full moon

[linnysue]

Well, I guess the full moon theory is correct. My back has increased in intensity with the itchy pinpricks during the last few days. Annoying.

[ladycolorado]

mt neurological side effect have increased the last few days, i have has trouble walking, and ear infections joint pain. i have had some biting and stinging also.

[Franky]

Stay away from silver. There are lots of studies on the psychological effects of the the full moon on people. Can you believe there are still people out there who still think we never went to the moon. There are also people believe that the first mission to the moon was faked and done in a movie studio.

[jano]

My ex-husband is a firefighter/paramedic. I always remember them saying that when there was a full moon out, they were much busier. If you stop and think about it, the moon affects the tide in the ocean. Many farmers used to plant according to the moon phase. I don't think it is too far-fetched that it can affect our individual health.

[linnysue]

jano, my daughter had to go to the emergency room on Saturday night. She said it was packed.

[deluded]

That is funny that you should mention that, because I have been in a foul mood...very angry and bitter...so so so negative about all of this crap...the reason that I have not been posting actually, in a couple days...didn't want to mess up your cheerful and positive environment here with my pity party...

When I worked as an x-ray tech, we always dreaded when there was a full moon...just like Jano said...it was always packed...we used to say that it brought out the "crazies"....and I have always heard that crime goes up when there is a full moon...

Like I said, I wasn't going to post, because I am feeling so negative,but Carla talked me into it...she said that I should do it...I think that might be true...with Morgellon's or any disease, I know that you cannot be cheerful all the time...speaking for myself...after dealing with so much, you just end up reaching your limit, and especially when u are angry and bitter because your doctors don't believe you, which means you are on your own in your treatment, family and friends do not believe a word that you have told them, because they have not seen anything with their own eyes and even your best friend has betrayed u by keeping in contact with your family and discussing your "delusions"...It really hurts when you need support from family and friends, and they are not there for you...one day, the truth will be out, and I pray that it will set me free...
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[Franky]

Here is a study I read long time ago and just found it again. Its not just humans but animals supposedly are effected by the full moon as well. Pretty interesting stuff.

This is a abstract from British Medical Journal. I cant remember what year it was, but it states the following.

Objective: To test the hypothesis that the incidence of animal bites increases at the time of a full moon.
Design: Retrospective observational analysis.
Setting: Accident and emergency department at a general hospital in an English city.
Subjects: 1621 consecutive patients, irrespective of age and sex.
Main outcome measures: Number of patients who attended an accident and emergency department during 1997 to 1999 after being bitten by an animal. The number of bites in each day was compared with the lunar phase in each month.
Results: The incidence of animal bites rose significantly at the time of a full moon. With the period of the full moon as the reference period, the incidence rate ratio of the bites for all other periods of the lunar cycle was significantly lower (P <0.001).
Conclusions: The full moon is associated with a significant increase in animal bites to humans. [/color]

[Franky]

And more:

Violence, Aggression and Crime

* 11,613 cases of aggravated assault in a 5-year period: assaults occurred more often around the full moon.
Reference: Human aggression and the lunar synodic cycle

* 34,318 crimes in a 1-year period: crimes occurred more frequently during the full moon.
Reference: J. Psychology, vol. 93:81-83, 1976.

* 58,527 police arrests in a 7-year period: no difference in the number of arrests made during any phase of the moon.
Reference: Antisocial behavior and lunar activity: a failure to validate the lunacy myth

* 361,580 calls for police assistance in a 3-year period: calls had no relationship to the phase of the moon when the day of the week, holiday and year were controlled.
Reference: Perceptual and Motor Skills, 57:993-994, 1983

* 1,289 aggressive "incidents" by hospitalized psychiatric patients in a 105-week period: no significant relationship between the severity or amount of violence/aggression and phase of the moon.
Reference: Lunar cycles and violent behaviour

* The rate of agitation in 24 nursing home residents in a 3-month period: no significant relationship of agitation to moon phase.
Reference: Full moon: Does it influence agitated nursing home residents?

* The number of aggressive offenses (fighting, threatening or assaulting an officer, creating a disturbance) for 1,300 male inmates in a medium security prison in a one year period: no significant relationship between agressive offenses and moon phase.
Reference: Full moon: Aggression in a prison setting as a function of lunar phases.

Anxiety, Depression and Psychosis

* The records of 782 patients and 4,600 consultations in an 18-year period: no relationship between the phase of the moon and the number of times people contacted their doctors for anxiety or depression.
Reference: Lunar cycle and consultations for anxiety and depression in general practice.

