I have two boys in the fifth grade. It’s embarrassing to say, but sometimes they forget to lift the toilet seat when they urinate, and they spray the seat. Not a cool thing to sit down on when you’re in a hurry. As a result, our family has instituted …

Seroquel is an anti-psychotic medication. This means that is prescribed for mental disorders such as schizophrenia and schizo-affective disorder. These are disorders which cause the sufferer to hear voices or have hallucinations.
The main side effect of this medication is extreme tiredness. In people who are severely mentally ill and …

Otocaine ear drops was prescribed by our family physician for ear infection.I used it for 2 days and all the pain and occassional buzzing in the ear is gone.I used 2 drops to my infected ear 4 times a day.Good ear drop.Easy to use.I poured …

Flexeril is a medication that relaxes muscles and is usually prescribed to help decrease pain and spasms in the muscle due to strains or sprains. This medication is only intended to be used on a short term basis, usually a maximum of three weeks unless your doctor decides …

I like the outdoors. On the weekends, I go with my friends hiking in the mountains. I never imagined that I would have a dangerous encounter with one of nature’s aggressive insects. As usual we would hike for about 2 hours then find a nice spot to rest and …

I do not have a need for birth control. This drug was prescribed for me a few years ago, to try and help regulate my unpredictable menstrual cycle. I have a period every month or so. It’s the “or so” part that became an annoyance. I never knew …

I have to admit to having a slight strange addiction to pain relieving patches and creams. There’s nothing better than coming home from a long day at work and slapping on a patch and feeling that fantastic hot and cold sensation work over some very over-worked muscles. I work …

Driclor was first introduced to me by my sister. Excessive sweating has always been my problem since I was a kid. I didn’t mind it at first but lately it has become a nuisance already so I decided to try it out. Although it is quite expensive compared to …

I have suffered for years from acid reflux and was put on prescription medication for this and it really helped a lot no more heartburn and i could eat whatever i wanted. Well after switching jobs we lost our coverage for medications and i didn’t realize how expensive my …

After a disappointing and money wasting experience with an expensive fluid remover product, my Pharmacist recommended I try Jamieson Herbal Diuretic.
This natural product, is sold over the counter at Lawton’s drug store, and is fantastic. Jamiesons is a name I trust, as I have bought multi-vitamins and other supplements …

Fatigon is becoming one of the choice when I need to drink extra multivitamin. Fatigon is good to take when I feel too tired from the activities that I did during the day. This Fatigon multivitamin will help me to release the tired and get the new energy for …

Life can be and usually is stressful, and often my diet certainly does not provide all the nutrition I need on a daily basis, notwithstanding my good intentions. In choosing appropriate supplements, one of the key important features for me is that they should be as healthy, effective …

This was the medicine that we got when we had stomach disorder which is called gastritis. People often have this stomach disorder because of their wrong eating behavior. Eating late because too busy with their works normally become the most common reason why they got gastritis.
The doctor could …

I was recently experiencing heart palpitations which were not only frightening, but they were very annoying. They did not seem to have any rhyme or reason for when they would occur. They seemed to come out of nowhere. I went to the doctor and he prescribed a medication called …

Anemia is a common complaint especially among women and most of us neglect this until it gets worse. I was always slightly anemic ever since my teen years with my hemoglobin level ranging around 9 to 10gm/dl while the normal level should be 12.1 to 15.1 gm/dl for women. …

The weather it seems is playing tricks on out immune system as the cold and flu season is drawing near. There are a few over the counter drugs that I recommend as being better than some of the more popular brands.
Comtrex works best for me when taken just before …

Hello friends, I am a mother of 3 little cute children. When my second son was just a baby he used to have some teething problems. The teething problems are those problems, which the babies normally face at the time when the new teeth, appears in their …

Whenever any of my family members, myself included, catches a flu or fever, we always use a Paracetamol tablet. This tablet helps to alleviate flu and fever, and it contains traces of Orphenadrine, which is a type of painkiller. I feel that this tablet is not only …

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 …

The little ones on our family often come home with some sort of respiratory allergy, which they probably got from school. It’s really hard to contain respiratory problems in school because children don’t know any better. And since it’s been almost the rainy season, my mother is concerned about …

Well, this product claims to be helping to break up mucus in the chest and to stop coughing too. Indeed, that’s what it did for me but I have to say that it also brought some unwelcome effects. When I used it, I was happy to see my coughing …

At 39 years old, I felt like an 80 year old woman. I had to stop and use a bathroom more than my pregnant sister, and it was getting old. I have lived with overactive bladder since I was a teenager but never did anything about it, …

I’m a huge fan of taking a warm shower in the morning before I get to start my day and do my daily tasks, it’s so refreshing and helps me with starting my day with so much energy and get-up-to-go power. It’s a really great thing and it’s what …

Patanol is a prescription eye drops that I used to use when my insurance covered it. This was an eye drop medicine that helped with itchy eyes due to allergies. My eyes would puff and become blood shot red during allergy season, which for me seems to be all …

I have slight - moderate acne and have been using this face wash for 8 years. As you can probably tell by my number of years using it, I really, really like it. I have tried other acne face washes, and while they weren’t always bad per se, I …

I have found an easy and drug-free way to relieve my frequent nasal congestion : the Nasal Aid Nasal Strips. It worked really well for me. Nasal Aid Nasal Strips are like clear band-aid looking strips with a flexible backbone and some sort of medical grade adhesive on the …

