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This is a little off topic for this thread, but I'm currently doing a 9-day home cardiac test because my last sleep study showed my average heart rate for the 2-day sleep study test was 30 and 31, considered too low for a nocturnal HR. My HR is normal during the day. I've been much more fatigued...

The new XBB.1.16 covid variant, Arcturus, can cause pink eye. Even though this variant is supposed to be new in the U.S., I wonder if it's what my sister contracted in January. She tested negative for flu and covid, but she had a dreadful cough for 3 weeks and so much diarrhea during that time...

I hope mask manufacturers will improve designs since masks need to fit well. I think masks should have adjustable ear loops, chin wraps to prevent aerosols from entering gaps, and nose wires to customize fit. More sizes would help, too. Many large people have a hard time finding masks that...

The WHO and CDC delayed telling the public for months that covid is airborne. I remember in 2020 reading articles by aerosol researchers that covid is airborne. I don't know why they weren't taken more seriously by the WHO and CDC, but god knows how many unnecessary deaths occurred because of...

Salon has a good article about the current state of covid, the cessation of preventive measures and monitoring, and the dangers of allowing the virus to keep mutating. https://www.salon.com/2023/04/13/the-has-mutated-so-much-since-2019-that-some-experts-say-it-should-be-renamed-sars-cov-3/

In Central Texas there are 4 different types of poisonous snakes. My doctor's mom was weeding in her garden and was bitten by a rattlesnake. He got her in the car and started calling emergency rooms and asking if they had antivenom. Luckily, one hospital had it, but there is a shortage of...

@Wonko, I'm glad you've figured out how to make porridge in your instant pot. I've only made it on top of the stove, but a couple of times when I didn't notice the timer or put it on too high heat, it was just godawful to clean. Porridge (oatmeal in the U.S.) turns into a concrete-like substance...

Unfortunately, CDC statistics from 2020 show that more American children and adolescents (age 1-19) now die from firearms than any other causes. https://www.kff.org/global-health-policy/issue-brief/child-and-teen-firearm-mortality-in-the-u-s-and-peer-countries/...

The really horrifying thing in America is that gun violence is the major cause of childhood fatalities.

Since you mentioned paralysis as one of your symptoms, you might want to research REM sleep disorders and sleep paralysis. SP is sometimes associated with narcolepsy, but there are other kinds of sleep disorders that can cause it.

I really hope that in 6 months, a year, we aren't all talking about bird flu that has spread to humans. There have been some cases of animal-to-human transmission, which, although few, is very worrying. I hope a bird flu vaccine is in progress. It's not only a vaccine we need for a possible...

Breathing through the nose instead of the mouth has many benefits, including increasing the release of nitric oxide from the sinuses.

I love qigong. The other night I was wondering why I was so achy, and I realized I had forgotten to do my daily qigong. It does give me a little energy, maybe from increasing circulation and enhancing breathing. But the main thing I've noticed is pain relief, enough to make the exercise worth it.

I really have to wonder if fibro predominately affected men instead of women, would there be so much research probing the role of moods in the disorder? Would men be subjected to terms like pain catastrophizing? Would it be as common to imply that the physical symptoms of fibro are a...

Four MG of the transdermal form of LDN helps my sleep. I haven't noticed other benefits.

In the U.S., kitchen stools are classified as either bar stools or counter stools. I recently ordered a counter stool with the seat 23" from the floor, 58.4 cm. The bar stool in this same model is quite a bit higher.

My "mood profile" worsens with the endless, largely bogus, studies that imply that fibro is a mental pathology. I was diagnosed 35 years ago, and it's disheartening that so many misconceptions about fibro persist. @Andy, I still very much appreciate you posting these articles. I want to know...

I saw this article, too, and was horrified at first because my chocolate bar of choice, Theo's 85% Dark, is one of the ones listed as having the most lead and cadmium. But I only eat 1 small square a day, so I figure it won't kill me. I really like this particular chocolate because it's so...

A gynecologist once asked me if I weren't being oversensitive to my symptoms. I found out later from a different doctor who tied my tubes that I had endometriosis, which can be excruciating. He burned it off while doing the tubal ligation. The kicker is that the 1st gynecologist who asked that...

Do any researchers actually work on finding causes and treatments for fibro? You know, things that might actually help? I've heard it called incurable. Could that partly be from the lack of good research into this condition?