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J_in_Ontario's avatar

2023. 86 years later. Gaslighters say "Multiple Chemical Sensitivity is really just Anxiety." (Multiple Chemical Sensitivity / Environmental Illness is really just health damage from chemical exposures, such as PCBs, and/or mould.)

https://www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/health/zeroing-cause-multiple-chemical-sensitivity

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Celayne Jones's avatar

On the rare occasion I have visited an allopathic doctor, they always ALWAYS say I have anxiety. I never knew why (except for the time I was having panic attacks after a severe trauma) but it must be due to self-reported and significant sensitivities, mostly to medications. They got much worse after a tetanus booster. I will never again take a pharmaceutical product. Of course, all my reactions are “Coincidences”.

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A Midwestern Doctor's avatar

Tetanus boosters can do that.

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Troll Hunter's avatar

I don't think you can get just a tetanus shot any more, as in tetanus and nothing else. They all come with whooping cough (do we REALLY need that?) and something else. I think "they" just want to make us sick.

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Dee's avatar

My doctor wanted to give me some shots about ten years ago. Do you want the flu shot? No, Do you want blah, blah, blah shot? NO. What about tetanus? It's been more than ten years you had the tetanus shot. Okay. THEN THE DOCTOR SMILED. Kind of a smirky smile. Had to watch her face real quick or I would have missed it. I thought of back tracking on that oral agreement right away, but didn't have a real good reason besides her shady behavior.

I think about that moment all the time now. Maybe later when she diagnosed me with general anxiety, it was from that. I don't know. But I think back of why did I agree to tetanus shot?

So I guess it is still not culturally okay yet to say F U to these doctors when they suggest any shot?

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Troll Hunter's avatar

It's getting worse. You're now considered "prehypertensive" if you systolic pressure's (upper number) 120... We need to stop feeding these trolls with M.D.s

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Satan's Doorknob's avatar

Environmental toxins, questionable food additives, and so forth are examples of intractable (potential) health issues. Even if is possible to mount valid scientific studies of the phenomena, which is surely not always the case, there exist stupendous disincentives to fund or even allow such studies. There is simply too much money and power at risk. Noe that I'm not saying that there aren't real issues or that they shouldn't be looked into, merely saying there are huge barriers against anyone even looking.

At times I find it amazing that we have addressed some huge dangers, like the widespread use of lead in gasoline or trans fats, for instance.

Realistically the best you can do is self-education and pick your way as best you can. Even in the best case, it takes decades for institutional policy to change, to weed out outmoded beliefs and accept new research findings. Yet if one had some insider knowledge, one might have known as early as say the 1950s or 60s, that margarine wasn't not a good idea and one should stick with butter.

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Dee's avatar

I was just thinking about the Margarine vs butter debate this morning as I buttered my sweet potato.

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Frank's avatar

Every time I contemplate the 'fake food' revolution I think about the fake moon landing.

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Rosalind McGill's avatar

I’m slowly healing from this. And vacuum a lot for the biotoxins. Integrative medicine doctor is helping after 20 years of gaslighting by insurance dictated drs. & I acquired a bunch of autoimmune issues after a booster shot for work ( for an autistic classroom!) in 2001. I was in the prime of my life. It’s huge to have hope again & some quality of life after being written off for so long.

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