Experiences with

Cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT)

HI everyone, my mother is diagnosed with stage 4 breast cancer and doctor to give phesgo ( pertuzumab and transtuzumab) but insurance people told its a immunotheraphy so they wont apporve, but my oncologist told its a targeted therapy not immuno. my insurance is new india insurance under tpa being mediassist.Did

I am a 73 year old single man, living alone. Been seriously depressed for 18 months. Had 3 hospitalizations, tried several meds, all ineffective. Have started ECT, with 3 sessions (last on June 3, 2024) and resuming tomorrow. No effective results yet.

I am 67 years old and have had chronic, disabling depression and anxiety for at least forty years. I have been on about every antidepressant known as well as two courses of ECT, all of which have done nothing. Had some much psychotherapy that I am running out of counselors. Am currently on my fourth

I was diagnosed with lung infection a month ago. Two courses of antibiotics. Doctor said it’s cleared.,only to become so I’ll ten days ago ,deep cough stabbing pain in my side ribs and chest. Now I have pleurisy. On fourth course antibiotics. Had X-ray ,waiting result . prior to that 11 weeks ago I

Been a good day for him so far. He said he had a rough night coughing. He was in his chair dressed when I got there. Physio told him off and said you don't need the hoist now, use the pulley to get up and in the chair.Physio and speech therapist came to put tiny camera up his nose to look down his throat

I'm on 50 - 100mg of tramadol a day and slowly getting augmentation. Started with 50mg and now I alternate nights at 100mg. I'm reluctant to go to 100mg everyday yet but most nights 50mg doesn't work great. My Dr has suggested I try a THC 10mg/CBD 10mg medication and stopping Tramadol, so I will give

I have had Parkinson's since the spring of 2014. I had my first major fall (any fall that requires a trip to the ER) in Oct. of 2018, and I have gone downhill since that night. The Parkinson's symptom that's keeping me from leading a normal life is a freezing gait, although I do have overall tightness

It's clear that my son could benefit from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy. He gets into negative thought spirals and has a negative self-image. I worry about how this will affect him long-term. For those of you who have found CBT therapists for your child, I have four questions: What age did you start,

Thought I had finally better give you all an update on mum. Mum had a fall back in Feb which resulted in a broken nose and slight skull fracture, still mobile unaided at this point, but with falls risk. Admitted to hospital after 24 hours in A&E, finally getting a bed in a ward. Ward then had changed

My 9yr old son has diagnosis of ADHD & Anxiety. He takes 36mg Concerta/36mg Methyphenidate XR 1x daily in am. He about 8 months ago he suddenly started to say very negative things about himslef-Im stupid, nobody loves me, you hate me, your mean, I should just kill myself, ect. At first it was just

Hello. I’m interested in building a red light therapy hat. But I’m having trouble finding a source for 670nm and 810nm led strips. I was wondering if anyone who has built a hat using these specific wavelengths could share a link to where they purchased them. Thank you.

Supplements, medication, procedures Can someone tell me what supplements should be used with Parkinsons Among the various therapies that have shown at least some effect in the animal and/or human model are Carbadopa/Levadopa Actylcholine Actigal/Ursolic acid Adderil (amphetamine) Alcohol Alpha

For those who are on T4 / T3 combination therapy, please can you share your regime and also what were your symptoms before and after splitting ?Thank you in advance.

The University of Strathclyde and US company LSVT Global are recruiting for participants with Friedreich’s ataxia (FA) aged 18 or over to take part in an online one-to-one speech therapy study. The study will explore the use of a speech therapy treatment called LSVTArtic®, and the study will take place

Hi everyone I had this dry itchy red spot on the inside my lower left leg.just above my ankle Was driving me mad scratched it in my sleep. Next morning it covered the intyer inside of my lower left leg. I thought myself crap what's going on?? A few days went by it was getting worse. I had an hand raised

I have been on T3 only for over 15 years. This was prescribed by a GP and Endo in Essex. 12 years ago I moved to Sheffield then Derbyshire.I had been with my new surgery for 2 years when out of the blue they started getting cagey about giving me T3, At first it was lots of questions and scaremongering

I bought a new, woollen rug shortly before Christmas 2023. It immediately caused me to go from being virtually free of asthma symptoms to being in need of steroid inhaler and frequent ventolin doses - I was very short of breath, my lungs were irritated and when exercising, swimming or walking, I’d

hi there I am looking for recommendations for private endocrinologist who is understanding and open to trying t3/ combination therapy. I live in south Essex and am disabled so preferably local but willing to consider online or to travel a bit. Bonus if they are also an nhs endo. I have the list from

So now I’m 10+ weeks into treatment consisting of Lupron+Abiraterrone and have completed 5 of 20 radiation sessions. In many ways things seem to be going very well. My PSA numbers have gone from 8.4 to .2 and still falling. My side effects have been minimal , only lately have I seen some mild hot

Below is text from an email I received from PhotoPharmics a company that is testing a light therapy device for Parkinson's Disease.  I posted about this trial over a year ago and it is now recruiting (see link below): Light Therapy Trial: Update starting to r... - Cure Parkinson's (healthunlocked.com