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A battle over Canada’s mystery brain disease

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patcon wrote: post #77

I grew up in New Brunswick. It is a strange place politically. I find it wild that the BBC never mentioned the most glaring underbelly of this: New Brunswicks most significant employer for the past 100 years is Irving Oil & Irving Paper and Irving Forestry. They are different arms of a privately held family-run business, run by the descendants of the original founder (whose records are not as public as a traded compa…

After reading about the mysterious firing and payoff of glysophate studying scientists it seems obvious what stone is going unturned here.

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Post by rsynnott »

whatsupdog wrote: post #43
hedayet wrote: post #33

I was diagnosed with a mysterious tachycardia last year, coincidental to this headline: while I was living in Canada. At one point I checked into the ER with a resting heart rate around 200 BPM, and on some days my smartwatch couldn’t even detect a pulse because it was racing so fast. I eventually recovered-though I still avoid wearing smart devices because seeing my heart rate triggers anxiety-but the whole period e…

How many COVID shots did you get? I noticed my resting heart rate go up after the first one. So I never got another one.

COVID vaccines (and various other vaccines), often cause flu-like symptoms for a day or so; you should've been warned about this at the time. Pretty much anything that gives you a fever will boost your heart rate a bit.

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Post by atombender »

oefrha wrote: post #49

If this reporting is accurate then it certainly paints a picture of cult-like behavior. Personal charisma, empathetic and caring, "strangely conspiratorial" behavior during appointments cementing an us (one lone doctor and helpless patients) against them (wealthy and powerful people) narrative, etc. are very effective on distressed people. On top of that it seems that apart from being tested over and over again and b…

The article describes one patient getting multiple treatments, none of which worked.

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Post by jacquesm »

patcon wrote: post #77

I grew up in New Brunswick. It is a strange place politically. I find it wild that the BBC never mentioned the most glaring underbelly of this: New Brunswicks most significant employer for the past 100 years is Irving Oil & Irving Paper and Irving Forestry. They are different arms of a privately held family-run business, run by the descendants of the original founder (whose records are not as public as a traded compa…

This was one of the more surprising things to me when I lived in Canada: that there is so much of this. Depending on which region you are in you will either have state monopolies on the strangest things and/or a couple of families that have their fingers in just about every pie. And don't get me started on the telecommunications sector.

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throwaway_9879 wrote: post #29

The answer is "nothing" The only common factor between these patients is Dr. Marrero. It is notable that he is not the only physician who works in that clinic, but is the only one diagnosing this condition. The most likely cause is weak diagnostic skills for challenging patients. Unfortunately, a majority of these patients likely have Functional Neurologic Disorder https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/conve…

> Source: I live in the canadian maritimes, and know many neurologists.

That's a fairly weak claim for an appeal to authority.

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CheeseFromLidl wrote: post #90
enceladus06 wrote: post #50

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Right, but what is causing the functional neurological disorder? Speaking as someone who has had alot of of chronic pain [CPPS] there is some sort of neuro issue going on but we don't know what it is. But "dementia, weight loss, unsteadiness, jerking movements and facial twitches" does seem like more than just neuro?

dementia, weight loss, unsteadiness, jerking movements and facial twitches This actually describes my benzodiazepine withdrawal symptoms. The only thing missing is the suicide-inducing tinnitus.

Tinnitus is terrible. There are days I'd rather be deaf, but I know a few people that are deaf and realize that that is just my idiot side looking for a quick solution to the problem ignoring the downsides (and I love music). It is so frustrating.

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Post by jacquesm »

vasco wrote: post #86
throwaway_9879 wrote: post #29

The answer is "nothing" The only common factor between these patients is Dr. Marrero. It is notable that he is not the only physician who works in that clinic, but is the only one diagnosing this condition. The most likely cause is weak diagnostic skills for challenging patients. Unfortunately, a majority of these patients likely have Functional Neurologic Disorder https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/conve…

> The only common factor between these patients is Dr. Marrero They all live in the same province too. If you're already wrong here it's hard to trust anything else

That's signal though: it points to an environmental factor.

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Post by jacquesm »

OutOfHere wrote: post #48

These sick people there need to move out permanently to go live far away from the province and see if they get better. If it's prion disease, they probably won't reliably get better by moving alone. They also should do private testing for heavy metals.

It it's a prion disease they won't get better period.

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Post by Ylpertnodi »

0xbadcafebee wrote: post #72

This is a textbook case of mass hysteria. A whole lot of people in one place, all coming down with a mystery illness, with no apparent cause, and everyone has different symptoms. Instances like these have been reported multiple times in the past 20 years, as well as for thousands of years in the past. They all genuinely feel the symptoms. But the cause is clearly no physical thing in the environment.

> But the cause is clearly no physical thing in the environment.

And you're 100% sure on that?

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