Self medication is bad and it is not advisable to be undergone by any but seeking the presence of a professional is the best.
People have killed themselves because they aggrevated their health situation as a result of self medication and they are giving the excuse of not having money to take care of themselves. I believe some people have ignorantly allowed their health situation to go bad from the formation period that they would have gone for consultation and treatment and at the end they still spend same money they are running away from in a more expensive way and probably losing some vital part of their organ or eventual death. As they say, prevention is better than cure. So early detection helps to reduce severity of treatment.