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[adrienmundi]

I've got a physical this afternoon, and I'm nervous. Aside from exposing my intentionally nonstandard body to a stranger (a professional stranger, but still a stranger), I worry that I'll sound hypochondriacal if I mention every little thing and the nagging fears they sometimes bring forth, or that if I don't mention them all, it will come back to a very awful 'told you so' moment at some indeterminate point in the future. Ugh.

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[fierce-rabbit.livejournal.com]

I always feel stupid recounting my symptoms to health care folks. I try to remind myself that they are my employee (I pay them to take care of me) rather than an authority figure, but don't always get there.

[skiadaimonos.livejournal.com]

You can always phrase it as a request for information:

"I've been thinking/wondering about how X works and whether it could impact Y"

And after all, who cares if they do think you are a bit hypochondriac? Not like you are pursuing a sustained social relationship with them.
Chances are you are in perfect health and you will continue to be so, and these things are indeed just fears. But hell, not like you checked yourself in for phantom symptoms or anything like that. If you are curious (even in a scaredy sense), asking about it is a perfectly reasonable thing to do