Re: Remember "Bit-Slice" Chips ?

On Sat, 28 Dec 2024, The Natural Philosopher wrote:

On 28/12/2024 11:17, D wrote:

What are statins? Sometimes I feel very young here. 😉 I remember my old doctor. He operated on a push/pull methodology. If you wanted something, he would not give it to you, if you did not want something, he would push it. The reason I remember it, was that once my mother wanted something, and he tried his best not to give it to her, and then the same week I went there, he tried hard to push the same medication on me. He was fairly grumpy and an extremely heavy smoker.
 

Well I have clooged arteries and have had 5 operatins to fixce them, but they get clogged every year. I couldnt hanlde statins and they said that all that cholestrol or somethinbg was clogging them
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Now I have a bloody expensive fortnightly self adminitered injection, which they say has worked.
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I haven't needed another angioplasty since taking them.
So what statins do is worth doing. IF you can tolerate the side effects.
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Or there are other medications.
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Its a question of the least worst remedies. Everything has a side effect. I tried beta blockers but felt like a zombie.

Sometimes I get the feeling that doctors are still very close to medieval alchemists and have no clue what's going on. I have a very mild, but annoying skin desease that came from nowhere. Since it is very mild, and only flares up about once a month I never bothered to do anything about it. But I had some extra time and went to a doctor, he called in 2 others doctors, and they were looking at it for 20 minutes discussing, and in the end admitted they had no idea what it is and gave me some creams.
The creams gave me 2 small permanent scars, that otherwise would have disappeared (thank you Mr. Doctor!). They told me to come back and they would look some more. ;)
So I wonder if I should do it, or if they will manage to make it worse the second time as well? On the other hand, I am curious about what it is, and it would be nice to know.
Well, another project for 2025!

I would prefer to blow my heart out on a steep mountain trail and become
food for the bears to some long drawn out affair where 'medical science'
tries to put off the inevitable.

 

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Well I am afraid I am fully on all the medical science can do to not blow my heart out.
Most of what I now take seems to do the job, but the surgery made the most difference, Dyno-rodding the arteries is a brutal but effective method
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This is the truth! After seeing my mothers cancer treatment that did not work out in the end, I agree 100%. She went through 3 years of hell for nothing. It did not help of course, that the doctor misdiagnosed her. She was in tears and filed a law suit against herself. I do not blame her, I blame the socialist system she works in, which made her over worked, and therefore more likely to commit mistakes.

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Cancer is an utter bitch. I am on my second now, having fully survived the

This is the truth!

first,  but it is ultimately incurable, just very slow developing, so its likely something else will kill me first.

My grandmother had some form of slow acting blood cancer I think. In the end I think she died of old age at 95.

The problem with some cancers is that by the time they are diagnosable, they are already fatal. A friend died of fully metastasized bowel cancer. The only symptom was that he was tired and a bit gaunt for years and years, Then one day he went into hospital in total body pain and died 3 weeks later.
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Another friend was similar.
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The cancer was never present in the bowel to any high degree, just mounting back pain and lymph node lumps a few weeks before the end.

Horrible! =(

Some cancers are easy.. Some are harder and some are impossible.
GPs are not equipped for this. My GP threw me straight at oncology to check out something suspicious. She is rather conscientious.

My mothers doctor told me that cancer is not one desease, it's 100s of different ones and apparently that is why it is so difficult to cure it. Research focuses on the most common ones, and I imagine there is very little money in the least common ones.