I have had heartburn and acid reflux for as far back as I can remember. It is there all the time - I would wake up with it and go to bed with it. Then I ate Tums like candy and believe I was putting on weight …

Ever since I was 23 years old I have been battling an anxiety disorder, with many ups and downs. I’m not sure why we as a whole have this need to “fix” things ourselves but it wasn’t until I was 44 years old that I got this demon …

Like alot of people out there I deal with depression and take medication for it. My doctor had given me a prescription for Prozac and I took it for a few months but decided it may not be right for me due to one of the side effects being …

A few years go, I had two teeth pulled and had pain in my jaw that I had never experienced before. But it was a brief pain, more sharp and sudden than anything long lasting and by the time my dentist was finished, I started to feel a bit better. …

For the uninitiated, rubbing alcohol is a kind of an alcohol compound used mostly for massage. But for me and my family, rubbing alcohol has so many uses dating back to growing up as a kid in the Philippines. I remember my mother using it to clean …

A few years ago I had an anxiety attack and did not know what was happening. My Husband rushed me to the hospital and I thought that I was dying. My hands stiffened and I was hyper-ventilating. The nurses told me that I had to breathe or my organs …

For a while I was feeling stressed, and because of that I started having problems to sleep. At first I didn’t want to go to the doctor, so I went straight to the pharmacy and asked if they had something that could help me to get some sleep.
There I …

Like Pepto Bismol, Sudafed is one of those medicines that has been around for several years. Most of todays adults grew up on Sudafed and are now giving it to their children. I am no different, and although I do not have children of my own, I have used …

When my baby wasn’t feeling so well, there was not much I could do. I am unable to medicate a baby of course, and the humidifier just wasn’t cutting it for him. I wanted something that would put him at ease during this terrible time. I found a product …

As a physician, it is a usual scenario for me to encounter patients with severe difficulty of breathing due to asthmatic attack. And most of the time, they have already had salbutamol nebulization or two at home which did not give them any relief before they go …

The Neti Pot made by NeilMed Pharmaceuticals Inc., is the latest trend in the self help market for allergy and sinus sufferers. I suffer from seasonal rhinitis and often chronic sinusitis that makes my head feel like it is going to explode. I decided to buy the NasaFlo NetiPot …

I work on my feet all day long and this eventually lead to getting calluses on the bottoms of my feet. Calluses are not only ugly, they can be painful as well. I wanted to get rid of the calluses so I used Dr. Scholl’s Callus Remover with extra …

For those of you who suffer frequently from allergies and do not like paying full price for medicine like Claratin, Berkley and Jensen brand Loratadine is a great product for you. A few years back I had been tired of paying the expensive price for name brand …

Nexcare Cold Sore Treatment is a medication that is freely available for purchase without any sort of prescription. The one and only purpose of this medication is to ease the pain brought about by cold sores while delivering essential vitamins and moisturizing the affected area to spur quicker healing. …

I take aspirin for aches and pains, so when I hurt my back I figured I would take a couple of aspirin for the pain. The pain wasn’t very severe, so I thought my usual two aspirin would do the trick. I was disappointed to realize that we had …

I have trouble with eczema. I will get these little bubbles on my skin. They really itch. That is usually the beginning of a new eczema spot for me. The tiny tiny bubbles go down but the skin will get really dry and start cracking. …

I do not often have a problem with being gassy. I honestly never really had this problem, until right after I gave birth to my son. It seems like I was gassy all of the time, and it was giving me some bad pains and cramps in both my …

My hands tend to get very dried and cracked. In fact, they get so bad at times that they bleed. I needed something that would work hard on getting my hands back in shape. I had heard that Corn Husker’s Lotion was amazing to help dried, cracked and bleeding …

I have extreme allergy problems during allergy months. When the pollen count begins to rise out of control, so do my sinuses, coughing, sneezing and sometimes even wheezing. I needed something that would help alleviate the problems that I have with allergies so that I could continue to go …

When I first used Equate Children’s Cold & Cough DM Elixir, both my daughter and I were suffering with a bad cold on a weekend when we couldn’t get to our doctor, so we self-medicated with cold medicine to try and mask the symptoms and go on with …

Going to sleep can be difficult for me at times. I have had a problem trying to sleep ever since I got used to staying up late. It was weird, because I wouldn’t sleep, but my body was still ready to get up bright and early in the morning. …

I have noticed that having a serious cough can be much more disruptive than people think. I found myself coughing consistently when I was trying to have conversations and get things done. It is not only annoying because coughing is disruptive and brings me unwanted attention, but also because …

It can be really hard to deal with a child’s congestion. I don’t like to fill my child with over the counter drugs every time she gets a cold. I decided to try something different, because I didn’t want to keep overmedicating my daughter. She had some horrible chest …

Despite my best efforts, I ended up getting the flu last week, and although I doubt that it was the dreaded H1N1 flu, I was very sick and miserable. I had all of the expected and usual symptoms, body aches, headache, fever, sore throat and
stomach issues. I didn’t go …

I often get a bit of stomach trouble and need something to help settle it down. It was suggested by a friend that I try Alka Seltzer Antacid to relieve the problem I was having. I took the suggestion and went to the grocery store to pick up a …

