My right side colon was removed 21 years ago and naturally, the appendix went with it. Fortunately the surgeons noticed a Meckles Diverticulum and removed it while they were in there. Curiously, I had suffered from frequent and severe left sided "diverticulitis" pain for many years. After surgery, I no longer suffered these attacks.
So fighting turtles makes you a badass…oh my, humans and their psychological needs. “I might be a nerd but I dominated those ninja turtles in training!” I say this as a proud lifelong nerd. We’ve romanticized and even deified scientists and science to the point we no longer see it as a human endeavor with all that goes with that…it makes it hard for individuals to admit to mistakes and failures because the consequences are so dire both within the community and without. And the consequences of that can be dire and widespread for everyone.
I’ve wondered if side effects are sometimes coincidental in that telling someone to look for them or, if someone is hyper vigilant, they just happened to be cold, etc. and blamed it on the medication. I’ve observed this in acquaintances, family and friends. Drives me crazy…and often seems to happen when a med is working.
Laughed so hard my ribs hurt from “rich people nonsense.” The mind is a powerful and at times a scary place. I have had, based on symptoms, fibromyalgia since age twelve (triggered by drowning). Until recently it was considered a disorder of hysterical women seeking attention. It left me with very mixed feelings about placebos, among other issues. Became even worse when I developed many other conditions after surviving bacterial meningitis at 50 (23 years ago). I could write a book in the positive consequences for a patient of a caring compassionate provider and the negative consequences of one who is not. It took years to find the good ones and frankly the process of getting there was incredibly stressful for someone already stressed by severe constant pain. Great presentation…learned a lot, which always makes me happy.
As someone who's appendix burst many years ago, I cannot tell you how happy I was to have that organ removed. I was on a drip for a week afterwards and hospitalised for two weeks. My adult son's appendix ruptured a few years ago and he was in surgery for 5 hours. It is often a medical emergecny.
Wait I don’t understand, is histamine a chemical released by the inflammatory response of the immune system cells to the allergy or are they receptors in brains, stomachs, and muscles. Also what is a receptor…..
Insurance companies are also an issue. There a generic versions of my Vyvanse, but my insurance will not pay for the generic... they will only pay for brand name. It baffles me.
It's interesting that hundreds of doctors and other medical professionals all contributed to the evolution of treatment for appendicitis, and my best friend still came within inches of death from a ruptured appendix, as he was repeatedly sent home from the ER with a "tummy ache."
I work with street dogs a lot. Every year I'm either bitten or scratched by a stay dog. My local nurse knows me personally by this point because of the number of times I have gotten the injection. I never take that chance.
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It's good to see that you are making the distinction that tar causes cancer, not nicotine.
My BMI is overweight, alledgedly, but I simply CANNOT force my body to lose those last 5 kilos. It will rebel and I find myself driven to eat a lot more to regain the lost weight. I'm not sure why this happens but it's very consistent: at 175cm in height, I can get down to 80kg but no lower, at least not without massive bodily protest. Even if I am overweight (which I think I might be) I cannot fix it without my body very clearly telling me to shut up and stop imposing on it. And it's not like I overeat or anything. 1200-2000 calories a day and I just hang around the same weight, unable to reach that mythically healthy BMI.
Interestingly. A friend of the family was suspected of appendicitis and that was the official diagnosis, until an old doctor re-examined and determined it was actually an ectopic pregnancy and she was rushed to surgery and she was saved.
Asian people aren't "people of color". They wanna be included in that oppression stack SO BAD but it falls so flat since Asians are the most prosperous racial group in America.
