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Re:The Uselessness of Phenylephrine by m-p-3 on Wednesday March 30, 2022 @04:29PM (#30860400)
> official sounding diagnoses that on inspection are actually defined as "we have no idea"

I suffer from IBS, and it's basically a diagnosis of exclusion of everything else.

> lack of consensus about how to treat some of the most common conditions in the human population (e.g. back pain)

Back pain isn't a condition, it's a symptom. And with the amount of conditions and diseases that have this symptom in their list, it's not surprising there isn't a "one-size-fits-all" remedy or cure to it.

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Re:The Uselessness of Phenylephrine by FireBeyond on Wednesday March 30, 2022 @04:42PM (#30860529)
Before my gout became more obviously gout (I had elevated uric acid, but there was often little to no crystallization), one of my diagnoses was "seronegative arthritis" - "It looks like you have arthritis, but you have neither RF or CCP in your blood, so... huh."
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