It had been three years since my last eye examination and with my insurance coming to an end, I thought I’d take advantage and get a new exam and an updated pair of glasses while I could. My insurer listed several possibilities, including the place I’d gone to …

Just last month I was having severe stomach upset. I had felt like I was going to be sick all day long, but then ate my dinner a little too fast and I was regretting it for the rest of the night. I actually had my husband run to …

About a month ago I was looking in the mirror of my phone and I noticed that I had a hair that had turned grey. This was something I was not expecting because I am pretty young so I should not have them and I was pretty upset when …

Tramadol is a pain killer, and although it can be effective for some people, I did encounter several problems using it. I was prescribed Tramadol for muscular discomfort after pulling a muscle in my chest. Although the Tramadol took effect within a mere 10 minutes, the side effects I …

Just as the slogan says…”The Night-time, sniffling, sneezing, coughing, aching, fever, sleep better to feel better medicine”. I recommend using this…not in excess, but as a remedy to your usual night-time ailments. It works while you sleep to make to feel better after. Your medicine cabinet is bare without …

In December of 2005 I had my first child at Osceola Regional Medical Center in Kissimmee, Florida. Three months later I became pregnant with my second child, and decided, after a fair experience at Osceola Regional Medical Center, that I would switch hospitals for this delivery. I …

I have had pain that can lead to plenty of sleepless nights. I usually do not have pain that I can feel through the night, but when my muscles start to tense up, I can barely sleep without repositioning. I noticed I was waking up multiple times a night …

Abreva Cream prescription is used to treat cold sores and blisters. It has to be prescribed to you by your doctor or dermatologist. I have never had to use this product myself but I have a friend that uses it regularly. The Abreva Cream prescription is …

When cold season comes around I usually find it very difficult to stay away from colds and sickness because of the fact that children usually spread it to each other while they are at school or playing together. This is a problem for me because of the fact that …

My whole family suffers from high blood-pressure. Even my niece was put on medication for it when she was as young as fourteen years old. I’ve been good about monitoring mine so that it wouldn’t get out of control and have even been very careful about salting my …

Church Street Medical is the office of both Dr Julie Perrigan and Danny Atkinson PAC. Dr Perrigan is a family practice physician and has been my family doctor for the past 8 years. I have been to other doctors in the area and the professionalism and service …

When my son was still a small baby, he got cough.He was just few month old at that time. I don’t know why he could get the cough. I guess it had to do with the people around him. Maybe they were the one that gave the virus to …

This comes in a brown bottle with Nature Made written on it and Iron written in big letters. This is a small white circular tablet. The cap is child safe but is easy for adults to open.
During pregnancy, my iron levels were low so my doctor asked me …

A cold can make the best of the best feel down in the dumps. I feel like I can barely even function whenever I am suffering from a cold. I feel that colds hit me really hard, especially when there is sporadic chages in the weather. Where I live, …

For people who suffer from severe ADD (myself included), finding anything that will get us up and doing something productive for any extended period of time is amazing. We’ve tried all the medicines, we’ve tried exercise (but quickly gave up on doing it), yet nothing works. I’m here to …

My youngest son has mild autism. One of the things he had a lot of trouble with when he was younger was holding his stool. This is a common problem for autistic children. As a result, his bowels don’t function as easily as they should. The solution our primary …

I will try almost anything to reduce the acid in my chest and avoid dealing with pesky heartburn. Though I don’t mind taking antacid tablets, my body sometimes become resistant to them, and I find myself needing to try something different to get rid of my heartburn woes. One …

zelmac (tegaserod) is used for treating people who have ibs with constipation. this medicine was introduced in 2004. it is quite affective in treating constipation for people who have ibs. i had used this medicine when i had severe constipation due to ibs and no other medicine was helping …

I have a constant allergy to house dust,spores,washing powders, air freshners, certain products in aerosols,all of which make me sneeze and make the lining of my nose swell and the passages close until I can’t breathe through my nose and at the same time, my nose runs,(called ‘rhinitis’ apparently,) …

I have been dealing with eczema for over 10 years now. It first showed up when I was working at a restaurant. I was constantly washing my hand, cleaning dishes, and using other cleaning chemicals. My hands would break out often. Thankfully, it didn’t start …

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 …

Pepto-Bismol Original has on many occasions, relieved me of some less than pleasant stomach maladies. The familiar pink look of the bottle, somehow instills in me the sentiment that “help is on the way.” Pepto-Bismol works very efficiently for diarrhea and nausea.
When I feel the …

My asthma was out of control and nothing was working to help relieve the breathing difficulties I was having. Not even prescription medicines. Therefore, I was in the drugstore looking for other options that might help give me some breathing relief can ended up trying the Primatene Mist Inhaler. …

Unfortuantly I have been plauged by a terrible cold for the past week. After several days of a constant running nose, I decided it was time to take action.
I had been taking regular dayquil. rather than dry out my nose, the dayquil seemed to dehydrate my entire body (excluding …

I practically live in my local Walgreens, because of the three nearby pharmacies, this one is by far the cheapest in everything, even toiletries and food. And when allergy season started kicking in for three of the four people in my household, I made my weekly stop there with …

I think the people behind Goody’s Headache Powders weren’t really particular about the taste. Because mixed with water, the Goody’s Headache Powder tastes bitter. Imagine chewing aspirin tablets! Yuck! Thank goodness it can be dissolved and mixed with juices which make it bearable to drink.
Aside from the gross bitter …

