#medical knowledge

[incognitopolls]

Do you understand what blood pressure readings (e.g. 120 over 80) mean? i.e. Would you be able to identify whether the numbers are normal or concerning without looking it up?

Yes, I understand the medical/biological significance in great detail

Yes, I know broadly what they mean

I have a general understanding of what the normal range is (or MY normal range)

I have a very vague idea of what they mean or what the normal range is

No, I have no idea

Other complicated answer

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[emotional-otter]

When do stomach aches stop and chest pains begin? Like where on the body is the line drawn?Genuine question here (does this make sense?)

[love-from-belle]

If you're going in for surgery, remember to tell your medical team about any natural supplements you are taking!

I'm a medical student and I just had a lecture which spent a good few minutes discussing how people don't consider this when being asked what medication they are taking!

Supplements count!!!

List everything!!!

Any disclosure could save your life!!!

and yes I've tagged this to hell and back what of it

I don't think this counts as medical advice (I consider it to be sharing basic information) but in case it does: I am a medical student only. I am not going to be a qualified doctor for another 4 years at least. It's 2026 writing this. Even if I was a doctor (or am when you are reading this) I would not be your doctor. I cannot and will not give medical advice. I would appreciate it if you did not seek medical advice from me. Any asks requesting medical advice will always be answered with a variation of the following: Please talk to your own GP or consultant about any health concerns you have. Many thanks.

[glowingconstellation]

Honestly im in the mood to talk about different problems i have with my health and get more people to understand these issues as a couple are unknown to most people

The first one i want to talk about is PANDAS/PANS theres actually a big difference between the two its just they fall technically under the same category for starters PANDAS stands for PEDIATRIC AUTOIMMUNE NEUROPSYCHIATRIC DISORDER ASSOCIATED with STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTIONS while PANS stands for PEDIATRIC ACUTE-ONSET NEUROPSYCHIATRIC SYNDROME

Now I have been diagnosed with PANDAS and almost every time I tell someone I have PANDAS within the list of disorders whilst having it in all caps as well someone will go you have pet pandas?!?! Please for the love of god stop asking that 😭😭

Now I’m sure most of you are aware of OCD obsessive-compulsive disorder and are aware of Tourette syndrome.

What people aren’t always aware of is acute onset OCD which is one of the diagnostic criteria’s of both PANDAS and PANS its where instead if someone gradually showing more and more signs of OCD they just up and get it overnight seemingly out of nowhere.

And while i don’t know much about Tourette syndrome I do know that a lot if people ask me if i have it and then i have ti go into a monologue about how i have PANDAS and one of my symptoms from it is motor tics people can also develop vocal tics i do not have any vocal ones. When I was first diagnosed with PANDAS i was ticcing once every few minutes now it’s gone down significantly but i still do tic my mother does not appreciate my tics. Also when specifically talking about tics or being reminded of them people with tics end up ticcing so that was a fun paragraph.

Now i know its in the name so bear with me but PANDAS is developed specifically from strep while PANS is just following any infection over all.

Now PANS and PANDAS are both episodic disorders symptoms appear disappear come back different flare ups and downs.

Now going onto specifics of the symptoms im also realizing that im gonna have to do another rpost later because ive got a whole ass essay written by now ive also written like 3 school essays about it and done two speeches on it for classes so.

But some more specific symptoms that come with both PANS and PANDAS are

Ocd, bed wetting, dyscalculia, dyslexia, bad handwriting, age regression, hypersexuality, suicidal thoughts, eating disorders, irritability, deterioration in the learning department, ADHD like symptoms, sleep disturbances or fatigue, light and sound sensitivity, anxiety, hallucinations, aggression, and of course Tics.

Now the actual diagnostic criteria is way simpler than that for PANDAS you have to have the orescense of ether OCD and or a toc disorder prepruberty onset must be episodic and have the presence kf neurological abnormalities.

PANS is different i just am going to explain PANDAS instead if you have actually read this far and want to know more by all means ask away.

Now it’s highly unlikely for you to have PANDAS chronically like 1% of people with PANDAS have it chronically especially past the age of 18 im just unlucky.

If you want further info hit me up if you want to have my sources besides just my own experience hit me up but im going to bed now

Oh also it gets commonly misdiagnosed as autism just a little fun tid bit

[chaosgremlin46]

Objectively, Ford's first reaction to any sort of medical assistance would be to do it himself and NOT a hospital. Same with Stanley. Some different reasons, but they would most likely be "stitch it at home" type of men.

Ford for the valid reasons of; he's a multiversal criminal, he'd been on the run a lot, money and I cannot even begin to imagine how many times Bill must have messed his body up through possession and/or torture. Being on the run from authorities for 30 years certainly would have a few bumps, tears, lesions to patch up, and I'd assume Ford would have learned immediate medical knowledge as well as developing dressings/salves for any wounds done.

Stan for similar reasons; government ptsd, money, and being on the run for at least a decade would have done something for you. He's had to get out of really sticky situations, and I'm certain he's had bad run-ins and had to know at least something. Not to mention the twins. Stan learned a lot for them and changed demeanors to keep them safe.

[heardatmedschool]

“When you know the patient’s history, and also know enough physiopathology, you rarely ever get surprised by radiological findings.”

[thepastisalreadywritten]

Diagnostic Handbook

Sumerians had a better medical knowledge than the middle ages.

One of the earliest known descriptions of epilepsy comes from a Sumerian/Akkadian cuneiform medical text known as the Diagnostic Handbook, a medical treatise recorded on clay tablets that was copied over and over again from 3000 BC.

The Diagnostic Handbook, also known as Sa-gig, is a medical text written in cuneiform that provides information about symptoms, disease names, and prognosis.

It is one of the largest surviving medical texts from Ancient Mesopotamia.

Content:

The Diagnostic Handbook includes information about symptoms, disease names, prognosis, and disease causation.

It is divided into sections, including omens, visible symptoms, prognoses, and treatments.

The text uses a casuistic formula, where the protases presents information about symptoms and the apodosis provides a diagnosis, cause, and prognosis.

📍British Museum