I have a medical condition which will be tough to treat, and it means the end of radio (for now)

[Dan Druff]

I’m starting to think that you randomly experience phantom side effects for various substances, meaning you aren’t consciously aware that your mind induces you to experience phantom side effects due to some latent emotional/anxiety triggers. That would explain why you tend to experience side effects with so many meds/medicinal substances (because of your higher than typical concern over side effects versus the general public) but you experience some even if you aren’t aware of what other people have reported experiencing.

Question for Shrink: Is there already a name for such a condition?

That's known as the "nocebo effect", and I've been concerned about that happening, but it's not what's happening here.

Among other things, it's not consistent with what my mind expects. For example, I was fearing side effects from the Monolaurin in the hours following taking it on Saturday night, yet I felt nothing at all. Then I had problems the following day (including the bad diarrhea, which would be hard to imagine into existence).

Also, in some cases I have experienced side effects I wasn't aware existed, only to look it up later and find out that they were connected to the medication.

So this isn't really following a nocebo pattern.

I do think whatever is going on with me, causing the LPR, might be leaving me more sensitive to medication side effects than I used to be.