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I had a very painfull back for six months last year. Thank goodness I was aware of the opiate scandal happening in the states (I'm in Australia). I now have a shoe box stuffed with opiates! Refused to learn to rely on them, instead of "staying active" I listened to the pain and rested in bed with hotwater bottles. Met a very cold, no nonsense, old school doctor in the ER room. Tried discussing surgery options with him - he stopped me dead in my tracks, told me it will heal within six months, talk of further treatment was totally unecessary. Restored my faith in my body's ability to heal, enabled me to take charge (pain levels 8/9). Sometimes, it needs the voice of experience to reassure. Box ticking and protocols gives patients the idea life is a flow chart. We need grown ups like Carrie back in the room.
So you had a simple back ache and time helped to heal you. There are people who have been in serious accidents who benefit from life long use of prescription opiates.
The opioids example she gives is a very good one. In short, a few pharmaceutical companies tried to get pain level as a major thing in healthcare so that they could see more drugs. This worked beyond their wildest expectations, but it also led to massive increases in addiction and, indirectly, to the fentanyl crisis. Similarly, the gender-affirming model was foisted upon a mental-health system that still actively feels shame for having considered homosexuality a mental illness. Because they're afraid to be called transphobic, they're willing to go along with almost anything, which has worked out just fine for the hotshot surgeons and the endocrinologists, but it leaves everyone else scratching their heads. It's really a scandal, too, because I feel like most doctors are silent about it because it only affects a small subset of people. Shame on them for not calling for more research! What we should learn from all of this is just because something is possible to do doesn't mean it's responsible to do. We're shouldn't be experimenting with children's bodies.
Unrelated to gender directly but connected as far as systemic intervention: the documentary medicating normal was eye opening. It shows the ramifications and protracted impacts of becoming medicalized / being put on psychotropic meds when really the issues are normal adolescence or ptsd for example. MH Misdiagnosis can lead to such wide ranging long term damages for some.
Part of the reason I’m so against gender ideology is because I myself am a victim of iatrogenesis (illness caused by medical intervention). Every day I wonder how my life would be different if I hadn’t gone to the doctor at 17. I see myself a lot in detransitioners.
And the opioid crisis is the reason why I was treated like an addict when my iud perforated my uterus and given no pain meds while I was infected and peeing blood.
I’m a medical cannabis patient, it absolutely helps. I switched from 4 types of synthetic medications to 1 natural medication. It’s not for everyone and can have some negative side effects (on a scale from dry mouth to the digestive issues mentioned) but in comparison to pharmaceuticals? Easy decision.
This! My understanding of cannabinoid hyperemesis which is what I’m assuming they mean is that you have to use a LOT of cannabis to have that happen, more than most medical patients typically use
Unfortunately it is not an option for everyone so prescription painkillers MUST be restored as an option. My disease causes brain tumor symptoms and increased pressure in the brain and any cannabis product increased that pressure further for me. I’m 10 brain surgeries in and told I’m not going to be able to continue my current medication not because I did anything wrong but because of guidelines that don’t give enough room for individualization.
When physicians became employees and sold themselves to the health systems, whose sole purpose is profit, it can only go downhill from there. The administrators and the state/federal hospital associations are at the top of the food chain, right along with the insurance companies and pharma. The current exodus of family practitioners who move from clinical practice to open cash pay boutique medicine practices, IV therapy clinics, medi-spas is a direct result of the emphasis on profit, metrics, poor reimbursement, which affects primary care more than any other area of medicine. Fewer FPs leaves patients being seen in ERs, who have to push patients through once its clear they won’t die or be readmitted in the next 24 hours, seeing specialists who view every patient’s nail through the view of their own specialized hammer, and UCs who have an extreme variations in types of practitioners and availability of services. It’s easy to see how things are missed and things fall through the cracks.
The current harmful policy in the U.S. with opioids is the lack of availability due to crackdown on prescribing. It is nearly impossible to access them and having the only treatment that helps and one which is cheap and easily available if the government allows it taken from you is why chronic pain patients are disappearing from society. Increasingly via suicide and via quality of life being removed when the medication is taken due to general policies and not patient action or condition. We are the innocents and our lives don’t seem to matter one bit.
@@sebastiancrowder459 That WAS sorting by most recent. It's now sitting at 10 out of 26 blocked (even using 'most recent'). And people criticize China, Russia and North Korea for censorship, propaganda and lack of free speech.
