I bought Luden’s Wild Cherry Cough Drops when I was a kid and ate them like candy. As I got older, I realized that I shouldn’t be doing that. However, when I started getting coughs from scratchy throats during allergy season, I decided to give them a chance as …

One of the activities I enjoy most is traveling. However, it is often hampered by my motion sickness. The idea of sitting on a bus for long hours can be stressful to me. Air and sea travel do not affect me the same way. I am thankful for that. …

My favorite dentist in Eureka, CA is Dr. David Kime, DDS. This doctor is truly gentle with your mouth as he works, and he truly cares about his patients. His entire crew is friendly and caring.
I must report that when I could not afford to have a particular proceedure …

I don’t see chewable sleep aids all that often, and certainly none that taste good, but I have to say I was pretty impressed over all with the Midnite Tablets. It’s a little on the pricey side, at about $10 a box, for a 30 count, but I found …

Living in the tropics can be really irritating. You have to endure the warm weather, sudden change in weather and sometimes the massive downpour. These series of meteorological conditions can affect your health in a bad way. I of one have experience on-and-off cough and it alarmed me. I think …

I suffer from renal stone problem and gets that acute attack some times which is just about unbearable. The pain starts from the backbones and moves forward to the kidney in such a way that it almost takes away your breath.There is nothing much I can do on such …

I learned a little secret not to long ago and thought I would share it with others. I have had ulcers in my lower intestines for awhile now. I had a colonoscopy at a relatively young age because of my abdominal pain and irregularities. They checked my stomach as …

I’ve actually escaped having really bad allergies for the last two years or so. I’ve had them sure but they haven’t been nearly as bad as I remember them being, to the point that I haven’t had to take anything for them. Until this year that is. I hate …

I discovered “Skin Shield” quite by accident. I am a native-born Florida resident, and many of us Floridians, native and transplants alike, tend to run around in Flip-Flops instead of shoes whenever we can.
This past summer my wife and I decided we needed to get more exercise and took …

I have been a patient or visitor at many a health places and have to say that this hospital is a cut above. The maternity wing is very well equiped with all the medical necessities and comfort items such as a TV and a large window overlooking outside. The …

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 …

I took Primosa Evening Primrose Oil in soft gelatin capsule form because I wanted to improve my cervical mucous. It has to be taken 2 capsules or depending on what your physician will tell you.
For me, I took it 2 capsules daily where one capsule of Primosa contains 500mg …

I recently had to receive root canal therapy on my back molar, and the pain that I had in my tooth after the procedure was horrible. Thankfully, my dentist prescribed the medicine Ibuprofen for me, which is a medicine similar to some other medicines such as Motrin, Advil, or …

I have had hypertension for several months now. My doctor told me that the probable cause was that I came from a family who has a long history of this illness. Because I was also suffering from another condition, my doctor was careful in prescribing me with a medication …

This particular drugstore company is for me one of the best here in the city of Dumaguete, Philippines. Well at least the other branch along Perdices street, I thought. This is so because if I go downtown, it’s really the place I buy my medicines …

This was my first doctor’s visit in over ten years! I was suffering from kidney stones. I cannot believe how friendly the staff was. They were there to help. I was not treated like a number, I was a real person and they treated me like …

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 …

I doubt that I am the only one who really hates having a cough. I know everyone must hate it because it drives me completely insane. The last time I had a cough my husband took it upon himself to bring me some medicine home. He was probably tired …

Levothyroxine is also known as Levothroid, Levoxyl, Synthroid and Unithroid. This medication is prescribed to patients when they have low thyroid. The medical term is Hypothyroidism. It is important that our bodies have the proper amount of the thyroid hormone. The symptoms of low thyroid are: feeling cold, very …

To say the least, this is a medication I would never recommend! It was originally prescribed to me to help control anxiety attacks. I was to take it whenever I was anxious as a means of calming myself down.
This medication worked. In fact, it worked very well! Whenever I …

A while back, I got a nasty sprain on my ankle and it kept me on crutches for quite a while. I still had to go about my busy days, however, so the doctor prescribed me Methocarbamol 500mg tablets. They came as white chalky discs, about twice …

Several weeks ago, I began experiencing lower back pains that couldn’t be attributed to anything else currently going on, medically, for me. About two hours after the pain began, I started noticing an urgency to urinate and just KNEW it was a bladder infection. Once you’ve had that kind …

My family goes to this clinic since January 2009 and so far we are still going there for health check-ups and for my baby’s shots. Harbor Medical Clinic accepts mostly Russian clients but there are also non-Russians catered such as me (my husband is a Russian but I am …

I have never really had to deal with sinuses, but the last few years I have noticed then developing. Whenever it is really windy and dusty, I find myself sneezing and sniffling. I hate that itchy feeling that I get in my nose and don’t like feeling like I …

I suffer from terrible spring seasonal allergies. Ragweed, pollen even grass being mowed can reduce me to a mass of sneezes and coughs complete with runny eyes. When my drug store was out of my regular brand of over-the-counter allergy pills, I asked them to recommend another.
Non-Drowsy Reactine Allergy …

