West Coast health check
My family and a number of familys we know report in themselves and children intermmitent nauseau since March. Went to the doctor and the first thing the doctor asked was "do you have a metallic taste in your mouths"?
I thought this is the most telling thing a physician has said. I didnt mention anything about radiation, but never in my whole life being sick has a doctor ever asked me that. I told him I have from time to time but said nothign else. To avoid risk of sounding nuts, I didnt push for more info.
Japan might as well be Death Island. And death island has been a smolderin' this way.
Like ants accidently knocking over or burrowing into an old FULL rusted can of Raid i fear...
intelligent doc
I think this doctor is intelligent--well done to him or her. We still have metallic taste in our mouths (since mid-March) over here in Europe, blistering mouths, occasional nausea. Skin symptoms are still bad--burning and itching, nothing to do with sun exposure as happens inside too but the unclothed skin is worse.
Things I have found that help: keeping nutrition levels up with juicing veg (thus hopefully reducing absorption of the bad stuff); taking probiotics 3 x daily; cutting out sugar (an old trick recommended by doctors in the days after US dropped atom bombs on Japan); getting plenty of rest.
Good analogy.
RAID can it is.
Or maybe it's Round-Up.
Folks ought to lose the fear
Folks ought to lose the fear of seeming nuts. What is nuts is running around as a chicken with its head cut off. You are a human being. My advice -- live up to it.
Yeah. I wish I didn't wait
Yeah. I wish I didn't wait for other people to don their masks firsts when it was at its worst,
Or at least that I had refused to go out when it was raining, even though my colleagues were going out, devil-may-care.
Did we all wait for each other to act first? And expect those who pay no attention to the news, but instead know exactly what happened on the last episode of Glee, to lead the way for us?
I regret having been so damn socially acceptable this Spring :(
"Why do you ask?"
Such a simple question would have helped greatly. Can you call your doctor and ask why they asked that?
If an honest answer is the
If an honest answer is the goal, rather than a self-protective one, in person is probably the better way to go, after some casual banter to loosen dear dr. up, a bit.
Hmmm....I don't think your
Hmmm....I don't think your thoughts are crazy at all. I would inquire if it'll make you feel more at ease!
Dying Politely … / Censorship / Chris Busby
> To avoid risk of sounding nuts, I didnt push for more info.
You have recognised that the doctor's question was _exactly_ the question that checks for radiation.
How about returning to quiz that doctor on _why_ she asked that question, _what_ she was checking for? Quizzing her in person to check for unspoken facial reactions ...
If she doesn't immediately volunteer 'radiation,' then ask explicitly "Is the metallic taste question to check for radiation?" Then ask _what_ has she been briefed on that that public doesn't yet know ...
Is that to risk being less than perfectly polite? To make a (very minor) fuss?
At some point before the
Alternatively one could die politely without, making a fuss. Perhaps one's life is worth making a (tiny) fuss over? Or your children's lives?
FYI - from the south bay, I too had nausea on several occasions in March. I put it down to needing to change from porridge to cold oatmeal. Sure enough it went away. I _also_ changed to using only carbon-filtered tap water. Related? No idea. But plenty of suspicions. -
a) Perhaps it was random. b) But others were experiencing the same thing at the same time and c) Rainwater was _severely_ polluted at the time. So did radiation get into the tap water? In sufficient quantity to bring about that reaction? A post about the water was summarily rejected on Information Clearing House on 4/1/11. I know because I tried to post it and my userid was thereafter deleted.
- http://blog.alexanderhiggins.com/2011/04/01/breaking-radiation-san-franc...
Is that an 'Operation Mockingbird' site, to spread food? Fear, uncertainty doubt. Looks a bit like it, methinks! -
Operation Mockingbird - Spartacus Schoolnet -
- http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/JFKmockingbird.htm
Operation Mockingbird -
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Mockingbird
No, the figures reported did not indicate tap water radiation. But there were extraordinarily corrupt connections to the air monitoring (same source and/or google), so my faith in any reported figures is less than zero.
Not to mention BRAWM's pathetic reliance on 'airplane flight's gamma radiation equivalent' radiation exposure for internal radiation doses and their utter refusal to / use / mention / discuss / Dr. Chris Busby's ECRR radiation risk model for internal radiation poisoning. Or his (excellent) formulae for cancer rates in Japan and/or the northern hemisphere.
- http://www.llrc.org/
Hi All, I arrived in CA 4
Hi All,
I arrived in CA 4 days before the Tsunami hit Japan (yeah yeah the LUCK factor).
March went on fine with me.However in April-May I had 2 isolated incidences of vomiting (I have thrown up only twice before in my 30 years before this).My bowel movements changed,and I was having extremely bad stomache cramps with loose stool every now and then. It was not continuous so I didn't show a doctor. (It sounds really silly to me too.)
Then in July I had a v bad case of gastroenteritis and took antibiotics for 5 days, and am good since then.
I am not sure what this could have been but I have a few points to ponder over:
1) I started using a water filter instead of bottled water and its done a lot of good with my stomach health.
2) Before this I was in UK for an year and my stomach had started having issues there as well.I was consuming tap water there.On moving back home (India-we have RO in almost all homes there due to bad tap water) my stomach settled down in 2-3 days.
This could be due to the food preferences I make when I am abroad, I eat more of bread, buns etc than the normal staple food I had been having for years.
3) I have started eating only home cooked food here, and things are good. If I eat out, my stomach again doesn't like it.
4) In India, with gastric/stomach problems, many highly qualified doctors ask if you feel a metallic taste in the mouth. I have experienced it several times with gastric problems back home, and also with certain types of fevers and with certain medicines. In homeopathy medicine this is a very telling sign of the organ that might be causing trouble. Back home, we do not have a nuclear program yet and do not live near any industrial areas.
I really hope and pray that all the gastric issues that we all are experiencing is not due to radio activity. I am planning a visit to the doctor soon and will ask what does all this means to them. I also have to show my son to his pediatrician and will post what both the doctors have to say.
I can attest to the gastric problems....
I have dealt with acid reflux for years now and when I first started going to the doctor for the problems, they too asked about the metallic taste. Mine ended up being a symptom of an esophageal ulcer. Since then I have regulated my diet, removed most foods that cause an abundance of stomach acid production and things have been mostly ok. Except for during pregnancy, but what woman doesn't, in at least one pregnancy, deal with heartburn? :o)