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Man invents surgery, cures himself of mysterious ailment that left him bedridden for 11 years
Fox 59 ^ | 27 July 2019

Posted on 07/27/2019 6:35:38 PM PDT by DUMBGRUNT

It was 1999. The symptoms soon became intense and untreatable.

... he would spend the next 11 years mostly confined to a hospital bed

Lindsay immersed himself in medical research, determined to find a way out. He saw specialists from endocrinology, neurology, internal medicine and other specialties. When one doctor was out of ideas, he referred Lindsay to a psychiatrist.

That’s when Lindsay he realized he’d have to figure his predicament out on his own.

While in college he had picked up a 2,200-page endocrinology textbook ...

He zeroed in on his adrenal glands...

In 2002, he gave a presentation about his disease To get there, Lindsay bought a row of airline tickets so that, with the help of friends, he could lay across several seats during the flight.

“They didn’t patronize me. They treated me like a scientist,” Lindsay said. “I was entering into a world of science I couldn’t participate in because I was at home and couldn’t be a grad student.”

His first big lead came in 2008. He found a 1980 study from a scientist at Georgia State University, which he summed up as: “You slice the rat’s adrenal gland with a razor blade and squeeze it so the medulla pops out like a pimple.”

He built a 363-page PDF which proposed a first-ever human adrenal medullectomy.

Then he spent the next 18 months working to find a surgeon who would oversee the unorthodox procedure.

He’s not exactly the biology professor he dreamed of being at 21, ... He’s leveraging his experience into a new career as a medical consultant.

“I’m a full professor at Stanford, and I don’t know these answers,” said Dr. Lawrence Chu, who found himself leaning on Lindsay when a rare disease patient came to him. “Doug was the expert consultant.”

(Excerpt) Read more at fox59.com ...


TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Health/Medicine; Science
KEYWORDS: adrenalcortex; adrenalgland; adrenalmedullectomy; endocrinology
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To: dp0622

Nothing to get excited about!
He might be even older than me!
And more crotchety!!!

It is not like he was putting ketchup on a hotdog or something!!!!

They don’t do that in NYC, do they?
I don’t know where those heathens come from, but they are out there!!!


41 posted on 07/28/2019 11:43:14 AM PDT by DUMBGRUNT ("The enemy has overrun us. We are blowing up everything. Vive la France!"Dien Bien Phu last message.)
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To: DUMBGRUNT

Only murder is a worse crime.

And just barely.


42 posted on 07/28/2019 11:45:11 AM PDT by dp0622 (Bad, bad company Till the day I die.)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...
Thanks DUMBGRUNT.

43 posted on 07/28/2019 11:53:59 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: DUMBGRUNT

In the early 1900’s Edwin Boring mapped cutaneous sensation in the human body. He used himself as the subject. Yes, he did map sensation in the penis.


44 posted on 07/28/2019 1:18:59 PM PDT by ladyjane
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To: dp0622
LOL😜
45 posted on 07/28/2019 2:45:53 PM PDT by Celtic Conservative (My cats are more amusing than 200 channels worth of TV)
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To: SuperLuminal

Well, so far we had the wrong medulla, and now you bring up the wrong Lindsay!


46 posted on 07/28/2019 3:09:32 PM PDT by Alas Babylon! (The media is after us. Trump's just in the way.)
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To: Celtic Conservative

:)

Had to hope you knew it well enough to know that scene :)


47 posted on 07/28/2019 4:36:18 PM PDT by dp0622 (Bad, bad company Till the day I die.)
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To: Alas Babylon!
"Well, so far we had the wrong medulla, and now you bring up the wrong Lindsay!

I plead innocent by reason of senility... {:-)

Although I could have played the "cultural adjustment" card...

48 posted on 07/28/2019 6:59:35 PM PDT by SuperLuminal (Where is Sam Adams now that we desperately need him)
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To: dp0622; DUMBGRUNT

Another phrase that gets abused is “There by the Grace of God go I.” Often used when seeing someone else’s poor circumstance. A deer running out and the car in front of you hitting it and wrecking their car, etc.

It was originally penned by some guy watching a man about to be hanged for some crime. But the guy realized that it was God’s grace that sought him out and saved him - or he would have continued down his previous path which could have led him to committing a terrible crime, and getting caught and hanged.


49 posted on 07/28/2019 10:25:39 PM PDT by 21twelve (!)
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To: 21twelve; dp0622

It is my opinion that all the good lines, sentences, paragraphs...in English have already been composed.
Only so many words and many rules...