I had a tenacious case of seborrheic dermatitis last year, and it occurred once again on an unexpected part of my body: the upper back. It first captured my attention when I got out of the shower. My hand kept brushing on a scaly patch. It …

I have had this incessant cough for the past few days. It annoys me when I’m in work and I keep on coughing. I had this tightness in my chest and I just couldn’t breathe properly. My work deals with a lot of people that’s why having a pleasant …

I usually hate cough syrup and I don’t really know what prompted me to think that any cough syrup could taste good. Some of them may be okay or close to good, but to be a really tasty cough syrup? I just didn’t think it was possible. So it …

Even though I don’t really care for Aspirin it is good to keep it in the house. When I really have bad pain or a bad headache I prefer to take Advil or Ibuprofen but I will take Aspirin whenever I am all out of Advil and Ibuprofen or …

Zyflamend
This is an anti-inflammatory herbal supplement created by the scientists at New Chapter. This is an over the counter drug and you can find it pretty much in any drug store that you have in your area (at least in the states). For example, I picked mine …

Nowadays it has been common for drugs addict to use cough syrup. Cough syrup is totally misused. It is now very hard to get strong medicine for cough in medical stores.
I was suffering from cough since last three months, I requested the chemist to give me a strong cough …

About 10 clock in yesterday morning I was standing in a queue for my turn to pay my medicine bill, after 10 or more minutes, I found the line stopped moving forward, and people became restless . After few minutes we were told that …

These little blue tablets are supposed to provide you with non-drowsy relief from your allergies for 24 hours.
Well, they do work, but only for about 8 hours. Then you start sneezing a bit again. However, out of all the over the counter medications for allergies I have …

Like many Asthma suffers, I have tried to find different ways to release the stress of asthma or the pain that it causes on my lungs and muscles. I have read all about herbal medicines and natural medicines, but in some ways, I never put much faith into them. …

This clinic is locally known as Klinik Pishu. It’s a clinic which has been there for many years and is located in my hometown Kluang, Johor, South of Peninsular Malaysia. Dr Pishu is one of my favorite doctors and is also my family doctor during my childhood time.
Dr …

Working while sitting in front of the computer 11 hours per day, I often feel lower back pains at the end of each day, especially at night when I am about to sleep. There are times when I don’t feel any pain at all, oftentimes it is still tolerable, …

Some times I have trouble falling asleep, as many people experience. Some nights when I finally do fall asleep I have quite a struggel staying asleep. For some reason I wake up on the hour and look at the clock, all night long. Needless to say, some nights …

Be-Total Plus is a definite must for those who get those annoying little blisters in your mouths known as ‘aphtha’ or better known as foot-and-mouth desease. This medicine is in pill form and comes in a box of about 30 pills each individually sealed. This particular medicine should be …

If you suffer from severe migraine, cluster headaches or other types of headaches you will want to consult with the website at about.com called migraine 101. You can even post a question to the md on call and receive an answer that is posted on the website question …

In addition to Chloramex which is a topical antibiotic, I was also given a steroid to treat my stye (an eye infection). Flourometholone is an eye suspension produced by Allergan which I have to use 3x a day (2 drops in the eye) for at least 5 days to …

One of the babies that I kept had a bad gas problem, which I had to treat with drops as did the parents when they returned home. We tried several different types before settling on the one that worked best for this child above all others, and one …

When I was diagnosed with panic disorder, my doctor prescribed me
alprazolam for immediate relief and citalopram (celexa) for long term relief.
Alprazolam (xanax) is a medication known best for its sedating ability for
someone with severe anxiety and/or panic disorder. They say the effects kick in
immediately, but for me it …

This product was very cheap (about $5) at my local Wal-Mart store. I have recently started taking various vitamins and supplements during the past several months. Even though initially I did not expect for these products to have much of an impact on my body and the …

I underwent a surgery last year. They had to remove some stones that were found in my gallbladder. The surgery took shorter than usual compared to the conventional type of surgery for my condition. I was back in my room in a matter of 6 hours. The surgery was …

My mother had developed a callus on the bottom of her foot near her toes. A Podiatrist wanted too much money to remove it, so our Pharmacist recommended Dr. Scholl’s Ultra Slim Callus Removers. After falling prey to other not-so-good Dr. Scholl’s products, I was initially hesitant to buy …

I have a very bad cold sore that needed quick attention. My mother mentioned that she uses Carmex when she gets a cold sore because it makes it go away quickly. I decided, for once in my life, to follow my mother’s advice and picked up a bottle of …

Not too long ago, I experienced an MS exacerbation (episode). My hand became numb and cramped. I could still move my hand, although it was not very controlled. For example, I could pick up a piece of paper, and my hand would clench down on it …

For the past few years I have been subject to muscle pain a little more than I would like. I don’t why I started to suffer from it all of a sudden, but my back and knees would just start throbbing from time to time. I was trying a …

The ZZZquil Over the Counter Nighttime Sleep-Aid gets a rating of 1 out of 10 from me. It tastes absolutely disgusting and more importantly, it doesn’t work. It hasn’t worked for me and I have a friend who told me that the same was true for her as well. …

I don’t have kids of my own, but my best friend has two children, and I watch them for her on a pretty regular basis. I’m the cool “auntie”, and they’ll come for a week or more to visit and give their mom and dad a chance to relax …