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When doctors talk about chronic pain are they assuming that the pain has no cause that can be found? What would happen if someone had some severe genetic condition that distorted their spine and caused them lots of pain, for example? Would they be told that CBT is all they need or will they...

I'm sure psychiatric drugs create side effects aka symptoms that could be mistaken for new diseases in a patient. So, it doesn't seem to me that altering the presentation of a disease or modifying a disease would be impossible. If it did happen then I would guess it was an accident. I doubt that...

There are many different types of magnesium supplements, some good, some very poor. Perhaps taking something different might help : https://drjockers.com/best-magnesium-supplement/ http://www.afibbers.org/magnesium.html...

I used to get benign fasciculations (BF). It took me a long time to find out what the proper name for the condition was. Some people have actually filmed their BF and put the results on Youtube if you want to do a search. I was in hospital once when I got BF. I'd also had blood tests done not...

If magnesium doesn't do the trick, cramp could be caused by low iron (although this usually causes restless legs rather than cramp), low calcium, low potassium or low salt. It would also be worth looking at the known side effects of any prescribed drugs you take or any non-prescription supplements.

Ditto.

‘Give me back my fact: How can social science help us survive the post-truth pandemic?’ she emphasised the need to draw on the ‘social science of science’ to produce a 21st-century post-truth account of what science is I've always understood "post-truth" to mean "my 'facts' are better than...

Animals that hibernate have to acquire lots of fat during the summer to keep them alive during the winter, don't they? If that was true for humans it would change the entire nature of human life, human fashion and what makes a mate desirable. Who wants to hibernate with their partner only to...

Excellent article on Long Covid. It has information, examples and quotes from both the UK and the US. One UK doctor mentioned in the article is really unimpressed with the NHS roll-out of Long-Covid Clinics. Title : The many strange long-term symptoms of Covid-19, explained Link ...

There are actually two wiki pages for this man : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_R._Grinker_Sr. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Richard_Grinker Edit : Ignore that... They are father and son, or grandfather and grandson.

I don't know why it is but I always think that BDS stands for British Dentists (or Dental or Dentistry) Society. :banghead: :confused:

From the quote in the first post : I do remember reading that doctors and surgeons didn't believe that babies and small children could feel pain, so they operated on them without anaesthetic and often refused to provide pain relief after surgeries ...

I wasn't aware of that. That's more like how I experience it.

I think it has its roots in Puritanism and/or the Protestant Work Ethic.

There is a reference to brain fog in the quote in post #2919 One thing I've noticed when anyone describes brain fog... If someone has never had it they don't seem to be able to grasp what it is. But once someone has developed it, temporarily or permanently, they never seem to have any...

There are researchers discovering that people can sometimes reduce the severity of their mental illnesses using good nutrition as a treatment - improve their diet and treat them with vitamins and minerals and people start to feel a whole lot better. Ketogenic diets have been helpful in many...

This idea that "maladaptive perfectionism" is a problem amongst patients with ME has always puzzled me. I look at myself, my life, my home, and I don't see any evidence of this perfectionism at all. Is it just a cheap way of categorising people as mentally ill, even when it is absolute nonsense?

Thank you. I've never managed to remember those US abbreviations about diagnoses and treatments with an x on the end (Rx, Dx and ???), and yet most Americans use them without batting an eyelid about it. And I've never heard of a Digital Therapeutic treatment before either, so I learn something...

What does DTx mean?

I've always wanted to know if chronic pain caused by known physical damage that will never heal (scarring and adhesions) is considered to be a functional condition or not. Can anyone tell me?