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Because I'm permanently unwell (I'm not bedridden, but I am frequently housebound) I struggle with cleaning my house. I'm not, and never have been, a neat freak or cleaning obsessive - and it shows. I wondered if people could pass on their tips on how to make the job of cleaning anything a bit...

I assumed it must be a misspelling of something I wouldn't recognise so didn't actually google it. Oops.

I wonder what "planet" is or was? Anyone have any ideas?

Chrisomes and infants 2268 I'm wondering what a chrisome is, and all I can think of is possibly a baby or a young child which cried a lot because it was suffering from a serious disease and was in dreadful pain. Horrifying and very sad thought.

Thanks, I never thought of that. :)

I read the article. I'm curious about which brain operations end up with "spare" brain tissue. If I had had to guess what was in the hands of the person in the photo I would have guessed it was cheese. :D

I went through a phase of having UTIs when I was a student a few decades ago. The worst one had me peeing blood and the pain was excruciating. But I was lucky - none of the bladder infections became chronic. What I have got now though is a chronic pain in my left kidney which I've had for nearly...

But whenever it suits the person talking, personal anecdote is dismissed as irrelevant and is not counted as evidence. For example, for years people with side effects from statins were told that anecdotes were not evidence or were not data. But I think the message has got through to most people...

Just the title tells me this paper won't be worth reading. Rather than discussing the psychology of sufferers and studying ways to make patients accept their suffering and be good little patients who don't upset doctors by making them aware of their limitations, why don't they actually believe...

If null results don't get published doesn't that mean that some research will get repeated, possibly more than once, because nobody knows the research has already been done and been found to produce null results?

I must admit I did eat goat occasionally. If the Greeks, who mostly look healthy and energetic, can cope with it I assumed I could too. :D

Back in the 1990s my husband and I went on holiday to one of the islands in the Dodecanese. We went with a tour company and they supplied a holiday rep who was English and had been doing his job for several years and was very good at it. He told us on our first day about the well-known problem...

I didn't note down my starting date on lansoprazole but I think I'm now early in the third month of the switch from ranitidine to a PPI. I've known for years that eating/drinking anything acidic increases the pain I live with substantially. I can't even take vitamin C supplements because they...

My emphasis : Which one of these sentences is the one we're supposed to assume is the one intended? 1) Physicians can and should detect and diagnose these physical illnesses 2) Physicians can and should detect and diagnose these mental illnesses

Good job I don't buy premium teabags then, isn't it. :) Although, as @Peter Trewhitt said above, there is no obvious way of knowing which brands are free of plastic. Having done some checking online, I think my cheap teabags contain plastic after all. *Sigh*

From the quote box in the first post : There are so many reasons why this sentence is nonsense. The idea of what constitutes effective treatment from a doctor's point of view differs markedly from what a patient thinks is effective treatment. I could go off on a very long rant about it but I'm...

I tried to get my ranitidine prescription changed for another drug of the same type, but was told that it wasn't possible. I can't remember the string of excuses the surgery came out with to be honest. Although, having written that, I have just remembered I was told that I could be prescribed...

The biggest problem with MUS from my point of view is that it assumes doctors are perfect diagnosticians who never make mistakes. The patient is assumed to be lying or attention-seeking or drug-seeking or deluded or to have various other problems. The doctor can't be wrong, can they? And let's...

Link : https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-51378510 Article continues at : https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-51378510 I don't believe that painkillers are as useless as we are being told they are, although I accept that it is essential to find the right one for the patient for them to work as...

I can't tolerate fasting either. I just get weak, wobbly, fuzzy-headed, and cognitively challenged. I also start to fall over more than usual and make painful mistakes when doing dangerous things like cutting vegetables.