Do you believe there are illnesses that seem innocuous at first but after you get it or hear about it they sound super dangerous and harmful?

[CoolCatMar1]

[AmeerX]

I think that happened with Dengue virus. Although it's harmless but once a person finds out they stress and it makes them even more ill

[AmeerX]

Thanks for MHO

[es20490446e]

I've got a cold. I've eating onion all day 🧅

[NamerOfStars]

Well, MOST diseases start out with mild to moderate symptoms and only get nasty as the infection spreads, and the symptoms (which are mostly your body's attempt at driving off the pathogen) get worse, since the initial attempts failed. I mean, there's a REASON pretty much every disease starts with "cold or flu-like symptoms". The ones that kill you outright don't leave much time for ambiguity.

I'm not aware of any disease that gets worse just from learning about it; that'd be pretty damn horrifying.

[KostasKouvalis]

I think so, yes. Apparently you can die from a staff infection and hemorrhoids can be worse then they seem. And I only found out a few years ago how dangerous paraphismosis is. Those are the ones I can think of off the top of my head. I guess I'm just lucky.

[KostasKouvalis]

Oh, Ingrown toenail also

[Alex8736]

that's what they said about Covid but I still refuse to get vaccinated

[NathanDavis]

complications... are scary

[AmyHew1tt]

Definitely.

[Dav1dTh0ma389]

Yeah

[TallAnon]

Like Crohn's?

[CubaPirate]

Probably