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Thank you for hearing that.

One important distinction - the treatment is CBT, not CBD.

(CBT is Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, which helps you reframe your thoughts. It truly works wonders here.)

This is a good primer on the issues;

https://adaa.org/learn-from-us/from-the-experts/blog-posts/consumer/health-anxiety-what-it-and-how-beat-it

And while I recommend a good CBT-trained therapist, this book is also helpful:

https://www.amazon.com/Overcoming-Health-Anxiety-David-Veale/dp/1845298241/ref=asc_df_1845298241/?tag=hyprod-20&linkCode=df0&hvadid=312696355873&hvpos=1o1&hvnetw=g&hvrand=6930113268060797588&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9061104&hvtargid=pla-539403983240&psc=1

Best wishes.

Here's a dissertation on the topic of unassisted childbirths: http://ir.uiowa.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1387&context=etd

The estimate is 5,000 in North America per year. There are many valid reasons to consider it. My wife did not feel respected at all in her first labor. So we are planning for an unassisted (home) childbirth for our child on the way. She feels safer birthing at home than at the hospital. We much better prepared this time around, read books (Labor Progress Handbook, Husband-Coached Childbirth, Spiritual Midwifery, and Guide to Childbirth), and taking a Bradley Method course.

If someone is courageous/desperate/traumatized enough to consider unassisted home birth and share such with you, your conversation with her will likely be more productive by starting with finding out her reasons. This will likely help you meet her where she is. Feel free to post back about how the conversation evolves.

Why go to pills? There's plenty of methods to deal with stuff like this that don't require you ingesting anything but knowledge.

http://www.amazon.com/Four-Agreements-Practical-Personal-Freedom/dp/1878424319/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1452098565&sr=8-1&keywords=Four+Agreements

Cheap book. Easy read. Changed my life. You just have to be willing to try. I promise you, anyone can change their mentality for the better. Those pills should be a last resort, not a first cop-out.

well at least you are trying to be helpful.

But no, has nothing to do with tinfoil hats. Yes some of it is anecdotal (my personal experience and the experience of several other people I know who have had the same procedure and the same results...i.e. complete elimination of chronic migraines), but there is also a mountain of evidence out there to support those claims.........including a book written by a world renown dental surgeon:

http://www.amazon.com/Whole-Body-Dentistry-Complete-Understanding-Impact/dp/0967844312

As well as several other dental surgeons speaking out on the subject......here is an example on Dr. Oz:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bf2t53ytNa8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zd7c_3-OWq8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gKOrgMVfvFk

I would be surprised if your Dr. would initiate treatment with anti-depressants over the phone. At your next appointment, talk to your Dr. about your symptoms (sad, unmotivated, trouble sleeping, etc.) and see what they recommend.

It's not realistic to think that "popping a pill" is going to make your depression disappear, though. You'd do well to seek therapy to get to the bottom of the "issues" you mention and incorporate lifestyle changes...such as exercise, a healthy diet and good sleep hygiene. IMO, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy goes a long way towards learning to deal with every day stressors that we all experience. (There is a "Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Dummies" book, if you want to check it out.)

In short: Talk to your Dr. and be very honest about what's going on in your life. They're there to help you. I wish you well.

https://www.amazon.com/Healing-Back-Pain-Mind-Body-Connection/dp/0446557684/ref=asap_bc?ie=UTF8

good luck

This book is very old but it has always helped me. I got it when I was your age. I highly recommend it. https://www.amazon.com/Hope-Help-Nerves-Claire-Weekes/dp/0451167228

House of God

https://www.amazon.com/House-God-Samuel-Shem/dp/0425238091/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1480360800&sr=1-1&keywords=house+of+god

Read my book!

https://www.amazon.com/Talking-Your-Doctor-Patients-Communication/dp/1442248653

http://www.amazon.com/Treat-Your-Own-Rotator-Cuff/dp/1598582062/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1404936538&sr=8-2&keywords=treat+your+own+shoulder

> They used forty-five healthy college-aged students (twenty men and twenty-five women with an average age of 20.7 years old) and placed surface electrodes on the four muscles during the randomized order of the rehabilitation exercises. They found five exercises that had optimal utilization of each of the four scapular muscles: horizontal abduction with external rotation, side lying external rotation, side lying forward flexion, and prone extension. Wilk, Meister, James and Andrews (2002) also discussed the importance of scapular muscle strength and stability in the rehabilitation of shoulder impingement syndrome.[14] They found that rehabilitation techniques for restoring this strength are manual resistance to the scapula during protraction and retraction as well prone horizontal abduction.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impingement_syndrome#Treatment

Can't explain why it says "five exercises" and only mentions four.

The existence of heel spurs on x-ray doesn't mean much. I.e. you can have heel spurs and not have any pain at all.

This is all consistent with pityriasis rosea. Things change over time. Try reading: https://www.amazon.com/Lives-Lesions-Chronology-Dermatopathology/dp/0893520950

According to Richard Machowicz, former Navy Seal, cold showers "cut a toughness groove in your brain."

I would say keep at it with the physiotherapy and psychotherapy. If it helps for a couple days maybe if you keep it up the effect will start to last longer.

I recommend the book The Body Keeps Score by Bessel van der Kolk, M.D. Especially if you have any history of traumatic stress in your life.

https://www.amazon.com/Body-Keeps-Score-Healing-Trauma/dp/0143127748/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1512013132&sr=1-1

There is information available. Go buy and read all the immunology and microbiology textbooks that we learn in medical school.

