Age Activated Attention Deficit Disorder...
This is how it develops:
I decide to water my garden.
As I turn on the hose in the driveway, I look over at
my car and decide my car needs wa****ng.
As I start toward the garage, I notice that there is
mail on the ****ch table that I brought up from the
mailbox earlier.
I decide to go through the mail before I wash the car.
I lay my car keys down on the table, put the junk
mail in the garbage can under the table, and notice
that the can is full. So, I decide to put the bills back
on the table and take out the garbage first.
But then I think, since I'm going to be near the mailbox,
when I take out the garbage anyway, I may as well pay
the bills first. I take my checkbook off the table, and see
that there is only 1 check left. My extra checks are in my
desk in the study, so I go inside the house to my desk
where I find the can of Coke that I had been drinking.
I'm going to look for my checks, but first I need to push
the Coke aside so that I don't accidentally knock it over.
I see that the Coke is getting warm, and I decide I should
put it in the refrigerator to keep it cold. As I head toward
the kitchen with the Coke, a vase of flowers on the counter
catches my eye--they need to be watered.
I set the Coke down on the counter, and I discover my
reading gl***** that I've been searching for all morning.
I decide I better put them back on my desk, but first I'm
going to water the flowers.
I set the gl***** back down on the counter, fill a container
with water and suddenly I spot the TV remote Someone left
it on the kitchen table. I realize that tonight when we go to
watch TV, I will be looking for the remote, but I won't
remember that it's on the kitchen table, so I decide to put
it back in the den where it belongs, but first I'll water the
flowers. I pour some water in the flowers, but quite a bit
of it spills on the floor. So, I set the remote back down on
the table, get some towels and wipe up the spill. Then, I
head down the hall trying to remember what I was planning
to do. At the end of the day:
----the car isn't washed,
----the bills aren't paid,
----there is a warm can of Coke sitting on the counter,
----the flowers don't have enough water,
----there is still o nly 1 check in my check book,
----I can't find the remote,
----I can't find my gl*****,
----and I don't remember what I did with the car keys.
Then, when I try to figure out why nothing got done today,
I'm really baffled because I know I was busy all day long,
and I'm really tired.
I realize this is a serious problem, and I'll try to get some
help for it, but first I'll check my e-mail.
On Apr 9, 10:08 pm, ironjustice <teamtan...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> Lousse JC, Defr=E8re S, Van Langendonckt A, Gras J, Gonz=E1lez-Ramos R,
> Colette S, Donnez J
> Iron storage is significantly increased in peritoneal macrophages of
> endometriosis patients and correlates with iron overload in peritoneal
> fluid. [JOURNAL ARTICLE]
> Fertil Steril 2008 Apr 5.
>
> OBJECTIVE: To further investigate peritoneal iron disruption in
> endometriosis by studying iron storage in peritoneal macrophages of
> patients with endometriosis compared with controls.
> DESIGN: Cross-sectional study.
> SETTING: Academic gynecology research unit in a university hospital.
> PATIENT(S): Fifty patients undergoing laparoscopy. INTERVENTION(S):
> Collection of peritoneal fluid samples (N =3D 50) from patients with (n
> =3D 27) and without (n =3D 23) endometriosis undergoing laparoscopy.
> MAIN OUTCOME MEASURE(S): Quantification of peritoneal macrophage
> ferritin by immunocytochemical staining and immunodensitometry and
> measurement of peritoneal iron, transferrin, ferritin, and prohepcidin
> concentrations.
> RESULT(S): The optical density of peritoneal macrophage ferritin
> staining was statistically significantly higher in endometriosis
> patients than in controls. Higher iron concentrations, transferrin
> saturations, and ferritin concentrations were also detected in case of
> endometriosis. A statistically significant positive correlation was
> found between the optical density of macrophage ferritin staining and
> peritoneal iron concentrations in endometriosis and control patients.
> CONCLUSION(S): Iron storage is statistically significantly increased
> in peritoneal macrophages of patients with endometriosis and
> correlates with iron overload in peritoneal fluid. The potential
> implications of iron ac***ulation in peritoneal macrophages in case of
> endometriosis are discussed.
>
> Fertility and sterility [Fertil Steril]
>
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> Immunotherapy Weekly
>
> October 23, 2002
>
> ENDOMETRIOSIS: Disorder associated with wide range of diseases
>
> U.S. researchers re****t in the journal Human Reproduction that women
> with
> endometriosis are significantly more likely than other women to suffer
> from
> a number of additional distressing or disabling conditions.
>
> These include a variety of autoimmune diseases, allergies, asthma,
> hypothyroidism, chronic fatigue syndrome and fibromyalgia.
