Obesity? Unless you got an eating disorder, and can return to normal hunger based eating-not eating at night, eat only at meal time, etc, they don't do jack squat for you. Some change in bad habits like eating desserts or french fries, can take a little off normal people but woe to you genetic and other cases. Some take the roulette wheel of weight loss surgery, with all it's complications.
I've never seen a super-sized person become thin permanently. The successes took off maybe a chunk of weight, but that's it. I sometimes forget I still got 200 off from the peak. Anyway medical science has FAILED with OBESITY to the MAX. Their advice if anything is harmful and insidious. Even when I went to the gym pre-Covid I lost only very little. Doctors ignore hunger problems and metabolism. There's supposedly new drugs out but finding information on them seems difficult. Most food out there is crap. I spend way too much to buy all this tofu, vegetables and more to stay alive.
Cancer? I would put the odds at 75% for dying of cancer. There's a few survivors who have decent medical resources, insurance and the rest who do okay. However I know so many people who died young of cancer. Several were only in their 40s and 50s. Even 50 years later, we still see cancer as a would be death sentence and for many people it is.
Lipedema? Unless it's caught early and you can control it, there's no cure. Some wealthy women can get a special liposuction to suck off the extra fat and deposits in their legs but at stage 4, this isn't possible. I also know some who got it done in high stages and it progressed anyway. Leg machines and wrapping can help you keep from getting bigger but that amounts to shrinking down the bloating from the day down to the base line every night. I can watch myself grow. I think some are in shock at how I swing my stomach around, a doctor wanted to look under it. It's fluid not fat. LOL
Heart Problems? Most of us still take the "same water pills" that were around in the 1980s. There may be new procedures for stents--I've never had one or for heart attacks, but it's not miracle land either. They may tell you it is, but it's not.
40 years ago people with heart failure took Lasix. We still do.
40 years ago, if you lost your hearing from Meniere's some could take prednisone to arrest the loss. It doesn't work for all cases.
40 years ago, the answers was Planequil for lupus or lupus related conditions. I decided to hold off for now because I am almost completely deaf and Planequil taken long term can affect the eyes. The doctors understand although they do not agree with it. The pain and fatigue from UCTD are affecting me it sucks. If I go into full lupus, I would have to take it. My father had major eye problems, he was not deaf from Planequil, and used to say to me, "Never go on this drug!"
Predisone won't work in case for ears, complicated reasons due to other medical problems.
There is no cure for multiple other conditions I am going to leave unnamed.
My experiences with doctors is often a shrug of the shoulders. One could feel the words "LOST CAUSE" flashing across their brains. This got worse the older I got. The whole aroma of shame and blame never lets up. Why won't this fat woman just lose weight?
I don't know if I can blame them, they are attempting their best but why do they tell me things like if "We don't need to find out which genetic disease is causing your high uric acid, the treatment is the same" and today I heard since I seem to be manning up more with a beard and mustache, "Well if I find out your testosterone is high, I am not sure what to do with that information."
The specialists all deal with their particular piece and seem ever mindful of things that leave that special area.. Do I have to go see an endocrinologist just to get that tested? I always thought some would take interest because I am such a weird case. This doctor asked today too, "What's that on your neck?" "Oh my giant psorasis patch!"
However one thing I am noticing for all the wonderous claimed progress of the medical system, there really hasn't been any. Oh yeah we are supposed to think mRNA is a wonderful invention but look around it's absolute crap. Quality control is in the toilet. Remember I wrote about a book called, "The Great Stagnation?" Maybe the great stagnation has affected medicine.
Problems I had in my 50s, are still dealt with the SAME limited medicines that were available in my 20s. Sure there's a few new medicines, I think one lung medicine is and they did invent some long lasting insulin, but I'm noticing there's all these unaddressed problems.
I have noticed how nothing is ever cured. Did the doctors keep me alive from some things? Sure. The medical system however is very primitive, the claimed "advancements" seems to be a smoke screen. Doctor McCoy of the Star Trek Enterprise would be offended at the failures in medicine that are now widespread.
Now one thing I think about is how they poured billions into clot shots that don't even work, and wasted money on this released virus debacle and endless mess, and financed those gain of function labs, and here we are with multiple conditions that only have medicines from 40 years ago. Ponder for a time what if these billions have been poured into new drug research for conditions that already exist instead of monsters in gain of function labs trying to destroy our lives?
I do ponder trying to return to the naturopath world, and I have used drawing salve, vitamins, herbs and other things to stay alive. I got out my book on Nutritional Healing, I've owned since 1990 to deal with life. Money has always been an issue since you have to pay up front in the naturopath world. Some alternative medicine remedies I have used did not work. I think trust in medicine is way too high. The world was affected by too many shows where they'd show doctors performing all these miracles. The miracles are shorter in supply in real life.
I'm not sure what to do right now with my body or health. I spend hours a day on stuff related to "staying alive". I do need less stress, more movement, more "happy" things. The fatigue is worrying me. This lady on Facebook told me to look for a "functional medicine" doctor.
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