Please don't drag cannabis into this just to make your argument about over prescription. It's really an unrelated issue. Yes, if you smoke too much, you'll get nauseous. The solution is to stop smoking, & the nausea will go away. It certainly isn't a "serious medical issue." The real issue with cannabis is that it is still being regulated by the federal government.
Equating the opioid crisis, which killed nearly a dozen of my personal friends, to the care of transgender youth is enraging. Bringing THC into the conversation is even more ridiculous. I have cyclical vomiting syndrome, and it was so bad at one point that I was 80lbs and on IV nutrition. I was prescribed Marijuanap, and it actually helped, but quickly the side effects became intolerable- I have an anxiety disorder and panic disorder and Marijuana has a tendency to give me horrible panic attacks. But I know of others with CVS who use Marijuana to help keep food down and it works very well for them.
@@MissSpaz It's a perfectly accurate comparison, I'm afraid. What's being done to the severely disturbed people referring to themselves as "transgender" is *not* care. It's lies & it destroys lives. These are extremely vulnerable people being cynically exploited & used by the health care industry. You didn't really have anything to say about cannabis.
I was listening to Glinner he is a big fan of feminism. I would love him to talk to more people about his views. Poor guy is such a trooper, I can't work out why such a wit seems so witless and unworldly.
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I had a very painfull back for six months last year. Thank goodness I was aware of the opiate scandal happening in the states (I'm in Australia).
I now have a shoe box stuffed with opiates!
Refused to learn to rely on them, instead of "staying active" I listened to the pain and rested in bed with hotwater bottles.
Met a very cold, no nonsense, old school doctor in the ER room.
Tried discussing surgery options with him - he stopped me dead in my tracks, told me it will heal within six months, talk of further treatment was totally unecessary.
Restored my faith in my body's ability to heal, enabled me to take charge (pain levels 8/9).
Sometimes, it needs the voice of experience to reassure.
Box ticking and protocols gives patients the idea life is a flow chart.
We need grown ups like Carrie back in the room.
👍🏽💛🙏🏽🤗👍🏽
Experience and staying committed to the Hippocratic oath 🙏🌿
So you had a simple back ache and time helped to heal you. There are people who have been in serious accidents who benefit from life long use of prescription opiates.
i'm obsessed with sasha's hair, so cute 😍
Ditto! I want her Curly Hair Girl method outlined in detail with links to all her products!! 😂
So which actress will play her role when they make the "Genspect story" film?
The opioids example she gives is a very good one. In short, a few pharmaceutical companies tried to get pain level as a major thing in healthcare so that they could see more drugs. This worked beyond their wildest expectations, but it also led to massive increases in addiction and, indirectly, to the fentanyl crisis.
Similarly, the gender-affirming model was foisted upon a mental-health system that still actively feels shame for having considered homosexuality a mental illness. Because they're afraid to be called transphobic, they're willing to go along with almost anything, which has worked out just fine for the hotshot surgeons and the endocrinologists, but it leaves everyone else scratching their heads. It's really a scandal, too, because I feel like most doctors are silent about it because it only affects a small subset of people. Shame on them for not calling for more research!
What we should learn from all of this is just because something is possible to do doesn't mean it's responsible to do. We're shouldn't be experimenting with children's bodies.
Unrelated to gender directly but connected as far as systemic intervention: the documentary medicating normal was eye opening. It shows the ramifications and protracted impacts of becoming medicalized / being put on psychotropic meds when really the issues are normal adolescence or ptsd for example. MH Misdiagnosis can lead to such wide ranging long term damages for some.
Part of the reason I’m so against gender ideology is because I myself am a victim of iatrogenesis (illness caused by medical intervention). Every day I wonder how my life would be different if I hadn’t gone to the doctor at 17. I see myself a lot in detransitioners.
I would be interested in hearing more of your story.
And the opioid crisis is the reason why I was treated like an addict when my iud perforated my uterus and given no pain meds while I was infected and peeing blood.
When it comes to harmful policies, covid and everything surrounding it is a pretty big elephant in the room.
I’m a medical cannabis patient, it absolutely helps. I switched from 4 types of synthetic medications to 1 natural medication. It’s not for everyone and can have some negative side effects (on a scale from dry mouth to the digestive issues mentioned) but in comparison to pharmaceuticals? Easy decision.
