Do you people delay going to the doctor like me?

[Anonymous]

Usually if I get injured (nothing life threatening) I tell myself I should probably go to the doctor/ dentist to have it sorted out, but then I just end up delaying and eventually the issue goes away or I become use to it and stop noticing.

Any one do the same?

[truthbeknown]

Couple of things... my in-laws are the type that go to the doctor for every little sniffle, pain and ache they have. Super annoying because it never amounts to anything, they are just wasting the doctors times. I also have some other relative and friends with young children and babies that rush to doctors everytime their kid gets sick, only to be sent home with some Tylenol and cough syrup. Because of this, it puts a negative image of going to the doctor in my head. I have no family doctor, (I do, but he is in rehab for prescription med abuse!). Where I live there are several walk-in clinics, but the wait times can be well over 12 hours. I will not sit there and waste a whole day, surrounded by all these sick people that are about to break out in a Zombie apocalypse just to be told I need to rest or ice it or whatever. So I just man up, and ignore it.

[sovetskii13]

My parents usually influence me to go and get checked out or treated. Probably would not be in a hurry if they did not get involved.

[musicbrain5]

Nah, I don't. I'm not a hypochondriac, like I don't go for every little sniffle like all the paranoid idiots out there. But I do have some health issues so I have to monitor symptoms and see a doctor if anything is weird because it could be bad if I don't.

Plus my parents are doctors, so I can't get away from it, lol. I don't understand the people who refuse to see doctors for anything, I think it can be pretty irresponsible.

[DragonWolf]

I do it all the time. I barely go to doctors. When I do, I usually hear like: you could've died. Even when few weeks before, they had no idea what was wrong with me. So yeah, I'm not really that happy with doctors...
One week though, i had problems with seeing, i kept seeing black dots or had blurred vision.
After few days (like 2 or so) I went to doctor, because it kinda was too important to ignore.

[findingdreamland]

I don't like doctors at all. But if there is a serious thing, i go. In case of sth serious, you will have to go any way. Do it early. Early diagnosis is very important for many illnesses.

[suzannahh]

yes, i hate doctors and dentists, it usually takes so long for anything to be done, that i don't see the point in going

[zombiebabe]

nope i don't like to delay to visit the doctor in case of serious injury/illness

[Hopefulforlove]

No I guess you should go right away because some injures become bad with time even if it didn't show any effect at first.. You don't want small thing to become big