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Yes, there is - I would say a LOT of allure. My idea of bliss would be to fix my health problems myself, or with supplements I can source myself, so that I never have to see a doctor ever again.

On the thyroid forum that I read there are some people with low vitamin B12 and/or folate who try to fix these issues with cyanocobalamin and folic acid. They feel no better. But when they try methylcobalamin and methylfolate they make progress and feel a bit better. I think its worth trying in...

Are there any health conditions causing chronic pain that doctors haven't decided is a mental health problem? Edit : Just wanted to point out this was intended to be a serious question. :)

Why do researchers always think that mothers are easy targets for blame? And that women are all mentally ill hypochondriacs?

I completely agree with you about the competitive element being built in, and I never liked that. But what really killed off exercise for me as a teenager at school was the way I had to dress. In summer I wore a white shirt and baggy navy-blue pants, plus yellow woolly socks. I can't remember...

I wonder how many people know all of the things they are allergic to or intolerant of. I've had eczema most of my life, and although I know some things which can trigger a bad episode I do get flares of the condition that I can't explain or attribute to anything. Edit : I don't know whether...

Title : Long Covid: MPs call for compensation for key workers Link : https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-56090826 I wondered how well this idea of compensating key workers would go down with the BPS crew. It would also get messy for the DWP and the government if compensation depended on...

Is it always low cortisol that is associated with ME/CFS? Or is high cortisol a known feature in some cases too?

I suffered from severe hyperventilation syndrome and "disordered breathing" about 15 years ago. I'd also gone through a phase of this about 40 years ago, but the first phase disappeared on its own. I was told that hyperventilating caused the symptoms I had because it reduces carbon dioxide...

So every doctor in France never misses an organic cause? They are brilliant diagnosticians, always? This is simply laughable, as well as being arrogant beyond belief. I have the same beliefs about doctors in the rest of the world, I'm not just picking on French doctors. The sheer arrogance of...

In my experience, once a health problem has been dumped in the MUS dustbin nobody ever looks into the problem again if they can help it. MUS has effectively become a diagnosis in its own right.

I think one of the major problems that women have is that doctors prescribe anti-depressants and sedatives to women and actual pain killers to men. If anti-depressants work that's great, but they never worked for me. I'm surprised that you describe the pain from endometriosis as neuropathic...

I have to take lansoprazole (a PPI) with my NSAIDs because of the stomach problem. But I find my NSAIDs do help my pain a lot and I take them every day, and they don't have any affects on my brain function. Amitriptyline and nortriptyline both give me tachycardia. I was prescribed four different...

@dave30th I noticed that there has been a redesign of the virology blog and in the process the Next blog and Previous blog links from the bottom of each page have been removed. Can we have them back, please?

NSAIDs are actual pain killers. Doctors will very rarely prescribe actual pain killers. The medical attitude to pain has turned them all into torturers. For proof, I offer this : https://www.pslhub.org/forums/topic/68-painful-hysteroscopy/...

I may have misunderstood what I was reading. I'm assuming that the subjects are going to be doing exercises on 2 consecutive days, rather than 2 "subsequent" days. If they are measuring total blood volume before each exercise test then it suggests to me that they think that some people may...

I was aware that being hypovolemic was a known symptom for some sufferers of ME, but something I wasn't aware of is that hypovolemia could be caused by exercise, so I've learned something new today.

It's been over 30 years since I last wore earrings. I doubt that my earring holes would still be viable, and it makes me squeamish just thinking about trying to force an earring through a hole which might not go all the way through. :dead:

I have never been someone who could regularly fall asleep in front of a screen, although it is sometimes starting to happen now as I get closer and closer to being a decrepit old fart. I was sent to bed before I was sleepy and wasn't allowed to read when I was a child. My parents thought that...

The article I linked is rather limited and could be a lot better. It links the problem it describes to technology and scrolling on smart phones when we should be sleeping. But I would say bedtime procrastination pre-dates social media and modern technology by many centuries. If your life is...