Last week I accidentally pulled a poison ivy vine away from my herbal garden without realizing what it was and broke out in a nasty poison ivy rash that was severely red and itchy. The anti itch cream I used to help relieve the itching and help heal the …

My allergies get so bad sometimes, it seems like I can’t stop sneezing. They are especially bad if I’m around cats. Dogs don’t bother me at all, as I have two dogs and I don’t even sneeze at all when I’m around them, but cats are a …

This last year I have suffered from way too many colds and two too many flu’s. I recently started to develop a cold again due to my daughter bringing germs home from school. The whole family has been sick and though I had plenty of children’s medicine, I did …

Remedy.com is a quarterly magazine that deals with various medical topics such as artthritis, asthma, etc. They tell you the most recent discoveries and also are a good source of advertising for any new drugs that come out. The articles are written for lay persons so …

Whenever I have a cold, I switch between various medicines, depending on my symptoms. when I have an all-out cold with all of the symptoms, I usually buy Vick’s Non-Drowsy DayQuil Liquicaps. I prefer these over the liquid medicine because I can take them with me wherever …

I used to work in the night shift as a supervisor in a call center, so I always have reversed body clock and I looked really, really haggard. My mom always tells me to take Multivitamins because my body is under a lot of stress and I look really …

Whenever I have problems falling asleep warm tea usually does the trick. However, I have been having more and more difficulty falling asleep lately and wanted to find something that would give me a good night’s rest. I have always dreaded not being able to sleep, because I end …

One of the best tablet that I normally use for pain killer. Sometimes, we have a little headache because of stress or not feeling well. Then for me, that’s the time to take Aspirin Bayer tablet. Since I can get this tablet easily from the store, I never …

I call this the knock out pill. I was diagnosed with Venous Thrombosis more than a year ago and suffered severe migraine attacks. The doctors couldn’t use blood thinners to take out the clot in my brain, because I was hemorrhaging. I didn’t want to go through surgery either, …

All India Institute of Medical Sciences popularly known as AIIMS, is a very renowned institute in India, but for the media person and ordinary public certainly not to me. For me it is an ordinary Indian government hospital, probably even bad. As I am a person from biotechnology so …

I was prescribed Zyprexa for depression and anxiety by my doctor making it one of the many medications I have tried to find the right one for me. Zyprexa was not it.
My first impression was that I immediately began to get tired to the point where I could not …

I have been suffering, for about the past year, from an extreme and constant case of pain. I was at work one night and I guess I just twisted the wrong way and totally threw my back out of whack. I’m not exactly an active person, though I am …

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 …

I have a 5 year old niece who suffers from asthma. She got it from her mom who is also an asthmatic. Her mom left her to our care.Often times when she spent too much time playing or there is a big weather change, she will start coughing, usually at …

I am a member of this Health Maintenance Organization (HMO) and I am enjoying its benefits for more than a year. I usually use the medical and dental care services through accredited establishments here in the Phillipines. Just make sure you always bring the blue card with you for …

I was horribly sick with a terrible cough for a few days. I felt so miserable that I had to miss a couple of days of work. My cough was harsh and produced lots of thick mucus. What made it even worse is that it was accompanied by an …

I was diagnosed to have a mild Hypertension just about a month ago. My cardiologist have not prescribed anything for me to take except for Natrilix when after 2 weeks for laboratory tests proved i need to have a maintenance for the hypertension.
I am a person who does …

Dr. Sigur is a wonderful dentist. I don’t think that I have ever had a better experience with a dentist.
Her office staff is friendly and helpful and always seem to be warm and caring.
I took my yougest daughter to see her this past week. My youngest is ten and …

Last week I was diagnosed by my doctor with a respiratory infection. I have severe nasal allergies, and it is often difficult to get anything like a sinus infection or bronchitis to clear up easily once I have it. My doctor opted to skip the milder …

I’m going to talk about my great discovery two years ago, or at least to me it was a great discovery.
I have this little problem, well not too little problem, a BIG problem that all women who take the pill have…. I get lots of spots on the face …

If you suffer from migraine, then you might want to ask your physician about a fairly new drug called Maxalt. It is placed under the tongue and melts very quickly. However it must be taken at the first sign of a migraine coming on. Many people …

NY Doctor Profile.com is a great website to find a physician state wide or even check on a physicians credentials. It gives you the physicians, medical school background, as well as any organizations he or she belongs to and most importantly if the physician had any legal …

I never knew that sucrets made this type of throat medicine until I was dealing with a midnight throat issue a few weeks ago. I went to the drugstore to grab a bag of throat drops but I ended up talking to a woman who recommended me to Sucrets …

I notice my nose is easily upset. I would inhale a swirl of dust, a gust of air from airconditioning or the fug smell of parched ground suddenly moistened by rain and am sneezing helplessly. Not surprisingly, the rainy season has contributed to my allergic rhinitis and …

I have been taking Yaz as an oral contraceptive for about a year and half now. There are always concerns when taking contraceptives, such as weight gain, heart issues, breakthrough bleeding, etc. but I have experienced none of these under Yaz. I think possible side effects were …

