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A week after my sesame oil laptop spill I drove to the repair place. Result: too expensive to maybe fix. i bought one of their HP plug in keyboards and I'm good for now. I'll keep the laptop on the table in front of the couch to slouch and read while on heating pad. When I need to lie down, I...

Wow, so many ideas and so much variability. For simplicity's sake and because I don't feel my living quarters are stable (heat and fires and noise), I think I will ponder the possibilities a bit more. Perhaps I could change my bad laptop behavior. And get another lightweight one, perhaps a 17...

I am lucky not to have to spend the majority of my day lying down. I usually sit back on a comfortable couch with heating pad to read online, and later in the day need to recline on said heating pad for several hours to read more online to watch video. But I have destroyed two laptops due to...

How I love the discussion section: "...However, our results should be interpreted with caution since, first of all, defining symptoms as sequelae 6 months after infection should be done with great caution. Some symptoms are frequent in the dialysis population and could be part of the natural...

From the preprint: "Positive affectivity is reduced in FM (Finan et al., 2009; Galvez-Sánchez et al., 2018), which is associated with higher levels of loneliness and less enjoyment of interpersonal events (Wolf and Davis, 2014). In this context, FM sufferers less able to adjust to environmental...

Having to document, wear a device, and pay attention to the study, all takes away from the joy (sometimes) of being able to walk and walking. This "study" seems much ado about nothing. Walking, if all you have is a crowded and noisy street, is no joy. The researchers tear their hair out with...

Attention to avoiding FODMAPS in the diet can improve IBS symptoms a lot.

I use a sterile vaseline overnight eye ointment as told by eye doc. Seems to help in general, though I still have to put in saline drops an hour or so after taking a medication that dries out the eye (in this case a muscle relaxant).

I think there should be more rigorous testing to get into universities, and then even more stringent testing for graduate school, although this would empty out psychology departments. Perhaps, and only perhaps, there would be less of this type of 'research.'

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...