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I'm at the mild end of the scale for ME. But I've had a lot of surgery over the years and my main problem after the event in each case is that I almost always end up being iron deficient and anaemic, even with surgery that wouldn't be expected to cause major blood loss. The other issue is that...

I get very angry about the fact that I had a very simple health problem throughout most of my life that was almost never recognised or was considered trivial and didn't need treatment or needed very little treatment (i.e. here's one prescription, now go away because you aren't going to get...

I initially misread that as "Can Medicine Be Cruel" and my instant reaction was "Yes!"

I simply don't believe that figure! But then they use the weasel words "up to" about the number.

Could there be a historical reason for the differences being found in men and women? For a large part of my life many, many women have believed that a low fat diet is the best diet for health. And men have been less interested in restrictive diets like the low-fat diet than women. I am under...

When I was having repeated and severe chest pain I was tested for heart attack multiple times. Such testing always came back negative. After that there was only one other suggested possibility... Anxiety. Edit : I found out the cause of my chest pain and fixed it myself.

If patients were asked which came first it would prevent researchers from deciding for themselves.

From the previous reply by Sly Saint, why on earth does AI get trained on medical issues with content from The Onion? Are there no exclusion lists to avoid this?

I haven't bothered to keep up with research on chronic pain ever since the NICE NG193 Guidance was published, on the basis that if NICE could publish that [garbage] there was no chance that anyone would ever take me seriously, even though I know the causes of my chronic pain and there is...

Cold water immersion sounds like torture to me. I could never do it. I'm curious if anyone who does this keeps records of their body temperature before going in cold water and immediately after getting out.

I've just realised I've already said all this in an earlier reply to this thread from a few months ago. Mods can delete this reply if they want to. If someone starts taking a new supplement and develops new symptoms after beginning the new supplement wouldn't it be sensible to do some research...

Oh, completely! I wasn't criticising your post. I was criticising brain retraining, which has always sounded like nonsense to me - and cruel nonsense at that.

I understand what you are saying, and I realise this is what brain retraining enthusiasts are saying, but I don't really understand how patients are supposed to do what they are told is required. I'm not a doctor. I don't have a lab that does blood testing, I don't have an MRI machine in my...

Being a dyed-in-the-wool cynic about the medical profession generally, I tried to find information on the people who had died after being seen only by physician associates. And I noticed that all the patients I found were female. Are men considered to be too important to be seen by PAs, and they...

There is another problem with getting treated for hypothyroidism - doctors are often not familiar with all the possible symptoms of which there are many. I remember reading an anecdote on a thyroid forum about a woman who had plantar fasciitis which she blamed on her hypothyroidism. She...

I've always been dubious about brain retraining. What little I've read seems to suggest that the retraining physically changes the brain in some way, but nobody actually says what those changes are. If we take some fairly common real-life situations that change behaviour quite drastically, it...

By modern blood tests I suspect she would not have been diagnosed as hypothyroid. Hashimoto's didn't get mentioned at all. But the urine tests she had done showed that she was excreting almost no thyroid hormones at all. Unfortunately I have absolutely no idea what results would be expected...

I'd be interested to know if anyone knows of a company that does urine testing for thyroid.

This video is old. The interview it shows was recorded in 2003. But I did find it interesting. The type of testing involved is something I've never come across myself in this context.

I take Bisoprolol 2.5mg per day, to stop my heart from going too fast. I have tachycardia. It doesn't cause me any side effects nowadays but I had to build up to the full prescribed dose over quite a long period of time because otherwise it would slow my heart down by too much for me to...