Pain is a nasty fact of life for some of us. Adding insult to injury(no pun intended) we usually have to spend money to get rid of it, another pain in itself!
For about 20 years of my life I lived with frequent tension headaches, beginning when I was only …

Having a good dentist is valuable when one is living overseas. Dr. Berg, a German dentist who has settled here in Botswana is the best one you can go to. His clinic is a bit far from the center of the capital, Gaborone and I normally can go only …

It seems to happen for a week or two every year. A few days into Winter, I get the same rough dry cough. It happens mostly at night, and as I am going to sleep. I have tried all sorts of things to avoid the restless nights this horrid …

Lately I have been realizing that my pain has been getting worse and radiating to areas that I really did not want to deal with. The pain is intense and can last for days if I don’t rest or treat it. I have been having a lot of problems …

Whenever I sweat a lot, I get what is known as seborrhoeic dermatitis. This is an inflammatory skin disorder that affects the scalp, face and the trunk. In my case, I usually experience this on my scalp. This causes my scalp to be scaly, itchy and inflamed. Every time …

Recent I was admitted to St. Lawrence Sparrow Hospital in the psychiatric ward. The support and the care from the staff were exceptional. I had been diagnosed with anxiety, depression, and depersonalization. The hospital treated these illnesses step by step to perfection. They have voluntary and involuntary admissions and …

Occasionally my family suffers from winter coughs and bronchitis. Our Nova Scotia winters can be very cold and wet leading to bad colds and flu.
This is an exceptional cough syrup. Bronchial Cough Syrup made by a little known medical company called Praxis, is effective for both adults and children. …

I wanted to write about my experience with Chantix tablets, known as varenicline. I have been a smoker since my late teens. I quit cold turkey when I was pregnant but trying to quit cold turkey on any other occasion was always a battle that I lost. Over the …

I always go to the shop next to this clinic and every time I went there, I noticed that there was no patient in the clinic. But one day, I was suffering from a mild food poisoning due to the food in my work place. I could feel the …

I have to give it to this band-aid type of product, I find it has more hold or adhesion even when compared to the leading brand. Of course, I’m not referring to the pad that covers the bruise or wound, but the two ends which keep the band-aid …

My husband was recently ill with a cold or flu virus, and it didn’t seem severe enough to rush him to the doctor over, since all he would likely do is prescribe some cough syrup with codine in it and send us on our way. After all, there is …

Simvastatin 10mg is what I was prescribed for high cholesterol for over a year. I do not have any other known medical conditions except I am somewhat overweight. For the entire time I was on the medication, I had no side effects as listed in the literature.
My cholesterol …

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 …

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 …

I have had heartburn and acid reflux for as far back as I can remember. It is there all the time - I would wake up with it and go to bed with it. Then I ate Tums like candy and believe I was putting on weight …

Formulation: Each 100ml contains 70ml USP Grade Ethyl Alcohol
(Ethyl alcohol is a volatile, flammable, colorless liquid which is a powerful psychoactive drug and one of the oldest recreational drugs).
Biogenic is a general antiseptic and disinfectant for everyday all around use . It is also ideal for …

Have tried Theraflu Nighttime Severe Cold medicine couple of times on separate cold experience occasions. While the taste of the product(Natural Lemon flavor) was acceptable, the way how it worked on me was extremly unpleasant.
I took this medication after dinner about an hour before bedtime. It started working instantly …

Like alot of people out there I deal with depression and take medication for it. My doctor had given me a prescription for Prozac and I took it for a few months but decided it may not be right for me due to one of the side effects being …

It is about that time of the month, where the water retention and the heavy cramps come. I really hate how much periods get me down. I get immobile because I just curl up into a ball because of so much back pain and menstrual cramps. I was given …

Sweating causes the excretion and loss of important electrolytes in the body. This could lead to dehydration if not replaced properly. This unfortunately, happened to me one time while I was exercising. I was too carried away by my jog that I had forgotten to drink electrolyte replacement fluids. …

Enhanced External Counterpulsation (EECP) treatments are fairly new in the US, but have been used in China, where the system was invented, for more than ten years. It has been approved by Medicare so that it is free to everyone who has Medicare coverage.
After having had a quad …

I have not been satisfied with the results I am getting from my previous doctor. Last Friday, I finally met my new doctor, an endocrinologist who specializes in Diabetes. She is very professional and warm. After the consultation, she referred me to St Mary Mercy Hospital for the laboratory works. …

Long lasting pain relief. I’ve heard that far too many times and far too many times has it not been true. I was hoping beyond hope that IcyHot would come through for me when it came to my muscle pains, so I purchased the IcyHot Medicated Applicator. It’s a …

After suffering from a yeast infection twice in one month I was looking for a way to keep it from coming back, I started taking cranberry pills and that kind of helped. But I ended up suffering from one again. I went and bout Vagisil because it was cheaper …

Ronnie Clinic or better known as Klinik Ronnie in this area is a very good clinic which I frequent a lot. There are actually 2 doctors who work for the clinic. The main doctor which is Dr Ronnie normally works during the daytime while a younger doctor works at …

