I peridically suffer from debilitatingly bad menstrual cramps, and have often be laid out on the couch or in bed, on the point of vomiting from pain. Nothing helps, and after having tried all the conventional painkillers, had essentially given up and resigned myself to this awful fate every …

I gave up on traditional medicine for my anxiety. The problem is that there are way too many side effects for it to be worth it for me. When you have an already anxious mind, side effects of medications can cause even worse anxiety until you are acclimated to …

Early in 2009, I decided to get an eye examination and made the decision to get that exam at The office of Thomas Fleischmann, O.D.. Doctor Fleischmann is the owner, but his associate is Heidi Schauffle, O.D. My opinion of Heidi has fluctuated because of a negative …

Neosporin + Pain Relief is an excellent product and it works wonders for me. Sometimes, I get cracks in the skin in my fingers right next to my fingernails. I am a registered nurse and I am constantly washing my hands, so they tend to get dried …

Adderal XR is known to be a membership medication. What is that? It is a medication that is complex and many users or family members of users find hard to understand and grasp the quality and functions of this medication. However, for those few who understand how Adderal XR …

Karri Family Clinic is situated in Tampines Central Community Centre. It is easily accessible by public transport from Tampines Interchange and is within walking distance for those living in the Tampines St 71, 72 and 83 area. The clinic is opened seven days a week, and its opening hours …

If you’ve ever had the misfortune of finding yourself with a broken tooth that either suddenly happened or is suddenly hurting, then you know how much pain they can cause. Swelling, tingling, stabbing sensations all over the sides of your face, down into your jaw, up into your nose …

Everyone in my family uses Ocean nasal spray. You are not meant to share a bottle of Ocean because of the germs and bacteria so we each have our own bottle. We put each person’s initials on them so that we know whose belongs to whom. …

People in the Philippines, especially those who live in the urban areas are very much exposed to the drugstores called Mercury Drug. This is a local drugstore chain in the country that has quite a number of branches throughout the country. This drugstore as I believe have also …

To say that my sinus issues are extreme may not always be saying enough. Sure, I have good days where there’s little more than the sniffles first thing in the morning and late at night, but then I have the bad days, which occur far more often than the …

I’ve tried Zoloft at two different time periods and have had mixed reactions. The first time was to treat anxiety and depression associated with Post-Truamatic Stress. I started on a pretty low dose, but after a couple weeks, I definitely noticed a difference. It just wasn’t the kind of …

I have been an allergy sufferer for over eight years and have been taking a daily allergy pill for almost as long. When I first heard about people using nasal cleansing pots to clean out their sinuses according to the traditional practice of Neti, I was more than skeptical. …

Cymbalta was the second anxiety medication I tried taking. It had some really nasty side effects for me. I would have uncontrollable shaking, which reminded me of what it felt like when I had a panic attack and it made me feel even worse. I also felt really dizzy, …

I have had Reynaulds most of my life, but, not as severely as I do, at this time. That means that my toes, fingers, legs, feet had the tendency to turn blue with pinkish/orange spots. All my adult life, I have wondered why no Dr., as I go to …

I would like to share my wonderful experience with Elica. Elica is a topical ointment used to treat Eczema. I can say that this is the best skin treatment that I used.
My 1 yr old child suffered from skin asthma and her Pediatrician has prescribed Elica. Aside from the …

I don’t really suffer form sinuses, but have found myself dealing with a runny nose and watery eyes because of the constant weather change where I live. I hate dealing with nasal congestion almost more than anything because it never stops at congestion. Then I also have to deal …

I remember when I was younger, a doctor prescribed me to take Imodium (Loperamide) whenever I have diarrhea. Imodium is just one of the brand names for Loperamide. It comes with a tablet, capsule or liquid form and is taken orally. Anyway, just a bit of information about diarrhea. …

I chanced upon one Dermatology Clinic at 2nd Level SM Supercenter Muntinlupa City. The name is Skin 101 and all at once I got attracted because its promotional poster shows a comparatively cheaper cost for dermatological treatment I normally undergo. The diamond peel which normally cost P1,200 to P1,600 per …

I have had plenty of problems with digestion ever since I gave birth to my first child 5 years ago. I have found multiple ways to deal with these issues, but like to keep medicine around that is multisymptom. Recently I have concentrated only on diminishing my heartburn. The …

I was so embarrassed when a friend of mine told me her son had head lice and that I may have caught it! I had been visiting her at her house, when her son got sent home from elementary school due to lice which he had a bunch of …

In August 2011, my husband was near death. His heart would not have made it much farther. The only option at this point was for the doctors to implant a heart pump to help his left ventricle pump blood through his body. So on …

Our house was being repaired so my husband and I would go to the old house to see what needs to be kept and what needed to be thrown out. We had a lot of trash and old stuff, and opening the old closets that housed things for over …

My son was already 8 months old when he got his first fever and our pediatrician at the time prescribed Calpol to us. Calpol is a brand of paracetamol that proved effective so when my son got another fever at 14 months, I thought to again give him Calpol. …

There are a number of medications freely available for purchase without a prescription in drug stores and grocery stores that are designed to ease the symptoms and discomfort associated with cold sores. Generally, these medications aren’t cheap. The Releev 1-Day Cold Sore Symptom Treatment medication, for example, runs for …

