The Establishment, The Understandable and The Inexcusable

The Understandable:

Long-term antibiotics have not sufficiently been documented for effectiveness in double-blind studies. Thus, such treatment is considered experimental and risky.

The Inexcusable:

The ELISA test is less than 80% precise by a fair margin. Despite the certain mass of people who will be falsely tested negative, there are no procedures for picking up those in the health-care system. They officially have no infection, but there's a statistical, mathematical certainty that at least some still have the infection. In Denmark, about 50.000 people get infected yearly. If a similar number take the ELISA test, it's fair to predict at least 1000 false negatives yearly. In that order of magnitude, people will be left to their own families for support and might never take responsibility for the infection (anti-inflammatory diet, rest, stress-free life) because they are told they are now 'safe', after the negative result. They are the ones left to true experiment and risk.

I respect experts a lot. They do their best. But uncertainty must be recognized, unless we disregard the consequences for those caught on the wrong side of results.

Ear Doctor's perspective

Today I went to check my hearing and ears. The doctor removed some black, hardened ear wax from really far inside my ear. I told him about hearing my heartbeat while I had the test headphones on, the gushing sound was louder than the programmed beeps. I told him that I some nights have felt my blood pressure in my fingers and toes.

He was surprised the wax could be so close to my ear drum, and that it was so hardened. His answer to the blood pressure issue was to get it checked and that he also "sometimes felt it in his thumb, if he pressed it against a table". In response to the heartbeat-sounds, he answered that I should pay less attention, that it could feel intensified by attention alone.

I don't buy that bullshit by the way. But he's hurried, and he has no data on the wider system that my body is. His attention was on the noise, not mine.

For the record, his tools caused bleeding in my right ear. It would be ironic if that causes an infection. I highly doubt it was sterile. Not expecting it, but I record it since I want to be able to shove people's incompetence back into their face if it has consequences for me. Remember to always document things. Any possible cause of something, document it, and you will be the smart one. I took a picture of some bloody paper as I returned home.