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From the quote in post #510 above... Are the people writing this stuff completely brain dead? Nobody thinks that cancer and fractures should be left untreated. But it is considered perfectly acceptable to not treat any disease that the insurance companies and the government don't want to deal...

My husband has suffered from back pain for over forty years. He refuses to take painkillers, however he does do exercises he's been taught by physiotherapists over the years and also uses an exercise bike at a setting which makes it difficult to turn the pedals. He also walks several miles about...

I have a couple of comments on this... 1) I would love to know how much input pharmaceutical companies have into MER. 2) I don't know exactly when it started, but medicine seems to have given up on curing a vast number of diseases and illnesses. Instead doctors only try to mitigate symptoms...

I care very much about the quality of healthcare, because I find it so hard to get any. Suppose a patient has been given various derogatory labels that have been on their records for decades. If the patient has always found it hard to get taken seriously with any health problem they could go in...

I've never understood why tonsillectomies are now derided as a waste of time and money, and totally useless. It was one of the few surgeries I've had that was, in my opinion, an absolutely amazing success with no obvious drawbacks since it was done. I used to lose a week off school about 3 or 4...

From post #16 So if a patient visits the doctor they get pre-judged as being mentally ill before they've even said hello? That sounds about right to me actually - anyone who sees a doctor probably is mentally ill these days for being so deluded as to believe a doctor would help them. Why...

I used to get stressed about not getting enough sleep, having been an insomniac since I was a child. Eventually I reduced this stress by covering up my clock with a flannel so I can't see the clock unless I want to. It didn't actually help my insomnia but at least I was less stressed about it...

Isn't this like trying to put lipstick on a slug to make it pretty?

So, if you are old, fat, and female don't bother seeing a doctor?

I just read the first paragraph in the wiki article on "Sensitization". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sensitization The first thing that came into my mind after reading this is that torture often involves repeated administration of a painful stimulus e.g. whipping someone on the back. I just...

To the best of my knowledge, CRP is an inflammation marker, and it will be raised if there is inflammation anywhere in the body. So it could be inflammation in the gut, the muscles, the lungs etc. If someone wants to blame CRP for depression, why don't they find the inflammation and then try...

I find it impossible to believe that this ever really happens. Apart from anything else, if I ask for an appointment to see a doctor I get given one that can be 3 - 6 weeks in the future. It will never be "tomorrow". Edit : I'm talking about getting an appointment pre-Covid. I have no idea how...

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@Kalliope Can you tell me what the last line of O'Leary's article is, please? I can't tell if I'm seeing the whole thing or not. The last line as far as I'm concerned is "When we find ourselves in a framework that suggests the possibility of medical need is somehow beside the point for medical...

This strikes me as being just a fishing expedition. They haven't said why they want to do clinical trials, so they probably just want to test CBT and GET on people with fibromyalgia, and possibly increase the use of psychiatric drugs on patients.

My problems with pain are caused by delayed and botched gynaecological surgery for a life-threatening condition in my teens. The damage caused by the delay and the poor surgery has been mentioned in some of my later medical records but the original cause has been obfuscated and I am always...

When doctors talk about chronic pain are they assuming that the pain has no cause that can be found? What would happen if someone had some severe genetic condition that distorted their spine and caused them lots of pain, for example? Would they be told that CBT is all they need or will they...

I'm sure psychiatric drugs create side effects aka symptoms that could be mistaken for new diseases in a patient. So, it doesn't seem to me that altering the presentation of a disease or modifying a disease would be impossible. If it did happen then I would guess it was an accident. I doubt that...

There are many different types of magnesium supplements, some good, some very poor. Perhaps taking something different might help : https://drjockers.com/best-magnesium-supplement/ http://www.afibbers.org/magnesium.html...

I used to get benign fasciculations (BF). It took me a long time to find out what the proper name for the condition was. Some people have actually filmed their BF and put the results on Youtube if you want to do a search. I was in hospital once when I got BF. I'd also had blood tests done not...