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I used to get stressed about not getting enough sleep, having been an insomniac since I was a child. Eventually I reduced this stress by covering up my clock with a flannel so I can't see the clock unless I want to. It didn't actually help my insomnia but at least I was less stressed about it...

Isn't this like trying to put lipstick on a slug to make it pretty?

So, if you are old, fat, and female don't bother seeing a doctor?

I just read the first paragraph in the wiki article on "Sensitization". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sensitization The first thing that came into my mind after reading this is that torture often involves repeated administration of a painful stimulus e.g. whipping someone on the back. I just...

To the best of my knowledge, CRP is an inflammation marker, and it will be raised if there is inflammation anywhere in the body. So it could be inflammation in the gut, the muscles, the lungs etc. If someone wants to blame CRP for depression, why don't they find the inflammation and then try...

I find it impossible to believe that this ever really happens. Apart from anything else, if I ask for an appointment to see a doctor I get given one that can be 3 - 6 weeks in the future. It will never be "tomorrow". Edit : I'm talking about getting an appointment pre-Covid. I have no idea how...

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@Kalliope Can you tell me what the last line of O'Leary's article is, please? I can't tell if I'm seeing the whole thing or not. The last line as far as I'm concerned is "When we find ourselves in a framework that suggests the possibility of medical need is somehow beside the point for medical...

This strikes me as being just a fishing expedition. They haven't said why they want to do clinical trials, so they probably just want to test CBT and GET on people with fibromyalgia, and possibly increase the use of psychiatric drugs on patients.

My problems with pain are caused by delayed and botched gynaecological surgery for a life-threatening condition in my teens. The damage caused by the delay and the poor surgery has been mentioned in some of my later medical records but the original cause has been obfuscated and I am always...

When doctors talk about chronic pain are they assuming that the pain has no cause that can be found? What would happen if someone had some severe genetic condition that distorted their spine and caused them lots of pain, for example? Would they be told that CBT is all they need or will they...

I'm sure psychiatric drugs create side effects aka symptoms that could be mistaken for new diseases in a patient. So, it doesn't seem to me that altering the presentation of a disease or modifying a disease would be impossible. If it did happen then I would guess it was an accident. I doubt that...

There are many different types of magnesium supplements, some good, some very poor. Perhaps taking something different might help : https://drjockers.com/best-magnesium-supplement/ http://www.afibbers.org/magnesium.html...

I used to get benign fasciculations (BF). It took me a long time to find out what the proper name for the condition was. Some people have actually filmed their BF and put the results on Youtube if you want to do a search. I was in hospital once when I got BF. I'd also had blood tests done not...

If magnesium doesn't do the trick, cramp could be caused by low iron (although this usually causes restless legs rather than cramp), low calcium, low potassium or low salt. It would also be worth looking at the known side effects of any prescribed drugs you take or any non-prescription supplements.

Ditto.

‘Give me back my fact: How can social science help us survive the post-truth pandemic?’ she emphasised the need to draw on the ‘social science of science’ to produce a 21st-century post-truth account of what science is I've always understood "post-truth" to mean "my 'facts' are better than...

Animals that hibernate have to acquire lots of fat during the summer to keep them alive during the winter, don't they? If that was true for humans it would change the entire nature of human life, human fashion and what makes a mate desirable. Who wants to hibernate with their partner only to...

Excellent article on Long Covid. It has information, examples and quotes from both the UK and the US. One UK doctor mentioned in the article is really unimpressed with the NHS roll-out of Long-Covid Clinics. Title : The many strange long-term symptoms of Covid-19, explained Link ...

There are actually two wiki pages for this man : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_R._Grinker_Sr. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Richard_Grinker Edit : Ignore that... They are father and son, or grandfather and grandson.