I discovered yesterday that he is a Sir now. :)
I have always assumed that the blaming and demeaning about pain comes about because healthcare professionals think they would be better than me at...
Are we supposed to assume that fatigue leads to psychiatric symptoms or that psychiatric symptoms lead to fatigue? From the point of view of the...
I was thinking more of if anyone in a study said I had to take drug X and what might happen if I didn't respond well to it. I assumed the...
The reason I'm not interested is because my relationship with the medical profession is so poor and has been since I was a teenager. I think of...
I've seen articles that say that the LCP has continued in many places, just under another name : https://www.bmj.com/content/350/bmj.h555...
My father was put on the Liverpool Care Pathway (LCP). He had a lot of health problems but his final issue was a stroke which made swallowing and...
Internal tremors happen with hypothyroidism. I suspect it may happen in people with hyperthyroidism too. Thyroid diseases can screw up one's...
I went through CBT that was supposed to treat depression. It was a complete waste of time. The "advice" I got to fix my "issues" was something I...
The list of risk factors is mostly the ingredients in a recipe for "Who will get gaslighted today?"
Are you thinking of Antabuse?
Could some of them be taking LDN and also drinking alcohol? Naltrexone is used to treat alcoholics - and one purpose of it is to make people...
I suspect that little knowledge has been generated because so much of the research papers I've seen in recent years have been BPS-based and...
I can understand how you feel. But if the NHS collapses and we end up with a system like the Americans (God forbid) I'm still expecting the...
That is definitely something that isn't considered important. How many women have been through years and years of excruciating periods thanks to...
I've read that medical staff often use sedating medication on women rather than give them pain relief.
If a healthcare system discourages the use of ferritin (iron stores) tests it would be women and girls who suffer for it, since they are the ones...
Isn't the conclusion of this paper equivalent to "water is wet"? Am I missing something? If the cutoff for the bottom of the range is 15, 30 or...
When I first started to read about ME/CFS (initially on forums), McE and B came up in my reading quite early on and I was shocked by their...
I wish we had more doctors who wouldn't ascribe so many symptoms to stress. It's one of the many easy dustbin diagnoses that far too many of them...
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