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What does an EE do if they happen to have polyps?
Assafl:
An EE deals with their polyps with 68V. And for some reason gets published.
http://article.sapub.org/10.5923.j.ajbe.20150502.01.html
jmelson:
WOW! I have the same problem, but I am pretty hesitant to try this method. 68 V up inside your nose??!!??
Yikes!
Jon
Bicurico:
Cool!
Thumbs up for submitting an article instead of a patent.
hans:
Aren't there many more articles to be found of self experimentation.. also among doctors?
Like, Sigmund Freud was a heavy supporter of cocaine. He thought it was a great antidepressant, because it made him feel great. He prescribed it to patients and the like. Back then it was also legal, as cocaine was present in foods, or drinks like Coca Cola. Now we know a lot better.. (or so we think - any treatment isn't without risks).. but this a negative case example. Sure there will also be positive cases of self experimentation.
So not surprised it's published. I do find it interesting though to read the conclusions and future recommendations. On the one hand it's written in a quite humble way (admitting he is an EE instead of dr), on the other hand quite convinced it really works wonders with little to no side effects..
Another example of self 'experimentation': I had a colleague who got fed up with some stitches from leg surgery. He had to wait more than half a week to get them removed... Anyone who's had stitches for a large area can tell how the last few can start to sting quite badly. Fortunately a standard EE workbench includes isopropyl alcohol and side cutters.. :-/O
Anyhow, 68V sounds reasonably high in terms of electrical safety. Anything <50V is considered ultra low voltage, 50-1000V is low voltage and >1kV is high voltage. Typ. 60V is used as the cut off for skin breakdown IIRC, so 68V is pushing it into dangerous territories (especially when hooking up voltages to bodies is also not the safest idea)
Assafl:
--- Quote from: hans on March 21, 2022, 06:07:46 pm ---So not surprised it's published. I do find it interesting though to read the conclusions and future recommendations. On the one hand it's written in a quite humble way (admitting he is an EE instead of dr), on the other hand quite convinced it really works wonders with little to no side effects..
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It was a treatment long ago. Maybe 50 years. My fathers uncle was a otolaryngologist and had one of these devices with wood and all kinds of implements that you can see on many of the "American Horror Story" opening credits. I still blame myself for not taking it when he died. Probably ended up in a land fill. It had a big voltage potentiometer with a mA meter with a club pointer. Made in England.
--- Quote --- Another example of self 'experimentation': I had a colleague who got fed up with some stitches from leg surgery. He had to wait more than half a week to get them removed... Anyone who's had stitches for a large area can tell how the last few can start to sting quite badly. Fortunately a standard EE workbench includes isopropyl alcohol and side cutters.. :-/O
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In the clinic they usually dab the wire with lidocaine. It smarts to just pull it out.
We all self medicate. I even self froze once...
40 years ago I had a skin tag I disliked. So I went to a dermatologist who froze it. And it grew back. I went again. It did so again. I then thought to myself I have a Servisol Component Freeze spray. So sprayed it every day for two weeks. To this day - that skin tag has gone....
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