Posted by bubblegumchewer on November 27, 2002, at 9:08:45
In reply to Re: Thanks, Lar, posted by Larry Hoover on November 26, 2002, at 10:28:15
I haven't read up on the LAX-101 in a while so I forgot. I think I'll look it up now. It's slow going, though, being a "real" pharmaceutical trial. I noticed it has big funding because it will become a real (expensive and profitable) pharmaceutical, if successful. I guess that's the idea: no one wants to fund research on food supplements. That would be too mundane. I should buy some of that pharmaceutical stock. My husband had some of it for a while but let it go.
Don't worry, Larry, any self-deprecation is merely a little attempt at humor. I take my health and my family's seriously. I've been fine for more than a year now and for the most part fine over the last 20 years except for some intermittent E.R. trips for panic attacks (I've had about a 20 year history of such with a maximum of the same number of E.R. visits; probably less than half that many, actually, although at least twice that many problematic episodes) and one inpatient stay a year and a half ago that lasted one week, during which I thought I was going to die, and of course with a life and a husband and wonderful children I can't afford such an episode of illness. This got my attention enough to research possible dietary remedies to what is an infrequent but sometimes viciously disabling problem for me. Fatty acid balance may be NOT the culprit in my case but I'm sure such therapy can't hurt. Doctors don't even want to hear about it. It's as if you're bringing up colonics and ear candling.
I'm on no pharmaceuticals at all now and doing fine, just like I've done for the majority of my life. I've only taken a few meds over the years and therefore don't have a lot of interest in the many discussions on many different meds here. So I just check in every few months to see if anything is being discussed that interests me. I was pleased to see all the fish oil threads. And like I said, I like a challenge (reading information posted by intelligent people more knowledgeable than myself.)
Since I've tried to curb my overuse of the internet for interaction and entertainment, I've bookmarked only a few forums that I regularly visit, and one of them is a pregnant women's board. Unfortunately the majority of posts are uninteresting, but what can you expect from a group of women who only have one such common denominator? But someone there posted a very good question: If amniotic fluid is supposedly replaced every x # of hours, where does the old fluid go? I tried to explain but my short explanation wasn't accepted; I gave a longer explanation of how ALL body fluid, amniotic fluid being no exception, is absorbed into the bloodstream and partially excreted through respiration and perspiration before being filtered by the kidneys and excreted via bladder, etc. but no one was listening. They seemed to be under the impression that there must be a direct drainage tube from amniotic sac to bladder and thus what they had previously thought was urine was actually pure amniotic fluid. I am not joking; they had the serious conclusion that urine is sometimes not urine but just a load of amniotic fluid being emptied. I explained the true route of fluid absorption and excretion in the body and no one cared or listened. I have to admit that being one of the smarter ones around, although I'm generally not conceited about it (there is SO much that I don't know and SO many smarter people) I get irritated when people seem content to leave their level of understanding down in the dumps, particularly when they ASK to understand and then don't listen. I didn't think that fluid excretion (if I'm right about it, after all) was such a complicated concept.
I am rambling... ah, coffee is gone so a better mood should be setting in soon. Oh! That reminds me of another irritation on the pregnant women's board: women who apologize: "sorry this was long" or "sorry if this was boring" or "sorry if I offended anyone..." See, I was about to say, "sorry, no one asked to hear my life story and my gripes of the day," but actually I don't apologize for such because it's my position that no one has to read what doesn't interest them. I certainly don't read everything here. Got to go watch puppet show constructed by creative children now.
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