In reading various health complaints here, it had occurred to me that many people are oversimplifying when trying to diagnose themselves. Diagnosing ailments is a very difficult thing to do, and very easy to get wrong. Some people can have adverse reactions to vaping, but many times they attribute new symptoms to vaping when really they are caused by something else.
For example, most new vapors have also recently quit smoking. Quitting smoking all by itself causes many adverse health effects until your body recovers. If you start vaping at the same time, it's pretty easy to attribute those symptoms to the vaping when they're really caused by the absence of smoking.
This can get subtle. For example, one or two posters developed unusual medical problems when they switched to vaping, but it turned out that the vaping wasn't causing them -- the smoking was suppressing the symptoms of an underlying condition they had for a while. When they stopped, those symptoms appeared.
Another example, recently many posters are complaining about symptoms that sound like what you get during allergy season. Are their symptoms normal allergies?
The human tendency is to attribute unusual events to anything that is both new and occupying our attention. When people start vaping, it's perfectly natural to assume that anything untoward that starts happening is because of that.
But correlation should not imply causation.
If anyone has symptoms that are truly worrying, they should see a doctor. But if they've developed symptoms and want to know whether they're from vaping, then it's possible to do one of the things that a doctor will do when diagnosing these things... go through the list of possible causes and remove them, one at a time, until the symptoms go away.
Did you recently quit smoking, start vaping, and get symptoms? Then you can stop vaping (but don't start smoking) and see if the symptoms go away. if they do, then you know the cause is related to vaping.
Make a list of everything new: changed your laundry detergent? Started hanging out in a new part of town/building/room? Started eating new food or in a new restaurant? Bought new clothes? got a new pet? Etc. Then remove one of those things, wait a week or two, and see if things improve. If they don't, then remove the next, and so on.
You should eventually find the cause.
Even if it turns out to be vaping, you're not done yet -- it could be that you're reacting to one of the flavorings used (cinnamon is always suspect, for example). Try vaping unflavored juice for a while and see if things improve. If so, then you know it's one of the flavorings. And so on.
Anyway, I don't know if any of this is helpful to anyone, but I thought it worth sharing.
For example, most new vapors have also recently quit smoking. Quitting smoking all by itself causes many adverse health effects until your body recovers. If you start vaping at the same time, it's pretty easy to attribute those symptoms to the vaping when they're really caused by the absence of smoking.
This can get subtle. For example, one or two posters developed unusual medical problems when they switched to vaping, but it turned out that the vaping wasn't causing them -- the smoking was suppressing the symptoms of an underlying condition they had for a while. When they stopped, those symptoms appeared.
Another example, recently many posters are complaining about symptoms that sound like what you get during allergy season. Are their symptoms normal allergies?
The human tendency is to attribute unusual events to anything that is both new and occupying our attention. When people start vaping, it's perfectly natural to assume that anything untoward that starts happening is because of that.
But correlation should not imply causation.
If anyone has symptoms that are truly worrying, they should see a doctor. But if they've developed symptoms and want to know whether they're from vaping, then it's possible to do one of the things that a doctor will do when diagnosing these things... go through the list of possible causes and remove them, one at a time, until the symptoms go away.
Did you recently quit smoking, start vaping, and get symptoms? Then you can stop vaping (but don't start smoking) and see if the symptoms go away. if they do, then you know the cause is related to vaping.
Make a list of everything new: changed your laundry detergent? Started hanging out in a new part of town/building/room? Started eating new food or in a new restaurant? Bought new clothes? got a new pet? Etc. Then remove one of those things, wait a week or two, and see if things improve. If they don't, then remove the next, and so on.
You should eventually find the cause.
Even if it turns out to be vaping, you're not done yet -- it could be that you're reacting to one of the flavorings used (cinnamon is always suspect, for example). Try vaping unflavored juice for a while and see if things improve. If so, then you know it's one of the flavorings. And so on.
Anyway, I don't know if any of this is helpful to anyone, but I thought it worth sharing.
