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6113. Absensia - 6/9/2004 6:29:18 AM Thoughtful, Osteopathy? Don't think that's it. Osteopaths are actually licensed doctors who have been to medical school, etc., but also are trained in massage and body manipulation as well. 6114. arkymalarky - 6/9/2004 6:37:35 AM Thanks Thoughtful. I've been exposed to all of those things so much since I moved here 32 years ago, that I don't think that would help now. I can't gradually expose myself to them, because they're literally everywhere. It's actually fairly common in AR, because we have such high humidity. The allergist told me some people (he said about 10%) don't get results from treatment and eventually move, but I hope we don't have to do that. I want to live here.
Thanks for the info, Abs! I hope it will get rid of them. I've literally put up with this over 30 years, but it's just getting beyond the point of being able to function. I've got a catalog of allergy stuff and I have to get that gauge, and I'll try those too. Luckily I'm not much allergic to dust, but the mold has got to go. It's a problem at work too. I can't even bend over most of the time, the pressure's so bad.
I asked about seeing an ENT and surgery and my x-rays showed I'm not clogged, but I am swollen and infected, so either way it would happen again if I didn't deal with the cause. With Bro's surgery and a daily antihistimine he was a lot better, but he had a deviated septum. 6115. robertjayb - 6/9/2004 6:40:48 AM Doctor jayb reminds you of the late Ronald Reagan's dictum, "Trust but verify," and suggests a second opinion.
Allergists have a fat deal and I can't help but suspect that some of them are tempted to fudge on a good thing.
Spouse gets monthly shots to protect against allergic reaction (anaphalactic (sp?) shock) from some insect stings. Since she sometimes works around bees and fire ants, it seems a sensible precaution, but the good doctor has a bird's nest on the ground. 6116. judithathome - 6/9/2004 6:42:29 AM Where they try to gradually expose your system to the allergens so you get desensitized rather than having to try and avoid all substances known on earth
Homeopathy. 6117. thoughtful - 6/9/2004 6:44:42 AM Maybe it's homeopathy...I know it's some kind of pathogen. ;-)
6118. arkymalarky - 6/9/2004 6:48:25 AM I know they do, Robert, but I've truly been plagued with this stuff, knowing I was allergic, but trying to use a prescription and otc stuff to deal with it, to the point I have to try to stop the reactions somehow. I told Bob and my parents the other day that I literally never feel good any more. One thing about being in a small area, I can find out about pretty much any doctor I go to, and I also have a dependable GP who sent me to him. In addition, I itched so badly from the test that I thought I was going to go ape before they put a topical antihistimine on it--thirty minutes later.
The precaution for stings is sensible, because reactions can be deadly so fast. 6119. arkymalarky - 6/9/2004 6:50:24 AM In fact, this allergist told me sinus cavities pretty much keep him in business and that not having developed frontal sinuses just meant I had less problems to deal with than I would if I had them. 6120. robertjayb - 6/9/2004 6:59:23 AM 50 new stem cell lines? (Boston Globe)
A private Chicago fertility clinic is set to announce this week that its scientists have isolated 50 new lines of human embryonic stem cells, part of an ambitious effort to create specialized colonies of cells that could help uncover cures for muscular dystrophy and other genetic diseases.
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The Chicago effort comes about as the president's ban on funding of research using new embryonic stem-cell lines is being subjected to increasing criticism, even from conservative politicians. On Friday, 14 Republicans were among 58 senators who sent a letter to the White House asking the president to relax the restrictions.
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Could be good news but research results announced in this fashion should be regarded as suspect, IMHO. 6121. robertjayb - 6/9/2004 7:03:15 AM did you close your tags? 6122. robertjayb - 6/9/2004 7:03:58 AM No, dummy, you did not. 6123. robertjayb - 6/9/2004 7:05:02 AM and why not? 6124. robertjayb - 6/9/2004 7:07:02 AM because i'm stupid... 6125. KuligintheHooligan - 6/12/2004 1:06:07 AM I would be very interested in comments anyone could make on the articles I am referencing below. I recently had a friend tell me that HIV does not cause AIDS, and he provided some links to that affect. Of course, I thought he was just as nuts to say that as was the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, who said similar things a few years ago. However, the articles below cause me to ponder anew the whole matter.
I am no expert on these things, of course, but anyone who would like to take the time to read the articles and make any substantive comments (particularly if they can spot fallacies in the arguments used in the articles) would be most helpful. Thanks.
http://www.duesberg.com/subject/africa2.html
http://www.duesberg.com/viewpoints/kintro.html
6126. KuligintheHooligan - 6/12/2004 1:09:50 AM If the above piques your interest, take a look at this site:
http://www.virusmyth.net/aids/data2/introduction.htm 6127. judithathome - 6/12/2004 1:55:14 AM Kuligan's links from the above posts:
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6128. judithathome - 6/12/2004 1:59:15 AM Those are very interesting links, Kuligin, but none seems to be more recent than 2000. 6129. robertjayb - 6/17/2004 9:03:29 AM An epidemic of diabetes? Wot the hell? Diabetes isn't contagious.
FORT DEFIANCE, Ariz. (AP) -- Tyrone Davis already stopped at a gas station near the Arizona-New Mexico state line and again minutes later at a store in Window Rock, but the bathroom breaks didn't help. The next day, the burly Navajo man was in the emergency room -- and among the latest to join the diabetes epidemic sweeping Indian tribes.
Despite years of efforts by federal health officials and millions of dollars for treatment, the number of Indians with diabetes has more than doubled over the past decade to more than 107,000 cases.
6130. alistairConnor - 6/17/2004 5:19:06 PM "epidemic" does not imply contagion. It's accurate to apply it to a health- or lifestyle-related problem. 6131. Ulgine Barrows - 6/17/2004 5:37:38 PM I had to wait in several restrooms, in the time I spent in the Navaho Nation. The way those women washed their hands? Conservationists.
They need water.
Diabetes. Give water. 6132. alistairConnor - 6/17/2004 5:43:19 PM With respect to whether AIDS is caused by a virus, there is no doubt or ambiguity whatsoever. (excepting people who believe the earth is flat, or who do not "believe in" evolution, for example.)
There is however a huge ambiguity, in epidemiological terms, with respect to diagnosis in poor countries. The symptoms of AIDS are many, varied and often non-specific; testing for it is complicated and very expensive. As a result, there is a tendency to categorise any undiagnosed illness as AIDS, therefore undoubtedly to overstate the numbers of HIV-positive people in Africa, simply because there is no way of accurately knowing. However, the fact that there is an AIDS epidemic in Africa, and that there are millions of Africans infected with the HIV virus, is undeniable.
To use the ambiguity about numbers, as some seem to do, to attack public health measures aimed at getting treatment to the millions of Africans who will die without it, strikes me as being most likely ideologically motivated. It reminds me somewhat of those "historians" who quibble about whether the number of Jews killed by the Nazis was nearer to five or six million, in order to deny finally that the Holocaust ever happened.
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