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Post by Deleted on May 3, 2009 12:54:14 GMT
Remember how over the years different types of medical conditions would arise and be talked about ad nauseum (no,that wasn't one of them) and then seem to fall into oblivion not to be heard of again? Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and one similar to it with a person's name,Toxic Shock Syndrome was another. Did they find cures for. Even Anorexia nervosa seems to have dropped off I think although I know it hasn't gone away. But in the '90's it was real pervasive,we even had a special unit where I worked at that time for eating disorders and our census was at full capacity. Is it only in the U.S.? Barr Epstein is the one I was trying to think of.
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Post by bixaorellana on May 3, 2009 14:39:41 GMT
Remember how over the years different types of medical conditions would arise and be talked about ad nauseum (no,that wasn't one of them) and then seem to fall into oblivion not to be heard of again? Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and one similar to it with a person's name,Toxic Shock Syndrome was another. Did they find cures for. Even Anorexia nervosa seems to have dropped off I think although I know it hasn't gone away. But in the '90's it was real pervasive,we even had a special unit where I worked at that time for eating disorders and our census was at full capacity. Is it only in the U.S.? Barr Epstein is the one I was trying to think of. Yeah, it makes one really cynical about diagnoses du jour. There was one having to do with the jaw -- TMJ. Don't know what it stands for.
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Post by auntieannie on May 3, 2009 14:41:58 GMT
Ah, you know, when I was at nursing school, everything was viral, then everything was genetic then everything was psycho-somatic ... or whatever the hype at the time and it has not stopped ... so I have been aware of that type of thing for a good 20 years now. You will always have hypes, corresponding to a small percentage of the population.
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Post by Deleted on May 3, 2009 15:04:13 GMT
Mononucleosis was real big when I was a teenager (AKA,the kissing disease), I was diagnosed as having this and remember sleeping endlessly in the back upstairs bedroom away from everybody. I had no appetite and drank ginger ale. I remember I was real pissed off because it was the last two weeks of summer vacation.I also remember that I had no boyfriend at the time and had not kissed anyone.
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Post by Deleted on May 3, 2009 15:19:04 GMT
The famous French crise de foie ("liver crisis") has pretty much faded into oblivion in the last 10 years. For 100 years before that, people would invoke this mysterious disease whenever they overate and felt bad the next day. It is only in recent times that it was finally successfully pointed out that France was the one and only country in the world that was reporting this disease. Not even the surrounding countries with essentially the same diet were suffering from it. And so, little by little, the younger generations have understood that getting sick or feeling bad when you have eaten and drunk too much does not qualify as a special French disease.
However, I am sure that the old people in the villages still talk about their crises de foie.
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Post by auntieannie on May 3, 2009 15:54:09 GMT
K, have you met my mother? she used to have "crise de foie" almost everytime she had "migraine". Which in turn were due to either the sudden change in weather, the warm "foehn" wind or a disagreement with a family-member.
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Post by spindrift on May 6, 2009 22:30:37 GMT
I deem myself to suffer from Chronic Fatigue Syndrome.
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Post by auntieannie on May 9, 2009 15:21:39 GMT
Do you, spindrift? really? My brother suffers from that (seriously) and he's having the worst of times with my parents not understanding him.
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Post by Deleted on May 9, 2009 15:34:33 GMT
How is this treated? Does it just come on suddenly? I would think that there would be some blood tests to rule out other factors. I know that the thyroid is responsible for a good number of related maladies,whether hypo or hyper and it's difficult to fine tune. Have always been curious about this syndrome.
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Post by auntieannie on May 9, 2009 17:15:06 GMT
casimira, it is thought to often creep up after a viral infection such as flu, etc. and it just appears and leaves after months or even years. it is what they used to call "yuppie flu".
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Post by Deleted on May 9, 2009 17:47:29 GMT
My parents found me listless when I was about 16 years old and I was subjected to a number of medical examinations. In the end, it was just discovered that I was a teenager.
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Post by auntieannie on May 9, 2009 18:48:34 GMT
K, this constant fatigue syndrome happens to active adults, too! ....
Imagine feeling like that when you are a mother of two in your forties...
