[nytesky]

I have stopped looking at my lab results because all it does most the time is caused me extreme anxiety.

I have a rare disease which causes an obscure blood marker to basically jump two orders of magnitude.

If you google this jump marker, basically all the links you find are about a deadly leukemia that you will be dead of in six months.

My appointment with my doctor was two weeks away. Those were very very dark two weeks.

I definitely think you should go over the results with your doctor, but Google or even ChatGPT is not a doctor

[jackstraw14]

Wow, I'm glad you figured it out and I bet those two weeks were hell. With anything health related, I think information found online and information from AI tools should just be considered helpers toward determining something more specific that you can address. I certainly would not vouch for all AI assistance, and you shouldn't just give more weight to an AI system more than an article from a supposed expert necessarily. But, if you know you are working with good tools (like Claude Sonnet, which I would recommend for this particular case we're talking about) they shouldn't steer you too far in the wrong direction. Claude specifically has been the gentlest, most helpful general assistant I've ever had, but I don't ever lose sight of the fact that these are simply tools helping me, a non-perfect human with a lot still to learn, and I wouldn't recommend using them as any kind of "authoritative" solution, just something that's about the best help I've had with this kind of stuff so far. The final decision should be between you and your doctor.