How sick/hurt do you have to be to go to the doctor?

[mike sherry]

I've been pretty sure my wrist is broken for about a month now. Whenever I turn a doorknob or anything similar I can feel the bone pop and sometimes the pop goes all the way down my forearm. It's sketchy feeling the bones move in your arm but I've always just toughed my injuries from wrestling/bjj and they all (pretty much) have healed acceptably

I've been putting off going to the doctor, but it's just not healing. I don't want it to heal all fucked up and it's permanently jacked up, but I can always find excuses to not go to the doctor.

Well, this last week I started having issues hearing. By that I mean now I can't hear out of my left ear. It's probably just some earwax build up but it's kind of scary to suddenly only be able to hear out of one ear.

I don't know why I hate going to the doctor. I'm 25, I guess I feel like I'm still able to heal like wolverine. I even have good health insurance through my company and the money is not at all an issue. I literally walk right by the clinic we have at our office every day I walk inside.

I almost don't want to go, even with both the problems at once.

 

[irish_thug]

Only when my employer says I have to.

 

[BisexualMMA]

If Windex hasn't healed it after two months and I'm not dead, I'll grudgingly make an appointment.

 

[Zer]

I'm an doctor and I wouldn't waste my time on that shit ts. Man up

 

[Nameless Ghoul]

Very, I only go when I know the ER is involved..last time was as a teen in 03

 

[Kardashians]

never, i always have to be forced in after something bad happens.
but when other ppl are hurting im naggy n insist they go see a doctor so
opie, go see a doctor /:<

 

[dildos]

i hardly go to the doctor.

id have to cough up a lung or kidney before i do.

 

[ens189]

I go when it interferes with training. Last time was for an upper respiratory infection in February.

 

[ShackleMeNot]

I've been pretty sure my wrist is broken for about a month now. Whenever I turn a doorknob or anything similar I can feel the bone pop and sometimes the pop goes all the way down my forearm. It's sketchy feeling the bones move in your arm but I've always just toughed my injuries from wrestling/bjj and they all (pretty much) have healed acceptably

I've been putting off going to the doctor, but it's just not healing. I don't want it to heal all fucked up and it's permanently jacked up, but I can always find excuses to not go to the doctor.

Well, this last week I started having issues hearing. By that I mean now I can't hear out of my left ear. It's probably just some earwax build up but it's kind of scary to suddenly only be able to hear out of one ear.

I don't know why I hate going to the doctor. I'm 25, I guess I feel like I'm still able to heal like wolverine. I even have good health insurance through my company and the money is not at all an issue. I literally walk right by the clinic we have at our office every day I walk inside.

I almost don't want to go, even with both the problems at once.

I've broken ankles and ribs and skipped the doctor. Until I recently got insurance, I would only go for deep cuts I couldn't close myself with superglue.

 

[Y2Khaos]

If I have trouble with my vision or if I need stitches I'll go pretty quick but I go to one of those minute clinics. I've never broken any bones but if I thought I had I would go right away.

 

[5crew]

Real men don't see doctors even if they bleed. They just rub salt and mud on the wound and carry on with life.
I'm not a real men, I see doctors.

I, like many itt, push off seeing doctors as well. Not exactly a price tag issue because our health care is relatively cheap. But most of our doctors here in the clinic sees like 100 patients everyday and they turned robot. While I don't fully blame them, I dislike their attitude and lack of concern. Plus like all first world countries, we need to wait hours just to see them for a simple cought/pain/whatever. I rather spend my hours somewhere else and cough my lungs out for the next few weeks.

 

[EJAXXX]

I don't go, I have to be damn near dying.

I did have to go for a checkup to get into school recently, it was the first time I saw my primary doctor in 12 years.

 

[Flemmy Stardust]

I am terrified of going to the doctor.

When i had gallstones, i went because it was crazy and i thought i was dying. But even then, i was lying to him about what hurt when he was trying to diagnose me because i didn't want to hear any bad news.

He thought my appendix burst because i was telling him it didn't hurt when he pressed on my gallbladder.

 

[Peteyandjia]

TS that sounds like it might be a tendon, not a bone.

Anyway, yeah. Go to the fucking doctor.

It's 2016, not 1016. Take advantage of that shit.

This is one of the many reasons men need women in their life.

They kick our stubborn asses to do this shit.

 

[luv24nic8]

I haven't been to a md in15 years or so. But I haven't been hurt or terribly sick, and Im pretty dang healthy. Id go if I broke something important or thought I got da aids.

 

[fightingrabbit]

TS that sounds like it might be a tendon, not a bone.

Anyway, yeah. Go to the fucking doctor.

It's 2016, not 1016. Take advantage of that shit.

This is one of the many reasons men need women in their life.

They kick our stubborn asses to do this shit.

 

[ralphc1]

The last few years I worked, my employer required an annual physical. When they first bought the company we had complete sets of x-rays taken. The doctor asked me how I had broken the Tibia in my right leg. I told them I didn't know I had broken it. They guessed that it was many years before as it had healed but was slightly crooked. They figured maybe when I was in my 30s. I also had some ribs that had broken and healed. I was in a couple of car crashes and had a transmission fall on my leg once but that was before I turned 25.

I have to be pretty sick to go to a doctor. I had been sick for 4 days with a high fever. I went to the urgent care clinic after work. My temperature was 106. The doctor asked how long I had been off work. I told him about an hour. He told me to go to bed and don't go to work until my temperature went down. The following morning it was 102 so I went to work.

 

[Jermei]

Questions for Americans, lets say TS goes to the Dr. just to get it checked out. How much does that visit cost? If xrays are recommended do you pay for that too?

In other words does the potential costs keep you from seeing a Dr.?

 

[irish_thug]

Dr.s visits to date:

1976: born
1988: broken femur (didn't have much choice there)
1993: sinusitis/blocked sinus cavities
1996: broken hand
1998: stitches
2001: broken nose, broken orbital bone, no choice woke up in ambulance. Apparently I took off my neck brace and tried to leave while the ambulance was moving, I have zero recollection of anything happening.
2002: numerous dog bites to hand and arm
2004: numerous lacerations to head from having been bottled.
2011: motor vehicle accident. happened at work, boss made me go
2016: needed a dr's note because I missed a few days work and my boss was being emotional.

 

[hbdope]

Questions for Americans, lets say TS goes to the Dr. just to get it checked out. How much does that visit cost? If xrays are recommended do you pay for that too?

In other words does the potential costs keep you from seeing a Dr.?

It depends on your insurance and where you live and what kind of doctor you go to. My dad was treated for for cancer in UofM which was around 700k total over the course of maybe 1 year. All of my family is in healthcare though (doctors & nurses) so we have very good insurance. Basically everything was covered (you have to pay out of pocket for some meds...especially for the name brand).