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> Let's leave the medicine to the medical professionals, yeah? Partially disagree. Yes, they are a very important source of information, but ultimately it is y

by umvi 6y ago

> Let's leave the medicine to the medical professionals, yeah? Partially disagree. Yes, they are a very important source of information, but ultimately it is your body and information should flow freely both directions so you (the patient) are empowered to make the best possible decision. Anecdote: Doctors are not omniscient. One time when my sister was in high school, she went to the doctor because she had a weird rash. My mom researched skin rash images online for hours and concluded it was shingles. When she brought it up to the doctor he laughed and said my sister was far too young for shingles and that it was probably just an allergic reaction to something she ate. He prescribed some topical ointment to see if it helped. Well, my mom didn't like that and took her to a different doctor who, unprompted, said: "wow, that looks like zoster (shingles)!"

com2kid 6y ago
The # of misdiagnosed issues I've had is quite high, including "oh your knee joint is damaged" when actually I had over-developed muscles on one side of my leg that was pulling my knee out of position during certain motions. My personal trainer took a look and was like "dude, one side of your right leg is jacked, the other side's not, that's your problem". Heck a few months ago my dentist wanted to give me a root canal because hot food was causing pain in one of my front teeth. I started wearing my night guard again (...) and the problem went away in a week. And let's not even get into how miserable doctors are at treating acne, when I was a teenager the official medical word was that diet didn't impact acne. Well, turns out, it's been shown through nice detailed studies that milk can inflame acne. My first blog was detailing an elimination diet to find out what food stuffs made my acne worse, few years later studies started coming out confirming what people had been saying for literally decades, food can impact acne! Heck to this day if I splurge on cream I'll get a white head or two. What the doctor did do was prescribe me an antibiotic that I took for 5 years (!!!) that ended up causing low iron and didn't do much of anything for my acne.

by umvi 6y ago

com2kid 6y ago

The # of misdiagnosed issues I've had is quite high, including "oh your knee joint is damaged" when actually I had over-developed muscles on one side of my leg that was pulling my knee out of position during certain motions. My personal trainer took a look and was like "dude, one side of your right leg is jacked, the other side's not, that's your problem". Heck a few months ago my dentist wanted to give me a root canal because hot food was causing pain in one of my front teeth. I started wearing my night guard again (...) and the problem went away in a week. And let's not even get into how miserable doctors are at treating acne, when I was a teenager the official medical word was that diet didn't impact acne. Well, turns out, it's been shown through nice detailed studies that milk can inflame acne. My first blog was detailing an elimination diet to find out what food stuffs made my acne worse, few years later studies started coming out confirming what people had been saying for literally decades, food can impact acne! Heck to this day if I splurge on cream I'll get a white head or two. What the doctor did do was prescribe me an antibiotic that I took for 5 years (!!!) that ended up causing low iron and didn't do much of anything for my acne.