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Latest drug Gabapentin hardly touching it. Pain comes and goes. Using loads of Calamine lotion but could do with something topical and more effective....
She's diabetic, has ckd3, asthma, heart failure and previously bleeding ulcer, always constipated. Are there any meal replacement supplements I can get for her. I. E frusemide etc but for diabetics. X...
I’ve had this a couple of times before but never ever as bad as today. It literally feels as though there are thousands of tiny spiders crawling all over my face. I’ve scratched till my face is so...
Have you or a loved one had to make a radical lifestyle change as a result of an unexpected illness or the threat of one? How did you deal with it? How did you support your loved one or persuade them...
I went into hospital yesterday morning for hysteroscopy & biopsy, under general anaesthetic. At last, after being cancelled 4 weeks ago... I was told after, it looked very suspicious and sent for an...
I have heard some disturbing, (not sure if it gossip or true) news about when a body is cremated the ashes could be mixed with the rest of the cremations of that day, "I was told, " you dont really...
Due to neuropathy i will soon be unable to use my feet to drive my car I understand there is help by the government to get my vehicle adapted to hand controls please advise how i go about getting this...
Anyone know of High Street chemists or similar, which sell the medical alert bracelets, those in which you can put crucial info etc? (I will check the option to receive an email, but if anyone answers...
In regards to your elderly toilet post. I live in Portugal and can relate. I have just bought a fast acting Lomotil ( Imodium, loperidol) For the first dose you dissolve two tablets on your tongue....
I know it’s common for old people to suffer from speeded-up digestion (i.e. eat, sit, wait an hour, defecate). A nuisance. But are there any mild medications to slow down the process?
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Someone suggested uddermint or mint-ease cream. Anyone used it for arthritis pain? If so how did you get on?...
i often wonder what have flowers to do with funerals
Middle finger, right hand, locking up, usually first thing in the morning and, more recently, stiff at other times of the day - 'stenosing tenosynovitis' as I believe it is called. Any advice on...
i wonder whats the cause of black outs i was crossing the road put my foot on the kerb next thing i found my self on the ground a few secs i think no after effects your oponion...
Hi sqad, an update on the ear situation :been to the drs and I've got to have it looked at the hospital. Its a pseudomona - which is the same type of bacterial infection you were on about with a...
NAILIT did you say on another post that you are drinking 9 or 10 pints a night?
Maybe I read it wrong I hope I did because surely you would be unfit to drive next morning...
I was an alcoholic for over 20 years, and finally climbed out of the bottle on 6th December 2002. (True alkies ALWAYS know precisely when they had their last drink!) I’d tried many times over the...
So on Sat night I had a chinese.. Sunday early morning I had stomach pains and then diarrhoea. I felt increasingly worse throughout the day and ended up lying in bed, achy with no energy, just like...
Ive seen a youtube vid of the op & find it unnecessary & barbaric! Would you allow this for your babe?...
thinking of buying a home, then ill be rent / mortgage free rest of my life, when im in the box my daughter will get it and that will get her a good start in life. home is approx 80k needs bit work...