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I had the same problem of depression with melatonin when I first tried it, about 8 - 10 years ago. I bought some 3mg pills but found that gave me a thumping headache so I started cutting them up into smaller chunks. But although the smaller dose reduced the headache problem a bit it didn't solve...

Race to the bottom?

I've taken Augmentin in pill or capsule form more than once, but I can't remember what for. It didn't cause me any memorable side effects at all.

I've never seen that poll before and I found many of the things that had been voted for as "non-diseases" quite shocking. It made me wonder what the doctors responding to the poll thought a disease actually is. After all, doctors treat high blood pressure and high cholesterol, and yet some...

Usually. I can't know under those circumstances. But I'm lucky - I get far fewer headaches these days since I had surgery for my hydrocephalus. And the ones I do get are rarely as bad as they used to be.

Title : Excess deaths from Black, Asian, and Minority Ethnic Doctors during the Covid-19 Pandemic Link : http://www.drdavidgrimes.com/2020/11/covid-19-vitamin-d-deaths-of-doctors.html

So having brain damage is now a functional condition? The medical profession really has gone completely mad.

Psycho twice? Isn't that overkill? I can't help myself. Whenever I see this phrase what goes through my mind instantly is "Doctor thinks patient is lying, making things up, attention seeking, mentally ill, a hypochondriac. But the truth is the doctor's diagnostic abilities are crap."

That is horrifying! But, sadly, not surprising. :(

I'm just waiting for the advice to appear suggesting that sufferers learn chess or start doing sudoku puzzles i.e. GET for the brain, although they'll call it something else.

Yes, I know. But I hoped it was generic enough to apply to all sorts of papers.

I don't know if this is of any interest to anyone... Title : How to read a paper Subtitle : The basics of evidence based medicine https://www.ebcp.com.br/simple/upfiles/livros/001HTRP.pdf The above link gives the second edition of the book for free, but the latest edition (the sixth) is...

Can anyone tell me what the difference is between "functional somatic symptoms" and "psychosomatic symptoms" ? So, what does the word "somatic" mean in this context when the word "functional" isn't included? Real? I find it impossible to believe that 79.9% of children go into hospital with...

I'm not objecting to this having been posted because it's interesting. But what prompted it to be posted 10 years after it was first published?

It's actually fairly rare for the BBC to give clues to the papers they are reporting on. It really annoys me. Some newspaper sites online are the same.

Nothing would ever persuade me to take a statin. Just one of many issues I have with them is ... If statins reduce heart disease and thus reduce death rates from those heart conditions, then what do people die of instead? If the alternatives to dying of heart disease are to die of cancer or...

I have a sofa in my living room. I keep trying to call it an elephant but nobody else will indulge me. Bah!

What a waste of time, effort, and funding that was.

While in the past these disorders were presumed to be solely due to psychological issues This just looks as if the researchers are absolutely desperate to make patients accept that they have a "functional or psychological disorder" at any cost. Why? If people have biological symptoms why don't...

Yes, true. But a doctor coming out with such a horrible forecast that could affect hundreds of thousands or millions of people should have said that was what he was basing his comment on.