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Post by Deleted on May 9, 2009 19:03:06 GMT
Hepatitis C does that to a lot of people as well.
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Post by auntieannie on May 10, 2009 12:02:39 GMT
Note I am not saying this syndrome hasn't got an element of mental depression/let me behave like a child, feed me and take care of me ... in it.
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Post by Deleted on May 10, 2009 16:20:55 GMT
Oh, so you have noticed how we men behave when we are ill!
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Post by auntieannie on May 11, 2009 18:21:56 GMT
why... would I ... should I notice anything special?
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Post by hwinpp on May 22, 2009 9:38:03 GMT
What happened to the cholesterol hype? I think that's another one that'll disappear?
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Post by Deleted on May 22, 2009 9:57:46 GMT
The cholesterol hype has moved to France. I think these things move around the world like viruses, probably carried by multinationals who need to increase their market share of certain products.
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Post by hwinpp on May 22, 2009 10:06:02 GMT
The cholesterol hype has moved to France. I think these things move around the world like viruses, probably carried by multinationals who need to increase their market share of certain products.Agree completely.
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Post by Deleted on May 22, 2009 10:54:28 GMT
Judging from all the advertisements in magazines and on TV the cholestrol hype is alive and well here in U.S.
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Post by questa on Jan 11, 2014 5:47:56 GMT
Leader of the pack here is "restless legs syndrome". Coincidently the diagnosis of it seems to have appeared just after a drug company started to market a pill for it.
Which came first...the chicken or the egg?
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Post by bjd on Jan 11, 2014 12:28:56 GMT
The French used to have "heavy legs", until it was discovered, like for crise de foie -- see above -- that it didn't exist anywhere else.
I think it's partly because many French people really like medicine -- at least having it prescribed since apparently they rarely finish their prescriptions. Go into any drugstore and you have line-ups as though they were having a sale.
But now that medicine for quite a few "illnesses" like heavy legs and crise de foie are no longer reimbursed, they seem to have disappeared.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 11, 2014 16:40:40 GMT
Absolutely true and such a relief. Even though nobody in my French family ever claimed to suffer from "liver attacks," they loved to compare their "heavy legs" symptoms. I think my grandmother used those so-called medical lotions most of her life.
I do wonder, however, if "Carter's Little Liver Pills" were the American answer to the "crise de foie."
I also remember the alarming American commercials about "the heartbreak of psoriasis" during most of my childhood. It sounded awful.
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Post by questa on Jan 12, 2014 6:40:48 GMT
Well, Well, Well...I never knew psoriasis was a cardio-vascular condition!
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Post by Deleted on Jan 12, 2014 7:37:11 GMT
And I always thought that Carter's little liver pills were for the liver and not the intestines.
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Post by tod2 on Jan 14, 2014 14:57:40 GMT
I think I need a whole handful of those pills....Feeling very lethargic after doing a spring clean in my study. I like minimal stuff around me and since getting older cannot bare to live in a mess. The room was filling up with piles of magazines ( I needed to look at again and again) and shelves of photographic magazines that haven't been referred to for years....nothing like out of date information eh..! So today was the big clean-up. I am so blessed and fortunate to have had two helpers who trundled the stuff into the dining-room and then proceeded to mop and dust in places where printers and computers have been sitting. Soon it looked like an operating theater and a few containers have been put on the floor to be scrutinized first before a permanent home is allocated!
I'm sitting in my bare study and just loving the airy feeling....even though a bit tired.
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Post by bixaorellana on Jan 15, 2014 2:30:13 GMT
We haven't mentioned the debilitating effects of iron poor blood. Thank goodness Geritol was there to pump life back into the sufferers.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 15, 2014 12:13:57 GMT
I always wondered what it tasted like. That brown bottle looked so awful; I assumed the worst.
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Post by bjd on Jan 15, 2014 12:21:14 GMT
Thanks, Bixa. That's what I was trying to remember -- I could visualize the woman being dragged around the living room by her husband who wanted to dance but couldn't remember the name of the "medicine".
This is a bit before my time-- when commercials were boring:
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Post by Deleted on Jan 15, 2014 12:41:48 GMT
I like the way he spells it out loud -- they probably already knew about all of those old people "resting their eyes" in front of the television.
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