it sucks to breathe poorly

[gusl]

Goddamn it, I'm unhealthy!

Why are my nasal airways *always* blocked? Is it the pollution?

I sleep more than enough and wake up tired. This is not a life.

Today, there is air coming out of both nostrils, but not very much... there is certainly some blockage inside. I'm going to look for SinuCleanse, thanks to candid's promotion.

UPDATE: Ok, I've bought a saline solution, but it's not helping very much. I think there are swollen tissues between my nostrils and my windpipe. The obstruction is asymmetrical: the right nostril closes first when I suck air through both nostrils.
This is probably a chronic condition. But a blood test says I have no allergies! WTF??

Ok. My room needs a vacuuming. I wonder if that will help.

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A competent doctor should at least performing experiments with both nasal airways. My mucus-free asymmetry must surely indicate that something is wrong.

I think it's a combination of:
* deviated septum
* swollen turbinates

Comments

[gustavolacerda.livejournal.com]

walking kiosks??

doctors are very nice people that were willing to go to college for about 7 years to learn and remember everything scientists have slaved over.
Seems like a very inefficient way to retrieve information. It's all in books anyway... except for some intuitions that experts develop after much experience.

This is an excellent essay, justifying skepticism of doctors: Robin Hanson - Fear of Death & Muddled Thinking: It's Much Worse than You Think. Most of the time, what doctors do is copy what other doctors do.

[brkvw.livejournal.com]

That is sort of like saying all music is in books.

I don't like doctors, but I think they are necessary given our current level of technology. I do think GPs will disappear one day with technology.

So, I agree it seems annoying to retrieve info from them. But I view it as I view any field I don't know well, I "suck" their information out of them and try to get the best results by taking what they know plus what I know and hopefully get more in the process.

I ride a bike several times a week with a doctor, and although he knows nothing about surgery, we often discuss why some things have no cure. For example, another friend of mine who is a famous actor has ball palsy (spelling?) which in reality appears to simply be a nerve that is inflamed or pinched that comes down the side of the face out of that little hole in the skull (I don’t know the name of any of these parts, and don’t even care to look them up, biology is my worse topic).

So I asked him why they don’t just open the hole up, like router it out a little. He said he had no idea either. It seemed to him this should be easy. The next time I’m around a surgeon I want to ask them about this. I’ll assume for now there is more to it than meets the eye.

On the other hand, I keep learning that what I thought would have already been researched, has not! For example, recently they came out with the fact the MET tables for metabolic rates which are programmed into billions of work out machines are only for men. Apparently they never studied women! They have recently been studying women, and found that they are not a little different, they are very different in the way they loose weight (duh). So I they are using the MET tables in these machines, they are no where near the program they should be following.

Also, a while ago as result of Christopher Reeves funding, they discovered that nerve endings transmit unique nodes identifying where the nerve is in the body. When I was a kid I imaged it this way (as being the only way it would make sense) and was told it was not. Which is why it was so hard to wire everything back together in the body. Turns out they had never really run these conclusive tests.

I think that as more computer literate people become medical researchers, things will get a lot better. The idea of not being computer literate will be just as alien as letting your barber perform surgery (this was common 100 years ago).

[gustavolacerda.livejournal.com]

But I view it as I view any field I don't know well, I "suck" their information out of them and try to get the best results by taking what they know plus what I know and hopefully get more in the process.

Maybe it helps that you're an ENTJ.
When I try to talk to doctors, they never have the time or patience to talk to me in my terms... they say I have too many questions.
This isn't as bad in Brazil, where we pay them out-of-pocket.

[brkvw.livejournal.com]

Yeah, in addition to my personality (or as a result of) I know many board of directors members for several hospitals, and when I ask for a referral to a good doctor, the doctors are “warned” before I get there. They know if they don’t make a good impression on me everyone will know about it.


I love fear as a motivator.

Also, I can afford private doctors. My GP in fact only has a practice to keep himself active. He also was the head of one of the best hospitals in the state. He is a leading heart specialist, and has invented several of the heart valves and artificial hearts on the market. This is why I chose him. I wanted someone with lots of experience, and ego.

I have a history of heart disease, so I want a doctor that knows every single symptom, and how to run every single test.

http://extratv.warnerbros.com/reframe.html?http://extratv.warnerbros.com/dailynews/rxtra/02_01/02_05b.html

The odds are I will die of heart disease, or someone not realizing I’m joking in some Live Journal post and hunting me down and killing me…

Hey, but I’m realistic.