* The admission records of 18,495 patients to a psychiatric hospital in an 11-year period: admissions for psychosis were highest during the new moon and lowest during the full moon.
Reference: Lunar madness: an empirical study

* 25,568 psychiatric emergency room visits in a 13-year period: visits increased near the first quarter moon and a decreased around the new moon and full moon.
Reference: Human aggression and the lunar synodic cycle

* The average number of contacts with psychiatric services over a 10-year period: no relationship between contacts and phase of the moon.
Reference: Frequency of contact with community-based psychiatric services and the lunar cycle: a 10-year case-register study

Suicides

* 928 suicides in a 4-year period: suicides did not increase during the full moon. In fact, more suicides were noted during the new moon.
Reference: Lunar association with suicide.

* 897 suicides committed in a 3-year period: no relationship between suicides and the phase of the moon.
Reference: Suicides and the lunar cycle

* 504 suicides committed in a 1-year period: no relationship between suicides and the full moon.
Reference: The Moon and Suicide

* 383 cases of attempted suicide in a 1-year period: no relationship between attempted suicides and the phase of the moon.
Reference: Attempted suicide and the lunar cycle

* 1,997 suicides in a 13-year period: suicides did not occur more often during the full moon.
Reference: Human aggression and the lunar synodic cycle

* 4,190 suicides in a 58-year period: suicides had no relationship between suicides and the phase of the moon.
Reference: Variation in suicide occurrence by time of day, day of the week, month, and lunar phase

* 3,054 suicides between 1998 and 2003: no relationship between suicides and lunar phase.
Reference: Influence of lunar phases on suicide: the end of a myth? A population-based study

* 1,187 cases of "self-poisonings" in a 1-year period: no relationship between self-poisonings and the phase of the moon.
Reference: Self-poisoning and moon phases in Oslo

* 841 cases of "self-poisonings" in a 4-year period: self-poisonings did occur more often on the day of the full moon.
Reference: Full moon and poisoning

Emergency Room Calls/Emergency Room Visits/Hospital Admissions

* Calls to a poison center monitored over a 1-year period: unintentional poisonings occurred more often during the full moon cycle. However, the number of calls due to intentional poison exposure (suicides/drug abuse) was significantly LOWER during the full moon and higher during the new moon.
Reference: Lunar cycle and poison center calls

* 1,444 trauma victim hospital admissions in a 1-year period: no increase in hospital admissions during the full moon.
Reference: Trauma and the full moon: a waning theory

* 150,999 patients visits to the emergency department in 4-year period: no increase in total patient visits, ambulance runs, admissions to hospital on the day of the full moon.
Reference: The full moon and ED patient volumes: unearthing a myth.

* 3,468 emergency room visits and hospital admissions by people who intentionally took poison: visits and admissions were not different on days with full moons.
Reference: Lunar cycle and poison center calls

* 7,844 emergency calls to a suicide prevention/crisis call center in a 2-year period: the highest number of total calls was during the new moon, not the full moon. When calls for suicide threats were analyzed, there were more calls during the first quarter of the moon and new moon.
Reference: Moon phases and crisis calls: a spurious relationship

* 36,268 calls to a crisis center in a 8-year period: no relationship between crisis center calls and moon phase.
Reference: Investigation of periodicity in crisis intervention calls over an eight-year span

* 76,065 calls to a crisis center in a 4-year period: increased calls by females during the new moon period; decreased calls by males during the new moon period.
Reference: Sex difference in response to stress by lunar month: a pilot study of four years' crisis-call frequency.

* 736 telephone counseling calls in a 4-month period: no relationship between calls and the moon phase.
Reference: Psychological Reports, 35:752-754, 1974

* 100 admissions to a psychiatric hospital in a 3-year period: no relationship between hospital admissions and the phase of the moon.
Reference: Lunar phases and psychiatric hospital admissions

* 368 cardiac arrests and 872 acute myocardial infarctions in a 6-year period: no relationship between cardiac arrests and myocardial infarctions and the moon phase.
Reference: Lunar phases are not related to the occurrence of acute myocardial infarction and sudden cardiac death.

* 6,827 emergency department diagnosis of cardiopulmonary resuscitation in an 11-year period: no relationship betwen diagnosis and the full moon.
Reference: Effect of lunar cycle on temporal variation in cardiopulmonary arrest in seven emergency departments during 11 years.

* 10,916 emergency cases in a 6-year period: no relationship between emergency cases and the full moon.
Reference: The influence of lunar phenomena on the incidence of emergency cases.