I suffer from severe migraines and have been taking Darvocet 100mg for about eight months now to try to help relieve some of my pain due to the migraines. I find that within thirty minutes of taking this medication I usually start to feel relief from my symptoms. …

My daughter had a bad cold a while back and most of the time, we try to feed her with healthy thing to subside the symptoms. But her cold got to the point where she couldn’t sleep at night. So my wife want to see if she would take …

Gelucil is the tonic as well as it also comes in the form of chewing tablets. This medicine can be used to cure indigestion or such a kind of stomach problems. These tablets can also be taken as general in such problems without taking the prescription of …

Note: Please only use this if you have a prescription. It has a tendency to be abused, but as a medical student, I want to stress that taking this stuff unmonitored can be very dangerous, possibly a death sentence.
Uses: Adderall and related drugs are for the treatment of ADD/ADHD …

C-lium Fibre is another type of medication suggested to my mom by our neighbor when they had a little chat about them having constipation problems. Our neighbor’s son is a doctor and he suggested the intake of C-lium fibre to her mom that may aid her digestion. C-lium is …

Cystex Urinary Pain Relief Tablets worked wonders for my pain from my urinary tract infection. Before my pain started, I thought I was starting to get a urinary tract infection, but the pain or the symptoms were not severe. A day or two later, the pain was so bad, …

You definitely would need this Adventure Medical Easy Care Comprehensive Kit. I do bring it whenever my family goes for any camping and outdoor trips.
This happened last time, when my sister got hurt. She fall down while pitching the tent and scratched her knee. It bled profusely, …

I have been a long time customer and fan of Hall’s cough products. They have a large selection of flavors and different type of drops. My favorite product is the Cherry Cough drops. THey work excellent on sore throats, soothe the pain right away. They …

Five years ago when I got a scald burn on my elbow, I didn’t think that one day I would find a solution or an ointment that could clear my ugly scar. I believed that my scar was permanent. I remember visting a dermatologist after one year just to …

I was bothered recently by an itchy foot with peeling and redness, and I self diagnosed the problem to be athlete’s foot. It has plagued me several times in the past so I know how to recognize the problem. When I went to Walmart to pick …

Vicks vaporub was one medicine I was familiar since my childhood. Even today, I use it onmy child. I make sure that this vicks is used sparingly on my child. My child even loves to apply this on his body. I use it when any one …

Ambroxol is a children’s cough medication which is available in a 100 ml bottle. This is the usual medication prescribed by our family doctor whenever my kids have a dry cough or whenever the mucus in their cough is too thick. This is a prescription medication and …

As a life-long insomniac, I find that when particularly sleep-deprived I sometimes begin to get anxiety attacks in the middle of the night. I am certain others may have attacks worse than mine, but it is a terrible experience and really impossible to control when you are right …

I’m very busy with my work and taking cared of my family, some times I really failed to take my multivitamins or Vitamin C. Now a days, we are really prone to some illness most especially from different kinds of weather that occurs. We need some vitamins that will …

I do not know if their is any woman out there that can stand a yeast infection but I can not. They drive me crazy literally, and I lose my mind whenever I do get one. It is like I can not function regularly because of all of the …

I have been using Lipitor for the past four years to help control my cholesterol. I can say that it has done what they say it will do. In a matter of a month it brought my numbers back down where they needed to be. I noticed no side …

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 …

I have had a really bad stomach bug lately that has made me feel so nauseas. I took some Flents Cola Syrup and it seem to help calm my stomach and prevent me from constantly throwing up which was very nice. It even helped stop some of the nausea …

What adult does not remember the infamous blue jar of Vick’s Vapor Rub? I have very vivid memories of that product being used around my house as a child and now that I am an adult. I certainly have carried on the tradition. Whether the reasons are sentimental or …

The first time I ever experienced motion sickness was on a ferry. It was a very short, choppy ride, but I found myself feeling so ill I could not even walk back to the car without help.
I toughed that episode out—“ but the next time I …

My other siblings. I hate taking their antacids because it tastes horrible; like drinking liquid baby powder flavored mint. So for minor stomach pains and gas, I usually take Kremil-S. It’s in tablet form, tastes a little minty and bitter; but definitely better tasting than other antacids. This is …

I was prescribed Xanax for sleep by my physician due to anxiety and pain keeping me awake at night. I’d never needed anything to help me sleep at night, but nighttime was turning into a brainstorming session of what I had to do tomorrow and all my fowl …

I don’t often take aspirin as my choice of pain reliever or fever reducer. I howe4ver was tired of not getting the results I wanted from acetaminophen. I didn’t want to take ibuprofen because it seems like my body has become so used to it that it doesn’t work …

This is basically a cheaper version of the brand named product which is the same idea. I think that these work just as well as the more expensive ones and are a little bit cheaper, so why not just get these?
These come in a box of 10 and cost …

Neobrufen is a medicine which main component is Ibuprophen, a well known anti-inflammatory. It comes in sachets with effervescent granules in the inside, that you have to dissolve in water so you can take it. The ones I use are the 600 mg ones, but you can find them …

It is not really nice when you realize that you have scorbutic inside your lip or mouth. Just like what I have two days ago. When I woke up, I realized that I have this problem. I thought that it’s not gonna be good for me since I will …