And then realize that even that is simple compared to the knowledge a pediatrician/infectious disease/gastroenterologist has learned in his/her training. The problem isn't that there isn't information available. It's that it isn't simple enough to be condensed down into one article.

https://www.amazon.com/Immunology-Short-Course-Richard-Coico/dp/111839691X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1505508176&sr=8-1&keywords=immunology

https://www.amazon.com/Case-Studies-Immunology-Clinical-Companion/dp/0815345127/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1505508279&sr=8-1&keywords=immunology+case+studies

https://www.amazon.com/Medical-Microbiology-Patrick-Murray-PhD/dp/0323299563/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1505508339&sr=8-1&keywords=medical+microbiology

Not a doctor nor a psychiatrist, but I've had to deal with mental illness in my family. The inability to recognize clinically evident symptoms is called anosognosia and treating for it is difficult and unintuitive.

I want to mention a book for OP and any others dealing with potential anosognosia in their life:

I Am Not Sick, I Don't Need Help by Xavier Amador--written by a psychiatrist whose brother developed schizophrenia. He gives excellent advice to those wanting to advocate on behalf of family with no insight into their illness.

There is a lot of fear in this thread.

Not that I think his advice is 100% infallible, but I highly recommend reading [this book](How to Raise a Healthy Child in Spite of Your Doctor: One of America's Leading Pediatricians Puts Parents Back in Control of Their Children's Health https://www.amazon.com/dp/0345342763/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_U9D4AbX6M290V) about fever and childhood disease by a pediatrician called Dr. Mendelsohn.

His bottom line is basically this: unless the child has been poisoned or is suffering from heat stroke, the fever will not rise to a dangerous level (above 106.5). So the fever itself, meaning lowering the fever, is not a reason to go to the ER.

However, pneumonia is serious. To me, the fever returning so soon means you should continue to have a non-ER doc check for signs of the pneumonia returning every couple of days.

The last point Dr. Mendelsohn would make, I think, is that you should be a little slower to give medicine to lower the fever unless it's preventing your daughter from getting adequate sleep. Fever is an important part of the body's toolkit for fighting disease and infection, and sometimes repeatedly lowering it with medicine can prolong or interfere with that fight.

To give an example, there are people who are born with an immune system deficiency that makes it impossible for them to get fevers. This is a serious problem, and when they contract a cold or develop an infection, they are often placed in the medical version of a sauna to raise their body temperature so that their immune system has a better chance of defeating the pathogens. Giving Motrin or Tylenol at the first sign of fever is kind of the opposite of that.

Oh, and concentrate hard on fluids.

You’re welcome. Again, don’t panic or start googling about CD or gluten, unless you simply want to look up questions to ask the doc (here’s a great resource for that). If you’re symptoms are mild, there is nothing that is going to change your situation in the next few days, for better or worse, so there is no need to panic more, although, if you have that feeling you mentioned of impending doom, take that very seriously and go to a hospital. Otherwise, make an appt to see your doc, ask lots of questions, and most important, listen to your body. If you’re not happy with that doctor’s findings, get a second opinion.

My answer to your question is a question, what is causing the anxiety/depression/PTSD? That might get a little personal, so let’s go this route: extreme psychological states of any sort, i.e. stress, can have negative affects on the body, mentally as well as physically. It could, however, still be diet related. Yes, improper nutrition can cause mental deficiencies, not limited to anxiety, depression, and panic attacks. If anyone questions that, check out Jennifer Esposito’s personal story as an example.

The same for me. One the skills I was most proud of was my ability to speak and write persuasively. Now I stumble over words, use basic vocabulary, and take an hour to write a simple email. Calculus used to be easy for me and now simple addition requires pen and paper. And I cannot retain new information no matter how hard I try. All of these symptoms became so awful that I had to leave grad school. I went to a top US school for undergrad, and the #2 school for my choice in grad programs, and all that education and money was for nothing. Not surprisingly, this severely limits the jobs I am able to perform when I can't remember what I once learned and can't learn new information. It's ruined my career path, my dating life, and basically how I feel about myself.

I wish I could say it gets better, but I am about 16 years out of when I first started noticing symptoms. That said, I have chronic major depression, so maybe if you come out, it might get better. I've had the full neuro workup so for me, depression is the likely culprit. I agreed to ECT a few years back when it reached a point that it didn't seem like losing any more of my memory would matter much. I saw you mentioned TMS. I had that as well. It didn't work for me, but that does not affect memory so don't save that for a last resort.

This is from Goodwin and Redfield Jamison

Most mental activity is markedly slowed during depression... thinking is difficult to the patient, a disorder which he describes in the most varied phrases. He cannot collect his thoughts or pull himself together; his thoughts are as if paralyzed, they are immobile... He is no longer able to perceive, or to follow the train of thought of a book or a conversation, he feels weary, enervated, inattentive, inwardly empty; he has no memory, he has no longer command of knowledge formerly familiar to him, he must consider a long time about simple things, he calculates wrongly, makes contradictory statements, does not find words, cannot construct sentences correctly... Patients have no ideas. They complain of a complete disruption of memory. They feel their poverty of performance and complain of the inefficiency, lack of emotion and emptiness... Cognitive changes during depression can be both subtle or profound and often are a combination of both. depressed patients frequently complain that their process of thinking has slowed down. They are confused and ruminative, cannot concentration, and feel inadequate and useless. John Custance wrote, "I seem to be in a perpetual fog and darkness. I cannot get my mind to work; instead of associates "clicking into place" everything is inextricable jumble; instead of seeming to grasp it as a whole, it seems to remain tied to the actual consciousness of the moment. The whole world of my thought is hopelessly divided into incomprehensible watertight compartment. I could not feel more ignorant, undecided, of inefficient. It is appallingly difficult to concentrate, and writing is pain and grief to me."