Frustration

In the world of continual medical research and advancements - that every day allow us to get improved treatments for ailments - I feel very frustrated. No I am not on top of all research that is going on so I am sure there is a lot that I am not aware of. But from a patient ' s point of view it can get very frustrating.For example, yesterday I read something about how acentury old vaccine for something else is being tested to see if it would work as a vaccine for fibromyalgia. That sounds great. A way to prevent others from getting fibro - which is no fun.Ahem, but where is the cure? Just because they can prevent someone from getting something they still need a cure. A vaccine only reduces one ' s risk of getting the ailment and not preventing it 100%. Look at how well the Shingles vaccine works? How many people get the vaccine but still get shingles? I don ' t know the number but I know it exists - like the flu vaccine.So where does this leave us patients with ailments? Frustrated. How long are we supposed to wait for the cure? We have the 40+ year ' War on Cancer ' and the Cancer Moonshot. And we are still waiting.
Source: Caroline's Breast Cancer Blog - Category: Cancer & Oncology Tags: cancer vaccine fibromyalgia frustration medical research Source Type: blogs