This Patient Makes House Look Nice | Doctor Challenges House MD S3E23

In the end, even House couldn't stand the kid. Lol. I must have the opposite of this kid's condition because I have trouble keeping my iron levels up enough (though I think in my case I simply fail to eat enough meat). Loved hearing your theories on this one! :)

Cluster headaches and even moreso trigeminal neuralgia are horrible headaches, also known as "suicide headaches", because some patients actually end their lives to get rid of the pain in very severe cases.

There are treatment options, but I think that sort of pain is unimaginable to those who haven't experienced it.

I love the take on psylocibine, as it's also a very telling window into our society and how our once formed preconceptions can impede progress. Because psylocibine is branded as an "illegal drug" rather than just a substance of interest with potential for abuse, like, say, benzodiazepines, research has been made massively more difficult in many countries and companies are reluctant or unable to bring it onto the market due to it's legal status in many countries.

The results from the 2006 study you mentioned on cluster headaches were already impressive, and more recently there have been promising results for depression and a number of associated psychiatric symptoms. The most famous study in that regard has got to be the "End of life anxiety" study that looked at terminally ill patients and found a significant AND clinically relevant reduction of depressive symptoms and anxiety, leading to a better quality of life for those patients.

I'm sure in the next decades, eventually, some of the substances with promising results in studies - mainly psylocibine, but also components like MDMA or LSD - will get approved as medication if further studies confirm those results and lawmakers get a grip or are lobbied enough (unfortunate truth in many aspects).

It's interesting in my country as well. Cocaine can still be used in ophthalmology (as drips, that is), Amphetamines are INCREDIBLY hard to get approved for research purposes and it often takes years despite there being legal medications that are amphetamines.
Getting psylocibine approved for studies is entirely impossible, so all we have to rely on are results from US studies, really.

DISCLAIMER: This comment is not meant to promote drug use or make light of negative side effects of drug use. This is not a "that stuff is good, just microdose it to self-medicate" - that's one of the worst things you can do. Rather, if you experience any mental health problems, seek professional help where you can be treated safely in doses of medications and forms of therapy that have been proven time and time again to work.
Psylocibine is looking like it could be a brilliant substance - but that doesn't mean we should take it for fun, nor does it mean we should take whatever doseage and expect it to solve our problems. In fact, in combination with certain medication it can be extremely dangerous to take either of the "drugs" mentioned in my comment to the fact of putting you in a life-threatening condition.

Why do some people get so mad when they lose at chess?

The next episode is one of my absolute favorites.

Lovely episode!

I get that his shitty personality wasn't a symptom of his disease, but was his anger outburst at the beginning of the episode caused by his hemachromatosis or was it him just being a massive prick?

This is probably my favourite episode of House. Dude beats house at chess, get messed up with shrooms and invites Cameron to suck him off, Mum is lowkey cute despite the bad wardrobing, hair and makeup. A tier.

Why are you flipped? T_T

Why is the picture of the character his older self?

Does anyone really feel bad for the little sh*t

5 year long suffer of clusters here.

Sumatriptan/aspirin/oxygen/ice packs/lidocaine nasal spray, is the treatment for cluster attacks.

Preventing them is done with beta blockers (like verapamil) or lithium carbonate.

If there anything I’m forgetting, please tell me so I can tell my neurologist.

Also while not worth the risks and side effects, cocaine is good at clusters.

British doctors lost a lot of credibility the last few years.

Especially when they were advocating for Covid vaccines for political reasons with no foundation in actual science or trials.

The UK in particular proved its own doctors are even less knowledgeable than EMTs in America.