Does Uncomplicated Pancolonic Diverticular Disease Cause Erectile Dysfunction?
Over my forty years with C, I suffered from intermittent erectile dysfunction, but C generally knew how to cure it.
I do wonder if this was caused by having uncomplicated pancolonic diverticular disease during those generally happy years.
To check, I asked Google AI, the question in the title of this post and received this answer.
Yes, studies suggest that colonic diverticulosis (CD) is an independent risk factor for developing erectile dysfunction (ED). The association is likely related to shared underlying causes, such as chronic low-grade inflammation and vascular issues.
I can accept that!
As for about the first thirty years of our marriage, I was an undiagnosed coeliac, I feel I should ask if undiagnosed coeliac disease causes erectile dysfunction.
I received this answer.
Yes, undiagnosed celiac disease can cause erectile dysfunction (ED) due to the resulting malnutrition, hormonal imbalances, and inflammation. These issues can lead to sexual dysfunction, which may improve once the celiac disease is treated with a strict gluten-free diet.
That would certainly fit with my experience.
I do think, that if the link between undiagnosed coeliac disease is true, then in some cases testing of everybody for coeliac disease may avoid a degree of mental distress.
Scatty Middle-Aged Mum ‘Reborn As Jihacker’s Wife’
This is the headline to a large piece in the Sunday’s Times, describing how a white female convert to Islam is tweeting offensively from land controlled by the Islamic State.
Surely, many of those who have gone to support the cruel and extremely violent regime in the Middle East would be how those that are best described as several bricks short of a full load.
Are we building enough secure mental hospitals?
Wasting My Licence Fee
The BBC has just broadcast an interview with some Islamic nutcase.
Why is the BBC wasting my licence fee, giving fantasists like this time on the airwaves?
He might even be able to find out if jihadists go to heaven in a few days or weeks!
Why Was This Idiot Allowed To Drive?
When I had my stroke, I was not allowed to drive until I’d proved I was safe. As my eyesight never returned to 20/20, I decided that it was probably best to give up trying to drive again. I suspect now, that I might be able to drive without any problems, but I couldn’t live with perhaps knocking someone over, even if it was impossible for it to have been my fault.
On the other hand, the idiot driver of the van shown in this report from the BBC, was a diagnosed paranoid schizophrenic, who went on to kill a young mother and injure thirteen others. In other words he was a worse killer than the two who are accused of murdering Lee Rigby.
What doctor allowed him to drive after the diagnosis? He should be struck off at the least.
Do We Have A Death Wish?
After the death of my wife and son, some medics thought I might be suicidal. I don’t think I ever thought about it, although I was pretty depressed by myself in hospital in Hong Kong, until my son arrived.
But in some ways today, showed me a dark side, that I keep very much under control.
As a child, I didn’t like the Underground and especially, when I was waiting for a train in a tunnel station like Wood Green, I’d tend to back onto the wall, with my hands over my ears. I still hold back on the Tube, but often these days there is an empty seat, to sit safely. I’m probably just being prdent these days.
On New Barnet station, whilst waiting for my train, a couple of fast trains ran through and they scared the wits out of me. So I retreated into the shop.
I do wonder how many commit suicide in such a situation on the spur of the moment.
Thinking about it, I do wonder, whether it’s just the survival genes taking over. After all, we all have a lot of those, as those that don’t would have died out years ago in the caves.
let’s face it, it also helps you do extraordinary things. Just look at the story of the baby rescued from the dock in Somerset, by the 63-year-old, George Reeder.
The Priory
The Priory Clinic is well-thought of for sorting addiction and other mental problems.
However, I was surprised to see that it was advertising in a local glossy magazine at my dentist’s in Notting Hill yesterday.
Perhaps they’ve found it’s an area, where many of their past clients live.
The Anonymous Widower 