I’m one of those silly (some might call it stupid) people who thinks that just because something costs more, it must be a better product. Sometimes I’m proven right, and sometimes I’m proven wrong. Okay, most of the time I’m proven wrong, but if I have the money to …

Have you ever heard of Asifit? Asifit tablets or pills are a good medicine or pill that can help women to produce more milk to give breastfeeding to their baby.
Asifit can be found in the drug store or supermarket. Since the function of this tablet is as supplement, you …

A year ago, my doctor was worried with my health. He diagnosed me as anemic and malnourished. People used to ask me if I have anorexia or bulimia. I didn’t have any appetite back then. I’m very picky with food and I don’t eat vegetables. I don’t like to …

I’ve always been a fan of drinking tea, ever since I was a little girl. And, as my children grew up, they would see me making tea at least once a week and decided, when they were a bit older, they would like to try it out for themselves …

I had two difficult pregnancies and as I headed for my last trimester in each pregnancy I felt like a beached whale and worst still I looked like one. I started to suffer from really bad heart burn. I read somewhere that about 70% of all pregnant women suffer …

My husband, ever since he was a young kid, has always been a fan of chest rubs, like Vicks. I always know when he’s feeling poorly, because he’ll come out of the bathroom, right before bed, smelling like a hospital with Vicks rubbed all over his chest to help …

If you have ever been in an accident and gotten a scar then you are probably looking for something that will help diminish the look of that scaring. This is a wish that I had during many times in my life because I have some scars from acne that …

I sometimes have numbness of both my extremities especially after a hard days work, most especially after I wash clothes and after I clean our house. This condition, I think, is due to peripheral neuropathy. I tried several medications already for this problem such as high doses of …

I have been on Diane-35 contraceptive pills for the past 2 years of my life, as it was recommended by my gynae. I have heard alot of bad comments about contraceptive pills from the other people, and was at first quite skeptical about trying it.
After trying out Diane-35 for …

Advil is a non steroidal anti-inflammatory medicine used to treat many different kinds of pain from headaches to severe muscle aches and strains. Advil is a medicine I have come to rely heavily on and usually comes through for me in the clutch. I have experienced few side …

Biofreeze Pain Relieving Gel is a great analgesic gel that can be applied directly to the source of pain through the skin. It is great for use on muscular pains or joint pains such as arthritis or strained muscles and gives good effective pain relief.
This medicine comes in …

The reason I bought the Outgro Pain Relieving Liquid is because I was having a serious problem with my feet, and had already tried a few dozen different products to make the problem go away. I have to wear closed-toe business shoes to work every day, and I’m on …

When I found myself having chronic diarrhea, the first product I tried was Kaopectate. I tried the name brand of medication Kaopectate. The active ingredient in this medication is bismuth subsalicylate. It is billed as antidiarrheal and upset stomach reliever. It was a bit pricey, …

I have had a nasty virus for some 5-6 weeks now and I have been getting a bad headache as one of the symptoms. I had been taking normal paracetamol tablets which are effective in relieving the pain of headaches and they also take the heat off if …

Sometimes when I have a sore throat I like to use Traditional Medicinals Throat Coat Syrup. It is a nice thick sweet tasting syrup that helps coat my throat and ease the pain and stinging away from it. When my throat is dry it helps soothe the dryness and …

In my medical practice as a physician, I usually encounter in-patients and even out-patients having problems with being underweight and having loss of appetite. These problems may be due to another health problem such as depression, chronic illness, etc.
Everytime I encounter such clinical problem, I always recommend my …

Headache are very much common during exams, hours of continuous stress on the brains leads to these severe headaches but exam times are such that every with such severe headaches we have to carry on with our studies. No matter how hard we study throughout the year we need …

I’ve been using this product for the past couple of years now, and honestly, there’s nothing else that can compare to it! Vicks has been apart of my life since I was a little girl, I remember whenever I was sick with a cold, my parents would use Vicks …

During my quest to find an allergy medication that would help alleviate my seasonal rhinitis, I came across Zyrtec Allergy at Walgreens. I figured it was just another allergy medication that worked like all the other ones. Sometimes my rhinitis is so bad that my nose runs …

I eat sparingly and ignore hunger pangs when they strike. I don’t have any erratic eating behaviors and try to follow my regular diet. The problem with me is that I tend to go beyond my physical limits. I spent 6 hours late at night, hitting …

I became aware of Pharex Naproxene Tablet from a commercial on television. The commercial was about a Call Center aching in pain and massaging her arms. That is the same environment I am I said to myself. I always used my hand for typing and writing at work, and …

I was an early developer during the stages of puberty. My menses started when I just turned eleven. In addition to my period starting early it was very heavy and lasted for eight days. The most horrible part of this time however was the cramps that I would get. …

Headaches seem to run on the female side of my family. My mother has them just about as bad as I do. All through out my childhood years she used either Walgreen’s headache pills, Excedrin or BC Powder. She swears by all those medicines and I think Excedrin and …

This over the counter medication contains Glucosamine HCl (1500 mg), Chondroitin (1200 mg), and Hyaluronic Acid (3.3 mg) when taken as directed on the package. I suffer from torn cartilage in my knee and an inflamed bursa in my shoulder from an accident I was in. I can …