Thoughts 24 Jan 2008 08:07 am
Modern Medicine
I have what everyone else I know has, some sort of non-specific flu.
One woman I know was told that it was a virus and she was no more contagious than anyone else. since she came back to work everyone has it.
Another woman was told that she had to stay home for three days and after that she would no longer be contagious.
I was told to take Benadryl and Ibuprofen and stay in bed until I felt better.
—–Three doctors, three different answers.
If you’re no more contagious than anyone else. How come every one around you gets sick?
If you’re no longer contagious after three days. How come you still have all the symptoms?
How does your quack, I mean doctor, know that you’re no longer contagious after exactly three days, if he isn’t positive as to exactly what it is that you’ve got?
And most importantly, does the bug know about the three day rule?
Bottom line:
The doctors have no idea exactly what they are dealing with. Without external symptoms they have no way of knowing you’re sick. They don’t run tests, because they’re not sure exactly what it is they should be testing for, much less how to treat it if they could find it. And they say you’re no longer contagious after three days, but something has to be causing the symptoms.
The pattern for me and a couple of other people has been, trouble sleeping, feeling weak, but better in the morning, then getting worse as the day wears on, combined with a constant cough.
This I am told can go on for weeks with a day or so worth of breaks in the middle.
Sip hot tea with honey and lemon, which seems to help the throat and even the sinuses. Keep warm and get as much rest as much as you can.
This may be old fashion advice, but it seems to work as well as anything. –Proving once again that my grandmother was smarter that my doctor.
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A man goes to the doctor with a really bad cold. The doctor looks at him, pokes and prods, and finally says, “Well you’ve got two choices. The first one is, I can write you a prescription for a very expensive medicine and order bed rest and it will be gone in 6 or 7 days.”
The man looked at the doctor and said “gee doc, I don’t have much money. So what’s the second choice?”
The doctor looks at him for a minute and says “Well the other choice is that you go home, and go to bed and it will run it’s course in about a week.”