Search results

In the short term I would be happy to try the current drugs if I was a diabetic patient - but not with anything that might cause akathisia. I got that as a side effect from metoclopramide prescribed to improve gut transit, and it was a terrifying condition. Never again! It took weeks to feel...

Antipsychotic medications often have side effects of akathisia and tardive dyskinesia (TD), both of which are dreadful conditions which destroy lives, and in the case of TD may be permanent even if the cause is removed. I looked up Pimozide, which is a member of this class of drugs, and the side...

Title : ‘Disruptive’ science has declined — and no one knows why Subtitle : The proportion of publications that send a field in a new direction has plummeted over the past half-century. Link : https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-04577-5 Posted : 4th January 2023 1) My assumption would...

I'm surprised. The photograph I saw was black and white so assumed it was old for that reason.

A few days ago I came across an old (1950s?) photograph online of seven tobacco company presidents standing in a row holding up a hand in front of a Congressional Committee and swearing that tobacco wasn't addictive.

Personally I think using the word "distress" is insulting. It is almost always used in connection with women and it implies that women are weak, wimpy, emotional and just not cut out for anything except housework. They certainly aren't cut out to do real work, like men. (That was sarcasm, just...

Because it makes their (the clinicians') lives easier? They can get rid of patients they don't like?

Merged thread This video started off good but about half to two thirds through it went downhill dramatically. https://www.bbc.co.uk/ideas/videos/the-misdiagnosis-that-sent-me-to-psychiatric-hospi/p0dqf3km

I would love to know the answer to that. The people making these claims about illegal activities (because making death threats is illegal in the UK, as far as I know) need to give explicit examples, and name names. After 30 (or more?) years of accusing people with ME of various illegal...

I paid to see a gastroenterologist a few years ago. He never even bothered to write to me afterwards. The next time I saw my NHS GP she told me that she had received a letter from the man I'd seen. She printed it out and gave it to me without comment. My mistake appears to have been that I told...

This works in other countries. For example, I think France and Greece allow people to make appointments with any doctors they choose. I'm sure there are others. I do wonder who would be responsible for collating and keeping medical records if making my own appointments was possible. I'd love to...

Is XBB 1.5 more or less severe from the point of view of the person catching it, does anyone know?

I have a full-sized desktop PC, so I am seeing a left hand panel which has the words "Outline" then underneath "Signatures". If I click on Signatures then page down to beyond the last signature I can click on that space then type in what I want. I don't know if there is a specific Save one has...

I don't think I'd like to meet people who think like that. I'd probably end up wanting to punch them in the nose because they were being airy-fairy while patients want to be taken seriously.

My bolding in the quote. This really suggests to me that Dr Whittington (whoever he is) wants to throw in the towel when it comes to curing disease and just wants to train people to put up with their ailments until they die.

The lead author's Linkedin blurb tells me all I need to know about how seriously she should be taken.

I don't know the connection between FM and butterflies. I hope it isn't just because most sufferers are female and cutesy logos are deemed suitable for women-related medical things. Butterflies are used by many organisations that are thyroid-related because, as mentioned ad nauseam in writing...

Thanks, Trish. :thumbup:

If X is blocked by TG does that mean that X can't physically reply to TG, or that TG can be replied to by X but TG won't see any replies by X?

I don't have a Twitter account, so I can't be blocked, and I can see everything that those with accounts have posted publicly. These are the first four responses to the original tweet on this subject, as I see them. I am shocked by the blasé tone of "Psychology is key to any recovery of...