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A degenerative brain disease, cause unknown, no treatment, dementia in early age 30s. Following a surgical procedure for heart problem, which was relatively ea

A degenerative brain disease, cause unknown, no treatment, dementia in early age 30s. Following a surgical procedure for heart problem, which was relatively easy for current medicine, it's as if his brain didn't come back, his personality changed, he was losing the ability to be himself. Horrible, but real. Also today I sat with a close family member as they received a diagnosis for a serious psychiatric illness. Treatable, but the drugs currently available have rough side effects. It's not going to get easier. The article characterizes Halloway's disease as a "rare" disorder, only one in 5,000 people. But it really seems as if the bigger picture, of everyone currently sidelined with "Long COVID" or chronic mental health conditions or both... Well, it's less rare than I might like it to be.

redis_mlc 5y ago
It's important for patients to know about the following medical side-effects: - anesthesia can make you a vegetable, or kill you. Fentanyl, an anesthetic shipped in bulk to South America and the USA, has made that more visible to the public. - MRI dyes can destroy your kidneys, or worse. - at a lower risk than above (usually), most pharmaceutical drugs and precursors are made in China. There's virtually no FDA oversight, especially during corona. This issue is still under the radar, but it's real. The most famous case is when a US cardiologist died after surgery when the Chinese-made medication was contaminated. "More than 800 arrests made in DEA crackdown on fentanyl-laced fake pills": https://www.cnn.com/2021/09/30/us/dea-fake-pills-sweep-800-arrests/index.html https://www.cnn.com/2021/09/30/us/dea-fake-pills-sweep-800-a...
breezeTrowel 5y ago
> Following a surgical procedure for heart problem, which was relatively easy for current medicine, it's as if his brain didn't come back, his personality changed, he was losing the ability to be himself. From the article it seems the problem manifested years before the surgery. The surgery only accelerated the decline.

redis_mlc 5y ago

It's important for patients to know about the following medical side-effects: - anesthesia can make you a vegetable, or kill you. Fentanyl, an anesthetic shipped in bulk to South America and the USA, has made that more visible to the public. - MRI dyes can destroy your kidneys, or worse. - at a lower risk than above (usually), most pharmaceutical drugs and precursors are made in China. There's virtually no FDA oversight, especially during corona. This issue is still under the radar, but it's real. The most famous case is when a US cardiologist died after surgery when the Chinese-made medication was contaminated. "More than 800 arrests made in DEA crackdown on fentanyl-laced fake pills": https://www.cnn.com/2021/09/30/us/dea-fake-pills-sweep-800-arrests/index.html https://www.cnn.com/2021/09/30/us/dea-fake-pills-sweep-800-a...

breezeTrowel 5y ago

> Following a surgical procedure for heart problem, which was relatively easy for current medicine, it's as if his brain didn't come back, his personality changed, he was losing the ability to be himself. From the article it seems the problem manifested years before the surgery. The surgery only accelerated the decline.