Posted by Racer on July 16, 2004, at 13:39:02
In reply to Re: Fellow Hypochondriacs - HELP! one more thing!, posted by JenStar on July 16, 2004, at 1:47:45
Listen, no offense taken. The only reason I reacted to your other post was exactly what I said in it: I was concerned that it might upset the original poster. That's actually one of the best things about this board: a lot of the people here really are capable of letting go of grudges and just moving past it. Sometimes, I'm even one of them ;-D
As for your point, it is well taken. I agree that there are times when just getting the dang test done is the best choice, and this might be one of them. So, we can be like other Babblers -- we can agree that sometimes we disagree. Sound good to you?
As for the subject line above, that's my story: I took Serzone for a while, and shortly after starting it was hospitalized for a while with something that was originally called mono, but the doctor who admitted me thought it didn't really look like mono. Long story short, despite a couple of liver panels, I still worry that it was the hepatotoxicity of Serzone that caused that sickness, and that it may have caused permanent damage to my liver. (Add in a recent episode with liver "masses" discovered, an offhand remark about cancer, and you can imagine what I went through. The end result, by the way, is that I know I don't have liver cancer, but I still want a full liver function test and I want the doctor to explain EVERY portion of it to me, in words I can understand, to prove that the Serzone *didn't* poison me.)
So, I agree, there really are times when it's worth getting the test just to get it off the table.
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