How often do you visit your GP/doctor?

May 10, 2010 9:00am CST
Hell0 again my myLot friends! well, now I am curious to know how often do you visit your GP/doctor and do you actaully take care good fro your health? I mean do you do all those regular health check-ups which are actually free or you just ignore them?
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10 May 10
Normally once a month due to requiring fresh anti depressants. Normally at the accident and emergeny deparment a few times a year so often a few of the nurses actually know me on first name terms.
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10 May 10
hell0 there! well, you are then something like a regular "customer" as far as I understand you!
@cerebellum (3863)
• United States
11 May 10
I don't go to the primary care doctor often. I have a health problem, and need to see specailists more than the regular doctor. When I go to him it is usually to get him to sign something or get a referral. I went because I was sick one time and he was suprised. He said "It is unusual for you to come because your sick". I haven't been to a specalist in awhile, because I get depressed. They keep running the same tests and can't figure out what is wrong with me.
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11 May 10
well, the same painful problem like many people, because there are erally many doctors who just don't deserve to have that "title" doctor. it is really sad when I read for some cases of doctor's carelessness( I really don't want to scare you) and how they have "killed" a person, of course not intenational, but just because they have given a wrong diagnose and wrong medicaments. So that's why I can fully understand you, i also don't trust doctors! even specialists!
• Philippines
10 May 10
since im pregnant then yes i regularly visit my doctor every month to make sure that me and my baby is fine complete with vitamins. but normally if im not regnant, i seldom visit doctor, i only visit them if i feel something and thats what other people normally do.
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10 May 10
yeah, If i was a woman and was pregnant too, I would also visit it at least twice a week, just to be sure that everything with the baby is OK. Otherwise visiting the doctor is something that I don't do and also dislike, because I don't trust them and i also hate being in the hospital, no matter for what reason!
@p3ks626 (6538)
• Philippines
10 May 10
It depends if I am very sick then that's the times I visit my doctor. Last year, I can remember being very sick that I have to see the doctor. Last February, I was sick so i have to go to the doctor for 2 months straight and have a check up every 2 weeks. I dont like being sick cause its expensive.
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10 May 10
hell0 there! yeah, being sick can really cost a lot, but I think that it is really necessary to go to doctor ni cases like your, no matter how expensive it is, just because if we wait or try to reject it, it may become worse and even more expensive!
@cloud31 (5809)
10 May 10
I seldom visit my doctor, unless I'm seriously ill,for some other reason I just I ask his advice through telephone though.Good day!
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10 May 10
yeah, me too. I even don't go to him when I have to do some of those free regular health check-ups which are even obligatory in my country :)
@nangisha (3496)
• Indonesia
10 May 10
I can not remember the last time I go to doctor. I am not sick for very long time and I hope it will stay that way. I am still young so I think I don't need regular check up and my sister was pediatric nurse and my best friend is a doctor but its not make me wiling to go to hospital if not really sick.
10 May 10
well, if you don't remembered it, then it wasn't in the near past, right? which is actaully good and I will also keep my fingers crossed for you so that you won't need to go to doctor soon well, about being young, here we can discuss a bit, because being young doesn't mean that you won't get cold or have any other health issues :)
@dawnald (85146)
• Shingle Springs, California
13 May 10
As needed... And I do regular "female checkups" annually.
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13 May 10
well, i don't go even when I need to, because I really don't like hospitals, just because of the smell there, and also because i don't trust the doctors at all. well, I don't have to do any "female check-ups" fortunately
• India
13 May 10
well i just visit my doctor when i get it or feel there is something wrong with my body. i only listen to what my body says. i am 25 right now but after i turn 40 i will definetly go to doctor once every 3 months for full body check up but for right now. i dont even get sick once a year and if ever i get sick its just common cold going uncommon. so enjoy
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• India
13 May 10
well here in india we get it they deliver but its really hard to prepare. well go to www.phmiracleliving.com you will find a green drink buy it and if u dont want to just take spinach beet root and other green veges and there mix juice will work as good as wheat grass.
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13 May 10
well, you have also a strong imuune system if you don't get cold at all, it is really good and I guess that the meditation tips and all others stuffs that you have learnt from those both sites have really helped you being strong and in a good health? Am I right?
13 May 10
well, just to ask you- where do you find this wheatgrass juice, because I really don't know how to prepare it and have never seen such a thing in the grocery stores?
@busybee10 (3186)
• India
11 May 10
Health is wealth - But people now a days are spoiling their health to earn wealth.May be this is hurting to many But it is a fact which you agree. If you do everything in time I guarantee that you will not be affected with bad health and mostly do not go to a doctor.But these days many are doing wrong things are are forced to undergo several tests in which many come negative -just wasting time and money. I do not visit a doctor at all because I know the importance of health - and I do not have any bad habits---- still growing strong at 60 +.
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@bagputza (504)
• Belgium
11 May 10
I actually have not been to a generall doctor there are more then five year passed by now , because whenever i had a problem , like the flu or muscular pains my mother always knwed what type of medicine i should receive , because when she was still in Roumania , she used to work as a doctor assistant in a big Hospital in Bucharest ( the capital of Roumania ) , and along the years she "stealed" the proffession and knew pretty much the standard thingz to do when she had someone in the familly sick. Now it has only been two months since i've seen the medical denstist , because i have a real problem with my teeths , and talking about it even last night i hhave tooked out myself one teeth that was really bad and mooving pretty easy , i was been in huge pain and decided that the emergency hospital its quite far from me and withj the pain that i had i wasn't really capable to drive , so i tooked the problems in my own hands and tooked that theet out , and immediatly after i felt soo good and alot of pressure was taking off from that spot , however tommorow i have an appointement with my dentist ( because it still remained the racine ) ; so he cann take all of the teeth out and have it desinfected.
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11 May 10
hell0 friend. well, You are in all my discussions, and the problem is that I have already forgotten how many "+" have a given to you today, because you know that the max. is 11 per person, per day :) I like to give a + for everyone who answers in my discussions. just like a "Thank you for passing by" :) well, are you from Romania( i know which is the capital, I am from Bulgaria and we are neighbors with the Romanians)? yeah, for something not that bad like flu or cold we or at least our moms/grandmoms knowwhat to do, so that's why we don't need a doc. hmmm, toothache can really be something awful especially if you are a person who likes eating, just like me but just like you, I haven't been to doctor/dentist for a long period, just because I have a really dtrong immune system, and I rarely get cold or something worse!
• Philippines
15 May 10
I think thrice a year.. because nowadays i'm not having any problem with my health its just fine so i don't need to bother to a check up.. but if a feel something that's different of course i will go to a doctor so if its a dangerous or should i say fatal disease, it can be cured in an early stage.. :)
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15 May 10
well, i don't even go once per year, because I don't get sick and I always don't trust doctors, because the most of them here are loosers and people who don't know much about health problems!
@oldchem1 (8132)
10 May 10
I have to go a couple of times a month because I am diabetic and also have a few more health issues. This week I go to the doctors, the nurse and to the dietician - keeps me out of trouble I suppose. We re very lucky though here in Britain with our health service (no matter how much we moan - and moan we do!!)
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10 May 10
well, it is really not a good purpose that you have went to doctor because of diabettes, but I can only hope that you get better now. well, it is at least good that you do it so often, I don't know is it because you have problems or just because you want to be sure that everything is OK, but it is good that you do it. and yes, I know that your health service is very good, because I have a second cousin in Britain, and she told me all about it!