Insurance has no reason at all to claim it’s fake…..
Is Fibromayalga Real?
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Insurance has no reason at all to claim it’s fake…..
Hey just want to say glad you are still here man. All those things aren't a joke...they get a bad wrap because loads of people who have normal feelings (nervousness, excitement) instantly label it as anxiety or panic. Or they feel sad because something happened as depression or they like things neat as OMG i'm so OCD.
As a previous poster stated it would be on one hand to be able to give those people something to actually experience those things for a short period of time but on the other hand, I don't wish it on anyone.
Not to derail this and maybe we should take it to PM but have you ever checked out your full hormone panel including thyroid? Only asking because after years of different meds with minimal relief finally did some deep dives because I was at ends with it and found some interesting things. Going to start working on addressing a few to see if maybe they play a little bit of a role to provide some relief.
My older brother was convinced I was making up my asthma and allergies. Growing up on a farm there were certain things I struggled with. Packing hay in the barn was just awful but not as bad as baling straw (usually if I stayed outside I was fine). The dusts would practically kill me. Fly spray would lock my chest up right now. Anyway, my brother thought I was making it up to get out of certain work. It wasn't until years later after he married and had kids that he told me he was wrong. He came to that conclusion after pulling old carpet in the farm house for his kid's room and he started having breathing issues. I got "I guess you weren't making all that up."
Not sure where you got your numbers. Women needed a federal law for inclusion, some of the history regarding is here:
History of Women’s Participation in Clinical Research | Office of Research on Women's Health
Policies that encourage the inclusion of women in research originated during the women’s health movement, which emerged as part of the women’s movement. During the 1970s, few women worked in either medicine or science, and many women believed that women’s health needs were a low priority in the...orwh.od.nih.gov
This link focuses on drug trials for cardiovascular, psychiatric, and cancer related treatments:
The second link provides numbers regarding women’s illnesses:
“According to the CDC, cardiovascular disease and cancer are the leading causes of death in the United States. The research identifies that this fact is the same when looking at just the female gender. Furthermore, psychiatric disease impacts a large portion of women.
The results uncovered an underrepresentation of women in clinical trials for all three diseases. Compared to the 49% of people with cardiovascular disease who are women, only 41.9% of clinical trial participants for cardiovascular disease medications were women.
Similarly, 51% of cancer patients are women, but drug trials only had a female participation rate of 41%.
The starkest lack of portrayal was in the psychiatric studies. While 60% of psychiatric patients are women, only 42% of psychiatric clinical trial participants are women.”
Also to Cowgirl’s point about the difference in women:
“An article published in the American Family Physician Journal found significant differences in how women absorb, distribute, metabolize, and excrete drugs. Additional studies have also found that women have differing adverse side effects to medications and experience these side effects at higher rates.”
Heart Attacks in Men vs. Women | Caring Senior Service
Men and women are both susceptible to having heart attacks, but there are differences that each gender may experience. But what are they?
www.caringseniorservice.com
The Difference Between Alcoholic Men and Women | Experience Recovery
Whether you are a man or a woman, you can get help for an Alcohol Use Disorder here at Experience Recovery. There is hope and help is available.
There are other articles, like from the American heart association that mention women having higher rates, but when you read through them, it talks about heart failure after an initial heart attack. When you read the article that I posted, it mentions that roughly 75-80% of sudden heart attacks (basically your killers) occur on men. So a good chunk of the men had died already and some of the articles I read had mentioned that the women in the study were older. Well, if you are older, heart failure and issues kinda go hand in hand.
Not saying how studies should be run, but as we know, there are certain things that certain sexes are more likely to die from. Do we want a 50/50 split on all?
I also didn't point out what @davegilbertson posted about. How do they get volunteers for these? In the past (thinking my parents generation) that it was considered cruel if to have women in certain situations (heck, I even mentioned in a different thread that just a couple years ago that it was considered too cruel to execute a woman versus a man in the same murder and the woman was responsible for the kids deaths in the multiple murders -- so it still has that stigma today in certain levels). If you have a 100 patients and have a 60/40 split, I still think you can deduce some good information out of it. Many times it seems that the overall reports are reported, I'm hoping that our medical field researchers are better than that and also are breaking it down into many other groupings.
The reality is, each person most likely will respond differently than every other, the best thing that can be done is find the largest group that they can well with their research and work with that.
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I think "medical studies" are voluntary, paid medical experiments where you agree to live in a facility for a set amount of time, and receive treatment/meds in exchange for payment. Had a roommate sign up for some of them. I imagine guys generally must be more open to be tested upon.
Is there any chance that it is all in their head? I know 2 women that have such bad social anxiety that the idea of going out in public will actually make them ill.
CF is the place to come to get a definitive answer to the OP's question...
Yeah. She's a hypochondriac. Thought she had cancer last year. She had back surgery 2 years ago. The doctor told her unless she did rehab and lost weight her back would probably not get better. She never did rehab and gained about 80lbs now complains about her "botched" back surgery. And yes she has had all strains of covid. Long-form covid too of course. I figured she'd catch polio this year too but it hasn't happened yet.
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But it's OK for people to fake injuries and such to get insurance money. A guy I work with told me his brother-in-law as had terminal cancer for the last 15 years, hence the reason he doesn't work. The guy has never ever been diagnosed from what the my co-worker told me.
Same guys BIL and his wife went around the Hy-Vees in Omaha getting a cake at each one and then walking around the store and when they were about to leave they would go to customer service and ask for their money back, even though they didn't pay for it in the first place. After about hitting up around 5 stores, Hy-Vee caught onto their scheme. It's very sad that others work their butts off to make a living and then you have people that scheme up all these ways of trying to make a quick buck.
I have often thought this about my asthma attacks when they are triggered by people who expose me to their smoke. Just what it’s like to fight for every breath you take when it feels like you have an elephant on your chest.
This is why I'm skeptical of things like Go-Fund me pages. I had a landlord in Des Moines that was on disability for some diabetic condition. He was working under the table as a carpenter. He even layed sod in my backyard.
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True. One of my articles didn't showed on my post but not on any others, I did add some to my post.
The worst I ever saw of something faked was my friend was working at a factory with this guy, he worked second shift. He had called me out of the blue and at the same time I mentioned that this guy who worked at the same place as him came in. He told me that the guy had not been at work for a couple weeks because his only daughter was sick and had died. So the whole company had thrown money together and gave it to him to help offset expenses. After telling me this, I had asked if the daughter was like 7 years old or so, and he said yes. Then mentioned to him that he was with a daughter and was in with a check from a local church to pay for his vehicle repairs. My friend went back and the company checked on stuff and fired the guy since they found out he made the whole thing up so he wouldn't get fired for not showing up to work. The guy "killed off his daughter" to avoid something.
That’s my point. Saying that insurance companies think it’s fake is evidence of nothing except the dishonesty of the company.
Unrelated to the fibro stuff but with the surgery response, does she live in rural Iowa? I know plenty of people in that setting that just go 'it is what it is' when met with the idea of doing PT for 5 minutes or exercising to help themselves.
CycloneErik
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Yes, blanket medical advice is always a good idea.
What's even more messed up is that it's passed on genetically. My mother had the same issue for decades. I'm the oldest and I got them horribly as a kid and now as an adult (male), I still get them occasionally, but mine are more sinus triggered. I passed it on to my oldest, though for him they are way less frequent and not as debilitating.