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more about #it more comments → chatterboxwriting: This is a topic that always gets me into trouble with friends. My best friend once went to the ER for a yeast infection. Maybe you ladies will jump al... more » Jello Mix: Really? Just last month I hurt my wrist, but didn't go to the doctor for several weeks because the pain wasn't that bad. By the time I got fed up with... more » tscheese: My mom's a homemaker and my dad's a rancher. So both of them would soldier through just about anything. Mom wasn't feeling well? She'd pop some Sudafe... more » Grim Reaper of the Forest: I normally don't buy into the whole women are communicators and chattier than men, but in this case it might be true. I obsess over symptoms and ment... more » Lizawithazee: I also love it when you decide to relate your symptoms to explain why you are out or can't do something, and then the person says, "Oh, my mom had tho... more » katie.scarlett.o'hara: Ok, this is just FALSE. Men are the biggest babies ever when it comes to being sick. more » LaComtesse: I always worry that I'm exaggerating. Like, what I'm feeling can't possibly be that bad. This past June I suddenly felt electric, stabbing pains in th... more » umamimama: I know many of us are shocked that fewer men admit to exaggerating symptoms than women, but I think it makes total sense. The fact is that the other 2... more » Lizawithazee: It's extremely annoying to be around those drama queens who exaggerate every symptom. It's one thing to communicate symptoms as a way to figure out wh... more » LBB: I've always been really avoidant of going to the doctor, even at times when I probably should have gone -- a combination of not wanting my folks to wo... more » emilyanne: Ha the problem I have is that I am the daughter of two doctors, you had to be all but dead to get a day off school growing up in my family. Sadly this... more » Mafalda para Presidente: My experience has taught me the opposite. Usually the men I know are the ones who whine most loudly at the slightest symptoms. That said, you bet I m... more » water baby: Once when my boyfriend had a sore throat, fever and fatigue, he became CONVINCED he had mono. I mean he was going ON about it. So of course I freaked ... more » rednrowdy: the people i know who have chronic health problems that they feel the need to mention within the first 15 minutes of speaking to them? always, always,... more » JessicaLovejoy: Laughing, riding, cornholing!: Hehe! I've never seen anyone "Bish plz" a needle before! more »
