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This just feels like drug dealing with a far more benevolent motivation. I agree that it should ultimately be up to the person but there's a lot of ways this co
by lenerdenator 2y ago
This just feels like drug dealing with a far more benevolent motivation. I agree that it should ultimately be up to the person but there's a lot of ways this could go wrong.
Remember, you're putting these substances in your body. Make damned sure you trust the person you got them from. Like, "I would trust you to raise my child in the event of my death" levels of trust.
- fph 2y agoIsn't the point of DIY medicine that you are the person making the drugs?
- lenerdenator 2y agoThen make sure you trust the guy you got the instructions, ingredients, and equipment from.
- Ekaros 2y agoConsidering the issues with snake oil. And well what currently is marketed as magic cures for various things, I rather not trust most instructions...
- tcdent 2y ago> Make damned sure you trust the person you got them from. Like, "I would trust you to raise my child in the event of my death" levels of trust. Do most people feel this way about formalized medical practitioners today?
- lenerdenator 2y agoIn theory they go through a lot of training and regulation to make sure that the goons stay out. It's not 100% effective, but I do trust my PCP more than a guy in Midtown selling PCP.
- pcthrowaway 2y agoWell that's the point of DIY medicine, empowering people like yourself to make your own PCP. Of course you trust it more than the PCP from that guy in Midtown.
- jzemeocala 2y agoI'm just waiting for the libertarian drug reform so that I can get my PCP from my PCP
- MSFT_Edging 2y agoIf you're a woman in the US, doctors will sooner call your issues anxiety and throw Xanax at you than to try to help you figure out the causes. Sometimes they'll even get mad at you if you don't want to take Xanax and suggest you're mentally unfit.
- silverquiet 2y agoI’m not a woman and it wasn’t Xanax, but Ativan was a miracle drug that cured many physical symptoms for me. Doctors follow an algorithm where they look for common stuff first (“when you hear hoof beats…”), and anxiety is very common; I believe more so amongst women.
- drewbeck 2y ago“The algorithm worked for me” isn’t a particularly strong defense of the algorithm.
- Loughla 2y agoMy wife is currently dealing with a kidney stone that is filling her entire kidney. Major surgery incoming. She started having them check it a year ago. When advocating for herself, the male doctors either a) seemed to believe she was making it up and attributed it literally to her monthly cycle, or b) suggested it was anxiety. I'm sort of in the camp that doctors absolutely poopoo women's problems.
- jaggederest 2y agoIt happens for men, too. Anyone with problems that don't produce obviously incorrect lab values or gross physical symptoms, unless it's in the top 10 or 20 most common illnesses, good luck with that. Even if your lab values are off, but "not enough", getting anyone to do something about them is heroic effort, and when you're already ill, it's a farce.
- knowitnone 2y agoso you're saying men don't mistakenly diagnosed with anxiety when it's not?
- singleshot_ 2y agoI do, but I'm married to mine.
- knowitnone 2y agoThe alternative is to not visit a doctor of any sort. You might take that further and not visit a mechanic. Medical practitioners are not perfect. I trust they are doing their job and they can get it wrong. Medicine is not easy. People have to advocate for themselves if they don't think the doctor got it right.
- harimau777 2y agoI think that the intended use case is people who otherwise wouldn't be able to access important drugs. In that sense, I suppose that some people might consider it worth the risk.
- 01HNNWZ0MV43FF 2y agoGender-affirming hormone therapy is done grey market and I don't think of that as "like drug dealing"