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I'm adding something to my post above... I mentioned that my husband is asthmatic. I forgot to say that his asthma is well controlled most of the time and it is quite rare for him to have episodes of being wheezy. After I had used my Pulse Ox meter I asked OH to use it for a minute or two. What...

Mine varies from about 93 - 97 these days, averaging about 95. I get very occasional levels of 92 or 98. But I've found it difficult to monitor because it changes so often. In years gone by it would regularly be 98 - 99 when tested by a doctor or in hospital. I only bought my Pulse Ox thing...

I've been told, following an MRI, that my pituitary is squashed and the stalk that attaches it to the rest of me is stretched, although the words "empty sella" haven't been said to me. I think it is unlikely that a pituitary which has been flattened in one plane and stretched in another could be...

I get the occasional very short-lived cold (a day or a day and a half and then it's gone). During those times I feel better and can think better. The same effect has been noted on thyroid forums where many of the members have one or more autoimmune diseases.

My emphasis... She appears to have changed her mind on "not blocking critics". She's now blocked thousands of people on Twitter, including many who have never heard of her and many who have never interacted with her or referred to her in any way. So, her Twitter account will be an absolutely...

The above quote is from the link in post #1. I'm rather stunned that the NHS only list "three key symptoms of Covid-19" when so many sufferers have many more than that. I had a rather cynical thought... Is the NHS only acknowledging three symptoms to help them protect their BPS propaganda that...

In some disciplines there are very few of them around. A recent (last year) jaw-dropping example I got from an ENT consultant I saw in my local NHS hospital - I was seeing him about chronic Eustachian Tube Dysfunction that has been going on, intermittently but frequently, for well over a...

In my experience with doctors and bowel problems, they appear to think of the bowel (and the digestive system generally) as a simple tube and usually think that problems only occur with the inside of the tube. The idea that there could be issues on the outside of the tube rarely seems to cross...

I think Jerome's main website is this one : https://healthinsightuk.org/ I've read quite a lot of his output and I like it. By the way, it's Burne with an 'e' on the end. :)

It might have been good at full dose, but I never got to try that option. It was a doctor in a Family Planning Clinic that told me that my GP had only prescribed half the normal dose, but my prescription had not been renewed so I couldn't try it at full dose.

In Post #3442 by Mango having read this sentence "Emma suffers from long-term covid: Feels like her head is going to explode" I wondered if anyone with Long Covid has had the pressure in their heads and spines measured with a Lumbar Puncture? Perhaps sufferers are developing intracranial...

I don't think that can be relied on by anyone in the medical profession. I wonder if the fact that the sufferer in the following link and in the link in post #1 were both female has anything to do with it. Lisa Steen: The wilderness of the medically unexplained I think it probably depends on...

I've been diagnosed with IBS over and over again by various doctors and under various circumstances. As well as the IBS diagnosis, I was also told, a long time ago, that my problems were functional - this was before I knew what it meant, although I remember being deeply suspicious because the...

I have never been tested for nickel allergy or metal allergy or any other allergy or intolerance, but I think I have this problem. In my case I had my ears pierced as a teenager. I was okay for the first ten years, but then things changed and every time I put earrings in, my ear lobes would go...

From the quote in post #510 above... Are the people writing this stuff completely brain dead? Nobody thinks that cancer and fractures should be left untreated. But it is considered perfectly acceptable to not treat any disease that the insurance companies and the government don't want to deal...

My husband has suffered from back pain for over forty years. He refuses to take painkillers, however he does do exercises he's been taught by physiotherapists over the years and also uses an exercise bike at a setting which makes it difficult to turn the pedals. He also walks several miles about...

I have a couple of comments on this... 1) I would love to know how much input pharmaceutical companies have into MER. 2) I don't know exactly when it started, but medicine seems to have given up on curing a vast number of diseases and illnesses. Instead doctors only try to mitigate symptoms...

I care very much about the quality of healthcare, because I find it so hard to get any. Suppose a patient has been given various derogatory labels that have been on their records for decades. If the patient has always found it hard to get taken seriously with any health problem they could go in...

I've never understood why tonsillectomies are now derided as a waste of time and money, and totally useless. It was one of the few surgeries I've had that was, in my opinion, an absolutely amazing success with no obvious drawbacks since it was done. I used to lose a week off school about 3 or 4...

From post #16 So if a patient visits the doctor they get pre-judged as being mentally ill before they've even said hello? That sounds about right to me actually - anyone who sees a doctor probably is mentally ill these days for being so deluded as to believe a doctor would help them. Why...