Following an incident incluiding my mother being diagnosed with brain cancer and my father attempting suicide, I went to my general practitioner. He prescribed me Lexapro 10mg, for which there is not yet a generic.
LEXAPRO is used to treat moderate anxiety as well as anxiety and in rare cases, …

It was year 2007 when I was rushed in the hospital because of severe stomach pain and non-stop diarrhea. I am pretty sure that that time that I was food poison. The nurse got sample of my urine, blood and stool. My urine and blood were fine but after …

Hydroco/Apap is the generic drug for vicodin. Technically, it is a narcotic that is a combination of hydracodone (hydroco) and acetaminophen (apap). Hence the united name of Hydroco/Apap.
This is a drug that I have been prescribed off and on over the years to deal with pain. …

Our household has had its share of sickness over the past few months. It’s cold and flu season, and there seems to be even more of it going around. I recently had a cold that turned into a painful sinus infection. I was extremely congested, and …

The worst urinary track infection that ever occurred to me was in 1992. My son was barely four years old then and while I was putting him to sleep when I suddenly felt a very sharp pain that was hardly bearable that I really cried hard. I felt a …

I ended up with a really bad case of jock itch the other day; bad enough where soap and water did nothing to relieve my discomfort and I needed to go to Walgreens to find some sort of medicated product.
I ended up with the store brand of powdered jock …

I have to frequently use headache pain relief to get rid of excruciating headaches. I spend a fortune in Ibuprofen products to get that relief. I am not sure why I get the headaches so frequently, but I have since I was a child. Spending all that money for …

I discovered Caltrate Plus completely by accident, and I have to admit that I take it for an entirely different reason than its intended purpose. It is a dietary supplement that contains calcium, as well as Vitamin D, magnesium, zinc, and copper manganese, and is intended to help people …

One of the most useful products I have found in a long time is the Vicks stick, this is a product that I had seen a friend use when he had a cold and I thought it looked cool so I decided to give it a try and I …

Till now whenever person had acidity, stomach or other G.I tract ulcer , or gastritis by any other cause, Ranitidine was drug of choice. Though still now it is used for same cause but its use decrease due its some adverse effect and introduction of other new …

If I am the only person who has ever gotten poison ivy that did not have a rather difficult time trying to find an over the counter drug that got rid of the darn stuff, I would be readily surprised. When I got poison ivy this summer and …

The little purple pill you see on advertisements for heart burn relief. I can tell you that I had a horrible time on this pill. My doctor thought my cough was from acid reflux disease. I never heard of such a thing but from further research I discovered that …

My tip is not to use Abuteral or Abuterol steroidal inhaler at all costs. I had used it while I had pneumonia that turned into long term bronchitis, literally feeling like my lungs were burning each …

A cough is something that I have never really learned to deal with. Having a chronic cough drives me insane. I try to use whatever products I can get my hands on to fight a cough whenever I do have to deal with one. I have found that some …

I have tried various brands of anti-hypertensive drugs for many months. I suffer from hypertension and I have recently discovered that the diuretic type of medication works best for me. But instead of settling on just one type of medication, I still do some experimenting every now and then …

I self-medicate most of the time. I contract Tonsillitis a few times in a year and whenever I feel symptoms like: difficulty swallowing, fever and an inflamed throat upon inspection, I take Klavox 1 gram, as I have been given this medication in the past. Recently, I came down …

I tried these appetite suppressants for a few months. What I wanted was something that would make it easier for me to stop eating everything in sight! There were several good things about this medication. First off, I didn’t crave sugary foods or starches like I did when I …

I am a huge fan of the Equate brand mainly because it is inexpensive and work better than most name brand medications on the market; however, I recently was suffering from a toothache and needed something cheaper than orajel, and I was completely shocked at how useless the Equate …

First off, I feel the need to say that this alternative herbal supplement is on the expensive side. But that being said, it is worth every cent. Just think about what you would be paying for doctor bills and prescription medications in a year’s time. If you are anxious …

Trying to find a good remedy for an upset stomach can be difficult. Most times, I don’t want to eat anything, even medicine, when I’m not feeling well. It can be especially hard to try to drink a liquid medicine. Then I discovered that Imodium makes these great chewable …

Stuffy noses in kids are the most bothersome for me. I am often anxious when my kids have stuffy noses as a result of a cold. They have difficulties to sleep in the night which in turn affect me as they keep me awake by complaining all the time. …

The doctor prescribed the Bisolvon Chesty syrup for my three year old daughter when I took her to the clinic to get help for her bad cold. she was suffering from occasional fever, blocked nose and heavy chesty coughing.
The doctor examined her and said that she has a lot …

A day before leaving for Europe, I went to the doctor again to bring in my daughter who had eczema problems all over her body. She was scratching them all the time and all the rashes on her body were infected. The doctor decided to put her on antibiotics …

I do not often have issues with menstrual cramps or bloating, but when I do, it hits me really hard. I often find myself not only suffering from those symptoms, but also usually getting a headache. The last time that my cycle took a toll on me, I sent …

I have been using deionized colloidal silver as sold online or in many health food stores for about 6 months. I take 2 tbsp. a day as a vitamin supplement, and I apply it topically with cotton swabs to the insides of my toes for my athlete’s foot. I …

