Holy smokes I'm not banned yet....:wtf:

Quote Originally Posted by birdgirl73
The point FBR is making, Gandalf, is more than anything that no one needs to be giving out medical advice here. Not from personal experience or anything else. He and my husband are the two people here who are actually qualified to provide it, but you'll notice that they above all others don't do that and that, in the instances where they do provide medical information (and here I'm making a distinction between information and advice, diagnoses, or pharmacological information), they always word that information carefully, using qualifiers such as "probably" or "usually." That's what actual medical education teaches--for folks not to try to diagnose or provide others with advice based on simply their own experience or reading. Everyone is different. Everyone metabolizes medicines differently. Evereyone's physiology is different, and no one can be properly diagnosed or advised over the Web.

You do speak with great certainty and authority at times, whether you realize it or not. And particularly when it comes to providing information about medicines and pharmacology, you've got a lot to learn. Don't get me wrong. So do I. I'm at the beginning of my year-long course of medical pharmacology, and I won't be ready to prescribe medicines or give advice on such substances for at least two to three years after I complete that--not until I've had two years of clinical rotations and actual hands-on experience.

All we're saying is please refrain from providing detailed advice or recommendations to people. I know you mean well and want to be helpful, buit the greatest disservice we can do to the people here, to the people looking in from the outside, or to these boards themselves is to put this place at risk by crossing over that line and pretending to be neurological or pharmacological experts. We've had this discussion here many times with other members, including some who've earned themselves unexpected vacations by providing incorrect and/or dangerous medical information. We're simply trying to protect our members, the boards, and you by asking you to ease up. It's also my personal hunch that by encouraging you to chill a tad more on the advice, it may help you obsess a little less about your own situation and perhaps ease your own anxiety and distress.
Well birdgirl I understand what you're getting at, so I'll ease up on the advice considerably. Honestly though all I ever wanted to do was help out whoever I can, I don't like to see someone suffer when I'm aware of a remedie to that suffering.
I'll assume from the general consensus then, that I was speaking with great certainty/authority in my tone. That was never my intention, I guess it's just the way I come off. I've had a tendency toward social ineptitude all my life as is, but I'm learning. I sometimes wonder if there's a spinkle of a my brother aspergers gene in me yet.

and fakeboobs, sorry to go off on you but I feel you have a very distorted idea of what I'm all about.
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