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Postby TenuredVulture » Tue Dec 13, 2011 00:41:14

I knew someone who was told she had CFS. Her symptoms were debilitating. We're not talking just fatigue, but incapacitating fatigue. Turns out she had Celiac disease.
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Re: Random Thoughts Thread LXX

Postby CalvinBall » Tue Dec 13, 2011 01:01:45

a friend's 10 yr old daughter is still dealing with the things celiac did to her. she was at a point where she didnt walk for 3 months. wore sunglasses all the time except when she was sleeping for 7 months. and she still has an impossible time remembering anything. she doesnt remember life before all the trauma which was about a year ago and her short term memory only lasts about a day. sad stuff.

it went undiagnosed for about 4 or 5 months.

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Re: Random Thoughts Thread LXX

Postby ReadingPhilly » Tue Dec 13, 2011 01:10:27

Just fell asleep when I got a call to come into work and look at a pressure gauge every 15 minutes until 7am. Fuck

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Re: Random Thoughts Thread LXX

Postby Bucky » Tue Dec 13, 2011 01:47:47

swishnicholson wrote:
Philly the Kid wrote:I don't care about any brand-name label. As long as you are not denying the pathology or that there is a real illness in play. BTW - the CDC does acknowledge CFIDS/ME and has a definition.


I shouldn't get into this but:

Yes, they define it, but they define it as something for which "The cause or causes ... have not been identified and no specific diagnostic tests are available.Moreover, since many illnesses have incapacitating fatigue as a symptom, care must be taken to exclude other known and often treatable conditions before a diagnosis of CFS is made." link

So, yes it has a name, but it's basically a long way of saying "of unknown origin" (as are the other syndromes mentioned above). And while I suppose it's of some comfort to have a name attached to one's malady, I can't think of anyone who wouldn't prefer to have a diagnosis of an actual, treatable disease with an established pathology and protocol for treatment. This isn't to minimize the suffering of those afflicted, which is certainly real, or to indicate they can get no relief, since some of the symptoms can be ameliorated. Unfortunately, this vagueness and lack of understanding about the syndrome does open up the field to unscrupulous or misguided people ready to offer "cures" to desperate people.


Thanks Swish. Grateful to have the help.

Yep, this is exactly- and much more eloquently- what I was getting at. I don't want to discredit at all the symptoms or suffering that my neighbor or Pac's mom are experiencing- they obviously are something. But the listed maladys don't really get at the root cause.

and to swish's last point:

swish wrote: Unfortunately, this vagueness and lack of understanding about the syndrome does open up the field to unscrupulous or misguided people ready to offer "cures" to desperate people.


this vagueness also opens up the filed to misguided "patients" who wish to put a name to their- hmmm- lack of ambition.

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Re: Random Thoughts Thread LXX

Postby Bucky » Tue Dec 13, 2011 02:03:09

and YES, PTK, I am "up on the research". I know lots of people who research this. I go to dinner parties with lots of them. But I choose to ascribe to the researchers with the majority opinion, not the fringe. So no, I'm far from ignorant. (on this matter anywayze).

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Re: Random Thoughts Thread LXX

Postby The Nightman Cometh » Tue Dec 13, 2011 02:58:28

Overall I got about an A- on my thesis paper. That I wrote the day it was due. For my 300 level class. With the department head.

I also wrote 8 pages. He recommended 12 pages. So yeah, I pulled that out of my ass.
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Re: Random Thoughts Thread LXX

Postby SK790 » Tue Dec 13, 2011 04:08:19

Take it to the Nightman Thread.
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Re: Random Thoughts Thread LXX

Postby ReadingPhilly » Tue Dec 13, 2011 04:08:27

It's very cold out

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Re: Random Thoughts Thread LXX

Postby Phan In Phlorida » Tue Dec 13, 2011 04:45:36

Bucky wrote:... It's just that they are "diagnoses of exclusion".

So is Parkinson's disease.

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Re: Random Thoughts Thread LXX

Postby SK790 » Tue Dec 13, 2011 06:31:34

Feel like this needs to be posted for all you guys who are havin a bad Tues:

I like teh waether

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Re: Random Thoughts Thread LXX

Postby PrattRules » Tue Dec 13, 2011 08:51:24

Sweaters f'n rule.
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Re: Random Thoughts Thread LXX

Postby jamiethekiller » Tue Dec 13, 2011 09:07:35

PrattRules wrote:Sweaters f'n rule.


you're one of them guys, huh?

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Re: Random Thoughts Thread LXX

Postby Soren » Tue Dec 13, 2011 09:40:33

jamiethekiller wrote:
PrattRules wrote:Sweaters f'n rule.


you're one of them guys, huh?


wtf is wrong with sweaters jezzis cripes can I enjoy just this one thing
Olivia Meadows, your "emotional poltergeist"

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Re: Random Thoughts Thread LXX

Postby drsmooth » Tue Dec 13, 2011 09:56:01

Soren wrote:
jamiethekiller wrote:
PrattRules wrote:Sweaters f'n rule.


you're one of them guys, huh?


wtf is wrong with sweaters jezzis cripes can I enjoy just this one thing


here, here:

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Re: Random Thoughts Thread LXX

Postby Soren » Tue Dec 13, 2011 09:56:18

work file recovered, only lost one days worth of work. Phew
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Re: Random Thoughts Thread LXX

Postby jamiethekiller » Tue Dec 13, 2011 10:37:07

yo, i don't hate sweaters!

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Re: Random Thoughts Thread LXX

Postby WilliamC » Tue Dec 13, 2011 10:47:15

I just agreed to work Christmas day at X4 pay. I feel like I have sold my soul. I am also working new years eve at x3 pay. I've given my life away for money.
Do it again!

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Re: Random Thoughts Thread LXX

Postby jamiethekiller » Tue Dec 13, 2011 10:48:18

WilliamC wrote:I just agreed to work Christmas day at X4 pay. I feel like I have sold my soul. I am also working new years eve at x3 pay. I've given my life away for money.


i'd do it in a heartbeat. its free money and its something you'll never have the chance to earn again.

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Re: Random Thoughts Thread LXX

Postby Houshphandzadeh » Tue Dec 13, 2011 10:50:22

yeah, I'd do both even though 4 times squat is still squat

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Re: Random Thoughts Thread LXX

Postby WilliamC » Tue Dec 13, 2011 10:55:39

Yeah I am not going to have to do anything either. I am quality control at a medical plastic producing company. There will be three presses running. There will be one other person there with me so I can pretty much just sit on the internet all day. It's kind of ridiculous but I am torn about working on Christmas. Younger me would have said F that.
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