I have a very bad habit of biting my tongue accidentally. I usually do it hard, and this usually leads to formation of very painful ulcers on my tongue. These make it very difficult for me to eat, and also make me generally uncomfortable during the day. When …

In the past I had often herpes in my lips, specially when my period was near. A good remedy that I found for when this happened is this cream medicine called Zovirax.
In case of getting a herpes in your lip, you have to apply it once every 4 hours …

One of the worst things about being diabetic is dealing with injuries to the foot. I was outside and carelessly stepped on a nail. Thank goodness I’d had a tetanus shot previously. My doctor put me on Bactrim pills to keep me from getting any infection in my foot. …

I have rheumatoid arthritis, fibromyalgia, and several other illnesses. As a result I have many prescriptions. I have tried several pharmacies. I finally settled with CVS located on River Highway in Mooresville, NC. CVS has consistently had good customer service. Even at times when …

Have you ever heard of Dalacin T? Few years ago, I had to use Dalacin T frequently. Why? Because when I just grew up as teenager, I had acne problem on my face. I went to special skin care doctor or specialist then I got prescription from him to …

Suffering from knee pain has been something that I have been dealing with off and on for the past five years. I have tried many different pain killers and creams including numerous Bengay products. The most recent Bengay product that I have used is the PM Menthol Pain Relieving …

A few weeks back I encountered a terrible accident. It so happened that when in a hurry I tried lifting the hot water vessel from the gas stove, it suddenly slipped off my hands. Even though I did try my best to move away from it, some of the …

Katinco Ointment, is one good product for pain and itch. I was able to test the product myself and since then I kept purchasing Katinco for first aid relief for headache or any body pain and itchiness. I am glad Katinco even made a Katinco stick which looks like …

When it comes to food there is nothing I will not try, except for spicy food–there is something about the spiciness which makes me not enjoy the food and all that I end up tasting is heat. A few of my friends and I were at a college football …

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, …

If you are having trouble sleeping at night your doctor may prescribe Lunesta, which is a sedative and sometimes called a hypnotic.
Lunesta is used to treat insomnia by affecting chemicals in your brain that become unbalanced and cause sleep problems. This medication causes relaxation to help you fall …

Eckerds Pharmacy is unfortunately, the closest pharmacy to our home residence. So, in terms of getting my prescriptions filled, I use their pharmacy services. While I must admit that the acutal pharmacists that work there could not be nicer or easier to work with, actually getting ahold …

Vicks Vapo Rub is my standalone medicine to fight headache. Whenever I hit with a bad headache, Vicks is my first try to tackle with it. Most of the time, it provides me the cure in couple of hours.
I use this medicinal balm from my childhood. I use it …

Upon returning home from surgery, I saw that the painkiller I had received was named Oxycodone. Oxycodone is a painkiller than is similar to that of Oxycontin except that it affects different types of people in a different way. It should be taken sparingly- about once every 4 to 6 …

I have had problems with muscle aches for the past year. Pain pills do not always work, and always cause some long term issues. I have recently been using more rubs and trying to find rubs that get rid of the pain, and don’t smell horribly. I have had …

When you have the flue there’s nothing worst than the fact that you have to blow your nose all the time and your have headaches because of that.
This tablets have antipyretic, analgesic and expectorational effect, that actually means that it lowers the temperature, reduces the pai and reduces the …

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 …

Vicodin has become a bit famous as the medication that the television character of Dr. Gregory House abuses chronically for his leg pain. In reality, it is not as glamorous of a drug as it is portrayed.
It’s not a fully narcotic drug in fact—“ much of the pain relief …

Headache is a universal illness which affects the common people. The normal cause of headache varies from person to person. The different types of headaches are tension, migraine, rebound, cluster, and migraine headaches. For some, the headache needs medication; while some needs only rest or a good sleep. …

You know those old wedding vows that state: to have and hold in sickness and in health? Well, I got a test run of that a few months ago when my fiance suddenly became stricken with the flu that had been going around at his work.
Of course, having a Cancerian …

I have a friend who has suffered with clinical depression for many years, and has struggled through countless treatments, including anti-depressants and therapy. She has been on several anti-depressants, and most of them work for awhile, and then stop working or they just end up leaving her vegetable-like and …

Novelgin is the name of the tablets, which can be taken when we have the body pain or light fever due to some sudden change in the body or any such things happen. I normally take the novelgin tablets when I feel a lot of tiredness or giddiness. …

Although in the package of Inza products always mentioned that Inza can also be used to reduce pain and fever, I never use Inza tablets for that kind of reason.
I did take Inza tablets few times but it was not for the fever that I had but it …

I was recently put on sulfasalazine for my rheumatoid arthritis. I had a bad reaction to the sulfasalazine and had to go to urgent care and then later to the emergency room. Both places gave me a shot of solu-medrol 125 mg.
Solu-medrol contains methylprednisolone. …

I would like to explain my feeling on the usage of Valium for muscle spasms. When I read this article I was surprised to see that Valium was prescribed for this purpose. Though it can be used as a type of relaxant, it is usually prescribed for the …

