If you are looking for a great nurse practitioner, you need to make an appointment with Pam Burns, CRNP. She practices out of Hanover Family Medical Center on Hanover Avenue in Allentown, PA.
My entire family has been patients of Pam for a few years now and she is …

Cold and flu season is my worst time of year. Cursed with chronic sinusitis courtesy of my grandmother, I am always on the hunt for the next big medication to keep me breathing clear, and free in the winter.
This season, Advil has released something I think I …

I have a history of motion sickness. Sometimes I take medication for it and sometimes I don’t. It’s the times that I don’t is when I regret it. One particular incident comes to mind. My daughter’s school was having a celebration on a lunch/dinner cruise type …

During my pregnancy I developed a yeast infection which makes me very uncomfortable especially during the night. I went to the nearest chemist store to inquire the best remedy to fight yeast infection. I bought lots of different creams with me and carefully reading the labels at …

When cold season comes around I usually find it very difficult to stay away from colds and sickness because of the fact that children usually spread it to each other while they are at school or playing together. This is a problem for me because of the fact that …

I’m not a fan of medicine but the one thing that I do take from time to time is Excedrin P.M. There are some ups and downs when it comes to this medicine. I don’t like every single thing about it. I find that there are a couple of irritations …

Unlike lipitor the cholesterol medicine zetia is quite different. I tried many others they would not budge my cholesterol level down. I was then placed on crestor with zetia and it made all the difference. Zetia works not directly to the heart but rather through …

A few months ago, I had a really serious cold. It seemed everlasting and torturous. After trying multiple cold syrups, I was not having any luck. Whatever hit me, hit me fast and hard. I wanted to try something I never tried before, hoping to find the perfect remedy. …

Espidifren is a painkiller that can be found in two different formats, being pills or bags to dissolve the product in water.
The main component of this medicine is Ibuprofen, so it can be used for headaches, inflammations, and for any other kind of physical pain.
What I bought are the …

Ponstan SF is the brand name for mefenamic acid. Since somtimes. I have a low pain tolerance depending on the pain I am feeling, I have tried a lot of generic and branded mefenamic acids but because I keep using them it turned out that I somehow became tolerant …

Viscodyne Cough formula not the best of cough formula’s .It’s good a very good menthol taste but nothing of medicinal value. I consumed more then two bottles of it but it just didn’t have any effect on my body.I was taking the cough formula after being referred by …

I am allergic to animals with hair. Mainly cats, but also horses, sheep, cows, etc. Dogs with long hair sometimes make my allergies flare up, but not as much as other animals for some wierd reason. I went with my fiancee to stay with his grandparents for a week, …

I’m all for trying new products, especially when it comes to healthcare and medicine. I don’t like taking the same ol’ thing over and over again because I personally tend to develop an immunity to it and the next time I need it, it works maybe half as well …

While some might consider Glaceau’s Vitamin Water a food, I consider it a medicine. Anytime you are taking vitamins you are essentially self medicating, and at least this is a tasty way to do it. Eight ounces constitutes a serving of Formula 50 Vitamin Water, and each bottle …

Though I have some serious issues with sinus and allergy problems, which tends to be something I have to battle all year long, I’m rarely actually sick with a cold or flu. In fact, my very healthy husband was recently sick, and I managed to escape the problems he …

Equate: Nite Time Cherry Flavor Cough does a fairly decent job of easing my coughing when I am not feeling well and would absolutely love to get to sleep only to be disturbed by a cough that just will not go away. I find that after taking the amount …

There are many remedies for a sore throat, and Strepsils is one of them.
Not only in winter, in spring too, due to alergies, we can end up with a sore throat too.
It comes in a box with 24 pills, and the way to take them is to suck them …

I have taken the drug Ativan on two occasions where its effectiveness was extremely important.
Last year I was experiencing some problems with gastric pain and hiatal hernia, only I did not know that’s what it was at the time. My pain would hit at night, and be accompanied by …

There are four people in my household. Myself, my husband and my two children (who are now teens), and so it stands to reason that one of us was almost always sick. If not sick, then at least feeling pretty run down or on the verge of sickness. My …

Excedrin Back and Body Extra Strength is the only pain medicine I am using right now. I have been having back problems for over a year now and at one point had been up to eight to ten generic ibuprofen a day.
One day I bought the Excedrin Back …

Several years ago, my husband and I decided to quit smoking. My doctor prescribed Wellbutrin to curb cravings, and also as an anti-depressent. My husband and I each took our respective medication exactly as the doctor had prescribed it.
My husband had no problems with the medicine. …

My husband has suffered from high cholesterol levels for years, and has tried close to a dozen different medications over the past 2 decades which lower cholesterol. His main issue has always been that no medication that he has tried has managed to lower the bad cholesterol (LDL) at …

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 …

I am not a big fan of the flavor of these drops at all. I buy these for one reason alone, they work. Halls makes others that taste much better and which I actually enjoy sucking, but if I have a really bad cough I always turn …

Sudafed Sinus & Pain is a very effective product for me. It also worked very well for my husband. First me. I am an allergy suffer and at times it is difficult to breath through my nose. I notice that the nasal congestion is much worse at …

With a husband and two kids in my household, we’re always in need of some decent cold, allergy and flu medications because if one of us isn’t sick, then the other one is. Sometimes, all of us at once! And there is just nothing more depressing than sick children …

