How to Do a Self Medical Diagnosis Online

The proliferation of health information on the Internet has made it easier for people to perform self-diagnoses for their own medical problems. While a self-diagnosis is certainly not as credible as a diagnosis performed by a licensed medical professional, it can help provide mental reassurance and salient discussion points for the time when the person does go to visit a doctor for a professional opinion. Using one of the three resources listed below, it is easy to perform a self-diagnosis on your own medical issues.

Instructions

• 1

  Write down a list of the symptoms that you are experiencing. This list will serve as a reference point while you perform the diagnosis.

• 2

  Visit WebMD, Your Diagnosis or Easy Diagnosis and use their online symptom checker feature to input symptoms from the list you've assembled. WebMD's is located on the left-hand side of the website. Both Your Diagnosis and Easy Diagnosis offer their symptom-checking features at the center of their respective home pages.

• 3

  Examine the different ailments that are suggested by the symptom checker and, through process of elimination, narrow down the ailments to those that seem to fit your symptoms the best.

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  Create a second list of the medical ailments that seem to match your symptoms the best. Research these ailments on their own to further validate their existence in your body.

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  Research potential treatments and solutions to the ailments that seem to be most relevant to your symptoms to complete the diagnosis.