I seem to fall into the "nocebo" category, sort of. It’s not about negative effects from placebos for me, but more that when I don’t believe a medication will be effective, it often isn’t. I’m autistic and tend to think extremely logically about things. I also have a host of serious illnesses that are very, very real - like Type 1 Diabetes, spinal stenosis, osteoarthritis, and a degenerative neurological disease that is robbing me of my mobility…painfully. I have some diagnosed illnesses that aren’t what I’d consider "real," but we can’t find a better diagnosis. Chronic Fatigue Syndrome is one. I sleep 11-14 hours every day and I’m exhausted during the hours I’m awake. It’s gone in for nearly five years. If I don’t get my 11-14 hours of sleep every day, I end up sleeping 18-20 hours after two or three days. I never believed CFS to be a "real" disease and I’m convinced there’s something going on that my doctors have missed, but I’ve had every test and scan imaginable multiple times and nothing has made itself apparent. I take all sorts of medications. Insulin, obviously, which has measurable effects. Many of the other medications I take aren’t as "measurable" in their effects, though. I’ve taken all sorts of medications for pain and other neurological symptoms. Many don’t seem to do anything. I’ve been told by my psychiatrist that my negative attitude toward medication might be causing me to feel that I’m receiving no benefit from certain medications. There are medications I’ve been prescribed that I don’t believe will work to treat my symptoms. And, about half the time, they don’t. Some surprise me. Certain medications for nerve pain worked far better than I could have ever expected. If I forget a dose, I really feel it. Other medications for inflammation don’t help my pain at all. As I’m highly depressed most of the time, I’ve taken all sorts of medications to treat depression. I’ve only ever taken one that had a noticeable effect on my depression. Of course, I had a severe reaction to it due to liver toxicity (which nearly killed me because liver toxicity wasn’t a known side effect of that particular drug and therefore I wasn’t taken off that drug for months while we searched in vain for the cause of my liver failure). So the only medication I’ve ever found to effectively treat my depression is one I can’t take. Fun! Anyway, I don’t technically suffer from the "nocebo" effect, but I seem to suffer from something related to it. I’ve tried to make myself believe that a drug would work, but you can’t force yourself to believe in something you don’t actually believe in. It’s why I’m an atheist despite growing up in a very religious household and having gone through extensive religious education. There is zero evidence for anything supernatural - gods, angels, ghosts, spirits, demons, whatever - so I don’t believe they’re real. Thus, "believing" that a medication will work when I’ve seen no evidence for its efficacy doesn’t do it for me. Anyway, that’s my story. I absolutely love watching you, Patrick Kelly, so I always try to comment on your videos to help boost their position in the almighty algorithm. You make such intelligent, thought-provoking content. You’re also adorably cute, which I probably shouldn’t say but I have no filter so what the heck…
To me all these double-blind placebo effects studies may well be proving that methodology of these studies is wrong. Historically placebos were often sugar pills, and sugar makes some of us feel slow and lethargic. This made any medicine being tested somewhat more effective than the placebo. Another issue is that the studies have to assume all the participants are identical. Because of genetic variation we each have a slightly different metabolism. One person with an unusual metabolic response will have little effect on the outcome of the study, but they are used to prescribe treatments for everyone: including those who have the unusual response. Most people over 70 have bad experiences with medicine and little faith in doctors.
Pointing metal objects or any instrument at pain or wound, then approaching that spot can cause the pain to stop briefly from the anxiety or nervous fear response. The idea that a worse pain is about to happen, causes something to happen mentally or physically. I have felt it plenty of times.
That Liquid Death part I just want to point this out: It doesn't look like an energy drink, it looks alcoholic canned drink. Which is the purpose of these drinks to look like you're drinking alcohol. It's even marketed as being canned from Austrian Alp water, it's quite literally pulling on Austria's famous wine, and Germany's famous beer reputation. It was inspired by people drinking water out of monster cans at concerts but it's biggest pull and intent is to look like an alcoholic drink similar to that of White Claw and Mikes Hard.
LAPAROSCOPIC NUMBERS ARE SKEWED...ALL SURGERIES ARE SCHED. AS LAPS..THEY COST MORE, YET OFTEN NORMAL SURG IS REQUIRED @ TIME OF SURGERY... I AM PROOF OF THAT. PAID FOR LAP & FRANKENSTEIN SCAR.......
The placebo effect cannot help somebody when they are dope sick
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Buying up smaller companies and raising prices should be good: it encourages people to start more smaller companies.
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The act requiring efficacy was arguably one of the big drivers of cost in drug research, and also of slowing down the pace of new drug discoveries. (As said later in the video.) Compare and contrast how your doctor can prescribe you any medication for any ailment off-label, even if the FDA only has efficacy trials for one specific ailment.
