I have two boys, both teenagers now and, luckily, throughout their life, they’ve been sick very few times, and when they have been sick, I’ve been lucky enough that they’ve rarely had to go to the doctor. Usually it’s just a cold or a mild flu, and some consistent …

I began taking Zoloft 3 months ago. I was hesitant at first because I had read Zoloft increases suicidal thoughts in teens, and I am 18. My depression was so horrible I was desperate for a cure and I decided to try the medication anyway. It was defiantly the …

Botica de San Fransisco is a drug store beside the school I am working. This is just a very small pharmacy (barely 20 sq.mts. in floor area) but the variety of medicines and other medical supplies are quite impressive. I as one of their customers …

I couldn’t take my menstrual pains anymore and made the decision to buy Advil.
I’m a very picky person and I always want to know what i am taking in into my body.
I did some research on Advil, it relieves pains from headaches, muscle aches, toothaches, backaches, mestrual cramps and minor …

When it comes to fevers and headaches, I trust only Tempra Forte. I think it is the safest and the most effective medication for ordinary headache or even fever. For my family, especially for the kids if they got feverish, I give them at once …

Sometimes after a hard days work, you come home, sit down and are simply exhausted. You decide to try and get to sleep, but then you realize something you have forgotten to do at work. You are then unable to sleep even as exhausted as you may be. This …

Whenever I have really bad cramps, I like to take the strongest medicine I can find. Since I don’t get menstrual cramps often, they are really intense when I do get them. Ever since I had my tubes tied, it seems that the pain is worse and leaves me …

I suffered from extreme diarrhea before, it was so severe I had to go to the bathroom seven times a day. I was so scared to go out and for weeks, I only stayed at home and my toilet had become my hang out. I
couldn’t go anywhere far because …

I have been looking for something to deal with my dry skin areas. The skin becomes dry, starts to peel and eventually looks like a nasty rash. I hate dealing with this problem because it can happen on any part of the body. I especially hate when it happens …

This is the second health card my company had provided when they switched from Medicard to Prudential life health card. At first, we were all disappointed because we really liked the Medicard health service to us. We had been using that for two years and never had a problem on …

Originally introduced as a medication to prevent seizures Topamax has found other uses. Introduced to this medication by my neurologist last year, I had high hopes it would help my headaches. Unfortunately, I was one of the people who had side effects while taking the medication and …

When I gave birth to my second child, I got hemorrhoids. It hurts like hell. I couldn’t even stand up. I thought I was going to die every time I went to the bathroom. My doctor gave me medicine; it was gel type and had to be rubbed on …

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 …

Symbicort is a corticosteroid that reduces and prevents inflammation of the airways. The three main ingredients in Symbicort are, budesonide, formoteral and lactose. These ingredients are in powder form and easy to inhale. On the container is a “counter” that lets you know how many doses you have used. …

Have you ever heard of Cell U Loss product? I tried to take this product few years ago. The idea was very simple. I wanted to lose some weight from my body with the help of this supplement. Together with the other diet products, I consumed this product. One …

When I was still in my elementary years, I remember I had a skin problem. I got it from not washing and cleaning myself well. I always spend my time playing around in the backyard. I returned home and ate my dinner and just washed my face. My parents …

I absolutely loathe dealing with colds especially because I never have enough time to recuperate and get better. It seems like I am always busy doing something and I find myself looking for medications that I can either take overnight or non drowsy medications. The last time that I …

For few days my right eye was having a strange kind of pain, it wasn’t intense but it was bad enough to keep me away from my computer and being a freelancer it meant no work for quite some days. I knew it wasn’t a big thing but even …

Chloraseptic is a numbing throat spray that relieves a sore throat fast. When I have a sore throat, I walk around with a bottle of cloraseptic in my hand. It may not have the best taste in the world, but when it comes to numbing and relieving my pain, …

When my 3rd sister was born, her umbilical cord wrapped around her neck and it strangled her while she is being pushed out. For that short moment, oxygen supply to her brain was cut off. It is a good thing that it did not much damage to her. Well, that’s …

Hydrochlorthiazide a diuretic use to treat hypertension and to eliminate fluid from the body.
I didn’t like this medicine because I could never get use to it.It interfered with my daily life as I was urinating through out the day and this caused me to have muscle spasms.It decreased my …

It was 8:00 am and my husband had a serious pain in his left chest. It was so serious that he just could not move. He had never been to any hospital before in USA. I have called one of his colleague and he suggested Quincy Medical Center. I …

Effexor is an antidepressant usually prescribed to people who have been diagnosed with clinical depression or bipolar disorder. It is classified as a serotonin reuptake inhibitor. This is a hard name to understand, but all the user of this drug really has to understand is that it is …

While I was pregnant I was burdened with the worst heartburn of my life. I couldn’t eat anything without getting heartburn. Even water made the acid come back up. I was looking for something that was mild, but had nothing to do with tums or rolaid. I took thousands …

When I was single, I used to suffer a lot during the first day of my menstruation period because of Dysmenorrhea. During the first day I would experience unexplainable severe uterine pain coupled with vomiting and dizziness. It was impossible for me to go out of …

