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USA: history of Calvinist immigrants--work is holy, pleasure will send you to hell. If people here relaxed, they might have to think. They are too busy reacting or appearing productive. Plus our social safety net is pitiful on the scale of developed countries. You are on your own. Oh, and the...

What We Know—or Mostly Don’t Know—about Long COVID Steven Deeks, M.D. Professor of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco There are many remaining immunological questions about COVID-19. How does SARS-CoV-2 trigger severe disease or even death in some and cause sniffles in...

Yeah, the photo of the pool in the article reminds me of rather severe upper back pain I would get from walking in chest-high water close to body temperature. Pressing my body against the weight of water while walking zombie-slow resulted in enormous pain afterward that lasted a week. So...

https://paincenterhouston.com/stellate-ganglion-blockade/ Edit to add: quote from above link: "What does the procedure do? When you block the stellate ganglion, you are blocking the sympathetic nervous system, thus providing relief in neuropathic pain. In a sense, SGB “reboots” the sympathetic...

Where I trespass, the indigenous had (prior to the 1800s invasion by the Spanish, Russians, and Americans) a work day no longer than 5 hours max. This allowed time for crafts such as their beautiful basketry, for their spiritual lives, and just hanging out. Occasions at the sweat lodge and...

I get the feeling that a lot of CDC pronouncements are political or they want to be popular (or idiots). In any case, the next variant will undoubtedly cause that institution to issue another proclamation. My prediction is a new variant peak next July-August. I base my prediction on the...

Racism in the US psychiatry--- NYTimes article https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/30/health/psychiatry-racism-black-americans.html?smid=url-share (I agree that psychiatry is higly necessary. If seriously mentally ill, I would of course, see a psychiatrist over a psychologist because the former...

I read this article yesterday morning and it helped ruin my day. At first this rehash of the Hyland model seems faintly interesting, possibly reasonable, but it soon degenerates into the same old psychs self-aggrandizing, self-congratulatory pompously stupid theorizing that it's all in your...

In my n=1 and I am not yet over 80, I complained to my primary care doc of increasing fatigue and muscle weakness. I was unable to express to him that it was likely a continuation of my 25 yr career with FM. My self-diagnosis is that the muscle weakness is probably due to aging muscle...

My fascination with all things ketamine continues, this time a well-written, simple to understand NIH article about use of low-dose ketamine for treatment-resistant depression...

Sometimes I'll have vertigo and then I go to youtube and look up the Epley Manuever and do it several times, exactly according to instructions (some instructional videos are slightly easier to do, slight variation but all work). I may have to repeat the Epley Manuever a couple of times but it...

All those poor anchovies, tons of them, plus other sentient beings. There will be a better way (research leading to a pharmaceutical) to deal with Alzheimers without decimating further the fish population.

Second author affiliation is with: Department of Food Science and Nutrition, Zhejiang Key Laboratory for Agro-Food Processing, Fuli Institute of Food Science, College of Biosystems Engineering and Food Science, Zhejiang which leads me to doubt--could there be some political tainting of the...

More on ketamine, perhaps inappropriate use in France in outpatient, non-palliative pain care uses, including FM. https://www.storkapp.me/paper/showPaper.php?id=967460353&displayKey=K63QTkhbwI

Could get out my cane and practice fencing thrusts whilst on the street, should it get too crowded.

Yesterday they lifted the mask mandate in California except for one county. This means not too much for me, except that I need to have even more patience before I can get my overdue Shingrix shot at the local pharmacy, or traipse into a grocery store for some beloved item that the delivery...

I like the DEA (US Department of Drug Enforcement, serious drug police) version of what ketamine is all about: https://www.dea.gov/sites/default/files/2020-06/Ketamine-2020_1.pdf

Strange to use a Proof of Concept trial for a drug that is already on the market. Maybe is a code word for a small study without a lot of statistical power. However, here's a link to a citation given by the study above for a RCT using bi-polar patients, who had significantly less fatigue than...

From Wikipedia, the only reference to increased energy: "Ketamine appears not to produce sedation or anaesthesia in snails. Instead, it appears to have an excitatory effect.[151]"

Part of the exclusions for becoming a test subject in this trial: "4. Current or past psychiatric disorders including medically documented depression with psychosis, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia; 5. Clinically documented post-traumatic stress syndrome and/or traumatic brain injury because...