I’ve been using Halls as a child, but I’ve always hated them. that cherry flavor they have was horrid! But, now I buy the Halls Fruit Breezers in Cool Berry and I enjoy them so much more. they aren’t sickly tasting like nasty medicine, and instead, …

I recently had the misfortune of getting a bladder and urinary tract infection, an incredibly uncomfortable way for my weekend to begin. As I currently do not have health insurance, a visit to the doctor was out of the question on my budget, so I decided to take …

When I was still a young teenager, I often got pimple or acne problem on my skin face. At that time, my mom bought me special acne cream from Clearasil. At that time, the cream worked so well. I remember that I had so many pimples on my skin …

Usually, I used another product if I got a small burn or woun0d from the kitchen. But few days ago, I could not find the product that I used to apply on the burning spot. The person in the drug store where I go if there is another product …

The most common side effect I suffer from taking antibiotics and even ibuprofen is that I get an upset stomach and even a diarrhea. I find this very disturbing that the last time I had to take antiobiotics, I mentioned this immediately to the doctor. He was saying …

About a year ago I had a bad case of dizziness which I can describe as a having a merry-go-round-ride kind of feeling. It really made me vomit a lot. Every time I changed my position, let us say from lying down to sitting up, the dizziness …

Hydrocortisone 1% is an anti-itching topical cream that has local anesthetic affects. It works very good and it does stop the itch from minor injuries or any type of skin rash or itch and it can be use for topical areas only and no where else. Hydrocortisone can be …

First it starts with a little bit of sore throat. The kind that goes away if I gargle with salt and water. The sore throat will thereafter be followed either by cough, colds or both and simultaneous therewith, although not often, dizziness and chills. This is how it always …

My mother has been taking Tenolol-25 for high blood pressure for the past three years. A doctor in India prescribed this medication when she was having moderate to high blood pressure. But since she started taking this medication, her blood pressure has returned to normal and being maintained …

Diffrin is a topical acne gel prescription medication which uses the active ingredient .01% adapalene gel to fight acne and breakouts in teens and adults. I first tried this medication three months ago when I ran out of my old medication and was looking for something less expensive to …

There are many medicine in the pharmacy stores or drug stores that you can get if you have cough problem. Normally, people would like to buy those kind of medicine for the cough problem but they don’t want to go to a doctor for the prescription of the medicine …

I used to buy Breathe Right Nasal Strips when I was sleeping in a room with a rather picky roommate, who claimed that he never snored when he slept. Of course, I did catch him snoring a few times, but I wasn’t one to argue.
So I …

I have had heartburn (GERD & hiatal hernia) for as long as I can remember, and have tried everything under the sun to keep it under control and not much has ever really worked for very long, if it ever worked at all.
About 5 years ago, the doctor …

After a bad experience with another diet drug, Fastin, my doctor prescribed Tenuate Dospan. Tenuate is also similar to amphetamine drugs and like amphetamines it decreases or eliminates the appetite.
I had severe side effects from Fastin, so it was my doctor’s hope that the Tenuate Dospan, which …

I was quite disappointed with the side effects of my previous medication for my illness. This gave me a very uncomfortable headache that was extremely hard to get rid of. So I asked my doctor if he knew another drug which he could prescribe me. After several minutes, I …

During the past fall season, I have really gotten into trying different lozenges to alleviate pain that I may have in my throat and chest without having to take medications and becoming drugged. I try to use lozenges whenever I have a cough that is not really accompanied by …

I’ve never been a big fan of asprin products. They tend to upset my stomach. It doesn’t matter how many times I hear on a commercial or public service announcement that an asprin a day can reduce the risk of heart disease and a variety of other health complications, …

This past summer, my son developed poison ivy after playing in some woods near our house. It started out mild, so I went to the drugstore and the pharmacist recommended Ivy-Dry Super Itch Relief. She told me it would relieve the itch of the poison ivy, and also …

We all know that our bodies need Vitamin C. It is one of the most important vitamins that is needed by our body to strengthen our immune system against sickness, and it is also good for our bones, teeth and skin. I am not a medical person, so I …

Yesterday, suddenly I had to sneeze all the time. I did not know why and then it continued until the afternoon time when I had to go out with my kids to the shopping mall centers.
Then I felt that my nose started to have a problem as well. Oh …

I have major issues with moderate to severe migraines. I get sick and stiff all down my neck and shoulders that leads them just aching and actually making the migraine worse. I told my doctor of this and he diagnosed me as having tension triggered migraines and prescribed me …

I really hate not being well, and I would say the most common thing that I get sick with is having the Cold. I seem to catch the Cold so easily, and sometimes feel like I am always sneezing and sniffling. So I always have an inhaler in my …

I have used countless prescription and over-the-counter pain medications over the years for various injuries, pain and illnesses over the years. I have had many injuries from running, and have suffered from various ailments. I have quite a few go-to medications for certain pain that I rely on because …

I have recently noticed myself having a lot more sinus pressure. I don’t usually have allergies, but this month have been dealing with a lot of nose itching and sniffling. I hate having the sniffles, especially if I am not even sick. I decided to purchase something for this, …

When my shoulder pain first started to get more intense, I found myself looking for a treatment that is mild and to the point. I don’t like to overmedicate myself and wanted something to get rid of the pain. I have always thought that Ibuprofen tablets do okay for …