Very definitely. Modern medicine and care is a miracle, for the most part.
--- In [email protected], "wayback71" <wayback71@...> wrote:
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> --- In [email protected], "whynotnow7" <whynotnow7@> wrote:
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> > Wow - glad the doctors finally caught that, and that your son was able to
> > stabilize his thyroid.
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> thanks, he is fine now, but for a while there we were thinking major mental
> illness. Makes you appreciate medicine, blood tests, medications of this day
> and age.
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> > --- In [email protected], "wayback71" <wayback71@> wrote:
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> > > --- In [email protected], "authfriend" <jstein@> wrote:
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> > > > Utterly fascinating review-cum-ruminations by neurologist/
> > > > psychiatrist Oliver Sacks of a book written by a father about
> > > > his daughter ten years after she appeared to go suddenly
> > > > insane. May or may not have any relevance to anything
> > > > currently taking place on FFL:
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> > > > http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2008/sep/25/a-summer-of-madness/
> > > >
> > > Fascinating. My older son became pscyhotic about 11 years ago due to
> > > "thryoid storms." The doctors never thought to test for thyorid
> > > malfunction and he went through over a year of off and on intense
> > > anxiety, shaking hands, racing heart, and off and on mild psychosis.
> > > Finally diagnosed as very severe, near-deadly hyperthyroidism. Treated
> > > easily with meds, but took a few years before his system recovered and
> > > healed. When mental problems present, physical causes should ALWAYS be
> > > ruled out first. In my son's case, they thought he had performance
> > > anxiety and so never checked for physical causes! (He was a pianist).
> > > Then wondered if he had psychotic depression. Finally figured it out,
> > > thank God.
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