Just like us, you’ve probably been there. You feel ill but don’t understand why. You start searching for your symptoms online. And then you start panicking because you think you might have a horrible disease (or two). You get so wrapped up in your fears of the worst-case scenarios that you don’t consider that the alternative can be something else entirely.

That’s not to say that you should ignore your symptoms, but it’s better to speak to a medical professional than to get all in your head. Doctors took to two AskReddit online threads to reveal their top cases of patients Googling their symptoms. Scroll down for their experiences with the biggest self-misdiagnoses their patients made.

The other day I had a guy come into the ED in tears because he had wrist pain and the nurse at his work'

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