This is the title of an article in today’s copy of the Times.
About time too!
If people want to use quackery, they should pay for it themselves! And not expect taxpayers to pick up the pieces!
October 28, 2019 - Posted by AnonW | Health | Homeopathy
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What this blog will eventually be about I do not know.
But it will be about how I’m coping with the loss of my wife and son to cancer in recent years and how I manage with being a coeliac and recovering from a stroke. It will be about travel, sport, engineering, food, art, computers, large projects and London, that are some of the passions that fill my life.
And hopefully, it will get rid of the lonely times, from which I still suffer.
Why Anonymous? That’s how you feel at times.
The Anonymous Widower
Interesting. The Queen uses homeopathy, and has all her life apparently. I once tried something for sinusitis, but it didnt work, and it was very very faffy to use. However, every morning from my girls being 3 or so months old, we dropped a few granules of homeopathic teething granules onto their tongues. We never lost a night’s sleep with teething children. They were recommended to me by all the other mothers when my eldest was tiny. The packet had a rigmarole of how to administer then, but we ignored that. We bought them ourselves of course, didn’t use NHS for them. What struck about the BBC article that stopping prescribing it is the it will save £55,000 per year to NHS. As that was the most important reason. That sum of money is a drop in the ocean!
Comment by Liz | October 28, 2019 |
I’ve never used homeopathy and with our three children we never administered anything for teething. I do think, I had problems myself, as I seem to remember my mother telling me that when I was about ten.
A friend of mine used to be Chief Pharmacist at University College Hospital, which has the National Homeoathic Hospital in the group. She herself feels homeopathy is quackery of the worst kind. She also told me that the Homeopathic Hospital has masses of endowments and is very well funded. But if it was that good, with that amount of funding, then surely everybody would be using the methods. But like Chinese medicine, it’s just a way of conning people out of their hard-earned money. In that group, I would include health insurance and vanity cosmetic surgery. In the case of the latter, C once did the divorce of an eminent plastic surgeon and let’s say she enjoyed his tales!
Next week, I’m in Liverpool, where I shall be discussing the funding of a pancreatic cancer research project. It sounds interesting, but fairly simple. If you know of someone who’s been hit by pancreatic cancer, this could be a project to back. I’ll let you know directly!
Comment by AnonW | October 29, 2019 |
Neil and I both apparently has problems teething, and I remember problems with 2nd teeth at the back and wisdom teeth, when I was old enough to remember. On the whole we don’t use alternative medicines although after my 1st car accident, at a time I was having serious anxiety problems, unrelated to the accident – I was even driving the car – I asked my psychiatrist about pain management because I didnt want anything which would cause problems with mental health or affect the medication I was taking. he said that in his experience acupuncture was excellent for pain management. So I gave it a go, and found it worked really really well. At the time I was covered by health insurance from Neil’s employers and so the cost wasn’t an issue – it is also why I was seeing a psychiatrist.
There are many things in the “alternative/complementary” field which are dangerous, some to the point of being life threatening. When I worked at a cancer centre the “new age” stuff was just becoming trendy, and patients were choosing to use some of these to try and cure their cancer, because they had read articles in dubious publications. And an aromatherapy massage is more pleasant than chemotherapy. But occasionally patients with early diagnosis who had a good chance of have surviving, died. On one occasion I was in a pharmacy which sold all these quack remedies and there was a lady being sold powdered sharks fin or something, tiny pot, very very expensive, and was being told it would cure her.
You probably don’t watch Coronation Street, but there is a character in the series, a young mum of 26, Sinead, who was diagnosed with cervical cancer early in her pregnancy. To cut a long story short, on the advice of another patient she started having these green healthy shakes, instead of chemo, and she died last week, her baby less than one year old. Hopefully a lesson to the many women who watch the program not to mess about with cancer.
Comment by nosnikrapzil | October 29, 2019 |
My experience of others with cancer, is that those who have survived general went to see a very good surgeon, who was often armed with a robot. Celia was successfully cured of breast cancer by the surgeon, who led the enquiry into the Nottingham scandal.
After my stroke in Hong Kong, where I had the best Western treatment, I met a Chinese doctor from the hospital in a Starbucks by the Olympic Park in London. He asked if I had conventional treatment. He said that was right, as many who opt for the Chinese treatment end up as vegetables.
Comment by AnonW | October 29, 2019 |
My cancer isn’t a solid tumour cancer, so surgery not an option for me. Being a blood based cancer, it is all over my body, but it doesn’t metastasise. I have made sure that I have a world class haematologist who specialises in my form of chronic blood cancer, at a world class hospital, The Christie. Your comment about the stroke treatment is interesting. A friend of mine had her first stroke in McLeod Ganj in India, after a long flight and 3 days on a bus from whichever airport she landed. Literally an hour or so after she left. It wasn’t a severe stroke though. She was treated in her hotel room, with lots of warm drinks, lots of tasty soups, and massages several times a day. She was well enough to fly home when her 2 weeks were up. Some months later she had another stroke, similar level of severity. She spent many hours – over a day I think, on a a gurney in a corridor at MRI, no assistance with toilet needs, and not much of anything, then she was in a couple of days and sent home with exercises and a sick note. She has said that next time if she thinks she is going to have one, she will go to McLeod Ganj . This happened many many years ago and she hasn’t had another one, but this show how right your remark about after your stroke in Hong Kong, where you had the best Western treatment. My friend’s treatment here left a lot to be desired and it is her own efforts which have meant that has made a full recovery.
Comment by nosnikrapzil | October 30, 2019 |