Yeah I'm sorta naive enough to think you can inject me with stuff that came from me, that said, just being poked with a needle carries risk. And it comes from me but that doesn't mean I should eat my own **** or have it injected in me.
Sigh, I guess maybe it could upset my body to jam a needle into my ovaries, try to suck out some eggs, or grab some bone marrow, and then inject try to that into my epidural space. Back to torturing lab rats I guess. At least until I have a miscarriage and can... OK, no more mad science.
No, really, from an immunological standpoint working with autologous tissue is pretty much going to be better than any other source, but you can't just start rearranging the furniture.
But yeah, I'd love it if we could just draw my blood and grow me a knee replacement, but it's going to take more than that.
Question, I heard about some sort of magnet/electric device you wear next to a degenerated joint and it regenerates? Anyone know about this? I know a terribly disabled physician (non-quack) that did this for their non-replaceable joint and had miraculous results... they weren't trying to promote it, just something they did to salvage their own life and claimed it worked
it's nice to have some of those "seemingly" harmless unproven therapies in mind to try when you become so desperate you're thinking "I wear this magnet bracelet or it's time to euthanize". In that way is the only way I sorta support the earlier poster saying sometimes the FDA should let people inject themselves with their own stuff, like some form of medicalized autosarcophagy harm reduction model, because that's better than total despair? then again helping a patient pursue potentially useless or harmless treatment because they aren't getting benefit from being counseled acceptance.... is bad. And it makes sense that's it bad. And we try to help patients see "reason." And it doesn't work.
But then again given no proven benefit, why would MS patients refuse to stay in the US and accept their symptoms versus pay thousands of dollars to fly south of the country for some weird spine injections that they think work but stymies science. Why can't they do nothing for the same result?
Our patients will demand treatment. We must offer them safe placebo if nothing else, and if not proven safe placebo or treatment, have no part of it. Which they will find cruel. We are holding out on them.
I'm trying to find the various things I've read about how shamanism only works and has value if it comes at great cost
So we may continue to sell snakeoil, magnetic bracelets, but only as a last resort when pressed, it can't be free, but at least shouldn't be prohibitive, but should not be doing crazy wild joint stem cell injections for thousands of dollars. There must be a middle ground. A magnetic bracelet for hundreds of dollars instead? and donate the money to researching the injections