Whenever I have a simple cold and I’m suffering from nasal and chest congestion, I use Personal Care Vaporizing Chest Rub and Mucinex DM Expectorant Maximum Strength and Nasal Decongestant Tablets. Whenever I’m sick with a rather persistent and nauseating cough, I use either Zicam Cough Max Cough …

I always prepare Schiff children multivitamin chewable at home. I give this medicine to my child every day and serve as a multivitamin for a better growth. Actually, I’ve been using it since two months ago, after my son was three years old. This is because at this age, …

Recently I had to extract my wisdom tooth which required a dental surgery to be done. Since this was my first ever dental surgery, I was terribly horrified about the amount of pain I will have to go during and after the dental procedure. Though the pain during the …

For about the past seven or eight years, I have been overcome by allergy attacks. I’d never had allergy problems throughout my entire youth and young adulthood, but as soon as I moved from Arkansas to Michigan in my mid twenties, I was hit very suddenly by my first …

When your shoulder does not work right, it can put a major damper on your life. I have had some shoulder pains ranging from mild to severe for quite a while, but recently they have been more severe. Since I have to use my arms quite a bit during …

One of the best cold and flu drinks I have found is Lemsip Cold and Flu Max. I normally buy this is boxes with individual sachets of powder. Whenever I have a really bad cold or the flu, I reach for these for warm comforting relief.
Preparation is …

I have been diagnosed with GERD and have taken a proton pump inhibitor daily for about four years now. Occasionally, I have what is called “breakthrough reflux” which is a period where for some reason, my prescription medication is not taking care of the problem.
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Well if you were looking for Vitamin E which is free of Lactose, Gluten and yeast and has no Sodium, Starch or Sugar then you just found it. From natural sources, Jamieson is sealed for freshness/purity and unlike other products out there, they don’t test on animals. There are …

I was not looking for Scalpicin Anti-Itch Anti-Dandruff Liquid in the pharmacy section of the supermarket on the day that I bought it. Rather, I was looking for Advil. So you can say, this medication actually found me!
Just to make it clear before anything else, this is …

Ortho Tri-Cyclen Lo is a low-dose birth control pill taken over the course of the month in four differing doses. First are white pills, which are the lowest dose of hormones. Following are pale blue pills, a slightly higher dose, then darker blue pills that are the …

My doctor told me that I need to get some nasal spray to help when my sinuses get blocked during allergy season. I decided to try Afrin since I had seen the name since I was a little girl and thought it must work if it has been around for …

I get the worst menstrual cramps. My biggest complaint with the medications that I take to relieve these cramps is that they take forever to kick in. It’s not that Motrin and other medications like it are not effective. They do get rid of the pain, but they take …

My doctor normally writes a prescription for me for Lasix for water retention problems that affect me in relation to my monthly menstrual cycle.
When my blood pressure reading got a little higher than normal, he decided to take me off the Lasix (which I only used as needed) and …

Nexium 40mg is wonderful. I take 1 capsule every morning ,going on 5 years now.I have tried every OTC stomach medicine known to man for stomach problems and Nexium has made my life less painful. Nexium 40mg really works. I love it. If you have Gerd or …

When I had a really bad toothache I was looking for any and everything to help me treat it. For those who don’t know, tooth pain has the potential to be the worse pain in the world. It can be difficult to deal with because it usually consist of …

It is about that time of the month, where the water retention and the heavy cramps come. I really hate how much periods get me down. I get immobile because I just curl up into a ball because of so much back pain and menstrual cramps. I was given …

I began using the NuvaRing two months ago after seven years of using several different brands of birth control pills. NuvaRing is different because it requires attention only once a month, unlike birth control pills, which depend on you remembering to take them every single day. With …

Coldarin one of most trusted medicine we have been using for years now in our household. Common cold ,as the name suggest, is very common and doesn’t wait for any season, be it summer or winter someone in the house catches this disease and though small it can cause …

As soon as I found out that Prevacid 24 HR became available without a prescription, I immediately bought a package of this heartburn and acid-reflux medication. I have had friends who have found prescription Prevacid to be one medication that really works on severe heartburn and acid-reflux, but my …

Few days back I had a terrific stomach disorder, it was as bad as it could be, you won’t believe it but I visited the bathroom as many as 13 times in just a day. I was totally dehydrated and was trying hard to check it by drinking plenty …

I never really knew that their was cold medicine in the form of a lozenge. I knew that there were lozenges to help with sore throats and coughs, but though that was as far as it goes. I saw some cold remedy lozenges in my local grocery store and …

I consider myself as a cautious and paranoid nurse. Whenever I feel something wrong or come down with an infection, I immediately research on the symptoms and try to find out what’s wrong with me. Last month, I experienced gastric burning sensation that was worsened with eating, frequent burping …

I reside in Singapore, a mostly humid weather country. And being on the heavy side, I tend to have chaffed skin on certain areas of the body. I came across 3B anti-chafing cream in a pharmacy a few years back and decided that it wouldn’t hurt to give a …

I usually experience some chest pain and back pain which I thought was some kind of symptoms of an undiagnosed heart problem. Because of this I consulted a physician who examined me thoroughly and after which he had my electrocardiogram taken. I have noted that every …

I was so good at evading cold and flu this year it was beyond possible so it was only a matter of time before I got a little bit sick, and here we are my nose is running and was not cooperating with me at night - refusing to …