This allergy medication was available as Claratin until the patents expired. Now the generic drug, loratadine, is available as a generic at any US drug store or medium sized grocery store.
Prior to discovering loratadine, I had not taken a prescription allergy medication in years. I have mild …

Though no one else in my house can stand the taste of alkaseltzer products, I’ve always loved them. I like to be able to take a fizzy drink that usually has some slight berry flavor to it, and feel a little better. I think it hits the bloodstream faster …

Let me start off by saying that I turn into a miserable coward when it comes to seeing the dentist. Just the noise of drills makes me shiver and the sight of tongue depressers make me gag. Yes, I am a big gagger as well, simply cannot tolerate fingers …

I have had some serious troubles with my wisdom teeth growing in. It has been one of the worse pains I have dealt with because it seems to radiate tremendously. I could not only feel pain in my teeth and gums but also felt pain in my throat and …

I have noted that whenever my baby doesn’t respond to paracetamol during his febrile episode, I always turn to Dolan forte 200mg/5ml syrup to make a quick fix with his fever.
I have first got this idea when my baby was admitted in hospital and his fever still maintained its …

A sore throat is something that I cannot deal with without being a baby. I hate sore throats, because it is fairly easy for me to lose my voice. I also don’t like the feeling of not being able to swallow as well as I would like to. I …

One of the herbal supplements I have been taking to improve circulation in my body and relieve inflammation caused by autoimmune diseases is Nature’s Way Butcher’s Broom Root. I like this herbal supplement because it contains 940 mg of Butcher’s Broom in each capsule. I like that the supplement …

Calms Forte is a variety of homeopathic remedies combined to make small, chewable or easily swallowed pills. On the bottle the indications are listed as: “Temporary symptomatic relief of simple nervous tension and occasional sleeplessness.” It is a lifesaver in our family! I use it, my husband uses it …

I recently had a tooth extraction and was in a lot of pain for quite a few days as it was also infected. I was taking anti-biotics, but I hadn’t been given anything for pain just told to use Panadol which did nothing. I went …

I have Sjogren’s Syndrome. Sjogren’s is classically characterized by dry eyes and mouth, although it can affect your entire body. I’ve dealt with it since I was in my early teens and have used eye drops daily since I was fourteen years old. My favorite all time eye drop …

I’ve had problems with insomnia now for several years. I went the doctor route and he tried prescribing everything from Ambien to Lunesta, to Xanax to Sonata.
The prescription meds, I found were not for me. Ambien absolutely spaces me out and makes me act crazy if I don’t …

In the summertime, have a tendency to find poison ivy no matter how careful I am to avoid it. It seems as though the more I try to avoid it, the more it catches up with me. I always keep a supply of calamine lotion in the medicine …

Accutane is the most popular name for the Isotretinion-based medical treatment for acne! Accutane is also now controlled by the government, and has very strict guidelines for usage of all accutane products.
There are also several other companies which offer accutane. One more form of isotretinion capsules would be Amneesteem, …

Fish Oil is something I hate to take because with either the huge pills or the oils, there is always that fishy after taste and the fishy burps afterwards. But, I now take Carlson Labs Very Finest Liquid Fish Oil because it has a masked flavor, somewhat, and …

While on vacation I went through the unfortunate experience of having an upset stomach. Not wanting to waste the vacation, I decided to try taking medicine to relieve my symptoms. The medicine of choice was Equate regular strength stomach relief.
This product is a generic brand of …

OTC (over the counter) product the generic to Zyrtec - which is exactly the same thing, but price for 14 tablets (2 weeks worth) is $11.89 compared to Zyrtec at $14.39
I’ve had horrible seasonal allergies since I was a kid and trying to wear mascara in middle school was …

Fortunately, among the prescription meds imposed upon me by my doctor, there’s one that actually worked. To make a long story short, I had dealt with mucolytic drugs for my cough since it began, and they were also part of my prescription, which, regardless of whatever brand name …

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 …

My father is a diabetes patient and he is taking proper treatment since last three years. However, long treatment was showing severe side effects on his body and due to various related complications doctors advised us to stop that. This made me think to search for another avenue and …

I do not often have a problem with being gassy. I honestly never really had this problem, until right after I gave birth to my son. It seems like I was gassy all of the time, and it was giving me some bad pains and cramps in both my …

I rarely am in need of any type of laxative; in fact, I usually have the opposite issue, and I also suffer from IBS, so taking any laxative is fraught with peril. On the rare occasion that I am constipated, usually from traveling for some reason, I just suffer …

After a year of using another brand of contraceptive pills, my doctor suggested that I try Yasmin, since I need a pill with an anti-androgen in it. I took contraceptive pills not for birth control purposes but for my Polycystic ovarian syndrome(PCOS)which was diagnosed in 2005.My OB-Gyne prescribed Yasmin …

If you know anything about acne treatment then you probably have heard that Retina-A is a cure all for problems that are related to acne. This includes acne scars as well as the existence of blemishes and pimples on your face. This is something that I was promised by …

Flexeril, also known by the generic name of Cyclobenzaprine, is a muscle relaxant that is prescribed for a number of different reasons. One possible reason for prescribing Flexeril is the ease pain for muscle spasms. He can be prescribed because of an injured back or pulled muscle. …