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Tom's avatar

How could docs pull a 2 foot long clot out of someone and NOT perform a full body MRI. WTF is wrong with these docs?

I am really learning to despise docs anymore. I recently overcame what was a very difficult illness that largely debilitated me for 4 months. Never experienced anything like it in my life. Went to my US doc twice and then to the ER, all to no avail. Finally got treatment overseas. Do you want to know what the magical treatment was?? 24 hours on a saline drip. I had been severely dehydrated…that’s all. I had told my US docs that’s what I suspected. I’m not only done with jabs...I think I’m also done with US docs too. It’s like the Western world has been ravaged by a plague of medical incompetence. Sorry if I digressed.

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Avalanche's avatar

If you suspected that, why did you not increase your water intake?

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Tom's avatar

I was drinking 2+ liters a day. It's not that simple. If ones overall hydration level gradually drops into the acute dehydration zone, and you're losing the same amount you drink, you're hovering in the dehydrated zone. It's kinda like driving your car keeping no more than 2 gallons of gas in the tank. It's not simply consumption rate. If you want endurance you also need to "fill the tank". I wasn't born with a "water level gauge".

Contributing to the problem is that I'd spent most the pandemic living in the high desert of the western Rockies above 7000 ft elevation and am quite active. I've upped my water intake to 3 liters per day.

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Avalanche's avatar

Wow. That's a frustrating problem! Still, the Rockies, the views, the lovely outdoors.... Almost worth it?

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Tom's avatar

True. Not many places I’d rather be. The colder half of the year (now) I’m in SE Asia. My situation is ideal for becoming dehydrated. 🤪

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Avalanche's avatar

SOMEONE has to pay for the MRI... Welcome to American medicine!

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Teddy's avatar

This is my first ever comment on any Substack. I felt I just need to get this out if anyone has not seen or considered it, and this seemed like a good place to start. Consider this: "10 Reasons Why the Amish People Don’t Get Cancer and Rarely Get Sick"

https://www.lifeadvancer.com/amish-people-cancer-rarely-sick/

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ChesterView's avatar

If covid taught (and continues to teach) us anything it is that one cannot trust the medical profession.

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Tom's avatar

I wonder if I can switch careers and become a medical malpractice attorney? 🤑

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Avalanche's avatar

Don't bother, you'd ALSO need COURTS who would let you file!

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Dee's avatar

But the corruption in our government make it nearly impossible to sue.

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