So, the whiny little weenie wants to show off his fangs. Let's see what (besides an overinflated ego and an underinflated intellect) you've got.
It is not attention i am after at all... I have questions and I am completely new to this forum. I did not know it worked that way and that I should have just posted them on top of the same thread.
Thumbs down. If you've read this site in enough depth to pull a statement of mine completely out of context to use as a weapon against me, you've seen me tell other folks to keep their tales and followups in one thread so us folks that really are physically challenged when it comes to computer use don't have to gather your precious little droppings all over the forums. We get folks like you who like to play "My post first" game regularly, so I have this discussion at least once a month and sometimes once a week.
I can understand why you would be annoyed with that, but at the same time there is no reason for you to try and personally attack my motives and character.
You registered here three days ago and have created three new threads in less than 24 hours concerning vague complaints that your "numerous doctors" don't seem to think need any therapy (since none was prescribed).
And it's obvious that you haven't read any of the sticky posts in this forum, especially the one entitled "Some Advice to Questioners, from an Answerer". If you had read that post, you would realize that items 1-3 and 6-9 apply directly to you. You ignore the advice we put up -- it p*sses people off because it's disrespectful, no matter how much "I don't mean to offend anyone" pabulum your surround your boring little tales with.
Disrespect for the forum. Remembering one thing a senior member said that you could twist in your favor while "conveniently" forgetting all the things that you've seen that member has said in the past that shreds your whole tale of woe like a cat shredding tissue paper. Twisting medical terms and trying to manipulate others into giving you the answers you want. Ignoring the advice of trained physicians. Ignoring the advice of people who have years more experience seeing, caring for, or living with ALS than you have. Making 3 threads about your condition in about 24 hours. What about those things doesn't scream egocentric attention-seeking hypochondriac to you?
I am asking these questions on this forum because there seem to be many experienced people here that know what they are talking about. I understand that you all are not doctors, but at the same time I know you understand that the time in between seeing a doctor can be a long time especially when this is a new extremely scary experience and talking with more experienced people than myself can give me some insight.
Go read the sticky post I mentioned above. Items 6,8, and 9 are my response to you on these points.
I also read in one of your posts that you said people should respect others because health anxiety is very real to the people as well. I am not at all trying to compare my current state to what the people on here go through every day, but I am in a lot of physical discomfort and my symptoms are very strange and new. With that I think it is completely reasonable that I have been asking questions in between my wait of seeing a doctor and I now know to post them on a current thread instead of creating a new one.
Actually, looking up your symptoms on the Internet between appointments was the worst thing that anyone with your level of health anxiety should do. Why? Because you cannot view the symptoms in your body with any degree of objectivity. Furthermore, you don't do research in enough depth before you're distracted by something rare, dark, and deadly and start checking off that condition's symptom list. My proof for those assertion -- you're here, posting in this forum, asking "Do I Have ALS?"
You seem to offer very good advice to people, but I think you should start trying to do it in a nicer way. Just as you said your "not a doctor", you don't know what the people who you are speaking down to are going through. Thank you for your previous responses to my posts, but in the future if I post something else (in a current thread of course) I would rather you not comment on it if you have something completely judgemental and negative to say. From what I can see this is a forum for coping, learning, honesty, and some guidance, not negativity.
Frankly, I don't give a lusty crap what you think I should do. And cooing sympathetic words to a hypochondriac isn't help, support, or positivity. It's feeding your obsession.
I just call'em like I see 'em, Junior. Don't read the replies if you can't stand the heat. Of course, you might just miss the insight that clicks for you and frees you from this little crystal prison you're building for yourself.
And that would be a shame.
See you around.