I was having some serious pain throughout my neck and shoulders. It was really bad because the pain radiated all the way down my arms and wrists. I really felt like crap and couldn’t use my upper body without feeling sharp and horrible pain. I couldn’t figure out if …

When I was in my late teens, I was diagnosed of having cancer. I had to be confined in the hospital for weeks to get treated. Because my immune system was compromised, a fungus took advantage of my weakened state. I had contracted what was called Aspergillosis. The doctors …

I have hyperacidity since I was like 11 years old. It just happened. I think one of the reasons is that my acid goes too high because I sometimes skip meals then suddenly eat a lot. Sometimes, I get so stressed and it also triggers my hyperacidity. The result …

Several years ago, I started to experience some pretty strange symptoms that I had ignored for as long as I possibly could without treating it on some level or another. I was getting sharp pains in my mid-right side that were sometimes so severe that I would be doubled-over, …

Trazodone is an anti depressant medication commonly used to treat anxiety and depression. My experiences with it are not for either of those reasons. One of my children has autism. People on the autism spectrum often have related conditions of anxiety and or depression, …

I was originally prescribed this contraceptive pill as an alternative to Dianette and as a ‘break’. (To reduce the risk of side effects, it’s recommended to have breaks from using the stronger pill Dianette)
I’ve had absolutely no problems on it, and I’ve been using it for over a year …

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, …

I was once saw this in a tv commercial, where a child is sick and has a high fever and his grandmother wrapped him on his blanket so his temperature will go down. Then his mother comes and introduced Dolan, an ibuprofen which is good for fevers or pains. …

When I was taking care of my grandmother, we needed a way to keep the medications that she was taking organized. It could get very confusing trying to figure out which medicines she was supposed to take in the mornings and afternoons and whether we had already given them …

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’m writing on this sligtly embarassing topic because if you’re looking for relief, this is the way to go.
I can’t give advice for those who have frequent diarrhea, because in that case, there’s probably a medical problem that needs more treatment than just over-the-counter quick fixes. However, many people …

About two years ago, my grandmother woke me up after suffering hours of debilitating shaking and numbness to her arms and legs. She said she’d been having these symptoms for hours but because she didn’t want to disturb my sleep (again, this is how elderly Asian grandmothers are when it …

Everybody hates the dentist. There’s no getting around that. However, I am one of those people that has an irrational fear of going. So much that I had my first appointment in twelve years only because of a horrible toothache. I had never felt pain quite like this before …

I don’t know about you, but every time I see the Slim Quick commercial on the television set, I have to laugh, but in reality the commercial, although comical is very true about the way women’s weight fluctuate. Those commercials are very accurate for me and I am …

My mother had a mild stroke last year due to complications by her toxic goiter. One of the medicines prescribed by her cardiologist was Warfarin (Coumadin) for blood thinning to prevent blood clot. The doctor was very cautious in giving the dose because apparently wrong dose could …

Proventil is a medication commonly prescribed for people who are obtaning intense and sometimes painful difficulties breathing due to various kinds of Asthma. Proventil is said to clear one’s bronchial passageways to help make breathing easier for people who suffer from Asthmatic tendencies. It is most commonly …

Though I have taken a great many different medications during my thirty three years, and have had some success and failures along the way, and I’m always willing to try something new based on reviews or recommendations by family and friends, I’m usually pretty hesitant to just pass any …

Migraines are hereditary, and it’s only unfortunate that my mother and my eldest brother and myself suffer from this. It comes suddenly but doesn’t’ go away unless you sleep for a minimum of an hour (in my case) and it’s really hard to concentrate on anything else when you …

People would always tell me how bad smoking cigarettes was for me. I couldn’t agree more! Yet, every time that I tried to stop smoking, it never worked. Well, I did quit smoking but then I went right back to it. The longest that I had ever made it …

Children do not take to being sick like adults do. When my daughter is ill, everyone knows it because she is whiny and crying, and just all around feeling miserable. I have tried various medicines on her for various ailments (that do not require a prescription medicine), …

I don’t think that anyone particularly likes to deal with pain. I know that I would avoid it if possible, but it seems to be following me around nowadays. I feel like I am old and have a brittle body, though I am still in my prime. I have …

I got a prescription for Phentermine due to the fact I am overweight and have struggled with my weight for most of my life. I was excited with the many positive testimonials about this medication. My prescription was for 30mg once daily which I was to take first thing …

A few days back, I happened to be suffering from severe cough and cold, which indeed was making me feel quite miserable. Though the cold symptoms didn’t seem to be the very severe kind during the initial stages, the condition worsened so much that I realized that I had …

During the summers, I like to go hiking from time to time and will sometimes hike around the woods in my back yard. However, I know that before I go hiking I have to make sure that I have some hydrocortisone in the bathroom because invariably I will end …

This is yet another anti-inflammatory cream to treat many types of dermatitis (examples… neurodermititus but also skin), and furthermore I have heard that it can treat oral inflammations or types of allergic reactions of the mouth but I’m guessing the percentage may be difference. For skin dermatitis unless it …