Just for info : IIH is "Idiopathic intracranial hypertension" according to wikipedia. I couldn't see anywhere it had been explained in the paper....
How can a lesion ever be functional? Someone either has a lesion or they don't.
All the mentions of "effort" make me think that doctors assume the patient isn't trying hard enough.
I just came across this BBC article about Physician Associates being used in the NHS. A very cynical thought crossed my mind... I wondered if PAs...
Sexism in the general population is rife apparently. I doubt doctors are exempt... [MEDIA]
I don't think it helps either. In the time I was doing it, it did me no good whatsoever. In the end I fixed my own anxiety and depression with...
I have yet to see any proof that CBT physically changes the body. Changing the way people think might be possible if a CBT therapist was...
Did you do anything special to help it reduce?
People I know have said to me that they care more about quality of life than length of life. If HRT makes women feel better then that should be...
I've always been puzzled by the difference between CRP and CRP-HS. In the CRP link it says : In the CRP-HS link it says : As far as I can...
Thank you, @SNT Gatchaman
Title : Limiting the use and misuse of liothyronine in hypothyroidism Link : https://www.nature.com/articles/s41574-024-01055-y
This is like shutting the stable door after the horse has bolted.
The elephant in the room with respect to any disease being classified as psychological or in the mind is that it means treatment of every other...
Wow, that really surprises me. And your links are very interesting, thank you.
My bolding I didn't realise that the term "functional" in medicine had been used as early as 1957. The first time I heard "functional" in the...
In some cases the patient themselves may know the origin of some of their Persistent Physical Symptoms. But medical records are often so poorly...
@Brendan Rob Do a search for "bmj Paul Garner". He wrote a few articles/blogs in which he wrote about his experience with Covid and Long Covid,...
For me brain fog is more than just memory problems. It is more like the indexing system for information I once knew has had random index cards...
Yes, I did know that. But in the context @Wonko used it it seemed to have a different meaning. But I think I was just having a brain fart.
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