Long Covid, Growth Hormone Deficiency and Suicide – a Deadly Trio

Artificial Intelligence is wonderful! I asked it three questions. Are long covid and growth hormone deficiency connected? Are long covid and suicide connected? Are growth hormone deficiency and suicide connected? Here are the answers I got. First question: “Viral genes have been found in pituitary tissue from some individuals that died from COVID-19, with pituitary […]

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The A-Z with something missing

GHD doesn’t stand for Ghastly Horrific Disease, but it could do. It happens after a sixth of concussions, and roughly a quarter of more serious head injuries and it makes you want to kill yourself. Interestingly, suicide risk is tripled after concussion, and four times after worse injury. There were over 100,000 people admitted to

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The Test That Doesn’t Test

A must-read for anyone who thinks they may have cortisol deficiency or GHD Once upon a time there was a Yorkshire lady named Christine Wrightson. Here she is. You can see the kind of person she was: downright, valiant, not to be messed with. She got ill. She’d had arthritis for decades and in 2005

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Maybe it’s not CTE after all?

You’ve had multiple concussions in sport. Do you have: Impaired concentration and memory loss? Lack of well-being? Depression and anxiety? Reduced energy? If so, you may fear you have early signs of Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE) and that it’ll be downhill all the way with this incurable condition. But maybe it’s not as bad as

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Head Injury and Suicide

A large Danish population study which looked at more than 100,000 hospital admissions for head injury for over a decade and examined the causes of death, found this: You are four times more likely to kill yourself after you’ve suffered bruising or bleeding to the brain. You are three times more likely after concussion. You

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A Glaring Omission

On Monday 18th December 2023, the Telegraph ran an article headed WHAT CONCUSSION CAN DO TO YOU. The author listed the symptoms – headaches or dizziness, difficulty concentrating or remembering, anxiety, low mood, fatigue and difficulty sleeping – and was absolutely silent about the worst symptom of all, which is loss of libido. Shouldn’t parents

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Hidden illness

Patrick, 49, had a plan if his test result was negative. He would swallow his blood-thinning pills and some diazepam, then run a hot bath, get in, and slice into his femoral artery. The blood-thinners would prevent clotting. “It wouldn’t have been a cry for help. I didn’t intend to fail,” he says. Luckily the

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