Simply recall a pertinent line and regurgitate it!

No actual thinking required and SEARCH can flesh out any context if needed.


50 posted on 07/29/2019 7:24:01 AM PDT by DUMBGRUNT ("The enemy has overrun us. We are blowing up everything. Vive la France!"Dien Bien Phu last message.)
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To: ladyjane

By chance are familiar with this study?

NO, not the salient point of your post, but the methods used in the early studies?

Particularly to pressure/contact.

I forgot to duck one day (RVN) and was shot in the head, had no feeling in the left side of my face.
They said it would return over time and it mostly has, but not 100%. Curious about it, guessing the end of a paper clip or probe???

Searching around all I see is the use of PET scans and MRI’s?


51 posted on 07/29/2019 7:47:06 AM PDT by DUMBGRUNT ("The enemy has overrun us. We are blowing up everything. Vive la France!"Dien Bien Phu last message.)
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To: DUMBGRUNT

I’m not sure where on your head/face you lost sensation. Probably you have some involvement of one of the branches of your trigeminal nerve.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trigeminal_nerve

The studies would have been published back in the early 1900’s. I never read the actual studies, but read about them and certainly heard them discussed. Sticking needles into various parts of one’s own body seems like quite a sacrifice in the name of science. The men seemed to be quite horrified by what he did.

I’ll try to see if I can find a reference. A good medical librarian could find them in a minute, I’m sure.


52 posted on 07/29/2019 10:40:48 AM PDT by ladyjane
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To: ladyjane

Thank you!

Like the cat I’m curious, My Dentist was surprised that he could work in some areas and I felt nothing.

For years I would get sudden sensations like an electric shock! The VA Doctor told me it was probably the nerves reconnecting???
Simply an oddity, not complaining. Just a quick glance around the VA or out on the street and I know I’m A-OK.

All the Doctors, Corpsman, Nurses... Cooks...guys down in the engine room...of the Hospital Ship SANCTUARY, the VERY BEST, VA was also good to me.

looking at the diagram, guessing it is maxillary nerve (CN V2) and I know my cheekbone needed work.

The entry wound was about one inch below my left eye.
Over the years(1969) everything has filled in and even the color mostly matches now!

Thank you very much!


53 posted on 07/29/2019 12:08:38 PM PDT by DUMBGRUNT ("The enemy has overrun us. We are blowing up everything. Vive la France!"Dien Bien Phu last message.)
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To: DUMBGRUNT

It’s very interesting about nerves. What you see in the diagram is an artist’s rendition of the likely distribution of nerves and their location.

Anatomy varies. Talk to a hand surgeon and he/she will tell you that the bones and the tendons in the hand vary tremendously. Cardiac surgeons will tell you the same thing. And dentists will agree.

I had one dentist tell me that usually when drilling they can anesthetize just that area but there are some patients who need the entire quadrant deadened. So you may find a slight variation between your sensation and the artist’s rendition.

Your sudden sensations certainly sound neurological. I’d look for a smart neurologist who specialized in head and neck injuries. He/she could be a good source of information. It’s a lot easier to deal with strange sensations or lack of sensation when you understand what’s going on inside your body.

I have to say - you sound like one lucky guy!! One inch below the left eye? OMG !

p.s. I am still tracking down that article.


54 posted on 07/29/2019 12:51:23 PM PDT by ladyjane
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To: ladyjane
Found the tool, I think?

I may not remember what I had for lunch, but I do recall a long-ago climbing injury. My Physician thought it maybe a back injury, the pain was in my arm. He sends me to a Neurologist, lots of hi-tech scopes and wires and needles...
and a handheld gizmo, a wheel with pins!!
Neurologist, wheel, image search. There it is, with a name.
Wartenberg wheel!https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wartenberg_wheel

October 16, 1937
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/article-abstract/278888
... This small instrument has proved during these EIGHT years to be of such definite value...

The time-lines are close and manipulating a pin or single probe would be very subjective?

LUCKY? That is not the half of it!
The guy in the next bunk lost an eye, so I heard much about the process.
After determining the correct size glass blank, photos of the existing eye and the correct blank are sent to Japan, artists paint it by hand! Japan was thought to be the best in the world at this work.
He swore to have one made with a peace sign, soon as he returned to the USA!

55 posted on 07/29/2019 3:48:40 PM PDT by DUMBGRUNT ("The enemy has overrun us. We are blowing up everything. Vive la France!"Dien Bien Phu last message.)
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