When it comes to our own health care it really does pay to learn about your problem or potential problem and decide on the best course of action or non-action.
Simply taking some ones advise without your own research can be very dangerous.
For instance: My ex-wife went to the doctor due to an occasional numb arm. She takes Doctors advise as gospel and does everything they recommend. So they started in on her to find the problem with the numb arm? Over the last 3 years she has had over 17 surgeries to clear lightly clogged arteries (under 35%), and many drugs one of which wiped out her kidneys. She was on dialysis 3 times a week for 2 years waiting for a transplant. During that time many of the above surgeries were for her arm trying to get the vein to work for the Dialysis. Never could get it right. Recently, out of the blue. her kidneys started working again! No more dialysis, but the thing in her arm still requires more surgeries as she said now if not fixed she could lose the arm!
Oh, the numb arm? It just went away by itself!