Recommend a Health issue forum?

[shain707]

Hi, I was wondering if anyone in here can recommend a good forum for health issues? My main problem is a heart problem but
any health forum with sub-topics would be fine too.

It's just if you google 'health forum' you don't really know what
your getting or why it's comming up first.

Any ideas?

 

[zortek]

hi shain707, i do not have any answers for you myself, but i will make this thread a sticky for a while to increase the chances of you getting some helpful feedback.

 

[slimjim]

Hi Shain... Sorry I don't know of any suitable forums but I wanted to ask:

You have seen your Doctor about this haven't you? Checking out a website is ok to get more information or to chat with other people with similar conditions to find out how they deal with things but it's no substitute for professional medical expertise.

 

[shain707]

Yeah I need to ask about peoples experience with certain heart meds and other issue's where the medical field and the doctor's themselves are part of the problem you know? So yes it's something I have already been suggested treatment for by doctor's, just so you know I'm not self-diagnosing on the forums, but there are complication they don't deal with.

Awesome Zortek! thanks alot. It's just heard to sift through all the search results and stuff when your energy is low, so many forums are just a mess with spam and PR drones flodding the posts so, hopefully there will be some ideas.

 

[peter123]

The problem is: ask three doctors and you will maybe get 1,5 different answers, ask a forum you will get hundreds of different answers.
Will say and agree with slimjim, forums are good for getting informations and experiences from others, but do not replace individual experts opinion

 

[SimplyJakeAndAlex]

Please dude see a professional... every human are constituted differently and what one symptom from one person can be interpreted differently from another. The meds you are taking may cause symptoms that are not even present with someone else with a similar issue on the same medication.

Per example; I am lactose intolerant and I also suffer from severe hypoglycemia (low blood sugar) the symptom I have are much different than what I can find on forum as my level of blood sugar drops faster and lower than most people with the same issue. Yet I tend to believe that following what some people had suggested in forum made things much worst for me after I've got diagnosed by my dad.

See a doctor first, and as suggested by Peter123, see three if you need... but don't go on health related forum for an answer... support YES, answer NO it could make it worst as we are all unique, and we all react differently to pretty much everything

 

[shain707]

Like I said to SlimJim I have already seen a doctor and am not looking for online diagnosis.

I'll be able to filter out extreme or rare reactions to meds in any discussions.

But like the moderator Zortek said I can always get suggestions for forums if anyone here
is aware.

 

[hawaiian_maile]

WebMD and Cleveland Clinic have reputable answers.

 

[dany1]

Hi, I was wondering if anyone in here can recommend a good forum for health issues? My main problem is a heart problem but
any health forum with sub-topics would be fine too.

It's just if you google 'health forum' you don't really know what
your getting or why it's comming up first.

Any ideas?

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