I have some experience with the weight loss drug - Xenical in my clinical practice. Xenical is Orlistat, a drug that inhibits the uptake of fats in the diet by blocking a very important enzyme in the intestine. The drug is marketed by Roche Pharmaceuticals and is …

Many moons ago, when I was unemployed and relying on my significant others income, and I had no insurance, I went through an awful period of having toothaches that were pretty much constant, and I was living off of Tylenol arthritis and sucrets to numb the area. It worked, …

I found this cough mixture for dry coughs completely ineffective and after yet another sleepless night due to incessant coughing, I am cursing the name of —˜Benylin’. This simply does not work. I was watching —˜I’m Alan Partridge’ the other night and it made me laugh when …

When I reported to my new doctor that I had been taking over the counter Benadryl for seasonal pollen allergies, he recommended that I try Allegra instead. He said it would last longer and work more to prevent the reactions before they started. This sounded appealing so …

I am just getting over a nasty cold and my remaining main symptom now is an unpleasant catarrh problem and these Potter’s Catarrh Pastilles have been a great help to me. They are an effective decongestant that are formulated to relieve the symptoms of coughs, cold and catarrh …

What will you do if you have irritation on your eyes? Do you have special care or treatment that you give to your eyes when you have irritation on your eyes?
I do. I always use Insto Eye Drop whenever I have irritation on my eyes. This irritation can be …

Everybody has dealt with nausea at one point or another. I seemed to have my normal amount like everyone else until rheumatoid arthritis and fibromyalgia came into the picture. I had to start taking so many new medicines that I was really not prepared for. The …

I have struggle with insomnia for years, and I have tried virtually every over the counter medication, with very little luck. I have used gravol, all the —˜pm’ versions of Tylenol, Advil, etc, Nyquil, and they all work for maybe one or two nights at the most, and then …

If you start to feel like you are getting sick, then get a box of Alka Seltzer Plus Day and Night, Effervescent Tablets. One box of this product comes with 10 pills to use during the day and 10 pills to use at night. One box has everything that …

Recently I bought a second hand pair of shoes, and as a result contracted a plantar wart at the bottom of my right foot. It was really beginning to hurt when I walked, although it was very miniscule to the naked eye. I decided on the basis of advertising …

Considering that I find myself suffering from some sort of muscle ache all of the time, I have to keep some medicine handy. I have used a few pills that work for me, but know that many over the counter medications can have serious effects on the body if …

I really hate not being well, and I would say the most common thing that I get sick with is having the Cold. I seem to catch the Cold so easily, and sometimes feel like I am always sneezing and sniffling. So I always have an inhaler in my …

I was having problems with my menstrual cycle with it being heavy and causing a great deal of discomfort. I am on so many medicines by prescription that when possible I try to use natural alternatives to help me feel better. Vitex was recommended to me by the sales …

For the past years my 6 years old child prone to get fever at least once monthly. She is always on medications. Only strong medications can keep the fever at bay. No wonder she is so skinny and pale.I have been supplementing her with multi-Vitamins and chewable Vitamin …

When a cold really gets me down, I have no choice but to look for the strongest medication I can find. Nyquil has always had a pretty good reputation so it was so easy to buy a bottle of it when I had a bad cold. I can usually …

My middle child was very gassy as a baby. Who am I kidding, he still is. But he’s far too old for Mylicon Drops now. You have to know the difference between the ‘gassy cry’ and other cries, but the more you learn your baby, the more you’ll distinguish …

While I thought I had hit every hospital in the NYC area, I was totally shocked when I had a D & C at Mount Sinai Hospital in NYC. I did not think that such a great efficient hospital existed in NYC with the way healthcare is. …

I had $6 in my pocket the day I wasn’t feeling well, and stopped at the grocery store next door to my work to get something, and really the only reason I bought this Sudafed PE Nasal Decongestant is because it was on sale and that would leave me …

Topiramate, which is better known as Topamax is an anticonvulsant drug that is now also used for the treatment of migraines.
It wasn’t until November of 2011 that my doctor finally decided to do something about the migraines I’d be suffering for years. They went from 3-5 times a …

One of the best painkillers I have found anywhere is Nurofen. If I can find it, this is my ibuprofen of choice. Whilst Nurofen is sold in tablet form, in capsule form, in liquid gel form, my favorite style is still the tablet. They are really …

Shingles is a painful blistering red burning and sometimes extremely itchy rash that oozes with peeling skin. I suffered from a shingles rash for about two weeks and it was one of the most painful rashes I have ever experienced in my life. One of the creams I used …

Because I was diagnosed with Leukaemia when I was in my late teens, I had to undergo several cycles of chemotherapeutic agents. During the therapy, I would experience several side effects like dryness in my skin, extreme fatigue, general malaise, diarrhoea and probably one of the worst—”the intense nausea. …

Unfortunately for me it is very easy to get a yeast infection. These infections can be both painful and irritating at a level 10. I try my best to treat symptoms before they get too intense and unbearable, but I am not always successful. Once the symptoms are very …

My nine year old has high blood pressure due to a kidney transplant. The doctors tried many blood pressure medicines on him, all with side effects that were not desirable. Some made his face extremely red, others made him tired, then they tried Lisinipril. Lisinipril has …