Could be, not will be. And as we all knowâŚwonât be.
Women, how do they work?
I am seething:
She was dating Andrew Wakefield at the time, to give you some idea. Refused all medical treatment (well, everything but the lumpectomy). Now heralding her remission as proof one doesnât need conventional medicine to recover from cancer.
But hereâs the thing: HER2-positive oestrogen receptive intraductal carcinoma. Translation: Stage 1, nearly 100% recovery rate. Just getting the lumpectomy was enough IN HER CASE. At least for now.
Itâs like theyâre both trying their best to kill as many people as possible.
HmmâŚ
âFloridaâs âfree killâ law was implemented in 1990. The original intent behind the law was to prevent doctors from leaving Florida as a result of high insurance costs.â
Could there maybe be some sort of⌠correlation⌠between doctors who fuck up repeatedly and doctors with high insurance premiums?
Never heard of him.
Oh.
(Kudos to wikipedia for pulling no punches here.)
Wakefield is a very familiar name to all of us from the vaccine wars of the 90âs-aughts. He has, fortunately, sunk beneath notice for the most part since then. Not yet in hell where he belongs for the amount of death and suffering he has brought on, but I donât have to speak his name on a daily basis anymore. Thank God for small miracles.
Just in case it might come up:
The 7-day version has 100 mg of the active ingredient. The 1-day version has 1,200 mg.
Like so many things, more is not necessarily better.
Thatâs good⌠they did that on my recent mammogram report, in fact.
I thought that was already the norm, but Iâve always had them done at teaching hospitals so maybe thatâs why I made that assumption.
Mine have said dense breasts - but no one bothered to tell me what that meant.
Shot for food allergies
Not my field, and there are unquestionably subtleties i am not familiar with, but generally, denser breast tissue makes it harder to see changes associated with cancer. Sort of a warning for uncertainty.
Same here.
When that first showed up (in tiny print at the bottom of the form letter from the mammogram center) I asked my ob/gyn (who orders my mammogram every year) what that means in terms of what, if anything, she or I should be doing differentlyâultrasound? MRI? other?âshe kinda shrugged, asked me if I felt anything different on my self-examinations (ânoâ), and then said that maybe adding an ultrasound would be a good idea every few years, if I thought that made sense. I tried to get more info from the mammogram center, and they said talk to my ob/gyn. 
Ok thenâŚ
Iâm generally not one for demanding ALL.THE.TESTS, but the lack of guidance is frustrating. I suspect some of it has to do with what insurance will pay for, and so far Blue Cross hasnât balked at adding an ultrasound every other year. Because I think Iâm fairly low risk otherwise, settling for that plan is ok for now, but it also doesnât exactly inspire a lot of confidence.
This is exactly right. I do, unfortunately, have hard-won knowledge in this area. Dense tissue makes it harder to read the scans to see if thereâs cancer brewing, and apparently thereâs some indications that dense tissue is more likely to be the site of cancer beginnings as well.