With the cold weather comes the inevitable cold and flu season. Practically everywhere you go there is someone sneezing, sniffling or coughing. The air is full of germs. I ended up with a nasty cold and nasal congestion. My doctor suggested that I try using …

I am not the type of person that experiences major cystic breakouts. I have always felt very lucky to have the skin I do, always getting compliments like “oh my god! What do you use on your skin?! Can you write …

Equate Maximum Strength Hydrocortisone 1% Cream:
Wal-Mart Brand’s hydrocortisone cream is great for stopping itching and for reducing the swelling and redness of minor skin irritations.
My husband and I recently had need of a good anti-itching medicine. We had been working outside on our very rural property, cleaning the …

Excedrin for Migraines is what some of us consider to be a wonder drug. If you have ever suffered migraine headaches I think you would understand that finding anything that offers some relief of the symptoms is a blessing. I typically get a migraine headache at least once a …

Advil has been around for years. I remember my parents and grandparents taking it and sometimes I do too, at least for certain things. Advil is an anti-inflammatory medicine that is commonly used to treat a variety of ailments from headaches to muscle pain and arthritis. It can be …

When Zyrtec was first available over the counter, I was very excited, becaust at the time, I didn’t have any insurance, and it was nice to know I was supposedly getting a prescription strength without the necessity for a doctors visit. I’ve had allergies for about eight years now, …

Prescription migraine headache medication come with lots of side effects. I have been getting migraine headaches for as long as I can remember. The pounding pain, light sensitivity and nausea are indescribable and unrelenting. When I get a migraine, all I can do is try and …

As my friends wedding date approached closer, I left no stone unturned to do all the possible shopping required for the wedding. Though I did have a blast at the wedding, little did I know that I had already invited great trouble. Due to the continuous shopping spree in …

For those of us who suffer from IBS or IBD, Irritable Bowel Syndrome, often there are a number of medications our doctors prescribe for us before we get the right one, or at least, the one which does the most good. In my experience, since my diagnosis a year …

I am all for instant gratification, or relief, as the case may be. When I got a terrible yeast infection this past summer, I should have gone to the doctor to get a dose of diflucan, which works beautifully for me every time. It wasn’t convenient to go at …

Flexable isn’t a very well known product to the public. I found it because my mother has severe arthritis problems and nothing seems to work. So that prompted me to find some other product that could offer some relief.
After scouring the arthritis world, I stumbled upon this Flexable …

This medication took forever to work! First, my pharmacy gave me the generic version, and all I got was a nasty dry mouth side effect. Then, we tried the brand version. After like a month I noticed a slight change. I think this is more useful for say depression …

I use oral tablet Domstal 10mg when I had nausea or vomiting. I prefer it because it is almost safe and gives instant result. Its effects starts mostly in 1 hr.Other reason that I use this drug is that compare to other drugs available for nausea and vomiting have more …

I’m usually pretty hesitant to believe anything as lofty as twelve hour relief from allergies but I do have to say that the Walgreens 12 Hour Ultra Fine Sinus Relief Mist comes closer to that promise than most other 12 or 24 hour allergy and sinus relief medication I’ve …

When I was experiencing some problems associated with gallbladder disease a few years ago, and these problems mimicked heartburn and indigestion, I took a CVS brand generic berry-flavored antacid and was really pleased with the results. I’ve since had my gallbladder removed, but now seem to occassionally experience REAL …

Me and both of my teenage sons have severe allergy problems, though mine typically carry on throughout the entire year, while theirs is more seasonally directed. We have tried any number of allergy medications over the last seven years, including, even, prescription medications, and we’ve found over all this …

It is cold, the holiday season is in the air, and after New Year’s day my nose is dying of allergic rhinitis because of the fireworks’ gunpowder blasts. I am already using my reliable nasal spray but I guess this just was not enough.
Since I really did not want …

Our house was being repaired so my husband and I would go to the old house to see what needs to be kept and what needed to be thrown out. We had a lot of trash and old stuff, and opening the old closets that housed things for over …

Ponstan is known as a tablet that you can use as pain killer. You can take Ponstan tablet when you have pain. For example, if you have real headache, you can take one tablet of ponstan to throw the pain away from your head. Or for women, sometimes when …

I am always experimenting with different supplements to get probiotics in my diet. I have learned over the last couple of years how important probiotics are to good digestion. I received a sample of VitaDophilus in the mail and decided to give it a try. The sample was four …

I got on Celexa after several failed attempts to regain happiness and functionality on Lamictal, Paxil, and Wellbutrin. Before I was even prescribed this medicine, I was nervous because my nurse informed me that it was in the same family as Paxil, which I had horrible experiences with. …

October of 2008 when i started having heavy vaginal bleeding and irregularities on my monthly period. I had to undergo different medical exams and laboratories. But all the results was negative. So my ob-gyne suggested that I should take pills hoping to regulate my mothly period. …

Antipyrine and Benzocaine Otic Solution USP is a prescribed ear drop for ear pain. I am going to give this product a 7 because it only works 7 of the ten times it is used. I am an adult who gets ear infections. They are very painful for me …

I began taking Effexor XR 75mg per day approximately one year ago. The medication is very expensive so my doctor gave me a month of samples because I do not have insurance.
The first week on the medication was hard for me because of some of the side effects. …