Doctors get really bugged when you know more about your condition than they do. Because, you know, they’re so much smarter than the rest of us.
It’s worse than cold to dismiss a specific widely well regarded information and support resource as the same thing as “Googling for symptoms.” It’s downright ignorant.
Yep, I am surprised the Cancer Drs. were not more in tune with her symptoms and on the look out for the cancer to return. I think if my Dr. ignored my concerns I would have gotten a second opinion. Many years ago, long before google; I had one of those Encyclopedia Medical books. After a couple of years I had to throw it away. Every time my wife or I got sick we would self diagnose each other with rare and often fatal diseases. We would go to bed in a panic only to wake up the next day feeling better and realizing we just had a common cold or 24 hour bug....
I must have really good doctors. I have usually self diagnosed by the time I go in they’ll say......yep.
I have some pretty rare stuff too. The general practitioner PA I see actually likes that I am the ‘research queen’. Lol. She said you know your symptoms better than anyone.