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If not much money or effort has been put into a 'treatment' you have reasons to sceptical, don't you think? It's like working in the financial services and someone is trying to sell you a $10 e-book that will make you rich in 1 year. It could do the trick but I bet you would be sceptical.
Testing/clinical trials usually cost a lot and even if the treatment it's not great, at least you have some hard data that you can rely on.
My routine these days? Magnesium, Vit D, and massaging TMJ joint.
Diet helps a lot too.
Cure cancer, no. Help various issues, often.
Later on I started hearing from many sources to try it for migraines.
Realized my migraines had been ebbing and worsening a lot. Got serous about taking it. About A 50% reduction In severity. Had multi hour ones 7 days a week. Can’t walk kind.
Dentist suggested a mouth guard for TMJ. I looked up videos on it. Found a massage one, found a bad trigger point. 3 days later it eased up. Poof migraines almost completely gone.
I tried basically everything.
Elimination diet to find troublesome foods, etc. Prism glasses, etc
Too much for here
I mean, there are cases of cancers that resolve on their own.
That’s why we don’t make medical decisions based off anecdotes.
Yes it could just disappear, but for some migraines are a chronic issue and the meds for it are preventative and not a cure.
I'm not sure if you've dealt with chronic illnesses but I can tell you from experience that a lot of us regularly attempt to come off our meds to see if anything has changed 'underneath' the drugs, as often the drugs have other side effects that make it hard to tell what's really going on.
It's highly likely then that the OP has indeed tested to see whether their migraines have just gone.
It's also odd when people defiantly state that we don't make medical decisions based on anecdotes when clearly all medical decisions were once anecdotes that were then tested for efficacy and became best practice.
The most clear recent example of medicine catching up with annecdoatal evodence for me is severe epileptic using diet manipulation to manage their condition when prescription medicine did little to nothing as a preventative.
10 minutes and I have a full blown migraine. (Lights)
If I’ve been solid with magnesium that time goes to an hour or two.
FL-41 lenses will add an hour to time as well.
Many other triggers, but light is the most consistent for me.
I'm arguing against the experience of anyone person being applicable to anyone other than that one person. That why we have the FDA and randomized controlled trials. There are so many confounding factors that unless you test a treatment under very strict conditions, there is a very good chance you observed is completely unrelated to the treatment. Hell, drug manufacturers run trials and fall into that trap all the time.
I wish people were allowed to just experiment with different solutions. Sign a paper saying that you take full responsibility and they're not obligated to treat you and that's it.
Some people live in areas that good doctors left a long time ago.
I've spent nearly 20 years getting better when that's supposed to be impossible. I've done so while dirt poor and even homeless for several years. What I've spent to get better is a drop in the bucket compared to the millions my condition is supposed to cost under conventional treatment while merely slowing your slow, gruesome, torturous death.
No one's interested and I've been thrown off of various forums over the years and been openly hated on and called a liar, teller of tall tales and insane.
No wants it because no one will get rich off of it. No one wants it because I'm a former homemaker, not a physician or scientist. And no doubt several other reasons, none of which I can really fathom.
The world basically agrees with you, turns a blind eye to any and all evidence to the contrary and actively tries to silence people like me.
Prescription drugs need a prescription because they have potentially dangerous side effects. Often you don’t get a wanted effect without potential side effects.
OTC drugs are usually extremely cheap (hence why you could think the medical community dislikes cheap medication). The fact that you don’t need a medical professional to get them makes them a target for the alternative medicine crowd.
In the end it’s also the fault of patients for simply asking for simple cures. My doctor uses every occasion to tell me that I should do more sports, but that would mean that I would actually need to put effort in my health.
Or, more likely, someone just decided they should be prescription only. Why are melatonin, gabapentin, piracetam prescription only? Paracetamol will kill you in the right dosage, yet it's OTC. Hell, you can overdose on vitamins and minerals/metals, too.
It's like a game for the industry, at the expense of a minority who have to suffer from only having access to bad doctors.
Example of YouTube saying they will ban vit. c videos using the "misinformation" label: https://twitter.com/i/status/1252676099169038337
Vit. c is known to be a potent immune booster. So this is a real head scratcher.
The "misinformation" people are battling is about a) unsubstantiated health claims and b) the fact that supplement manufacturers don't need to provide any evidence or follow any regulations regarding what's actually in the supplements. That means they can say they're selling e.g. Vitamin C but it's just sugar.
John Oliver has a good video on it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WA0wKeokWUU
Crude I stopped eating for a month to kill it off. (Not intentional)
Worked great. Don’t recommend.
Yes, there is. You could have done a quick search on Google Scholar to confirm this, example:
A mathematical model showing the potential of vitamin c to boost the innate immune response
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Anuraag_Bukkuri/publica...
Vitamins: Key Role Players in Boosting Up Immune Response-A Mini Review
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Jazib_Irfan/publication...
Use of vitamin C as an immunostimulant. Effect on growth, nutritional quality, and immune response of Labeo rohita (Ham.)
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs10695-007-9184-...
> the "misinformation" people are battling is about a) unsubstantiated health claims
That "substantiation" requires a $2 billion payout to the FDA to certify.
> the fact that supplement manufacturers don't need to provide any evidence or follow any regulations regarding what's actually in the supplements.
Obviously you have no idea what you are talking about.