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Hi all, I have a physically demanding job, lifting heavy packages to head height quite often and lots of general leg/shoulder and arm work. Since I have had the job my muscles have toned well but I am...
I had an awful incident happen to my 7 yr old son Matthew on Friday at school and I am still feeling upset and disappointed . The teaching assistant who is my son's main caregiver at school(and has...
MOH keeps feeling sick - not enough to vomit but enough to make him feel eeuurrgghh! He's not dehydrated and hasn't eaten anything other than what I've cooked and I'm feeling fine. He's been like this...
Has anyone tried this? Daughter is having dreadful night sweats, we think due to anxiety, she's 40 so maybe pre menopausal? She's having to get up 2+ times a night to change night clothes and bedding....
Well not quite chest pain but just below my ribs on the left side. It feels like someone has punched me but no one has!! An's not teder to the touch. I have googled it and it's most liklely a pulled...
Last weekend I had a very bad bout of the above - lasted for about 48 hours. Now I have finally googled it and like everything else - there is loads about it. However, there is a device called Meniett...
I have to have bloods taken monday for various checks and I absolutely dread it not the needle just the fact that she can never find my veins and it takes forever is there anything I can do to help...
Hi again, More problems with o.h. apart from the pains in side etc from previous post, now has found fatty type lump on buttock. about 50mm round, no pain, earlier in the year, when suffering from...
Re my mum: I knew something didn`t add up with the supposed bone met pain and it seems I was right in the first place - it`s a fractured collarbone. Just thought I`d do an update.
Ive been prescribed Losartan for High Blood Pressure. My blood pressure was on average 140/90,which I think is borderline. I was on 25mg daily,which didn't help. So my GP upped the dose to 50mg....
had a heart attack July, waiting for MRI scan, on these meds. ramipril, aspirin, amlodipine, atorvastatin, bisoprolol, lansoprazole. started with diarrhoea six weeks ago, put it down to tummy bug. now...
Last week my mum turned over in the night and heard a few "snicking" noises in her shoulder/collarbone area. We happened to be at the cancer unit the next day so they did an x ray and said there was...
After a recent chest x-ray my doctor casually mentioned that I have shadows on the LOWER part of my lungs probably caused by heavy manual work when I was younger. I replied that I have never done...
am fed up with warfarin controlling my life, is a large whiskey followed by bottle of wine followed by large whiskey considered crazy, oh, don't do this every night,...
Been back home about 1 1/2 hours. Appointment was for 2pm and only me booked for afternoon. Dentist kept me waiting 20 minutes before making an appearance due to his late lunch. Well that did a lot...
I know someone who needed to go on to medication after a major traumatic experience which affected his emotions. I'm not able to pry but can anyone give an idea of what the medical terms or illnesses...
That's done it !! Have to have two teeth out tomorrow at 2pm, one is a wisdom tooth top left and the other is a tooth bottom right close to back. Better have a good dinner in case I can't eat...