Bedridden For 11yrs And Cured Himself

Yes, I came across that article yesterday and was enthralled by it, thank you for posting it - a truly amazing story indeed. Lots of stuff we can relate to: he fell ill, got progressively worse/weaker with time, had to give up college, became bedridden, got a fair amount of medical investigation which turned up negative and was going to be referred to psychiatry. But ended up figuring out the mysterious illness (which both he and his mother suffered from) by poring over numerous medical textbooks and getting an interested doctor onside to help with his theory of what it might be.
From the fall of 1999 onward, Lindsay was bedridden about 22 hours a day.
"If I was up, it was because I was eating or going to the bathroom," he said.
Lindsay immersed himself in medical research, determined to find a way out. He saw specialists from endocrinology, neurology, internal medicine and other specialties. When one doctor was out of ideas, he referred Lindsay to a psychiatrist.
That's when Lindsay realized he'd have to figure his predicament out on his own.
While in college he had picked up a 2,200-page endocrinology textbook near a garbage can, hoping to use it to figure out what condition his mom had. In it, he found an important passage discussing how adrenal disorders could mirror thyroid disorders.
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A really inspiring read.
 
Thank you. So sorry. Was trying to read the screen against sunlight and couldn't see the colour difference.
 
Using a stash of aging medical textbooks, Lindsay hypothesized that a whole class of autonomic nervous-system disorders could exist beyond the established categories of what most endocrinologists or neurologists knew about.
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Several of the scientists disagreed with Lindsay's hypotheses about his ailment. But that wasn't unexpected. He didn't even have a bachelor's degree and he was telling doctors from Harvard University, the National Institutes of Health and the Cleveland Clinic something their medical training told them was impossible.
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"They didn't patronize me. They treated me like a scientist," Lindsay said. "I was entering into a world of science I couldn't participate in because I was at home and couldn't be a grad student."
Dr. H. Cecil Coghlan, a medical professor at the University of Alabama-Birmingham, approached Lindsay after his presentation. Coghlan said he thought Lindsay was on to something.
At last, Lindsay had a medical ally.
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About the other doctors saying it was impossible--my professors always taught me that new advances are usually by graduate students.

People to new to "know" what things are impossible. So they find new possibilities.

Obviously that could apply to people not actually in school as well, as it has here.
 
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