* 1,240 cases of myocardial infarction or sudden cardiac death in a 7-year period: no relationship between myocardial infarctions or sudden cardiac deaths and the full moon.
Reference: Lunar phases are not related to the occurrence of acute myocardial infarction and sudden cardiac death.

* 2,416 referrals for oral and maxillofacial emergencies in a 16-month period: no relationship between emergencies and the full moon.
Reference: The moon and its relationship to oral and maxillofacial emergencies.

* 14,970 surgical patients in a 7-year period: no relationship between deaths and the phase of the moon in which surgery was performed.
Reference: A double-blind, controlled clinical trial of homeopathy and an analysis of lunar phases and postoperative outcome.

* 782 patients (866 operations) observed for complications after surgery: no relationship of complications to the phase of the moon.
Reference: Lunar phase does not influence surgical quality.

* 54,457 trauma patients admitted to emergency rooms in three hospitals: no increase in admissions or in the severity of the injury during the full moon.
Reference: The full moon and admission to emergency rooms.

* 1,374,235 consultations in general practice offices in one year: small increase in the number of consultations six days AFTER the full moon.
Reference: The effect of the full moon on general practice consultation rates.

Drug Use/Overdose

* 1,182 drug overdose cases recorded in a 15-month period: no relationship between overdose cases and the full moon phase.
Reference: Drug overdose and the full moon

* 949 cases of drug use (toxicology screenings) in a 1-year period: no relationship between drug use and the phase of the moon.
Reference: Hospital-based toxicology: patterns of use and abuse

* 2,403 patients (drug abuse) and 10,501 patients (psychiatric illness, not drug abuse) admitted to an emergency department in a 7-year period: no relationship between admissions and the phase of the moon.
Reference: Declining rate of substance abuse throughout the month.

Accidents

* 246,926 traffic accidents involving property damage and 50,492 traffic accidents with non-fatal injuries in a 9-year period: no relationship was found between accidents and moon phase. However, this research did find that accidents of both kinds occurred more often on Friday and Saturday and on Halloween. New Year’s Eve and Thanksgiving also had higher rates of traffic accidents involving property damage.
Reference: Cyclical calendar and lunar patterns in automobile property accidents and injury accidents.

* 2,382 fatal traffic accidents in a 13-year period: accidents were not higher during the full moon.
Reference: Human aggression and the lunar synodic cycle

* 4,835 traffic accidents in a 4-year period: no relationship to the phase of the moon. However, there was an increase in the number of accidents that occurred in the summer and on weekends.
Reference: Human aggression and the lunar synodic cycle

* 200,545 traffic accidents in a 5-year period: no relationship to the phase of the moon for the number of accidents or the severity of the accidents.
Reference: Geophysical variables and behavior: LXVIII. Distal and lunar variables and traffic accidents in Saskatchewan 1984-1989.

* 4,835 traffic accidents in a 4-year period: no relationship to the phase of the moon for the entire 4-year period. An increase in accidents was observed during summer months and on weekends. Also, for one year, the number of accidents was lowest during the full moon.
Reference: Geophysical variables and behavior: LXXII. Barometric pressure, lunar cycle, and traffic accidents.

* Medical staff "incidents" recorded in a 4-year period: no relationship to the phase of the moon.
Reference: Don't pass the buck! the full moon is not responsible for an increase in the occurrence of untoward events in a hospital setting!

* 3,842 falls by hospitalized, adult patients in a 5-year period: no relationship to the phase of the moon.
Reference: Are patient falls in the hospital associated with lunar cycles? A retrospective observational study.

Animal Bites

* 1,621 patients over 3 year period who were bitten by either a cat, rat, horse or dog: the incidence of animal bites was significantly higher around the full moon.
Reference: Do animals bite more during a full moon? Retrospective observational analysis.

* 1,671 patients over a 1 year period who were bitten by dogs: no relationship between the frequency of dog bites and the phase of the moon.
Reference: Barking mad? Another lunatic hypothesis bites the dust.

* 2,642 patients over a 3 year period who were bitten by dogs: no relationship between the frequency of dog bites and the phase of the moon.
Reference: Modelling risk factors for injuries from dog bites in Greece: a case-only design and analysis.

[linnysue]

Well, here it is, another full moon and my skin is definitely more annoying during this time. Also, I added Sarsaparilla to my list of herbs and supplements I take, so not sure if that has anything to do with it. I may just stop taking it for a few days to see how I feel.

[maryok]

Linney Sue, thanks for this! I was so despondent the last few days as all of a sudden it seemed like I was getting worse. Whew, it's the Full Moon. I'll try to remember this next month...