General Medical issues thread

[Seat0B]

Anyone heard of The Dunedin Study

They studied a cohort of 1073 babies born at Dunedin in 1972 and followed and studied hem for now over 45 years.
Surprisingly the cohort remaining in the study is just under 1000 or 92%

The study looked at wide ranging questions.

One study was on child self control:
Early child self control predicts positive health at age 32 (when they looked at the results), wealth and criminality.
Differences between particip[ants in self control are predictive of health, wealth and crime across 32 years in both genders - even if controlled for variations in IQ, socioeconomic status and home envorinment. While low self control in childhood predicts poor outcomes in adulthood, children with low self control can exceed their higher self control cohorts by learning or gaining self control through intervention.

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Yes there were some documentaries based on this cohort that I watched a few years ago. I think they were on ABC. It was really fascinating.

 

[RooFlyer]

steroi_ injections in metacarpophalangeal joint and proximal interphalangeal joint of middle finger.

I’ve had them once before and knew this was going to be very painful, but this was almost next level. Didn’t go close to fainting but felt a bit woozy and they said I went white and said I should lie down.

Severe pain as the needle penetrated the capsule around the joint and then more pain as the fluids went into the small joint space and basically bulged it out. Twice. There is some local anaesthetic mixed with the steroi_ but they can’t put too much in because that would displace the steroi_ in what is already a very tight space.

I asked about some local before the main injection and they said that this really wasn’t practical.

 

[prozac]

steroi_ injections in metacarpophalangeal joint and proximal interphalangeal joint of middle finger.

I’ve had them once before and knew this was going to be very painful, but this was almost next level. Didn’t go close to fainting but felt a bit woozy and they said I went white and said I should lie down.

Severe pain as the needle penetrated the capsule around the joint and then more pain as the fluids went into the small joint space and basically bulged it out. Twice. There is some local anaesthetic mixed with the steroi_ but they can’t put too much in because that would displace the steroi_ in what is already a very tight space.

I asked about some local before the main injection and they said that this really wasn’t practical.

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About 8yrs ago I had a steroi_ injection into a finger of left hand. With everything else that has happened since I now cannot even recall why. Maybe that finger was beginning to curl or somesuch.
This is a useless retelling, but you jogged my memory.