>
> Their findings are from the first population-based study in the world
> to
> investigate whether a range of other disorders are more prevalent in
> women
> with endometriosis, which affects an estimated 8-10% of women of
> reproductive age.
>
> The results - which confirmed there was typically a 10-year delay
> between
> onset of symptoms and a diagnosis of endometriosis - have prompted
> the
> researchers to urge doctors, especially those taking care of
> adolescents, to
> consider a diagnosis of endometriosis in girls and women complaining
> of
> pelvic pain and to watch out for other potentially serious conditions
> in
> these patients. The research team from the National Institute of
> Child
> Health and Human Development in Bethesda, Maryland, the School of
> Public
> Health and Health Services at George Wa****ngton University in
> Wa****ngton,
> DC, and the Endometriosis Association in Milwaukee, carried out and
> analyzed
> a survey of 3680 members of the Endometriosis Association, 90% of whom
> were
> of reproductive age. All the women had surgically diagnosed
> endometriosis.
>
> They found that among these women:
>
> *20% had more than one other disease.
>
> *Up to 31% of those with coexisting diseases had also been diagnosed
> with
> either fibromyalgia or chronic fatigue syndrome and some of these
> additionally had other autoimmune or endocrine disease.
>
> *Chronic fatigue syndrome was more than a hundred times more common
> than in
> the female U.S. population generally.
>
> *Hypothyroidism (under-active thyroid gland) was seven times more
> common.
>
> *Fibromyalgia was twice as common.
>
> *The autoimmune inflammatory diseases - systemic lupus erythematosus,
> Sjogren syndrome and rheumatoid arthritis, and also multiple
> sclerosis,
> occurred more frequently.
>
> *Rates of allergic and atopic conditions such as asthma and eczema
> were
> higher - e.g., 61% of the endometriosis sufferers had allergies
> compared
> with 18% of the U.S. general population, and 12% had asthma compared
> with
> 5%. If a woman had endometriosis plus an endocrine disease the figure
> rose
> to 72% and it was 88% if she had endometriosis plus fibromyalgia or
> chronic
> fatigue syndrome.
>
> *Two-thirds of the survey subjects re****ted that relatives also had
> either
> diagnosed or suspected endometriosis, confirming research that
> suggested
> there was a familial tendency.
>
> "As well as finding an increased prevalence of this wide range of
> diseases
> and conditions among women with endometriosis, we found that they
> re****ted
> significant pain and disability and, very worryingly, that there was
> typically a 10-year delay between the onset of pelvic pain and
> diagnosis,"
> said lead investigator Ninet Sinaii, from the National Institute of
> Child
> Health and Human Development.
>
> Coinvestigator Dr. Pamela Stratton pointed out that, "Since women
> appear to
> develop symptoms shortly after the onset of their periods and are not
> diagnosed for years, we don't know whether endometriosis actually
> occurs at
> menarche as others have re****ted or whether it develops over time.
> It's also
> unclear whether early treatment could prevent chronic pelvic pain
> from
> taking hold. It is vital, therefore, that attempts should be made to
> diagnose and treat endometriosis in adolescents."
>
> Sinaii said there were a number of limitations to the study, which
> could
> potentially introduce bias, including the relatively young age of the
> respondents, the fact that they were predominantly white, well-
> educated and
> members of a sup****t group (therefore possibly atypical), problems
> with
> misinterpreting questions, recognizing disease names, and so on.
>
> Therefore, the researchers carried out a sensitivity analysis. This
> confirmed that even if the disease prevalence was underestimated in
> the
> general population and overestimated in the study sample, the rates
> re****ted
> in women with endometriosis were still significantly higher.
>
> "These differences appear real," said Sinaii.
>
> She said the study was the first to provide data on the
> characteristics and
> coexisting states of women with pain from endometriosis.
>
> "Women with endometriosis frequently suffer from autoimmune
> inflammatory
> diseases, hypothyroidism, fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue syndrome,
> allergies
> and asthma. It is evident that women with pelvic pain are not
> diagnosed as
> having endometriosis for many years, suggesting that physicians,
> especially
> those taking care of adolescents, should consider the diagnosis (High
> rates
> of autoimmune and endocrine disorders, fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue
> syndrome and atopic diseases among women with endometriosis: a survey
> analysis. Hum Reprod, 2002;17(10):2715-2724).
>
> "These findings also suggest a strong association between
> endometriosis and
> autoimmune disorders and indicate the need to consider the coexistence
> of
> other conditions in women with endometriosis," she concluded.
>
> This article was prepared by Immunotherapy Weekly editors from staff
> and
> other re****ts.
>
> Copyright 2002 Immunotherapy Weekly via NewsRx.comhttp://www.NewsRx.net
>
> Who loves ya.
> Tom
>
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>
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>
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