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There is pretty clear evidence from neuroscience that pain has a significant emotional component. The evolutionary benefit is to having an emotional component is that it makes it less likely that the animal will try to override the pain.
Yes I agree with that theory, but I don't see how that proves that pain is completely decoupled from physical damage, and just randomly happens to some people solely because they are upset or "disturbed".
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I’m curious what sort of stresses are thought to cause adrenal issues. Can they be environmental/situational vs. chronic hereditary? About 5 years ago I was fairly healthy, eating great and CrossFit 6 days a week. Then my body started to become tired all the time. I had pretty high work stress at the time along with what might be considered frequent physically stressful workouts. I suddenly found myself sleeping most…
> I’m curious what sort of stresses are thought to cause adrenal issues. Can they be environmental/situational vs. chronic hereditary? “Adrenal fatigue” is an alternative medicine diagnosis. It’s a seductively simple narrative for people seeking answers to unexplained medical issues, but the theory is very much pseudoscience instead of actual science. The biggest red flag for the adrenal fatigue theory is the claim t…
In reality I had stress-induced depression with a high degree of physical fatigue as one of the symptoms. When I stopped being depressed, my fatigue went away. Adrenal fatigue is nonsense.
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From a patient perspective, it's pretty believable. They don't know what's wrong after the typical battery of tests, so it's incurable or you're making it up. I've also had an experience where I basically told the doctor >I am tired all the time, I sleep 12-16 hours a day and still wake up feeling completely unrested, and it seriously affects my ability to do my school work and live my life and his response was (to p…
Isn't sleep apnea more common in overweight people?
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I’ve got a relevant experience to back this up. I had a urinary tract infection that I felt progress up to my bladder and eventually into one kidney and then the next. I would’ve liked to visit a doctor immediately, but with American medical costs being what they are and hospitals advising me to hold out a few more days until a doctor in my insurance network was available, I’d hoped that small stinging pain down ther…
Some doctors are idiots. No different than people in any other profession.
I went through an annoyance with my vision. I ended up having two separate conditions (well a total of 5 things were wrong with my eyes, but two acive major ones and two that will eventually cause more surgery later but aren't a big deal yet and one that was minor), but because the first one seemed like it was causing the problems, it took me almost a year to find and get real treatment for my issues so I could be ab…
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You should probably cite articles that you copy from: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4938692/ Also, the reason the guidelines were removed from the NGC is that they hadn't been revised in 5 years. https://lymediseaseassociation.org/news/official-word-on-ids... And the new draft guidelines from the Infectious Diseases Society of America doesn't appear to agree with your position either. https://www.idsoc…
The question is why has the CDC been pushing outdated guidelines? Why are they pushing guidelines that ignore a boatload of research? The answer is: Conflict of interest and dogma. See my third link in my earlier reply. Regarding the new guidelines, there are significant admissions: -The limitations of antibody testing (page 10, line 234), and that a patient can be seronegative -Lyme arthritis only occurs in a minori…