Hutan
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I'm late to this fun thing.I also don't want to divert the subject from homeopathy fun thing!
From wikipedia: about 50% of uncomplicated UTIs will recover without treatment within a few days or weeks.
I find it very hard to believe that taking a few homeopathic pills can reduce inflammation in a matter of hours.
But it has cured me of cystitis, in a way that cannot be put down to the natural process of healing. It went in a matter of hours after many days of agony. I took one pill and hour till it eased off and soon it was gone entirely.
I had a bad UTI when I was travelling. Felt like I was dying, feverish, middle of the night in a foreign country (it was Germany actually) and didn't know where to find a doctor, couldn't control urination - and had an upcoming flight half way around the world.
I drank many cups of chamomile tea - and recovered! Brenda, if you took your hourly pills with water, then maybe it was quite a similar approach. I think there is evidence that flushing your system can help recovery by reducing the bacteria in the urinary tract. And as wikipedia reports, time and the immune system alone can be enough.
A week of no sleep at all isn't sustainable. It probably wouldn't have mattered what you did that night, you would have slept. Maybe you had an alcoholic drink as well?That week I mentioned in the post above 1 week no sleep AT ALL! I mean not even an hour. One of my eye lid closed, I could not speak well. I was like a zombie that week and my friend insisted for this reason.
Perhaps after that scary experience you were more conscious of making time to sleep?Though it made a huge difference to my life, like one member mentioned above I did not even think it was that important to sleep that much, until that horrid week.
Shall we discuss the science behind why hot meal cooked by someone who take care of me cures my insomnia?
I imagine it works in the same way as when people eat a big Christmas Dinner and then snooze the afternoon away. I'm not sure what is going on there, but I imagine the body wants to focus on digesting rather than keeping alert to hunt and gather another turkey and plum pudding.
Re the 'the Royal Family, German people and some vets use homeopathy' argument:
In Thailand, the Royal family and people in general including, no doubt, some vets set up a spirit house along side their own house to house spirits that could cause problems if not appeased. Offerings are given to keep the spirits happy.
(No offence to Thai people who are no more weird than anyone else. I picked Thailand just because it has a royal family and is a long way from Europe and the US. Generally, it's a lot easier to spot weird ideas when they are held by people who 'aren't like us'.)
I remember when we opened a bridge in another Asian country, part of the ceremony involved tying young chickens by their legs to individual tiny rafts of split bamboo and setting them on to the river running under the bridge. Off they bobbed, until the turbulence of the rapids overturned the rafts. This was done to appease the spirits that might damage the bridge. As far as the local people were concerned, this was 'evidence based practice' because when the ceremony had not been done quickly enough on new bridges in the past, those bridges had been damaged in storms.
My point (and I know it's not an original one) is that people believe all sorts of stuff. Belief, even widespread belief, doesn't make things true.
I'm amazed and appalled that the NHS funds homeopathy and is happy to send people off with a sugar pill but often doesn't give people diagnosed with CFS proper screening tests for alternative diagnoses. That's when all this isn't so fun.