental to your health and you wouldn’t know it. That said, I probably would do some research on my own, Google it, go to Web MD or the Mayo Clinic website maybe, see what you can find. You might find some things that look exactly like it and suggested treatments. What I would see is if your research turns up anything ambiguous. Like say you find 10 links and they all show pictures and it looks exactly like that and all 10 links say to go get some hydrocortizone ointment, you’re probably fine. But maybe you find 8 links that show something that looks just like it which say it’s nothing and to put ointment on it, but you find two links where the pictures ALSO look just like it and they say get to a Dr., then get to a Dr. I often will if something minor comes about try to figure out what it is before I act too quickly, a lot of things can be cleared up really easily without a Dr.‘s visit, but if I do the research and I just feel like I’m still not 100% sure, then I’ll go in.

“Not causing physical discomfort” and “not detrimental to your health” are not the same thing. Better safe than sorry; get thee to a doctor!

I’m going to five cent this without reading the details: NO! Why not? Because everything is holistic and your visit to the Doc might help you (both) to find out the reason why – and maybe connect it with something else. Besides, those who put things off sometimes wait til it’s too late to discover something really serious.

Please see the doctor. He is waiting for you!!

She might be waiting for you, too! :)