This! My understanding of cannabinoid hyperemesis which is what I’m assuming they mean is that you have to use a LOT of cannabis to have that happen, more than most medical patients typically use
Unfortunately it is not an option for everyone so prescription painkillers MUST be restored as an option. My disease causes brain tumor symptoms and increased pressure in the brain and any cannabis product increased that pressure further for me. I’m 10 brain surgeries in and told I’m not going to be able to continue my current medication not because I did anything wrong but because of guidelines that don’t give enough room for individualization.
Very enlightening. Thank you!
When physicians became employees and sold themselves to the health systems, whose sole purpose is profit, it can only go downhill from there. The administrators and the state/federal hospital associations are at the top of the food chain, right along with the insurance companies and pharma. The current exodus of family practitioners who move from clinical practice to open cash pay boutique medicine practices, IV therapy clinics, medi-spas is a direct result of the emphasis on profit, metrics, poor reimbursement, which affects primary care more than any other area of medicine. Fewer FPs leaves patients being seen in ERs, who have to push patients through once its clear they won’t die or be readmitted in the next 24 hours, seeing specialists who view every patient’s nail through the view of their own specialized hammer, and UCs who have an extreme variations in types of practitioners and availability of services. It’s easy to see how things are missed and things fall through the cracks.
The current harmful policy in the U.S. with opioids is the lack of availability due to crackdown on prescribing. It is nearly impossible to access them and having the only treatment that helps and one which is cheap and easily available if the government allows it taken from you is why chronic pain patients are disappearing from society. Increasingly via suicide and via quality of life being removed when the medication is taken due to general policies and not patient action or condition. We are the innocents and our lives don’t seem to matter one bit.
I so agree with you,Michell ! Prescription opioids have little to do with current opioid crisis.
Stella will be played by jessy Buckley in the film; I'm still casting Sasha... Zendaya maybe?
Alia Shawkat
Amber Rose Revah (Agent Modani from Punisher)
YEEEEEEEEESSSSSS to Jessie as Stella!
Invite JK Rowling to come on your podcast. She is my new hero for speaking up and standing against the madness 👑👑👑👑👑👑👑👑👑👑👑👑👑
She is a hero to many of us. We'd be delighted to have her come on our podcast!
I wonder what the 7 out of 22 comments that you tube is hiding have to say?
Sort by 'most recent'
@@sebastiancrowder459 That WAS sorting by most recent. It's now sitting at 10 out of 26 blocked (even using 'most recent'). And people criticize China, Russia and North Korea for censorship, propaganda and lack of free speech.
Stella, look after yourself, you are begining to look tired, don't want you to wear yourself out.
Please don't drag cannabis into this just to make your argument about over prescription. It's really an unrelated issue. Yes, if you smoke too much, you'll get nauseous. The solution is to stop smoking, & the nausea will go away. It certainly isn't a "serious medical issue." The real issue with cannabis is that it is still being regulated by the federal government.
Equating the opioid crisis, which killed nearly a dozen of my personal friends, to the care of transgender youth is enraging.
Bringing THC into the conversation is even more ridiculous. I have cyclical vomiting syndrome, and it was so bad at one point that I was 80lbs and on IV nutrition. I was prescribed Marijuanap, and it actually helped, but quickly the side effects became intolerable- I have an anxiety disorder and panic disorder and Marijuana has a tendency to give me horrible panic attacks. But I know of others with CVS who use Marijuana to help keep food down and it works very well for them.
@@MissSpaz It's a perfectly accurate comparison, I'm afraid. What's being done to the severely disturbed people referring to themselves as "transgender" is *not* care. It's lies & it destroys lives. These are extremely vulnerable people being cynically exploited & used by the health care industry.
You didn't really have anything to say about cannabis.
Wokeness 1.0 Feminism
Wokeness 2.0 Intersectional Feminism
Feminism Ruins Everything
That's a bit Orwellian, Orwell! 😂
And misogynistic! 😂♀️♀️♀️
Totally irrelevant comment.
I was listening to Glinner he is a big fan of feminism.
I would love him to talk to more people about his views.
Poor guy is such a trooper, I can't work out why such a wit seems so witless and unworldly.
So many people think this is a "women's" issue, as if men don't give a damn what happens to their loved ones.