Luck based medicine: my resentful story of becoming a medical miracle

People will encounter the same kind of issue in Psychiatry. Because neuro-science is not advanced enough.

Quite an interesting article.

Should have gone to a psychoneuroimmunologist… shame it’s such an overlooked and rare specialty; anti-histamines are often quite powerful anticholinergics, especially when combined, and will substantially perturbe autonomic function. Autonomic dysfunction is often a cause for digestive issues, plus a raft of other things. People with these problems typically also have inflammation issues so the doctor may have come to the right conclusion for the wrong reason. Medicine is such a haphazard science that seems to spend the majority of its time gaslighting patients, at least they’re no longer blood letting or literally blowing smoke up peoples butts so thank goodness for small improvements.

Doctors, and by extension much of medicine, are terrible at statistics and the failure to properly use statistics means they constantly overlook otherwise obvious causes. Quite often you’re better off with Dr. Google which implicitly by the nature of the algorithm does use some statistics.

Antihistamines are often large ligands and tend to have other neurotransmitter affinities beyond just histamine receptors, chlorogenic receptor affinity is fairly common as well. They’re extremely powerful drugs with incredibly complex side effects. It surprises me that modern medicine uses them so casually, though thank goodness, as easy availability does allow for bypassing the gatekeepers. Just people should know they can make themselves quite sick from it, though if you’re sick it could make you better.

> Either you're completely broken and it's so obvious what's wrong with you that you barely need a doctor, or you're partially broken in which case doctors know very little and rely on experience, murky clues, and their gut.

> This made sense once I realized doctors know much less about the human body then they pretend to.

I find myself agreeing with this so strongly. Couldn't have put it better myself.

Further - I've suffered way worse harm relying on the medical system than the disease (mycoplasma genitalium infection) I had to arduously & painstakingly diagnose on my own (and even treatment was botched by my doctor, I had to insist that I be treated with the CDC recommendation as opposed to his outdated prescription).

I don't mean to say they're useless, far from it. In acute care they're the best we've got and they often perform miracles, but for chronic issues (by definition something medicine doesn't have the capability to fix) it's so often a horrible situation.

And there's such a strong force to silence criticism of the system.