I was prescribed Spiractin to help deal with the effects of Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome (PCOS), including abdominal pain, excessive hair growth and difficulty losing weight.
Within a week I began to notice that I was losing weight, eventhough I was not dieting or doing any more exercise than I …

Few years ago, I had a little problem on my skin. The itchy skin feeling that I had needed to get special medicine and treatment from Skin specialist here. So I went to the skin specialist doctor then I asked for a medicine that can help me curing the …

When I turned 40, my gynaecologist recommended that I should do a mammogram. The last one I did was in April 2009 and unfortunately, the doctor found a little lump on my left breast. It was nothing serious he said but just to be sure, he advised that I …

I have found that Aleve pain and fever reducer, 12 hour works very well for me. Aleve really works for my headaches when usually nothing helps to get rid of them. I have moderate to severe headaches.
I think it is nice that I can finally buy …

For several years I was treated for acid reflux, or GERD, which is a condition where acid flows backwards from the stomach and into the esophagus, causing heartburn pain and damage to the esophagus. I ate what I wanted, except for when a week-long flare-up would occur, and …

If you are suffering from migraine, then topomax might be a medication you are apt to try. It truly is a great medication for the severe pain migraine can cause. However the only side effect it can have is that it can put some increase pressure on …

I have tried several products that are for pain relief and am the type of person that I hate to take pills all the time for relief of chronic back pain. I have tried several of the muscle rubs or natural pain gels and cremes and can state that …

This is a prescription medicine for controlling allergies. When I had insurance, this is the allergy medication prescribed to me. It was a miracle drug for me since the pill was small and easy to swallow. It really controlled my need to constantly itch and sneeze. My eyes were …

I have bad eyes and because of that, I get frequent headaches. I have tried a lot of headache relief medication over time but have found my home in Advil Pain Reliever. I choose the tablets most of the time because they are easier for me to swallow. I …

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 …

I have been a diabetic patient for a very long time now. And in my years of having this illness, there have been several times that I have experienced my blood sugar levels to shoot up, especially when I munch on my favourite donut and chocolates. I know it’s …

I’ve never really tried Mucinex products before this one, which was just a few months ago when I had a cold that I’d got during the winter months and it was lingering. It never really seemed to be bad enough to treat, but three weeks later I was still …

Accutain is a treatment that a lot of doctors will prescribe to their patients that have severe acne because of the fact that it can be effective on cystic conditions. If you have an acne condition that feels like you have big boils on your face or you have …

When it comes to sinus colds, I get them so often and so badly, that I usually have to take prescription medication to tackle them and get better. Otherwise, I am suffering for over a week with it. At home, I would usually use some of my …

I guess it was an infection when I saw in the mirror that I had a big chick on my face. There was a pain on my tooth a day before, then in the morning I saw something wrong on my check.
I called the dentist to ask about what …

My car was recently sent in to the auto shop for some repairs. I then had to wake up earlier in the morning and to commute all the way to work which involved an hour taxi ride and then a 30 minute train ride. The commute was a real …

I recently purchased a 180-count bottle of Natrol’s Ester-C tablets. My husband was beginning to get a nasty cold, so I had him take one 1,000 mg tablet every half hour for five hours. (He likely could have taken more, but it was bedtime.)
He woke up the …

I don’t smoke and drink liquors. I also see to it that I can eat fruits and vegetables in a week. I also don’t eat pork as well. But no matter how I tried to practice a healthy living I am still not excuse from getting flu or colds. …

I have severe springtime and summertime allergies and sometimes allergy medications do not work well for me, but I recently started taking CVS Pharmacy Allergy D Allergy and Sinus Relief Tablets and I must say they worked shockingly well and only cost me five dollars for a box of …

I suffer from insomnia quite frequently (in fact, its 4 am and the fact that I’m typing this at this time proves it!) and I have been looking for an over the counter sleep aid. I recently tried Rite Aid Sleep Gel. These are blue gel pills that …

I hate the fact that I’ve tried as many allergy and sinus medications as I have, but the severity of my allergies doesn’t really allow for me NOT to take something. Even the prescription medications and nasal sprays that I’ve been giving aren’t really any more effective than most …

When my son had an earache, I knew I had to do something to help him get over it but I didn’t want to take him to the doctor and have him put my son on antibiotics. I much rather use an herbal remedy that won’t harm any …

Nexium is what they call the purple pill, and it is used for acid reflux. My sister was on Nexium for 6 months and it really does work. There really isnt any side effects with the drug, at least with my sister there was none. It heals the wounds …

Last week was the worst for me because the weather changed so drastically that my sinuses were not able to adjust thus causing me to get sick. Apparently I wasn’t the only one having a hard time adjusting to the change in weather because when I went to Wal-Mart …

Antibiotic ointment is something that I have tried to keep around the house for the past year. I have had plenty occasions where my children or myself have gotten a cut or scrape and I had nothing around to use at all. I don’t like to spend a lot …