Hey y'all - was just thinking today how much insanely valuable first hand information/knowledge is available on this site, (and all over the Internet, but especially this site.) It may be said that personal anecdotes and sharings are totally "subjective," but my opinion is that they are just as important, if not MORE important, then empirical, "objective," studies. If you think about it - the ONLY data that you can truly believe, 100%, is that of our own firsthand experience. EVERYTHING ELSE is relative to OUR OWN personal experience. Heh - in one sense, our usage of the terms "objective" and "subjective" are actually reversed! Subject-ive is our own direct experience, and object-ive represents accumulated and ASSUMED indirect experiences of others. WE are SUBJECTS, and everything OUTSIDE of us is/are OBJECTS.

With the above ramble somewhat in mind, I thought to share a helpful Google search technique I often use to piece together related information patterns within individual websites.

Let's say I wanted to search this entire website for posts on a possible link between free radicals and RSD. Here's a example of what the search would look like in the Google search box:

site:neurotalk.psychcentral.com "RSD" "free radical"

If a specific poster resonates with you and you want to find more posts from that author on a particular topic, just add their username to the search. In this case I'll include the poster username Vicc. Ex:

site:neurotalk.psychcentral.com "RSD" "free radical" "vicc"

Want to find subjective accounts/opinions on remission? Just change the words in quotes to "RSD" "remission".

This site is really search-friendly as it is, where we can do a keyword search, or click on a poster's profile and be directed to their entire posting history, including thank yous, in just a heartbeat.

But most of the the rest of the Internet really isn't -- and the above search technique works for ANY domain on the entire internet! (at least the usual version. Can't speak for the Deep Web.).

Just type in "site:" followed by the domain name, and then your search parameters - and you can sift through TONS of data to find patterns and make connections relevant to your own quest for good health.

Subjectively speaking, there are thousands and thousands of invaluable posts here dating back over many years, buried and waiting to be re-uncovered. !!!

Some of y'all probably already use this or something like it and can just ignore this diatribe, but hope this little tool maybe helps someone out.

And - if you know of other search techniques you use that are helpful please share with everyone here! Thanks!!

PS sorry for the caps I get passionate

Thanks for the tips! Still pretty new and trying to figure out some of the features of the site. I had a doctor be very rude about personal anecdotes, but I find sometimes the posters on this board know a lot more than that doctor ever will. ~mama mac