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Jythier's Articles In Health & Medicine
March 13, 2013 by Jythier
I'm 28 years old, I have 4 kids, and I am in the hospital recovering from a heart attack and the related proceedures that saved my life.  Over the last two weeks, I went to the doctor, was diagnosed with high blood pressure, went back to the doctor, went to a lab, got diagnosed with high choloesterol, got put on medication for both, and then ended up in the hospital after having my 'first' heart attack. I was playing basketball with some kids at the church, and my heart would...
September 13, 2007 by Jythier
“I said to him, ‘This is a very weird question, but bear with me. But are you around a lot of popcorn?’ ” Dr. Rose asked. “His jaw dropped and he said, ‘How could you possibly know that about me? I am Mr. Popcorn. I love popcorn.’ ” The man told Dr. Rose that he had eaten microwave popcorn at least twice a day for more than 10 years. “When he broke open the bags, after the steam came out, he would often inhale the fragrance because he liked it so much,” Dr. Rose said. “That’s heated di...
August 9, 2007 by Jythier
Insurance companies have gotten it into their head that they can monopolize the industry of healthcare by choosing for us who can give us care, who can't, what proceedures can be done, and every other medical decision we can make. Of course, if you don't have an insurance company and pay cash up front, I'm sure you can get pretty much any proceedure done. What I want to know is, why do they limit our choices? Why can't they write a straight-up policy that says, "We will pay for the med...
July 10, 2007 by Jythier
I use to trust doctors, but recently, I've found that they are just normal people who happen to have gone to school for so long they can't remember any of their instruction. I went to college with kids who could pass tests without learning anything, I'm sure doctors do it too. Vaccines are not working. Sure, disease rates have gone down since vaccines were introduced. No-one catches polio anymore. Is that because of vaccinations? Most likely, no. In fact, the only polio cases we expe...
August 16, 2006 by Jythier
I am not an expert on breastfeeding. However, my wife is a member of a breastfeeding message board. On this board, many women have come for support for their breastfeeding, because their doctors don't even know the first thing about it. The worst part is, there are many stories where women have been told by their doctors that they cannot breastfeed or should not breastfeed in situations where it is completely okay to do so. A recent story posted had a woman being told by her doctor that...
May 31, 2006 by Jythier
So, something has gone wrong with my body. My back is killing me, a pain that starts at my very lowest point that can still be called a back and running all the way down my left leg. Ow ow ow. It hurts to get up, to roll over, but I can walk once I'm up. I can do what I normally do, it's just getting from one position to the other that's a pain in the ... back. I worked half a day and when I took my lunch, I didn't go back. It just hurt too much. One of the things that I can't do, ho...