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(Message started by: verndy on Mar 4th, 2003, 7:19pm)
Title: What ever floats your boat
Post by verndy on Mar 4th, 2003, 7:19pm
August 2000 Headache News
Watch out for "imaginary invalids" on the world wide web. An article in the July issue of Southern Medical Journal discusses the presence of pretenders in a variety of health-oriented news groups and chat rooms, including headache discussion forums. These individuals fabricate stories about multiple illnesses and life problems in order to gain the group's attention. If challenged, they are often effective in disrupting the group and causing members with genuine health problems to resign the group in disgust or disillusionment. Among the warning signs indicating phony disease claims: (1) posts that copy material in other posts or other web sites, (2) lengthy postings that do not fit in well with the claimed severity of illness, (3) "soap opera" style postings that claim one catastrophe or amazing event after another, and (4) exaggerated symptoms and telltale misunderstandings of the disease or disorder -- for example, one person pretending to suffer from severe migraines also claimed that playing the drums in a nightclub distracted him from his pain and helped pay for pain medication.
sound like any one we know? :-X
Title: Re: What ever floats your boat
Post by 2late on Mar 4th, 2003, 7:27pm
it's easy to weed out the bullshitters, those who don't suffer support so what's the problem? now verndy, can ya tell us a little bit about yerself? ;D                                                                                                                                                                                                         ..........Jack
Title: Re: What ever floats your boat
Post by jonny on Mar 4th, 2003, 7:30pm
I've said everything in your post more than once, Verndy.

Good post!!!!

...................................jonny
Title: Re: What ever floats your boat
Post by cootie on Mar 4th, 2003, 10:45pm
I dunno everyone really well nuff ta know who's what......exactly.......oh hell.....I dunno what I'm talkin bout on this one....Pam-Coots-who-is-who-she-is-fer-sure
Title: Re: What ever floats your boat
Post by Linda_Howell on Mar 5th, 2003, 1:36am


Yep.....us Veterans have heard this all before.

      Medical Journal??????

      no wonder THEY don't take us seriously.

      reminds me of ol  what's his/her name.     Sheesh!

      All of us here can spot a phony a mile off.

     after only a few posts, most times.   Ueli more often than the rest of us...........lol     LindaH


     
Title: Re: What ever floats your boat
Post by echo on Mar 5th, 2003, 10:31am
The other night I had a KIP 10.  The SOB actually pushed my eye out of my head.  Realizing that I had a serious problem I wrapped my eyeball in a water soaked sock and put it in my pocket.  Then got in the car and drove to the hospital,  had the interior light, windows down and the radio at full blast.  I needed that to help ease the pain.  Once at the emergency vet clinic they washed my eye off, pushed it back in my head with the butt of a screwdriver and gave me a tylenol.  Feel better now - that stuff works wonders.

Last night it happened again.  Called an ambulance this time.  Snow and Ice on the freeway.  We crashed -- I died.

This morning I stubbed my toe on an army tank, didn't see the damn thing.  The Vet forgot to take the sock off my eye.  I didn't realize it until now.  Thought it was the shadow.
Title: Re: What ever floats your boat
Post by JDH on Mar 5th, 2003, 10:57am

on 03/05/03 at 10:31:45, echo wrote:
The other night I had a KIP 10.  The SOB actually pushed my eye out of my head.  Realizing that I had a serious problem I wrapped my eyeball in a water soaked sock and put it in my pocket.  Then got in the car and drove to the hospital,  had the interior light, windows down and the radio at full blast.  I needed that to help ease the pain.  Once at the emergency vet clinic they washed my eye off, pushed it back in my head with the butt of a screwdriver and gave me a tylenol.  Feel better now - that stuff works wonders.

Last night it happened again.  Called an ambulance this time.  Snow and Ice on the freeway.  We crashed -- I died.

This morning I stubbed my toe on an army tank, didn't see the damn thing.  The Vet forgot to take the sock off my eye.  I didn't realize it until now.  Thought it was the shadow.




R.I.P. Echo  ;)
Title: Re: What ever floats your boat
Post by brain_cramps on Mar 5th, 2003, 11:25am
Echo:

I thought it was just me that went through that (on a nightly basis).  I'm dreading the thought of my CHs changing sides.  :o

one frozen foot and a lint-covered eye,
grant
Title: Re: What ever floats your boat
Post by cbolony on Mar 5th, 2003, 12:06pm
Verndy I been here for a little over a year and all i can say is the the people on this help me out a lot as for

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These individuals fabricate stories about multiple illnesses and life problems in order to gain the group's attention.  

FUCK THEM ALL
Title: Re: What ever floats your boat
Post by Hound_Dogg on Mar 5th, 2003, 12:27pm
Why anyone would "fake" an illness to be on a Message Board is beyond me.

Just another group of persons who I wish I could give the Pain of a Cluster, to. Even for just a minute.

Maybe we should ask the TP question. When anyone tells me, "Yeah, I get them, to." I ask them how much Toilet paper or Kleenex they go through, during an attack. If they say "whattya mean, toilet paper?" or "Yeah, I get diarrhea from them, to." I know their lying. ;D
Title: Re: What ever floats your boat
Post by woobie on Mar 6th, 2003, 8:54am
Verndy..

Where you been??   And how you doin??

Tina   :-*


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