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<blockquote data-quote="NoKindOfSusie" data-source="post: 1586129" data-attributes="member: 441787"><p>I get what you're saying. The problem is that "I know myself better than the doctors" is something that is (also) said by completely crazy people who think they can cure cancer with herbal extracts so from my perspective it seems like I'm ignoring the advice of qualified professionals based on what some people on an internet forum told me. Which does seem a bit mad. I do not want to be sitting here in 20 years time with terrible problems thinking "if only I had done what I was told by the medics."</p><p></p><p>Obviously I'm playing devil's advocate here, or rather doctor's advocate, but you get the idea. For my entire life I have operated on the basis that doctor says do X, you do X, completely and fully and without hesitation. Right now I have medical people telling me to leap tall buildings in a single bound and I have you guys saying "eh it's fine" and it is very hard to figure out what level of deviation is OK and what will damage me.</p><p></p><p>I have suspected for a long time these are numbers for idiots who the doctors think won't take them seriously but right now I don't even have any parameters to work to. I don't know what I'm aiming for. It's impossible and it comes with horrible warnings about horrible things happening to me. I don't even know how to react to that. Medical people put people in this situation on purpose?</p><p></p><p>I do know that I am not living a great life at the moment.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="NoKindOfSusie, post: 1586129, member: 441787"] I get what you're saying. The problem is that "I know myself better than the doctors" is something that is (also) said by completely crazy people who think they can cure cancer with herbal extracts so from my perspective it seems like I'm ignoring the advice of qualified professionals based on what some people on an internet forum told me. Which does seem a bit mad. I do not want to be sitting here in 20 years time with terrible problems thinking "if only I had done what I was told by the medics." Obviously I'm playing devil's advocate here, or rather doctor's advocate, but you get the idea. For my entire life I have operated on the basis that doctor says do X, you do X, completely and fully and without hesitation. Right now I have medical people telling me to leap tall buildings in a single bound and I have you guys saying "eh it's fine" and it is very hard to figure out what level of deviation is OK and what will damage me. I have suspected for a long time these are numbers for idiots who the doctors think won't take them seriously but right now I don't even have any parameters to work to. I don't know what I'm aiming for. It's impossible and it comes with horrible warnings about horrible things happening to me. I don't even know how to react to that. Medical people put people in this situation on purpose? I do know that I am not living a great life at the moment. [/QUOTE]
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