Last night, my son woke me up in the middle of the night. He did not walk to my room but he had cough and could not stop it. I went downs stair to check if I had medicine that I can give to him. It’s a bit difficult …

I have struggled my whole life with bad teeth and it never helped them that I was always a little negligent about flossing. From the time I was young, I hated flossing because it was always painful. My gums are very sensitive and whenever I’d floss, my gums would …

All the mothers are always worried about the health of their children. I am a mother too and I always try to keep my children healthy, fit and fine. But I feel very sad to say that my 4 years old little son fell ill last weak …

Primatene OTC Products
If you have bronchial asthma like I do, then you might want to consider using Primatene over-the-counter products as a convenient alternative. I use the inhaler plus the tablets. You can pick up the inhaler off the shelf but you’ll have to ask the pharmacist for the …

Over the course of the last nine years, I have taken more kinds of allergy medications than I care to count. Probably more than most people have taken in their lifetimes. I’d never experienced allergies before I made the move from Arkansas to Michigan, and the change in climate …

I have a chronic sinus problem and use a prescription based night nasal spray. Recently, due to the high pollen count I have miserable seasonal day allergy symptoms. I decided to invest in an allergy based nasal spray for the daytime. I bought Life Decongestant Nasal Spray at Shoppers …

I have had more than my share of problems with my stomach, indigestion, and heartburn. I get tired of feeling like I am sick every time I eat something. It is like I can no longer enjoy eating, because of all the problems I have been having with my …

Recently I had to go to my general practitioner because my right ear was completely blocked up. I couldn’t hear a thing out of it; and before long it was giving me a severe headache. Just resting my head down to sleep became a terrible chore, and even if …

The painful tingling sensation that I had been feeling in my hands was starting to become worse. I have found myself dealing with this pain as best I know how, but have to switch medications often. My body is one of those that can get used to a medication …

Out of the many mood altering medications I have tried, Zoloft is the only medication I feel secure with. I’ve been on this medication for nearly two years now and have no interest in switching to something else. I’m currently taking the highest dosage (200mg/day). When I originally got …

Recently, after suffering from a terrible cold this last spring I had a lingering cough that caused a great deal of pain in my ribs and made life simply unbearable. I couldn’t take two breaths without coughing and the agony of that nearly drove me mad. I …

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 …

Aloe vera is an extremely widely used natural product with a vast array of beneficial effects. The juice is drunk for its aid to digestion and is said to help sufferers of irritable bowel syndrome. There is not much scientific fact to back up this claim but it is …

So my boyfriend has never had pink eye and comes home early from work the other night with a bright red right eye. He said he woke up and it was matted shut and proceeded to get worse all day.
So he called the doctor and the nurse prescribed …

I have been taking this medication for well over a year now, after I switched from Yasmin. The reason why I didn’t like Yasmine is I found that I stacked on around 10 kilograms from the hormonal change (despite eating well and exercising regularly). Also, Yasmine was …

Zoloft is an antidepressant and antianxiety medication. It is served in 50mg doses. That the highest dose for most adult patients. I have been on this medication for 3 months now. I am taking it for antianxiety, and social anxiety disorders.
Because of the dosage, this medication sometimes leaves …

Advil Liquid Gels are my go-to medicine are for almost all my medicine needs. Whether it be a headache or any kind muscle pain, Advil (any kind, really, but I prefer liquid gels) gets the job done like no other.
I have tried all the other pain relievers including …

Tylenol P.M used to be a friend of mine. Most of the time I had trouble sleeping and I dealt with major back pain. The thing that I was most concerned about was finding a medicine that Icould use that wouldn’t become habit forming and would take away my, …

There are times when the shampoos I have used are too harsh and strong that I have flakes and dandruff on my hair, and when the cold weather comes I have a lot more dry flakes which is gross so I bought this scalp application solution, and it’s primary …

Many moons ago, when I was unemployed and relying on my significant others income, and I had no insurance, I went through an awful period of having toothaches that were pretty much constant, and I was living off of Tylenol arthritis and sucrets to numb the area. It worked, …

I’ve struggled with an underactive thyroid since I was a teen. This problem has been treated mostly with Synthroid brand of thyroid replacement over the years, but last year my doctor switched me to Levoxyl brand. Synthroid, while it seemed to do well for many years, had become a …

Voltaren Emulgel is a muscle rub, like so many other you would find out there. But there is something that makes this one worth the money.
This rub was recommended by a doctor for arthritis relief but it isn’t a prescription medication. It can easily be bought over the counter …

I take Robitussin Expectorant to treat my cough. Although I’ve tried other brands before, I always go back to using Robitussin when I want fast relief. It works best in treating chest coughs, as well as dry itchy coughs. Robitussin cough syrup is a miracle worker, The …

When the question who’s scared of the dentist is asked, I used to always raise my hand, even in my adult years. But my phobia has disappeared thanks to Dr. Ronald Terry and his staff. Here are 10 things I favor about this office that deserves a 10 rating.
1. At …

When I get bitten by mosquitoes, the bite itches and itches for days on end. Worse than that, the bite swells up into a huge purple bulge, and the purple color gets deeper and deeper and lasts for ages, before it starts fading again. Also, it is …