Really, guy. The problem everyone has with you right now is that you’re not making sense.
It was a simple and reasonable question, but phrased so ineptly that it was not obviously simple, or legally safe for the SDMB to be involved with. The old board had to cover its ass too, so I doubt it would have been handled differently then.
Next time post when you’re well-rested.
And then you showed up…
I don’t know, why do you?
Maybe you should leave this land of puppets and find some place where people can fully understand you.
Like a mental hospital.
Contemplate the following:
It’s obvious from this rant that you have a really quick temper. So suppose someone decides to decipher your OP in the closed thread and give you advice – and you take it. And medical nasties result. What happens?
Obviously, you come after the poster with the bad advice, the board, its management and ownership, with blood in your eye. Logical conclusion, because the simple closing of your thread made you do that – this very thread.
If Dr Matrix is not looking out for the legal interests of the Chicago Reader, he’s being remiss in his duties. And a question on adjusting the level of medication where your OP made it a possibility that you and your wife, not the medical professionals, were considering doing that adjustment, on something like blood thinners, is definitely a point where legal concerns come into play.
How likely is a medically nasty result? Consider this: Fourteen years ago, I was transported to the hospital by private vehicle while having a massive heart attack. Before treating me, while I was having a heart attack, the physician on duty took the time to briefly lecture me on the possible negative side effects of the (rather powerful) blood thinner he was about to administer, including dislodgement of clots, internal hemorrhage, etc. – so that he could get my informed consent to what he regarded as urgent immediate treatment with strong risk of side effects.
That’s why physicians are very careful on the proper dosage of blood thinners. And that’s why you didn’t get an answer on an Internet message board on a question that sure sounded like you were planning on changing your own dosage.
Maybe you knew that the “we” in “We are changing your dosage” meant your medical professional – but nobody else could be sure of that – and it’s a risk that Dr Matrix was no doubt unwilling to take.
But based on that thread and this, there’s little doubt in my mind that you need a higher dosage – your blood pressure must be extremely high.
Now, may I urge calming down, looking at the problem from the perspective of someone reading what you typed for an OP, and recognizing the possible problems, and perhaps contemplating an apology and starting over.
And, by the way, for your $100-a-visit, you ought to get, and should demand it if you don’t, clear and coherent answers intelligible to a layman to questions like “What does ‘your numbers are too high’ mean?” It seems clear from this thread that your INR value, which appears to be some calibration of blood thickness, is at a value well above what it ought to be. But dammit, your own doctor, not a layman on an Internet message board, ought to have supplied you with that answer – especially at $100 a pop. That’s something you’re entitled to.
I’m not a puppet, dude, I’m surfing wireless!
So is there any history of a message board being sued over some fool following the medical advice given by some message board member?
Once again I have to say that I do not understand why you all aren’t livid over the closing of a thread by someone who had next to no information about what the thread was about.A WAG is the only information he had.
Sounds like a control freq to me.
I agree that the Mods ought to close a thread that would cause harm to SDMB.
That is their job.
The thread that I started could not be considered such a thread. There simply was not enough information for an informed decision to be made.
When there is insufficient information, the safest thing to do is to kill the thread. Which is what was done.
Even though what you were attempting is blatantly obvious to you, you may count me among those who didn’t inderstand what you were getting at in your original OP.
What was assumed wasn’t that unreasonable.
SNAFU
Therefore, YOU were wrong for not providing enough information in your OP. This all comes down to you posting something that was confusing, the administration here is not required to allow confusing OPs to remain on the board.
[sub]If Woody had gone right to the police… this would never have happened.[/sub]
Irrelevant. The possibility exists. In any case, your OP was so incoherent that it made it appear to many, myself included, that you were considering changing your medication yourself, without consulting your doctor, and would possibly base your decision on information in the thread. You had potential to do harm to yourself, and that was reason enough to close the thread, regardless of whether anyone might sue or not.
If you are actually livid over something as completely trivial as having a thread closed, especially after many people have explained quite good reasons why it should have been, then you are seriously in need of medications other than the one you were asking about.
Christ this is getting stupid, let’s head this off at the pass.
JustWan, you asked a question that didn’t make much sense, at least to the majority of us. A mod played it safe, and correctly closed the thread.
You open a new thread clarifying what you actually meant, and that you didn’t feel it should be closed, which after your explanation I agree. Understand this, ask your question, and stop being such a prick, we’re on your side here, but you’re making it difficult.
It was simply a stupid mix up, let it fucking go already.
What?!?
I, also, had no idea what question was being asked and what the background of the question was. When I saw the “we” in “we are thinking about changing the dosage” (loosely quoted), I had also thought it was addressing a joint decision between the OP and a family member.
Typically, if a doctor was considering whether or not to change the dosage, I wouldn’t refer to it as a decision “we” were making. Rather, I’d likely say something coherent like “My doctor is thinking about increasing the dosage, but I’m not sure what the ramifications are of that, and haven’t decided if I should.”
Even if that was the case, how do you plan on separating the posts of people who know what they’re talking about and people who don’t. And why can’t you understand that your doctor…who has a LOT more information on your personal history (both medical and mental) than anyone on this board does. Medications affect everyone differently, and even someone in the medical field can’t give accurate descriptions of how a dosage change might affect you personally.
Will you all please sit back and notice what you have read into this thread?,
It was a simple question. "Whats that mean?
AFIC this thread is dead.
Okay, I’ll play.
What’s ***what * ** mean?
Actually, that isn’t precisely what you said. You left off the sentence that immediately followed, which is where you started causing concern. What you said was: “Whats that mean? We are adjusting the dosage.”
When those to seemingly innocent sentences are combined, it makes it look as if the responses you get to your question will be used to determine the amount that you and someone else will adjust the dosage. If you had said, “My doctor is adjusting the dosage,” everything might have been okay, but as mentioned by nearly everyone, it wasn’t clear you were saying that the “we” referred to you and a physician.
Is this clear? Again, by putting those sentences together, the Moderator saw a red flag raised (“Here we have a board member who is soliciting medical knowledge on the boards in order to make personal health care decisions withouth the aid of a doctor.”)
You’ve said above that you think it is crystal clear that the “we” refers to you and a physician. What I’m telling you is that nearly everyone who has responded found that unclear. That doesn’t make us stupid…I’m just pointing out that sometimes the ideas you tend to impart in writing don’t always completely make it clearly from your head to the screen. Here, the closing sentence led to concern about your intent behind asking the question…one that rightfully worried the Moderator.
One more thing: if you are looking to solicit useful advince on any topic in the future, you probably shouldn’t insult the very group that will be providing that advice, should you choose to remain on the message board.
Is English your first language?
If it isn’t, I won’t make fun of you. I’ll just point out that your English is a little weak, and you should stick to simple sentences so you’ll be as understandable as possible.
If it is, then your English is pretty weak. The reason for using good English isn’t to impress an English teacher, it’s to make yourself clear and understood. Allow me to demonstrate.
I’ve rewritten your post. See how much easier it is to understand?
I think that, if you take the time to write your posts simply and clearly, everyone will understand what you have to say, and you won’t have to get so angry when other posters fail to read your mind.
I took the liberty of changing your ‘freedom of information’ to ‘freedom of speech,’ because I am guessing that the latter is what you mean. I don’t see how freedom of information would apply in this situation: you have no legal right to answers to your questions on a message board.
Is anyone else imagining justwannano as a cartoon character with a beetroot red face and steam coming out of his ears?
