Medical Student Syndrome

In first year whenever I had stomach pain I had a feeling like its coming from McBurney's point
Then in third year I had a single episode of hemoptysis. I discovered that I had lost 2kg wt in last month. I kept searching for other symptoms and really found evening rise of temp and a little bit cough. I did a CXR & came up with nothing

 

or maybe you are in a psychiatry class, and as the doctor is busy teaching about personality disorders and psychoses, you start thinking that you probably have one,especially Bipolar!!!!

 

after learning about psychiatric diseases, i try to relate my stress during exam with panic attack symptoms..
i keep wonder is it being a medical student we tends to have some of the psychiatric illnessess such as depression, ocd, panic attack, malingering and so much more?

 

Interesting. ..I've nevrr experienced ..bt I've heard my room mate complain of symptoms relatrd to her posting....last week her ophthal posting started and she now presents with redness of eyes and some swelling on the eyelid.

 

when i read about parasites ..when i eat i feel that all food contaminated ....

 

I think i have leukemia since my 1st year although all my tests are good I am still convinced I have it, apart from all those diseases I diagnose my family and myself from the symptoms in every class

 

Yes , from the first year , I suffered from it , until someone told me about this syndrome

 

the fact that what i wrote in the paper that i achieved by reading so many things but still does not get the Distinction

 

i have prsented with odynophagia for 4 days, and i was feel to hv C.A of Oesophagus....
bt it was juc trauma of oesophagus due to swlwn of sharp'bone!! lol.....

 

I had this experience yeaterday night when I was on my bed preparing to retire. I felt knee ache and being in orthopaedics posting,I started bringing some differentials.Part of it is osteoarthritis,but I said am 27 now.Lil MSS rili true.

 

I think I should be prepared for this disease before going to the medical school... Lol

 

Well, sometimes having some medical knowledge can actually be a blessing when confronted to a real and often misdiagnosed disease... We just have to use this knowledge wisely.

 

1. How do you explain experiencing the symptoms of the disease you are studying as a medical student?
2. What really happens to the mind of a medical student?
3. Have been told that the syndrome causes fear ( health phobia or health anxiety) in students and that some authors have suggested to call it "Nosophobia" rather than "Hypochondriasis" because of the low Hypochondriacal behavior in the students suffering this syndrome.
4. Nosophobia being the fear of contracting a specific disease which be heart disease, for example.

 

I am always in this situation until I force myself to stop thinking about it..

 

I feel like everyone at one point or another feels that way. Its inevitable to feel like that your perfect. Once you get into medicine, you realize that the only person you need to satisfy is yourself. did you get the marks you wanted? No? Then, go to educational resources or get a tutor. its okay to be struggling in a class. Its ok because things take time and not every subject comes naturally to every person. Medicine of all things should require persistance, the studying isn't done after medical school.

 

While I was reading Hepatitis I thought that I had the disease then I asked my professor to check it and he told me that it is MSS and I checked HbAg then it was negative

 

Yes, same also is happening to me. Now every food that i try to take, i feel that its contaminated. Slightest symptoms i get ,then im thinking of being sick with all that i have read about.