some things about which I have been thinking today

[kaberett]

• the Lincoln Ostomy Output Consistency Scale (and, relatedly, the Bristol Stool Chart chocolate cake [nb FB link])
• a selection of Journal for Minimally Invasive Gynecology papers (feat. videos of the kind of surgery I'm likely to be having) (which I have not yet watched because logging in is Difficult) [ 1 | 2 ]
• the role of CGRP in hunger signalling (awake at 4 a.m.; had moment of INSIGHT or, well, potential insight)
• the part where heart rate is affected by CGRP, and varies over the course of the menstrual cycle, and unshockingly Does Things during migraine, and I have Fitbit-provided heart rate data since a few weeks before I started having regular migraine attacks, for the purpose of Writing Myself Up...
• thenatureofpaper (WHICH flowers do I want to buy myself. HOW long will I be inpatient. HOW many decorative things is it reasonable for me to take.)
• and, completely unrelatedly, British stick insect populations

Comments

[chiasmata]

Nature had a news piece on CGRP in endometriosis, specifically that some of the meds that are used for migraine have been shown to reduce lesions in mice. The paywall wasn’t playing so I couldn’t read the whole thing or find the original article, and therefore have no idea whether it’s reporting the same sort of non-treatment / symptom relief as GnRH blockers or something more promising, but I read it and thought of you!

[kaberett]

OOOOH. Thank you, I will go hunting!

[kaberett]

This 'un?

[chiasmata]

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/scitranslmed.adk8230

Here it is! It was mentioned in a news and views column in Nature rather than the paper coming from that stable, it turns out…

[vass]

(and, relatedly, the Bristol Stool Chart chocolate cake [nb FB link])

That's disgusting and those responsible should sit in a corner and think about what they've done. Facebook, I mean. The Bristol Stool Chart chocolate cake is a genius idea.

[kaberett]

ISN'T IT FANTASTIC

[vass]

Have just entered the relevant keywords into DuckDuckGo and discovered many different iterations of The Cake. Most of them on Pinterest, naturally.

[kaberett]

FB appears to be the actual original, hence the link!